Still The One (Niall Horan)

Chapter 9

~1 week later~

*Sofia's P.O.V.*

Things between Niall and I haven't been great since that night. He's been distant and to be honest so have I. I know that I hurt him with what I said, but I was hurting too and it was because of his fans. The hate hasn't decreased at all online, I've been trying to stay off from social media as much as possible, sending my content to my team so that they can post it for me. And yes, I have a team now, since my followers increased exponentially since Niall and I announced our relationship, and I love having a team that helps me with my social media accounts. Ever since that night I've been sending them my content because I don't want to read the comments that I'll get, but I still want to post new content for the boys' true fans, they deserve to get exclusive content. But I have almost no self control, and whenever I find myself with time to spare, my instinct is to start scrolling through twitter and tiktok, since that's what I have always done. That's how I know the hate hasn't decreased at all, for every 1 good comment, there are at least 3 negative ones, and as much as I try to stay positive, they still affect me. I'm only human. Niall has been in a meeting all morning, so I've had a lot of free time and I've been scrolling through twitter yet again, and as soon as I read the comments I couldn't help but cry. I was in the middle of my crying session when my phone started ringing. Shit.

"Hi." I answered, trying to hide as much as I could the fact that I had been crying.

"Hi sweetheart how are you?" My mom's voice echoed through the phone.

"I'm good." I took a long pause to try and calm down even more. My mom didn't have to know all that I was going through. "How are you?"

"We're doing okay too, but we miss you."

"I miss you too." I hadn't seen my family in over a month now, and since I was so emotional at the moment, I felt the tears starting to form again, and this time I couldn't stop them from coming.

"Baby what is it? Why are you crying? Is everything okay?"

"I just really miss you guys." I told her, which was in part true, but I was also crying because of all the hate I was receiving.

"We miss you so much too, specially me. When are you coming home? You'd promised to visit every month."

"I know. We've just been really busy." I explained in between sobs.

"I understand. But now, tell me the real reason of why you're crying? I birthed you, so I know you, you can't lie to me. I know you miss us, but you're not the kind of person to start sobbing uncontrollably because of that, so tell me, what's wrong? Are things with Niall okay?"

"Not really." I finally admitted. "I've been getting a lot of hate online from his so called fans, and it's been awful mom. They're saying some really mean things about me. And then last week when I was feeling really shitty because of that, Niall asked me that if I would've know that the hate would be this awful if I would've still agreed to date him, and I replied that I didn't know. Because it's honestly too much to handle."

"Valentina has told me, she reads it sometimes too. And some of them are really harsh, I swear the first time she showed them to me, I wanted to teleport myself to where those people live and punch them. Do you maybe want to come home and take a break? Be with family for a while? That way you can calm down, and reevaluate things."

"There's nothing to reevaluate mom, I still love Niall as much as the first day. Wait no, scratch that, I love him even more. I was just feeling really bad that day and that's why I answered that. But going home and forgetting about this toxic fandom for a while does sound nice."