Still The One (Niall Horan)

Chapter 21

*Sofia's P.O.V.*

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry." Niall spoke while he continued hugging me and tears kept streaming down my face.

"I...I thought you cheated... on me." I spoke in between sobs.

"I know, I fucked up. But you have to believe me, nothing happened, I swear."

"You left with her Niall, your ex girlfriend!"

"I was really hurt, because I thought you were cheating on me."

"Why would you think that?"

"Because I saw the pictures and you looked really happy and I thought that you were on a date with the guy."

"It was Thiago, my cousin Niall! You met him when we went to Monterrey."

"His face wasn't visible in the photos." He defended himself.

"Still, why did you think I'd ever cheat on you?"

"I don't know. I've been cheated on in the past."

"And so have I Niall, which is why I'll never cheat, you already knew that."

"When I saw the pictures I couldn't think straight. I was so mad."

"And so you decided to be photographed with your ex girlfriend? To get back at me for something you thought I had done? You decided to do that instead of talking to me?" I spoke up, my anger replacing the tears that once trailed down my face.

"I'm really sorry Soph." Now Niall's eyes started getting watery.

"This is not okay Niall. You can't just do something like that to get back at me for something you thought I did, without even knowing if I really did it! That's messed up Niall."

"I know, I know. I fucked up. I'm really sorry. I wasn't thinking straight." I saw a tear trail down his cheek before he quickly brushed it away.

"I do forgive you Niall. But..."

"Please...no buts."

"Niall you tried to hurt me on purpose! You tried to get back at me for something I didn't even do! How could you do that and say that you love me? If you really loved me you would've never tried to hurt me."

"I do love you, of course I do!" Niall exclaimed. "Why can't we just move on and leave this all behind?" He complained.

"Because it's not a small thing!"

"Are you serious?" He raised his voice.

"Yeah, I am. We both have things to think about. Decide wether we want to continue with this relationship or not."

"I know where I stand. So come and find me when you decide where you stand!" He spoke loudly again before storming off into our room, or well, technically his room, and slamming the door shut. Guess we're not sleeping in the same room tonight.

I made my way upstairs and into the guest room Vic was staying in.

"Everything okay?" She asked in a hushed voice. I started choking up, words wouldn't come out, so I just shook my head, to indicate that things were not okay.

We stay up practically all night, talking about everything that had happened. Vic was obviously team Niall, so she was rooting for us to stay together, but I was still indecisive. Don't get me wrong, I do love Niall with all of my heart, but the fact that he tried to get even without even talking to me first, makes me really uncomfortable. After a lot of persuasion, and a bunch of pros and cons lists that Vic helped me do, I ultimately decided to forgive him. I'm not ready to see what a life without Niall looks like, and I hope I never have to.

*Niall's P.O.V.*

I was so pissed, why couldn't she just forget everything and move on? I didn't cheat, she didn't cheat, so what was her fucking problem? Seriously. I stormed off into our room, hoping that she'd follow me and tell me that she had made up her mind and wanted us to stay together, but she never did. I changed into my pjs and got into bed, hating the fact that Sofia was in the same house I was and we weren't sleeping in the same bed. I tossed and turned all night long, I eventually drifted off, waking up a couple of hours later to find that I was still the only person in the bed. It was only 7 am, and I had barely slept, but after laying awake in bed for 30 minutes, I gave up, I wasn't going to go back to sleep anytime soon. Thanks jet lag. I got up and decided to make breakfast for the three of us, hoping that by the time the girls woke up, Sofia would've made her mind.

"Morning." I heard Vic's voice echo through the hallway.

"Morning." I replied as she came into view, but Soph was nowhere in sight.

"She's still sleeping." She answered my question before I even asked.

"So..has she decided?" I asked, and she nodded her head without uttering a single word. "And?" I asked, but before she could answer we heard footsteps coming down the stairs.

"Morning." Both Vic and I said in unison.

"Morning." She replied as she rubbed her eyes, looking as gorgeous as always.

"Can I take my food up to my room?" Vic asked me as she started filling her plate with food.

"Yeah sure." I replied. I kind of wanted to talk to Sofia alone, so I was glad that she was eating her breakfast in her room. A few seconds later, Vic and her plate full of food made their way up the stairs.

"So?" I asked as soon as I heard her door shut close.

"I do." She mumbled.

"You do what?"

"I do still want to be with you." She continued speaking, without making eye contact. I started walking towards her, and tilted her chin up so that she'd look at me.

"So you still want to be in this relationship?"

"Yeah, I do." She smiled at me.

"Great, because so do I." I voiced before I hungrily crashed my lips onto hers. As soon as our lips touched, the familiar feeling of electricity overcame me, I had missed kissing her so fucking much.

"We should definitely try to be better at communicating." She spoke once we broke apart from the kiss.

"Yeah, we should definitely work on our communication skills. All of this could've been avoided if we had only spoken with each other. 

"I know. Promise we'll try harder at communicating?" She stuck out her pinky.

"Promise." I reached for her finger and interlocked it with mine.

"And no more hanging out with ex girlfriends to make me jealous?" Sofia asked while our fingers were still interlocked.

"No more of that. I promise."

"Great, because I honestly thought that you had left me for her."

"Not at all petal, you're still the one, the only one." I answered. And I had never been more sure of anything in my life, Sofia was the one I wanted to spend my life with, no matter what.

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Author's Note:

Hey there guys! Thank you for reading the chapter, I seriously hope you like it. They're finally on good terms again! And hopefully they can stay like that at least for a couple of chapters, because I love writing happy chapters. If you haven't read Small Talk, I would suggest that you read that one first so that you can understand this story. I'm really hoping you enjoy it and any suggestions and/or grammar corrections are more than welcome. Don't forget to follow me, vote and comment, it really helps me out and I'd love to hear your thoughts! If you're obsessed with 1D make sure to check my TikTok account and help me get to a 100k followers please, I upload daily vids of the boys, it's @cristylealr