Black And White : A Niall Horan Fanfiction

27.

I walked up the stairs quietly with Niall following behind me. When we passed Dad and Carol's room I put a finger to my lips to make sure Niall was being as quiet as he could. I pushed open my door and Niall walked in.

I shut my door and turn around to see Niall sat on the edge of my bed. Evie was standing with her front legs on one of Niall's thighs. She looked at him and then looked at me. A farely loud bark escaped her mouth and I looked at her angrily.

"No. No barking. Mummy will get in trouble if you bark," I say to her while stroking her head. She barked again, louder this time. She didn't usually bark but Niall was a new face to her so she was probably excited.

"No Evie!" I say firmly. Evie continued to bark and I had to pick her up and take her to the corner of my room, "Stop. Bad Evie. No more barking." I said to her in a cross voice. When she stopped I walker back over to my bed and sat next to Niall.

"Sorry, once she gets used to you she won't bark. Your just a new face that's all," I told Niall but he didn'tseem to be paying attention. His eyes were looking around my room, focusing on all the pictures.

"It's funny, this is exactly how I imagined your room," he said quietly. He finally looks at me and smiles.

"Really?" I said.

"I especially like that wall," he said and pointed to my wall of fairy lights and embarrassing pictures above my head board.

"Those are all pictures of me and Liv. The go all the way from year 11 to now. It's our most stupid and embarrassing ones," I say and look at them. It had been a long time since I'd looked at all my pictures in my room properly.

"Wait, is that..." Niall moved along my bed to get a closer look at the pictures on the wall. He turned his head and smiled at me, "That's me. With my ice cream in New York."

I felt my cheeks go bright red. I had taken the photo of Niall when we had walked out of the ice cream parlour in New York. He hasn't noticed at the time and I felt very proud of myself for taking such a clear picture.

I started making up an excuse for why the picture was on my wall, "Thats only there because I accidentally printed it and then I needed to put it somewhere because otherwise it would've been a waist of paper and ink and that was the only area with place. That's the only reason it's there. I promise." I threw myself down on my bed and Evie attempted to push her head underneath mine. She gave up quickly though and lay down next to me.

Niall's hands suddenly touched my hair and I turn my head to the side to look at him.

"I think about that day all the time you know. Remember when you had ice cream on your face and I tried to get it off but you started running away from me instead," he said laughing. I burst out into laughter but tried hard to keep myself quiet.

"And when you told that taxi driver to mind his own business," Niall continued. I carried on laughing and sat up. He was close to me. Close enough to lean in and kiss if I wanted to.

No Lily, you don't want to kiss him I told myself. But the truth was, I did want to kiss him.

I had stopped laughing now and was watching his lips. Then suddenly he stopped talking. Before I knew it my lips were on Niall's and I was moving closer to him. He didn't hold back. His big hands pulled my waist closer to him and I followed his guide. Very quickly I was on his lap and for the first time in months I could let go and feel relaxed.