200 miles - Narry

Chapter 6

"Guess what I realised today?" I tell Niall right after the Skype call connects and I can see him.

"What did you realise?" He chuckles.

"I've only got three weeks of school left!"

"Yeah that's right," he realises.

It's been a while since our first Skype call and ever since then, we've been Skyping as often as possible, which means almost every day. Niall sees his friends quite often but still, he Skypes with me in the evenings before we go to bed.

It has become our tradition almost, to Skype before our bedtime. We're both always all tucked up in bed, our laptops there as we talk about everything possible.

"Do you have any plans for the summer?" He suddenly asks.

"No," I sigh and feel a bit sad all of a sudden.

"Do you?" I quickly ask, wanting to turn the question away from me.

"Not really, I'll be working a bit and just hanging out with the lads," he tells me.

"You should come visit me," I blurt out, my eyes widening as the words escape my mouth and I begin to feel uncomfortable. I can't believe I just told him that.

"Flights wouldn't be that expensive," he only comments, sounding like he is wondering out loud.

"Yeah?" I hesitantly ask.

"Nah, there's a straight flight from Dublin to Manchester and round trip ticket is like 50 euros," he says.

"Wait how do you know this?"

"I checked once," he confesses and sounds a bit awkward.

"You checked?" My eyes widen a bit.

"Yeah, I was curious."

"Why?" I have to ask.

"Well I wanted to know how expensive it'd be to flight there to see you," he mumbles and suddenly hides his face, pressing it against his pillow.

"Don't hide," I playfully say and hear him mumbling something inaudible.

"Niallll," I whine.

"I could come see you in the summer," I then hear him mumbling.

"You could?"

"What was the weather like there today?" He suddenly asks, turning back to face me and obviously changing the subject.

"You're changing the subject," I comment.

"I know."

"It was sunny in the morning but raining in the afternoon," I decide to cut him some slack.

"Do you have any plans for tomorrow?" Niall then asks and I huff a bit because he should know I never have any plans.

"Right well I was thinking about something," he says.

"Okay?"

"We should have a movie night," he casually tells me.

"How would that work exactly?"

"We select a movie we want to watch and Skype while we're watching it. Just like we'd do if I was there," he explains.

"Sounds like fun," I admit.

"Yeah? You up for that?"

"Sure," I start smiling, thinking I quite like his idea.

The next evening, we have our movie night together. My mum is working so I'm alone in the house, laying on our couch, my DVD already set up and my laptop right next to me. Niall is making popcorn for himself, I have settled for a bag of my favourite candy instead of having typical movie popcorn.