Just Trying to Keep Up {Niall Horan Fan Fic}

Chapter 9 {A Family Dinner}

Chapter 9 {A Family Dinner}

Florence's POV:

"Mommy! Mommy! Mommy! Daddy is here!" Emma Claire screams as she jumps up and down.

"Shhhh, Emma. Not to loud, and calm down." I say as I walk over to the door. I open it to find Niall with a box of cookies.

"Come in." I say with a big smile.

"Thanks." Niall says as he walks in. Emma Claire comes rushing through and wraps her little arms around Niall.

"NIALL! You're here!!" She yells.

Niall picks her up and kisses her on the cheek. "I sure am, and I'm glad to be here." He says.

Emma Claire spots the cookies in his hand.

"Can I have one? Puh-leeeeeeeeeease?" She whines.

"No, after dinner." Niall says putting the cookies down.

"Booo, when you babysat me you let me have desert first."

"Shhhh, that's our secret." Niall says as he puts his finger over his mouth in a shushing way. Emma Claire gives him a thumbs up and nods.

I walk over towards them and say "Well I guess I need to hide my ice cream better."

"You do, Mommy." Emma Claire says and walks off into the living room.

"Hm, well I guess I know not to hire when I need a babysitter." I say setting out the table.

"Hey, I was just being nice." Niall says.

"Yeah, sure." I joke.

We go through an awkward moment of silence after that but then I say "I read them."

"I figured, you did." Niall says.

I walk into the kitchen and get out the food and say "I also told Emma Claire."

Niall looks at me confused.

"I told her you're her father."

"What!?!" Niall asks in shock.

"Yeah.."

Niall comes over to me and hugs me, he buried his head in my kneck like he used to and said "Thank you, Florence. Thank you."

"Your welcome." I whisper. I then felt a tight squeeze around my legs. I look down and find Emma Claire hugging with us. Niall bends down and picks her up and hugs her seperately. I smile softly to myself, as they both hug. I walk back into the kitchen by myself as Niall catches up on the five years he lost.

I whip up the rest of the mashed potatoes and take the roast out of the oven. I get out my nice glasses and rinse them out a little, I start to dry them off but as I do, I hear a knock on my door.

"I'll get it!." I yell. I put down the towel and the glass I was working on and head out of the kitchen. I go and unlock the door and open it to see who it is.

"George?" I ask in surprise. George pushes his way through and asks "Where is he?"

"Where is who?" I ask as I pull him back towards the door.

"YOU KNOW WHO!" George yells.

I stare at him stubbornly and finally admit. "Don't go near him or my daughter." He bites his lip and slaps me across the cheek leaving a bright red mark as I stutter back.

"You don't tell me what to do bitch." George says. That was when Niall came into the action.

"What are you doing here?" Niall asks as he walks up to George.

"I'm coming to get Florence back, and to get rid of you." George says.

"Well you're not off to a good start, George." Nialls says.

"Why don't you back off Niall. Florence loves me." George spits. As George keeps going on I could tell that he wasn't his normal self, his words have been slurry and he's been walking funny. He's drunk.

"I know two things for sure about you, George. One, you're drunk. Two, Florence will never love you again." Niall says. George pushes him back hardly and says "Oh yeah, just how Florence didn't love you for five years, hated you, despised you, you DISGUSTED her, and you know who was there to make her feel better? Me."

Niall'a face turns a bright red in anger, he loses his temper and he throws a hard punch at George, causing blood to drip down George's chin. "Take it back bastard." Niall says.

"STOP IT!" I scream. Emma Claire then enters the room and looks down at George and Niall. Her lip starts quivering in fear and comes over to me.

"Mommy? What's going on?" She asks.

"Just go upstairs." I whisoer to her softly. She nods and runs upstairs in fear.

I then turn towards George and Niall. I point towards George and say "Get out of my house now or else I will call the cops and get a restraining order."

George looks up at me and spits on my shoe. "I always knew you were a bitch, Florence." He says bitterly and gets up and leaves.

I turn to Niall now.

"Thank you for defending me but you didn't have to do that, Niall." I say.

"I punched him for me, not for you." Niall says. I nod in an understanding. "But if he said anything worse about you, I probably would of punched him again. Though harder." Niall says smirking. I smile back at him and notice that he winces a little.

"Did he hurt you?" I ask. Niall shakes his head but I coyly already see blood dripping through his shirt.

"Niall... What happened? I thought he just pushed you?" I ask coming closer to him.

"Yeah, he did. But the other night in the park, that guy who had you he got me in the stomach and the next day I went and got stitches. I didn't want you to know so you wouldn't be worried about me." Niall says as he holds onto his cut.

"So when George pushed you?...." I start. "He opened it up again." Niall finishes.

"Niall you need to stop doing this for me." I say. He puts his hand on my cheek and looks me straight in the eye "I would take a bullet for you, Florence." Niall says.

"Niall-"

"Shhh, I don't care if you wouldn't want me to, but I will always go out of my reach to protect you and Emma Claire just to make sure you never get hurt again." Niall says softly.

"You don't-"

"Yes I do Florence." Niall interrupts. He holds me tight around the waist and pulls me closer to him. I could feel his warm breath touching my lips as he brought me closer towards him, he slowly moved his hand downward away from my waist and bringing my lips slightly closer but I stopped him before he could do anything more "Niall wait."

He slowly moves back a little from me.

"Yes?"

"Will we be able to start again? Like when were kids?" I ask.

"Why wouldn't we be able to?" Niall asks and pulls me in for the kiss. His warm soft lips intertwined with mine, I could feel the old sparks that I used to get with him. Except they were stronger, nicer. Something I never got with George, but that was because he wasn't the one. Niall was.

"Niall wait." I say pulling away again.

Nialls rolls his eyes and asks "What?" I look down at his bloody shirt and say "We need to get you to a hospital. It must hurt."

"Nothing hurts when I'm with you." Niall says and gives me a small kiss on the cheek. I smile to myself and kiss him on the lips.

"I've never felt so happy with anyone else but you Niall."

"I know." He says cockily. I shake my head and get Emma Claire so we could go to the hospital. Maybe we could just have our nice family dinner there.