It has been five years since the end of One Direction, and despite all the efforts made to still keep together, there's only one that truly bought them back to facing each other. Niall's stuck in a bit of a situation that reaches out to all of them; a certain someone appears back into his life, a girl who Niall thought left the world forever ten years ago. Will Niall take the chance, bringing back all those memories and feelings from his past, living them all so differently than before, or will he refuse to restart his heart?

DISCLAIMER: PRETTY DULL EYES WAS PREVIOUSLY TITLED TORN. IT'S STILL THE SAME STORY, BUT IS CURRENTLY UNDER EDITING. Eighteen year old Delilah is nothing but numb. She can barly remember her father, who left when she was young, and lives in contast fear of her abusive step-father. Her mother would rather be drinking than at home, and her friends don't seem to know or to care what's happening. Along with all this and an event in the past that left her broken, Delilah finds is hard to see faith in anything. The only means of escape she finds is through the music and fandom of One Direction. The five boys are her literal life, voice, and reason to be, and she wants nothing more but to tell them that. But when Delilah's step-father takes it a step to far, and Delilah finds herself away from her so called home, she ends up a lot closer to the boys of One Direction than she could ever dream of. Will she trust them with her past, and can they help her escape the present for a better future?

One day in his hotel room, Niall gets a package of twenty one letters. Twenty one letters about a girl who poured her heart out to Niall, a girl who is dying inside and is trying to fix herself again. As Niall begins to read, and the letters begin to run out, he finds himself knowing and loving this girl, all the while knowing that one day, he's going to have to stop reading. Because she stopped writing.