Still The One (Niall Horan)

Chapter 53

"We're here." She announced as we walked through the door.

"We're in here!" Her mom called out from the dining room. And it reminded me of the first time I met her parents, they had both said the exact same thing. I was almost as nervous as I was that first time, but now it was because of completely different reasons. They were literally going to decide my whole future, if I don't get their blessing then I won't ask for Soph's hand in marriage. If her parents are not okay with us getting married, then I won't ask. I know that if I ask without their blessing, I'd be forcing her to chose between her family and meself, and that's something I'd never do. 

"Hi." We both called out in unison as we got to where everyone was.

"Are you all packed?" Her mom inquired.

"Yep, all set." Soph's answered.

"You're heading to Australia?" Valentina asked. 

"Yeah, we leave for Australia the day after tomorrow."

"I've always wanted to go to Australia. Dad, why have we never been to Australia?" Alex complained.

"Oh I'm sorry. I didn't know you were rich and that you could afford to take us all to Australia. By all means, go ahead and buy the plane tickets." Her dad counter backed, making us all, except Alex, laugh. "I'm kidding." He added when he saw Alex's face. "We can plan a trip to Australia, maybe for next winter, what do you say?"

"Yes!" Valen, Diego and Alex exclaimed in unison.

"And Sofia and Niall you're invited as well. We'll have our very own tour guides."

"You've got it." Soph voiced.

"Thank you." I added. 

Dinner went by pretty smoothly, and as soon as we were done with dessert, Alex and Diego excused themselves to go and play video games. Now it was only Soph, Valen, their parents and meself. Valen turned to look at me, as if to ask me if she should distract her now, I lightly nodded and a second later she spoke up. 

"Sofia, I forgot to show you the new clothes mom bought me! Come on, I want to show you before you leave." She sprung off from her seat and went over to Soph's place to drag her out of her chair.

"Niall, you want to come with us?" Soph asked me, and I panicked on the inside, I wasn't expecting her to invite me to tag along. It felt as that time when Ryan Seacreast asked us if Louis was on vocal rest too.

"No, just you. I wanted to try them on for you so you could see them properly, but with Niall I'll get shy." Thank you Valen for saving me just like Liam did that time. Soph turned to look my way, as if to ask if I was going to be okay if she went with her sister.

"It's okay. Go ahead. I'll wait for you here." I smiled at her before they both left. My palms started getting sweaty, and I rubbed them against my pants to try to get rid of it. "So..." I started speaking, the nervousness evident in my voice.

"Yeah?" Mrs. Mendes turned to look at me.

"I wanted to ask both of you something." I proceeded.

"Sure." Her dad voiced.

"Well I wanted to talk to you before we left because I have some important news to discuss. I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate being welcomed into your family. You're wonderful parents, and I know that Soph's such a kind and caring person today because of that. Your daughter is the best thing that has ever happened to me, I love her very much. She means the world to me, and I hope to spend the rest of my life proving that to her." I blurted out, still very nervous. I saw her mom's eyes starting to get watery. So I knew I had to wrap things up. "I would like to ask your daughter to marry me, and I would be honored to have your blessing." 

"Oh my god." Her mom blurted out as a tear, rolled down her cheek. I saw her father stand up, and without uttering a word, he stood in front of me and hugged me.

"Welcome to the family son. Of course you have our blessing."

"Thank you so much."I answered. "I promise I'll always respect, cherish and love your daughter. I'll spend every day of my life making sure she's happy."

"Oh come here." Her mom chimed in before she engulfed me in a hug as well.

After all of the hugging, her dad asked me. "So when are you planning to propose?"

"When the tour ends. It ends a week before our anniversary so I was planning to take her to Paris afterwards and propose on our anniversary."

"Oh that's so sweet!" Her mom told me.

"That's sounds really good." Her dad added.

And before we could discuss anything else, both Soph and Valen rushed back into the room.

"What are you all talking about?" Soph asked suspiciously.

"Oh Niall was telling us about the tour and Australia, since we have to start planning our vacation." Her dad answered.

"Sorry, I couldn't entertain her any longer." Valen whispered to me when Soph wasn't looking.

"It's okay. I was able to ask them, thank you."

"And, what did they say?"

"They gave me their blessing." I whispered back. Now all that was left to do was plan the proposal and propose.

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Author's Note:

Hey there guys! Thank you for reading the chapter, hope you liked it! Sorry for the kind of filler chapter, but as I said before, I want to include little details before doing lots of time jumps. So expect lots of time jumps from here until the book ends :) 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, I upload daily vids of the boys, it's @cristylealr, it would mean the world to me. I'm so grateful for all the love you're giving my stories and my tiktok vids!