I'm In Love, With My Ex Bully Niall Horan? (A Niall Horan Fan Fic)*WATTY AWARDS*

Chapter 1: How It Started

I still remember the first day I met him. I was in kindergarten. I was playing on the swings at the playground. A typical Tuesday afternoon. All was well, too well. Next thing I know, I fell onto the hard playground concrete. My nose was already bleeding and my hand was about to start. He approached me. I put up my hands in defense.

"What? Are you scared?" he mocked. I refused to answer. He kicked me.

"Quit it Niall!" I pleaded.

"Not until you give me your money!" Niall snarled. I dug the money out of my pocket and threw it at him. He looked at the money.

"This is it?" he snorted.

"That's all I have," I replied. Niall picked me up by my collar.

"This isn't enough to buy some candy," he growled.

"I'm sorry Niall," I apologized, gasping for air.

"Sorry's not good enough Thaila." He dropped me on the ground. I laid there helplessly as Niall started kicking me. When I finally came to my senses, I quickly got up and ran away.

"Go! Run away to your mum!" he called after me. Tears were streaming down my face. It was like that every day. Whenever my mum dropped me off at kindergarten, Niall was there, ready to beat me up. My parent's never noticed the cuts and bruises all over my body. The beating finally stopped when Niall moved to Mullingar in eighth grade. After that my life was pretty good. I still had the scars from where he had cut me, but most of them were fainted. I completely forgot about Niall until the fateful day I was watching X Factor.

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"Thaila! Where did you put the remote?" my sister Claire called from the living room. I was in the kitchen making popcorn.

"Don't change it!" I screamed. "X Factor is on next and I don't want to miss it." The microwave dinged. I got out the hot popcorn and poured it into a bowl. I sat down next to Claire. Then the logo to X Factor popped up on TV. I squealed in delight.

"What's the big deal about the X Factor?" Claire snarled. I looked at her like she was crazy, which she probably was.

"What's the big deal about the X Factor?" I scoffed. "All the major singer's I know won X Factor."

"Thaila, I think you're thinking of American Idol."

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Am not!"

"Are too!"

"Shut up it's starting!" I turn the volume up on the TV. The first singer who auditioned was pretty good, but she didn't make it. The next couple of singers were terrible. I plugged my ears once because one was so bad. There was only one more audition left. When my came out on stage, I gagged on my popcorn. Standing right there on the stage was Niall the big bully Horan. He looked a lot different from when I last saw him. He had gotten taller, and he was more tanner. When he was in second grade everyone called him milk because he was so pale.

"Hello," he greeted the judges.

"I think I'm going to go to the bathroom," Claire said as she got up to leave. I was still to dumbstruck to acknowledge her.

"So, what's your name lad?" one of the judges asked. I leaned forward. Maybe he wasn't Niall. Maybe he was a look alike.

"Niall Horan sir," he replied.

"No!" I moaned as I threw popcorn at the TV. How could this have happened? Niall is the bad guy! He doesn't deserve to be on X Factor.

"So Niall, what are you going to sing to us today?" Katy Perry questioned.

"I'm going to sing 'So Sick' by Neyo," Niall replied.

"You may begin." Niall took a deep breath. I readied myself for how horrible his voice would sound.

"Mmm mmm yeah. Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo oh yeah. Gotta change my answering machine. Cuz right noe it says that we can't come to the phone and I know it makes no sense cuz youu walked right out the door. But its the only way I hear your voice anymore," Niall sang. My jaw dropped. I didn't know he could sing. When the judges stopped him, I was kind of glad. His voice was making me like him. Now was time for the voting.

"I say yes," Simon said.

"Go Simon!" I cheered. Wait, was I actually cheering for my old bully?

"I'm going to have to say no," Cheryl sighed.

"Boo you Cheryl!" I booed as I threw popcorn at the TV.

"I'm going to say yes," Louie confirmed. Katy was the last one to vote.

"Come on Katy! You can do this!" I screamed at the TV.

"You leave me with the hard choice," Katy joked. After a while she finally said, " I think I'm going to go with yes."

"Yes!" I exclaimed, jumping up and knocking over my popcorn. Niall seemed as excited as I was. He jump with joy. Man can that boy jump high. Then Claire came into the room.

"Did I miss anything?" she asked.

"No," I replied. She left the room. When the show was over, there was a knock at the door. I waited to see if anyone would get up and answer it. No one did. So I got up and opened the door.

"Look, I already bought some girl scout-" I stopped mid sentence. I couldn't believe my eyes. Standing right in front of me was none other than Niall Horan.