Eyyyyy look at me feeding you a good ass full meal
I Obviously, listened to Niall's album whilst writing this chappie. I'm proud of my Irish daddy. The album is gold, he is gold and he deserves gold, dammit!
My favs are flicker, paper houses and blind so far. The whole album is pretty lekker, to be honest.
What do y'all think of the album? Tell me so we can fangirl together.
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"Argh," Niall groaned as he came to. The cold compress that had been placed o his forehead slid down onto the floor with a moist thump. The headache that he was having was being made worse by the bright light that was blinding him.
"Turn off the light, please." Niall croaked at the silhouette that he could make out in the corner of the room. The person shuffled quietly as they went near the door where the switch was. Instead of turning it off they dimmed it a little so that they could still see each other but it wouldn't blind Niall anymore.
"How are you feeling?" Liam's concerned voice drifted into Niall's fuzzy conscience. Niall's eyes fluttered open in time to see Liam reached for the cold compress on the floor, to put it on his forehead once more.
"M'good. I have felt better though." Niall hesitantly said, trying to remember the events of the night ... before? He tried to look over at the window but somehow the window that was once next to Harry's bed in his en-suite had disappeared. He looked around trying to orient himself, then he makes the conclusion that this wasn't Harry's hotel room.
"Well, you did hit the elevator floor pretty damn hard. Louis tried to catch you but he realised too late what was happening. Almost gave him a heart attack, there." Liam continues dabbing at Niall's forehead with the cold compress with his unanimous frown upon his brow that he usually spotted when he was worried. Guess having a child just made him much more of a worry wart.
"I almost gave Lou a heart attack? He was on the verge of head-butting me just a few moments before." Scoffing, he reaches for the cold compress and pushesLiam's hand away lightly. He sits up on the bed, with his back resting on the wall and finally faces Liam.
He was clean shaven and radiant despite how stressed he looked. He had on a hoodie and jeans and was the epitome of dressing down. Niall could tell that he had come here with the idea of some down time with his boys. He felt so bad that this mess that he had caused was what he got instead.
"Yeah, but you know him when he gets angry. He says a lot of things he doesn't mean." Liam leans back into the chair that he was in and takes in Niall. His shirt was partway open and he was pretty sure that was Harry's shirt he had on. His socks were not on his feet to protect those toes of his that were curling up in discomfort from the cold. His complexion had a sickly green parlour to it that was slowly going away.
"Where are those two anyway?" Niall says as he looks around for Louis and Harry.
"I told them to get their shit together or they wouldn't get to see you and locked them in Harry's hotel room." Liam shrugged.
"You know that won't work."
"Yes, it will."
The confidence radiating off Liam had Niall suspicious. "Why do you say that?"
Liam thought back to when Niall fainted. Harry almost lost his shit. He went ballistic and started shaking Niall, trying to wake him up. Liam had to literally drag him away from Niall so that the hotel staff could carry Niall into his room. Louis looked horrified and slightly disappointed in himself. He had subconsciously stepped in as Niall's caretaker when Zayn left. They both had fear written all over their faces as they watched Niall being checked over by the hotel doctor and when she had declared that he didn't hit head too hard so he would be fine, they all simultaneously relaxed. It would work because their guilt was still fresh on their minds.
"I just know." Liam finally said failing to sum up what he had witnessed."Why were they fighting anyway?"
"Niall's heart constricted in panic."They didn't tell you?"
I didn't give them a chance to, to be honest. Anyway, I had a feeling it had something to do with you so I wanted to hear your side of things in the meantime."
Niall kept quiet, not so sure what to do. There was no point of hiding his relationship at this point onwards, once Louis knew he was going to tell Lim anyway. And then somehow like most secrets do, everyone was going to end up knowing about it. He might as well fess up now, in person, to those that mattered the most.
That knowledge didn't make coming out any less difficult anyway. This was what it was right? Coming out?
Niall sighed, pressing the cold compress over his beating heart. His mouth had gone dry again and was making swallowing the saliva that pooling in his mouth hard. He put the cold compress aside and proceeded to wring his palms together. When that didn't work he went on to biting the nails of his left finger.
Niall's eyes were darting everywhere but meeting Liam's slightly concerned and curious ones. Liam went and sat beside Niall."Niall? What's going on mate?"
Another troubled sigh escaped Niall's chapped lips. He licked them nervously before raising his those baby blue of his to meet Liam's warm brown eyes."I don't know how you are going to take this. Louis didn't take it so well and I wish I was strong enough to say that I didn't care about his opinion or yours but I do. I love you guys. I don't want to lose you."
"Niall, you can never lose me, okay? I won't ever let that happen." Liam placed a kind hand around Niall's shoulders. Niall all but sank into Liam's side hug. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Harry and I are going out... Louis found us in a comprising position ... and yeah ..." He trailed off, his voice barely above a whisper. He just realised that ever since he got together with Harry he had never said it out loud. Not even to himself.
Now saying it with Liam out loud seemed to affirm the whole thing. Like it was no longer a hazy dream that he had been dreaming up. He said it out loud and there was no going back from there.
Liam's hand pulled away slowly and Niall leaned away from Liam not knowing what to expect. The room went quiet for one time. Niall didn't know what to do. What to say.
What do you say at a time like this?
Finally, Liam reached over and covered his hand over Niall's."Hey, look at me."
Niall slowly looked at Liam. He looked at his chest covered in a white hoodie first, letting his eyes trail slowly up to his eyes, giving himself time to steel himself for whatever expression he was going to find on Liam's face.
Bust all Niall could find was a love written all over it."I don't care about who you love, as long as you are happy." Liam earnestly conveyed with his eyes that were looking deep into Niall's eyes.
"Thanks, Lee. I love you so much, mate." ushing in for a hug, Liam hugged him back just as tightly as he did before And it made Niall feel so happy, relieved and loved. A short knock went off before the door opened slowly.
"Hey, is he awake yet?" Harry's whispered question was voiced before he even came into the room. It made Niall smile a little bit.
"Yeah," Liam said clearly.
Harry hurriedly walked towards Niall and sat on the other side of him. He scanned Niall up and down." Are you feeling better now?"
"Yeah. And you?" Niall asks.
"Well, I no longer have the strongest urge to break Louis' jaw, if that's what you are asking," Harry says with a smile.
"That is what I'm asking," Niall confirms with a tired smile. Louis enters the room and everyone keeps quiet, watching him cautiously and waiting to see what would happen.
Louis awkwardly stands in the middle of the room, with an unreadable expression and his hands behind his back. "Come on! I'm a little shit you know this! Don't treat me like I'm some loose cannon that will go off at any minute."
"But you are a loose cannon that will go off at any minute, mate," Liam says totally unimpressed.
Louis sighs, "Okay fine. I'm sorry. I'm a stupid shithead. I didn't mean all those mean things that I said earlier. Forgive me?" He says producing two large pizzas from his back.
"Do you really think Niall is going to forgive you just because you brought food, mate?" Liam asks disapprovingly.
"Yep," Louis answered cooly.
"Well, he is right," Harry says as he fondly watches Niall reach for the box of pizzas reverently, prompting everyone to burst out laughing. Somethings never change after all.