“That’s perfect!” He smiled, watching my perfect position. And then I hit the ball, all by myself.
I gave one hysterical small scream of happiness and ran to him, hugging him by the neck.I was happy, this was the first time I actually was able to hit the ball without hurting anyone (because I told Niall to step away a few meters, but still, I didn’t hurt nobody). He hugged me back, kissing the top of my head and I looked up, smiling.
“Thanks you!” I whispered
“For what?” He asked
“Not giving up!” I shrugged, a smile playing on my lips
“It took a lot of work, but still, it payed off!” I giggled and hugged him again, burring my head in his neck curve.
And my phone rang. I went to pick it up in case something happened. When I did go pick it up, Niall took it as a need for a break, so we just stood lying on the ground, talking, laughing. It was pretty great in my opinion. But my phone was ringing now and I need to answer it before the person who’s calling kills me.
“Hello?” I asked, my hands still around Niall’s neck
“I need help!” She said with her worried tone
“What’s wrong?” I let go of Niall, waking a few steps away from him. He frowned, looking at me, also worried
“Remember the fundraising event my mom is having tomorrow?” She asked
“Yes Danny, what’s wrong with that?” I asked, still confused and scared.
Ellen and Darrin’s fundraising was one of the events I allow myself to go to. It’s to gather money to help children in Africa. My mom has a bit of a saying in the company that helps, since it’s my granddads company and he trusts my mom with everything he can. I think my uncles judge her a bit because of that. Well, my mom, coming from a big family with a lot of money, everybody would assume my granddad trusted all his kids with separate parts of his empire. But no, he only trusts my mom. Yeah, sure, she likes to control everything and she has skills for the job, I just don’t get why.
Anyways, every year, me and Danny come up with something to help because we can’t stay out of it. We tried once, five years ago. We decided to stay late at my house since my parents were at Danny’s house, we tried to watch movies, eat popcorn, but we just couldn’t stay out. It seemed wrong of us not to participate. Even Danny wanted to have a saying. So, while they were arranging everything at their house, me and Danny decided to have a sale and try to gather up money ourselves. Our parents were happy, very happy.
“We still haven’t thought about it and it’s tomorrow!” She hurried and I panicked a bit 2Don’t panic, calm down!” She instructed and I breathed deeply three times. I was calm now. I hate when people hurry me up.
“ know, we have to think of something!” I said
“I have already!” I could tell she was smiling proudly
“What is that brilliant idea of yours then?” I asked
“Let’s make some cakes and sell them to gather up money!” I smiled widely
“Great idea. But…” I was cut of by hr
“We can’t cook at your house because you mom won’t let you go near kitchen without making it a crime scene investigation!” She snorted. I laughed
My mom was always… trying when it came down to me cooking. She’s afraid I’ll chop off a finger or something, so she doesn’t let me use the basics. Knifes, the electric wand, the stove… She doesn’t even let me turn on the stove when she’s around. I think she really doesn’t have any idea of how much I cook when she and dad are out. She doesn’t have any idea of how much I love to cook neither, but well… What can I do about it.
“And we can’t cook at yours because the arrangements will be there. So where could we bake them?” I finished. And then it was like a lamp just turned on in my mind.
I trued around and faced Niall, a huge smile on my lips. He was frowning with wariness but smiled back when he saw my smiling.
“I think I just found the solution!” I said in the phone
“Niall Horan, I’m going to Niall Horan’s fucking house! Whooo!”She almost yelled and I laughed
“Calm down Danny, I have to ask him!” Two hands grabbed my waist
“Ask me what?” he asked
“Pass me to him Angel!” She requested and I gave the phone to Niall.
“Hello?” He said, a smile playing on his lips “Oh, hi Danny!” He looked at me, his eyes never leaving mine “A what?” He frowned momentarily “Oh, I know what that is!” He laughed a bit low pitched “Sure you can, I wouldn’t mind to have you both coming to my house!” He smiled at “Alright, see you in two hours?” He asked “We need to have a bath!”He said. After hearing her answer, Niall laughed “No, we didn’t have sex!” He looked at me significantly and I blushed “So she told you that!” He rolled his eyes, smiling. I have I said I love when he smiles? “Okay, sex later, always wear a condom, you sound like my mother, woman!” He laughed and I could tell, from knowing my best friends that’s she was laughing too “Alright, two hours, my house, she’ll send you the address by text! See you in a bit, bye!” He hanged up and played with the phone in his hands, looking at me, smiling “So, DH stuff hu?” I blushed so hard that vermillion shouldn’t be as near as red as I was.
“Yeah!” I reached to grab my phone but he grabbed my hand, intertwining our fingers and pulling me to a kiss.
I smiled when he pulled apart and he kissed my nose sweetly. Walking through the lawn, holding hands, I noticed that something bothered the corner of my eye for a second, like a bundle of light, very light and quick light. I probably imagined it and kept walking towards the inside with Niall. Once next to the locker rooms, Niall told me he wanted me to shower at his house, so I just did as he pleased.
I only went in to grab my clothes and change into them quickly, after all I only had 2 hours until Danny was there, and I still had to text her the address.
**
I had already came out of the bathroom, dressed in a pair of Niall’s sweatpants and a sweater that belonged to him and that I found in his wardrobe. He was taking a shower too, but he was downstairs. He insisted I took a shower here, in his bedroom’s bathroom. The sweater I was wearing smelled like him, a fresh and manly smell that did nothing more than comfort me, put me in my best element. This sweater was mine now. Now even if he begged for it back, I won’t give it to him. Mine!
I smiled to myself in the mirror, a side smile that I would hide from everybody else. I have this weird thing that I sometimes smile only one side but only when I’m alone. It’s an addiction, like biting my nails, I do that too. Going downstairs, I found Niall in the kitchen with only his pants on, making sure he had everything for us to cook in there. I sneaked up on him, surrounding his waist with my hands and kissing his shoulder.
“Hi!” I said, burring my head in his neck curve
“Hi!” He said back, moving back and forth slowly, almost like swinging me so I would fall asleep. I kissed his naked shoulder again and he turned around.
His embrace was now around my waist, pulling me closed, his head supporting in my shoulder just as mine was supporting on his. I was worried. He seemed so off somehow.
“What’s wrong?” I asked, moving my head from his shoulder, being now face to face wit him
“Nothing!” He frowned, not wanting to talk
“Don’t lie to me Niall! I know you better than that and you know it!” I said, caressing his cheek with my thumb
“It’s nothing really!” He looked down and when he turned his head up to look at me he found nothing but a scowl
“You know you can trust me with everything!” I said sternly “Just talk to me! You’re hurting me when you don’t!” I stated, looking at our feet.
His hand found my chin and pulled it up, towards him slightly. His eyes were melting in mine. He looked so vulnerable it even hurt me to see him without his normal rigid and tough expression.
“I’ll miss you!” He whispered, his eyes never leaving mine.
I even looked for traces of a lie in his eyes, but I knew I wouldn’t find anything. I melted against him, my head against his shoulder, cheek pressed in his scapula as the tightening my arms made around him was becoming bigger and bigger.
“I’ll miss you too silly!” I said, smiling, looking towards the wall, closing my eyes to feel his warmth “But think like this, it’s just one week or two, you’ll be back quickly!” I smiled sweetly
“Yeah, but in that time, that Jason guy could try something ad I don’t like the idea of him even breathing the same air as you!” He snorted loudly
“Niall… You know me, I don’t leave my house unless it’s because of you or Danny, the same Danny that said she would be swimming in clothes and shoes for two days. Apparently, the both of us were so distracted with our own business that we forgot the fundraising, and we made plans of our own!” I kissed his scapula and he shivered, but I knew he was smiling.
“Just promise me you’ll be safe and that jerk won’t even have the pleasure of smelling your sweet, sweet perfume!” He smelled my skin, joining his nose with my neck. I leaned my neck back to give him more access “You’re like one huge piece of cotton candy!” He said
“I won’t disagree with that because I know there’s blue cotton candy!” I giggled, feeling his cold nose trace down my neck.
“I can’t understand why you don’t like pink!” He said “Most girls like pink!”
“Well, I’m not most girls!” I said and he smiled against my pale skin
“I know, that’s why I like you so much!” He pressed his lips in my neck, sending shivers down my spine, my skin was completely covered with goosebumps now “I love the reaction I have in you!” I smiled numbly.
“I like it too!” I said, wrapping my hands around his neck, my eyes on his
“Just for curiosity, what association is the fundraising helping?” He asked
“It’s a association that sends food to Africa. They did a lecture in my school, and whoever had money with them, almost all school, could help them. One euro helped would help them take food there. It’s called OIKOS! I think it’s Portuguese or something, there’s a girl in my school that’s from there and she actually knew a boy that was with the group that gave the lecture. I arranged everything for the fundraiser and luckily, they accepted our help. I think it’s just so important to do it, especially this time of the year. Everybody deserves a warm meal on Christmas. I just want everybody to have the right to the same things I take almost as granted: Love, warmth, clothes, house, food, etc, etc, etc.!” He stood silent during my monologue “I just wanted to be able to make a difference. To make sure everybody had the ability to have, at least, the basics. I just think it’s so awful that those kids in Africa know such a different reality than ours. It’s awful!” I pulled back, looking into his eyes. He brushed my cheek with his rough finger
“So pure!” He whispered “Such a good person!”
“You’re too!” I whispered back and he smiled sweetly, his fingers still stroking my cheek, eyes completely fixed on the face he was caressing.
“So naïve too!” I rolled my eyes almost instantly
“Stop lying!” I said and smiled at him. He smiled back
“I’ll miss this smart mouth!” He said, leaning down, leaving a few inches distancing out lips
“Why don’t you kiss it and shut up!” I mumbled, he laughed and joined out lips quickly.
Almost instantly, I opened a gap between them and his tongue explored my mouth. This boy, his boy right here can make me do crazy stuff for him. I’m just so attached to him that’s even weird for me to think about it. When he pulled back from the kiss, he left several pecks on my lips. I smiled numbly again, letting go of him and directing myself to the counter. Niall just smiled and walked to the place next to me. I opened a bag of flour.
“I can bake cupcakes love!” Niall said, looking at the bowl where he was about to start doing the mixture
“Won’t you need flour?” I asked sweetly
“Yes, where is i…?” I cut him off by throwing a hand full of flour to his, still wet, hair. He looked speechless for a moment, looking at me with his mouth open.
His hands tightened as he walked towards me and held my waist, pulling me to him, pushing my waist to his hips, making me not being capable of any movement. His hands grabbed the end of the bag and I widened my eyes, knowing what was coming next. He put the bag over my head and I only had time to close both my eyes and my mouth before white painted my brown, still wet hairs of flour white. Even my eyebrows were white. I couldn’t believe what he had just done.
We looked at each other for a few seconds before we bursted out laughing and I started cleaning my hairs in him, shaking my hairs next to him so he coughed a lot, complaining about the flour that was in the air. I laughed again, holding his now white as snow hairs. I can’t believe I’ll have to take a second bath. I laughed again, loudly, grabbing the most flour I could from the ground and throwing it at him, wanting him to get dirty with flour. He leaned down too, getting his palms completely dirty. He walked over to me, pressing his palms in my bum, my bum over his own sweatpants and the shit that was mine, now. I let my mouth fall open with his boldness and he quickly kissed me, his tongue not needing any permission to explore my mouth as he liked to do. His hands ran to my thighs as he walked, making me make his every movement, completely lost with the movement of our tongues, so slow, so passionate… So ‘us’.
When I felt something hard and cold behind me, I presumed it was the counter and as an instinct, I palmed it, pushing my body up and sitting on it. Niall separated my legs and got himself between them, making the implication he didn’t want to move from there. I wasn’t looking for sex, I was just looking to kiss him hard and repeatedly so I would have the smallest amount of his taste in my mouth while he was away in Ireland. Just a bit so I could feel his hands running up my thighs like he’s doing right now, rough fingers pressing against my silky skin, his lips on mine, hot, minty breath mixing with mine.
“Hu-hum!” We hear someone clearing her throat and almost instantly, I push Niall back and look up to see who it was.
My blondie was standing in the middle of Niall’s kitchen. Her blue eyes were glued on the both of us, and slowly, like she was thinking about something, she frowned. Oh no, this is NOT good.
“Get away from her Niall Horan! Let the girl breath before you move on from DH to real sex okay?” She giggled and Niall scratched his nape
“It’s not like I was going to take her virginity here okay? I was just saying goodbye!” Niall said, still embarrassed
“Going back to Mullingar?” She asked
“Yes!” He smiled politely
“When?”
“Tomorrow, ten in the afternoon!” I snorted
“Hello? Floured girlfriend over here!” I said, making them both look at me
“Johanna, you look… interesting!” Danny said and I laughed, I truly laughed, happily and completely satisfied.
“Hey!” I giggled “He’s like me too!” Danny took a better look at Niall. He just shrugged, his hands in his pockets
“He can pull it off, but you…?” She shook her head negatively “High class family girl! Outside th house we need to look good love!” Danny reminded and I smiled
“I’m inside the house!” I said “And hey!” I said, referring to her saying I wasn’t pulling the flour outfit off. Danny laughed
“Just pull your hair in a bun, clean your face and shake your clothes outside so the flour doesn’t get the ground even more dirty!” She said and I nodded.
As I walked towards Niall, I couldn’t keep myself from laughing. I put my head behind, laughing loudly. Niall let out a small giggle too and grabbed my hand, pulling me outside. I smiled at him once outside.
“I feel weird sometimes!” I admitted
“Why?” He asked, grabbing the end of my shirt and shaking it so the flour would get out f the fabric
“Because she knows everything there is to know about you and I don’t!” He smiled truthfully
“But I want to show you the truth in those things!” He caressed my cheek “I’m constantly rumor victim!” He laughed like he remembered something “Once, they made up I was attacked by a squirrel!” I widened my eyes and laughed, loudly
“Are you serious?” I asked between laughs
“Yes!” He said, trying to hold on to a laugh “But what I’m saying is, she even might know things that aren’t even true! I just want to give you a normal life for a bit, before you get involved with the craziness, just for a while. Rumors will start in a few days but they won’t be sure of anything, I think! For now…” He stepped closer to me “…I just want you to myself!”
“And you have me!” He smiled before he planted a chaste kiss on my lips “Now, lets’ get that flour out of your hair shall we?” I asked, getting on the tip of my toes sp I could reach his hair.
He leaned down a bit and I shook his hairs, making the flour get all out of hishair, the most that I could at least.
“You know we’ll have to wash our hair again right?” He asked, still leaning
“Yeah!” I said and he laughed
Once I finished shaking al the flour out of Niall’s hairs, he finished taking all the flour out of my shirt and then his hands brushed my bum. I probably had flour there since eh just placed his hands in my bum with his hands dirty.
“Done!” He said, looking at my hair “Do I even try?” He raised an eyebrow
“No!” I giggled, pulling my hair up in a high pony tail as he watched
“I don’t know how you girls can do that so quickly!” He said and I smiled, leaning to press my lips on his
“Practice!” I shrugged
“Like playing the guitar?” He asked and I smiled sweetly
“Yes love, like playing the guitar!” I held his hand, pulling him inside.
By that time, Danny had already cleaned the kitchen and she was only waiting for me and Niall. When she saw us, she smiled. I was shocked by the fact that she even cleaned it up, but I guess her mom taught her some things too. When she noticed my glare on her, she put her hands in her hips.
“What? I know how to clean up too missy!” She smiled
“I know that now!” I said, smiling too
“So, let’s start?” She asked
“I can make cupcakes!” Niall said
“Oh, and Johanna can do every other type of cake you want, just chose!” Danny shrugged, pointing at me. Niall faced me.
“Can you really?” He asked and I shrugged
“When my sisters are sad I always make something for them, it just came with the job!” I smiled and he smiled back.
“You two love birds stop it, I’m not gonna be left here as a candle!” I laughed #Let’s just gonna work kay? Because I don’t want saliva exchanges next to the cakes, you know our mothers would kill us Angel!” I nodded and Niall gave her a weird glare
“Who refers to a kiss as ‘saliva exchanges’?” He raised an eyebrow
“Me!” She said, walking behind us and pushing u towards the counter “Now chop chop, no time to play!” She said
“No one’s going to chop anything here!” I laughed and Niall did the same.
Danny just looked at us for a while, trying to hold on to a laugh before she started to laugh out loud.
**
“And, here it is!” Danny said, holding the tray with the last cake in her hands “We’re finally done!” She sighed
“It only took the rest of our entire afternoon!” Niall mumbled
“You had something else planned?” I asked and he raised a eyebrow and scratched the back of his nape
“Maybe!” I giggled, watching him in that position of not knowing what to say.
I just find it extremely cute when he’s scratching the back of his nape because of lack of words. He just kind of blushes lightly and stands there, not knowing what to do. It’s just cute!
“Okay, I’ll leave now!” Danny said “Can you take them to my house tomorrow morning?” Danny asked Niall and he simply nodded “Okay, thanks!” She said, grabbing her purse and walking to the door with us behind her “So, this was fun! Now, go finish what you started back there!” She waved, closing the door behind her.
Niall held my waist and turned me around to face him. He kissed my forehead, licking his lips next. I frowned
“Those brownies you made must be good!”
“Oh please Niall, don’t eat the dough or you’ll throw up again!” We heard Louis talking by the door
I ran a hand through my forehead, rubbing my fingers in each other after. I had a small amount of dough in my forehead. I looked up to face Louis and smiled
“Hi Lou!” I said sweetly
“Hello love!” He said and then looked over at Niall “You should be careful with him when you guys are cooking!” He informed, getting inside the house and closing the door behind him “We decided to bake once, he ate all the dough and end up throwing up!” I laughed, looking at Niall
“You’re so silly sometimes!” I smiled sweetly and he smiled back
“What are you doing here anyways BooBear?” Niall asked, shifting his glare from me to Louis
“BooBear?” I asked loudly
“Don’t laugh! My mom used to call me that and Niall picks on me sometimes!”
“Only when you tell my girlfriend embarrassing things about me!” Niall said and Louis laughed
“Anyways, I came to say goodbye!” He shrugged “Heading back to be with the family you know!”
“You’re going today?” I asked
“Yeah, in an hour or so!” He shrugged again
“Are you sad about something?” I asked, truthfully worried “You seem distant!”
“Yeah, well, I’m gonna miss El!” He shrugged, again and I melted against Niall
“Oh Lou, it’s just two weeks!” He sighed at my statement
“Yeah, you’re right, but it’s Christmas and it’s kind of hard leaving her behind!” Oh God how I understand him, but in my case, I have to let him go. Louis turned around to the door again “Anyways, I did what I came here for already!” He walked towards the door and opened it
“Have a nice flight Lou!” I said before he closed the door
“Thanks, and enjoy your last night with him!” Louis said and left. I turned to Niall and smiled sadly
“Oh, c’mon, let’s cheer you up! I can think of one thing or two!” He winked and pulled my hand upstairs. I swallowed. Oh damn, what ‘first’ am I handing him now?

Notes

Hey guys, I'm sick so I had time to write another chapter earlier than expected. Hope you like it :3