Cristina’s POV

Thursday finally came around. One more day until I got to see Niall. I was excited! Being away from Niall made me like him more. I missed him. I missed everything about him. I missed his eyes, his smile, his laugh, and all of the cute things that he said to me. Thinking about him always made me smile and I hope he smiled when he thought about me.
School was a reminder that I had to go through another 16 hours of learning before I got to see Niall again.

What fun!

Niall’s POV

She was always on my mind and I had just met the gal last week. Wow. I met her last week but it feels like a year has gone by. I don’t know. This girl makes me happy.

“Niall! Discussion time!” Harry yelled from my hotel door.

“Come in!”

Harry walked in with a smirk on his face. This meant trouble. When he wore that smirk on his face, the discussion usually ended up about a girl.

“You probably know why I’m here.” Harry said while sitting on the edge of my bed.

“I have a guess.” I said while putting my shoes on.

“Really? Well, this might throw you off but it’s about Cristina.” He said. I could literally hear the smile growing on his face. I knew it.

“Yea, I thought so.” I said while sighing and looking up at him.

“Tell me about her.” Harry said with curiousness in his voice. What was I supposed to tell him? Sure, I liked her but he was probably going to drag the conversation further, making me spill my feelings out on the floor.

“What do you want to know?” I asked. Harry’s smile faded a little and he put his hand on my shoulder.

“Niall, we know you like her. A lot. Ever since we came to do the concerts, you’ve been all gloomy. You just met the gal! There’s got to be something bigger, than what you’re saying, between you two.” He said while looking at my facial features. He was trying to read the answer off my face before the words came out of my mouth.

“I have no idea Harry.” I said truthfully. There wasn’t words to describe why I felt the way I did about her. It was just there! There was no explanation but I’m sure Harry would try to coax one out of me.

“I mean we met and something clicked and now she is all I think about.” I said forcing myself to take a deeper meaning into the thought.

“Just tell me about how you met her.” Harry said.

“Well, we met at one of our concerts. She came out of the bathroom wiping her face with her hands. She wasn’t looking where she was going and bumped into me. She apologized and stopped wiping her face and looked at me. She was having trouble saying words back to me so I told her that it wasn’t a problem but then I realized why she was wiping her face.” I said while talking with my hands. The memories came rushing back. I remembered everything that night. Literally before I bumped into her, Harry and I were talking about me finding myself a gal.

Harry’s face scrunched up in confusion as he waited for me to continue.

“She had been crying. I thought to myself I should just sit there and hug her. She looked like she needed one but instead I asked why she was crying. She eventually told me that she didn’t think she was beautiful.” I finished while watching Harry’s facial expression change from confusion to shock.

“That’s a bloody lie! She’s gorgeous!” Harry said in disbelief.

“That’s what I said but I had feeling that she was having trouble finding she was beautiful. So I gave her my number and told her to text me. Harry, at first I told myself that this wasn’t going to be more than one date. I didn’t want to lead her on, I’m not like that. But one thing led to another and now I can’t stop thinking about her.” I said, I was struggling to say the last part. It was true though, I didn’t want to lead her on so I didn’t want to take the relationship further but there was something about her. She just made me feel like I was needed. I can’t explain this.

Harry smiled like he could feel the frustration coming from inside my head.

“You like her mate. Not like a friend but as a bird.” Harry said trying to explain it to me.

“I already told her I really liked her and she said the same thing back but those words came out of me like water! I didn’t want to say it, Harry!” I said while I remembered the night I said I liked her. I didn’t know what was going through my mind when I said it but it just came out without permission.

“Lad, you’re heart said that! Not your mind!” He said while pointing to my heart and my head.
“Whether you want to hear it or not, you are falling for the gal. Your heart knows you are but your brain is trying to find other excuses to why you feel the way you do. Admit it Horan! You like her, a lot!” He said while standing up. He smiled and chuckled before he went to my door.

“Zayn, Louis, Liam! Come here!” Harry yelled out down the hall. I looked at him weirdly. He did know that we weren’t the only ones in this hotel.

Before I knew it, Zayn, Liam, and Louis came running down the hall. I could hear the pounding of their footsteps as they came closer to my hotel room.

“What?” Zayn asked as soon as he saw Harry.

“Tell Niall that he likes Cristina! He’s not getting it through his big head!” Harry said before leaving my room. All three boys looked at me and charged. Instead of talking to me, they all tackled me.

“Niall’s got a bird!” Zayn said. He was laughing uncontrollably. All the other boys agreed with Zayn before they got off me.

“We knew you liked her but it took you too long for you to realize it.” Liam said.

“Yea!” Louis said.

That’s when I knew I had to tell Cristina how I felt. I should text her! Wait, I have a better idea.

I thanked the boys before asking them to leave. I looked at the time, 6 hours before the next concert. There was time.

Cristina’s POV

I sat there during English. We were talking about a book that somehow escaped my mind. I was too busy thinking about Niall and my mom. I missed them both. I was still denying that I liked Niall like a boyfriend and was just trying to tell myself that we were some sort of friends. I didn’t think this relationship was going to last long and I for sure as hell didn’t want to have my first heartbreak on something that only lasted a week. I was excited to see him again but I was also dreading the moment. Maybe the time that he was away he realized that he didn’t want to be with someone as simple as me. He probably came to his senses.

I sighed as the bell rang. I picked up my belongings and headed towards Mentor.
Mentor, to me, was just a class where I could sit there and think about my life. What it really was for was for people that didn’t get their homework done so they created this class for them to catch up.

I sat there with no friends, considering that everybody still didn’t like me for any apparent reason.

Sara came up to my table and sat next to me. I took her by surprise. She hated me! I had a feeling she was going to say something bad!

“Cristina?” I looked at her and sighed.

“Look, I don’t want to cause any trouble so if you would please just leave me alone. Haven’t you’ve done enough to me already?” I said while looking down. I felt her hand on my shoulder. WHAT WAS HAPPENING!

“No Cristina. I came to apologize. I’m sorry if I have ever hurt you. I was jealous of you since forever and I guess when I found out you were dating Niall more rage filled me. I’m sorry and I hope you find it in your heart to forgive me.” She said while looking me deep in the eyes.

“Is this a joke because you fucking got me!” I said while standing up. I knew this was complete bullshit. I stood up to look for her clan of bitches sitting around and giggling but it was to my surprise that none of her friends were with her. I looked down at her and tears formed in her eyes. What the fuck was going on?

“I feel terrible!” She said while putting her hand to her face. I sat back down and looked at her. I didn’t know what to do but it felt good to see her be the one to cry.

“Why?” I asked while smiling. I’m sorry but if your worst enemy was crying, you would smile too.

“It’s true Cristina! I was jealous of you since you were little! You had everything, a mother that loved you and a father that loved you too! You had cool things while I had nothing. I was jealous! So I started to pick on you and others followed along. I became popular for all of the wrong reasons. I actually wanted to be your friend and I knew I had been the reason you would run away crying! You never did anything to me but I chose to do something to you! I’m so sorry and I hope you can forgive me even though I don’t deserve it!” She said and at this point she was almost bawling. Everyone was looking at us.

“So you picked on me all of these years just because I had things you didn’t? My childhood was ruined and you want me to forgive you just like that? I had no friends, Sara! You know how hard it was being picked on when you’re that little? I thought I did something terrible to you guys and all I ever was to you guys was nice!” I said and tears were forming in my eyes as well. This raged me but at least she was saying sorry. I stood up and left the room. I heard her heels following me.

“Cristina, I’m sorry! Please! Let me make it up to you! Can we try to be friends? Please Cristina! I will do anything!” She said. Her make-up was running. I smiled but it quickly left my face as I realized that this was affecting her more than it did to me. God, why did I have to be so nice!

“Sara, it will take some time but I’m sure we could be friends. You just have to remember that it was years that you’ve been picking on me so it will take a while before I could ever forgive you.” I said. My heart wanted to forgive and I’m pretty sure I would eventually but it was just hard to after everything she has done to me.

“Thanks so much Cristina! I just want to be friends!” She said. She rushed towards me and gave me a big hug. I was shocked but after a few seconds, I hugged her back.

“What made you want to apologize to me?” I asked. I thought that this came out of nowhere.
She withdrew from the hug.

“I had talked to my counselor and she told me that it was about time to say sorry and I realized that what I did to you, no one deserved.” She said while smiling.

The bell rang instructing us that it was time for lunch.

“Hold on! Let me go get my things and we can walk together.” She said and rushed back to Mentor. I waited for her.

She came walking up to me and her friends came up to her. They all gave me a disgusted look and Sara was getting pissed.

“If you don’t like her than leave!” Sara shouted at her friends. They all took her by surprise and still continued to stay next to her. Sara looked up to me and smiled.

This was a weird day.

Notes

I wanted to show you guys that Cristina's life is starting to change! Hope you guys like it! Next update will be when I have two more subscribers!
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