Diana

14
Diana’s P.O.V.
“You’re not okay,” Niall said, embracing me. “Tell me what’s wrong. Who’s Marcus, really?”
I sat down on the floor of the bathroom and everything came tumbling out. I told him how Marcus had told me he was my boyfriend and about not wanting to tell because I thought Niall would be mad. I felt Niall’s arm tense when I started telling him about Marcus kissing me so I changed the part about him slapping me to squeezing my cheeks. I doubt Niall bough it though.
Before I could finish it all, Janice, my best friend from before, came in.
“I thought you were just going to the bathroom, Niall,” she said accusingly.
I saw Niall’s jaw do the thing.
“I was,” Niall said. “But I ran into Diana. If you’ll excuse me, I have to go have a talk with Marcus.”
He stood up hastily.
“No, Niall!” I pleaded. “I’ll just stay away from him.”
Niall looked at me with sad eyes. “Do you really think he’ll stay away from you though?”
I bit my lip. There was no way Marcus would keep his distance from me. “Okay… But be civil. Okay, Ni?”
Niall nodded. “I’ll try.” He turned to go but stopped and turned around sheepishly. “Uh… Where does he live?”
I fought to hide a smile. “I don’t remember exactly. You’ll have to take me with you.”
Niall rolled his eyes. “Okay. Fine. But you have to stay in the car.”
“Okay!” I said and ran outside to the van.
Niall laughed and grabbed the keys then and after me.
“Wait!” Janice called. “You’re just leaving me here?”
I didn’t respond as climbed in the passenger seat. Niall got in and looked at me expectantly.
“Left, right, right, left, right, left, left,” I said, just to confuse him.
“Left, right, what?”
“Right!” I laughed. “Let’s go!”
Niall shook his head and laughed with me. But then he stiffened up.
“We should go. Tell me when and where to turn, okay?”
“Okay.”
I directed Niall to Marcus’ house with only a few incorrect turns. We got there in about 20 minutes, and then sat in the car for a bit in silence until Niall squeezed my hand and got out. He didn’t bother knocking and went in through the unlocked door. It was 1:17 am.
1:20
I hope everything’s going okay.
1:23
Maybe I should have made Niall let me come in.
1:27
Should I be worried?
1:31
Yeah, I’m worried.
1:37
This is taking too long. I’m going in.
I got out and went to the front door. It didn’t take me long to find them. Niall was shouting at Marcus who was cowering in a corner of the kitchen.
“-EVER TOUCH HER AGAIN AND I’LL BE HERE! I WILL PUNCH YOU SENSELESS!”
I’d never seen Niall this angry before. Actually, I’d never seen him angry at all before. I felt my skin prickle like the air had an electric charge. Even though his anger wasn’t directed at me, it terrified me.
“Niall!” I called as I ran up to him and hugged him from behind. His muscles relaxed.
“Why didn’t you tell me he hit you?” He sounded hurt.
“I don’t know,” I mumbled. “I guess I didn’t want you to kill him.”
He smiled, just a bit. “I wouldn’t kill him! …I don’t want to go to jail. I guess punching him would send me there though. But I don’t know... If he so much as lays a finger on you,” he directed the next part more at Marcus, “I will hurt him. No one touches my princess.”
Overprotective Niall was so cute! His eyebrows were all scrunched together, and his nostrils flared, and his jaw did the thing again. Sorry, fangirl mode.
Marcus spoke up. “I don’t care about her anymore! She’s changed.” He glared at me.
Niall turned as if to go but then twisted back and pulled his arm back for a punch. My eyes widened and I sucked in a breath to shout for him to stop. Marcus flinched and covered his head with his arms. But the blow never came. Niall smirked and guided me to the door. I shook my head and rolled my eyes, but couldn’t help smiling as well.

Notes

Hey guys! Thinks so much for reading! Sorry for the short chapter. I actually didn’t think there would be any update today though. I spent Monday and Tuesday writing the last one, Wednesday (March 25th) in tears over Zayn. Thursday I was recovering from all that and with writer’s block and Friday I was busy. So it was just a bit of Saturday (with writer’s block), some Sunday (also with writer’s block), and mostly Monday. Anyway, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss anything!