(This is the one shot I, Aliya, wrote. I’m sorry it’s so long!)
“I would sacrifice Niall.” Louis said in a serious tone in response to a question they received from a fan. Niall’s heart dropped. He couldn’t believe the words that had just escaped his boyfriend’s mouth, but they were on camera. He had to play it cool, so he looked down until he felt the redness in his face disappear. Louis immediately realized what he had done. It was only a joke, he was very hyper that day due to the amazing sleep he had gotten the night before. He was bouncing off the walls all day and blurting out the most insane things, but it still wasn’t an excuse. He knew how sensitive his younger boyfriend was and he knew that this wasn’t going to be easily fixed. The two of them carried on like nothing had happened, but as soon as they heard “Cut” reality kicked in.
Niall laughed lightly and told the lads he was going to use the restroom and walked out of the room slamming the door slightly. Liam, Zayn and Harry all turned towards Louis with expressions on their faces that said “You fucked up.” Louis took a deep breath and walked off to the bathroom. He stood in front of the door and heard soft cries from his boyfriend. His heart was breaking, and Louis himself, started to tear up. He wiped away his tears and cleared his throat so Niall knew someone was outside. The blonde boy gasped softly and wiped away his tears and manned up before Louis walked in. “Niall? You in here?” Assked Lou. “Er yeah” He said as he rubbed his eyes before walking out of the third stall and over to the sinks, where Louis was standing, to wash his hands. “I’m sorry.” Louis said sincerely. “I’m truly sorry. I was just joking. I don’t even know why I said that. You know I’ve been hyper all day and been blurting out insane things today. I- I’m sorry.” He continued as tears started to fill the younger boys eyes before he exploded “That doesn’t matter! I don’t care if you’ve been hyper! No matter what, no matter if you were drunk or delirious or… whatever it is, if you loved me those words would have never even entered your mind!” He yelled at Louis as tears were streaming down his face. Louis had never seen Niall like this. He seemed so weak and hurt. It killed him to know HE was the reason he was like this. As his boyfriend he’s suppose to protect, and care for, and love, and defend Niall… Not hurt him like this. He messed up. He knew it. Louis felt lost and confused and hopeless. He didn’t know what to do or what to say. He just stood there, in complete shock, with tears trickling out of his eyes. Niall shook his head and walked out of the bathroom. Louis slid down the wall and hid his face in his hands. He kept replaying what had just happened in his head. Niall’s voice shaking, tears running down his face, filled with anger and sadness. All Louis knew at this point was he had to do something…Something amazing to prove to Niall that he was sorry, and he would never do anything to hurt him.
Louis went back to his and his boyfriend’s flat after the day of being ignored by Niall. He walked inside and searched for the younger boy, but couldn’t find him. He called Liam, no luck. Zayn was the same, he had no clue where his friend was. Then Harry, but luckily he knew where Niall was. “Niall asked if he could stay with me for a little while. Of course I said that would be fine. He tole me everything…You really messed up. He’s really hurt. He says he doesn’t even know who you are anymore.” Louis ended the call and threw his phone of his bed. He had to start…He had to try anything that could make this better. So he rushed over to the closet and grabbed an old shoe box off the top shelf. In that shoe box was pictures of him and his past girl friends, especially Hannah. Niall always hated the fact that Lou had held onto those photos. Louis carried the box over to the writing desk in the living room and one by one took every single one of those photos and put them in the shredder. He sighed as he watched the last one being destroyed. He knew this wouldn’t fix the problem he created, but it would help. He removed the lid of the shredder and placed the ruined photo strips into a plastic bag. He got a pen and a piece of paper and wrote a note quickly before grabbing his coat and getting in his car with the note and remains of the photographs.
He drove down the road in the rain and cold. Not thinking. He was too afraid to think. After five minutes he got to Harry’s place and knocked on the door. He heard feet shuffling and muffled voices coming from inside and a door closing before the curly haired boy opened the door. “Oh hey Louis! Erm what are you doing here?” said the younger lad, looking confused. “Can you give this to Niall?” He said sounding so defeated, almost as a beg. He handed Harry the bag filled with the scraps of old pictures with the note. “Of course. Listen, I’m going to try to talk some sense into him. But today just isn’t the right day. He’s too upset.” Harry said quietly with a small, comforting smile. “Thanks Hazza” Said the older boy with a forced smile while giving hi friend a hug goodbye.
“Niall! You’ve um…Got a package!” Harry said loudly across his flat. Niall exited to bedroom he was hiding in while Louis was at the door. He knew it was his boyfriend, he saw his car approaching from the window. “Oh okay. Thanks.” Niall said taking the bag and note and sitting on the sofa. Harry sat next to him to see what it was. The Irish lad opened the baggy and poured the contents onto the wooden coffee table. He looked the the scarps for a few minutes before realizing what they were. He scrambled to get the note out of his pocket so he could read it. He read the words on the crumpled up paper in that voice that he fell in love with, the voice of Louis,
“Niall, I know I messed up. I also know these pictures have always bothered you. So I ran them threw the shredder to prove to you that I love you and only you and you’re the only one I’ll ever love. I’ll love you forever and always. I don’t expect you to forgive me yet because what I did was terrible, but if you meet me tomorrow at Nandos (Because I know how much you love that place!) at 10 am…Maybe I can make it up to you. Love always, your Louis.”
Niall laughed lightly as he looked at the pictures again. He felt that because Louis held onto those pictures that he was maybe still holding onto those girls. The fact that he did that for him. All of his pictures from when he was in Grease. All of these photos form his childhood, he ruined them just to prove to him that he loved him. “He really does love you, Niall” Harry said. The younger boy was in a bit of a trance but snapped out of it as soon as he heard his name. “W-what?” Harry looked through the strips of photos “You’re all he ever talks about. Something cute you did or something you said that was funny or one of your quirks and how he finds it so odd but it makes him love you more. He’ll just sit there with me while you’re in makeup or in the bathroom and gush to me. I can tell he really loves you. He get’s this glow on his face whenever he see’s you. It’s pretty funny actually” He said laughing a bit.
That Niall lied in bed thinking about all that happened that day. How his boyfriend had crushed his heart, but then how he tried to fix it, and everything Harry said. He was always forgiving Louis very quickly for doing stuff that upset him. It was because he didn’t want to start a fight and because he was so in love that he really couldn’t stay mad. He was wild about Louis. Everything he did just made him fall even more in love. All of his lame jokes. His dancing. The way he almost always has a smile on his face. The way he would do anything, no matter what it was just to make Niall happy. He had fallen completely in love with the boy from Doncaster. They had only been dating for 4 months, but he was head over heels.
“Well what did he say?” Louis asked Harry nervously on the phone. “He said he’s going to meet you. I think that picture thing worked, my speech helped a bit, but you better have something good up your sleeve for tomorrow, Tomlinson!” Louis took a sigh of relief that Niall agreed to show up the next day, “I do, trust me.”
The next day Louis woke up and took a shower, His heart was beating faster than usual the whole time. He did his hair the way Niall liked it. He wore the outfit that his boyfriend loved the most and even wore the cologne that he received as a birthday present from the younger lad. He was never fond of the scent but it drove Niall mad. He had to play all of his cards right. Louis had been mad about Niall for a long time. But as soon as they became official, he was hopelessly in love. He loved the dorky side of his blonde boyfriend, he loved his Irish accent, he loved his cute personality, he loved everything about him. You name it, he loved it.
Niall ended up having to borrow clothes from Harry, which wasn’t a problem since they’re about the same size. He tried to look decent but was far too nervous to pay attention to his appearance. “I’m nervous, Harry. He’s never seen me like that. Hell, I’ve never seen myself like that!” Niall said to the older boy as he drank a glass of tea. “It’s going to be fine. This is Louis. He loves you no matter what, okay? So you got upset, you have every right to be. But I think it’s time to forgive and forget so you don’t scar the relationship.” Niall sighed deeply, he knew Harry was right. “Yeah, you’re right.” He looked at his watch, “Well I guess I should be going, bye Harry. Thanks for helping me out.” He said with a smile as he grabbed his coat and walked outside starting the brief 3 minute walk to Nandos.
Louis arrived at the restaurant and sat in the reserved, private booth, waiting for Niall to show up. He kept playing with his fingers nervously, and looking at his phone. He had never been so nervous about seeing Niall, normally he got butterflies when he saw his gorgeous blue eyed, blonde haired boyfriend.
Niall walked inside and spoke to the waitress and she showed him to the booth where Louis was sat. His heart was pounding as they got closer, then he saw him. He saw that tall, skinny, brown haired joker that he fell in love with. He was perfect. His hair had never looked better, he was wearing his best outfit, in Niall’s opinion, and his scent. He had to think about it because it wasn’t the usual Hollister aftershave that Louis wore, but then he realized it was the cologne he had bought for him on his birthday. He knew Louis wasn’t fond of it but Niall loved it.
“Hi Niall.” Louis said nervously as he stood up to greet his boyfriend. Niall couldn’t help but smile at the brown haired boy “Hey” He simply responded. “You hungry? We could get something to eat.” He could tell Louis was nervous, and since he had pretty much forgiven him for his acts the previous day, he reached out and held his boyfriends hands and smiled warmly at him. “No, I’m fine. Now, why did you want to meet me here?” Louis felt the pain in hid chest decrease, he felt as if he actually might be able to fix this. “Well, I…I’m going to sound like such a girl when I say this but, I’ve fallen completely in love with you Niall. You’re my everything. I go to sleep thinking about you, staring at your beautiful face, I wake up and it’s you I’m thinking of. Then I look over and see you sleeping next to me and I remember how lucky I am to have you. I know I do and say stupid things and I’m surprised you haven’t dumped my sorry bum yet! I love you. I love only you, and I know you’re the only one I’ll ever love.” Louis kissed Niall’s hand and slowly let go and grabbed a small box out of his coat pocket. Niall remained speechless. He couldn’t believe what he just heard. He thought he had fallen too hard and too quickly and didn’t want to say anything because he was afraid he would scare off Louis. He was so happy and in awe that this was all happening. “Now it’s only been four months so I don’t want to rush anything but I just want you to be mine, and I want to be yours.” Louis opened the box and showed Niall two golden bands and started to slip one on his boyfriend’s finger. “So this is my promise to you. I’ll never leave you. I’ll be there for you when you’re sick, healthy, happy, sad, grumpy, hyper, drunk, I’ll always be there. I’ll protect you and take care of you and defend you and love you with every single bit of my heart. I promise I will never, ever say a dumb thing like that again. I love you Niall Horan.” The two of them were tearing up. Niall laughed lightly and stood up and walked over to sit next to Louis. “Everything you just said, is everything I’ve been too afraid to tell you for the past few months. I’ve fallen completely in love with you Louis! I want you, only you, forever.” He said as he placed the other band on Louis’ finger, over flowing with happiness. Louis grabbed Niall’s rosy cheeks and kissed him lovingly. They were infinite.
