Chapter Twenty Two

"Hey Love do you want to see the backyard?" Niall asks coming behind me. "sure." I take his hand and he leads me to the back. "oh my gosh you have a trampoline!" "yes. Wanna jump." "yeah I do!" we run up and he lifts me up onto it and then I pull him up too. I'm jumping really high. "this is amazing!" I say. He does his splits in the air thing. He stops and comes next to me. "So do you like my mum?" "she's so, fancy. I'm afraid I'm going to say the wrong thing." "don't worry she does that to meet people to get to know their personality and then changes to her normal self again." "why?" "I don't know. But do you know what tomorrow is?" "of course I do." "our one month anniversary." "I know! I can't believe it's been one month already!" "Do you want to go out and explore Ireland?" "yes! I've wanted to go to Ireland since I was in third grade." "really?" "I've never told anyone this really but I used to Irish Dance when I was younger." "really?" I nod. "yeah." he jumps down and helps me down after. I go up and put on my shoes. I go down to the kitchen to find Niall. "me and Annie are going out. Be back late tonight." "okay have fun." I take his hand and walk outside. We walk into town and go into shops. There's a slight breeze so Niall gives me his sweatshirt. "thanks." I put it over my head and stick my arms through. There's about five inches from the tip of my fingers to the end of the sweatshirt and past my hips. I put my hair up into a messy bun. "hot coco?" "yes please." we turn the corner and walk into a little coffee shop. "Two hot chocolates please?" Niall orders. He pays and we sit at a table and wait for the drinks. "Niall." the lady yells. Niall gets up and grabs the drinks. "want to walk?" I stand up and take my hot chocolate and we continue walking. We sit at a park bench. He wraps his arm around my shoulder. "This is beautiful." "Tomorrow I want to take you up in the mountains." "that sounds uber fun." I say with a giggle. "see now your saying it." I take a sip of my coco and put my head on his shoulder. "You are the most beautiful girl in the world." I look up into his deep blue eyes. "And you are the sweetest guy in the world." He kisses my nose. "what time is it?" "four thirty." "What are we doing for dinner?" "I don't know yet." "Let's go for a walk." "to where?" "I don't know I've never been here. I want to meet some of your old friends." "okay." we walk to a soccer field and there's a few boys practicing. "Hey it's Niall!" we walk down and say hi. "Hey Joe. This is Annie." "Nice to meet you Annie." "you too." "So Niall what brings you to Ireland?" "just visiting me mum, and Annie has always wanted to come here." "Well would you like to join us in a football game." "Well I was hanging out with-" "Niall go ahead I'll watch you play. It's fine." "okay." he hands me his phone, shades, and SnapBack and runs onto the field. I put his hat and sunglasses on and take pictures of myself on his phone. I take pictures of the mountains Niall playing soccer. Or football? I'm not sure what it is here. Niall sits down beside me. "can I have my sunglasses and hat back?" "I don't know I look pretty good in them." "I'll give em to you." "really?" "maybe." I hand them back to him and stand up and then pull him up. "ready for dinner?" "yes sir." "good." we walk to a restaurant a few blocks away. Its semi fancy and I feel out of place. I'm American, wearing a sweatshirt that's like five sizes too big, and shorts. Oh well. Niall orders a plate for us to share since I have no idea what Irish food is like. "Joe seems nice." "Yeah he's a pretty cool guy." "Did you play soccer or football or whatever you call it, with him?" he let's out a laugh. "You can call it soccer. And yes I did." "were you any good?" "I was the best player on the team." "okay." I say sarcastically. When the food comes Niall makes me a plate. It's chicken and noodles and a side salad. It's surprisingly good. "Do you like it?" "It's really good." "good." I look at the time on his watch to see it's already close to eight. When we finish eating he takes me to get ice cream. I get cake batter of course and he gets chocolate. We eat it as we walk back to his house. "This was really fun." I say giving him a spoonful of my ice cream. "Mhm." we get home and walk upstairs quietly. I change into my pajamas and put Niall's sweatshirt over since it's still cold even inside. I go to his room and we watch Mean Girls. "This is one of my favorite movies." I say tilting my head up to see Niall's face since I'm sitting in his lap. We watch the movie and about halfway through he falls asleep. I turn the movie off and snake my way out of his arms. I kiss him goodnight and put a blanket over him. I go quietly back to my room and let my hair down and crawl into bed. I take out my stuffed bear, which I've named Mr. Purpley, and fall asleep. I know what your thinking, a seventeen year old sleeping with a stuffed animal? I always like to hold onto something so I'm not alone. Niall doesn't know and he doesn't need to.