Always Expect the Unexpected

Niall's POV

I looked at Abbey, asleep next to me and sighed. I was really beggining to believe she was the one. The problem was, I didn't know what she thought about me. Sure, we just almost had sex, but she was drunk and didn't exactly know what was going on. She ould have thought I was anyone.

Abbey stirred in her sleep. She nuzzled into me and placed her hand on my chest. I made myself as still as a rock so she wouldn't wake up. I moved her hair out of her face and kissed her lightly on her forehead. She muttered something inaudible and burried her face in my neck. I pushed my face into her hair and breathed in deeply. Her hand continued touching places on my chest, making me cautious to move. She was reminding me so much of the last girl I was with. Her name was Holly. Holly Scally. I didn't want our relationship to get too tense so I ended it with her. I still liked her a lot, but we recently kind of just stopped talking.

I don't know when it happened, but I just kind of fell asleep. When I woke up, I heard Abbey in the bathroom puking. I sighed, feeling really sorry for her, and went in the bathroom and pulled back her hair. I started rubbing her back while she continued to throw up. When she thought she was done I wiped her mouth off and frowned at her. She looked like she hadn't slept, but I knew she had. I told her to wait there while I got her some water.

I went into the kitchen and pour a glass of water when my cell rang.

"Hello?"

"Hey Niall, it Harry and Louis. What's up?" I heard Harry say.

I mentally groaned and carried the water to Abbey in the bathroom. "Take small sips," I told her.

"What?" Harry asked, confused.

"Nothing, I was talking to Abbey. She's really hungover so I'm helping her out. Now isn't really the best time," I sighed, watching Abbey rub her temples.

"Yeah dude, sure. Do you need anything?" Louis said in the background. I was obivously on speaker.

"Uh, no," I said, looking over at Abbey again, who had just started throwing up again.

"Yeah, well, bye," Harry said hanging up.

I put my phone away and held back Abbey's hair again. I just realized she was mostly naked. "Uh, Abbey, I'm gonna go grab you some clothes sweetie. When I get back I want you to get in the shower and get dressed. Take some Asprin, too."

Abbey looked over at me and smiled, wiping the puke off of her mouth. She flushed the toilet and washed her hands and waited for me to leave the room. I walked into my room and got some sweats and a t-shirt for her. Today was going to be a long day.

Abbey's POV

When Niall left the room I just slippe out of my underwear and got in the shower. The water was warm and felt really good and I felt relieved. When I got out of the shower Niall was standing in the bathroom on his phone talking to someone with his back to me.

"No, dude really, I just wanna make sure she's okay. She got really drunk yesterday, and she doesn't feel good today. Anyway, I'm staying at home. If you want to hang out come over here," he said. He sounded frustrated.

I wrapped a towel around my body and looked around for some clothes. He had brought me in underwear, a bra, a t-shirt, and sweat pants. I slipped on the bra and underwar and then just put on the sweatpants. I brushed my teeth and then slipped the shirt on and walked over to Niall, who was now arguing with whoever was on the phone.

"Harry no, I can't. I'm sorry. Maybe next time, I promise. Just not now. I gotta go though, I'll call you later, goodbye!" he yelled and hung up the phone. He rubbed his temples and then turned to me. "How you feeling?" he asked, pulling me a little closer.

I leaned up and kissed him on the lips really fast. "Not that much better. I don't feel natious anymore though," I said.

He smiled at me. "Maybe we can figure out what your drinking limit is since you;re staying here possibly."

I frowned at him and then backed up and little and scratched my neck and looked at him with sad eyes.

"What's wrong?" he asked, trying to pull me closer again. He stroked my cheek, leaving a trail of goosebumps where his hand youched me.

My eyes started watering and I looked down. "My mom said I have to go home and finish school before I can stay here, which means I most likely wont be comming back any time soon because I have to pay for Air Fare," I sobbed. Niall pulled me close and stroked the back of my head. I buried my face into his shoulder.

"Shh, don't cry," he said. His voice cracked a little when he said that.

"Niall, I just don't know what to do. I wish there was a way to finish my education here. I only have 2 weeks left with you guys."

Just then Harry and Louis walked in. "Dude, why are you two crying?" Harry asked, rushing over to us. He didn't seem happy.

I kept my face in Niall's should and I heard him sniffle. "Abbey has to leave, and we may never see her again," Niall said, pulling me tightly to him.

"Oh no!" Louis moaned. He ran over and squeezed us. "Abbey I was gonna take you shopping!"

Harry stood there for a moment and then walks over and nudged me. I looked at him and he had a half smile on his face. "I'll make sure you come back," he said.

"Thanks," I sighed, moving awy from Niall and Louis and hugging Harry. He smiled and nodded at someone. I backed away and sighed. "My mom said I have to go home and finish my schooling. All I really need to do it get my GED, right?" I asked.

They all laughed. "No, thats for a job. You need a highschool diploma!" they all yelled.

I sighed. How could I do that without going to school? "Oh I have an idea! I need a computer!" I yelled. I was suddenly really excited.

"Uh, okay. Hold on," Niall said, leaving the room in the direction of his room. He came back with a laptop.

"Okay, thanks," I said, moving to the couch and sitting down in the middle. Everyone crowded around me, and Liam and Zayn walked in.

"What's going on?" they asked, looking at all of us.

"Abbey found a way she could possibly stay!" Harry cheered.

"Oh cool!" Liam said, walks behind the couch with Zayn, who started running his fingers through my hair.

I opened up a website that helped you get your diploma fast. I signed up with my credit card and was ready to start. I frowned. "My mom is going to want proof that I have my diploma."

"Well, mail it to her!" Zayn said cheerfully. He was usually quie, so it took all of us by surprise.

"What if it gets lost in the mail?" I asked.

"Why don't we all deliver it to her when we go to America?" Niall suggested. I had forgotten they were leaving the same time I was.

"Yeah, and then when we come back I can just stay with you guys!" I grinned.

"Cool, so its set. We leave in 2 weeks!" Harry said.

1 week later

Niall's POV

"Abbey, just mail it to her! It'll be faster. I can get it there by Tuesday, and we leave Saturday!" I begged, standing on my knees. Abbey had basically moved in with me, so we were together all the time. She went to her own apartment sometimes, but not really any more.

"Niall, I'm done arguing. I'm worried it'll get lost in the mail!" she protested, crossing her arms over her chest. She was irritable after our run because a bunch of girls swarmed me for he first time, and she wasn't used to it.

I sighed. "Abbey, please. You got it in the mail TODAY. It didn't get lost. Send it to her! I promise it wont get lost!"

"Fine," she said, picking up an envelope and shoving the diploma into it. SHe wrote her address and I showed her how to do international mailing, and we drove to the post office and sent it off. We got express delivery.

"Hey, does this mean you can stay?" I asked her, pulling her close and touching my forehead to hers while we were outside of the post office.

"Maybe, I don't know yet. It depends on what my mom thinks," she sighed, tilting her head a little. I lightly kissed her on the lips and when she pulled back her eyes were a little dialated.

I chuckeled a little and kissed her softly again. "Lets go home," I said, wraping my hand around her waist, walking with her to my car. When we got home, Harry and Louis were there doing a Twit Cam.

"Oh, here are Niall ad Abbey!" Louis cheered.

"Yes! Come here guys! People have been asking about you!" Harry yelled. Niall and I both walked over and sat down with them on the couch.

"Hello everyone!!" Niall cheered while waving.

As soon as we sat down the questions started comming really fast with things like "Are you two dating?" and "Kiss for us!" and things like that. I laughed a little and smiled sweetly. "No guys, sorry. Were not dating. I'm just really good friends with Niall!"

Niall chuckled and nodded his head. "Yeah, so don't go starting rumors!"

Suddenly the questions turned to statements. Things like "But I saw in the tabloids a picture of you two kissing!" and "it's all over instagram! You guys were going at it!"

Niall and I looked at each other and started blushing.

Harry started reading comments out loud. "You can just see the sparks fly when you look at you guys," Harry mumbled. He looked over at us and made a face that looked like he agreed. I blushed even harder and didn't even glance at Niall.

Harry laughed. Louis looked at the screen and said "Well, these people are relentless. Oh look! A message directly for Abbey, it says 'Abbey it's Sam. I miss you, when are you comming home?'"

I stared at Louis for a second. "Did it seriously say that?" I said, trying to look at the screen. Yep, it defiantly did. I laughed awkwardly. "Well, Sam, this is more of a private conversation. Why don't you call me later, huh?" I said, and that was just me finalizing it.

"Well, uh, I guess this is the end of the Twit cam!" Niall said, closing the laptop and smiling at me sheepishly. "Who is Sam?" he asked.

"Sam was my best friend before I came out here. I haven't talked to her once," I sighed. Crap. Now I had to call her. "Uh, can you excuse me for a second?" I asked.

"Go ahead!" Liam said.

"Okay," I said, walking away with my phone out. I dialled Sam's number.

"Hello?" she said.

"Hey it's me. How's it been?"

"Oh ya' know, great! Considering my best friend hasn't talked to me for a month and has been having makeout sessions with Niall Horan on ONE DIRECTION!" she yelled into the phone.

"Shhh, calm down!" I snapped. "It's not like I'm dating him or anything. Anyway, I wanted to tell you something."

The line was silent for a minute and then she sighed. "What?" she asked.

"Well, I'm staying in London," I said, cringing. I hoped she wasn't mad at me.

"What?" she repeated, sounded irritated,

"Well, Niall and the boys asked me to stay, and, well, I really wanted to so I said yes!" I squeaked. She sounded so mad.

"I don't like this Abbey. We can't be long distsnt best friends like this," she sighed into the phone.

"Well, like I said to my mom, we can pay for you to visit, and visit often, as long as your mom likes it!" I said giddily.

Sam was quiet, probably thinking about it. "Okay," she said. "Okay I'm cool with this. I will come visit as soon as school is over!" she squealed.

"Okay, but the boys wont be here," I said quietly.

"I don't care, I want to be with you!" Sam yelled into the phone "Duh!"

"Great!" I squealed. "Hey I gotta go. I'll text you later," I said. As soon as I hung up, Niall walked in with his guitar, grinning from ear to ear.

"Hey, I wanted to sing to you!" Niall said, holding up the guitar.

"Oh, okay," I said. I was on the balconey of the apartment. I sat down and he got on one knee.

"This is Viva La Vida by Coldplay," he said, and he started strumming his guitar.

I used to rule the world, Seas would rise when I gave the word. Now in the morning I sleep alone, sweep the streets I used to own. I used to roll the dice, feel the fear in my enemy's eyes. Listen as the crowd would sing, "Now the old king is dead! Long live the king!"

He looked up at me and smiled while singing. His voice was so beautiful and his accent made the song seem sexier than intended. As he continued singing I realized how much I loved him. Not because he was famous, not because he could sing, but because he was always doing things from his heart. When he finished he smiled and gave my another cocky grin.

"Did you like it?" he asked me.

I nodded my head and took his face in between my hands. I pressed my lips against his and he set down his guitar and stood up, and I did with him. I pulled myself as close to him as possible and kissed him with so much longing it was almost driving me insane.

"Do you want me to ask the boys to leave?" Niall asked into our kisses.

I nodded my head, not breaking the kiss until he pulled away. I was suddenly really nervous. I followed Niall back to the livingroom to find that Harry was standing outside. Niall nodded to him, and Harry stood there staring at us. He followed us too. He looked surprised.

"Uh," Niall cleared his throat. "You guys should go home. Me and Abbey want to get some rest," he said. I could tell that Harry knew exactly what was going on because he was really fast to respond.

"Yeah, okay. I'll leave. C'mon Louis, lets go," Harry said, grabbing Louis and leaving.

Zayn looked from me to Niall to Liam and then shrugged. "I'm out. See you guys tomorrow."

Liam nodded. "Me too, night guys," and they both left.

As soon as the door closed Niall ran over and locked it. When he turned back around he almost ran to me. He pulled me in really close and started kissing me. It was the same as when he was drunk and stripped me, it was very forced, yet passionate. I pulled my shirt off and hiked up my legs around his waist. He carried me into his bedroom and laid me down on the bed. His lips moved down to my neck and kissed me really fast and tore off his shirt. I wiggled out of my pants while he kept kissing different parts of my neck, and then he moved down to my colar bone. I moaned quietly. I was still really nervous. This was going to be my first time, and I was giving it away to someone who has probably had sex with a lot of people. At least he's experienced, I thought.

Niall reached behind me and unclipped my bra and then shruged out of his own pants. He moved back up to my neck and kissed and bit it, and started sucking a little. I grabbed a handful of his hair and moaned again. He pulled away and kissed me lightly on the lips. His breathing was getting heavy, and so was mine. He kissed me again and again before finally saying "I love you, Abbey."

The next day

I woke up next to Niall. I remembered every detail from last night. I looked over at him and saw that he was naked still. I sighed quietly and got up and ran over to my apartment. I took a really fast shower, cleaning off the dried sweat from last night, and then I put on some fresh jeans and a Beatles shirt. I went back into Niall's apartment and went into the kitchen and started cooking a big breakfast. I cooked egs, bacon, pancakes, muffins, and hashbrowns. Right when I was done Niall strolled out of his room in just sweat pants, stretching.

"Morning stranger," I said, not looking at him.

"Hey gorgeous. You look good today," he said. He looked over my shoulder and saw all of the food. His eyes got wide and I swear he started drooling.

I laughed. "Umm, Niall. I wanted to talk to you, but I don't want you to be distracted, so can we go into the livingroom?" I asked.

He nodded. "Yeah sure, anything for you love."

We walked into the livingroom and sat down on the couch. I smiled at him a little while looking down. "Uh, Niall, I don't know what to say. First off, I'm worried I'll be lonely while all of you guys are off touring," I sighed.

Niall looked kind of conflicted. "You'll make friends. You can get a modeling job, and make friends there, can't you?" he had grabbed my hands on impulse.

"Well, yeah, but there are some other things. I would miss my friends and family so much, I don't know if I could be happy," I sighed.

Niall pulled me close to him and I breathed in his smell. I could smell my perfume on him. "Abbey, you will be happy. Everyone loves you, especially me. We will keep you happy. You could even come with us to our concerts. Would you like that?" he asked me. He gave me a second to think about it.

I looked into Niall's eyes thinking maybe I do love him. Maybe this is all worth it. I wont have to go back to my family, I wont have to abandon the group at all. I can stay with him and everything will be fine.

Niall smiled at me and said the three words that he always said that made my heart flutter. "Lets go eat."

Okay maybe not. I smiled and followed him to the kitchen and we sat down to eat some food. Niall scarfed down the food really fast. I wasn't really hungry so I drank some tea and ate a little bit of the eggs.

"You're a really good cook," Niall said with a mouthful of muffin.

"Thanks," I said, and Louis and Liam walked into the kitchen.

"Hey guys!" Louis smiled, grabbing a muffin.

"Hey Louis, hey Liam," I said. Liam pulled me in for a hug and so did Louis.

"Can I talk to you for a minute?" Liam asked me.

"Uhh, sure," I said getting up. We walked into Niall's room and I looked at my bra from last night on the floor. I kicked it under Niall's bed. "What's up?" I asked.

"So, did you loose it last night?" Liam asked me. He was in big brother mode.

"Loose what?" I asked, acting clueless. I knew exactly what he was talking about. I glanced at the bed and saw some blood and repositioned the blanket so it was covered.

Liam had a smug look on his face. "Your v-card love. Did you loose it?"

I looked down and nodded my head.

Liam pulled me in for a gentle hug. I started crying a little. "Do you cook when you get emotional?" Liam asked.

I nodded and laughed a little.

"I think Niall's found the perfect girl for him then. Maybe he should make you emotional more often!" Liam chuckled.

"Dude what's up with your back?" I heard Louis yell.

Liam raised his eyebrows at me and we walked into the kitchen.

"Take a picture, I wanna see!" Niall said.

Louis took out his phone and snapped a picture. When he showed it to Niall he looked smug. There were scratch marks all over his back, from my nails.

Louis laughed at Niall's expression and Liam nudged me. I looked over and he looked like he was trying to make fun of me somehow with his eyes. He wiggled his eyebrows and he laughed.

Niall pointed to the picture and looked at me. "What would you describe that as?" he asked me.

I thought for a second and smiled. "That's what it looks like when you do all the right things."

Louis, Liam, and Niall all looked at me with different expressions. Niall looked pleased, Liam looked mock-horrified, and Louis looked just plain shocked.

"Wait! Didn't you spend the night last night?" Louis asked me.

I nodded. "Yeah, I did," I said quietly.

"Dude! Way to go Nialler!" Louis yelled. He high fived Niall and laughed.

"Lou, don't tell anyone outside of the boys," I pleaded. Niall nodded.

"Why not?" Louis whinned.

"Because, I don't want to get swarmed by paps, and I want to be able to go out in public without being attacked by crazy girl fans," I said.

Liam nodded. "That's a good enough reason for me."

Louis walked over to me and squeezed me. "Talk to me baby, how was it?" he joked around.

I gestured to Niall. "I dunno, ask his back in a few days when it turns to scars," I said.

Louis laughed. "Can I call Harry and tell him? He'll be so impressed!" Louis yelled, dialing the number on his phone.

I blushed. This was going to be a loooooong day.

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