Chapter 74

"So how are things between you and Niall, okay yet?" Riley asked as me boarded the plane, Harry and Niall trailing behind.

"I don't even know. He still hasn't told me where he went that day and I feel so distant from him, I hate it." I sighed handing my pass to the attendant as we walked onto the plane being greeted by the pilot. "He's been going to the bar a lot after the studio and coming home drunk so often, I don't want to make the same mistake my mom did, you know?"

"Yeah, I get where you're coming from. I'm sorry, maybe he's just stressed." She gave me a comforting smile as she put her bags above where we were sitting. The man my moms marrying must be fucking loaded, he paid for all four of to be in first class. 

Harry and Niall took the seats in front of us as I made it clear last night to Niall, who had come home near 1 am that I didn't want to sit next to him on the plane. "Hey Ri, do you have tissues?" Harry asked turning around to look at her. She nodded reaching into her bag handing him a little pack.

I leaned back in my seat my head lulling to the side as I looked out the window at all the workers loading the bags onto the plane. "Hello miss, would you like anything to drink before we take off?" A lady maybe in her mid 40's with dark hair and glowing blue asked sweetly. I politely shook my head, Riley asking for just a bottle of water. 

"This is going to be a long flight, hopefully it will go by quickly." I pinched the bridge of my nose as more people started to board, loud chatter filling the smal plane.

Once everyone was settled they did the normal procedures of safety explanation telling us to take our seats and pt our belts on. "I don't want to!" A small voice shrilled from behind me. I turned slightly to look between the crack to see a young boy maybe 8 or 9 pouting as his father tried to get his belt on. 

This kid better fall asleep for this flight, was all I could think of after hearing his irritating whining as we took off balancing in the sky.

About an hour into the flight the little brat decided to turn into a damn kangaroo and kick the back of my seat. "I'm going to kill this kid." I groaned looking over at Riley as she looked at my seat as it jolted forward and back.

"Can you please stop kicking my friends seat?" She asked sitting up and looking over the seat.

"No." He grinned kicking harder. I glared at him as his father was passed out completely oblivious to his childs reckless behavior. 

"Stop kicking my seat please, it's hurting my head." I asked nicely keeping my voice as evenly calm as possible. 

"Uhm, no." He stuck out his tongue kicking harder as he cackled a little evil devil cackle. 

"She said to stop kicking her seat, aye mate?" I looked up to see Niall standing intimadintgly with his arms crossed glaring at the boy. 

"Sorry." The young red headed boy murmured folding his legs up on his seat.

"Thanks." I smiled slightly at Niall as he nodded walking down the aisle to find the bathroom I assume. 

"That was nice." Riley shrugged pulling the blanket that was given to us out of its plastic bag laying it over her lap.

"Might as well sleep, this is an over night flight." She laughed reclining her seat slightly. I guess she was right, I followed her actions and surprisingly fell asleep easily.

~"Girls wake up." I heard someone mumble, my eyes peeling open to see the boys stood up with their bags in hand, ours by their feet.

"Ugh, I feel so gross." I groaned standing up and fixing my hair a bit before grabbing the bags and heading off the plane. As we were walking out it was about 4 am so no crazy fan girls but tons of paps outside the doors waiting for a good shot to cash in.

"Hey guys." Harry waved politely as we walked outside to where a car was waiting for us. I was walking behind Riley, Niall trailing behind me when some man reached out  and grabbed my shirt snapping a picture of my stomach, also where I had a massive scar from my surgery.

Before I even had a moment to react Niall's fist collided with the mans jaw before he quickly shoved me into the car. Great now a picture of one of my biggest insecurities is going to be everywhere for people I don't even know to see. 

"Are you alright?" Niall asked as we drove away leaving the rioting crowd of paps.

"Uhm yeah." I nodded fixing my shirt a bit. "Yeah."

He put his arm around my shoulder pulling me into his side kissing my forehead. "Don't worry about it, I'm going to handle it." He whispered into my ear, and without explaining I knew exactly what he meant.

I agreed to come to the wedding but I told my mom we would be staying at the hotel down the street because I didn't need to be in a house with her after our last confrontation. 

It was a small, family own hoteled that usually just buisness people on the move stayed in so each room had only one bed, none with two. It was kind of a bed and breakfast type of place and the family that owned it were the sweetest people you would ever meet. 

"Uh, reservation for McKinley." I smiled at the ageing woman behind the desk. "I believe it's two rooms though."

"Ah yes, here you go, right down the hall first floor." She smiled handing me two sets of keys for each room. We picked up our bags and parted to our rooms. They were small but nice, cute almost.

"What time is lunch with your mom and fiance?" Niall asked sitting down on the bed. 

"Uh 2 i think." I told him as I began to unpack and hang things up so they didn't wrinkle too much.

"It's like 5 am go back to sleep and unpack later." Niall chuckled taking off his shoes and climbing under the comforter of the bed. 

"I can't, I need to do it now or I'll never do it." I sighed hanging up my dress for the wedding.

"Maybe I didn't make it clear." He paused the sheets rustling around. Just as I was about to turn around his arms linked around my waist picking me up and carrying me over to the bed. "I want you to get sleep." He laughed throwing me onto the bed making me laugh slightly. 

"Whatever." I smirked throwing my shoes on the floor and slipping under the covers next to him. He reached over closing the gap between us, my head resting on his chest. "Why are you hiding things from me?" I asked quietly after a while, unsure if he was still awake.

"Im not." He spoke up his chest vibrating.

"And I'm not stupid, I know when you're lying. Why do you go to the bar so much and come home so late?" I looked up at him, his chin tilted up looking at the ceiling.

"I don't know." He mumbled his tongue darting out to lick his lips, secret.

"I don't like it." I murmured playing with my finger nails.

"You don't have to, you're not the one doing it." He laughed and I sat up to look at him in disbelief.

"Could you be more fucking insensitive?" I bit at him making him lean up on his elbows. "What the fuck?"

"What the fuck? Why is this such a big deal to you? Who cares if I go out and have a few drinks?" He questions glaring at me as if I'm the one who did something wrong.

"I don't care if you go out and have a few drinks but when it's every single night and you come home at 1am slammed it's not exactly something I favor." I spat, my tone sour and disapproving.

"I'm not going to apologize for having fun. Why is it such a big fucking deal?" He asked his voice rising as he sat up fully in the bed, his neck reddening like it does when he gets angry.

"Why is it such a big fucking deal? Maybe because I really love you and I don't want it to come around and bite me in the ass! I don't want to make the same mistake as my mom, marrying a drunk!" I screamed stepping out of the bed pacing around the room. "I'm not going to do that to myself, not after I saw the way my mom and dad acted!" 

I looked over at Niall as he sat with a neutral expression his mouth dry of words to say that could further this arguement, he knew he was wrong and that I had won.

"Wait where are you going?" He questioned as I slipped on my shoes and grabbed my coat from the dresser.

"For a fucking walk." I glared at him as I left the room slamming the door behind me, the walls shaking. I felt bad because I probably just woke quite a few people up in the small fragile hotel. 

I loved Niall, that was a fact. But would I stay with him if he turned out to be a man like my father was? That is still undetermined.

I walked aimlessly down the streets, watching as they became brighter and brighter by the passing minutes. I stopped inside dunkin donuts and ordered a hot chocolate and some weird seasonal donut thing, it was pretty good though.

In my anger of storming out I negleced to remember that it was in fact winter and freezing out. As much as I wanted to be stubborn it wasn't even 7 yet and I was cold and tired. I had no place else to go, well no place this early to go and decided to head back to the hotel in hopes that Niall went to sleep.

I walked into the door the woman smiling at me as I threw out my cup of hot chocolate into the garbage bin before heading down the hall.

"I fucked up Harry!" I heard Niall shout, he should really keep it down he's going to wake people up. "She fucking left like an hour ago!"

"Niall calm down first of all, it's not even 7 people are sleeping." I heard Riley speak up from behind the door. "She'll be back soon, she hates the cold and it's too early to go anywhere else, trust me. Go back to your room and get some sleep."

"I fucked up so bad guys, so bad. I didn't even take her feeling toward drinking into consideration all those nights I was out drinking late, I'm a douche bag." His voice was low as it cracked at the end. I sighed heading into our room next door removing my coat and shoes.

I slid under the covers the sun rising, its rays peeking through the curtain as I shivered, my body still aching cold.

"Kaylee." Niall breathed as I heard the door closed. I couldn't deal with him right now so I pretended to sleep. "Kaylee, are you awake?" After a couple minutes of silence his hot breath left the back of my neck as he turned over in the bed.

~"Guys get up!" Someone was banging on the door causing me to roll over and groan. I lazily got out of bed and opened the door to see Harry and Riley all dressed and ready.

"You have an hour before you have to meet your mom." Riley told me as my eyes widened a smirk on her lips. She lived for the days I was late, I was always the on time friend.

"Shit." I mumbled turning back into the room to see Niall was already up out of bed in the bathroom. "Can I use your shower?" I pleaded and she nodded handing me a key.

"Harry and I are going into the city today to go ice skating, we'll be back tonight. Good luck at lunch." Riley waved goodbye as I walked into their room, messy of course. 

I took a shower as quickly as possible, wrapping a towel around my body and hurrying down the hall to my room before anyone saw me, talk about embarrassing!

"Kaylee we need to talk." Niall stood up as I walked into the room, rushing to pick out m clothes.

"Niall not right now!" I groaned taking my clothes into the bathroom and changing before doing my hair and make up, I hated having to rush around. "We've got to go." 

"Where the hell is this place that we have to leave 45 minutes before?" He chuckled as I slipped on my flats and grabbed my bag. I walked outside to see that the rental car for the week was dropped off, the keys were handed to me from the man at the front desk.

"It's downtown in seacaucus, it's the olive garden, a nice place." I told him getting in the dirvers seat starting up the rather large car. 

"Can we talk now or is this going to be an awkward long car ride?" He asked as I pulled out onto a main street stopping at a red light. 

"Well if we talk I'm afraid one of us will get angry and be in a bad mood and ruin the lunch." I huffed tapping my fingers against the leather of the steering wheel.

"Well, can we agree to keep our volume down because I hate this awkward are we're in where I feel like I can't even tell you I love you and you look beautiful." He sighed resting his head against the window.

"Uh," My eyes flickered up to the light as it turned green, my foot pushing down on the gas pedal. "Listen, I was just upset with you. We were always open and non secretive and did things to make sure both of us were happy. All of a sudden you're out late, sneaking around, lying to me about where you are and I don't like it. I feel out of the loop." I let out a big breath stopping at the next light.

"I know, I'm sorry. I'm a stress drinker and that's terrible and I know it scares you, don't even lie to me about it. I don't know why I was thinking I really don't. The day I lied to you about the studio I was out buying something, for you, but I can't tell you what it is and then I was stressed about what I bought and went to the bar. I'm sorry." I glanced over at him as his eyes were coated, staring out the window at the trees lining the road.

"Okay." 

"Okay? That's it?" He turned to me in disbelief as I cracked a small smile moving through the light.

"I believe you, I have no reason not too. Just promise me, instead of stress drinking you'll come home to me so I'm not alone at night." I smiled slightly and he nodded his eyes lighting up. 

"Promise." He grinned leaning over and kissing my cheek, placing his hand on my thigh.

"Plus I really need you this week, my mom may just drive me insane." I laughed making Niall join along as I made fun of all the stupid shit she's said over the years. 

"I'm glad we got through that bump, I hate feeling distant from you." I admitted as I locked hands with his as we walked into the restaraunt.

"I know babe." He smiled kissing my cheek. "Uh we're meeting someone here under the name McKinley." Niall told the guy and he nodded waving us to follow him. As we walked behind the man Niall decided to poke me and tickle me making me laugh but all that seized when I laid eyes on the man my mom would be marrying.

Oh my god.

WHO DO YOU THINK IT IS? AND YAY KAYLEE AND NIALL ARE OKAY... FOR NOW! COMMENT/VOTE FOR THE NEXT CHAPTER! Im on christmas break so if you guys comment a lot i might even update twice a day and longer chapters ayeee. also this book is at like 600k+ reads and finally getting high up so please read and tell your friend and vote i want this to do good before I finish it!!!