n i n e

I woke up the next morning with my head on an extremely soft pillow and a dark green blanket over my legs. I absolutely boiling so I kicked the blanket off my legs and it fell off the end of the bed onto the floor. My leggings from the day before were still on my legs but I wanted to take them off so badly that I ended up doing just that. They fell off the end of the bed aswell when I finally got them off using my feet.

"Niall?" my voice sounded funny like it always did first thing in the morning.

"Niall," I said louder. There was no reply.

I groaned loudly and looked over at the clock on Niall's bedside table. 09:48 it said. I sighed and climbed off the bed trying to think of the best way I was going to explain to my dad why I stole his car the day before and not arrived home with it that night.

The curtains of Niall's room were already half open and I didn't want to have to face the morning sun so I stayed away from them, squinting whenever the sun caught my face.

I wandered around the room like a lost puppy for at least 2 minutes before walking to the door and swinging it open, making it bang against the wall and making myself cringe at the loud noise.

I almost waddled across the landing and down the stairs. I hadn't been in all the rooms in Niall's house yet so I didn't know which one he was in. I checked the living room first. He wasn't there but there was a piece of A4 paper, folded in half with my name in scribbled hand writing on the front placed on the coffee table. I picked it up and collapsed onto the sofa and read it.

Mornin princess

The band was called in rlly early this mornin cause we have to get this 1 song done. The boys said they'd help me out and we r gonna try to get it done quickly so I can come back. You were fast asleep when I left so I didn't wake ya.

There's a key on the kitchen side next to the popcorn machine. If your gonna leave just pls lock the door before u go but u can stay as long as u want.

I love you

N :)

I smiled at the paper, at his rushed, messy handwriting, at his little smiley face after the N, at the I love you, at how he called me princess like he'd started doing, but most of all at how he had left me a key to his house. I folded up the piece of paper a bit smaller and shoved it into the large pocket of Niall's hoodie. For some reason I didn't want to throw it away so I kept it in the pocket to keep it safe.

I wandered to the kitchen and looked around for a popcorn machine. I spotted it next to the toaster, pushed under the over hanging cupboards slightly and walked over to it. Sure enough, there was a key next to it with another piece of paper.

"You and your notes," I said quietly even though Niall wasn't there.

don't trash my house!

I laughed and slipped the paper into the pocket like I had with the note just minutes before. I sighed and jumped up onto the kitchen side. I was hungry but I didn't want to take anything that Niall might want to eat later so I decided to go into the living room and find my phone that I'd left in there on the coffee table the day before.

I opened my phone to 20 messages and 15 missed calls all from my dad. I sighed and dialed his number, trying to imagine how loud he was going to be shouting when he picked up the phone. He picked up straight away.

"Lily it's about time! I've been trying to call you for ages and you haven't been picking up," my dad said from down the phone. He wasn't speaking as loud as I thought he would've but he was still speaking louder than his normal volume.

"Sorry Dad, I haven't checked my phone. What's so urgent that you called me 15 times?"

"I need my bloody car! Bring it back now please!" he said, his voice still raised.

I groaned, "Fine, I'm on my way."

My dad didn't reply, he just hung up the phone and I scoffed and walked back up the stairs to collect my leggings and shirt before I left. I decided to put my leggings back on because I figured it would be to weird to walk into my house in just my pants and a hoodie. I didn't bother taking Niall's hoodie off because I knew he wouldn't mind if I kept it for the rest of the day plus it was keeping me warm and I didn't want to take it off and face the cold, late November air that hit me when I stepped outside onto the front steps right outside the front door. I locked the house like Niall asked me to and walked down the drive, out the gate to my dad's car. I climbed in quickly to get out of the cold but I was already shivering so I basically smacked the heating button to get the car warm.

When I pulled into my drive I spotted my dad waiting by the front door dressed in a very smart outfit that I knew he wouldn't wear unless he was going somewhere important and looking at his watch. He walked over to the car before I'd stopped moving and signalling for me to hurry up and get out.

"Alright, alright I'm getting out!" I snapped when he basically threw me out.

"Don't steal my car for the whole night next time, I'm late for my brunch with my boss!" he said out the window before he drove away. I rolled my eyes but he had already driven away so I just made my way up to my room and jumped onto my beanbag. Evie entered a few seconds later and snuggled up in a ball on my lap. It was almost like she had to sit on my lap whenever I was on the bean bag because ever since I'd had her I had never been able to sit alone on my bean bag. I didn't mind though, she was basically a big hot water bottle.

I pulled my phone out the large pocket of Niall's hoodie and went to find his number, forgetting I had deleted it. I groaned in frustration and dropped my phone down the side of me. It slide down between me and the bean bag and disappeared.

Evie moved around a little bit on my lap and made a few grunting sounds before falling asleep on me. I ran my hand along her hair making it smooth even though it was already super smooth. My eyes began to droop despite my attempts to keep them open. I quickly gave up and let the sleep take over, falling asleep with Evie in my lap. I didn't know why I was tired because I had gotten a decent amount of sleep the night before but I didn't think about it to much. I just fell asleep to the occasional snores of my pug coming from my lap.