s i x t e e n

*Disclaimer: this chapter is quite a bit longer than most of the other chapters. Like really long so just be ready haha. Also near the end there is a sexual part. It is in not hugely detailed but if you do begin feel uncomfortable please just skip it and don't read it. Just thought I'd let you guys know. Ok enjoy <3*

December will always be my favourite month. The entire countdown to Christmas has and always will be my favourite part of the year. Its always so joyful and magical and spending it with Niall made it even better.

We were together every day. On the last day of November we went to the shops to pick out our advent calendars. Maura told us we were to old but we'd insisted on having one. I chose a Lindor advent calendar and Niall, after long arguments with himself, chose a Thornton Continental one.

On December 1st I helped Niall and his family put up decorations outside and inside the house, well the only outside thing I did was hang a wreath on the door but I still felt happy that I did it. Niall, Greg and Bobby all worked on putting the lights up while Maura and I got to work with decorating the downstairs and upstairs of the inside. We put Christmas cushions and blankets on the sofas and hung stocking up on the fireplace. On the coffee table in the living room I arranged different candles, pine cones, holly and a few baubles on a tray and placed it in the center of the table. I was immensely proud with how it turned out. We attached a garland along the banister and we put red, light up letters in the corners of the stairs to spell out Ho Ho Ho. Where the wall joins with the ceiling we stuck white fairy lights that lit up the rooms with a wonderful warm light. Maura showed me all her Christmas kitchen things like her tea towels, mugs and even a salt shaker as a snowman and a pepper shaker as a reindeer which really made me laugh.

On December 4th we went out and chose the tree and decorated it. Once the tree was decorated it finished the whole house and it felt amazingly Christmassy and happy. Presents gathered gradually under the tree as it neared Christmas and I soon realised that I hadn't got anyone anything so I walked into the town center one afternoon and found a beautiful smelling perfume for Maura, a jumper for Bobby, a pair of sunglasses for Greg but nothing for Niall. Nothing in the shops seemed right for him and I began stressing that I wouldn't be able to get anything for him when I finally got an idea. I decided to by a load of different foods and a box. I lined the box with tissue paper and arranged all the food in It. I then wrote on small pieces of paper reasons why I love him and threw them in as well. It was hard to think of reasons why I loved him because I wasn't actually sure why I did. I figured I'd just explain that to him on Christmas day.

Christmas Eve came around incredibly fast. Niall and I spent almost the entire day on a group face time call with the rest of the band. All of them were at home so none of them could be with Louis on his birthday however they'd all sent him presents in the post in advance so he opened them all with us. We all sang happy birthday to him along with his family when he received his cake at lunch time. It was a large chocolate one with big blue 23 candles. It looked delicious and I knew Niall and I both wanted some but we knew we couldn't so we just stayed eating the McDonald's that we had ordered.

Before I knew it, I was standing in front of Niall's bedroom mirror with wet hair from the shower and trying to decide which top to wear out that evening. I had discovered that it was a Horan tradition to go to the pub on Christmas Eve so I'd decided to go with them and have fun. I'd not been to keen on the idea at first but Niall convinced me. He'd been acting off all day and I thought maybe if I went it would cheer him up.

"White or black?" I asked him and held up 2 different tops, one white and one black. I already had an emerald green mini skirt and black ankle boots, I just couldn't decide on the top. Niall was sat on his bed on his phone acting weird.

"White," he said without looking up. I sighed and threw the black top over to him with as much force as I could. It hit him right in the face and he looked up at me.

"Oi, what did ya do that for?"

I shrugged and pulled the white top over my head, "Your being a dick."

"That's a bit over the top isn't it?" he said and I saw him in the mirror walk towards me. I was plugging my hair dryer into the wall and brushing through my hair quickly just before I began drying it. The curls were already appearing even though my hair was still soaking.

"Princess you'll get cold in that outfit," Niall said and put his hands on the small bit of my waist that wasn't covered by clothes.

"No I won't, I'm bringing my coat," I pointed to my feet where my blue puffer jacket was laying. I pushed his hands off my waist and switched on the plug.

"What's wrong?" Niall said, a little taken back by my action to get his hands off me.

"I need to dry my hair," I told him truthfully. He sighed and went back over to the bed where he sat down. He waited patiently for me to finish getting ready, watching me most of the time, and when I was finally happy with my hair and the light bit of makeup I had applied he took my hand and we walked down the stairs. I had to run back into Niall's room before we'd even reached the front door because I'd forgotten my coat. He laughed as I pulled it on and got my hair caught in the zip but I didn't mind because he seemed back to his normal, happy, care-free self.

Maura, Bobby and Greg were all waiting in the living room for us and we all left together. The pub was close enough for us to walk to it because it was only down the road. Niall walked with his arm across my shoulders and both my hands held his one that flopped just in front of my face. Greg made a few comments about us as we walked up the road which resulted in Niall shouting a large amount of swear words at him. Maura and Bobby joined Greg one or two times but Niall didn't swear at them mainly because they were his parents. I didn't even try to hide the smile that was on my face when Niall laughed because I knew it was an impossible task. So instead I joined in the joking and swearing and laughter and I couldn't have been happier.

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The pub was called Con's. It was a decent pub with nice tables and chairs and glasses. Despite the small amount of light in the pub, I managed to always know where Niall was because his voice was always one of the loudest whenever he was having a conversation. He knew everyone and tried his hardest to introduce me but after about 15 people I couldn't remember anyone's name.

"I'm just going to the toilet," Niall said while looking at his phone just after he'd introduced me to a guy with ginger hair. I tried to see what was on his phone that had made him say he needed the toilet but it was angled towards him to much so I couldn't read it.

"Ok," I replied shortly.

He slipped his phone back into his pocket, "I won't be a minute," he kissed my cheek and walked away through the crowd. It wasn't a massive crowd but there were a few groups of people stood up and dotted around the room.

I didn't want to follow him because I didn't want to see something I wasn't meant to but I had already started panicking about what had made him suddenly need to leave. It had clearly been something on his phone because as soon as he had opened it he'd said he needed the toilet. I made a mental note to tell myself off later about being such an annoying girlfriend before pushing through the crowd quickly so I didn't loose where Niall had gone. I saw him reach the main door and look around. I looked down so he didn't see me and when I looked back up he was no longer in the doorway.

When I reached the door it was still closing from when Niall had walked out.

I'm probably just over thinking. He can't be doing anything major bad, right?

Wrong. When I looked through the grubby window of the door my heart sank right down to my toes. Niall was hugging someone, a girl with long hair that shone in the dim light of hair street lights and pale skin. I knew she was beautiful just by looking at her through a mucky door window. What made me really, truly mad though is that Niall was hugging whoever the woman was the same way he hugged me, his arms wrapped around her neck and her head pressed right in close to his chest.

"Sorry, which direction are the toilets in?"

I'd opened the door and taken a few steps towards them without even noticing. Niall stopped hugging the woman as soon as he spotted me and I could already feel my tears building up behind my eyes, waiting for the most awkward time to break out.

"Shit," I heard Niall whisper to himself.

"What was that?" I stuck my ear out in annoyance, I didn't know why though.

"I said shit. You weren't meant to... you weren't meant to follow me out here," he shrugged and sighed at the same time as if to say he was being completely honest.

"Is she your real girlfriend," I pointed to the woman, "I wouldn't be surprised I mean you are way beyond beautiful," I spoke to her this time. She didn't speak, she just smiled at my compliment.

"What no you she's not my 'real girlfriend'" he did pretend speech marks with his fingers to show he was quoting me, "Your my girlfriend."

"So why did you lie about needing the toilet, you could have just told me you were meeting someone outside. I mean Abi seems pretty harmless," I don't know why I called the woman Abi but I didn't go back on it because that would've been to embarrassing.

"Umm my name's actually Bella," the woman next to Niall finally spoke.

"Ok, Bella, just because you are the definition of flawless and I would literally sell both my kidney's to look like you I don't actually care about what your name is so just shush," I said to her with a sarcastic smile. I probably looked creepy as hell but I didn't really care.

"Lily I didn't tell you because Bella was bringing your Christmas present here and you know, Christmas presents are a surprise and all," Niall said.

"Do you mean delivering my Christmas present?"

"No, I mean bringing. Bella's job is selling cars," he held out his hand to me and I picked up the car key. It had the mini sign on it my eyes went wide.

"Niall," I murmured.

"Turn around and press the unlock button," he smiled. So I did. I jumped when I the lights of the car just in front of me flashed.

"Your dad told me you've wanted one since you got your driving licence but you could never afford one. He helped me choose it."

"I'm sorry," I sighed when I turned back around.

"What for?"

"For ruining the surprise. I shouldn't have followed you out here I was just scared that..." I couldn't finish the sentence. As much as I wanted to, I couldn't get the words out.

"I know princess but Bella is one of my best friends and I would never kiss her," he looked back to Bella, "No offence Bell."

"None taken," she said back with a smile. After that she walked inside the pub, leaving me and Niall outside in the cold winter air. It was then that I actually realized I wasn't wearing my coat. I had been so focused on making sure I didn't loose where Niall had gone that I had left my coat on the bar stool back inside.

"I'm cold," I said plainly. I didn't know what I expected him to do about it but I said it anyway.

"Yeah no shit, its December," he laughed, "Do you wanna go back inside?"

"No... can we just go back to your parents house," I asked.

"Of course we can princess," Niall paused, "Only if you give me a lift."

I giggled in agreement and walked over to the driver door. I waited patiently for Niall to come back outside from grabbing my coat. It only took him a minute to collect it and soon he was stood by the passenger door, telling me to open my door first so I did and climbed into the mini. The seats were black leather with white stitching, they looked very neat. All the buttons lit up when I turned the keys along with the dashboard and steering wheel buttons. The steering wheel was black with white sticking like the seats and it had the mini logo right in the center.

"Let's go, let's go, let's go!" Niall cheered when I started the engine.

"Woohoo!" I laughed when I began driving. The drive was barely 2 minutes but it was still amazing because it was my first drive in my new car.

When we arrived back at Niall's he unlocked the door with the key underneath the mat outside. I made sure my car was locked before stepping inside, kicking my boots off and walking straight upstairs to Niall's room where I flopped onto the bed. Niall followed in after me and lay down next to me.

"I'm getting changed," I said within a minute of lying down. I hopped off the bed leaving Niall laid on his own and walked over to my suitcase. It had turned into a pile of clothes since I'd arrived but I didn't have the energy to sort it out.

I pulled my t-shirt off and added it to the clothes pile so I was only stood in my plain, cotton, white bra and skirt.

"Ugh where is your t-shirt!" I said in an annoyed voice to Niall but he didn't reply. The t-shirt I'd been wearing to be every night since I'd gotten there had suddenly disappeared. It wasn't even in Niall's wardrobe. I decided to just give up with looking for it and just sleep in my bra so I quickly changed out of my skirt and into my pyjama shorts before jumping back on the bed next to Niall. He ran his pointing finger along my bare arm causing goosebumps to form even though I wasn't cold in his room.

"Princess," he said quietly.

"Babe," I said back and caught a slight smile on his face at the name.

"I," he kissed me, "Love," he kissed me again, "You," he kissed me again but held it so I couldn't tell him that I loved him back but I knew he knew I did.

My lips moved in rythem with his, perfectly made for each other. The kiss felt hard and dangerous and I liked it. My breathing started getting heavy and Niall's did also but we carried on kissing.

"I want you," he suddenly said in a hushed voice through heavy breaths and kisses, "All of you."

I knew I went red, more red than I'd ever gone before at something he'd said, but I ignored the hotness in my cheeks and nodded, "I want you too."

He means sex right?

He did mean sex. In one quick moment that had all sort of merged into a blur Niall's top was off, my shorts and pants and bra were off and Niall's trousers and pants were off. We were both fully exposed to the other but it wasn't awkward at all. Previously, I had felt insecure about my thighs but I knew Niall didn't care. He loved me and all my imperfections and I knew he did.

"You sure?" Niall checked.

"I'm sure," I confirmed.

And in no time at all, the two of us had become almost part of each other in a way. We were lost in each other and our bodies with pleasure and love. His lips on my lips and my neck and my chest. My hands tugging at his hair and gripping his shoulders just enough as he hovered above me, moving his body to pleasure us both. Our moans came together and it was a wonderful sound. He whispered I love you over and over to me and I whispered back I love you.

The night ended with us both collapsed, my head resting on Niall's chest, breathing heavily. His breathing was, in a way, my lullaby and I fell straight to sleep with a wonderful and happy feeling about what we had just done.