f o r t y - f o u r

Liv and I arrived in town at about 9:30. She was still asleep when I walked into the flat and it had taken her a good while to get up and ready. I cleaned up the flat during my wait because it had gotten extremely messy during my time I'd stayed at Niall's.

Liv and I visited plenty of shops in town, clothes shops mostly. I bought a dark red trench coat for my constantly growing collection, a black bobble hat because I just wanted a new hat, a double breasted suspender dress that I fell in love with as soon as I saw it, a plain white long sleeve t-shirt, a pack of 5 pairs of fluffy socks and obviously my present for Niall. I can't remeber what Liv bought, I just know it was a lot more than me.

We went to Costa to get a hot drink because it was cold outside at about 2. We hadn't gotten anything for lunch, neither of us were super hungry, but we were both thirsty. I ordered a hot chocolate and Liv just a cappuccino. We waited by the till for our drinks and a few people gave me a stare, probably because I'd been on TV, but I tried not to think about it. I didn't want to draw more attention to myself by talking to them.

Liv and I walked into the back of the coffee shop and sat down at a small-ish table. We piled all our shopping bags underneath before finally taking the first sips of our drinks.

"Are you moving in with Niall?" Liv suddenly asked, catching me off guard and making me swallow my hot chocolate to fast that it burnt my throat.

"What no. Why would you think that?" I asked her.

She swallowed what was in her mouth before answering me, "Because you've been living at his house for the past couple of weeks and I was just wondering..."

Her voice stopped before she finished the sentence and I sighed, "Wondering what?"

"Wondering whether I should mentally prepare myself for you to move out," she joked but then her face went serious, "I mean he did ask you to move in with him that Christmas."

"Hey! We don't mention that Christmas. Ever," I burst out and she put up her hands in defence saying ok sorry.

There was a minute or 2 of silence before I spoke again.

"I don't know if I want to move in with him," my voice was quiet.

"What? Are you crazy, y-"

"No I'm scared," I admitted and her face turned very confused very quickly, "What if I move in with him and something goes wrong again?"

She sighed and put her hand on top of my one that was on the table, "You've gotta accept that couples fight sometimes. But they get over it. And yeah, it's taken you guys 2 years to get over what he did to you. But here you are, 2 years later together again because you love each other so fucking much it's actually kind of gross sometimes."

"Oh yeah cause you and Alex are never gross," I laughed.

"Oh that's beside the point," she said and waved me off, "What I'm saying is if you moving in with him happens to fall into conversation, don't say no. If things go bad you know there will always be room at the end of my bed for you."

I smiled, "Ok."

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Liv dropped me back off at Niall's house before she went home. I told her she was welcome to come in for a drink or something but she turned down the offer. According to her it would feel strange going into the house of one of her 5 teenage crushes which I didn't totally understand but I went with it anyway.

When I'd put my shopping bags upstairs in the spare room with a lot of my other clothes I got changed into comfier clothes, including one of Niall's hoodies and sat on Niall's bed. The present I'd gotten him was on the pillow next to me. It was a a chicken teddy and as soon as I saw it I thought of Niall and his slightly scary love for Nando's.

I don't know how long I was sat on Niall's bed for. At one point I was lying down under the duvet about to fall asleep and then what seemed like seconds later I was sat up watching Gavin and Stacy on my phone.

When I finally heard the front door open I jumped off Niall's bed and walked to the top of the stairs. Niall slipped his shoes off and turned around. When he noticed me his face lit up and a smile appeared.

I hopped down the stairs and walked over to him. He planted a kiss on my lips and I smiled.

"How was your day?" I asked him.

"Good. Would've been better if you were there but still good," he replied and began walking into the kitchen. I walked beside him and noticed he was holding a dark blue bag.

"What's in the bag?" I asked when we reached the kitchen and I hopped onto the counter.

"Open it and see," he said with a smile. I took off the small bit of sticky tape that was holding the top bits of the bag together to reveal a chocolate cake inside. A large smile came onto my face as I lifted it out and placed it on the counter in front of me.

Move in with me? it said in pink icing on the top. My mouth fell open and I looked up at Niall who was waiting with his hands in his pockets for my answer.

"Funny how just earlier today Liv and I were talking about this," I said with a smirk. I should've known Liv would message him about it. They seemed to be very close but I didn't mind to much. He blushed a small bit. I loved that I was the only person who could ever make him blush. People could make him shy but not blush.

"Yeah, funny that," he said. His eyes watched me as I walked over to him and stood close to him.

I remembered Liv's words of advice and smiled as I said, "I'll move in with you."

He beamed at me and lifted me up from the floor. His arms went under mine and he spun around in the large kitchen. I squealed and he laughed loudly.

When he put me back down I looked up at him, "I got you a present."

"Yes! I've been looking forward to this moment all day," he said and I laughed.

"Hang on a second," I said and ran out the room quickly up to his room where the chicken teddy was still sat on his pillow. I snatched it up and ran back downstairs with it, keeping it behind my back, "Shut your eyes."

He closed his eyes and put his hands out in front of him. I placed the teddy on his hands and he opened his eyes and smiled.

"A chicken!" he said and we both laughed, "I love it."

"Yay!" I said happily.

"Thank you," he said and kissed me. I smiled into his lips and kissed him back. His free hand moved to my face and held my cheek in place as he kissed me. I noticed him put the teddy on the counter and rest his other hand on my waist. My hands held his upper arms as we kissed and our lips moved perfectly with each others.

I was so happy. We were finally moving in together and nothing could stop us.