Chapter Fourteen

*Niall's P.O.V*

"Are you kidding me?" Andi asked with a surprised and confused expression on her pale face.

I nodded, swing her back and forth with a cheesy grin, "Take a walk on the ride side!"

Playfully hitting me on my exposed shoulder, she giggles and cocks her head, "What makes you think we'll be able to get away with this? Even if we are fast," she wonders aloud.

I carry Andi over to the door and set her down, pointing to her shoes, silently asking her to slip them on. As she does that, I rest my hand on her back, "My room is right next to stairs, and we can sneak out once we get down to the main lobby!"

After shoving her left foot into her converse, she stands back up and crossed her arms, "What makes you think you can get past the front desk?"

"Easy, we run."

Andi giggles and thinks for a moment, taking my plan into consideration. After moments of her staring me down with a sly grin, she replies, "You better run fast Horan."

I grin from ear to ear as she flings open my door and sprints down the hall toward the stairs, with me at her heels.

Floor after floor, the stairwell was filled with her beautiful laughter as she whipped around ever turn. Watching her was like a movie, everything as it should be. Me, chasing after her, Andi screaming every time I would go to grasp her arm. "I'm gonna beat you Horan!" Andi yelled back at me when we were two floors away from the lobby.

"Over my dead body Griffin!" She was fast, but I was faster. Skipping multiple steps, I race up next to her and take her hand in mine as we break through the door to the lobby. People were walking around, filling in paper work, and didn't even notice us until we crossed their view.

"Hey, Hey! Are you two patients!?" They called after us, craning their necks to watch us run past them.

"No!!" We said together, laughing and panting as we push the glass double doors open, letting the fresh air enter our hungry lungs. We then pushed ourselves to run further from the hospital. I was surprised they didn't put up a fight. Oh well, better for us.

Slowing our pace, we rest our bodies on the red brick building next to us. Laughing till she has to bend over, Andi smiles up at me, "That was awesome! But now I'm tired," she sighs.

I turn around and call out to her, "Get on my back."

"Are you serious?!"

"Get on my back or I'm gonna throw you over my shoulder, it's your choice babe," I say with a cheeky grin.

She falls silent. Turning around I look at her face, which shows traces of fear, "What's wrong?"

"I'm to big," she says barely above a whisper.

"What?"

"I'm to big," she now says loud enough for me to hear. Crossing her arms, she looks from the ground and to the sky. Tears were forming in her eyes.

Quickly pinning her to the wall, I take her hands in mine and press my forehead against hers, "Don't ever say that again, hear me? Your the most beautiful girl I've ever seen. Don't ever call yourself names when you deserve so much better," I say finishing my sentence with a gentle kiss to her quivering lip.

"Really?"

"Really. Now, will you please get on my back? I don't want you to get tired so soon," I say with a soft smile.

Reluctantly, Andi nods and places her delicate hands on my board shoulders. I then feel her body jump onto my back, so I grab onto the back of her legs. "Andi, I said jump on."

"I did?"

"Wow! I could barely feel you!" I say in a cheesy tone. She giggles and playfully swats at my forearm. Once her arms are safely around my neck again, I take off running. Her grip tightened as her laughter filled the air as I zip and sprint along the storefronts and past on-lookers.

"You wanna grab something to eat babe?" I ask Andi as I slow down next to a burger joint.

"We didn't bring any money? I'm not going to dine 'n' dash if that's what your hinting at," she quickly says.

"No! I grabbed some before following you cause I knew we'd get hungry," I say with a chuckle. Sighing, she smiles and slides off my back with ease, walking into the restaurant with me behind her.

Seating ourselves, I sit across from Andi at the two seating table and give her the plastic wrapped menu. "So, what are you hungry for?"

She looks at the menu for a few more seconds before setting it down at the end if the table, "I think I'm just gonna go with a normal burger, you?"

"Same thing you are babe," I say with a smile as I put my menu onto of hers.

I open my mouth to ask her what she wanted to do after lunch, but our waiter arrived before I could speak, "Hi, my name is Harry. What can I get for you guys?"

"Harry?" I look up to see a guy with a head full of curly brown hair and over sized hands.

"Horan? I thought you were at the nut house, your out already?"

I saw Andi squirm in her seat at Harry's words, so I quickly pick up the mood, "So uhm, this is my...friend Andi. I met her at the, uhm,....".

"Nut house," she finishes for me, while staring down Harry with a blank expression.

"Oh, I'm sorry, didn't mean it that way. So, what do you guys want?" Harry asks us quickly, as to not piss off Andi anymore.

I tell him both of are orders and give him a small wave before he rushed off to fill our orders. Turning to face Andi, I take her hand in mine, "Hey, sorry about him. We use to know each other."

She pulls her hand back and rests both of them on her lap, ouch. "Well he's kind if an ass if you ask me," she spat, "Where did you meet this kind gentlemen anyway?" She asks with sass.

"He use to be my drug dealer in high school," I whisper so the table of teenage girls next to us didn't hear me.

"Jesus, I'm sorry Niall," she mumbles as she runs her hand through her soft hair in frustration.

"Hey, it's fine. We don't talk anymore anyway, I'm doing good. Because of you, remember?" I extend my hand asking for hers, which she accepts my request with a sad smile.

Blinking a few beats, she finally speaks again, "Why did you call me a friend?" She trails off as she awkwardly looks at our intertwined hands.

Shit, I didn't know how to answer that. I had wanted to ask her to be my girlfriend before, but Harry ruined it with the interruption. "Andi, I-,".

"Hey again, here's two burgers and two cokes. The total is 9.94," Harry mumbles to himself as he sets down our plates and rushes away, clearly feeling the tension between himself and Andi.

"Uhm, dig in?" Now I looked like an ass, great. We didn't even talk as we ate, just the occasional glance or stare. I did want to ask her out, but I was terrified of her rejecting me.....

When we finished our burgers, I threw down a twenty and stood up, extending my hand to help Andi up. She takes it and we both walk out of the restaurant, but not before Harry gives me a quick wave of the hand.

Once outside, Andi lets her hand slip from mine and crosses her arms as we walk. Confused, I walk faster to catch up with her, "What's up?"

"Nothing."

"Tell me."

"No."

"Yes," I say pulling her aside, she was acting like a child.

She rolls her eyes and gives me a look, "Do you let all of your 'friends' sleep with you in your bed?"

"Uh, no?"

"Then why did you tell that Harry kid we were just friends!?"

Realization finally hit me, she wanted to be more then friends, "Because I didn't wanna start up a conversation with him Andi, he was my dealer for Christ sake! You think I wanna tell him all about my girl?"

She scoffs, "Your girl??"

"Yes, my girl! Do you think I would be around you all the time if I didn't like you? Why do you think I stuck around when all you did was push me away? That's all you do, push people who love you away! Damn it Andi, I love you!" I finish my speech and look to the girl in front if me with pleading eyes, I needed her to feel the same, I just needed her.

She just stood there, looking into my eyes, silent for a minute before speaking, "You love me?" She whispers.

"Yeah....yeah I do."

Breaking eye contact, she looks down at her shoes. I watch her as she plays with the fabric of my sweatpants that she was wearing. Looking back up at me, she smiles softly before pulling me into a deep, passionate kiss. Pulling her closer to me as we kiss, I breath in her welcoming scent; strawberry shampoo with a hint of Justin Bieber perfume. Her lips tasted like candy.

Pulling away from me, Andi locks eyes with me as she runs her fingers through my dirty blond hair, "I love you too...," she says quietly.

Breathing out a sigh of relief, I hold her close and laugh nervously, "I thought you were gonna leave me hanging there for a second princess."

"Not a chance," she says, "Now come on lover boy, we'd better head back before we get in more trouble."

"Wait just a minute, we'll go back, but not until you answer my question," I say with my signature smirk.

"You never asked me one?"

"I am now," I say holding onto both of her shoulders with a giddy expression.

"Alright Horan, out with it, you look like you have to pee or something," Andi says giggling.

"Okay well, since we both just said we loved each other, will you, Andi Griffin, be my official girlfriend?"

Andi blushed profusely and laughed at my silly proposal, "Yes, Niall Horan, I will be your official girlfriend."

If I smiled any bigger, my face was sure to break. Picking Andi up and swinging her around, I placed dozens on kisses on her face and neck, causing her to giggle and laugh.

Finally, things were starting to look pretty good for the both of us.

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Sorry for the wait guys! I had softball tryouts this week plus my play performance is this Friday. I'll add another chapter over the weekend, promise! Anyway, they said they loved each other, FINALLY!! I love getting comments from you guys, makes me smile. So, keep reading and voting, stay beautiful

-TaylorMarie