toi stood in your driveway and cried as toi watched his car pull away. The rain hissed passed toi ears and splattered onto the concreat beneath your bare feet. toi were shivering as the drops ran down your neck, your arms, your legs. It was over. toi couldn't believe it was over. toi dropped to your knees, toi head in your hands, your tears mixing with the rain.


toi woke up the suivant morning with a major headache and the reminder that Niall was gone. Your eyes welled with tears but toi forced them down. toi cried yesterday for hours, and if were to leave toi like that, than he wasn't worth anymore. "Cleo!" Your mom yelled up to you. "Niall is here to see you."
Niall Horan was your best friend and had been since toi were toddlers. "Okay!" toi yelled back down to her. Heavy foot steps on the stares prepaired toi for when Niall opened your door. "Cleo? toi look awful."
"Gee thanks, Pal." toi grimaced.
"Sorry." He sat on your bed. "Your mom told be about toi and Devon. I'm really sorry."
"Me too." toi sighed. toi were on the verge of tears, and he knew it too, so he pulled toi into his chest and held toi as toi cried all over again.

Three months later.

toi laughed and Niall ran with toi on his back backstage at a concert. toi were racing Louis and Elenor to Zayn who yelled out "TIE!"
toi climbed off his back still giddy from the excitetment. and went over to talk to Liam while Niall and Louis got their ear peices.
"He's crazy about you, ya know." He said, buttoning his shirt.
"What?" toi shrugged off your veste and slung it into a close par chair.
"He's in l’amour with you."
toi laugh. "No. He doesn't feel that way about me."
"But toi do?" Zayn walks up behind you.
"I don't know."
"You're lying." He says, fixing his chemise cuffs. "But Liam's not. Naill really does l’amour you."
toi shake your head and look over at him. He's looking at toi so intently it almost hurts. He catches your eye so he smiles and waves. toi do the same before turning back to Laim and Zayn, and Harry who has recently jumped in the group. "Seriously," Harry says "If toi don't say something to him, I will, infront of all New York."
Your eyes go wide. "No. No I will say something."
"Well toi better do it quick." Zayn says. "We go on in two." He and the other two walk over to Louis and Naill.
'You can do this.' toi say to yourself. 'He likes you. The boys a dit he loves you. Don't be a coward.' "Don't be a coward." toi say outloud.

"Niall!" He looks over. "Can I talk to you?" He tells the boys he will be quick before jogging over to you. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, it's just." toi stop and he looks back over to the boys. 'Don't be a coward.'
"Cleo, I'm kind of in a hu-" toi cut him off par grabbing his cheeks and s’embrasser him softly, quickly. When toi pull back his eyes are wide and he's stunned.
toi step back and smile. "Go get um, babe."
He walks backwards a few steps before turing around just intime to go on stage, where toi watch himm run and jump into a huddle with the boys. Louis turns around and winks. They knew. They all knew. Sneaky little things.