It's almost Christmas. I can not wait. I have been on tour with the boys since and I have never loved it so much. I absolutely adore being their makeup artist. I even have my own kit now, it makes me feel so professional. Lou has started to teach me how to do their hairs. So far, I can only master Niall's. I haven't practised on the other boys as much though.

I can probably do Niall's hair now better than he can do it. When he does it it goes wonky and that annoys me for some strange reason. I'm a bit of a perfectionist in some ways.

"Hi." Niall giggled, coming up behind me and wrapping his arms around me. he pressed his lips behind my ear and I felt him smile against my skin. "So, I wanted to talk to you." He said as someone came and fitted him with his earpiece because they were heading onstage.

"Okay, talk as I do your hair, when he's done." I gesture to the man wiring Niall up. The man finished up a few minutes later and I started quiff Niall's hair, once he took a seat.

"So." He smiled up at me. "It's almost Christmas, yeah?" He asked me and I nodded, gesturing for him to continue. "Are you going home for Christmas or?" He asked looking up at me.

"I don't know, I didn't think about it actually, why?" I ask.

"Okay so you don't have to if you don't want to, this is just a suggestion maybe it's stupid I don't know. Like i'm not trying to pressure you or anything, you can do whatever you want, I just thought that-"

"Niall, get to the point already!" I exclaim and tug at his hair to tell him to shut up.

"Do you maybe wanna spend Christmas with me?" He asked, quicker than he had ever spoken and being Irish, he speaks fast all the time. I looked down at him and he shielded his face with his hands as though thinking I was going to yell at him or something.

"Hey, look at me, Ni." I softly said and grabbed his chin gently, pulling it so he was looking at me. He flinched when I touched him and I gave him an odd glance, not quite understanding why he seemed to be so frightened right now. "Niall, I would love to spend Christmas with you." I smiled and gently kissed his lips. "Why wouldn't I?"

"I thought maybe you'd wanna spend it with y'er ma or y'er da." He quietly said, picking at his nails.

"I don't spend any time with my father and my mother will be going to my aunt's like she always does and I never really liked going there. It never makes it feel like christmas, I don't know." I shrugged and sighed.

"So you would?" He smiled brightly and I nodded and kissed his cheek.

"I'll run it over with mum, but yeah, I'd love to. Ireland or your house?" I question.

"I don't know." He shrugged. "I always go to Ireland but I was hoping me mammy and Greg, Denise and Theo could maybe come over to mine instead." He looked somewhat hopeful. "I never use my dining room, I only ever use the bar in it, so it'd be nice to actually use it for eating." He chuckled, stroking my hair. "Plus, then Joanna wouldn't be far away and if she wanted she could join us." He politely suggested.

"She likes going to my Aunt's, she has a teenager the same age as Joanna and they get on really well, so she enjoys it." I tell Niall and he nods, not appearing too bothered by the fact she wouldn't come. "But going to Ireland would be nice too, I like Ireland." I smile up at him.

"Yeah, I do too." He nodded and smiled softly as I finished his hair. "So, Christmas together then so?" He asked and I nodded. He smiled brightly and kissed me briefly before getting up to go onstage for the show. Today is actually the last show before Christmas. They have an award show tomorrow night in London after this so tomorrow will be spent travelling home and then right off to the award show. Once that's finished though, we can all go home for a break.

Once offstage Niall ran to me and grabbing me around the waist, throughing me over his shoulder. "Jesus Christ Ni! What are you doing?" I exclaimed and he giggled. "Eww, your back is all sweaty Niall." I complained as I looked down at his shirt which was saturated with perspiration. "Ni, you smell like sweat." I scrunch my face.

"You would too if you were onstage for two hours." He blushed and grabbed a towel from where they were sitting on the couch for the boys. "I'll be back in five minutes, I'd invite you but I bet I'm too smelly to shower with." He rolled his eyes and I laughed.

"You're not too smelly, I'm sorry." I came after him and wrapped my arms around him from behind. He fake pouted and threw his towel with me.

"You're coming too." He smiled, more hopefully rather than a demand. I thought about it for a second.

"No, I can't be assed." I said handing him his towel back.

"You can come and keep me company, come on." He grinned and held his hand out to me. I rolled my eyes at him. I swear to God, he can't be left alone for two minutes, he literally needs me by my side twenty four seven. We are basically conjoined by the hip these days.

"You're so clingy." I chuckled but followed him and sat on the closed toilet seat and had a conversation with him while he was in the shower. He spent most of the time muttering on himself about some golf tournament that was on the telly yesterday, I just pretended to listen and quickly changed the subject. He got out of the shower and I handed him his towel.

"I smell nice now." He smiled as he wrapped the towel around himself. "Smell me." He giggled and I nodded but pushing his damp body away.

"Right, come on, get dressed so we can go back to the hotel, we have a long day of travelling ahead of us tomorrow and then we have that award show so chop chop." I clasped my hands together before leaving the bathroom.

"Wait for me." He called out, quickly pulling on clothes before running after me. He sprinted with his shoes in his hand trying to catch up with me. I stopped and waited for him and he was a little out of breath by the time he reached me. i rolled my eyes at him but waited for him to put on his shoes. He smiled at me when he was done and giggled, blushing a bit. This boy makes me laugh, he's too cute.

...

"First award show as a real couple, I believe?" Niall said, looking over at me as Lou finished my hair.

"Is it actually? You sure?" I asked him and he nodded.

"Pretty sure, last award show we were close but I don't think we were properly dating." Niall smiled.

"Oh my God, will Ed be there this time?" I hopefully asked and Niall chuckled.

"Maybe, maybe, now go get y'er dress on." He patted my shoulder as Mary handed me my dress and heels for the night. They left the room, leaving Niall and I and he helped me zip it up once I had it on. I put on my heels and turned around and his eyes went wide. "Jesus Christ." He muttered and eyed me up and down, pulling his lip between his teeth and then running his tongue along his bottom lip leaving it slick, moist, and kissable.

"Is it okay?" I asked, trying to keep my eyes off his lips because they were making me want to just go over there and kiss the hell out of him. he nodded and I giggled as I watched his wandering eyes which were tied to one particular area. I raised an eyebrow at him and waited for him to come back to reality. A few seconds later he looked up at me with wide eyes because he figured I had been watching him.

"I'll just go uhm.. get changed.." Niall quickly trailed off and I started to laugh at him. He quickly got into his suit and boots and turned to face me.

"Perfect." I smiled at him while his eyes were right back to where they had previously been. "Okay, let's go before you drool all over that suit." I said, grabbing my purse and shoving him out the door. "Or get a stiffy." I giggle and pat his shoulder.

"Too late for that." He mumbled under his breath and I started to laugh.

"Oh good God Niall." I put a hand over my mouth. He took a breath of air through the side of his mouth and looked over at me.

"You can walk in front of me, thanks." He said, grabbing me from behind and putting my body in front of his so I was covering his slightly bulging trousers. I started to giggle but done as he said and walked, directly in front of him. We met the boys in the lobby and they all glanced at us weirdly.

"You alright back there Nialler?" Louis asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yep, just a bit cold." He wrapped his arms around me, placing his head on my shoulder. I giggled and pressed my ass backwards making Niall stand up straight and clear his throat. He pinched my side to tell me to stop but I just giggled.

"Alrighty then." Louis eyed his suspiciously but said no more. I walking in front of Niall as we went out to the cars to get there.

"I can't walk in front of you when we get to the red carpet Ni." I said looking over at him, making him blush and Louis snort. We couldn't pull the wool over his eyes.

"It's cool, it's cool, I'm all good now." He said, readjusting himself in his suit trousers making Louis laugh harder.

"Alright then Niall." I patted his knee and he blushed harder. When we got there Niall got out first and I followed him. I hate this part, walking down the red carpet with all eyes on you. The flashing of the camera's always hurts my eyes too.

Niall took my hand and proudly walked me down the carpet with him. Once we were at the 'x' where it told us to stand he stood with the rest of the boys and Sophia who was here with Liam. We stood for pictures with them, then got ones on our own. Niall held me tight to his body during the photo's; wrapping an arm around me protectively.

The award show was long and tedious for me. I sat next to Niall and just played with his fingers, trying to fit my rings onto them, just to pass the time. They got a few awards, of course but I wasn't paying enough attention to know what they were for.

"Hey, guess what?" Niall asked, pressing his lips to my ear when the award show was almost over.

"What?" I ask, looking up at him.

"I have a surprise for you when we're done here." he smiled and against my skin."Ed wants to see you again." He grins making me have to force myself to contain a scream.

"Really?!" I squeaked and he nodded, kissing my forehead before sitting back again. He smiled over at me then reached over and gently kissed me.

"He wants to have a few drinks with us again." He smiled against my lips. "I won't get drunk, okay? I'm too exhausted to get drunk, we'll just have a few and then go home to bed." He said and I nodded, content with that. He did honestly look exhausted. He had bags under his eyes, which I had to cover but the makeup was starting to come off as he was sweating. His eyes seemed to be dead in his head as well but no wonder, we were all drunk with fatigue and jet lagged.

When the award show was over we went to some club that was near hand and that's where we met Ed. I almost freaked out again because for Gods sake, the man knew my name.

We drank for a while and then I almost fell asleep on Niall's shoulder because I was that tired. He rubbed my cheek with the pad of his thumb gently to tell me to sit up.

"Tired?" Ed chuckled and I nodded, a small blush creeping up my cheek.

"We'll go back to my house then, I'm done too." Niall agreed and Ed nodded.

"It was nice to catch up." He smiled at us and gave me us both a hug. Niall kept true to his word, I have to say. He wasn't even drunk, he did only have a few drinks. I was quite surprised quite surprised to say the least.

"I'm wrecked." Niall sighed as we got into the car. I hummed in agreement and rested my head on his shoulder again, feeling clingy and cuddly now.

"Home and cuddles." I say against his shoulder.

"Ah, so my house is now home to you." He grinned down at me and my eyes widened because I hadn't realised what I had said.

"No, I just-" I stammered and he chuckled.

"Well, you know it is." He smiled and kissed the top of my head. I whined, a little embarrassed but he seemed quite ecstatic by what I said.

When the car stopped Niall pulled away from me and I whined, not wanting to get out of the car and my feet hurt in these heels. "Carry me." I demanded, holding my hands out to Niall.

"You're high maintenance." He said, but nonetheless picked me up and carried me upstairs t o his bed, gently placing me on the bed and pulling my heels off gently. He slipped off his shirt and then handed me one of his t-shirts to sleep in, he knows me so well.

He got into bed next to me once I had gotten into his shirt and we settled down and cuddled. "Will you get me a bottle of water?" I asked, looking up at him. "My feet hurt and I'm thirsty." I pouted a little and he looked down at me, shaking his head and laughed.

"What did your last servant die of?" He asked as he got out of bed making me giggle. I smiled when he got back and then we cuddled together to go to sleep.

"Love you." Niall whispered and snuggled his face into the crook of my neck.

"Love you too, Ni." I whisper back.

...

"I think we should get a Christmas tree." I say to Niall the next morning as we were drinking tea in the kitchen. I was sitting on the counter swinging my legs while he was sat like a normal person at the table.

"I have one." He replied. "S'in the attic somewhere." He shrugged and sipped on his tea. "It's a massive one too and I have lights for outside and other shit too." He said.

"Are we gonna put the tree up together?" I ask with a smile.

"Yeah, we can go up to get it now." He said, placing his mug on the table and gesturing for me to follow him. We went upstairs and he used a special stick thing to pull down these ladder type things from the ceiling, which he unfolded and pulled them down so we could climb up them to go up to the attic.

"Ladies first." He smiled and I looked at him with wide eyes. "Come on, I'll be behind you to catch you if you fall." He reassured me. I nodded but only went up one step. I looked behind at Niall and he started to giggle.

"Come on, scardy cat." He rolled his eyes at me and I blushed.

"I am not scared." I protested.

"Well, then go." He insisted and I waited a few more seconds while his eyes widened in anticipation. I started to slowly go up them, feeling better when Niall was holding my waist tightly behind me. I got up and it was pitch black, Niall turned on the torch on his phone and made his way over to the light switch, turning the light on so I could finally see the room.

It was filled with boxes upon boxes of God knows what. Just your average attic I guess.

"Here it is." Niall smiled, pulling at a box that was filled with Christmas decorations. He picked it up and started carrying the couple of boxes there were down the ladder for later use. While he carried them through I found a box that looked like childhood things so I decided to take a look.

I sat crosslegged on the floor and pulled out what was in it. There was obviously things from Ireland in it. I pulled out what was in it; a teddy bear, a blue blanket that looked like a baby blanket and once they were moved I found a blue book. I pulled it out and it appeared to be a diary of some sort.

I opened it and saw scrawly handwriting, obviously Niall's. I opened a random page and started to read it. It was a story of his first kiss. I smiled as I read it and looked up at Niall who's eyes widened when he saw I had that.

"No." He yelled and grabbed it.

"Oh come on, let me read it, it's so cute." I smiled and tried to grab it back, he shook his head and refused. I pouted at him and tried to get it again but he refused sternly.

"No way." He chuckled and put it back in the box. "Leave that box alone, it's just stuff I took from Ireland. That was a teddy me granny gave me, that's me baby blanket an' that's me diary from when I was young." He informed and I nodded. It was kind of nice to read that entry, it gave me more information about him I didn't know, it was interesting.

"I have one more box to take down, please don't read this, it's embarrassing." Niall pleaded. I nodded, understanding completely.

When he left again I went through another box that looked to be awards. It was full of things from the band and certificates, awards that didn't mean that much, still awards but he probably had duplicates of some of them. He gets that many. I peered at the awards and then looked under them to find some sheets.

I picked up one of the sheets and saw a scribbly drawing of a girl and under it lyrics. I read them carefully and frowned at them. Blonde hair and green eyes was mentioned in it. It was hardly about me, was it?

I looked at the drawing and saw it was wearing a little bracelet, a pandora one like I wear. She also had hair exactly like mine. It didn't look like me but...

I read the lyrics again. They were so meaningful and beautiful, did Niall write these?

"Hey what are you looking at that for!" Niall exclaimed, grabbing the sheets from my hand, making me jump because I didn't know he was there.

"Are they about me?" I asked and he turned bright red.

"No." He muttered. "I mean, why would you," He scratched the back of his head "why would you think that?" He asked, putting the sheets back and grabbing me by the arm and pulling me to a stance.

"Blonde hair, green eyes. I love her. The drawing, quite like me." I look up at him.

"Yeah well.." He sighed. "Maybe it is you." He quickly mumbled before scrambling down the ladder. I followed him and once at the bottom, I wrapped my arms around his neck and gave him an eskimo kiss.

"Niall, they were beautiful." I smiled and he blushed again. "Were they really about me?" I asked, quite touched he wrote about me. He nodded timidly looking down at his feet.

"I mean.. they were never put into a song on the album because I didn't show anyone." He shrugged lightly. "But yeah."

"They were really beautiful." I said again and kissed him gently.

"Just like you." He replied and then kissed me back.

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A/N Okay I am soon sorry for not updating but I had my exams and they finished yesterday thank the lords! Although, I'm headed off to America in the morning for my holidays, so I wanted to quickly update for you all! I'm gonna update hopefully while I am there btw!

Anyways, I done this chapter extra long for you guys because I thought you deserved it!

I'll try write on the plane if I can and update soon :)

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