*Four Weeks Later, Coming Back from Break still Flashback*

"Ariella!!!" I hear my name being called out from down the hall. The moment I take one step out of my dorm room... She has to come. I turned to face her.

"What." I mumbled, without a care. She doesn't notice the attitude, and I don't care if she does, it doesn't matter to me. She continues on with her preppy mood.

"I've been hearing that you and Niall went to splits-vile before break even started." She says all joyfully, before clearing her throat, acting sad. I roll my eyes at the rumor. Not the first time I've heard it. Once everyone returned from break, and noticed Niall not by my side, they quickly jumped to that specific conclusion.

"Let me just say, right now, that you could do better..." She says as she places a hand on my shoulder that feels like acid. I scrunch my face up in confusion. Wow. A compliment? I think? I can't really do better, as I am first of all still with him, and there is no one in comparison.

"And, he could do soooo much better, obviously..." She says in an awkward tone, chuckling and gesturing to all of me. Never mind then. She's pushing it, and the day hasn't even started. Calm down Ari, just ignore it.. Let it go. If Niall was here he would just drag me away, and tell me he loves me for who I am... But he's not here.

"Okay.. First, ignoring that comment..." I started, removing her hand from my shoulder. "Second," I continue. "Niall and I didn't go to 'splits-vile', we are just doing the long distance relationship thing and so far its turning out good." And it's true. We agreed to Skype every Friday night and whenever we have time to do so, according to our time differences.

"Hun, you do realize that long distance relationships never last, right?" She sasses me. "Besides, everyone in the school knows it.. Or at least thinks it.." She trails off at the end.

"Way to point out the obvious..." I mumble to myself. She is the one spreading rumors, as usual.

"What?" She tilts her head to the side slightly, her hair draping off her shoulder.

"Nothing, nothing." I shake my head and smile as kindly as possible, even though it didn't turn out the way I wanted.

"Hmm. Anyway that's what Niall told me though. Which was why he invited me to Ireland when he had his welcome back party. Lookie, I even brought pictures!!!!" She squealed.

What..?

She pulls out her phone to already show many pictures and videos of them together at this party. When it got to this one photo, my heart dropped and shattered into a million pieces. She was sitting on his lap with his arms around her tiny, thin waist and she was kissing his cheek, all while holding out both arms to take the photo. Niall's face was pure happiness and you can tell that they are having a great time.

I quickly turn back into my dorm, leaving her there and slamming the door in her face, before jumping on my bed. I quickly send a text Carie for her come up. A couple seconds later, she literally came through the door in a heart beat. I'm pretty sure that Brittney's gone because if she didn't, Carie would have that usual face of annoyance whenever she sees Brittney, her face slightly red with her annoyance.

She spots me in my bed, crying my eyes out and comes over to comfort me.

"Ari, what's going on? Why are you crying?" She frantically asks me. I told her what happened, obviously shocked by what I am telling her.

"This doesn't sound right. I want to see this for myself." She goes over to her bed, and pulls out her laptop from underneath.

She returns to me, motioning for me to sit up and move over. I do what she says and make room for her. I rest my head onto her shoulder, removing my tears from my face and watch her do her work. She was able to easily hack into Brittney's phone without taking it and remove the picture I told her about, saving it to her laptop.

"That's outrageous. This doesn't seem like something Niall would do... What?" She whispers as she takes in the image. I wasn't sure whether she was talking to herself, me, or both of us, as she was truly confused. She continuously shakes her head. "This isn't right. Here." She then sent it to my phone.

"Why did you just send it to me? I don't want it." As I was about to hit 'delete' she stops me by removing my phone from my grasp.

"I know you don't. But send it to him asking what's going on. I'll text Nicki to come up as well." She suggests. Well. Why not?

I sniffle, but do it anyways. I couldn't help but take in a good look at the photo. The happiness, the smiles, his bright eyes, her accomplishing smile, it doesn't fit in my mind. Carie texts Nicki furiously and tells her to come to our room pronto. Soon enough, she did, just as Carie did. Once she was caught up, I sent the picture, preparing for the worst.

To: Babe<3:
(Picture Message) What is this...? I would like an explanation please....

"If he lies to me saying it never happened, I'm going to lose it." I said sadly. The girls sighed simultaneously.

"Knowing Niall, he will have an explanation for this. This doesn't seem like the Niall we know. But whatever happens, we are here for you. I wanna bet that this is just photo shop." She smiles.

"Really great photo shop." I mutter. Nicki nudges me in the gut. "Alright, no conclusions, yet..." My phone vibrated, signaling I have a text message. I sigh heavily before opening the message.

From: Babe<3:
Uhm, where did that come from? I don't remember that happening, so I don't think that's me.

"Well?" I ask them. They shrugged. I shake my head and begin to type my response.

To: Babe<3:
You seem uncertain. What happened over there?

Instead of a vibration, it sang a song that had Niall's voice. It was a song that he sang it to me when we went on our first date on his guitar. I sighed at the soothing of his voice. The girls cooed at the sound.

*Incoming Call From Babe<3*

"Remind me to change that later, yeah?" I said to the girls. The nodded their heads at the same time before looking down at my phone.

I looked down to the screen as Niall continued to sing his song. It had his profile picture and the alert. The profile picture was just like the one I sent to Niall a few moments ago, except both of my arms were around Niall's neck and he was the one kissing my cheek.

I remember Carie had taken my phone to take this picture, like a snipe photo, we're caught off guard outside in the back of the school. We were out camping for one of the classes, a learning experience on survival in the outdoors.

He caught me off guard as he kissed my cheek, just as Carie had my phone, capturing the moment. When I discovered it the next morning, Niall put this picture as his profile picture, so it will remind me that he cares about me and loves the crazy stuff we do together. A hand on my shoulder soon snaps me out of my trance.

"We're here for you." Nicki say quietly and Carie nods her head in agreement. I sighed and crawled over to the edge of my bed, motioning for them to sit on either side of me. I answered the call once they were all set.

"Yes?" I asked with a monotone voice, not wanting to seem excited that he had called me.

"Ari, thank goodness you answered. I was getting worried for a minute there. You have to believe me when I say that the photo you sent me is completely fake. I know that it did not happen at all." He rushes in one breath.

"Niall, she had more than one photo. Videos as well. You two seemed to be having a good time."

"They never happened. I don't remember any of that happening, I swear."

"In one of the videos, as soon as you showed up on the screen, your face was completely happy every time as she says something to you. So don't you say that it didn't happen because the evidence is with me and-" I paused, describing that again made me sniffle, a tear rolling down my face. Carie placed her arm around my shoulder and caressed my head while Nicki hugged me around my waist.

"Oh no... Baby, please! Don't cry! Please don't! I'm telling you right now that I would never do that to you! You of all people should know that! Who do you take me for? Please, don't cry Angel." The hurt and pain was very evident in his voice but I couldn't let that get to me. Not anymore. I have to end it. If this is what I have to deal with in long distance relationships, I don't want this. I can't leave here to join him, and he can't leave his parents for me. This isn't going to work... Brittney's words started to replay in my mind.

'Oh, hun, they don't last.' Her voice repeats itself over and over again. I look between Nicki and Carie after they released me and nodded their heads. I sighed.

"You have no idea how much this hurts me to do but-" I start but he cuts me off.

"Don't." Anger was starting to come in, and it was noticeable.

"Ni-" I tried to say but he cut me off again.

"NO! Baby, I'm not letting you finish that. I made you a promise and I intend to keep it.. Don't. Just, please, don't do it. I love you." I have to hold back the next set of tears with my hand for a couple seconds before I could continue.

"Then you already know what I'm going to say then."

"Princess,-" He begged.

"Don't call me that. I'm not your princess anymore. Goodbye Niall." I quickly hung up before he could protest. I literally just lost it right then and there.

I started to cry loudly, not even caring if the entire building heard me. Luckily nobody came in and asked what was going on, though. Niall immediately started to flood my phone with text messages and voice mails. I did not open or listened to any of them.

*End Of Flashback*

He did this for the next three years until he finally stopped suddenly. I deleted his contact and everything else related to him. I won't ever fall in love with anyone else again. I'm broken and no one can fix me.

Inside it's still the same. I am still broken inside, I'm just good at hiding it. Since then, my main priority was to become the spy like my parents are wherever they are, and maybe even better. Who knows? But this was when I first created my motto, and staying with it:

Spying Before Breaking.

Notes

Alright so this is the second part of the flashback that I was able to complete today :) woooo!!! Finally ate dinner too. Blame my iPod for not getting this up sooner.. I already have 20 views and this is the third chapter and I started yesterday...literally I'm like:



I know that this is Niall's story and he isn't in it but I couldn't help myself.

I'm probably going to start posting gifs at the end of each chapter since I love the One Direction gifs <3 Don't forget to comment/vote/subscribe it would mean a lot to me! Love you all for reading!!!!