Katie’s POV

All week Niall had been trying to make romantic gestures for me. Needless to say, I had about four dozen different types of flowers in my room. Every time I entered it was an allergy attack waiting to happen. I got some pretty good chocolates out of it, though.

But no matter what he did, it wouldn’t gain my trust back.

Niall’s POV

I paced my room thinking of anything I could do to get her back. I saw my guitar in the corner of the room and it instantly clicked in my brain.

“Oh my God.” I groaned as I flipped through the channels one morning after a party. “I hated the cheesy nineties boy bands.” Katie took the remote from me and turned it back to the channel I had purposely passed. That band N*SYNC was on with their song ‘Bye, Bye, Bye’.

“I happened to love those cheesy boy bands.” She giggled. “My favorite was the Backstreet Boys.” Katie smiled and leaned against the wall behind the chair. “My favorite song was ‘Drowning’.” I looked over at her. “What? Look, you may be a guy, but you’re a friend so you get to hear these things, too.” She stuck her tongue out at me.

That was it! I pulled up the chords and lyrics on my computer and printed them out before grabbing my guitar and hauling ass out the door.

I burst through the door of the lecture hall and the professor stared at me absolutely bewildered. “Excuse me young man, I’m trying to have a class here.” I looked over the room and saw Katie in the back trying to hide herself. I walked up to the professor and explained my situation in a hush.

“Look, there’s a girl in here that I love and have to show how sorry I am. Just give me ten minutes and I’ll be out of your hair.” She cocked an eyebrow at me and held her hand out.

“Go on, but make it quick.” I nodded as a thanks and put the sheet music on a girl’s desk and started playing.

Katie’s POV

Oh my God, no. What was he doing here? Niall couldn’t just bust through the doors to my class with a guitar in his hand like that! The professor looked absolutely stunned. I whispered to the person next to me to trade seats so I could get as far from Niall as possible. As Niall and my professor talked, I switched out my stuff and hid myself from him, but I was almost positive he saw me. “Go on, but make it quick.” Fuck.

I looked up as he set his sheet music down in front of a girl who was staring at him with googley eyes. I could have killed her. As he started to play, I instantly recognized the song.

“I can’t imagine life without your love
Cos even forever, don’t seem like long enough
Cos every time I breathe I take you in
And my heart beats again
But baby I can’t help it,
You keep me drowning in your love.
Every time I try to rise above
I’m swept away by love.
Baby I can’t help it
You keep me drowning in your love.”

The whole class erupted into applause as he finished, and the girl he was standing in front of must have gotten the wrong impression and stood up to kiss him just before he ran up to the back of the classroom to me. She instantly sat down, completely embarrassed. I gathered my things and ran past him out of the lecture hall.

“Katie!” I turned on my heel to face him as he followed me down the hall.

“What the hell was that!?” I nearly screamed.

“Please. Just listen to me—“

“Thinking that you could come in, play my favorite song and just win me back.” I could feel my throat getting thick. “Niall—“

“Katie, listen to me, dammit!” I took a deep breath and wiped the tears that had spilled over. “Look, I know you don’t believe me, but I didn’t dance with her. I didn’t even look at her. The most I did to touch her was push her away from me and to stop her from kissing me.” Niall shook his head. “I love you, and do you really think I would want to lose you? I wouldn’t make such a stupid mistake.” It took everything in me not to kiss him. “Katie, please look at me.” I looked directly into his eyes. “I would never, ever want to do anything to hurt you.” Something about his pleading look made me believe him.

“Niall…” A few of his frat buddies walked past and instantly whistled along with a few ‘get in, Horan!’ comments.

“Come on, guys. Not now.” He rolled his eyes.

“Awe, what? You got a girl now?” Niall looked at me.

“Do I?” He asked, longing in his voice. I wrapped my arms around my torso and nodded. I couldn’t deny that I had missed him.

“Ickle Niall’s whipped!” His mates chuckled and tousled Niall’s hair after tossing the hat he was wearing to me. I put it back on Niall’s head as he wrapped his arms around me.

“So what if I am?” Niall smiled before taking off the snapback he was wearing and placing it on my head.

“You’re gonna get so much shit for this, man.” One of his friends laughed and walked off with the rest of them.

“I’m sorry,” I apologized and nuzzled my face into his chest, taking in his scent.

“I promise I didn’t do anything.” He whispered and kissed the top of his head where his hat still rested.

“I believe you.” I sighed and hugged him tightly. “I’m sorry I jumped to conclusions… it just felt too good to be real.”

“It’s real, princess.” Niall said. “When we broke up I literally cried for hours…” There were snickers from Niall’s friends coming from behind him. Niall chased them halfway down the hall as he yelled: “Don’t you fuckers have a class to get to!?” I laughed and walked up to him and set his hat gently back on his head. “But as I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted… don’t ever do that again, okay?” I nodded. “I love you more than anything in this world, Katie, so at least let me explain if there’s a next time.” Someone from around the corner made a whip noise and Niall held up a finger as he ran around the corner. “Get your fat asses outta here!” I giggled and bit my bottom lip as I saw a shoe come from the corner.

“There is class going on!” I heard a woman yell and saw the four boys running around the corner, Niall stopping to pick up his shoe and put it on before running up to me and grabbing my hand, pulling me along with him. I instantly jumped on his back as he ran down the hall.

As soon as we were back to his room I hopped off of Niall’s back as we laughed. “Oh my God, that was great!” I giggled and laid down on his bed. I felt him flop down next to me as he laughed.

“That was so much fun.” I looked over at him with a wide smile plastered across his face. “God, I’ve missed you so much.”

“I’ve missed you more.” I smiled and rolled on top of him.

“See, now I don’t think that’s possible.” He smirked and stole a playful kiss from me.

“But I do.” I said and stole my kiss back. Niall rolled me onto my back and pinned my arms above my head and crashed his lips onto mine. “Okay… maybe you did miss me more.” I breathed when we parted.

“Told you.” Niall smirked and let my hands free as his lips came back down onto mine again. I played with the hem of Niall’s shirt, signaling that I wanted it off. He parted our kiss long enough to peel his shirt off before his hands found their way to my blouse and slowly began to unbutton it. I fumbled with the button on his jeans before I was finally able to push them and his boxers down his legs. Niall kicked his shoes and socks off before discarding of his pants and boxers. His hands went around my back and unhooked my bra, tossing it to the side. I kicked off my sandals as he pushed my skinny jeans and underwear down my legs. I kicked them completely off as Niall drew the covers over us and kissed me tenderly.

His lips travelled down my neck, searching for the sweet spot he had become so familiar with over the time we knew each other. A moan escaped my lips the second he found it, and he knew I was practically at his will. He quickly entered me and I gasped at the sudden contact. He waited a few seconds for me to adjust before he slowly began to move his hips back and forth. I dug my nails into his back and bit my lip to keep myself from allowing the whole house to hear us. “Oh my God, Niall.” I panted as he moved faster.

“Shit, Katie.” Niall grunted as tiny beads of sweat began to form on his forehead. Soon, I was riding out my high just before Niall. He pulled out and rolled off of me, both of our breathing heavy. “I’m glad we’re back together.” I smiled and cuddled up to his side.

“Me too.” I pecked his cheek. “I love you.”

“I love you, too.” We laid there in silence for a moment before Niall looked down at me and asked: “Do you want to move in with me?”

“Don’t you think that’s kind of against fraternity rules?”

“Well, I don’t have to live in the house… we can get an off campus apartment together. It would be really nice. I mean, you don’t have to if you don’t want it. It was just a thought… actually, forget I ever said anything.” I could feel Niall’s cheek heating with blush as it rested on the top of my head.

“I would love to move in with you, Niall.” I smiled up at him and saw the glee written on his face. I hugged his torso and smiled to myself. I was going to be living with the boy I loved next semester. Nothing could be better than this.