Third Person POV
“Hey, Rachel, sorry to bother you, but is Evelina okay? She hasn’t answered any of my texts and I’m getting worried.”
“I’m sorry, Niall. It’s not my place to tell you why, all I want you to know is to go by and visit her, but don’t ask too many questions. There is a reason Connor and I have Wesley for the day.”
Niall immediately grew worried. He threw on some clothes, grabbed his keys, and ran out the door.
Who knew what state she was in?
She didn’t show up to practice and she never does that, if Wesley was sick she would tell him, but he was with Rachel and Connor.
He arrived at her house and saw her car still in the driveway. Okay, so she was home.
As he knocked on her door, she didn’t answer, although it was unlocked.
He opened the door and didn’t know what to expect, but what he saw he had never seen before.
Evelina was on the couch surrounded by beer bottles watching some video. It wasn’t he had ever seen before, but she was bawling.
“Evelina,” he said carefully.
Her head shot up. What was Niall doing here? He wasn’t supposed to know anything about today. Today was hard for Evelina and her mother-in-law. It was her husband’s birthday. She hadn’t gotten up to going to his grave, although she would be going soon.
She never dresses up for it, although most would. Today is a day where she wears black and everything is not okay. She gives Wesley to Rachel every year, because she doesn’t want him to see her like this. So vulnerable, so broken. She didn’t want anyone to see her like this.
“Niall, go away. I don’t want you to see me like this?”
“What’s going on?”
“Nothing, Niall! Absolutely nothing,” she said, laughing as though she was crazy.
Maybe she was crazy. Maybe it wasn’t normal for her to be sobbing uncontrollably about her husband’s death five years after it happened. Maybe it was normal.
All she knew was today he would be turning 23 and he should have been.
“Please, tell me what’s wrong.”
“Wesley’s birthday is today.”
“Then why are you crying?”
“Not my son. My late husband”
Niall’s heart dropped and he felt it had been ripped from his chest.
He didn’t say anything, he just sat down beside her and hugged her.
What was he supposed to do?
Tell her that it’ll be okay?
Tell that he’s in a better place?
That is one of the worst things you can tell someone when they lose a loved one.
Yeah, they might be in a better place but they have every fucking right to mourn them. It is unhealthy for them not to mourn.
Death is the hardest thing someone could go through because you are not only mourning the person, but also the memories and lost time.
Mourning and grief is the worst feeling us as human beings face.
Whether they were gone too soon or not.
She cried and that’s when Niall got a peek of her computer screen.
She wasn’t just watching a video trying to distract herself from facing the problem of grief, she was hitting it head on and back again.
She was watching the video of what looked like the day that they eloped.
Evelina was in a white dress with her hair and make-up done.
Wesley was in a suit and tie with his hair combed back.
They were in love and Niall could never compare himself to Wesley, because he wasn’t Wesley and you could tell in that video that Wesley loved Evelina more than humanly possible.
That was the thing though, so did Niall.
Niall loved Evelina and he hoped that he could treat at least half as good as Wesley did.
No wonder she named her son after him.
Evelina noticed Niall looking at the computer screen, realizing that she still had the video from their wedding pulled up.
It was taken following their wedding. In the car to break the news to her parents.
She smiled and cringed at the memory. It was the day her parents turned their backs on her, kicked her out, and cut her off.
They hated Wesley from the moment they were introduced. It was the typical love story of the boy’s family is poor and the girl’s is fabulously wealthy and the girl’s parents have been wealthy their whole life so they think their daughter deserves nothing less than wealth.
Evelina, Angelina, and Connor believed that too until they went to a high school where the school didn’t have a lot of money. Of course when their parents found that out they pulled them and sent them to a school with a lot more money.
Evelina was the first to notice that in the wealthier school, no one really cared about you unless you were a popular athlete.
It was actually Rachel that helped her realize that.
Then, through Rachel, she met Wesley.
“Niall, I have to go somewhere but don’t want to do it alone. Will you come with me?”
Niall knew what she was asking and wasn’t 100% sure if he was ready for this.
She had to go to the graveyard.
“Are you sure? I can leave.”
“No. I want him to meet you.”
Niall’s heart swelled and at that small, meaningless phrase, he knew he was completely and unconditionally in love with her.
He had to do everything that he could to take this fragile, broken girl and build her up.
Niall looked at Evelina and told her to go get ready and they can stop by his place so he could change on the way there. Evelina didn’t hesitate on it though because now that Niall was here, she didn’t want him to leave her.
At least, not today.
“Please, stay with me,” she begged.
Niall smiled at her softly.
“I will stay with you. Always.”
That was a promise.

Notes

Aright, everybody I only updated for this author's note.
There was no feedback on the last chapter. I get it was a filler, much like this one is, but this is kind of the build-up.
Next chapter things will be kind of sad, but happy at the same time, if that makes sense. :)
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