Our Dance.

“Evelina!” I heard three different voices.
All of them held shock, but one contained worry. Niall was worried that talking to my parents would ruin everything.
“Niall, can we talk?” I choked out as my parents greeted Wesley.
This isn’t how I wanted this trip to turn out. I wanted me and Wes to walk in to my parents eating lunch and my dad laying on the couch playing video games or watching ESPN and my mom in her work clothes about to head off from her lunch break.
“Evelina-” Niall started as I closed the back door.
“No. You are going to listen to me, and you are not going to say a word until I am finished. After you gave me that room full of roses, I gave you a chance and I had almost forgiven you for it until I went to the restaurant, praying that you had just forgotten. You weren’t there. You are never there. Now, you expect to show up at my parent’s house and everything to be okay? Well, you were wrong. Honestly, Niall, seeing you here today brought back everything. I lied, it ruined your chances of me trusting you altogether. You broke your promise of staying away from Wesley until I give you the okay so many times I have lost count and I am honestly sick of it! Stay away from me and my family and don’t you dare try to get closer to us,” I yelled.
“No. I will not stay away from you and your family.”
“You are delusional if you think I’m going to let you near them.”
“Maybe I am, but what did I say to you when I first started? That no matter if I do screw this up, I will always try. I fucked up and apparently, I am damn good at it, but I will never stop trying to get you to trust me. I made a promise to your husband that I intend to keep. You can tell me to go fuck myself our entire lives, but I will never stop trying! Now-”
He didn’t get to finish because I didn’t think and for once, I just listened to my heart and I kissed him. I didn’t know if the kiss was due to the emotions or the fact that I still had alcohol in my system on top of no sleep, but it felt good.
In the middle of January in Auburn, Alabama where it’s freezing cold, a big whopping 25 *F, we had kissed for the first time in months and it felt like everything was right in the world. As he placed his hands on my back, pulling me closer, I smiled.
Maybe I didn’t trust him, Lord knows I don’t, but maybe I could learn to again. I mean, that is what a relationship is all about. It’s about communicating, trust, and learning about the other person.
As Niall pulled away, he placed his forehead against mine.
“Does this mean I can see Wesley now?”
I laughed and nodded.
“On one condition.”
“Anything,” he breathed, making me smile.
“Next time you visit my parents, let me know.”
He chuckled while nodding.
“Definitely.”
They kissed once more before Niall pulled away with a smile.
“Evelina Rose Mayer, will you do me the honor of taking you out tonight?”
“I’m sorry, but not tonight, for I have a family to spend time with,” I said properly.
“Then may I escort you tomorrow?”
“Tomorrow sounds lovely, thank you.”
“Say, 6 o’clock?”
“6 o’clock sounds lovely,” I said, giggling.
Some people might think I’m stupid for running back to him so soon, but I honestly can’t think of a better way to mend our relationship. I realized that I was putting too much blame on him, because in the end, we both said things that we didn’t mean. He was drunk and hurt and I was petrified, meaning our minds were not on the greatest mindset.
“What made you forgive me so quickly?”
“I thought about us on the flight here and I realized that I was putting way too much blame on you. I mean, we both did and said things we regret and we are both at fault for us ending.”
He smiled and kissed me again.
“You wanna know why I fell in love with ya?” he asked, his Irish accent thick.
“Because I’m loveable, duh,” I joked, making him laugh.
“Because even though ya overthink the hell out of every situation, you do it to make sure that you are not putting Wesley in harm. You are a mother first, and that’s exactly why you are a fantastic mother.”
“You fell in love with me because I’m a mother?” I asked, a smile on my face.
“One of the reasons, yes.”
“I honestly don’t know when I fell in love with you, because I denied it for so long.”
“Somebody had to.”
“You know my producer knew the whole time, right?”
“Seriously?!”
“Yeah, the day we announced our break-up, he called me in his office. I was flipping out, afraid that I had just ruined my chances at the promotion.”
“What did he say?”
“He was like ‘you know that I know that you were lying through your teeth the whole show, right?’”
“Damn, and here I thought we were good actors,” he said, making me laugh.
“Knock, knock,” my mother said, slightly opening the back door.
“What’s up, Mom?”
“I have to head back and you two need to get in this house. It’s freezing out here,” she scolded.
We headed inside, knowing she wasn’t going to leave until we came in.
As we walked in with our hands intertwined, Angelina was sitting in the living room and saw it.
“Hell yes!” she yelled, making me and Mom scold her.
“Mother, you can not get mad at me for that! I have been waiting for this since they broke up!”
“I can though. Watch your mouth. There are innocent ears around,” I said, pointing at my four-year-old son.
“Oh whatever. It’s not like he hasn’t heard it before.”
“Actually, he hasn’t. Everyone watches their mouth around him, even Cooper,” Niall defended.
“Congrats, Aunt Angie. You are officially the first one to let your nephew hear a bad word.”
“Aunt of the year,” she mumbled, making us laugh.
The rest of the day was spent just enjoying the company of each other. When Mom returned from work, we went and got dinner- on Niall, no matter how much we tried to protest. We all crashed in my parent’s living room that night, and for the first time in what feels like forever, I slept in Niall’s arms.

Notes

Hello, everyone! So, I know I said I was on Christmas break, so I would be updating more, but I've been super busy... Anytime I got any down time, I had to finish stuff for work, so yeah.
Anyways! Let me know what you thought... a lot has happened in this chapter.
Should she have forgiven him so quickly?!
Is he gonna break her heart again?
Let me know!
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