I'm so sorry this took so long to publish!! I've just been so preoccupied this past month! Please forgive me and keep on reading! xoxo

Good, now he knows not to piss me off. I smile sheepishly at him while rubbing the side of my arm, "Sorry if I scared you." It's hard to make me this mad so if I'm angry at you, you did something wrong.

"It's all right," He shrugs, "you had a good reason to be." We stand facing each other for another moment then he says shyly, "I missed you." AWE.

I can definitely feel my face heating up even with the sunburn and I can't help but bite my bottom lip. "I missed you too." I reply softly. Niall looks relieved when I say this and moves his hand out in front of him. I glance down at it, smiling to myself and grab his hand.

Before we start walking my stomach begins to rumble, I need to eat something quick. I think Niall hears my stomach because he asks me if I'm hungry. "Yes," I chuckle, "I need to eat breakfast before I pass out."

Thankfully there's a lot of little restaurants along the beach but it's crazy busy here. We stop at a couple places and quickly dismiss them because of the hour wait. I need to eat something soon! I'm starting to get lightheaded.

"It's going to be about a 30 minute wait." A lady at the front tells us. "Ok," Niall nods, "Thanks." We decide to wait in the line up of people because 30 minutes is the smallest wait time we've got and with each passing second my condition is getting worse. When we sit down I wrap my arms over my stomach and hunch over, Niall turns to me, "Are you ok? You look a little pale." He tells me while moving hair out of my face.

"No." I shake my head and screw my eyes shut, "I need to eat before I pass out."
"Shit." Niall says under his breath. He places a hand on my back, "I'll be right back." He says to me. I feel his weight leave the bench. Don't leave me here!

I open my eyes in panic, but Niall is a few feet away talking to the hostess chick. He nods at her once again then I watch him return to me.

"What's going on?" I ask looking up at him. He reaches his hand down, "There's a pretzel stand not far down the street from us." He explains as he pulls me up. Oh thank God.

I almost fall over as we exit the restaurant but thankfully Niall holds onto me with his arm around my waist. I can't look up I'm so dizzy so I just close my eyes and let Niall lead me to the food. Fuck. My legs feel like noodles at this point so I grip Niall's shirt tighter.

I think we reached the pretzel stand because Niall has stopped walking, "Can I get a pretzel and a bottle of water please?"

"Niall." I blurt out as my legs give way.

The last thing I hear is Niall yell my name then darkness.

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"Give her some air!"
"Is she okay?"
There's people chattering all around me and I can feel someone's arms shifting underneath me which makes me open my eyes quickly.

My eyes are met with Niall's and I realize he's the one holding me. "Oh thank god!" He sighs with relief. I shift my gaze to the crowd surrounding us, some have their phones out and others are just watching.

"Well that's a first... How long was I out?" I ask rubbing my eyes.

"Almost 10 minutes. Someone called an ambulance so they should be here any minute." He replies to me wide eyed then hands me a water bottle and a pretzel. "Here, you need to eat. Can you sit up?"

"Yeah... I think so." I say slowly and start moving to a sitting position.

Just as I'm taking a sip of water the ambulance arrives and the people around us move out of the way while Niall still has his arms around me as the paramedic rushes up to us.

The paramedic checks my blood pressure and does the thing where he looks into my eyes with a flash light. "You should be fine, just make sure you drink plenty of water and eat today. You just have low blood sugar and possibly some heat exhaustion judging by your sunburn." Yeah sounds about right. "You should keep an eye on her young man this little lady needs to take it easy the rest of the day." The paramedic instructs Niall sternly.

"Yes sir I will, thank you for your help." He nods at the paramedic. "Yes thank you." I say to him as well.

Niall and the paramedic help me get up on my feet, Niall doesn't leave my side and has his arm hovering my waist. I'm a little shaky but I already feel my strength returning after eating the pretzel.

I peek up at Niall and give him a small smile. Niall returns my smile but it's obvious he's still concerned about what happened. I'm sorry!

"It's all right, the girl is fine." The paramedic calls out to the crowd. And the people start clapping quietly. My face starts to heat up, I don't like this much attention especially with this many people watching us. This is not good for Niall, well maybe. 'Heroic Niall of One Direction saves fainting girl.'

Niall and I put our heads down and start walking away from the crowd of people. Once we get out of earshot Niall holds me back and faces me. "You scared the hell out of me, are you sure you're ok?"

"Yes. I really am fine now." I smile at him.

"Whew." Niall runs a hand through his hair then pulls me into a hug. "Good, good." He says softly into my hair while gently stroking my back. I bury my face into his chest and just revel in this moment. Mm, I feel so safe in his embrace right now. His heart is beating fast too...

I move away still in his arms to look at him, "Are you okay?" I ask with a raised brow.

"I am knowing that you're okay," He smiles down at me. "And I for one think that we've had enough drama for today don't you agree?" He asks tilting his head to the side.

"Yes, I definitely agree." I giggle.

We take our time walking back to the hotel, strolling hand in hand and just taking in the city around us. Niall makes sure that I eat a big meal this time when we stopped for burgers from a little fast food restaurant. I wonder what time it is... it's gotta be around 12ish? I forgot my watch and I can't check my phone because I forgot it back in the room. Oops, Chelsea and Theresa are going to flip.

"Do you got the time?" I ask Niall.

"Yeah." He pulls his phone out from his back pocket. "It's 12:10. Oh hang on... you're calling me from Skype?" He shows me his phone screen and it is ringing.

"Answer it!" I demand while squeezing his hand. Its got to be the girls calling to make sure I'm all right.

Niall taps the phone and puts it up to his ear. "Hello?..." he answers with a hint of confusion. "Yes she's with me." He eyes me quickly with a lopsided smile then to somewhere else. "Yes it's still happening... Yeah we can meet you there." He nods, then hands the phone to me.

"Yes?"

"Yo! Thanks for not taking your phone with you!" Chelsea yells into my ear. "Yeah we were worried sick!" Theresa adds in. "What is taking you two so long?" Bri interrogates me. They must be on speaker.

I look down at my feet, we have a rule of always having your phone and passport on you and the key to the room we are staying at. At least I remembered the key card. "Well." I chuckle. "It's a long story and I know, I'm sorry that I didn't bring my phone guys. I was distracted." I tell them then squint my eyes at Niall. He's just watching me and gives me an innocent look.

"Well at least you are with Niall." Theresa says to me. "Hurry back to the hotel, we told Niall that we are going to the beach and to meet us there, we couldn't wait for you."

I laugh. "Okay we will see you in a bit then."

"Bye!" The three of them say together.

"Bye!" I hang up and pass the phone to Niall. "Are you okay with going to the beach with us today?"

"Of course!" He replies loudly.

Niall's POV

It doesn't take us long to find a store that sells bathing suits since I didn't bring my swimming trunks we had to go do a little shopping. When we get in the store Jordyn rushes ahead of me to the men's side and picks a pair of shorts for me. "How about these?" She asks me holding them up.

"Sure." I reply with a shrug, and take the shorts to a changing room.

The shorts are a little tighter and shorter to my liking but they will do for now. Jordyn has good taste. "Would you like to see how they fit?" I say to the door hoping Jordyn didn't wander off.

"If you want!" She answers cheerily. Oh I know she wants to see.

I open the door slowly and step out in front of her. "Well?"

Jordyn's mouth opens slightly but she catches herself and closes it. "Looks good."

I turn my back to her to look at myself in the mirror that's hanging on the outside of the changing room door. Shes right they do look good. I look up at Jordyn's reflection and notice that her eyes have fallen to my arse. She's checking me out!

"Eyes up here Ms. Hensen." I ruse while spinning around to face her.

She puts her hands behind her and bats her long lashes at me, "Sorry, I just really like those shorts." She says with a growing smile.

I raise an eyebrow, "Right." I chuckle.

I buy the shorts and a pair of flip flops and we head out towards the hotel Jordyn is staying at.

Before we change Jordyn gathers some things for our trip to the beach. "Towels, sunscreen, water..." She says to herself. "Ok, I think we are good." She smiles at me.

"Don't forget your phone this time." I remind her. "Oh right." She grabs it and puts it with the other items in her knapsack. "Thanks." She grins at me. "I'm going to change now, you can change out here if you like." She tells me as she walks into the bathroom.

I'm done within seconds so I sit back on the couch while I wait for Jordyn. What a crazy day. First the fight then Jordyn fainting. My publicity is going to go through the roof with all this drama.

"Okay are you ready to go?" I turn my head back towards the voice. Jordyn's wearing a, I don't even know what it is. It's a an all black dress thing but it's short shorts instead of an open bottom. "What is that?" I ask pointing to the piece of clothing.

"This?" She looks down at her outfit and giggles. "It's a romper. It's just something to wear over my bathing suit." She explains to me.

"Oh. Ok, it's cute." I grin at her.

"Thanks." She says softly, "oh hey before we head out can you put sunscreen on my back and shoulders?"

I move the straps of the 'romper' out of the way so I can rub the lotion in. Mm smells like coconuts. As I run my fingers across her shoulders I inspect her pale but slightly sun burned skin. "You must be part Irish because you're as white as I am!" I remark.

"You might be right!" She snorts and we both start laughing. Once I'm done rubbing the sunscreen in for her, Jordyn faces me. "Thanks, do you need some?" She questions me with raised brows

"Ah, yeah I probably should." I shrug. I don't want to get sunburnt too. I spin around so my back is to her and take my shirt off. A cold sensation hits my bare skin, "Oh! That's cold." I yelp.

Her gentle hands start rubbing the lotion on the tops of my shoulders. "Don't be a baby." Jordyn whispers in my ear.

Wow this feels nice, I should ask her to give my neck a rub again sometime. I can't help myself and I mumble a low 'mmm.'

"You should do this more often." I tell her softly.

She laughs, "To you or just in general?"

"Me please." I smile to myself, then rotate my head to examine her with my puppy dog eyes.  She stops and stares at me.

"Fine." She scoffs then crosses her arms and bows her head slightly, "if you wish it." But her little act fails when a sly smile spreads across her face.

Jordyn finishes up then closes the bottle and throws it in her bag in front of me. "Awe. Done already?" I whine.  She shakes her head at me and puts her hands on her hips.
"Yes. We got to get going, I want to hit the beach!"

Your POV

Theresa texted me where they were going to be before they left because when I checked my phone there's a message from her:
We'll be in front of the restaurant where we had lunch the other day! ;*

Thankfully our hotel is only a ten minute walk from the beach so Niall and I arrive there in no time. Theresa is where she said she would be but Chelsea and Bri are nowhere to be found. I look out towards the ocean and spot them in the water swimming in the waves. Oh god. Just watching them and the other people makes me nervous.

When we walk up to the blanket Theresa is laying on her stomach, "Hey Theresa." Niall greets cheerily.

"Hey guys!" She rolls to her side to face us. "You made it!" And perks up from her spot.

I'm still watching the waves crash on the shore and it's just making me more anxious. I feel Niall touch my arm, "What's the matter?" He questions me.

"Huh?" I mutter looking back at him then to Theresa, she knows I'm afraid of the ocean so she sits there with a smile on her face. "Nothing!" I say quickly and smile at Niall.

"All right lets swim!" He exclaims.

"Yay." I cheer weakly. 

Niall and I strip our clothes off and run to the water hand in hand. When I get waist deep I stop immediately and Niall stops when he tugs my arm.  He frowns at me, "What's wrong?"

"I don't know if I can go farther." I tell him quietly.

He gives me a lopsided grin and steps towards me. "Here," He turns his back to me and hunches over slightly, "I'll piggyback you, that way you can be higher up."

I bite my lip, I hate the waves. "I don't know."

He laughs, "Trust me Jordyn, you'll be fine as long as you hold onto me and if you want to go back I'll take you back to the shore."

"Fine." I quickly say and climb on his back. I wrap my arms around his neck and my legs around his waist. Then he hooks his arms over my legs fastening me to his body. Ok this I don't mind... "Ready?" He asks me.
All I do is nod because I am already regretting this.

He strides in deeper where others are grouped up. There's a wave coming our way and I clutch my arms tighter. I close my eyes as the wave rolls towards us but Niall jumps over this one smoothly. Ok, that wasn't so bad. As I think this another one comes, this time a little bigger than the one before. I look around us and notice there are kids a few feet away from us still swimming like it's nothing. Are they crazy?!

Niall gets ready to jump over the wave but he jumps too soon and we hit the arch of the wave.  I hold my breath clinging to Niall, thankfully he has his footing and we break the surface. We gasp for breath, "You still good up there?"

"Yeah." I say shakily as we both wipe the salty water from our faces. Another wave comes rolling in so I clutch Niall's shoulders. "Oh god!" I screech as we jump over the wave. Niall just laughs loudly.

"Nope! I'm done take me back please!" I plead to him almost strangling his neck.

"Ok." He laughs then starts treading backwards to the beach. To safety!

Once we get shallow enough I hop off and walk the rest of the way.

"So you're scared of water." He states matter of factly while walking beside me.

I chortle. "I'm not scared of water. I can swim fine in lakes but not in the ocean, it's the waves that scare me." I frown. "I don't know why." I confess and look down.

He shrugs, "I understand. Everyone has their fears." He smiles reassuringly at me.

Niall and I sit next to each other on the edge of the blanket so there's room for the others to sit. I don't know where Theresa went but it looks like Chels and Bri are still swimming. I lean back on my elbows with my eyes closed and soak in the rays. "What are your fears?" I ask him. I open one eye to peek at him. He has a small smile as he's staring at me. "You don't know?" He raises his eyebrows in astonishment.

"Don't know what?" Chelsea asks us as she's walking up to our spot.

"Niall won't tell me what's he's afraid of." I pout. "Is it clowns?" I look at him wide eyed.

Niall laughs and leans on his side to get more comfortable. He simply shakes his head smiling, "Nope."

Chelsea leans on her hip and rolls her eyes at me. "He has claustrophobia Jordyn, you should know this."

"Sorry." I scoff at her. Then I turn my head and look Niall straight in the eyes, "I had no idea."

"It's alright." He chuckles. "She is right though, I hate small spaces."

Chelsea nods, "Told ya." And walks behind us with her little nose in the air to grab her towel then sits down on one of the corners of the blanket. "So are you still ok with picking us up tomorrow?" She asks Niall.

"Yes ma'am." He replies with a small smile spreading across his face. I frown in thought, How's he going to do that if he's still here?

As if reading my mind he continues, "I'm catching a ferry at 5:30 so I will have to leave after this."

"Oh." Is all I say, I actually forgot about that part. I check my phone quickly to see how much time we have left. It's almost 3 already. What am I doing I'll see him tomorrow!

Just then Theresa and Bri come trotting up with buckets of mini donuts in their hands. "Hey J!" Bri smiles at me then she sullenly nods at Niall, "Sup."

"Hey." He limply waves at her, I think he might be a little scared of her after what almost happened this morning. Her and Theresa come from a tall family, they're taller than the 1D boys!

"Hand over those donuts!" Chelsea demands them.

"Yeah, yeah. Don't get your panties in a twist." Theresa scoffs at Chelsea as her and Bri sit down with us.

They bought a small bucket for each of us and hand them to us. "Thanks." Niall and I say together. I take a bite of the mini donut, "This is good!" I say licking the sugar off my lips and grab another. "Mhm!" Niall grunts in agreement.

The five of us sit there stuffing our faces with donuts when Chelsea stops eating, "What happened to your back Niall." She exclaims with a mouth full of food.

We all stop eating to see what Chels is talking about, I lean backwards so I can see Niall's back. There appears to be scratches all over his shoulders. Once I realize what its from I immediately go red. "What? Whats on my back?" Niall asks us while he's trying to look as well.

"Why are you blushing Jordyn?" Theresa teases me.

Niall looks at me and I can't help myself and start to laugh. "That may have been from me." I confess to him with an awkward smile.

"What did you do?" He smiles.

"There's scratch marks all down your shoulders!" Chelsea answers for me.

We don't spend much longer at the beach because Niall has to catch his ferry soon so we start packing up our things. The walk back is feeling a little awkward though, the girls only seem to be talking to me and not acknowledging Niall much. I'm walking next to Niall holding hands with him and he starts to slow his pace. Once we are behind my friends he leans close to my ear and whispers, "Do your friends hate me for what happened?"

I hope not... I haven't had the chance to talk to them about it... I peek up at Niall to see that he looks a bit sad at the thought. "No," I grip his arm tightly with my free hand, "They're just really protective of me, thats all. Plus I haven't had the chance to talk to them." I explain to him. He bites his lip and nods slightly, "Right, well I hope they aren't too mad. I truly am sorry about that."

"I know and I'll let the girls know too." I smile sincerely at him.

Niall lets the girls change first and when its finally his turn I sit next to Chelsea on the couch. "So you're not mad at Niall are you?"

She turns to me with a frown, "Why would you ask that?"

I shrug, " Well I kind of got the feeling that you guys were being a little distant to him during our walk here." I eye Theresa and Bri as well because they are a part of this too. "Niall and I shared our feelings for one another and we still want to try this relationship. What he did was a misunderstanding and he knows what he did was wrong."

Theresa looks down at her hands, "We're sorry, we just want you to be happy. It was hard for us to see you after you broke up with Chris." I inhale sharply at his name, it took me a while to get over him and that was hard. "Yeah that's why we are really protective this time." Bri adds.

I start to tear up. I love my friends so much and they are always there for me. "I love you guys." I hug Chelsea and Bri and Theresa come up to us and joins in on our hug.

"What's going on?" Niall asks with a hint of confusion. I poke my head up to see Niall standing in the doorway to the bathroom awkwardly. How much did he hear? I open my mouth about to tell him but Bri answers for me, "We are sorry for how we acted towards you, we just want Jordyn to be happy but now we know that you want the same."

He starts to smile, "Thanks guys. I do want Jordyn to be happy." Nialls eyes meet mine and we both start to blush so I get up and walk over to him to give him a hug. He wraps his arm around my upper back and pulls me in to a bear hug. The girls start to giggle to themselves which makes Niall and I blush harder. "I told you they were just being protective." I whisper into his chest.

He chuckles softly, "You were right." He moves his head away slightly to look at me, then he reaches into his pocket to grab his phone. He checks it with a frown, then back at me. "Its my ride, he's here."

Niall lets go of me and waves in the girls' direction, "Well ladies I had fun today, but I have to go now, I will see you tomorrow in Portsmouth."

"Bye!" They all say at once in a weird girly tone.

Before he gets too far I grab his hand, "I'll walk down with you." I tell Niall.

"BRB!" I yell to the girls as I'm walking out the door with Niall.

Before Niall gets into the car he turns to me, "So I'll see you tomorrow?"

"Yes." I giggle, "10 o'clock sharp!" I point a finger at him.

He steps closer with a smirk on his face. "Yes I'll be there at 10 o'clock sharp." His eyes fall down to my lips and his face softens. He places his hand behind my ear and then he leans down to kiss me so I tilt my head back to make it easier for him. Just a simple kiss but it means so much more to me now. I bite my bottom lip, "I'll see you tomorrow." I say softly.

His lip twitches up, "Yes. Have a good night Jordyn." He steps away slowly.

"You too." I say to him as I put my hand up to hide my shit eating grin.

He doesn't take his eyes off me until he enters the car and drives off. See you tomorrow!

Once again I'd like to apologize that this chapter took so long to publish! I hope you all are still with me!! Stay Beautiful! xoxo