The Next Day

Niall's POV

"Going to see Dara again, man you are obbessed with that girl," Adam mocked me from the comfort of his bed, he was being a slight hypocrite seeing as he spent every second of the day with Zara. I gave him the middle finger before walking out the room, smiling like an idiot. I hadn't felt that happy in a long time.

I was almost at Dara and I's room which we were sharing secretly when a strong hand gripped my shoulder. Turning around, my smile faded when I saw the smirking face of Lance- the biggest douche I had ever met. Everything about him made me want to punch him.

"Hey Nialler," he said enthusiastically but I couldn't help hearing a hint of sarcasm in his voice. Brushing off his hand, I raised my eyebrow and crossed my arms slowly.

"First of all, don't call me that Lance," I spat his name, not caring that the man had done nothing to me yet- just his presence was enough to annoy me, "And secondly, what do you want? I'm quite busy right now!"

He didn't seem fazed at all by my tone and instead pointed to his office which was across the corridor. Sighing, I followed him inside, wondering what the hell I had done.

"Niall, I want to ask you a question," he didn't look me directly in the eye and instead fiddled with the books on his shelf, "Do you have any romantic feelings for Dara?"

I was shocked by the question and I coughed awkwardly not sure what to do. Could I tell him? Would that lead any consequences? Looking at Lance, I couldn't help thinking that he wasn't asking me that question for any innocent reason. Nothing he did was innocent.

"Why do you want to know?" I replied back, still weighing up my options.

"You two just seem very chummy. I like to know what is going on with my...friends," I heard the hesitation in his voice as he said the last word.

"There is nothing going on, we're just friends," it hurt to admit it, but I was telling the truth. So far I had wimped out when it came to telling Dara my feelings.

"But friends can have feelings for each other? I don't like it when relationships mess up the way we do things round here so I'll ask you again- do you have any romantic feelings for Dara?"

He slammed his fist on the table and my eyes widened slightly at his irrational behaviour. What would happen if he found out that I loved Dara? Would he split us up because he didn't want us to 'mess up' the base?

"No, I don't," I lied through my teeth, the words were hard to get out but I managed knowing that it was only option. I couldn't get split from Dara before I even got to tell her how I felt.

Lance smiled and after an awkward goodbye I left his office; running my hands through my hair I just hoped that Dara wouldn't hear what I had told Lance without it being in context.

Dara's POV

I was simply laying on my bed when Lance burst into my room ,uninvited as usual. Rolling my eyes, I sat up and glared at his smiling face. What was he so happy about?

"Have you been thinking about what I said yesterday? Have you changed your mind yet? Because you know Dara, you are very lucky that I even look at you this way.." He sounded so arrogant, the only thing I wanted to do was punch him in the face.

"I will never like you in any way Lance. Even if you were the least bit tolerable, I wouldn't look at you like that. I already love someone, and love is something you can't just move on from," I only realised that I had over shared when I finished my speech- Lance didn't need to know how I felt about Niall.

"So you're in love with Niall?" He said in a patronising tone, almost like he wasn't asking a question, "That's a shame seeing as I was just speaking to him and he told me that he has no romantic feelings for you. Must be a real bummer huh?"

He patted my head and then left as fast as he came, leaving me to stand in shock. Was Lance lying? But then I realised that Lance wasn't the type of person to spread false information- he had a shred of dignity in him.
Laying back down on the bed, I looked at the ceiling and tried to process what I had just been told. A single tear slithered down my cheek, dropping down my chin and absorbing into the material of my jumper.

"I thought he loved me," I whispered, the lump in my throat growing more by the second, "I thought he loved me."

With that, the tears began to fall like rapids, completely absorbing me in their sadness.

***

The knock at the door forced me to open my eyes which were sore from crying, and I wiped away the fresh tears that had fallen. I was too weak to even get up and open the door so instead I called a quiet 'come in'.

In walked the last person I wanted to see- Niall. His usually contagious smile dropped when he saw the state I was in and he ran over to hug me but I jerked away from his touch.

"What's wrong Dara?" He murmured, his voice filled with concern but I couldn't help wonder if this whole 'caring' thing was all a lie as well. Did he ever love me? He told me loved me...

"You don't love me," I whispered, sounding like a little child, "You don't love me but I love you."

"Wait hang on a minute- did Lance tell you that?" I nodded slightly, not sure how he knew that it was Lance who had told me, "Dara I can explain!"

"There's nothing to explain Niall! I'm being stupid, you never loved me. In the beginning we only had each other- you felt compelled to love me. Now there are loads of other girls, now you have a choice," I spat at him, standing up as my anger took over.

"Dara loving you was never a choice, I never planned to love you," he looked so confused, so lost but I couldn't give into him. He had broken my heart.

"Stop lying to me!" I place my hands to my ears, trying to stop his words from entering my brain, "Lance told me what you said! I don't even think I ever loved you, maybe its the baby making me think things. Please just go, I need to be alone right now."

I expected him to fight his corner some more, argue back but instead he stood up and walked away. He didn't even look back.

Niall's POV

Lance's office door was already ajar when I approached it and I simply entered without knocking. He looked up surprised to see me but soon he was doing his usual, overly confident smirk. I didn't react to him, I wouldn't let him win.

"I want to move to the other Mole base, or as far away from here as you can get me," I couldn't stay there knowing that I had ruined everything.

Call me a coward all you want- I believed I was doing the right thing.

Wow action packed chapter here- so much happened! So Lance ruined everything and now Niall is moving away. What will happen next?

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