morethanthis

”I’m here.” I responded and put my Raybans down in my left pocket. I took the hand she was using to caress my cheek.

”I can’t believe this. I actually can’t. All the way from England?”

I took a step closer to her. She was pretty short, which was to my advantage thanks to my genes who stopped my from getting taller as early as the age of 14, where I had only gotten to 5,7 feet, making me the shortest out of all other guys in my grade. But Victoria was about two inches closer to the ground than I was, which made me be able to turn my head a bit down to met here eyes without looking stupid. I had thrown my guitar on my back so it wouldn’t be in the way.

"All the way from my messy lonely room in London." I smiled and squeezed her hand gently.

Victoria didn't say a single word for several seconds. I started to get worried. I waved in front of her eyes to wake her up from the trance she seemed to be stuck in.

"Oh." She snapped out and shoke her head. "Sorry." She chuckled nervously.

"It's just. Oh my god I think I have to sit down." Victoria put her free hand on her forehead and quickly I lead her to a wooden bar a few feet behind us. Victoria took a seat, crossed her legs and dragged me down next to her. I landed with a thud as I was unprepared for the pull.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, stroking a streak of hair behind her ear. Either the ground was very interesting, or she was to shy to look me in the eyes while asking.

"I'm here to tell you something I've been carrying with me as a heavy load ever since I was here the last time."

Now she turned her head up and her eyes got very big. She looked like a complete question mark.

"I'm here to do this." I said and got up from the wooden bar. The guitar I had have thrown over my back would no longer get to hang there by itself. It was time for action.

"What are you-" Victoria went silent when I put my hand up as a stop sign.

"Just let me do this without questions, please?"

She nodded.

At this point my heart was jumping up and down and running around like a little kid on the playground on the inside of my chest. Dammit Niall. It's just a song, you've done this thousand times before. It’s not like it’s a first.

Well, that's not true. I've never sung a song to a girl about all the things I think of when she pops into my mind. I've never flown over an entire ocean to tell someone I loved them. I’ve never done something this impulsive in my entire life. And I've never felt this way about a girl before.

I started playing carefully on the guitar strings, getting into the rhythm. The more secure I felt, the louder I played. Eventually after almsot half a minute of only intrumental had passed, I began to sing.

I should I should oh I should’ve kissed you.

I should I should oh I should’ve kissed you.

I didn’t dare to look up and see Victoria’s face until the second chorus. She was smiling. Not like a wide smile, but a wryrly very cute one. I almost burst out in laughter because I was so relieved she didn’t have a weird ’you’re-an-idiot’ expression on her face but I managed to keep it in and just let out a little giggle, to not interrupt my singing. When I dragged out on the last word of the song in a long, fading note I noticed her eyes were shiny. She quickly wiped them before she got up on her feet, stepped towards me and rose her head. Before she wrapped her arms around my neck in a quick motion pulling me closer and kissed me.