"What do you mean?" I want to know exactly from Ethan as my heart skips a beat. What did Aaron tell him? I ask myself. What if he twisted it around and made it seem like I'm the bad one. I mean, in away I am. I broke his heart a couple of years ago and he didn't get over it. I stayed friends with him and was oblivious to his feelings. I was kinda harsh on him, admittedly, but that wouldn't have happened if he did things differently as well. He hurt me and I hurt him back. In my thoughts I am just repeating myself he hurt me, I hurt him over and over again. It's a bad excuse and I should be more grown up and not think like that, but I do. Again, we would have never ever worked as a couple.

"Hannah called me. She was a complete mess and told me that I should to tell you that it's over between her and Aaron because of something that happened between you and Aaron." Ethan explains and makes a pause, expecting me to say something but I've got nothing to say. On one side I feel so bad for Hannah. She clearly loved him and it's sad that they broke up. But on the other side, it's probably the best for her. She can find someone who's better. She's pretty, smart, nice to hang around with and a really really nice girl. She deserves someone better than Aaron.

"Olivia?" Ethan tears me out of my thoughts. I shake my head and pay attention to my brother again. He looks at me worried, confused and completely clueless. Ethan doesn't know what's going on. I didn't tell him and he was busy with Jazzy anyways. But now he looks at me expecting a good answer to his question, but I can't give him one.

I shrug.

"What happened, Olivia, that I don't know of?" He asks and takes a step towards me. I automatically take a step back and breathe in deeply.

"Nothing important happened, really." I mumble and could, but actually won't, hit myself for not coming up with a better answer.

"It must have been important to Aaron though." Ethan says and sits down on his bed.

"It was..." I say and sit down across from him. "Ethan..., what I'm going to tell you now is going to change everything between you and Aaron." I make a pause for him to realize that it's actually more serious than he may thinks.

"Just tell me." He rushes me. I wish I wouldn't have to tell him, but I have to. I must tell him.

"Well..." I start telling him everything that happened between me and Aaron ever since we first came to Ireland a week ago. All the things he did, that made Niall jealous. All the things he said, that just confused me, and everything else. I watch Ethan's face go through every emotion. Amused, confused, worried, understanding and more. Lastly anger when I tell him that I ran away.

"You ran away?!" He yells out and I just nod before I continue. At the end, compassion is all that's left in Ethan's eyes.

"Why didn't you call me?" Ethan asks when I'm done.

I shrug. "I don't know. I just automatically called Niall and besides that, I wanted you to stay with Jazzy." I smile at him and he smiles hearing her name.

"Ignoring him will be hard. He lives few houses away and he's friends with your friends and even when you just take out the trash you could still see him. And we won't leave for another week. " Ethan points out the obvious and I just nod.

"I know."

"I have to kill him." He says and I just roll my eyes at him.

"Niall wants to do the same, but it's not worth it." I tell him. "Trust me, I'm fine and I can ignore him even when he starts to talk me. I'll just walk away, I guess." I smile at my brother before I stand up and we leave the room. Sam is gone, probably went downstairs to the others. Ethan and I go downstairs quietly, get food from the kitchen and sit down on the couch without exchanging a word, not even a glance.

"There you are!" Sam exclaims when we come into the living room. He sees our faces and he sees that something isn't all right. "What's wrong?" He asks as I sit down next to him.

"Nothing important really." I answer and start to eat. When I eat, I don't have to answer questions. Ethan is as quiet as I am even though we're both usually the ones that talk the most, including Sam.

Now we're silent and Sam has to find someone else to talk to. He bites his lip and I watch him looking from his sibling to sibling and from cousin to cousin. Anna or Taylor, one of them has to be his chatting partner for today or one of the twins, either Paige or Penny. I'm not in the mood which I wasn't at all ever since I woke up this morning and judging by Ethan's look on the his face when I look at him, he's planning something.

Home Alone is on and we all watch as we eat. Sam has decided to not talk to anyone at all and just stares at the TV. Everyone is quiet, even when we are all done with eating, no one talks.

Usually it's Sam and I who lead the conversation but not today. Silent is in the room which is very unusual for us. The door opens and all our mothers look in but neither of us moves and we just keep looking at the TV. "Why is it so quiet in here?" Mum asks.

We all shrug at the same time and normally it would make at least me and Sam laugh, but today we don't even flinch. Mum and aunt Karen and aunt Helena probably think it's a prank and leave again.

Only when a phone rings, we start to look around to look for the source. Penny and Paige shake their heads, it not either of their phones. Taylor shrugs and Anna shakes her head, it's neither of them either. Sam holds up his hands, signing that it isn't his and then there's only me and Ethan left. We both look at each other and spontaneously decide that it's a race. I jump up and run off, closely followed by Ethan. When we reach the upper floor, Ethan pushes me to the side, against the wall and runs laughing pass me. "Fucker!" I yell and run into my room to get my phone. Niall is calling. I pick up and look into the hallway. Ethan is smirking at me, with his phone on his ear. As Niall talks, Ethan and I burst out laughing. We point at each other and laugh out loud.

After taking three deep breaths, I finally go into my room and pay attention to Niall.

"Are you done?" He asks, sounding a bit pissed off. I laughed a long time.

"I'm so sorry, love. It's just that Ethan and I had a race upstairs because we thought that one of us is getting called and then it turned out that it was both of us, which is completely unfunny but I don't know, I couldn't stop laughing and Ethan couldn't stop laughing and long story, short: I'm sorry." I talk so quickly, I don't even know if Niall understand everything that I say.

"I'm glad that you're having fun." He says and I imagine him smiling. If he only knew..., I think and sit down on my bed.

"How are you, love?" I want to know and smile.

"Good,a bit bored though." He exhales and than it's quiet for a bit. I listen to his breath and he listens to mine. "Are you alone?"Niall breaks the silent.

"I'm alone in my room, Nialler. The others are in the living room. Except for Ethan he's in his room... maybe." I explain. "We're just watching some christmas movies that everyone already knows by heart but, you know, it would't be christmas without an old christmas movie marathon."

"Ohh okay, I don't want to bother you then, gorgeous." Niall says and my heart warms up when he calls me gorgeous. That's what it always does, every time Niall calls me gorgeous or love of even just my name, my heart warms up automatically. I call it the Niall effect.

"You don't bother me." I tell him and get up from my bed. "We're just watching Home Alone right now and I swear, I can speak the lines with the actors. I don't have to watch it yet again." I giggle, which makes him laugh quietly.

"I miss you."

"I miss you too, Neilson." I hold my laugh, knowing that I just destroyed what could have been a cute relationship-goals moment.

"Neilson? Really?" He chuckles and I imagine him rolling his eyes dramatically.

"Yeah, really." I laugh and walk out of my room. I walk pass Ethan's room and see him laying on his bed, talking to his phone. It's probably Jazzy and I wink at him before closing the door. Niall talks about how full he is from christmas lunch as I go downstairs, back to the living room, where my cousins are. When I open the door and walk in, they all turn around and look at me as I sit down on the armchair.

"What did you say?" I ask Niall, once I sit, because I didn't hear the last bit.

"I asked: and you?" He says, making me giggle as I lean back.

"I'm full but dessert could probably fit in as well." I smile. While the others have turned around, to watch Home Alone again, Penny and Paige have their eyes on me and listen carefully. Both are 13, the usual age where girls first start to be interested in boys. Their eyes are widen and smiles are on their lips.

"My cousins, Penny and Paige are starring at me." I tell Niall and the girls blush instantly.

"Since you caught us," Penny starts and walks over to me. "Might as well..." Paige continues but doesn't finish the sentence as Penny takes a seat on the arm rest and moves closer to me. Paige comes over as well, sitting down on the other side.

"Are they twins?" Niall wants to know.

"Yes we are!" Penny and Paige exclaim at the same time.

"Am I on speaker?" Niall carefully asks and his voice sounds bit taken back.

"Nop!" The girls answer for me.

"You're not. It's just that they sit very close next to me, like right next to me now." I explain to Niall.

"Do they know?" He then asks and the girls give me a curious look. Their eyes get even bigger and their smiles turn into excited smirks.

"No and I'm not going to tell them." I say and their smirks fade away. "At least not today."

They smile again and before they can ask any questions that might reveal that Niall Horan one fifth of One Direction is my boyfriend, I decide to end the call and call Niall later.

"I'll call you later, love." I say to him.

"Okay, I love you gorgeous." He says and I imagine him smiling like I always do.

"I love you too." I smile and hang up. I quickly press on lock, so that they can't see my background picture which is a picture of me and Niall. Ally took it, when Niall and I had our first official date and were dressed very nicely and formal. I love the picture and it's my favourite.

"What's his name?" Paige tears me out of my thoughts.

"Starts with N, guess." I say and get up. They start to guess, as I stand up.

"Nick?" Paige asks.

"Nathan?"Penny asks.

"Niall?" Paige asks louder.

"Is it Niall?" Penny raises her voice as I leave the room and go into the kitchen to get something to drink.

My aunts, mum and Mr. McAllister sit around the table and have a conversation about cake as I get a coke bottle out of the fridge and some glasses for the others.

"Olivia!" Mum calls me back just when I'm about to leave the kitchen again.

"I don't want to interrupt your discussion about cake. I'm already leaving." I say and take a step out of the kitchen.

"That's why I called you back." Mum says and I take a deep breath as I turn around and make my way over to them, a bit unwillingly, but I can't not go back. That would be rude.

"Yes?" I ask and put the things down, knowing that this will take a while.