Niall:

I held Kiersten's mitted hand as we walked from one shop to the next. I loved winter Kiersten. She was all cute and cuddly. (http://www.polyvore.com/untitled_101/set?id=81350977). We were getting all of our Christmas shopping done while I had a day off, and we actually had time to do it. "What do you think for your mum?" She asked as she pulled me into another store, that seemed just like all the other ones we had been in.

I shrugged, "I don't know." I mumbled, looking around the large room of the shop, "Babe!" I yelled pulling my hand away from her to run over to the baby section of the store. "We have to get this for Finn!"

Kiersten laughed, "Niall every other present we've bought has been for Finn. He's barely a year old, he's not going to remember all this. Besides there's like twenty other people we have to get a present for." I sighed putting it back and she wrapped her arms around me, "I know that you want to be the best uncle ever, and that you feel bad for not being able to get to be there all the time, but Finn loves you, and you are a great Uncle. Spending time with him while we're in Ireland will mean so much more than another toy that he probably will never play with."

"You're right." I sighed kissing her nose.

"I always am." She grinned making me laugh before we continued shopping.

It was the day before Kiersten was going to Paris and as soon as she was back we were going to Ireland for Christmas.

"Babe! I'm home!" I yelled but I didn't hear a reply. I walked towards the library but heard laughter coming from Kiersten's office. "Babe?" I asked opening the door.

"Shit! Niall!" Kiersten yelled quickly covering up what she was working on her desk.

"Hi, Niall!" A voice said from the large iMac sitting on her computer desk.

I looked and saw Leslie holding a now six month old Aideliz, "Hey guys!" I grinned before looking back to Kiersten and laughing. "What are you doing?"

"Ni, can you just close your eyes for a second?" Kiersten asked practically laying on top of her desk.

"Why? What are you hiding?"

"Your Christmas present, so please just shut your eyes, or bet yet leave for like one second? Please?" she asked giving me the puppy dog eyes.

"Okay, okay." I said stepping out of the room. I stood outside waiting to hear any clue of what my present was, but the door swung open before I could make any real guesses.

I pulled Kiersten onto my lap and we sat and talked to Leslie for a while before she said that she had to go put Aideliz down for a nap. "Bye love and miss you!" Kiersten said waving.

"You too!" Leslie said making Aideliz wave at us. We waved back and then the Skype call disconnected.

"I told you Aidelize was going to be a ginger." Kiersten laughed.

"She's cute though." I said shrugging.

Kiersten nodded, leaning down to give me a kiss. "How was your day?" She asked after she pulled away.

"It was fine. We met and talked about the Asia tour and stuff. It's going to be really cool. What did you do today? Are you all packed for tomorrow?"

"I actually had a really productive day. I got packed up, I figured out what I'm getting you for Christmas and started working on it, and I made some calls for BYOKB. When I'm in Chicago for the promo tour I'm opening up our sixth center."

"That's great babe! Where are the other five again?"

"Here, Sydney, New York, LA, and Dubai."

"That's so amazing, boo. So, what are you getting me for Christmas?" I asked giving her a cheeky grin.

"I'm not telling." She grinned patting my cheek. "Ni, you really need to shave." She said running her fingers along the hair that had grown on my face as a result of my laziness. She made a disgusted face and pulled her a hand away.

"You don't like it?" I asked pouting. I was actually enjoying having some facial hair for once in my life.

She shook her head, "No I don't. Some men can pull it off. You are not one of them."

"I like it." I pouted.

"Fine." She said standing up, "No kisses until it's gone."

"Babeeeee!" I whined.

"I'm serious, Niall!" She called leaving the room. I sighed but then smiled realizing that I was in Kiersten's office alone with my Christmas present, I just had to find it. I started going through her desk drawers, looking for it. When I didn't find anything there I looked around the room. "Nothing." I mumbled but then my eyes landed on the door to her photography room. I grinned evilly and got up off the floor and started walking towards the closed door.

I started opening it and then heard yelling. "Niall James Horan no snooping!"

I laughed and quickly opened the door but I was tackled to the ground. "Did-did you just tackle me?" I asked turning my head to look up at her.

"You were being naughty! I had to stop you!"

"Are you going to spank me?" I asked winking at her.

"No, you'd like it too much." She said laying her head down on my back. She had tackled me from behind so I was lying on my stomach with one half of my body in the photography room and the other half was still in her office.

I laughed knowing that she was probably right, "Can I get up now?"

"Are you going to look for your present?"

"No."

"Liar." She laughed standing up and moving between me and the rest of the photography room. "Are you okay? I didn't hurt you did I?" She asked nervously biting her lip.

I nodded pouting a little bit, "You did. It hurts really badly."

"Aww, I'm sorry Ni. Want me to kiss it better?" I nodded quickly thinking of a good idea, "Where does it hurt?"

"My lips." I pouted still lying on the floor. My lips didn't actually hurt. My chin and elbow did though, I was pretty sure that I had rug burn.

She laughed and helped me up off the floor before shutting the door and locking it. "There." She said giving me the smallest kiss. It was so small that I wasn't even sure that it happened.

She grinned at me and then walked out of her office.

"What the hell was that?" I yelled following after her.

"What was what?" She asked looking at me innocently.

"That kiss or lack thereof!"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm thinking Chinese or Japanese for dinner. You want to go to Wag's or take out? Or do you want something else?"

"I want my kiss." I said pulling her to me and giving her a passionate and long kiss. "Finally." I breathed making her laugh.

"So what do you want to eat?"

"Which one delivers?"

"This one." She slid a menu for a Chinese place towards me. We decided on our order and I called it in and they had it delivered right to the house.

We were sitting in the theatre room having an Iron Man marathon in our underwear. Kiersten was in a t-shirt and a pair of panties and I was in just a pair of white boxer briefs.

"Is this weird for you?" I asked looking at her.

"What?" She asked biting a piece of General Tso's chicken.

"Watching your second dad on a screen this big, and not for work, for your own entertainment?"

She laughed, "I've been texting him pictures of his face the whole time. He's been replying with selfies, some of them are actually pretty funny and might even get put on Twitter later. Depends on how mean I feel like being at the moment. Or I might keep them and use them for blackmail for future purposes, they could probably come in handy." She said showing me her texts that were all just pictures of Robert Downey Jr.'s face.

I laughed and pulled her closer into my side, kissing her forehead. "I'm driving you to Samie's in the morning right and we're picking people up and taking them to the airport?"

"Yeah, I have to be there at like five, so we can get to the airport and stuff."

I groaned, "Can't you just walk or something?"

"Can't you just use your hand?" She asked raising her eyebrows at me.

"Touché." I laughed giving her a kiss. "How have you been feeling?

She shrugged, "There's definitely moments when all I want to do is just cry and scream, but they're becoming less and less frequent. It still hurts though, you know?"

"Yeah, I know, it hurts me too." I said kissing her head. "But I love you and you love me and we'll be okay."

She nodded and cuddled closer to me, "Can I ask you a question, Ni?"

"Of course, what is it?"

"Why me? Why did you pick me, out of every girl in the world that you could have, which is all of them, by the way? But, why me?"

"Because, when I met you I just knew. I knew that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with you. It's kind of like writing a song. Everything is in place but the melody is off a little bit, so the song just doesn't sound right. You try different melodies and eventually you find the right one. You're the right melody for my life. And even if I could have any girl in the world, which is not true, I would still pick you, no matter what."

"Wow." She grinned, "You're the right melody for my life, too." She reached her head up to give me a kiss. "We should probably go to bed now."

"Okay, but uh, I don't really want to use my hand tonight..."

She laughed, "Alright, go take the garbage out and I'll meet you upstairs." She said getting up and giving me a kiss before leaving the room.

I quickly took out the trash and raced up to our bedroom. I grinned when I saw her sitting on the bed in a cute little night gown. "I love you." I whispered kissing her and lightly pushing her down onto the bed.

"I love you too." She whispered back before the kissed became more heated.

The next morning we got up before the sun and I drove Kiersten to Harry and Samie's flat. Samie, Harry, and a bunch of girls that I had never met came out. Three of them came with Kiersten and I and the other three went with Harry and Samie.

We got to the airport and I took all of the suitcases out of the back, before looking at Kiersten. "I'll see you in a few days." She said wrapping her arms around my neck as I wrapped mine around her waist hugging her tightly.

"Okay, have fun. Call and text me and stuff. Be safe, don't fall for any French or Italian guys. I love you."

"I will. Not a chance, besides I think that this thing on my finger scares them all away." She said moving her left hand so the light of the sunrise caught the diamonds. "Have fun in all of your interviews and whatever else they make you boys do. I love you too." She gave me a long kiss, "Bye, Ni-pie." She said before following the other girls into the airport.

I shivered at the cold December morning air and pulled my green coat tighter to my body before walking over to talk to Harry. "You want to go get some breakfast? We've got that interview at ten, so we can hang out until then?" He asked me.

"Sure, I'll follow you?"

Harry nodded and we got into our cars.

I slid into the booth across from Harry and picked up my menu. "How's the wedding planning going?" I asked scanning my options.

"I think it's good. I just nod and smile when she asks me my opinion. Obviously I want some input on the wedding, but I don't care which font we pick because they are exactly the same one is just slanted a tiny bit more, so small that you can hardly see it."

I laughed, "Kiersten knows that I'm really honest. If I didn't like it, or didn't care I told her. There were only a few times that she told me that it actually mattered and that I had to care. Other than that she just shrugged and said that if I didn't like it in the end I wasn't allowed to complain."

Harry just nodded, "That makes sense. Maybe I'll have to try that with Samie."

"Have you guys decided on a location?" I asked deciding on what I wanted to eat.

"We decided on the Tudor Barn at Eltham."

"That's a beautiful place." I said as the waitress walked over. I knew that Harry and Samie's wedding was going to be absolutely beautiful.

Harry and I had a really great breakfast and then we played video games in his flat for a while before we had to go to our interview.

It was the day that Kiersten was coming back and I had to go pick her up from the airport. Harry and I stood in opposite sections of the pick-up area so we wouldn't draw attention to ourselves. I stood with my hood up and with sunglasses on, hoping that no one would notice me.

I was scrolling through Twitter on my phone when a pair of feet came into my view underneath my phone. I looked up and grinned when I saw Kiersten. "Hey, beautiful." I said pulling her in for a hug. "You still need to get your luggage, yeah?"

She nodded, "Yeah, let's go over to the baggage claim." She said lacing her fingers with mine.

"Did Samie find a dress then?" I asked as we stood waiting for the baggage to come up.

"Yeah. It's gorgeous. She looks beautiful in it."

"Did you get one too?" I asked as the buzzer went off to let us know that the luggage was coming up.

"Samie has it narrowed down to two dresses for us. She's going to decide which one over Christmas. That's my suitcase." She pointed to it.

I stepped over and pulled it off the belt. "Ready?" I asked lacing our fingers together and wheeling her suitcase with my other hand as we walked out to my car.

"Are you packed?" Kiersten asked on our way home.

"My suitcase is open on the floor of my closet. There might be a shirt or two in there...but there probably isn't.

"Niall!" Kiersten laughed, "You were supposed to be packed!"

"I know, I know."

"How many days exactly are we going to be here?"

"Twelve. We fly in tomorrow and get back late on the first of January." I said punching in the code to let us through the gate.

"And I fly out on the fourth. My first stop is New York."

"And the boys and I leave for Japan on the seventh."

"When do you get back?"

"We're doing shows in London for a week at the end of February then the UK leg s tarts. The second week in April we start the Europe part in Paris."

Kiersten nodded, "I'm not done until the end of April beginning of May possibly. We're going all over the world this time. But you and I are going to be in Oslo the same couple of days. I was looking at your schedule the other day. You and the boys are coming to the premiere."

I tried to be happy that we would get to see each other those few days but I just couldn't. I sighed parking the car in the garage, "We're going to be apart for a really long time. I don't like it."

She smiled softly grabbing my hand, "I know, Niall. I feel the same way. But we'll be okay. I'll have days off and I'll come visit and you can do the same for me."

I nodded leaning across the center console to rest my head against her shoulder. "I don't want to be away from you for that long."

"I know, Ni." She said running her fingers through my hair, "But once this promo tour is over I'm done. I'm all yours. You don't have to share me until we have kids."

"I can't wait." I said picking my head up and kissing her shoulder.

"Let's go inside and pack." She said getting out of the car and holding my hand as we went inside our house for about eight hours, before we left once again.

The next day Kiersten and I got up early for our flight to Dublin with Frank and Nando. The cats were going to Zayn and Nora's while we were in Ireland since his family was going to London to be at his house for Christmas.

"It's good to be home." I said stretching my arms out as we made our way out to where we got our rental car. We hadn't announced going to Ireland so there weren't any fans waiting for us so leaving the airport was quick and smooth.

"Yep, I already can't understand you." Kiersten laughed as we approached the car.

"Ha. Ha." I said tossing all of the luggage into the trunk and gently putting Frank and Nando's carriers in the backseat, promising them that we would be there soon and they could get out.

I drove us to Mullingar and grinned when I saw the lads waiting outside of my dad's house for us. "Niall!" They yelled running over to the car and smashing me into a hug. I laughed, excited to be home with all my friends. I loved my bandmates and all of my friends in London but there was nothing like the group of friends you have had forever. I often wondered what my life would be like if I hadn't left Mullingar to do X-Factor. Would I be in all the YouTube videos doing the dumb challenges with them? Would I be like any other normal lad?

I was thinking that as I hugged all my friends but then I looked at the girl I loved with my whole heart, who was patiently waiting for her hugs from the lads, and I knew that I wouldn't trade the life I had for anything.

The lads all hugged Kiersten and the grabbed our luggage and carried it inside where my dad and Aiofe were waiting. "Hey, dad." I said giving him a hug before he moved on to Kiersten. He hugged her tight and I smiled at them, "Is Greg here?" I asked.

My dad shook his head, "No but someone else you'll want to see is. Wait right here." He said before turning around leaving the room.

I heard a squeal and then suddenly Finn ran into the room. He was a little wobbly but I couldn't stop the grin from spreading across my face. "He's walking now?!"I asked.

My dad nodded, "He's got a big vocabulary of no, mumma, dada, uh-oh, more, and this one." He said before pointing to me, "Who's that Finny?"

"Ni-Ni!" Finn cheered before giggling.