Affection | N.H

Chapter 36

"I think I am old enough to choose people in my life." I cross my arms.

Niall sighs. "I wish you knew how much innocent you are."

"So you are saying I am weak?" I defend myself. I know myself better than anyone. I know I am weak but when other people think I am weak, I feel like a loser.

"What the actual fuck? You seriously need to get out of your periods. You are fucking getting on my nerves!" Niall yells at me as I jump back in shock. I guess even after trying so much, I am indeed weak. He doesn't have the right to take every matter towards periods.

"Take me to Target please. Then I can catch a taxy home." I tell him without making any eye contact.

I hear him curse under his breath but he takes me to Target as I asked him to. He drops me off and drives away. I hate when we have fights. Our fights don't have good reasons either. Why can't he be caring all the time like he was last night?

The streets are quite empty and the winds of late April blow by. I am wearing the same maroon dress from yesterday along with some tights. I tighten my arms around myself and walk into the mall.

I was so excited about shopping today. I thought I was going to shop clothes of Niall's choice and buy him something too. I thought we would have lunch together and have a good laugh. Now, all I can think of is Niall. He doesn't own me. I don't know why he goes off at me for no reason. I don't know why everyone makes me their punching bag. And how dare he talk crap about Louis? Louis is the purest soul I have met in Melbourne. I trust him the most after Niall.

I look through all the rows of clothes. I wish Eleanor was here to assist me.

"Need some help?" I hear a familiar voice and look up to see Kisten smiling widely at me.

"Kisten!" I exclaim and wrap my arms around her. It has been so long since I got a hug from a friend.

"Hey hey." She says into my shoulder before we pull back.

"What are you doing here?" I ask her.

"I came here for work shopping. I got a job at Payne Productions and I desperately needed some clothes that are formal and stuff you know." She shrugs.

"Payne Productions? Dude, I joined there yesterday! I am working as Liam's assistant!" I smile.

Kisten's eyes widen and her mouth shapes in a "O" shape. "Oh my god! That means we will be working togther! DO you have your shifts 3 times a week too?"

"Yes mate." I smile again.

"That is so cool! Let me guess, you are here to shop for work as well then." Kisten laughs and I nod.

"What are you waiting for? Lets rape this shopping mall." Kisten hooks her arms around mine and drags me towards the work section. "So, here are a shit lot of things we can choose from." Kisten says and pulls a thinking face. She walks down the aisles and starts looking through the clothes. "Tarisha, I got a perfect dress for you, look!" She brings me a very pretty blue dress. The hem of the dress will rest way above my knee and of course it is sleeveless.

"I reckon it will look better on you." I say holding it up before her.

Kisten laughs. "You will look good in this trust me." She winks. I wish she knew why I avoid short clothing.

I quickly grab some black pants off the shelf. "I prefer pants during work you know?" I smile.

Kisten frowns. "Alright, alright."

Kisten ended up with more than eight shopping bags. Her excitement goes up to the next level during shopping. She got mini pencil skirts, short dresses, sleeveless blouses and high heels. I got a couple of pants, some shirts and short blazers. Kisten shoved a couple of dresses and skirt into my trolley.