imagine being ruben and everybody hates you right? everybody thinks you're a good for nothing piece of shit who should have stayed in jail and all you do is get into trouble and make your mum's life worse and make everyone's life worse because you're nothing nothing nothing
and then you meet niall (again). and you can help him. and he looks at you with his big brown eyes like you're his hero. he worships you. he begs you to come to his college and you do and he's grinning like an idiot and looking at you like you're a god and throwing glances at his new fancy college friends as if to say: "do you see? do you see? that's my brother. he's handsome and cool and he doesn't give a fuck and you love him and you want him but he's mine and he's everything everything everything" and you'll never ever be a small scared dumb kid again as long as niall is there to make you feel like a man
