Unwillingly Arranged(Liam Payne/One Direction Fanfic)

Chapter Sixteen(Liam's POV)

I was also lonely. To say the least.

You wouldn't think I would be lonely though. After all, I was surrounded by my four best friends and my 'girlfriend'. My family managed to come to, meeting me as soon as I stepped foot back into my old flat. 

Everything was a blur, with talks of keeping me safe from the Craft Kingdom taking me back, to talks of hiding me, to talks of what exactly happened while I was away. Everyone seems to think that they tortured me there, like you would see in movies. Louis even mentioned something about handcuffing me to a chair in a dungeon looking room with nothing but a candle light flicking from a torch on the celining.

Although everything that I had experienced there was far from that. 

My heart still ached anytime anyone even mentioned the littlest tid bit about the kingdom. Because in the kingdom was the castle. And in the castle was a room. And inside that room was a pretty girl with long blonde hair and sparkling green eyes, and that one crooked little tooth that I loved. 

But even if the slightest bit of that thought floated through my mind, I got way to close to breaking down in tears. And when someone asked what was wrong, there was absolutely no way I could tell them.

Danielle wasn't much help either. Of course, we shared the flat I lived in, and I couldn't bring myself to ask her to move out, as we weren't exactly dating anymore. Even though the fans seemed to think we were back together. She was constantly asking me questions about Sage that somehow always was comparing for the two.

How long Sage's hair was, what color, how soft it was, how tall was she, was she a good dancer, did she wear makeup. And it pissed me off that she was downgrading Sage. Because Sage didn't deserve that. Not at all.

I wasn't happy with Danielle anymore, mainly because of that one reason. She wasn't Sage. But none the less, she tried hard to make me continue to like her. Acting like she was my personal maid. Spending all the time she could with me. Making my favorite foods. It was nice, but I didn't expect that. Especially not if she was only doing it to get me to fall for her again. Because it wasn't working.

"Liam!" I was snapped out of my thoughts, my head swiveling sharply to the side to see Danielle running through the flat, holding my sleek black iPhone in her outstretched hand. "It's Louis." I could clearly see his icon flashing on the screen as I slipped the phone into my own hand. Danielle made a point to let her delicately long fingers rest on my skin a second longer, but I yanked my hand away, answering the call and pressing the phone up to my ear.

"Hey Lou," I said dully, walking away a few paces so that Danielle wasn't right on my back, staring me down while I talked. "What's up?"

I heard chattering in the background, and some loud shhing sounds, before Louis' voice floated through the line. "Oh, hey Liam! Er, the boys and I were wondering if you wanted to come over to my flat for a bit. Everyone else is over here, and I'm sure I could get El to distract Danielle for you. I mean, I know you guys want to catch up and all, her being your girlfriend.." He trailed off and I rolled my eyes, resiting the urge to snort. "Anyway, so are you in for it?"

I reached up and rubbed my hand back and forth over the short fuzzy pieces of my hair that was left from my recent haircut. Letting out a deep exhale, I said, "Yeah, I'll be over in a bit."

Hanging up the phone, I shoved it down inside my pocket, and brushed past Danielle who was still standing where she had been, glaring at me. Stalking into the kitchen, I grabbed my keys and my coat, pulling my arms through the arm holes and adjusting it on my shoulders.Tossing my keys in the air, I went to open the back door when Danielle's voice stopped me in my tracks.