Didnt see it coming || Liam O'donovan

Chapter twenty

•Riley's POV
Days go by and it's now our last day in Milan. We spent the day exploring the city,went to a festival,it was awesome. It's now about 7pm and we're all in the hotel lobby chilling when Saph comes and says
"There's a movie playing in the cinema across the street in five minutes we should go see it seeing as it's our last night here"
We all agree and go grab our stuff and head over across the road to the cinema. We're getting our snacks while waiting for Mike to get our tickets and then we finally enter the room and take our seats. I sit next to Nina and Saph and the movie starts.

An hour and a half later and it's over. Wasn't exactly my cup of tea but hey it wasn't too bad. We're heading back to the hotel now and it's 8:30 which is Nina's bed time so I help her brush her teeth and get into her pyjamas before reading her a story and she finally falls asleep. I kiss her goodnight and head over to my own bed. I'm not sleepy at all I'm just not in the mood to go back down to the lobby so I'm just gonna read a book. I'm reading when two lines grab my attention ;

"The more you hide your feelings the more they show,the more you deny your feelings the more they grow."
"Sometimes we try so hard to hide everything we're feeling from someone who probably needs to know our true feelings the most."

I put the book back down on its shelf and get thinking. Why did Liam decide to kiss me? Did he only do it as a way of saying "I care about you" or did he only do it cause the moment felt right or did it actually mean something to him? I need to know but I can't bear to ask him. What if it didn't mean anything and things get awkward between us and our friendship gets ruined? I'd rather die than let things between us get ruined cause he's the only person other than Lydia that I know I can fully count on,and I know fully cares about me. A knock on the door startles me and pulls me from my thoughts I get up and open it and it's Saph
"Can I borrow your charger"
"Sure" I say grimly as I go and try and find it. I give it to her and she says
"Cheers. What's up with you?"
"What do you mean" I raise my eyebrows.
"You seem all off and distant. Something on your mind?"
I say nothing as I think damn have I been that obvious?
"....or someone?"
My eyes snap up and I deny it quickly. A bit too quickly.
"Who do you think you're fooling? Right come on spill you're gonna be a mopey bat while you keep it all in" and she comes and sits down on my bed. I hesitate but then I realize I'm gonna burst if I don't let it off my chest so I sit down and tell her everything.
"OH M-"
"Shut up you'll wake Nina up" I hiss at her
"Ok I'm sorry but LIAM?! I would have never thought he'd be with someone even in a million years"
"I know" I grimace
"Oh girl you've definitely created a major event in history. And if you take my advice i say don't tell him anything until he says something first. Because boys are like one of those annoying 1000 piece puzzles and most of the time you won't know what they're thinking until they open up first."
I put some thought into her words and say "yeah you're right thanks saph."
She gets up and leaves and I here her exclaiming to herself
"Liam actually kissing someone!"
Oh boy. Our flight leaves at 11 tomorrow so I go to bed and try and fall asleep.

What feels like seconds later but was actually hours later,I feel Tracy shaking me awake cause our flight leaves in an hour and a half. I yawn as I get up and give Nina a shower before taking one myself and put on some black sweatpants and a black jumper. I can't be bothered to dry my hair so I just leave it wet and we go downstairs and see everyone there having breakfast. I sit down next to Frank and pour some cereal for me and Nina and we tuck in.
"What time are we gonna get back home" Carmen asks
"A flight from Milan to Newcastle is exactly 4 hours and 25 minutes and we leave at 11 which means we'll arrive at 3:25pm according to Milan time,and 2:35pm Newcastle time" Gus answers sounding like he's swallowed a computer and a textbook as usual.
I yawn and Mike asks
"When did you go to sleep last night"
I shrug and try very hard not to go red as I feel Liam's eyes on me.
We finish breakfast and arrive at the airport. We board the plane and guess who my seat is next too. Great. It's not that I don't like being with him don't get me wrong I'd choose hanging out with him over hanging out with anyone else it's just that sitting next to him without getting up for nearly 4 and a half hours and not going crazy seems kinda impossible. I've got the window seat (heck yeah) and he sits down beside me and gets his earphones and MP3 player out and puts one of the earbuds in his own ear and the other in mine. Keep it together Riley I scream mentally at myself as I feel the butterflies in my stomach go wild as I feel him lean over my body to put the earbud in my ear. Dang his playlist is sick. I feel myself drowsing off as a slower song comes on and I fall asleep.