Auther's Note: Second chapter in two days woo im on a roll! this chapters pretty uneventful as well but there are better parts coming up i promise!! thanks for reading, it means a lot :) <3
Katie’s P.O.V.
“Tell us more!” Emma begs.
Emma, Leah and Emmie are lying in cots that the nurses brought in so they could stay the night with me. I’m sitting cross-legged in the hospital bed. They disconnected me from the heart monitor, I guess they aren’t worried about me dropping dead anymore, but I’m still hooked up to the IV. I haven’t been able to force myself to eat all day, the thought makes me sick, but the nurse has continued to bring me trays of hospital food throughout the day, and they’re currently all piled up on my bedside table, making my stomach churn every time I look at them.
“Well,” I say slowly, in answer to Emma’s pleading. “I mean that’s pretty much it. We just talked a lot, and he asked me out to dinner…”
“Yayy!!” Emma squeals.
“And at first I said no because I didn’t think it was necessary but he insisted and then…” I trail off. I don’t really want to tell them about the kiss. I mean of course they should know, they’re my best friends but I don’t want to get them all excited about something that probably doesn’t mean anything. Well, it meant a whole heck of a lot to me but Liam might not see it that way.
“And then what?” Leah asks.
“Well um… promise you guys wont freak out on me?” I ask. They all nod.
“And then… we kissed?” I say, bracing myself for their reaction.
“YOU KISSED?” Leah screams.
“Yes? I mean it wasn’t a big deal or anything…”
“KATIE WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT WASN’T A BIG DEAL? YOU KISSED FREAKING LIAM PAYNE.” Emmie says.
“Yeah but…” I try to make them calm down.
“YEAH BUT NOTHING HE’S IN LOVE WITH YOU.” Emma says happily.
“Guys! No! We only just met today. I guaranty he’s not ‘in love with me.’” They all share a look I can’t quite decipher.
“If you say so…” Emma says.
“I do say so.” I say determinedly. “There is no way Liam Payne is or ever will be in love with me. That kind of thing doesn’t happen to me.”
Emma takes out her phone. “I’m going to check twitter, I haven’t been on all day, I think I’m having twitter withdrawal.”
“Well anyway,” I say. “It looked like you guys were hitting it off today too.”
Leah and Emmie’s faces light up and they both start talking at once.
“Ohmygod Zayn is so funny and he tries to be so cool but he’s actually really sensitive and…” Leah gushes.
Emmie cuts her off. “And Harry is so weird but so lovable and he let me touch is hair and it’s so soft! And I wasn’t expecting it to be that soft because of all the products he has to use in it but it is!”
I laugh. “What about you Emma? How’s Niall?” Instead of answering me she looks up from her phone with a concerned expression on her face. “Um, Katie? You might want to check twitter.”
“What? Why? What’s wrong?” I ask, confused.
“Nothing’s wrong really, it’s just… well just look.”
I take out my phone and sign in and am immediately shocked. My timeline is full of tweets about… me. I read though a couple.
“Did you hear about that girl who saved Liam’s life today? I think her name is Katie…?”
“Mystery girl jumped in front of a speeding car to save Liam today.”
“These are all about me. How did people find out so fast?” I say.
I go to my mentions. I’ve gained 2300 followers in the past few hours and my mentions are overflowing with tweets. I read through a couple. Some are really nice:
“@iwish_foryou if the rumors are true I just want to thank you so much for saving Liam’s life. He means so much to me and the entire fandom.”
And some of them are not so nice:
“@iwish_foryou what. a. bitch. I bet she just did this for attention. I wish the car had actually killed her.”
I keep scrolling, reading hundreds of tweets from people who just yesterday, didn’t know I existed. Then one tweet catches my eye. It’s from Liam.
“Oh shit guys Liam tweeted me.” I say.
“Why is that an ‘oh shit’ moment? That’s great!!” Leah says.
“No but that means he’s seen my twitter page! This is so EMBARASSING my twitter account is like fangirl central!”
“After everything that’s happened today, getting hit by a car, almost dying, being all over the internet, getting hate from jealous fans… you’re worried because Liam has seen you’re fangirl account?!” Emmie asks.
“Yes! I’m mortified!” I say.
“Katie! Focus! What did Liam even tweet you.” In all my embarrassment I had forgotten to actually read the tweet.
“Well it’s in reply to something I tweeted him this morning…”
“Which was…?” Leah prompted.
“I said ‘@Real_Liam_Payne hey Liam guess what? We’re both in NYC right now, maybe I’ll finally get the chance to meet you *fingers crossed* who am I kidding, dreams don’t come true that easily.’ And he said…” I go silent as I read his response, wondering if his words have any truth to them.
“What did he say??” Emma asks impatiently.
“He said ‘@iwish_foryou I guess dreams really do come true that easily… :)’”
And for the first time in my life, I thought maybe he was right.
