It's Complicated - One Direction

Chapter 20 (Second Last Chapter)

Ariela’s POV

Soon enough we all headed off to bed, me going to Liam’s room and the boys to theirs. I got to his room and realized all of my things were already there.

“Looks like they expected me to stay in here anyway.” I said to Liam with a clap of my hands searching through my suitcase for pyjamas.

“Yeah, I was kinda being a hopeful person so I told the staff to put your things in my room.” Liam told me rubbing the back of his neck as a blush was creeping up on his cheeks.

“Cheeky one you are.” I exclaimed, finding my sleepwear and heading off to the loo attached to his room. Once I finished I proceeded to open the door and walk back into Liam’s room. I noticed he was already sleeping so I crawled into the other side of his double bed.

(A/N Hey yeah I know the rooms in the Xfactor house are not like this whatsoever but just bear with me here okay? I also realize that they wouldn't allow soomeone to stay with them at the XFactor house but remember, this is a fictional story :) Okay, happy reading)

It was slightly cold in his room so I moved a bit closer to Liam feeling the heat radiating off of him from about 4 inches away. Oh how I longed to cuddle into him, his bare back was facing me so I guess I could gawk all I wanted.

Wait, since when did I ever long for Liam? Oh that’s right, when he gave me the CD of HIM singing the songs HE wrote for ME! I just realized what I had done to him. He gave me the CD hoping for me to love him back, then I go off and get a fucking boyfriend. How could I do such a thing? I was pulled from my thoughts by the sound of Liam’s voice.

“I can feel you staring.” Shit. Shit. Shit. How was I going to explain this one?

“Uh…” I managed to get out, looks like I wasn’t. He then turned to face me and a shiver ran through my body. Partly form the current heating situation, and partly from his piercing brown eyes boring into mine. And maybe just a little from his rock hard abs that were just waiting for me to touch them.

“Are you cold?” he asked me noticing my sudden action. Leave it to Liam not to notice I was just totally checking him out.

“Y-yeah I am.” I told him suddenly getting a lot ‘colder’ if you know what I mean. You know, the old I’m-cold-so-give-me-your-jumper routine? No? Okay then let’s move on.

“Here.” He said moving the blankets up and scooting closer to me so my face was just centimetres from his. A sudden urge to kiss him ran through me but I stopped myself, not wanting to make things awkward.

“Better?” He asked wrapping his muscular arms around my thin waist. I nodded wincing a bit from the previous beating I had to my stomach. I snuggled into him placing my head in the crook of his neck, and suddenly he started laughing.

“What?” I asked leaning out of his embrace to look him in the eyes.

“Nothing, I’m just ticklish is all.” He told me pulling me back into him. I loved the feeling of him being this close to me. It just calmed me down and I don’t know why. But as for my new found fact on Liam, let’s just say the next few weeks are going to pretty interesting. Insert evil scientist laugh here.

About half an hour later I concluded that Liam had drifted off to sleep. My plan is now in action. I gently pulled myself from his grasp, which was very difficult as he wasn’t very content on letting me go.

As I was saying, I rolled him onto his back and sat on his waist one leg on either side of him. I then proceeded to poke and prod my fingers into his stomach getting a huge reaction out of it. He squirmed around trying to get out my grip while laughing uncontrollably.