Louis sighed as he stood behind Harry and fixed up his collar, patting his shoulder gently.
“Thanks...” The curly haired boy's voice was barely a whisper as he turned around to face Louis, his eyes glistening.
“All right boys you ready to go on?” Liam asked, his voice soft, breaking the small silence.
“So this is really it?” Niall asked, tears threatening to make their way down his face.
“This is it…” Liam repeated, pulling him in to a hug, the other boys soon joining in, all hugging each other as a group, like they had done so many times before, only this time was different.
“Make this count boys,” Zayn's voice was hushed as they all pulled away from each other, heading slowly towards the back of the stage and standing behind the wall, out of view of the croud.
Each one of the boys looked at each other, all sharing the same expression.
"Let's do this..." a grin snuck its way on to Niall's face.
They walked out in unison onto the brightly lit stage and instantly, the crowd of adoring fans cheered.
Waiting for them to settle, Liam took in a deep breath, “Before we play our last song, I’d like to say to you all that we have loved every minute of this, every single second of being a part of this, all of this,” He gazed around the crowd, a sad smile on his face.
“We love you all so much, thank you, thank you all for making this a journey we will never, ever forget,” Zayn stepped forward so he was standing next to Liam, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Definitely a story to tell the grand kids..." Niall smiled softly as he stepped up next to Harry.
The crowd fell silent as Louis stepped forward, putting an arm around Harry’s shoulder, “You have all helped us become what we are today, and I believe I speak for all the boys when I say that you have all helped us make our greatest dreams come true.”
Harry nodded, smiling at his best friend, “Thank you everyone, for filling us with memories we will never forget, you will always mean something to us...” His voice faded, and the stage went black, the projector behind them showed key moments in their careers, the x-factor auditions, the brit awards, getting, their first album to the top of the charts, playing at the olympics... each perfect, wonderful moment showing up in time on the screen, the only sounds from the crowd was the occasional sniff.
As the screen dimmed down, a bright light singley shone on each of the boys, and all was still.
“Let’s dance in style, let’s dance for a while…” Liam began, his eyes scanning the teary eyed crowd, "Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?"
Harry began, his voice cracking as he sung hardly any louder than a whisper, Louis wrapped his arm around his shoulders, giving him a squeeze as a small sob emerged his own body.
"Forever young, I wanna be forever young..." As the chorus begun, each of the boys took the oppertunity to walk over and hug another, knowing this would be the last chance any of them would ever get to be here, doing this.
"Do you really wanna live forever, forever, forever young..."
For the first time in One Direction history, no one screamed, no one cheered, no one threw posters in to the air. Everything was silent
The five boys looked in to the crowd of their adoring fans for the last time, kissing their finger-tips and held them out to the audience, smiling through their tears.
“My name is Liam Payne.”
“I’m Harry Styles.”
“Zayn Malik.”
“Louis the tommo Tomlinson.” Louis smiled, wanting to make one last joke.
“And I’m Niall Horan.”
The boys all looked at each other, “And we were One Direction.”
