For Now and Always (Liam Payne)

Chapter 28

Eva refused to get out of bed the next day. Dylan called in reinforcements. Emma brought ice cream. Marian bought vodka. Dylan brought her 1D poster and matches. All three girls descended on Eva. "Let's go. This is an intervention. You can't let him ruin you." Marian said.

"Get up. We are going to burn this. You are going to light the match." Dylan said.

"Go away" Eva said from under her covers. Emma grabbed them and pulled them off. Eva looked awful. Sometime in the night she had gone back to her laundry basket and was now wearing Liam's hoodie and a pair of his boxers. She was still holding onto the t-shirt.

"Okay, this is bad. I really hope those are clean boxers." Dylan said. "Grab her girls."

Marian and Emma each took one arm and lifted her up. They dragged her to the bathroom, crumpled up the poster and made her light it on fire. The girls watched it until it was nothing but ash. "You will be okay, Eva. I swear." Emma said. "Come on, phase two."

The four of them ate 4 pints of ice cream and drank two bottles of vodka. They were high on sugar and so drunk they could barely stand. "MEN!" Dylan yelled. "Who needs them!"

"We don't!" yelled the other three.

"That's right. We don't need men! We can fix our own stuff! We can burp and fart! We can change the channels so fast on the TV that there is no way to know what is even on!" Dylan yelled.

"You guys are the best friends I ever had!" Eva cried. "You guys are the only friends I ever had! I'm going to miss you so much!"

"Miss us? Why? Where are you going?" Marian wanted to know.

"Home. As soon as the semester is over. I don't have enough money for the summer. I don't even have enough money to pay my tuition next year. I've been using it little by little to live on. I couldn't ask Liam for money for everything." Eva started to laugh uncontrollably. "I let him ruin my entire plan! I let him change who I was! I KNEW better than to think someone could love me. What happened to me?" She couldn't stop laughing. "I actually believed that he loved me! I am so stupid!" Eva laid on the floor of the lounge, laughing.

"Why are you laughing? Stop!" Dylan screamed. "This isn't funny!"

"Oh, but it is!" Eva said. "I am right back where I started. Broke! Alone! And it's all my own FAULT!"

They had no idea what to say. They sat there, in stunned silence, watching her laugh.

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Eva went to class the next day. She figured she has to get her money's worth. He wasn't going to take everything away. Her parents would never let her come back if she failed a class. Her mother didn't except failure. It wasn't an option in her house. If she did decide to come back in the fall, she needed to pass these classes. Even if she decided to stay home, a semester of failed classes wouldn't get her in to another college.

He may have devastated her heart and confirmed what she had always believed, that she was unlovable and would die alone, but she needed to finish her classes and graduate college if she was ever going to support her 50 cats. She was already mentally naming them in her daydreams.

Desperately, she wanted to forget him. It seemed that every time she felt as if she was healing, something happened to remind her. Also, it didn't help that she was still wearing Liam's underwear under her jeans and his hoodie. She couldn't seem to take them off. She willed herself to be stronger, to get back to the independent girl she had been, before Liam. She couldn't break the cycle.

Every moment of her free time, she was on her laptop, trolling twitter, facebook and tumblr. Liam even signed up for an Instagram, so she did, too. He posted pictures of himself drinking whiskey and hanging out in bars. Every day there were new pictures of him laying by the pool at his hotel, some random beautiful girl by his side. Fan girls everywhere rejoiced that Liam was single and on the prowl. The rumors where that he took a different girl home every night. He had moved on, she needed to as well.

Her only way to contact Niall was through twitter. She refused to reactivate her old phone. Getting messages to him was difficult, but she managed to talk to him a few times.

NiallOfficial: You okay?

EvaStuart: No. Yes. Why?

NiallOfficial: He's a mess

EvaStuart: He sure looks like it, beautiful woman all around him. I bet he's fucking miserable.

NiallOfficial: That's just for show. He's messed up.

EvaStuart: Not funny. Don't do this to me. I'm trying to forget, okay. I shouldn't even talk to you.

NiallOfficial: I'm sorry. I won't talk about him.

NiallOfficial: Don't stop talking to me because of him. You are my best friend.

NiallOfficial: Are you there?

NiallOfficial: Eva? I'm sorry.

Niall looked over the where Liam was. He was sitting on a couch across the suite, girl in his lap, hand up her skirt. They had been like that for about an hour. Ever since he brought her back from that night club they hit after the show. Niall lost track of how many girls he brought home. They all looked the same. Small, long brown hair. Their hair was always curly. He'd be beyond drunk, kissing them in front of anyone and everyone. And he called every single one of them Evie. Niall didn't think he even know their real names. Disgusted, he walked away, muttering "Asshole" under his breath.

"What?" Liam said. "What did you say? Can't say it to my face?"

"I said ASSHOLE, you Asshole." Niall yelled.

"Know what your problem is Niall? She doesn't want you, does she?" Liam laughed. "She doesn't fucking want you and you..."

Niall punched him and made blood pour out of his nose. Liam felt his nose, then brought his hand down to look at the blood. Enraged, he threw himself at Niall, swinging. Niall's nose was bleeding, his lips was cut and Liam was going for his eye before a bodyguard pulled him off. "Let me go! I'm gonna fucking kill him. She's MINE. God dammit, She's MINE." He fell to the ground, sobbing. Niall looked at him, spit out some blood on the floor and walked away.