In this Moment

Chapter Nine

****Niall's POV*****

"Are you sure she is ok?" I asked Liam for the tenth time. He got back from taking Rachel to her car not five minutes, and I was worried about her. She left without talking to me, I was really looking forward to seeing her beautiful brown eyes and her wonderful smile.

"Yes she is fine." Liam replied annoyed. He was the only one in the room with me. The others were waiting outside while the new nurse went to go get my discharge papers.

"Maybe I'll get send her one more text." I said while texting Rachel 'Are you ok?' for the seventh time already. She wasn't answering any of my texts, and I was getting really worried.

What if she just wanted some space? But from what? From me? Why? What if she doesn't like me? What if she doesn't like me the way I like her?....

"NIALL!" Liam screamed.

"Yeah?"

"I've been saying your name for the past five minutes." he said trying to figure out something.

"Oh sorry." I said looking back down at my phone to see if she had answered. Nothing.

"Niall, what's on your mind?" Liam asked.

"Nothing." I lied, trying not to let my emotions show.

"Your both so stubborn." Liam tried to say under his breath but failed.

"Who?" I asked

"Never mind. Tell me Niall what's up? I'm your best mate you can tell me anything." Liam pleaded.

"Well....its Rachel." I started to say while looking at him. I looked down at my lap and continued. "She is so beautiful, and I love talking to her, she really funny and smart and really down to earth. And she's just prefect. Did you know the night I  first met her I was afraid to talk to her because she was so beautiful. And when she sang on the stage, I knew she was perfect. I was going to invite her to Ed's album party on Monday but I don't know what to do now." When I had finished rambling, I looked up and saw that Liam was sporting a huge grin.

"You can't tell anyone about this." I added.

"Niall-" Liam started to say but was interrupted when the nurse came in with the discharge papers.

We walked out into the waiting room and all the boy were sitting there waiting.

Louis walked up to us with a tired but cheerful expression, "Ready to go?" he asked dangling the car keys from his hand.

"YES!!" Harry screamed and ran to the car.

"Yeah!" I screamed while running to the car.

Once we were home I went straight to my room and as soon as my head hit the pillow I was out.

******Rachel's POV******

I woke up around noon, to find that I had 23 new messages. I suddenly thought of something I had to do. I grabbed my phone and went to Liam's contact to send him a message.

To: Leeyum!!!

'Hey don't tell anyone, especially Niall, about our little spat that we had yesterday. Alright?'

'Alright calm down.'

'Thank you!'

'Sure :)'

I walked down the stairs and into the kitchen, to see a fully dressed and made-up Cher. I gave her a confused look and then glanced near the door, three or four suitcases and her favorite purse. I knew it.

"Cher!!! You said you weren't leaving for another week!" I whined.

"Yeah. I did say that, didn't I. The producers wanted me to start rehearsals earlier for the tour." She responded while grabbing her water and walking towards the door. "I wanted to wait until you were awake until I left." she gave me a pity look as she opened the door for the valet to grab her suitcases.

"How long?" I asked, giving her a hug.

"Three to four months." she tried to whisper.

"CHER!"

"RACHEL!"

"You can't leave me alone for four months!"

"Well you won't be completely alone. The guys are like two streets over." She tried to compromise, while walking to the limo.

"That's totally different and you know it." I argued. By this time we were standing in front of the car and we were nearly in tears.

"I'll text you everyday." She said while pulling me into a big hug.

"You better." I replied and pulled out of the hug.

She got in the car and closed the door, and drove away. I went back inside the house, and sat on the couch and cried not hard, just a few tears here and there. Up until five I sat infront of the tv watching the Duck Dynasty marathon, when I got a call from Liam.

"Hello?" I asked through the phone.

"Rachel?" a strained voice answered.

"Yeah"

"Can you come over?" he sounded like he had been crying.

"Of course. Be there in ten."

"Oh and can you bring some junk food, Niall ate all of ours."

"Sure Liam. Bye."

"Bye."

Why had he been crying?

I raced upstairs and put on yoga pants, and my favorite volleyball hoodie. I slipped on my Toms, and grabbed my keys and phone I had thrown on the bed. I hopped in my truck and drove to the nearest convince store and bought all kinds of junk food. Ranging from ice cream to gummy bears to chips.

I sped over to the guys place, with bags of food in my hand I knock on the door. I was greeted by a well dress Zayn.

"He's on the couch." Zayn said point to were the couch.

I walked into what seemed to be the living room and found Liam watching tv but mostly, starring at the floor.

"Hey Liam." I said trying to cheer him up.

He turned to me to see were the voice was coming from. He had the saddest look I had ever seen. His eyes were bloodshot hair in a frenzy, face flushed. He looked broken.

What happened?