Only Time Will Tell...(Liam Payne Fanfic)

Chapter 3- Birthday Part 2

I found myself looking at the clock in my car way more than I should have. We have been stuck in traffic for a good thirty minutes. Its my birthday and the last thing I want to do is sit in traffic. Anna offered to drive tonight, but I told her I would drive there as long as one of us doesn't drink and can drive us home. There is no way in hell that I'm not going to be drinking and enjoying myself on my birthday. I need to forget about school and work for at least one night. 

"And this is One Direction's new single Little Things"

Right when I heard that name come out of the radio, I went to change the station. 

"TURN IT BACK" my friend Melanie yelled from the backseat. 

"Brooke seriously turn it back, Little Things is amazing," Amy yelled from the back seat.  

Ugh.

I feel like I can't escape it. Every radio station I listen to, every channel I watch on television, every shop I go into, Liam and his bandmate's faces or voices are everywhere I go. The fact that all my friends love their music doesn't help the situation either. 

Amy was right. Little Things is perfect. I could pick out Liam's voice right when he started singing.

"I know you've never loved, the crinkles by your eyes, when you smile you've never loved, your stomach or your thighs. The dimples in your back at the bottom of your spine, but I'll love them endlessly."

I hated how perfect the song was. Liam sounded amazing. He always has. The way he sang those last lyrics, made me realize why I liked him so much when we were friends.

I started laughing when I heard the lyrics "you still have to squeeze into your jeans but you're perfect to me". 

"What's so funny?" Jessie asked. 

"The irony in this song," I said, laughing. 

"What do you mean?" Anna asked. 

"I mean seriously. "You still have to squeeze into your jeans but you're perfect to me"?" I said to them. 

"Your point?" Melanie said, annoyed at what I said. 

"Have you seen who the guys have dated? They are basically perfect. They're all skinny flawless girls who definitely don't have problems squeezing into their jeans," I replied, laughing. 

"I love them, but you're so right Brooke," Anna said, cracking up. 

"It's still a great song. I can't deny that," I said, hoping that Melanie wouldn't be too mad that I said that about the boys. 

As much as I hated the song, I liked it so much. After hearing that Ed Sheeran, my favorite artist, wrote it, it made me like it even more. 

"That is true though. I mean have you seen Danielle? She's fucking perfect and seems so nice," Jessie said. 

"And Eleanor and Perrie. I'm so jealous of them," Melanie stated. 

At that moment I would rather talk about anything else but Danielle. I hated her so much. She basically ruined Liam and I's friendship. I know its not just her fault because Liam did choose her over me, but couldn't she have just ignored me and not have said anything? There is a slight chance that Liam and I would still be friends to this day. Very unlikely with the way things were going though.... I wanted so badly to talk shit about Danielle and tell my friends the horrible things she said to me, but I couldn't. I still wasn't ready to tell them about my past. 

"Okay, its almost over now, can I change it please?" I asked my friends. 

"No need to, we're here," Anna said from the passenger seat.