A New Life! (Sequel to A Different Life!)

Chapter 3! {Last Night}

"Ary! Ary! Ary! Wake up!" Someone says shaking me."Where am I?" I ask opening my eyes. "In our bedroom, you passed out last night at the party" Niall says. "What happened?" I ask holding my head. "Uh, some girl beat you up" He says. "What?" I ask. "Uh, yea you could say you got into a bar fight" Niall says. "Why?" I ask. "The girl got mad at you for being with me" He says. "Why don't I remember any of this?" I ask. "Because she knocked you unconscious and you were slightly drunk." Niall says. Niall helps me sit up slowly. I immediately lay back down though. "You ok?" Niall asks. "Obviously I'm not" I mumble. "Right" He says. I sit up slowly again and this time I stay up. Niall wraps his arms around me. I scooch to the edge of the bed and bury my face in my hands. Niall  rubs my back. "C'mon I'll help you downstairs." He says. I slowly nod and stand up with him. He wraps an arm around my back and supports me as I make my way out of the room. He helps me down the stairs and into the living room where everyone is sitting. "Hey pretty princess how ya feeling?" Zayn asks and crouches down beside me as I sit next to Liam. "It's like I got punched by an extremely strong girl, oh wait....I did" I mumble. I again bury my face in my hands. Zayn smirks and pats my leg. I pull out my phone and open the camera to examine my face. It's all black and blue along my jaw and my eye is a bit red and puffy. Niall walks in and hands me a bag of ice. I gratefully take it and press it against my face. "It hurts so much!" I whine. Liam wraps his arm around my shoulders and pulls me so I'm against his chest. A tear trickles down my cheek as a shot of pain shoots through my face. Liam rubs my arm not noticing my tear. I'm glad I have these people to take care of me.  I finally burst out crying. "Hey, Ary. What's wrong?" Liam asks. "I hurts and I probably look like a fucking balloon" I whine. Liam takes away the ice and holds me to his chest as I cry. Louis comes and squeezes into the extra space beside me. He rubs my back as Liam holds me and I sob. I can't go out now. The paps will have a hay-day. Who knows what stories would come up. I finally stop crying but Liam doesn't let go of me which I'm thankful for. I hold on to Liam as if I was going to fall. I soon fall asleep in Liam's arms.

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"Ary, wake up" Someone whispers to me. "What?" I mumble, my eyes still closed. "Wake up" They whisper. I open my eyes and see Liam smiling at me. "Not nice!" I say. "Yea well you need some fresh air and to get dressed so we're going to the fields down the roads." Liam says. "I don't want to" I mumble. "You Arabella Leigh Payne do not want to go to a football field!" Liam says in utter shock. I shake my head no and bury my face in his chest. "Oh cry me a river" He says and picks me up. He carries me upstairs to me and Niall's room. He sets me down on the bed and gives me a stern look. "Ary you need to get out there, football is your passion. You haven't played since you hurt your knee. I realize that you do have a bruised jaw but c'mon we won't hurt you" Liam says. I snuggle into his chest and shake my head no. "Will you at least come along, I'm sure the paps won't find us there" He pleads. "Liam I don't want to ok" I tell him. "Fine" He mumbles and kisses my forehead. "Do you want someone to stay here with you?" He asks. "I'll be fine" I tell him. He smiles and I climb off his lap. "I love you" Liam says. "I love you too" I mumble and crawl under the duvet. It's not every day that I get to have moments like this with my brother. I take every moment like this that I get and savor it. Liam kisses my forehead again and walks out of the room. Niall soon comes in. "Ary" He whispers as he sits down on the edge of the bed. "Niall" I whisper back. "Please come" He begs and takes my hand. I open my eyes and look at him. There's tears in his eyes. "Niall are you crying?" I ask softly and sit up.  He shakes his head and burys his face in his hands. "Niall, what's wrong?" I ask. "I don't want you to give up the one thing that you love most. I know how much you love football and I don't like seeing you give up. Ary please. Don't be afraid ok. Get back out there and do what you love.You can do it, I believe in you." He says. "Niall, you don't have to cry about it ok. I'll get out there again sometime just not today. And besides, I love you most" I tell him and kiss his cheek. He looks at me and pushes some hair out of my face. "Go have fun" I command and push his chest a little. "I love you" He says and kisses my forehead. "I love you too" I tell him and kiss his lips. "I'll be back soon" He says. I kiss him again and crawl back under the blankets. I watch as he leaves and soon fall asleep.

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"Ary there's food downstairs if you want some" Niall says walking into the room. I close my laptop and stand up. I haven't eaten anything all day. I'm starving. I jump onto Niall's back. He laughs and carries me downstairs. As soon as I jump off Niall's back Zayn hands me a plate of Chinese. I immediately dig in savoring every bite. When I finish I put the plate on the counter and start spinning around on the bar stool. "What are you doing?" Harry asks. "Being bored" I mutter under my breath. "You should've come to the field with us." He says. I stop spinning and look at him. "Harry, I love you like my big brother, but shut up" I tell him. "Whatever it would just be cool to see you on the field again" He says. "Yea well, I'm going for a walk don't wait up" I say and storm upstairs to change. I change into some more comfortable clothes and head back downstairs. I quickly make my way outside without anyone noticing me. My football catches my eye as I walk into the garage to find it. I pick it up quietly not wanting to be heard and walk back outside, down to the field. The crisp air, fresh green grass, just a touch of clouds over the sun. Perfect. The goal stares at me like it's bound and determined to keep that ball away. One kick. Straight into the middle hitting the net and falling to the ground. I take it back to the top of the goalie's box. Right corner, just missed off the metal. Try again. Kicking up a tad of dirt I try to kick in one of the most hardest places for me. The left corner. I was never good at it. My foot makes contact with the ball and it goes soaring, straight into the left corner. Perfect. I don't know how I did it. "That's the girl I missed" I jump a little and turn around. There stands that blonde haired boy that I love. I quickly jump into his arms and kiss him. "Thank you for believing in me." I whisper to him. "Always will" He says. I kiss him again before he sets me down. "Mind if I join you?" He asks already walking onto the field. "Sure" I say. He kicks the ball around a little before passing it to me. "I'll be the goalie you have to make it in" He says. I giggle and start doing as Niall had commanded. We spend hours kicking around the ball until it finally gets dark out and we decide to head back. Niall takes my hand as we're walking and squeezes it. I love this boy so much. I don't know what I would do without him.