Paper Hearts.

Promises. *Cassidy*

Cassidy’s Pov.

Liam didn’t say anything on the walk home so I knew for a fact that he was well aware I wasn’t lying about my age back with the boys. I didn’t mean to tell him that way. I wanted to tell him when it was a good time, not when I was telling someone else while he hadn’t known. I felt horrible for not telling Liam sooner, but what was I supposed to do, just walk up to him in the club and be like

“Oh hey I’m sixteen, huge fan and I want you to be intrigued by me so I’m going to walk away now,”

I’m sure that would have went over really well. Well if I would have started with that I wouldn’t be pregnant, which would definitely make my life nd his a bit easier. Okay, so it would make it a lot easier. But I was having the time of my life, how was I just going to go out like that. When we entered the flat Liam was still in front of me not saying a word, but he turned around to look at me in the living room.

“So?” Was all he said. I looked up into his eyes. I was surprised to see they weren’t angry, they just looked sad. Upset and hurt. I didn’t understand why this would hurt him and not anger him. I would understand him being mad but not hurt. It’s not like I lied about being a women. Okay so I guess the lie wouldn’t have gotten this far with that lie.

“I’m sorry Liam, I was going to tell you.” I sat down on his couch with my hands over my face. I didn’t want to do this, I had just gotten to London with Liam and I thought we had a chance at being a family. My baby deserved a family. I didn’t even think that Liam would react like this, I knew he would be hurt, but I didn’t think it was going to be this bad.

“I get that you were going to tell me, but why haven’t you yet? Why didn’t you tell me when we were talking about the baby?” Liam sat down next to me. I tried so hard not to look at him, I stayed focused on the TV hanging on the wall. But I still felt Liam’s eye burning holes in my face.

“Because that’s it, we were talking about the baby. We weren’t talking about me and we weren’t talking about you. We were talking about the one thing we know about one another, and that’s that we’re parenting a child together. This whole idea was stupid Liam, I literally know nothing about you and you know nothing about me.” I heard Liam let out a breath of air before I felt him shift on the couch. I knew he was now looking at me but once again couldn’t bring myself to look at him.

“This isn’t stupid, please don’t say that. Okay so we spent the last couple days talking about the baby, but that’s what we were meant to be doing.-” Liam grabbed my hands forcing me to look at him. Still I glanced down to the size difference of our hands, his large ones overlapping my small ones easily.

“We have nine months Cassidy, okay maybe eight months, but our baby is going to be here in eight months tops. We have a lot of time to talk about the baby. And you’re right, we don’t know anything about the other, but we have to work on that. I want us to be a family, or at least I want us to try, but we can’t do that if you’re not being completely honest with me here.” Liam’s eyes looked more serious than I’d see them in the past, sure I’d only really known him for almost a week, but in those days we talked about every serious thing and not so much funny.

“I promise you, no I swear to you, I will be nothing but honest with you.” Liam nodded his head at my response and cleared his throat. Then he stood up again this time more relaxed then the walk home. I smiled to myself thinking of the words he had said, he wanted to try and be a family, and that was more than enough to keep me happy. I knew I wouldn’t be raising my baby alone.

“So I’m going to watch a movie or something in the guest room before bed, you’re more than welcome to come join me, I promise I will keep my hands to myself,” Liam held his arms up in defense making me laugh. When I had calmed down I stood up to talk to him.

“I would love too, but I’m really tired. So I’m going to call it a night. Night.” I smiled and gave Liam a small wave leaving him in the living room alone. When I didn’t hear his footsteps behind me I turned around to see him sitting on the couch with his head in his hands this time. I turned around completely and leaned into the doorway crossing my arms.

“You okay?” My head dropped to the side so that it was resting on the doorway. Liam jumped in his place a bit and looked up to see me. His worried expression changed to a smirk. He shook his head rubbing his hands over his face.

“This is all so crazy, you know?” Knowing that Liam was certainly in the need of a talk I pushed myself off of the doorway and walked over to the couch. I patted my lap for him to lay his head in my lap, he understood and did just that swinging his legs off the armrest.

“It’s quite crazy, it’s scary too.” I leaned back on the couch and let my hand whisk through Liam growing hair. He closed his eyes and leaned into my touch before responding to me.

“I’m scared for you and the baby. Not so much myself. I’ll have to tell management, and we’ll have to keep you out of the public eye, and the fans will go crazy. I just don’t want anything to happen to either of you,” Liam opened his eyes and looked up at me.

“I will be okay, we’ll be okay. I promise.” I whispered with a smile lighting up my face. Liam swallowed hard and closed his eyes again.

“Lots of promises tonight,” he said worriedly. I could tell he was more scared then he was letting on, but I would let him come to me if he needed it. I wasn’t going to push him into talking about something he wasn’t ready to discuss.

“Eighteen years worth,” We both let out a huff of air before the room grew silent. It wasn’t awkward surprisingly, it was more like we were both stuck in our thoughts, almost as if we had been waiting for the other to read our minds.