Times

Chapter 10

Grace's POV

The little girl's tears were overwhelming. She was crying so loud, I feared she would wake up all of Seattle. A few minutes later, the rest of the crew came to where the crying was coming from. They all gave me the "What happened?" look and I shrugged. Maria pointed at my head and covered her mouth. Confused, I felt my head and looked at my hand.

It was bleeding.

I was so confused. I had no idea who this little girl was, or how she even hit my head, or why she was crying. I just wanted to home or just go to sleep, whichever one came first. I wanted to disappear.

It was Niall who finally decided to figure out what was going on.

"Hey, babe, what's wrong? What happened?"

Slowly, she ended up explaining everything, but continued crying. She made my head hurt even more. But, apparently, we both bumped into each other and fell, only I somehow ended up falling face-forward, head first.

"Zayn, get ice for Grace's head and for this sweet girl's back?" Niall made the girl calm down a little bit, and smile. "There you go, you have such a beautiful smile!"

"Thank you." She replied to Harry and wiped her tears off her face with her sleeve.

Now it was my turn to comfort her. "Hey... I'm sorry I bumped into you. Are you ok?" She nodded. "Does anything hurt you?"

"Only my back."

"Ok, we're going to help you with that. Don't worry."

"Sammy... SAMMY! Hey, what's going on here!?" A rather old man wearing a suit ran toward us from the end of the hall.

"DADDY!" The little girl jumped into his arm's when he was close enough. "I was walking and this girl bumped into me and I fell and now my back hurts really bad!" She started crying again.

Her dad looked at me. "Who are you?"

"Oh.. um.. my name is Grace. Grace Henshaw. I-It was an accident. I didn't see her and I didn't mean to bump into her."

"These people are with you?" He said, looking at everyone else while they stood against the wall.

"Mr. Edwards, we were playing a game and it was an accident." Liam stated.

"Oh, you were playing a game in MY building, eh? Well, how about this.. all of you are no longer allowed to enter this building again. You are banned as long as I own this venue."

"DADDY!"

"It's ok, Sammy. Let's go now." He turned to face us. "I want all of you out of this building in ten minutes. I'll talk to your manager, boys. As for you girls, just leave."

By the time Zayn showed up with ice, Sammy and her dad were gone and we were depressed. Harry explained everything to him as we were walking down the stairs to get our stuff and leave. The boys gave us free posters and CDs, and we thanked them as we walked out of the building. I apologized almost a million times, but they kept saying it was fine.

It wasn't fine! I got them banned from a venue they might have planned on performing at in the future!

So I guess it was my fault, but I didn't mean to do anything wrong. I swear.

~

Liam's POV

We were at the hotel room that we were forced to call 'home' for the next month or so. We didn't even have time to settle before we got a phone call.

"Alright, now I need you boys to explain to me why Mr. Edwards called and told me that you guys got kicked out of the venue!" Simon's voice was loud, and even though we couldn't see his face, we could tell he was angry. Very angry.

Louis tried to explain everything as best as he could. "Who is this Grace girl?"

I spoke in the phone next. "We met her and her cousin and her sister at the concert. They're actually really cool. Grace didn't mean to do anything, it was just an accident."

"Yeah, an accident that got you banned from a venue. Liam, turn off the speaker phone. I would like to talk to you in private."

I turned off the speaker and talked to him. "Well, maybe.... She seems really cool..... WHAT? but why?..... look, you guys have put me through enough crap, you can't tell me who I can and can't talk to anymore.... the fans are understandable, unlike you..... I'm sorry Simon.... are you serious..... you can't be serious..... whatever, ok.... i can't believe you guys would do something like that...... ok...... bye."

All the boys stared at me, waiting to hear what happened.

"Look, I'm not really in the mood. I'm just going to sleep. Talk to you tomorrow, eh?"

"Okay", they all said in unison as I walked away. I could still hear their chatter from my room.

"Damn, what did they do now?"

"I don't know, but it definitely got Liam pissed."

Yeah, it did. And the worst part is that they threatened me too. I can't tell the boys about it at all, if I want One Direction to stay as a band.

Worst. Nightmare. Ever.

Only I wish it was just a dream.