Meeting The Lads

Chapter 10: Afterwards...

"Wh- what the hell Liam?! You could've, actually you probably killed him!" I yell as he sets me in the passenger seat. He slams the door shut and does the same after he throws himself in the drivers seat making sure all of the doors are locked.

"Good, that's what I've been wanting to do for years!" He yells. Looking at me with the angriest expression on his face I've seen yet. His eyes close trying to fight tears that have already escaped. Years? I'm so confused at this point.

"Wh- what are you talking about? What do u mean.... Years?"

"Just....nothing. You wouldn't care anyways." He says between sobs. I feel so useless in this situation at the moment.

"Listen Liam I-" he cuts me off.

"You, you don't understand Ebony!" He whines looking up at me while wiping tears away not caring about his looks at this moment.

"But I do. Okay? He was my ex-boyfriend" he continues my sentence unexpectedly.

"And broke up with you for that slut Nicole Ansley. Yeah I know. Big whoop!"he sad sarcastically, waving his hands in the air. Putting them back down in a matter of seconds.

"How...do you know?" I ask looking up trying to avoid his eyes. I find myself lost in them though, "My brother went to that school. I kind of knew everything for him, he was.... Nevermind." He says tears blocking his eyesight once again.

"It's, it's okay Liam, you can tell me." I say putting my hand on top of his, hoping I wasn't pushing it.

"My brother, he uh. When he was in high school, he was diagnosed with brain cancer freshman year." Right after he says brain cancer I feel like I could have never relate to someone more than this.

"He got bullied a lot and I was his main weapon and I defended him on my life." A tear rolls down his face as he continues.

"He started loosing his hair and got even more bullied because no one knew it was cancer. He started to not tell us about what was happening. One day he told me he had somewhere to go and wouldn't let me come. He seemed really nervous but yet confident. He had left his phone home and I was looking through the texts, being the overprotective brother I am." he says now his face full of tears. I look at him and bring my hand up to wipe his tears. When I let it down I grab his hand. He looks down.

"I looked through his texts and saw that 'Austin Anderson'was at the top so I clicked on it I read through messages saying,

'today's the day'

'You excited for a road to hell?'" He removes his hands off of his hands and into my eyes.

"And at that moment I lost all the hope I had ever had in my life. The last text my brother sent to Austin said

'I'm ready! What do I have to live for anyway?' I didn't understand. I thought he could handle this but then the cops came, they found his ID and told us that he's in the hospital." He starts sobbing full on. I take him into a bear hug and stay there with my head resting on his shoulder. Listening to him cry, but continue in between sobs.

" I ran through the busied halls and came to his room. I was shaking, his face was full of blood on the left side and only one eye was open, I ran up to him and asked 'do u think you'll make it?' And he said 'no but I love you and I'm so sorry for Doing this." with that... The beep died down and he was dead. That was the worst experience in my life. That bitch Austin beat him to death. Watching your own brother die is the worst thing anybody could ever go through."

I grip harder on the hug and start crying also. Thinking about what Liam had to go through is the worst feeling ever. I had gone through the exact same. With my dad.

"I-I know. It is, my dad had brain cancer." I sniffle and look up at Liam.

"Listen Liam," I start.

"We'll get through this together." I quietly say as he nods his head no.

"I'm I'm fine it's just, whenever I get reminded of anything about it I start to break down and when I saw him with you, and you wanted him to stop. So did I. I mean, I care about you a lot Ebony. This whole outing situation wasn't how I planned at all and I'm so sorry for that. I never wanted you or anyone to see me like this. I look horrible." He says.

"It wasn't your fault at all, and we can keep this whole thing between us. Listen Liam, I just want you to know I'm here for you and always will be. I've been dreaming about meeting you for about two years now. But I never expected I'd be in a car going places with you! Don't be sorry for any of this. What just happened wasn't your fault at all, maybe you didn't have to beat him but you felt you had to do it so I'm okay with that....I guess? Thank you for takin me out today. And we can do this again for sure. Just the two of us and no interruptions. I promise! And uh I kind if have to get cleaned up... My nose is still bleeding." I say while tilting my head up.

"Yes. Yes, we can and we will. I'm going to take you to my flat for now and we can just hangout there for a while. And ill get you and me cleaned up. Agreed?" He asks shyly.

"Agreed" I nod as I watch him shove the key into the ignition driving away from the parking lot.

His tears dry within seconds. He looks back to normal and we get to his flat. I've never felt so good about helping out a person, especially Liam.

A/N; hey! I hope you guys liked this chapter, kinda short I know I jut wanted to update so badly! VOTE, , COMMENT, and READ! Tell others to read it too! Thanks

~mrs. Styles<3