Baby Boom || Liam Payne <Complete>

Chapter 8: Confessions

At first, no one said or did anything. Jake was getting fussy and kept holding his arms out in Lou's direction. I set him down on the light brown carpet, and watched as he crawled his tiny behind towards Lou.

When I looked up, Zayn, Harry, and Niall all had stood up. Slowly, one by one they made their way over to me.

Niall came to me first. His face showed a look of disbelief. I gave him a small smile as he stood in front of me. He practically jumped on me though, giving me a famous Horan Hug. I hugged back and comforted him as he cried. "You're okay. You're really okay." That's all he kept saying. I just reassured him that I was here and rubbed small circles on his back. When he pulled away he looked at me with puffy red eyes. I wiped the remainder of his tears and gave him a simple kiss on his cheek.

Behind him was Harry, with tears already running down his cheeks. I pulled him into a hug, like Niall, and asked him why he was crying. "Well, you know it's kinda hard to see one of your best friend die and then have to be pulled from the room not knowing if they were gonna be okay or not." He explained. I sighed and nodded.

I may not know what it's like to see your best friend die, but I know what it's like to feel when your best friend dies, and unlike me, they don't come back.

I move on to the only one left that, thankfully, wasn't crying a waterfall over me. Zayn just pulled me into a tight hug and said, "I was probably the only one sane enough to believe you were gonna be okay. I may not have known you for a long time, but I knew you long enough to know you were gonna make it through this. You were unstable for 2 days before you went into cardiac arrest. Then, once they got you into a stable position, you were still out for 2 days after that. I won't lie, it was terrifying seeing you in the state you were in when it happened, but I knew you were a fighter. You weren't just gonna leave Jakob here in this cruel world to fend for himself. And I knew you weren't gonna leave us. I don't know if you haven't noticed yet but we all care about you..... a lot. And if you left us, we wouldn't have known what to do." I shook my head.

"Zayn, how can you guys possibly care for me so much? You guys barely know me and are crying over me for something you guys had no control over."

"You really don't think much of yourself do you? For one, you accepted us for who we are. Not what we are. Second, you worry about us and our careers. Even when you were in your worst state you were worried about our jobs. Am I right?"

I nodded my head, looking at the ground.

"Whenever you need to talk, or cry, or laugh, just call us. We care about you Jess, we really do. You're always asking us if we're alright or if we're having a good or bad day. No one does that anymore Jay. It's all about what's going on in our love lives or who our favorite brands to wear are. But you don't care about that. You care about us. And we care about you."

"Thank you Zayn." I whispered. He gave me a reassuring pat on my back as I turned to face everybody. Niall and Harry had stopped crying and joined Louis on the couch with Jake. They were all talking to someone on the computer screen. Liam was smiling at me. Zayn went to their stylist to get his hair and makeup done. Everything was fine now. No more pain, no more tears. Or so I thought.

All the boys on the couch turned to look at me suddenly.

"Hey Jay? There's someone I would like you to meet!" Louis gushed.

"Who?"

"Well, Jessie I'd like to officially introduce you to my girlfriend Eleanor." He said as he turned the screen so it was facing me. I was stunned to see one of the most beautiful girls in my life. She had beautiful colored eyes, with brown hair. Everything about her screamed 'MODEL!'. My face probably looked funny because Eleanor started laughing.