The Story of my Life

Chapter 14

Ali's P.O.V.

I just ran. I ran all the way to my dorm thinking that would be enough to get rid of this crushing feeling I have in my chest. I thought wrong. I quickly change out of my clothes and into my work out clothes. Yoga crop pants, loose tank, and running shoes. I grab my watter bottle and my gym back with a change of clothes and shower stuff and head to the gym. With the amount of time I put in at the gym I should be much smaller, but the world isn't fair.

When I get to the gym I waste no time in putting on my weight training playlist. I already did running and that wasn't enough to make me feel better, so ripping my muscles should do it. I take all the anger and hurt I feel and just start pounding doing double my regular weight. I turn up my music and focus on the pain in my muscles to tune out the pain I feel in my heart.

Liam's P.O.V.

"You guys are done, go enjoy the rest of your day." I hear our stage manager yell dismissing us.

"Oh thank god!" I whisper loudly heading towards where I had left Ali with a very angry Eleanor.

"Do you think Ali's ok?" Louis asks me coming up next to me.

Niall joins us with a bag of chips munching away. Where did he get chips? "I don't know Lou, El looked pretty determined and angry." Niall sais with his mouth full.

"I tried to talk her out of it Liam I swear" Louis says to me sincerity clear on his face.

I give him a slight bros hug "I know you did, I just don't understand why she even did that? I'm still fighting with Soph and really it's not like we're even dating of anything. We just met!" Not that I wouldn't mind dating her... No no dating! I mentally remind myself.

When we reach the room where we left the girls I notice right away that Ali isn't there. The next thing I notice is that Julie is on her phone frantically texting. Perrie is looking pretty worried and almost strangles Zayn in a bear hug. But thing that worries me most, is that Eleanor looks worried.

I clearly am not the only one that noticed her worried face because Louis looks straight at his girlfriend with an angry look. "What did you do?!" Louis says loudly enough that everyone's attention lands on both of them.

She looks nervous now, not a good sign. "I was just asking her questions..." She starts to answers looking down to the floor, but Perrie interrupts.

"She was being really harsh with her and accusing her of being a gold digger. But she got really andgry and said that we didn't know her. So El went and said that we know people just like her and then Alison freaked out and started saying stuff about her personal life that clearly upset her so she just ran out!" she blurted out very quickly.

Julie looks up from her phone when Perrie calls her Alison, but I'm the one who corrects her. "Alix!." I say really loudly. wow I didn't mean to speak that loudly, but it had the desired effect as everyone looks towards me.

"What'd you say mate?" Niall says as he finally joins Julie on the couch.

"Her name is Alix, but you guys didn't even have the decency to ask her her full name. Why would you even think about treating another human being like that?" I ask them rhetorically "Why did you do that El? You know I would never get with someone I even suspected would be like Sophia and yet here you are terrorizing the most real girl I have ever met in my life? Worst part is, we aren't even dating!"

"I know ok!" El says looking at me sincerelly "I know I shouldn't have, I just didn't want you to go through another Sophia." She comes over to me and hugs me. The brotherly hug I used to get from my sister when they knew they's screwed up. "I was just trying to look out for you. You haven't been yourself for the last few months and when Louis told me that there was a girl you guys had just met that could be of interest to you, I just went straight to attack mode."

I hug her back knowing that her heart was in the right place, but I also know Ali has no idea how El really is and that worries me. "So my question is, where is she?"

"I don't know..." Julie speaks for the first time her voice cracking from worry. Niall quickly wraps his arms around her trying to comfort her.

"We'll find her babe" He says using his irish accent as sweetly as possible. Man he's got it bad, maybe the girls should have interviewed her? No, I can't think like that. If I've learned anything from Ali is that she is one strong girl.

"Let's be positive for a second here. She's lived here for a year. She knows where she's going and knows this place really well. Wherever she is, she wants to be there." Louis says calming everyone down.

"Julie you know her best. Where does she go when she's sad?" Niall asks her looking into her eyes.

"Um... I know she likes running when she's sad... but she wasn't sad, she was pissed." Julie answers her voice sounding normal again.

I think about this statement and what I'd do if I was pissed and I just know where she is. "Julie, Ali goes to which gym?"

As soon as she tells me, I punch in the address in my phone and head out to find her. I know she isn't the smallest girl out there, but I did notice her body was real fit.

When I get to the gym, I quickly scan the area trying to think where she's be. I look up to the running area and when I don't spot her I head to the weight training area. Sure enough there she is doing deadrows like a pro. I just stand there for a few seconds looking at this beautiful girl going at it as hard as she could.

I walk up to her as she starts doing clean and presses. I tap her on the shoulder and she nearly drops the bar to the floor.

She puts down the bar and pulls out her head phones before talking. "What're you doing here?" She asks softly.