The Band I Thought I Knew // Liam Payne {Book 1}

Chapter 35

Another few weeks have gone by, several other states explored but the next one has to be one of my top five states. And you know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas! We arrived this morning and honestly I can see why we have 5 shows in Texas. This state is huge and I honestly cannot wait to see the fans and go to the concerts in this state. Harry let me in on a little secret last night on the way here that they have some Texas exclusive merch and I am extremely excited to get ahold of some.

The plan for Texas is to visit the San Antonio River Walk, the Alamo, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and I have convinced Liam to take us to Corpus Christi to see some of the Selena Memorials. As a child Selena Quintanilla was one of my idols and for a long time was actually the person who inspired me to sing. I gave up that dream a long time ago though, I figured it wasnt for me so I gave it up. But I still love her and though it is a tragedy what happened she changed a whole generation so I am extremely happy to have the opportunity to see her memorials.

We have a show tonight and we are trying to get to the first city where the show is. We are headed toward Houston, that is where our first show is. We had to drive a few hours before we made it there so when we got there the bouys had to go right to sound check. I decided that since Kessler is still being weird about everything I take Patti and go to the merch stands. They are still in the process fo setting up so when they see me, it kind of startles them.

"I am sorry miss you arent to be in the stadium this early"

"Oh I am here with the band, I am Liam's girlfriend" I smile and show them the pass I have that says crew. They look at the pass and then at Patti, he nods before showing his pass as well.

"Oh, alright well I am assuming you want some merch"

"I heard you have Texas exclusive" They nod and dip down to the boxes behind them. They pick up several items before setting them on the table in front of us. I see a cowboy hat with the words 'Made in the A.M' on it, two t-shirts with one direction in the middle of Texas and a sticker that has a big 1D in it. I decide on the cowboy hat and pay the girls at the stand I put that hat on and look up at Patti

"You are something"

"I try" I smile, we go through the venue looking around and exploring to see what it looks like around here. They arent wrong about everything being bigger here. The stadium we are in is so big I dont think I have never seen anything this enormous. I check the time after about twenty minutes of walking around aimlessly. I hear footsteps getting closer and then I see a group of about ten to fifteen girls and maybe five or six boys.

"Look its Kira!" one shouts and starts skipping toward me. Patti steps in front of me as the girl approaches. "Can we get pictures"

"If its alright with you"

"I can do picture if they want" I nod, some of them start coming near me, I get out my phone and hand it to Patti. "How do we wanna do this, selfies or group" The majority to me sounds like selfie and so I look at Patti and smile.

"Selfies then" He laughs, I take a picture with each fan one by one, they all that me and I tell them to wait before they start goin back to their VIP tour of the venue. When I finsih taking pictures, I get twitter handles and label the pictures with each one. I cannot wait to post these because I would love to have people share these.

They all continue on their way and I head back to the dressing room to finish out the wait for the boys. After an hour of almost nothing, the opening act comes out and starts the show. As they are playing I post the photos and tag all the people I met today in them. Soon the boys are on stage, when I look over Kessler is not where she previously stood. I look around, she is nowhere to be found. I sneak past Patti to back stage where we came from, I start walking down the hall looking in rooms with open doors. But then I hear a muttered voice, I stop and look around im in between several shut doors, I put my ear against a door and hear nothing, I move to the next, then the next.

"I am not sure how long I can do this, I think someone is getting suspicious"

"No, believe me it is working, but I know that they know something is up." I start back toward the concert and hurry down the hall, I try to shake the feeling that she is doing something malicious. She has never really been one to follow rules, that was me. I go back out the corridor where the concert is. The loud music fills my ears making it hard to concentrate, I look over to where we were standing and shuffle back there between the body guards.

I dont notice Kessler trying to slyly rejoin the group but she stands beside me. I gice her a side look then turn my attention back to the band. I smile when Liam looks over at me and winks.

"He really loves you, you know" i hear Paul shout to me. I smile over at him and nod

"I love him too" The rest of the concert goes off without a hitch, leaving a huge impression on me. I mean this concert just felt different than the others so far. Over the next week we play the four other venues but they were spaced a day apart. We went to the Alamo history sight first. We did that in the first day we were off but we didnt spend too much time there. But the next city was San Antonio which means the destination for the day off is the river walk. I am really excited for that one, it looks so romantic.

We got to look out at the river and talk about life. Liam has such big plans for us later in life, no one has any idea how exciting it is to hear those things come from him. To hear that he sees us doing so many wonderful things together in the future is just so much to process.

The next show was in Houston, this show went by fast for me but I did get to go to the museum of fine art. That was an interesting experience. To see so much art in one place and be able to take it all in is so awesome. Unfortunately out of the group Harry and Zayn were the only ones beside myself who were excited about the museum. I mean Liam tried pretending but it didn't work well for him. He said it was nice but he just wasn't an art buff, and typically I'm not either but these were fascinating.
But the ultimate day was when we went to Corpus Christi. I got to experience Selena and all the music and items from her childhood and career. They set up an entire museum in her honor which I think is incredible. Such an amazing and promising life with such a tragic ending. We picked the right day to be there to because I got to meet Abraham, Marcella, A.B., Chris and Suzie. It was such an honor. To get to meet them and give them my personal condolences on this tragedy.

Growing up and seeing the movie representing her life all I ever wondered was how you could someone take such a sweet innocent life. I mean she had everything ahead of her and the jealousy of someone overpowered them and they took her life. Liam made a point to get pictures of me with them and I thanked them so handsomely for the opportunity. I actually dragged them to some of the places they payed as kids in the area and took his opportunity to do 'the washing machine' which was a dance Selena's mother taught her when she was younger. I'm not sure who I was a bigger fan of, Selena or One Direction. Either way I am very grateful to be able to do the things I have done over the last several weeks.