Sitting With Liam

Chapter 8 - The Game

We ended up playing 21 questions but without a minimum of questions so infinite questions instead.

"What's your favourite food?" Liam asked me.

"Lasagna."

"Ooh that's a good one. And yours would be?" Louis asked Jayel.

"Copycat. Haha anyway it's chicken alfredo."

"I have one for Jayel." Harry stated. "What's your favourite animal?"

"I know! Can I answer?" I said excitedly.

"No. I asked Jayel." I pouted.

"Fine."

"It's a tiger." Jayel answered laughing.

"And yours?" Liam asked looking at me.

"Are we just gonna copy each other this whole time?" Louis asked Liam.

"Maybe. Anyway Hannah...?"

"Penguin. They are so cute and awkward. Love them." I said.

"Just like Luke Hemmings!" Louis pointed out. I laughed in realisation.

We ate a lot so I was really tired. I kept closing my eyes. Liam noticed and asked if everyone wanted to just take a nap. We all agreed.

Liam let me sleep on his bunk. I wasn't going to complain. It had his pillows and blankets and it smelt really good. I fell asleep smiling.

I woke up to Jayel yelling and shaking me awake.

"What? What? What?" I asked.

"Liam is gone. He's not answering any of the boys texts or calls. We don't know where he is."

"What?"

"Ok. Can you say anything other than what?"

"Sorry. I know this may not work but i'll try texting him myself."

"You never know."

Hey, where are you?

I waited for an answer. I waited 10 minutes. He never takes this long to answer texts.

"Are you sure he's not just sleeping somewhere else? Like the hotel room?" I asked Harry.

"We checked out of the hotel room we can't just go back in."

"Maybe he checked out a room."

"I doubt it but i'll ask the person at the counter."

We all walked in together. Harry asked the receptionist if Liam had checked out a room. She said no.

We all groaned and sighed while leaving the hotel lobby.

"We could check the arena." I said trying to still give them hope.

"I guess. It's something." Harry said throwing his hands up.

We got in the tour bus and drove to the arena.

We looked everywhere. Jayel and I even checked the girls bathroom. There was no sign of him.

We sat on the bus in the arena parking lot just thinking about where on earth he could be.

We decided to drive back to the hotel parking lot. It was getting dark. While we were driving we noticed the bus felt weird. We talked to the driver and he said he thinks it might be a flat tire.

The driver pulled the bus over and got out to check the tires. He couldn't see very well cause it was dark.

"Could you grab a torch for me?" The driver asked me.

"Where would one be?"

"Under the first section of couch. Just lift the seat, it should be in there."

"Ok." I ran inside and lifted the seat. I screamed and dropped the seat slamming back down.

"What's wrong?" Jayel asked.

"There was a uh... wait." I opened the seat back up. Liam was in there sleeping. "I thought you guys just had a rotting corpse in here."

"Do we seem like the type of people who would do that?" Harry asked.

Liam started to wake up. "Oh. Good morning."

"It's night. Could you hand me that flash light? Or torch, whatever."

Liam grabbed the flash light that was right beside him. I ran it to the bus driver and ran back inside.

"You scared us. We went all over trying to find you." I yelled at Liam.

"I'm sorry?"

"Why were you in there anyway? There are enough beds."

"I know. I just wanted it to be more dark. I can't fall asleep unless it's completely dark."

"I just wish you could have told us."

"I didn't know I had to tell you guys i'm sorry. Next time i'll tell you."

"That would be nice."

"It is a good hiding spot for hide and seek."

"This wasn't a game. I really thought you were in trouble."

"I'm sorry! It's okay. I'm okay."

"Let's just forget about this. Come on get out of there."

I helped Liam out from under the seat. I hugged him and we sat down and waited for the driver to finish putting on the new tire.