CONVERSE || A Liam Payne Fanfiction

Chapter 14: Action is Idiocy

***Mia's POV***

Jasmine walks into the room, sitting next to me on the couch. 

"What's up?" She asks nonchalantly. I look up at her and smile.

"Not much. I'm just packing for London again." I reply, picking up three books and shoving them into my bag.

"Well don't pack your bathing suit, because we're going to the beach today!" She says excitedly. I bite my lip. "What's wrong?"

"Well... ya see.... I don't exactly own a bathing suit at the moment... I've never really needed one after I turned fourteen because I worked all summer. Sorry." 

"Oh.... It's fine. You can just borrow one of mine!" She walks to her room and comes back with a light blue bikini. 

"Um, it's okay, Jasmine. I don't really want to go, and I don't look good in bikinis, anyway." I plead, trying to get out of wearing it. It's like the size of my hands. 

"Hell no. You're not bailing, and you would look so good in a bikini." She argues, handing me the bikini and shoving me towards the bathroom.

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"Jasmine, I appreciate your hospitality, but I feel really weird." I say, trying to cover myself up as much as possible. 

We put our towels down in the shade and sit. I look up at the sky, clouds rolling in over-head. 

"Why did we even come if it's just gonna rain?" I complained, upset that I wore this bikini for nothing. 

"We can still have fun!" Jasmine pipes up. I nod, even though I disagree. How on Earth can I have fun while wearing this stupid thing? It gets in the way of everything. 

"Lets go swimming!" Liam shouts happily, picking me up and throwing me over his shoulder. His arm tickles as it holds me up by the back of my knees and I feel like i'm going to fall any moment, but I'm more worried about getting wet. I hate swimming, but only for today. 

I pound on his back, which obviously has no affect on him as he nears the water. 

"No, Liam, don't even think about it." I raise my voice angrily, but I can tell that he only smirks. He was now knee deep in water, and still wasn't turning back. 

"Seriously Liam. I'm not joking." He presses on, the water now up to his abdomen. 

"Relax, Mia. It's all in good fun!" Zayn shouts at us from the sand and I stick my tongue out at him. The water's finally up to his chest and when my toe touches the water, he suddenly turns around and heads back to the shore. 

"What?! Liam! I dared you to get her into the water!" Niall whines. 

"I did. Her toes were at least a half an inch into the water." Liam smirked back, taking the ten dollars from Louis' hands. Louis shoots me a look saying 'just tell him already'. I glare as to say 'shut up about it'.  

The clouds get darker and suddenly, a slight drizzle begins to rain down. Harry and Jasmine run for cover in a little hut. Zayn and Niall get out an umbrella and Louis goes underneath a tree. 

"It's just a little drizzle, babies." I laugh, walking out into the rain further. It begins to rain harder and Liam walks with me along the beach.

"So, how was your movie marathon?" He asks me, shoving his hand in the pockets of his swim-suit. I didn't even know they had those. 

"It was fine I guess. We watched Disney movies, so how could it be bad?" I smile lightly, knowing exactly where this conversation is going. 

"They're my favorite." He looks down at his feet, stopping. I notice the glassiness of his eyes. 

"Liam, is everything okay?" I ask him, startling him.

"Yeah. Disney movies just remind me of someone- something. I meant something." he quickly corrected himself. 

"Oh. Okay. So you wanted to talk to me about something." I say, facing the 'problem' head on. 

"Yeah. That... umm... the..." He mumbles it out awkwardly.

"The kiss?" I ask, my heart racing with adrenaline, but my brain telling me to stop talking.

"Yeah. that's it. Um... so..." He starts to mumble again.

"Liam, it was only meant to be a friendly kiss, right? If it was more, then just tell me." I say. 

"Yeah. It was... was totally a friend kiss." He says as his eyes glitter with disappointment. 

"C'mon." I say as the rain starts to pour. I grab his hand and entwine my fingers with his. This is what I really want. I want to be with him. I want to be with him all the time. I want us to hold hands and kiss and hug and go on dates. 

I lead him to the end of the beach. He smiles as I start to dance with him, pausing and putting a flower in my hair. I laugh and we continue to dance. He pulls me in and doesn't let go of me for a minute. I look into his eyes and see something I've never seen before. 

"Oh look! OMG! Is that Liam Payne?" A random girl breaks us out of our moment. I turn and see about fifteen people surrounding us. Liam stands in front of me, yelling at the people. I knew I shouldn't have acted on what my heart told me. Maybe my heart needs a few adjustments. 

But I did see something in his eyes that I haven't seen before. 

Love.

For me.