Hey There Delilah Cry Me A River (Liam Payne AU)

Its Time

I walked into the doors of the school with Harry and Zayn by my side. As usual, girls were staring at me. I mean being popular has its advantages, but sometimes it gets annoying to have girls oogling over me all the time. I'm just a regular guy like every other guy in this school. They don't need to stare at me all the time.

"That was some party last night Harry. I had a great time." I told him.

"Yeah, things got a little crazy though after Truth or Dare, but it was awesome." Zayn said.

"Well, I don't exactly remember much. Louis and I were all over each other after we were dared to kiss." Harry replied a blush creeping onto his cheeks.

"Oooooh did someone get some last night Haz?" Zayn taunted.

"Speak of the devil Harry. Look who it is." I said while pointing in the direction of none other than Louis Tomlinson and with him was Niall Horan.

We walked over to where our friends were, and signalled them that were were here.

"Hey guys. Harry great party last night, but I've got such a headache." Niall replied holding his head.

"Niall, you were piss drunk. You even called me Brian." I told him laughing.

"Liam, I don't think you should be laughing." Louis said as Delilah James walked past us. "Don't you have something to do?"

I gulped, remembering what I had been dared to do last night. I had to make her drop-dead gorgeous. How could I do that? I mean I am Liam Payne, but I'm no miracle worker.

"Run along now Lili." Louis said giggling.

I walked away from them and followed Delilah into the library. She was up at the desk talking to the librarian. I walked towards a shelf of books pretending to look at a book until I saw that she was done. She had curled up into one of the bean bag chairs reading some huge novel that not even I'd be able to finish. I walked up to where she was sitting, and stood in front of her.

"Hi Delilah."

She hadn't even noticed that I was there. She just kept reading her book. Can't this girl hear?

"Uhm hi Delilah."

Wow. This girl is deaf. She hasn't even acknowledged my presence, and she didn't even hear me when I said her name twice.

"Hello! I'm kind of talking to you!" I said to her louder then I'd have hoped.

The librarian glared at me before saying,"Shhhhh."

She hates everybody. Everybody except Delilah.

"Delilah. Can I please talk to you?" I begged.

"What do you want from me?"  She asked me annoyed as she shut her book.

"I wanna talk to you." I said relieved.

"About what? What was so important that you had to interrupt me?"

Okay what is her problem? All I wanted was to talk to her.

"I wanna help you." I told her.

"Help me with what? I'm just fine."

"Well, how would you like to be one of the most popular girls in all of this school?"

She looked like she was thinking. Okay good, she's considering it.

"Uhmm, how about NO!"

This might be harder than I expected.

"Aww come on, don't you wanna know what it would be like to be popular? I can make you extremely beautiful."

"What are you saying? You wanna give me some kind of makeover?" She asked slightly skeptical.

"That's exactly what I wanna do." I said relieved that she was slowly grasping the concept of what I wanted from her.

"I don't think so Liam." She said sassily. Okay, I swear she could have been Louis' s twin sister.

"Oh come on. It'll be fun being popular. I mean imagine this: You're always being pushed through a crowd of people in the hallways right?"

She nodded and smiled as if to say that she exactly what I was talking about. Wow, her smile was kind of cute. Wait what am I saying, I can't think she's cute.

"Well, how would it feel to have a pathway just open up for you?  I mean you walk through the door, people see you, and they just clear a path for you. Doesn't that sound nice?" I asked her.

"That does sound pretty cool."

"And do you see how girls just throw themselves at me? If you let me do this, I can have guys doing that for you. So, what do you say? Will you let me do this for you?"

"Fine, but on one condition Liam Payne. If at any point during this whole thing I wanna stop or don't like something that you're doing, we stop all of this, and you let me go back to my normal life, and you leave me alone and never interfere with me again. Do we have a deal?"

"Yeah we have a deal. Meet me in the car park after school, and we'll get started on all of this."

"I'll see you then. Just don't make me regret trusting you."

"Okay. I promise that you won't regret trusting me."

With that done, I walked away from her confidential. I had gotten her to agree to the makeover. Seconds later the bell rang. I'd better get to 1st period. I don't want to be late on the first day of my 12th year.

I walked into class, and immediately saw the lads. I had to tell them what I did.

"Hey there he is." Louis said. "How'd it go?"

"Well, she agreed. It took a little bit of convincing, but she's on board."

"So, when are you gonna get started?" Zayn asked me curiously.

"After school."

The rest of the day went by rather quickly. I mean, I just couldn't get her smile out of my head. It was beautiful. The way her teeth just sparkled. She takes really good care of them. Ugh, I can't get those pearly whites out of my head. I'd finished putting all my books away into my locker, and gotten my car keys out of my pocket. I grabbed my bag and was out the door. Looking around the car park, struggling to remember where I parked this morning. Finally I found where I parked my car, and started searching for Delilah. I then spotted her.

"Hey Delilah!" I exclaimed.

She spotted me, and walked over to me with her head down. Why was her head down?

"What was that for?" She asked angrily.

"What was what for?"

"Why did you just scream my name? Everyone was staring at me. I hate being stared at." She said shyly. Oh my God, she was so adorable when she was shy. Oh God, what is wrong with me?

"It's fine. Come on, get in the car babe." I said and immediately regretted. I just called her babe. She stared at me intently. How could I let that slip? I'm such an idiot. I got into the car, and put the keys into the ignition. Man, I gotta learn to control myself around this girl.