Slowly Disappearing

Chapter 3

~Louis' P.O.V~

While I was leading Brielle downstairs, I noticed that she was nervous.

She does this thing where, when she's nervous, she plays with this bracelet her brother gave her.

"You don't have to be nervous. I'm sure the guys are going to love you." For her, that only made it worse. She gave me this scared look that reminded me, she doesn't like getting attached to people.

"Bri, trust me. They aren't going to hurt you. I should know. I've spent the last three years with them." Once I said that, she gave me a small smile and we headed back downstairs.

We reached the last step, and that's when the boys' heads looked up. I put my hand on Brielle's back and led her towards the living room, where the boys were.

~Brielle's P.O.V~

Once we got in the living room, the nerves hit me hard. What if they don't like me? Will they hate me? I was suddenly pulled out of my thoughts when I heard Lou talking.

"Lads, this is Brielle. Brielle, these are the guys." He pointed at the curly haired one and said "that's Harry." Then, he pointed at the tanner one, with the leather jacket, "that's Zayn. And the adorable blonde? That's Niall."

I then shifted my gaze towards the brunette. It was like, I couldn't tear my eyes off of him. When we made eye contact, it was like my whole world froze. Like we were the only two people here. That's when Louis broke the silence, "and uhh that's Liam."

I tore my eyes away from Liam to look at Louis. The first thing I noticed about Louis was, he looked angry. Like, he knew what had just happened between me and Liam.

After what felt like forever, Harry finally spoke up. "Well, it's nice to meet you love." And he took my hand to kiss my knuckles. I didn't know what he was doing, so I flinched back a little.

"Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you. I just wanted to say hello to a beautiful, young lady." Oh great. That's why people always said Harry was the flirt.

"I-it's fine." I managed to stutter out. I'm so nervous, I feel like I could throw up.

"Liam, can I speak to you for a moment?" I heard Louis say. Oh gosh, what is he going to tell him?

Once Louis and Liam went into the kitchen, all the boys turned to me. Me being the nervous one, I started to back away and play with my bracelet.

I don't know why but, every time I get nervous, I play with my brothers old bracelet.

"So, Brielle," My head snapped up towards Zayn. "tell us about yourself."

"Um. I-I'm Brielle. I'm 19. I was adopted at the age of 10 by the Tomlinson family. Uhm anything else you would like to know?"

Hoping that they won't ask anything else, I turned my head away. "Do you have any siblings?"

"Umm yeah, I uhh, had an older brother." They all had confused looks on their faces. "What do you mean by had?"

Really? It's pretty self explanatory. "My brother was killed during the military." They all gave me sympathetic looks.

"We're really sorry to hear that." Yeah so was I when I found out. "Sorry to ask but, what about your parents?"

Fuck. I didn't expect them to bring them up. "I-I've never met my father. He left after I was born, h-he didn't want a daughter." Then, I looked down. I was trying to hide the tears.

"And what about your mum?" Oh great. I don't think I'm ready to talk about her. "My uhh, my mother, um died from uhh," Uh-Oh. Its happening again. The room started to get dizzy, my visions getting blurry, and I feel lightheaded.

I heard the kitchen door open behind me and saw Liam and Louis walk out. I then felt myself fall backwards. But, I didn't hit the ground.

Apparently, Liam had caught me before I fell. I then heard Louis yelling, "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN HERE? WHY DOES MY SISTER LOOK LIKE SHE'S ABOUT READY TO PASS OUT?!" All I could think about was how perfect this felt.

Me in Liam's arms just felt right. It felt like we were made for each other. I was suddenly pulled out of my thoughts when I heard Liam whisper, "Are you ok?" All I could do was nod.

Once Liam led me to couch, considering I couldn't walk by myself and the boys were filling my brother in on what happened, I had calmed down a little.

The tears had finally stopped and the boys stopped arguing. Then, Louis started talking again.

"Bri? Are you ok? What happened? Why did you almost pass out?" That's when one of the boys decided to step in and tell him to stop asking me so many questions.

"Yes I'm fine. I just, they asked about my mum, and I couldn't take it. it was too much. I get choked up when I start talking about my real family." They all just gave me sympathetic looks.

"We are so sorry Brielle. We didn't know that. That dumb ass over there hasn't told us anything about you. We were just wondering."

Aww. They are so sweet. "It's fine guys. You didn't know."

Louis finally spoke up again. "Well I'm glad your ok. Now should we go out to eat? I know for sure Nialler must be starving."

We all turned our heads towards Niall and sure enough, he was rubbing his tummy. "I'm sorry I have a food baby growing inside of me."

We all busted out laughing at that. Then, we agreed to go eat at Nandos.

"Ok. Let me just go put on some decent clothes." Wow. I can't believe it. It feels like I've known them for a whole lifetime.

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