In Your Arms - A Liam Payne Love Story

Chapter 4

Nicole’s POV

I raise the pan ready to defend myself.

“Whoa whoa whoa” I see Liam standing in the living room, his arms shielding his face. I drop the pan on the floor

“Gees Liam you scared me half to death”

“Surprise?” he says and smiles cheekily. I grab a pillow and start hitting him with it

“You’re such an idiot” I yell

“and I love you too”

I stop hitting him and laugh giving him a hug. I could never be mad at Liam for long. We both laugh and sit together on the couch. Liam slips his arms around my shoulders and I lean my head against his shoulder. This felt nice, I missed this.

“By the way what were you planning on doing with a pan?” Liam asks

“Well I didn’t want to kill anybody just, like, knock them out.” I explained.

He laughs “Even when you’re in danger you still have time to consider the other person” he always teases me about being too nice to people, but I see it as a good thing

“So any reason you decided to break into my house and try to kill me?” I twist away from him so I can get a better look of his face. He blushes.

“I just wanted to see you, and I have a spare key so …”

“and you didn’t think to turn on a light?”

“Well I had only just gotten here when you decided to attack me with that almighty pan of yours” he laughs and I can’t help but join in.

We sat there together talking all afternoon. We didn’t realise how late it was until mum came home with dinner.

“Oh hey Liam” mum says when she sees us sitting together on the couch

“hey Carrie” he smiles

“You two up for dinner?” she asks

“Yeah I’m starving” I reply

I grab Liam’s hand and pull him up from the couch. Mum had brought Chinese takeout and we all dug in.

After dinner Liam and I went up to my room. There were so many good memories in that room. We had been best friends since we were little and we had the best times playing in there. I lay down on my bed and he came and lay next to me

“I miss this” he says grabbing my hand and entwining our fingers.

I sigh “I miss this too”

We lay there for a while. Talking, just talking. We talked about our day. Him and the boys went out bowling and luckily nothing got broken this time. I told him about the conversation me and Kat had.

“it’s like she was warning me about something. The way she said it was weird ‘just be careful’ ” I said imitating Katherine’s tone of voice.

“well she’s right you know you should be careful you never know what might happen” he replies with a serious look on his face

“Do you have something against Daniel?” I ask remembering the other day in the car

“No -” he hesitates “just looking out for my bestie” he smiles. Liam looks at the clock on my bed side table.

“Whoa I better get going it’s late” I look at the time, it’s 12:00.

“I can’t let you drive this late at night” I protest

“then what am I supposed to do? Walk home?”

“No silly you can just crash here for the night” I smile

He smiles back. I pull out a mattress from under my bed, he’d slept over so many times we bought a mattress for him since we didn’t have a spare bedroom. I went out into the hall and grab a spare pillow and blanket from the cupboard. Mum was just coming up the stairs and saw me

“Liam staying over?” she smiles, he’s like a son to her

“yeah” I nod. She nods back knowingly

“Good night”

“Good night mum” I smile and go back into my room

I fix Liam’s bed.

“Thanks” he smiles

“Anytime” I smile back

I grab my pyjamas “be right back” I head to the bathroom to change and brush my teeth. When I get back Liam is only in his boxers. Whoa, he’s fit, look at those musc- wait, what was I thinking?

“Got enough clothes on there?” I laugh trying to shake off my previous thought

“Just making sure my clothes don’t get wrinkled” he winks at me

“Oh get over yourself” I laugh shoving him gently on the shoulder. I climb into my soft bed.

“Thousands of girls would kill to see me in just my boxers” he mutters flicking the light off and gets into his bed.

“Whatever Mr Rockstar” I mumble back

He laughs “Goodnight Nicole”

“Goodnight Liam”