In Your Arms - A Liam Payne Love Story

Chapter 8

Nicole's POV

I must have fallen asleep because I could feel someone carrying me. I flutter my eyes open and come face to face with Liam.

"Where are we?" I ask him

He looks down at me and smiles "my apartment"

My eyes widen "my mum's gonna freak" I say panicking

"Louis already cleared it with your mum, she's fine with it" he replied

"ok" I sigh and lean on his shoulder. We reach his door and he sets me down. He lets me in and I head towards his bedroom. I grab one of Liam's hoodies. I go into the bathroom and change out of my clothes and slip on the hoodie. It fell just above my knees. I looked at myself in the mirror, my eyes are red and puffy and my cheeks are tear stained from all the crying. I go back into Liam's room to find him in sweat pants with his shirt off. Seriously? Is someone trying to make this even more awkward?

"Do you always sleep without a shirt?" I ask trying not to look at his abs.

"Yeah why?"

"Just wondering"

"Don't be shy, come and talk to me" he says patting the space next to him. I walk over and sit next to him on the bed.

"So what did you want to talk about?" I ask already knowing what he was going to say

"You almost got raped. I'm sure that doesn't happen to you everyday" he said, genuinely worried about me

"I don't know what happened. It was just a normal date. We went to dinner and we watched a movie at his place. After the movie it started to get weird. We were snogging and he stared to feel me up. I pushed him off me and told him that I wasn't ready" I could feel the tears starting again "he just kept arguing with me so I ran upstairs and called you. He found me and he was like really mad and he ....... he" I stop and break down in tears. It was the most traumatising thing that ever happened to me.

"Hey now" Liam said pulling me onto his lap "it's over now, you never have to see him again" he says trying to comfort me rocking me side to side. I cried into his shoulder.

"What would I do without you Liam?" I look up at him and kiss him on the cheek "thank you"

"I would do anything for you" he smiles

We lay together in bed. He hugged me into his chest and I fell asleep in his arms.

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"Should we wake her up?" I hear an Irish accent say

I didn't want to open my eyes, I didn't want to wake up into reality

"Yeah I think we should" I hear Harry say

I groan "Go away, leave me alone"

I hear a familiar laugh come from beside me

"Come on Nicole, you have to wake up sometime today" I hear Liam's voice whisper in my ear.

"Get ready Nicole" I hear Louis taunt. I flutter my eyes open, knowing Louis he would probably start jumping on the bed.

"Louis wait! I'm awake ok?" Don't do anything stupid" I say

"YAY! She's awake"

I look up and see four boys staring at me curiously. I then realise that Liam still has his arms around my waist and I feel my face go red.

"Looks like you two had fun last night. If you know what I mean" Zayn says wriggling his eyebrows. Liam lets go of me and we move as far away from each other as we can on the bed. I cross my arms across my chest

"Nothing happened"

"suuuure" Harry says sarcastically

"Nothing happened" Liam repeats looking at Niall who was smiling directly at him.

"Well then what other possible reason would you two be in bed together? And might I add that you are shirtless and Nicole is wearing your hoodie" Zayn says trying to prove a point. I tilt my head to the side in confusion and turn to Louis

"You didn't tell them?" I asked

"I wasn't sure you wanted them to know" he replies

"Tell us what?" Harry questions looking at Louis

"Do you want them to know?" Louis asks looking at me

I nod, my vision goes blurry and I feel a tear roll down my face. Liam comes over and puts his arm around my shoulder, comforting me once again. Louis turns to the boys "something happened last night"