Kidney Donor// Liam Payne

《Chapter 56》 Never Leaving You

《Niall POV》

"Liam, no! Go Home!" she yelled loudly. I ran to help defend.. yet to try and calm down Essie.

"Essie, just let him-" I tried to reason, before the stinging pain of Essie's hand made my head turn in surprise... the burning sensation against my cheek warming up my face as I looked back at her sadly.

"We've been waiting...waiting," she broke down... and I knew I deserved that hit. I deserved it, plus a thousand times for what I put her through..

I reached in to hug her.. risking the high chance that she'd push away... but.. to my surprise, she didn't. She froze, her grimace careful and rigid, like her body.

I tookk closer steps, and she followed by moving back... I kept my arms around her shoulders... as she held her hands against my torso carefully, keeping me distant..

I pulled her away from the door, and looked at Liam.. who looked at me silently, and nodded before walking into the room..

I took more steps back, trying to hold her even closer.. but she refused.

"Niall..." she whimpered, shaking her head in denial.

"Essie.. princess..." I sighed in sorrow.. scanning her pain.. and feeling it twice as hard..

"You love him?" I forced out... remembering her embrace with what seemed to be Kelsey's relative.. She looked up at me, her brilliant hazel eyes shocked by my words.. She shook her head.

"Niall, you don't understand," she tried to pull away, but I refused. She doesn't love him, yet she's saying it so softly.. so emotionally.. I had never seen her look so vulnerable.

"Essie.. I... I'm sorry.. I love you.. I've always loved you...," I cried as I reached in for a kiss... she seemed hesitant, before she shut her eyes closed. I was inches from her face, from her beautifully plump lips.. when she moved her hands.. and my torso quickly met hers.. but this time.. it was.. it was different.

I looked down in confusion.. to find the bulge where her torso should be.

"I'm pregnant, Niall," she then blurted out in release... as tears continued to rush down her face..

I froze in shock.. my eyes flickering from her face to her belly.. a feeling of betrayal.

"He.. and you.." I suddenly regretted coming... before I watched her expression change, a small frustrated laugh escaping her lips... before it fell to a grimace again.

"Niall.. " she sighed, looking down at her belly as she thought.

"I'm 4 and a half months..." she continued.. her eyes intense on mine.. as it.. as it sunk in. Four and a half months? Then it hit me.

Prom night.

In that moment, I glared back at her.. bewildered.. shocked.. a sense of overwhelming feelings inside.

"It's no one else's... but yours," she finished.. waiting for my response.. a response that I didn't know I'd even have.

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《Liam POV》

It took me a few seconds to compose myself...and I slipped my hand against the door, holding it for support.

My breaths dragged, as my vision blurred... as I shook my head in disbelief.

"Kuh... Kelsey?" I cringed as my voice shattered in pain.

L..Liumm... her whisper was barely audible...

but was heaven for my heart... a bittersweet feeling that send my knees weak as I continued to stare at death in the face.

I had no words.

Not one..

Because the shock was so powerful.. to see Kelsey like this.

Her face looked so thin... yet so.. swollen.. Her hair thin and in a bun above her head.. her undereyes dark.. a completely different pair of eyes... Kelsey's eyes.. were nearly gone.

I shook my head, as she shook hers, pouting as tears easily began to flow from her dark cheekbones that indented into her skin..

"Don't... Doon't.. look at me.." she breathed harshly as her monitor beeped more quickly... that killed me even more.. threatened me that she'd be gone in this mere second if the monitor stopped.

I took a step towards her, and she shoved her head into her arms, her whimpers growing as I came near.

"K-Kelsey.. Calm down, love," I cried.. taking another step, reaching out my hand to make sure she was actually there.. and I didn't actually pass out.. and this was all a... all a dream...

She shook her head, the oxygen mask plastered her nose as she squeezed it, the fog quickening onto the plastic as she began to breath harshly.

I don't know why... but I jumped against the hospital bed, careful as she squirmed.

"Kelsey"

"No, Liam.. just" her breath stuttered as I tried to help... but she looked so fragile.

I moved closer to her.. not daring to kiss her lips to comfort her... but.. I wrapped my hands around her.. so gently.. so carefully.. it made me cry to know how held back I felt.. so I wouldn't.. so I wouldn't break her more than I already had.

"I love you, Kelsey," I cried with so much pain..nothing in the world can now push me to move any farther from her.. nothing could describe how willing I was to give up everything I had.. just to be with Kelsey again.

This is where I belong..

Where I needed her, but most importantly.. where she needed me.

I let her cry.. before she sighed and looked up at me, her eyebrows furrowed with pain and shock.. before she breathed through her nose deeply.. and she slowly and shakily wrapped her hands onto my face.

"I can barely feel you..." she shook her head as her sea colored eyes flickered against mine. I furrowed my eyebrows... pained by her words.

"I love.. I love you, too.. " she nodded in agreement before continuing after a gasp of air.

" but wish you weren't here," she said softly.. her breaths raspy.. her skin dried...

"I am here, Kelsey.. I'm here for you," I cried as I send my fingers through her hair.. She then.. smiled so weakly.. it broke my heart more than it warmed it.

She then send her hand away.. and removed her face mask..

"No, Kelsey don't do tha-" I was cut off by her hungered lips... her dry lips that desperately smashed against mine..but they were still so perfect to me...

I closed my eyes, kissing her back quickly.. before slowing down to be more gentle... and once I did so, she pulled away.

"Liam, I-" she sighed before she stopped mid-sentence, since I frantically slid the oxygen mask back on..

"I'm never leaving you again, Kelsey.. and this time.. I mean it," I looked at her every feature with awe.. with strength.. with the support I should have been giving her since day one.

She began to cry again..

" Please don't leave me again... because there's no more time to," she murmured in pain.

No more time to?

My confusion from her question was exposed onto my face as I remained silent.. waiting for her explanation for her words.

"They gave me..." she took a deep breath.. breathing seeming so difficult for her...

"14 months, Liam..." she watched me closely.. as I remained frozen.

"And those 14 months ended 2 weeks ago," she finished.

What?