I Can't Help Falling In Love With You (A One Direction FanFiction)

Chapter 2

Sorry for the super late upload. I've got a ton of summer reading to do and I'm lucky i got this short chapter up :P I just want to thank xibeliebin1Dx for making me the cover for this story!! LOVE IT <3 and i can't believe you guys are still reading i should have kissed you! OVER 20K READS!! YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME I LOVE YOU!!! :D well yeah that's all, enjoy this short chapter. i know the story is moving kinda slowly right now but bear with me? please? don't forget to comment, vote, fan (yeah fan me i'm so close to 100 and that'd be awesome if i got 100 fans) ok bye xx Lindsay

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Leah’s POV

                “Mum I’m home!” I call, hanging up Snickers’ leash on the hook by the door.

                “Hi love how was your walk?” she calls, most likely from the kitchen. The smell of her tomato sauce is wafting through the house, smells like spaghetti for dinner.

                “It was fine, oh guess who I ran into?” I say taking a seat at the island in our kitchen.

                “You know I hate guessing games, just tell me.” she whines.

                “Alright, you’re no fun.” I tease, “but I ran into Karen.”

                “Payne? Oh I’ve been meaning to call her, we haven’t talked in ages.” She says grabbing for the phone.

                “No need she’s invited us over for dinner and to watch the X Factor on Tuesday. Liam’s gone back on this year.”

                “Good for him!” she smiles, “but I’m still gonna call her anyway.” She says punching in Karen’s number.

                “But mum! She doesn’t know about dad.” I shout. She looks at me wide eyes and hangs up the phone. Her eyebrow is raised and she looks at me expectantly. “Erm… when I saw her she said that Geoff would love to hang out with dad since he’s the only man in the house now that Liam’s gone and I just didn’t have the heart to tell her because she looked so happy and I didn’t want to ruin the moment.” I ramble. My mom sighs and turns back to the sauce on the stove.

                “Well looks like this could be a depressing get together.” She mutters. I groan and go up to my room, suddenly dreading Tuesday.

Liam’s POV

                I’m lying in my bunk bed, Niall’s snores filling the room. I can’t sleep for some reason and Niall definitely isn’t helping me. It was our second night as a band. The boot camp episode would be airing tomorrow and the world would find out that the five of us were now a group. Not like it was huge news or anything, I was just glad to still be on the show. I groaned and rolled over to look at my clock. 3:24 AM. I pulled my phone out from under my pillow and turned it on. I groaned again as I was suddenly blinded by the screen’s glow. I scrolled through my contacts, why? I have no idea. It’s not like anybody’s awake now anyways. So I moved on to my pictures and scrolled through them. Mum’s birthday, me and my dad at a football game, me and Leah at the lake. Leah… now there’s a name I hadn’t heard for a while. I zoomed in on the picture of us. We were both wearing lifejackets, standing on the dock in the middle of the lake. My arm was around her waist and hers across my shoulders. I was smiling at the camera while she was laughing, I think I’d tickled her right as the camera had gone off…

**FLASHBACK**

                “Alright you two smile!” my mum shouted from the shore.

                “Wait mum get a picture on my phone as well ok?” I called.

                “Sure thing Liam, where is it?”

                “In the pocket of my trousers.”

                “Got it! Ok now smile!” I looked down at Leah, her mouth in a straight line as she reluctantly slung her arm across my shoulders.

                “C’mon Leah, at least look like you’re having fun.” I joked.

                “I’m not though, I’m wet and tired and sunburned.” She complained.

                “READY?” mum called again. “1… 2…” Just as the camera was going off I tickled Leah’s side, causing her to shriek with laughter.

                “LIAM!!!” she shouted. I just laughed,

                “Great picture!” My mum commented, turning back to Helen, Leah’s mom and showing her the photo.

                “You are so dead.” Leah muttered shoving me off the side of the dock. I grabbed her wrist as I fell, pulling her into the cold murky water with me.

**END FLASHBACK**

                I sighed, remembering her. I wonder how she is? I haven’t talked to her for a while… I wonder why we stopped talking. I tried to wrack my brain for something but I was too tired to remember. I wrote myself a mental note to call my mum and ask about Leah tomorrow. I grabbed my extra pillow and threw it underneath me at Niall’s bunk.

                “Huh wah? Nando’s?” he mumbled.

                “You’re snoring. Shut it I can’t sleep.” I whispered.

                “Sorry…” I heard him roll over, his deep breathing indicating he’d fallen back asleep. I pulled up my covers over my head in case he started to snore again and fell asleep dreaming about that summer at the lake.