All The Time [L.P]

8. Frozen

“So, your parents? What are they like?” He asked, buckling himself in the carseat.

  “Well, my mum’s name is Anna and she’s alright I guess. When I was a teenager she used to always assume the worst about me, like when I had my first kiss, my sister Kassie told my mum and she thought that I was sexually active and thought I got drunk whenever I went to my friends house. The same was with my dad, he always thought I was angry.” I answered, looking out the window into the snowy London streets. 

  “Did you say you had a sister?” He asked glancing over at me.

  “Yeah, she’s older than me, 34, the favourite”  

“Oh typical, my sisters were always the favourite to my dad but my mum always had a special spot for me.” He smiled and I smiled along with him. The rest of the ride back to his place was quiet, but comfortable.   

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  He opened the door to his apartment with ease, removed my shoes and followed Liam into his designer kitchen filled with state of the art appliances. His apartment was filled with gorgeous paintings and modern furniture. We walked up to the second floor of his apartment, along the stairs were various photos of One Direction at foreign places like Madison Square Garden and The Eiffel Tower, there were also photos of him and his family and some of his other friends.   

One specific photo caught my eye, I stopped walking and looked at it, the photo was of him, standing in the middle of a stage with a crowd of thousands in front of him. He had the biggest smile on his face, you could tell he was proud of what he has accomplished. “That was at Wembley” he said, over my shoulder “one of the best nights of my life.” he smiled, obviously reminiscing about the biggest accomplishment of his life.  

“Come” He grabbed my hand and lead me to the kitchen.  “Drink?” he asked boiling the kettle and moving to the cupboard where the mugs were.

“Yes please” I said whilst taking a seat at the bench.

“Tea or coffee?”   

“Tea please, 1 sugar"   “

No problem” He said making the hot beverages.

“So…what do you want to do?” He asked.  

“You aren’t thinking of, like,  frickle frackling are you?”

  “Frickle frackling?” 

  “Immature code for sex” I explained

  “Oh,” he chuckled “No, I meant like do you want to watch a movie? or play a board game? or both?"

  “Hm, both” I said, looking at the D.V.Ds in the compartment above the television. “Bags picking the movie though"  

“No problem” He chuckled. “Just no chick flicks or rom coms”  

“No problem” I said.

I searched through the many D.V.Ds and stumbled upon one of my favourites. “Frozen?”  His head rose suddenly and smiled warmly, a hint of excitement in his eyes. He nodded eagerly sitting down on the couch and placing both beverages and a bowl of popcorn on the coffee table.  

“I take it you like Disney?” He asked. I nodded grabbing a handful of popcorn

I nodded “I’m guessing you like it too?”. 

“Love it!” he answered “Sometimes I think too much for a 29 year old”. We both laughed.  

“What board game are we playing?” I asked sitting down in-between the gap of the couch and table.  

“The forever classic, monopoly” He said matter of fatly placing it on the table and setting it up while I started the movie.   

  The movie started when we started the game and that was when we started talking.

  “I remember,” Liam started through a mouth full of popcorn “when this movie first came out Harry, Niall, Louis and I took Lux to see it in the movies and the funniest thing happened, when ‘Let It Go’ came on Lux and Harry were singing it at the top of their lungs and Niall, Louis and I just cracked up laughing” By the end of the story he was telling, he was cracking up laughing too.  

“When I was watching it with my friends, I was the only one who knew the songs and they would get so pissed at me because I would refuse not to stop singing along” I laughed.  

"That's what Harry did. He would not shut up when we would watch the movie" He explained.

"Speaking of Harry, didn't you say he had to crash here?" I asked taking a sip of my tea.

"Yeah, he's with Niall tonight though."

"Okay, cool". 'Okay, cool' was basically my go to response when I had nothing else to say, which was most of the time.

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The movie had ended 2 hours ago but the game of Monopoly was still going strong. Right now, Liam was losing and I was winning by miles. Throughout the game we had got to know each other a lot more. For example I found out that constantly travelling the world is super hard due to being away from family and friends for so long, as expected. 

  I always thought it woud be hard to travel for so long and never really have a chance of a break to see family and friends. When I was a fan I used to constantly feel bad for liking them. Not because everyone else liked them and I wanted to be different, but because they did all of what they did for the fans and sacrificed so much for them.

"I don't want to play anymore" Liam joked, giving his last $500 to the bank.

"Only because you've lost" I said standing up. "Where's the bathroom?"

"Just down the hall on your left" He pointed.

I shut the bathroom door and locked it, I'm not too sure why though, it was only Liam and I in his apartment. Security reasons I guess. And that's when I realised I had a crisis.

I got my period. I had no pads, tampons or any sanitary women products, so all I was able to do was sit on the toilet in utter embarresment. 

~liam's pov~

Rebecca had been in the toilet for along time so I took it upon myself to see if she was okay. Afterall, she was my guest.

"Becca?" I knocked on the door "is everything okay?" I hesitantly asked.

"Um..yeah, I-I guess so" She shyly replied.

"Are you sure? Do you need anything?"

"Ah, um, yeah actually. This a pretty awkward question but, do you have any pads?"

"Um..." I didn't know what to say. It's not like I kept a packet of them around anywhere. "Do you, like, need me to get them from your bag or something?"

"Uh, I actually don't have any in my bag, I usually do but I kind of ran out and forgot to put them in there" She said nervously.

"Uh, I can check if I have any" I said walking to my room and hearing a faint thank you from the bathroom. I looked in all draws and couldfind nothing that would help, condoms, morning after pills etc were found but nothing to help a mestural cycle.

I knocked on the door again. "Hey, Becca I don't have any at all"

"Um, that's okay don't worry about it"

"You sure? Do you want me to go to the shops or something? I wouldn't mind" I offered. I really didn't mind at all. It was the least I could do, growing up with two sisters I understand the struggle. 

"If you don't mind" She sighed. Rebecca was obviously embarassed by the fact she had been visited by aunty flow. 

So, I grabbed my keys and headed for the door giving her one last reassuring sentence.