I'm a Payne // n.h.

Chapter 14

Chapter 14

I panicked. The man had a firm hold around me and a hand over mouth. There was no use anyway, because I could not get sound to come out of my mouth. I managed to get a foot up to hit him swiftly in the balls. A loud groan came out of his mouth causing him to let me go. I turned around and saw a pained Liam lying on the ground.

"Jesus Lyss. I was only getting you back." Liam sounded pained.

"Oh God Liam you scared the shit outta me, didn't know you had it in you kid." I patted Liam on the back. Liam wasn't generally the one to do things like this, he'd usually play dumb little pranks on me but nothing this extreme.

"Well. I heard you had a pretty exciting night with Niall." Liam's face hardened. This is exactly how he was he never let me have my side of the story, he just went on and on about how I was wrong and have shouldn't have done whatever I did wrong.

"Liam I didn't do anything I swear. I was at the club, I had a few drinks, started dancing with Niall, he got a boner. We kissed, went home and went to bed. Nothing more happened, ask Niall, you'll get the same explanation from him." I pushed him out frustrated, and quickly took a shower. I put on the same clothes and went downstairs to find Zayn watching tv.

"Hey." I sat down next to Zayn.

"Hey, sorry about earlier. Harry was out of line." Zayn apologized, fixing his hair a bit.

"It's cool, this is all so embarrassing. It really irks me how somebody could embarrass Niall and I like that." I blabbed.

"I guess that's what comes with being a celebrity. It sucks sometimes but I wouldn't give it up for a second. You made your decision with Niall and to be publicly seen with him." Zayn leaned farther back into the couch.

"I have no idea how embarrassing this is for Niall. I honestly don't know what I would do if that happened to me. This interview is going to be hell if it comes up." I adjusted my beanie.

"Yeah, if it does come up we made a plan for Louis to do something really distracting and obnoxious to lead them off of the topic."

"You guys are such good people, my friends back home would probably just laugh at me. They only hung out with me to get to see Liam. It sucked because I didn't know who was being friends with me for me or for Liam."

"Well just so you know, I'm friends with you for you." Zayn winked. "My sisters call me crying sometimes because of that very thing. It hurts a lot to think that I can't be there for them and that I'm the reason for them getting hurt by stupid people."

"Next time they call, I'll talk to them. It's nice to have someone who knows what it's like." I smiled and as did Zayn.

"Okay, I'll remember that. I'm gonna go upstairs and check on Niall."

"Alright, tell me how he's handling it."

"Will do." I walked upstairs into Niall's room to see his eyes glazed over staring at his laptop. "What are you doing Niall?" I asked curiously. He snapped out of his gaze and looked at me. Then I saw all of the pictures of me around his bedroom, the boys had gotten us good. My eyes widened and I laughed.

"Trying to figure out something to tweet." He said flatly giving me a half smile, dropping the possible conversation about his room.

"Just don't talk about it. Don't acknowledge it just try to forget about it, you over thinking isn't going to do anybody any good. Because if you tweet about it, the whole fiasco is going to blow up even more. Now stop being such a worry wart and kiss me." A real smile appeared on his face and he got up and kissed me softly. It was a simple kiss there was no lust no hardness, just a simple little kiss that made my insides explode with butterflies.