Saved By One Direction

I'll Build You Up, I'll Never Stop

Liam’s POV

                My hotel room was not providing the distraction that I needed.  I had tried watching the telly but nothing of interest was on.  The hotel had no movies to rent and the pool was extremely busy.  They had a gym but the equipment was different than what I was used to.

                Even a twitcam couldn’t keep me busy! I had logged on but I had obviously chosen a bad time since hardly anyone watched it making it less than ideal to continue.  It did waste close to an hour though.  The lads should be almost here by not, they weren’t that far away to start.

                ‘Where r u lads? –L’ A quick text to Zayn should clear it up as long as he has his phone on him that is.

                ‘In the lobby, do u want to go to dinner with us?- Z’ That was fast, I really wasn’t thinking that they would already be here, unless they flew.

                ‘Sounds good, meet u in 10.-L’  I pulled on a pair of converse and grabbed my wallet and key card on the way out the door. I had to tell the lads about Nicole even though I knew they would likely think I was mad.

                The elevator was packed with a large family, they offered to make room but I politely declined opting for the stairs instead.  I half jogged down, counting the floors as I passed.  Time moved quickly and in what seemed like no time at all I was in the lobby and walking up to the lads.

                “Leeyum!! Why did you get here so early?” Niall screamed as ran to meet me.

                “That’s why I wanted you guys to get here now, but I’ll tell you that after dinner,” The lads nodded, Niall getting really excited at the mention of food.  The leprechaun was out the door faster than you could say Nando’s.  Louis and Harry followed after him but Zayn hung back, probably trying to decipher what I was going to say and why I had come out here without telling them.   I started walking out of the building, turning I called back to Zayn, “Comin’ mate?”  He nodded his head jogging a couple steps to catch up to me.

                Louis had obviously went and brought the car around for us, we caught up to Niall and Harry to wait for the eldest of the group.  A van came around the corner from the underground parking, Paul must have gotten it for us knowing that we wouldn’t have a car otherwise.  Louis was the only one of us that was comfortable with driving the American styled car so he was always the one to drive us around.  Harry hopped in the front seat beside Lou and Niall crawled across to the opposite side leaving Zayn and I to decide who got the middle seat.  Zayn would normally be the one to take it but I was closer so I moved to sit next to Niall.  I’m not sure where we were going, Louis was obviously going to be the one choosing where we go since he was driving.

The ride was silent and I took the time to once again think over my decision when it came to Nicole.  Was I making the right choice by taking her in?  Would the lads be alright with it, would she?  It would be a big change for all of us and the biggest question was, how would we all react to the new situation?  I could only hope that I wasn’t going to mess anything up.

“Liam, Liam, LIAM!” My head snapped up towards the voice, I must have really been out of it.

“Yes?” I asked Zayn.

“We are here, are you alright mate? You seemed kind of lost there for a while.” I really had been out of it like that.  I was never like this, yes I thought deeply about decisions before making them but I was almost always aware of my surroundings. 

“Fine, just thinking,” For the first time I looked around at my surroundings.  We were at a small buffet styled restaurant which was a perfect match for Niall’s stomach.

“I think I’m in heaven,” Niall sighed as he looked around at the heaping piles of food.  They had everything you could imagine.  There was at least twenty different countries represented in the large quantities of food.  Niall didn’t waste any time in racing off towards the pile of plates to try and fill up the bottomless pit that was his stomach.

Thirty minutes later we were all waiting for Niall to finish his third helping of food.  I couldn’t help but laugh at the Irish lad across from me, his face was sprinkled with crumbs from the pastry that he had just finished.

“I think I’m done now,” Niall said as he wiped off his hands on the napkin in front of him.

“It’s about time mate! I thought you would explode before you stopped!” Louis joked as he poked Niall’s stomach.

“Haha mate, you all know that I would never explode,”  He smirked, relaxing back into his seat.

“Alright, well I guess I will get the check and we can get back to the hotel,”  I signaled the waitress over and quickly paid for the meal including a tip.  Each of us grabbed a hard candy on the way out the door.  I quietly sucked on the candy the whole way back to the hotel.  I was nervous, how was I going to tell them that I was going to adopt a fan?  It wouldn’t be an easy task but I was going to be helping Nicole and that’s all that mattered.  The boys would be fine with it in the end.

Zayn was watching me the whole way up to the room, he was obviously onto the fact that I wasn’t in the conversation.  Lucky for me he didn’t say anything about it.  Since I had already checked us in when I first got here we were able to go right up to the room without stopping at the front desk.

All the lads stuff was already in their rooms, Lou and Harry were sharing and so were Niall and I so Zayn got his own room.  We were all sat in the living area watching some American show, I paid it no mind; I was still thinking about how I was going to tell them.  Then my time ran out.

Zayn reached over and turned the television off, the room succumbed into silence.

“What is it you wanted to tell us Liam?” I sighed, I would have to tell them sooner or later any way.

“I’ve made a decision and it is one that will affect all of us in one way or another,”  I sucked in a deep breath of air before continuing, “I wanted to tell you lads before I finalized it tomorrow,”

“What is it mate?”  Niall asked with a tone of concern buried in his accent, “You’re worrying us!”

“You know the last tweet that we got at the concert?” They all nodded their heads after thinking for a couple seconds, “Well, I contacted the girl behind it and she has been going through really rough times and that’s why I came here early so I could meet her.  When I got here she was in a girl’s home after her foster parent was murdered while she was in the house.  I knew that I had to do something so,” Here goes nothing, “I’m adopting her.”

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