Even If It Kills Me (One Direction and The Vamps Fan Fiction)

Chapter 23

Cat's POV

Katie stayed backstage the entire concert, she was really tired from the James incident. Niall took her back to his hotel room to sleep after the show, but the next day we decided she should probably go to see a doctor.

We all worriedly took her to the hotel medical room. We were relived to find out she suffered few minor injuries, nothing that will last long. She is going to have to be kept in the medical room for a day or two.

~

The next night, I went to Brad's room to hang out. I have no idea why I was even going there, I just wanted to get out of my room where I had been doing nothing but worrying about Katie. And Brad and I are getting close currently, so he was my choice of escape. It is pretty hard to stop worrying about your best friend that's in the hospital though.

"Hey!" Brad greeted me with a big bear hug, as he always did.

"Hi..." I trailed off and sighed sadly once we pulled away.

Brad hugged me again. resting his chin on top of my head this time. He could tell I was upset.

"I know you're worried about Katie, we all are! But I promise you can trust the doctors, they will do their best to help her. We just have to wait."

Brad reassured me.

I nodded into his chest. Brad pulled away from the hug and looked me in the eyes.

"She's not extremely hurt, just some minor injuries. So don't worry your beautiful mind, honey." Braf kisses the tip of my nose.

I blush slightly.

"You know what you need to do?" He asks me.

"What do I need to do?" I raise my eyebrows.

"Have a night out where you forget all the problems and just have fun!" Brad says excitedly.

"Hmm..I don't know" I said, unsure.

I walked into the hotel room and sat myself on the foot of Brad's bed.

"Come on! please..." he sits down next to me and grabs my hands. "For me?" he asks with his brown puppy dog eyes that made me melt. "I don't like seeing you upset." he pouts.

"Fine. I'll go out, but only if you come with me." I say, with Brad was better than going out alone.

"I'd love to come with. Where are we going to go?"

"I don't know, it was your idea, you choose"

"Alright, well I know there's bowling alley a few blocks away from the hotel, let's go there."

Brad grabs my hand and nearly drags me out of the hotel. We arrive at the bowling alley and of course, there are paparazzi everywhere.

"Brad..." I grab his arm nervously.

"What's wrong?" He asks.

"It's just...there's paparazzi everywhere...and they'll see us together...and that's how Emma nearly got killed." I started to tear up a bit, thinking about how those girls abused my best friend.

"Cat..." Brad puts a hand on my cheek. "I won't let anyone hurt you, don't worry." He gives me a quick kiss. "Anyone that tries to hurt you will have to get through me." He adds.

"Thank you." I say shyly and I look down at my fingers.

"Come on, as I said, tonight you're going to forget the world and have fun," he reminds me.

I get out of the car, as does Brad. As soon as Brad walks around to the front of the car and can be seen, I'm blinded by flashes.

"You just have to pretend like they're not here," he whispers in my ear.

I nod and grab his hand. We walk holding hands into the bowling alley, and I tried not to care that everyone was taking pictures of it. I'll probably be on the news in the next few days, but does anyone even know my name?

We bowled and laughed, I have to admit I did forget the drama. I even got used to the pictures being taken, and barely noticed. I tried to stay positive; here I am with a guy I like, having tons of fun, and he likes me too!

Yeah my life is pretty messed up right now and my friends seem to be getting more and more injured everyday, but Brad somehow can make me forget all that.

~

It's been 2 days now since Katie went into the hospital room.

Everyone except James is hanging out in Niall's room today, trying to cheer Niall up. Poor Niall, the girl he likes is in the hospital because of someone he thought was his friend.

After only an hour or so of hanging out in Niall's room, Emma's phone rings.

"ITS KATIE!!!!" She yells with the biggest smile ever.

"Luck of the Irish or what?" I elbow Niall in the arm.

Niall laughs. I don't know why though, that joke was extremely lame.

"Wait, can I answer it?" Niall asks Emma.

Emma hands Niall the phone.

"Hey! My little Kiall is awake!" He answers happily.

I can't hear what Katie is saying on the other line.

"Yeah! It's a mixture between Katie and Niall, but mainly Niall!" He explains the nickname.

"Katie?" He continues.

"Yes," He says.

"Not me?" He says a little sadly.

"I'll go get Emma on here," he tells her.

He hands the phone to Emma.

"Katie?" Emma asks into the phone.

"Are you okay!?!?!? Yeah, I'm fine!" Emma laughs.

Emma tells Katie that she is in Niall's room and Katie is in the hospital medical room.

"Probably. I'm sorry we haven't come to visit yet, we wanted to give you some time alone to recover and think." Emma apologizes.

"48 hours." Emma tells Katie.

I grab the phone out of Emma's hand, not able to wait to hear Katie's voice anymore.

"That's two days!" Katie gasps

"Yep, good job! You know math," I tell her.

"Cat! Great to hear that you're okay...you're alright?" Katie asks.

I laugh and say yes, of course I'm fine. I should be the one worried about her, I'm the only girl that is still uninjured here.

I put the phone to my shoulder so Katie can't hear me.

"She's probably going to be able to leave today, let's surprise her!" I whisper to everyone in the room.

We all start walking toward the medical room.

"When can I see you guys?" Katie asks.

"Sorry, got to go, Katie. Be back soon!" I tell her, I have to hang up because we are outside the medical room now.

We knocked on the door.

"Come in?" Katie asks, confused.

We burst through the door, Niall and Emma at the front.

"Emma!" Katie yells excitedly.

Emma and Niall so their greetings, Emma hugs Katie and Niall kisses the top of Katie's forehead.

It's good to have my best friend back, she'll even get out of this medical room soon! I'm anxious for my turn to hug her, but I decide to wait patiently. As I let Niall and Emma have Katie first, I walk over to Brad.

He's sitting in one of the chairs and I plop myself in the chair next to his, wrapping my arms around him. He smiles and chuckles silently, letting me cling to him like baby. I bury my head in his shoulder, waiting for my turn with my friend.

By: CatFriendly