Malibami / 1d

chapter twenty-two

"Lily. Lil. Lily. Please." Slowly my eyes opened and I realised who was calling my name.

"Niall?" I furrowed my brows and looked around me. I was still laying on the beach, bridal style in Niall's lap while he stared at me, a worried expression on his face.

"Thank God you're awake." He said, pulling me close to hug me. My first thought was to push him off of me. But having somebody hug me actually felt good right now. The tears started rolling and before I knew it, I was crying in Niall's arms.

We sat there for what felt like a while. Niall had wrapped me up in his hoodie and just held me, trying to calm me down.

"Niall?" We looked up to see somebody walking over to us. 

I widened my eyes at Niall and got up. "Who did you call! Why!" I yelled, immediately feeling like he had broken my trust. Niall shook his head and got up, grabbing my hands. "You fainted, the water was cold, I had to call Dylan to ask him if he could check you." Niall said, trying to calm me down.

It was completely dark on the beach and I could only make out figures. Niall probably hadn't seen any of the bruises I was covered in yet.

Suddenly I felt light-headed again and I slightly leaned in to Niall's side. 

"Hey Dylan." Niall said, a scared voice. "We need to take her somewhere warm, first of all." Dylan said, feeling my arm and realising I was actually freezing. "No, not your frat house." I whined, I did not want Liam or anybody else to see me like this.

Niall and Dylan exchanged looks, eventually nodding. "We get that." Dylan said, "thank you." 

"Camilla left to go to Australia with family for Christmas so her dorm is empty." Niall realised. Before I could say anything, Niall had picked me up bridal style and they were carrying me to Dylan's car.

Niall sat with me on the backseat, trying to calm me down since I was still sobbing. Before I had even noticed, we were at my old dorm complex and Niall asked me for keys. Luckily I had those. He grabbed my body and walked inside the building and over to the elevator. 

We patiently waited until we were inside the dorm.

Dylan turned on the light and then I heard two loud gasps. 

"Holy-" Dylan started saying but Niall cut him off. "Fucking hell Lily." He said, his waters tearing up. Niall really was the emotional type, it was pretty sweet.

"Lay her on her bed, get wet cloths and a few dry ones. Bandages, anything you can find. An emergency kit." Dylan started saying before rushing Niall, who was still carrying me, in to my bedroom.

"And take off her dress." Dylan yelled from the living room. Niall stared at me, biting his lip. "I don't even care anymore. I don't want to be here anymore." I groaned, lifting up my dress slightly but groaning from the pain I felt in my stomach.

I laid back down and Niall helped me get out of my dress. "Lily, this looks so bad." He said, staring at my stomach. I looked up and widened my eyes.

There was blood, a wound and an ugly bruise. 

"Okay I got everything that I could find." Dylan said, walking in. "Holy shit, your stomach too." He said, widening his eyes. "Lily you need to go to a hospital." Dylan said, staring at me. "No. I can't." I said, closing my eyes.

I tried to roll over but immediately my waist hurt me again so I cried out of pain.

"Okay, I'll see what I can do." Dylan said, furrowing his brows and first concentrating on the big wound on my stomach.

I looked up to see Niall stand on the side, a little further away. He stood there, watching, slightly biting his nails. I picked up the not bruised arm and holding my hand out for him to grab. He smiled and grabbed my hand. 

The next thirty minutes were hell. Zayn managed to hit me pretty deep but there was probably no internal damage, from what Dylan had discovered. He cleaned out the wound and wrapped it up in some bandages. 

Before I knew it he started checking out my neck. "There are nail marks all over your neck, Lily." He replied. Then he turned around to Niall, who was still loosely holding my hand.

"We should take pictures of it." He said, staring at Niall and then at me. Niall nodded and got his phone. Then he took a few pictures of my neck. Dylan removed the bandages from my stomach so Niall could shoot a few more pictures and then bandaged it up again.

Then hell continued, Dylan cleaned my neck up but it hurt like crazy. When he was finally done, I was in tears and lucky I could breathe without people touching the soar spot.

"I'm going to head out, Lily, please call me tomorrow when you're sober so I can tell all of this again." Dylan said, staring at me. I nodded and thanked him. Then I closed my eyes and laid there for a few seconds.

I opened my eyes again to see Niall staring at me. I tried to sit up and after struggling since every part of my body was bruised and hurt, I was seated on my bed.

"Thank you, Niall." I told him. He nodded and walked closer to me. "I know you're in a rough spot now, my brother will hate you if he finds out we're together right now." I said, staring at him.

I got up off the bed and stood in front of him.

"I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I had just left you there on the beach." Niall replied, staring at me. "You're probably really tired and you should really sleep off this alcohol." He laughed, waving his hand in front of his face as if I stank. I sarcastically let my jaw drop which made him laugh.

Niall turned around and stared at my closet, I still had lots of clothes laying around here. He rummaged through my drawer and found a basic t-shirt. "Here," he said, handing it to me. I smiled and slipped it on.

I looked up at him again and he smiled back. "Come on, go to bed." He said, grabbing my hands and lifting my duvet cover so I could slip in. "Thanks again." I said, laying on my side and staring at Niall. 

"I'm going to head out too." Niall said, making me pout. I grabbed his hand before he had the chance to walk away. 

"Will you cuddle me?" I asked. I think he noticed I was still a little drunk, but I really wish he would have said yes.

"Lily, you're drunk, you're with Zayn, even though he hurt you, I don't know where you guys are at. You should sleep it off and I'll call you tomorrow." He said, a sympathetic smile on his face. I tried to nod but my neck hurt too much.

"Good night, Lily." 

"Night Niall." 

And with that he left me alone in my dorm. Even though I was hurt to the core, bruised and broken, I was happy to be back in my own bed for a change.