Imagine falling head over heels for somebody you didn't even want to meet at first. Sounds far-fetched, right?
Liam Payne from One Direction is not at all keen on seeing Alya Singh, who is a singer from India. He, along with his band-mates, has to p...
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"I have never been so scared of losing something in my entire life.
But then again, nothing in my life has ever meant so much to me, as YOU do."
Liam's P.O.V.
I did not even need to look at Adi to find out the answer to my question. I kept staring at Alya who was then smiling through her teary eyes, which made it clear that she obviously loved him and not me; whether she admitted it or not; whether she realized it or not.
"He has been fighting cancer for the past two years." Alya started off in an emotional voice, interrupting me in my thoughts and I blinked my eyes a few times since I had zoned out. "It has been such a tough time for him, for me... for both of us and I can't even imagine the first thing about all the pain that he had to go through. It was torture to see him suffer like that," Wiping away the small tear that had rolled down her cheek, she smiled to herself and continued speaking, "But today, my baby finally won the battle." Her voice cracked by the end of the sentence and another tear escaped from her eye.
When she addressed Adi as 'my baby', I felt a sharp pain inside my heart. I could give up any damn thing just to un-hear it. I had imagined a future with her, where she addressed me by that name, with that kind of passion in her voice and the overwhelming love that her eyes held at that particular moment. However, none of that was for me, and surely, it seemed it would always remain only a dream for me. Nothing more than that. At that particular moment, I realized that she was never going to be mine. It hit me out of the blue and stuck right in my heart, shattering it into thousands of little pieces.
Wiping away the tears from her cheeks, she glanced in my direction and I quickly pulled a normal face, hiding my pain behind the fake smile that was enveloping my face then. Passing me a wide smile, she held my right hand in her left one and spoke up again. "You have no idea how relieved and happy I am, Liam."
However, I knew. It was written all over her face. Even if she tried to hide her love, affection, and concern for him, everything was clear. Her eyes spoke all those feelings and words that never left her mouth. I had no idea if she realized the fact that she loved Adi. She loved him a lot. Or was she willingly avoiding or trying to run away from those feelings? Nevertheless, it was all there in the open and I was too fucking blind to notice it. I should have seen it coming all through that while.
"I am so happy," Alya's cheerful voice brought me back into the real world and I nodded my head in response, tenderly squeezing her hand in mine. "Now, he will be like all the other kids and have a normal life again." With that, she flashed one of her biggest smiles at me.
'Other kids'. The words echoed inside my head and I instantly turned to my left to look through the glass door. There on the bed, I noticed a boy around ten years of age or so, lying motionless and his breathing was then been supported by the oxygen mask attached to the machine.
