I Cannot Hide This Even Though I Try ~ A COMPLETED One Direction Fanfic

5 - New Faces, Old Places

**A/N**: Hello my loverlies! I'm being super nice and updating early because you guys clearly didn't get the memo. This time I'm serious though; 50 votes on the story or I won't be updating for a couple of weeks probably because class starts tomorrow and I have a softball tournament on the weekend.

Anyways, enjoy the chapter. Comment/vote/fan/whatever. Yeah. Sorry, I'm on FaceTime with the LOVELY LADY in my chapter, Morgan, who this chapter is also dedicated to (morannlou). She is basically my best real life friend and so the girl she is with is a rendition of me (I always loved the name Rayne and the winner of the contest for Zayn's girlfriend has the same name as me). You'll be seeing them more later along with the contest winner! :D

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*Liam's POV*

"What do you mean you need to go home?" Danielle asks, signs of frustration showing in her body language.

"I mean I need to go home. I need to go and be with Niall," I tell her, only just able to keep my cool. "Do you have any idea what today is?"

"July twenty-something? I don't know, Liam!" she snaps.

"It's mine and Niall's two year anniversary. And you know what? I'm going home to spend it with him!" I shout, unable to contain my anger at this whole situation.

"You won't make it back to England in time anyways, so why bother?"

I stare at the girl in front of me, dumbfounded. "What do you mean, Dani?"

"It's a long flight from Orlando to London. Between that and the time difference, you probably wouldn't be arriving in England until tomorrow," she explains.

I sigh and rest my face in my hands. How could I have let myself forget? And now I've probably let Niall down...

A few minutes later I hear shuffling around the condo. I assume Danielle is getting ready for another day of tourist activities in the city. To my surprise, there's a light touch on my shoulder. "Liam?" Danielle's tone is softer than it was a little while ago. 

"What do you want?" I growl, looking up slightly. I can see a small amount of fear in her eyes, so I'm quick to add, "Sorry, I'm upset with myself; I shouldn't be taking my anger out on you."

"It's alright, Li," she mumbles and I know she's lying to me.

Great. Another person I've managed to hurt because of my own idiocy. "What do you want?" I ask, making sure to be more gentle this time.

"This is for you," she states, handing me some papers. "I've packed all of our stuff already. We need to be out of here in twenty minutes at the most."

I read through the papers and realize that she's purchased a pair of tickets for the earliest flight back to London. "You didn't have to do this," I say, trying to show her how grateful I am, even though I'm practically at a loss for words.

"Like I said: you probably won't make it to London until tomorrow that time, but with how soon the flight takes off we still have a chance. You shouldn't be stuck here today just because management wanted us to go on vacation together. Now come on before we miss the flight." Dani rushes me to get up and go, making sure we have everything ready to leave.

"Got everything?" she asks as I pull our suitcases out to the rental car.

I stop a moment and check my pockets quickly. "Ye-no! Wait! My wallet and keys. I'll be right back." I run inside and grab my black leather wallet from the drawer by the bed in my room, then take my keys from the hook by the door. I hadn't told anyone yet, but I had recently bought condo to have as a place to go whenever I needed out of London or away from the public.