A Week to Love - Liam Payne Short Story

You Have a Week

I stare at the boy sitting across from me, unable to speak. I know if I do, I will cry. 

"But... but I thought we had something, Christina," he says, his voice seemingly choked and unable to look me in the eye. "I know you better than almost anyone else, and you know me better. We hang out and talk all the time, we cuddle, we're always together... Which is why we're having this conversation!" His voice raises up and his eyes flash a little. 

I know any amount of girls would kill to be in my position right now. I am sitting across from the one and only Liam Payne from One Direction. You know, the one with the adorable puppy dog face? Yeah, that one. It's been a year now - a wonderful, amazing year of getting close to him. Of discovering who he is and the person that he is and wants to become. But these memories are only choking me right now as I struggle to get the words out.

"I think we do have something, Liam," I say, trying to make eye contact with him. "And you don't know how badly I want to be with you." At that, his eyes light up, and he looks as if he is about to jump up from the chair.

"But," I continue, and I make my brain flip a switch and become automatic. I can't, I just can't say any of this with any heart. I say it because I must. "But you don't have the thing that is most important to me - my religion." 

He almost snorts at that, and immediately opens his mouth, protesting. "That doesn't matter!! All that matter is that we care about each other!"

But I shake my head at him, feeling tears spill out of my eyes as I do so. "No, Liam, see? You don't understand. My religion influences everything that I do. The way that I speak, the way that I act, the people I hang around with... everything! I don't do these things because I have to 'follow the rules' of my religion. I do these things because I love God more than anything in my life and I want, oh so desperately, to please Him. And you don't understand that because you don't have a personal relationship with God. You don't understand how much He loves you and how he knows every little detail about you..." I trail off, my tears choking me up so much that I'm unable to continue. 

Liam stares at the table, his head in his hands. "I just don't see how any of that can actually be true," he admits, focusing on a bit of food someone must have spilled there earlier. "It seems like you're living in a fairytale world with all these unnecessary rules."

"But..." I simply stare at him, unable to say the words I'm trying so hard to say. "I didn't just pick Christianity up out of nowhere. I believe it because it's logical. I have so many reasons that I believe it's true, and none of them are fairy-tale like. If you would just let me explain..." again I trail off, knowing it's not even worth it to finish my sentence. 

He continues staring at the table for a few more seconds before slowly bringing his eyes up to mine in an intense stare. "Show me." he finally says.

"What?" I ask, completely confused.

"Show me your reasons. I'll give you a different question every day, and you have till the night to answer it- logically, mind you. Not using the Bible." he says, giving me a half-smile.

My thoughts are scrambling, and I can only nod at him. My brain whirls around, nothing quite making sense except for the urgent fact that I must agree to this. 

"Show me why you believe what you do. I know you're a rational person. I'll give you a week. A week that will decide if we should work this out or just forget the whole thing." he tells me, never breaking eye contact with me.

I nod firmly at him, positive that this is the correct way to handle things. "A week," I repeat slowly, giving my mind time to wrap around the thought. I bring my eyes back to his, a slight smile playing around the corners of my mouth. "Okay, you're on."

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AN: New story woop woop! 

My plan is to write the next seven chapters and then put them up over the course of a week, so you can read it just as if you were Liam :) So don't expect any updates for a while, but then you'll get them all at once! haha

Anyway, hope you enjoy the idea of this story!