Liam's POV
My fingers close around the cold, metal doorknob and I push my way into Nicole's room. Sure, I was upset with her last night for getting so drunk and going completely crazy, but I think she needed to be able to let go for a little while. I step into her room, smiling, until I see her... on the floor.
"Nicole?" I breathe. "Nicole!" I shake her shoulders but she won't move.
"Harry! Jess!" I call the curly haired boy and his girlfriend who are in the other room.
Her phone is laying next to her facing downward and I pick it up and place it on the table.
Harry and Jess walk into the room and they both gasp when they see her.
Harry places her on the bed while Jess gets a wet towel to put on her forehead.
"Should we take her to the hospital?" I ask hoarsely.
"I think--"
"Where..." a voice begins, interrupting Harry.
"Nicole! Are you okay? What happened?" I ask, relief flooding over me.
"I..." she starts with a small smile, but it quickly fades as she sits up and picks up her phone, her face turning pale.
"Nicole?"
"Can you... Can you get Niall for me?" she asks befire starting to cry.
"Nicole?"
"Please, go away and get me Niall."
This time Harry speaks up, confused. "Why?"
"Please, dont ask. I need to speak to Niall," she says fiercely. "Go away. All of you."
"O-okay," I say. Why does she want to speak to Niall all of a sudden? As far as I know, they haven't made up since our fight yesterday, but from the look on her face, she seems pretty serious.
I saunter out of the room, closing the thick, wooden door behind us.
"I'll go get Niall," I say before Harry can object.
Both Jess and Harry glance at the door and just as I'm turning to leave, Jess says, "You think she'll be okay, right?"
I see Harry's pained expression, which I'm sure mirrors mine, as he says, "I don't know."
And at this moment, my heart sinks, becauseI dont knowis exactly what I was thinking, and those three words aren't necessarily good. Usually you say,Everything will be okay,but when you say I don't know, it means that things could go either way, and that scares me.
I walk slowly down the hall until I come to our room, which I have been largely avoiding since yesterday because of the awkwardness between Niall and I, and push open the door.
Niall is sitting on the couch, typing something on his phone.
"Niall?" I say cautiously.
He raises an eyebrow but doesn't look up.
"Yeah?"
"Nicole wants to talk to you," I say quietly, not expecting any response from him.
He continues to appear busy on his phone, confirming my suspicions.
I try again, "We just found her unconscious on the floor of her room and she kicked us out and the only person she wants to talk to is you." My sentence comes out in a blur; I can't trust myself to take my time speaking because I feel a lump rising in my throat and the last thing I want to do is break down in front of Niall.
He looks up slowly and I see concern in his blue eyes.
"Is she okay now?" he asks.
There goes that question again.
"Go see for yourself," I say, swallowing and motioning to the door as he shakily stands up and makes his way down the hallway.
As soon as the door slams behind him, I curl up in a ball on the couch, staring at the pale yellow ceiling and taking ragged breaths until I feel my eyes slowly start to close.
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Nicole's POV
"Nicole?" someone says cautiously, disturbing me from my sitting position on the bed, where I have managed to sip some water and collect myself.
"Niall... I'm sorry... I-- I didn'tmean to hurt you..." I begin.
"Nicole, that's not why you wanted me here, right?"
I don't answer.
"Look, Nicole, I forgive you, but what happened? Liam said you were..."
"Niall, something just happened. I remembered something from years ago when Harry and I were friends and all of the sudden, this thing..." I take a deep breath and gather my thoughts. "Let me start from the beginning...
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Niall stares at me, his eyes so wide that it could be almost comical if my life, and maybe Liam's could be at stake.
"Niall, I don't know what to do! You need to help me. What-- what if they're listening to us right now? I-- I can't tell Liam or Harry because if anyone besides me gets hurt, well, it would be one of them."
"And... you and Harry? Really?' he asks in disbelief.
"Yeah. But that was a long time ago," I say, cracking a smile.
"Wow. But seroiusly, and I'm not even saying this because I'm still mad at you or anything, you can't be seen with Liam alone. No visits to his hotel room alone, no whispered conversations, nothing. You can't text him private things, or anything that might reveal how close you are, because it seems to me like this person knows everything. And you can't tell him any of this, Nicole. No matter how hard it is, you're going to have to distance yourself from him. And believe me, it won't be easy. I know how hard it is just to drift away from the one you love, not having a rhyme or reason for it..." he stares out the window and I sigh. I know just how hard that can be. But I have a feeling this is going to be a million times worse. But I am determined, for my safety and Liam's.
Niall continues to stare out the window as I knit my eyebrows in thought.
"Now I just need to decide which approach to take," I begin, running my fingers through my wavy brown hair with multicolored accents. "I could flat out ignore him, act a lttle distant, pretend to be mad at him... The choices are really endless."
I look at Niall for help, but he just shrugs.
"Honestly, you'll probably just be better off if you decide spur-of-the-moment. Well, maybe not better off, but I think that you need to see him and his condition to determine it, and also how fragile both of you are. What would you be willing to do, and what would work best and be most convincing?"
I sigh. "I think you're right, Niall."
I clench my jaw and smooth my hands over my tank top, running my long fingers through my hair again.
"Well, here goes nothing," I mumble before stepping outside.
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