A Selfless Sacrifice - A Niam Horayne Story *ON HOLD*

Chapter 4

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A Selfless Sacrifice

Chapter 4:

Niall's Diary Entry 4:

14/09/12

Dear Diary,

I’m officially 18! I guess you could call me a man now. A man with his leg enclosed in plaster, bandages and on crutches stuck in a hospital bed. Yep. I broke my leg. On my birthday. Thanks to Liam’s “popular” group of friends. I was finally happy yesterday. I turned 18. It was a joyous occasion for someone like me. I had been waiting for the whole of my childhood for that day to arrive and it finally, after all those years of waiting, did. Ohh, speaking of Liam’s friends, Liam himself wasn’t at school yesterday, I wondered where he was … but I guess I was glad that he wasn’t there cause I would of gotten much worse than just a broken leg.

 I was walking through the corridors softly singing happy birthday to myself. Then they came. I walked down the empty corridors and proceeded to walk down the stairs. I heard advancing footsteps behind me but ignored it at first. On a normal day I would have turned around like a deer in the headlights. But without Liam there I felt extra confident that for once in 4 years I wouldn’t be greeted with an unfriendly push down the stairs. I continued to walk down and felt a small ensemble of people behind me. Then he pushed me. It was one of his friends. But I didn’t catch who exactly pushed me down. I tumbled for what felt like forever. I can’t remember the exact moment my leg snapped because I passed out after it. I was found by one of the teachers. She said that it was horrific. I just layed there. Lifeless. Her words, not mine. I guess that doesn’t really make any sense because I was alive and still am but I didn’t want to stop her from babbling. She did find me after all.

She rang the ambulance and they came to get me. When we were halfway to the hospital, I finally woke up. I was delusional; I had absolutely no idea where I was. I have to admit if I was in the paramedic’s position, I think I would have been scared. I was even scared by my own craziness. After a while when I calmed down, I was taken to do some x-rays. It was painful, more painful than actually breaking my leg. They manipulated it repeatedly. My eyes overflowed with tears and I cried like a 5 year old boy.

Not much of a birthday celebration was it huh? I’m meant to be asleep now as it’s late but before I do, I need to tell you what happened this morning. This is weird, it’s like I’m talking to a person … you only are hundreds of pieces of paper glued together connected by the spine with a leather cover after all. But at the same time, -even though this sounds strange- you are the closest thing I have to a friend anyway … okay, I didn’t say that ANYWAY, back to what I was going to tell you.

This morning I was woken up -after spending the night in the hospital- by the bright sun rays shining through the gaps between the curtains. Although I wasn’t supposed to, I decided to take a trip around the area on my fancy black wheelchair. Well actually, it wasn’t mine but it was there so why not, I was sick of being trapped in this room. Okay so I struggled into the wheel chair, almost breaking my other leg and rolled myself to the door. I squeezed through the opened gap and immediately covered my eyes, squinting from the bright lights. It was only about 8am at the time anyway. But when I just went out, not even 10 metres from my room (room 287), I heard a familiar voice that made my skin crawl. It was him. I didn’t know what he was doing there but it was him, I was sure of it. However, before I could roll myself back into my room, he was walking towards me. I thought he was going to hurt me even more, or to at least laugh at me but instead, he did something completely opposite to what I thought.

“Hey, what are you doing here? What happened to your uhh .. leg?” he questioned me while he actually looked concerned.

I was shocked; I didn’t know what to say. Since when did Liam, Liam Payne, give a shit about me? My mouth was agape, no words came out. I’d never heard him speak to me with such a nice tone to his voice. Before I could register what he said and come up with a reply, I heard a croaking voice coming from my right. It was the woman in the room 284. I was right in front of her opened door with Liam on my left close enough that I could smell his fruity-lemon scent.

“L-l-liaamm?” the woman muttered again, sounding weak and breathless.

“Yes mum? I’m right here” he replied, trying to hide the worried look in his face by putting on a fake smile.

Anyone could tell that the woman, well his mother, was sick. That was why he didn’t come to school yesterday.

“C-can you g-get me the w-water over there p-please?” she pleaded

“Yeah, sure, hold on. No mum! Just rest! I’ll get it for you!” I remember him saying, as I took a peek to see his mother struggling to sit up.

She then thanked him followed by a “So w-who’s out there? The one y-you were t-talking to before?”

Liam surprised me even more when he replied calling him a mate of his. I wish that was true. I wish we were more than mates... To be honest, he may hurt me and I may be afraid of him and avoid him but I can’t deny the fact that I do have feelings for him.

He excused himself and walked towards the door squeezing through the gap between my wheel-chair and the door itself. I felt a strange feeling inside of me when I saw him quickly try to hide the tears that were streaming down his cheeks. I didn’t care if he hurt me, I didn’t care if he’s threatened me and called me names but I just wanted to hold him, protect him from whatever was going on.

Just as that thought crossed my mind, my brother Greg came jogging over to ask how I was. Before I left to go back to my room, Liam surprised me even more, “get well soon yeah?” He then walked off looking tired and worn out heading towards the vending machine.

Well, let’s just say me breaking my leg wasn’t so bad after all! GOODNIGHT WORLD!

Okay… maybe I’m still a bit giddy and excited from what happened between me and Liam today. Well actually, nothing went on between us but whatever! BYEBYE TO YOU MY LOVELY DIARY!

Niall Horan