Unwillingly Arranged(Liam Payne/One Direction Fanfic)

Chapter Thirteen(Niall and Sage's POV)

~Niall~

I drug my feet across the hardwood floor of the studio, dropping myself onto a small couch beside Louis, who looked just as depressed as me. It had been a month since Liam had 'left' and life for One Direction had literally been a living hell. Making up a statement to send out what happened to him, although it wouldn't be true. Trying to get in all the interview requests. And rerecording songs, without Liam in them so we could re-release the album on a new date.

Oh, and get in sleep and eating, inbetween all that.

"Why does management want another damn meeting?" Louis hissed in my ear, aburtedly standing up pacing back and forth in front of me. "What could they possibly want? We know Liam is no longer here. We know we probably won't find him, for a while atleast. And we know that we have to re-record roughly four more songs."

"I dunno," I shrugged, watching Louis. "Hey, stop pacing your making me nervous."

'Guys," Zayn's voice rang through the open door that led down a tiny hallway to managements office. "They want us back here." Harry's curly headed popped up over his shoulder, watching both of us.

Sighing, I fell instep behind Louis as we walked down the narrow hallway, turning sharply into the large, out of place office where, again, a new man from management sat, seeming to glare at us menacingly.

"Take a seat boys," He said, running his hands together as he turned in his office chair, reaching back for something. As we all setlled into the chair, he turned back around, holding out a laptop that was open to a screen on Youtube.

"I think this is something you boys might want to see, before it gets removed," He said, clicking the play button on the video and opening it up to fullscreen.

 It was slightly fuzzy, but the writings on the screen could still clearly be read. Along the bottom said, "Craft Kingdom, coming up with a special announcement." Then, the camera panned upward to where too people where standing, a man and a women. They were smiling, obviously fake as they began speaking, introducing themselves as Queen Ellen and King James.

"What the hell is this?" Louis asked, his eyebrows furrowed together as he studied the screen. "Why are you showing us some royal thing somewhere?"

"Keep watching."

As we all returned our full attention to the screen, we noticed that there where two more boys standing next to each of the people, standing polietly, but not smiling. 

"Right now, I would like for the Princess to come out so I can officially announce her and her partners marriage to everyone."

Then a tiny little teenage girl walked into view, obviously looking shy and scared as she walked to stand in front of her mother, smiling bashfully at the camera, her already pink cheeks flushing red, her blonde locks slightly covering her cheeks.

"Please help me welcome the man my daughter will marry," King James paused dramatically, looking around for a moment before booming out, "Liam Payne!"

And that's when a nervous looking Liam appeared in the screen. I think all of us sitting around the laptop let out a small gasp, and Harry muttered something along the lines of "What the hell?" He went to stand by the tiny girl as the mother said a few more things, before Liam turned the girl toward him.

And kissed her. Kissed her like he wanted to. Kissed her with emotion, and full of love. Not like it was forced, or he was upset about it.

"I think we've seen enough," Louis growled under his breath, shoving the laptop back at him.