Unpredictable (A Niam Horayne Fanfiction)

Chapter 5

Liam's POV

I shoved my headphones in and began my walk home, today had been horrible. I'm just hoping it's the first day bad luck thing; I don't want to have to face this for the whole time I'm here. I began walking through one of the posh estates however it wasn't as calm as it was this morning; it was swarming with children from other schools. I bowed my head down and kept quiet, not wanting to cause any trouble.

"Hey!" Someone said loudly, placing their hand on my shoulder. I turned to see a rough looking boy with blonde hair sticking out in all directions, he had a fag hanging loosely from his mouth and if I'm honest, he stunk.

"Hi..." I mumbled as I carried on walking, I wasn't in the mood for talking.

"Where you going? Come hang with us!" He said, pointing to several of his thug friends, I shook my head.

"No thanks." He grabbed my wrist and held it tight,

"It wasn't an option." He ripped my earphone out and I began to panic, I should have just gone back to Zayn's with Niall. He's probably nicer than this lot; we began walking to a bridge and sat along the wall.

"Sit." The blonde guy demanded, I perched myself on the wall and tried to act natural. However my body was shaking and I was close to tears, I had no idea who these guys were or what they're capable of but I guessed that they weredangerous. I looked down at my phone, no texts or calls, great.

"So, buddy." The blonde boy said, turning to me. I looked up at him,

"How good are you at self defence?" I looked up at him confused,

"Huh?" Before I could respond he swung his arm round and punched me in the jaw, causing me to drop the floor in pain. I could hear the laughter surrounding me, I wanted to go but I couldn't.

Niall's POV

My phone buzzed in my pocket and I looked down, it was Karen.

'Is Liam with you? He's not home yet x'

"Shit." I muttered under my breath,

"Zayn I'm just running shop. I want some coke." He stood up,

"I'll come with you, I need to top up on fags." I shook my head,

"Don't worry; I'll get them for you. Won't be long." I grabbed my phone and ran out of Zayn's house and down the streets, I dialled Liam's number and tried to call him multiple times but he wasn't picking up.
Great.
I turned a corner but stopped when I heard laughter, as I drew closer I saw an innocent figure lying on the floor surrounding by the rough lads of West wick, our rival school. I crept a little closer, my eyes widened when I saw that the figure on the floor was Liam. Repeatedly being laughed at and hit and kicked a few times.

"GET THE FÜCK AWAY FROM HIM!" I screamed as I ran down the street, all of their heads snapped in my direction except Liam's.

"What's that?" the blonde boy, Kyle, said.

"I said; get the fück away from him." I snarled, anger building up inside me.

"Or what?" Jimmy, his thug friend said.

"You don't want to know, now get gone." They left Liam with a little ruffle of the hair before running and leaving him defenceless on the floor. I dropped down next to him and pulled him to me,

"You okay?" I asked, panicking. He shook his head as a tear fell from his eye; I wiped it and sat him up against the wall.

"Wait here, let me just call your mum." I said, unlocking my phone. However he snatched it away,

"Please, don't. You'll scare her." I frowned and took the phone back,

"Well what do I do?"

"Just let her know I'm safe." I clicked the reply button,

'Yeah he's with me; we're at a friend's house. We'll be back soon x' I hit send and looked at Liam, who had blood trickling from just above his eyebrow,

"Why did they do this?" he shrugged,

"I was walking and they just attacked me." I shook my head,

"They're not good news."

"I think I know that now." He snapped,

"Where does it hurt?" He pointed to his ribs, his forehead, his knuckle, his mouth and his nose.

"Come on, we'll take you to A&E" I said, helping him to his feet. He secured his left arm around my neck and cradled his ribs with his right. I grabbed his bag in one hand and put my arm around him and we walked down to the hospital. As soon as we walked in all eyes were on us, making Liam feel uncomfortable but he couldn't react, he was in too much pain. We got to reception and I explained what had happened,

"Just take a seat, I'll inform the doctor." I nodded and sat Liam down,

"You didn't have to save me Ni." Liam said, turning to me causing me to smile.

"What?"

"Ni, it's cute." I laughed,

"Oh," He said, turning a little red.

"Well anyway, I'm used to being hurt; you didn't have to save me." I rolled my eyes,

"I promised your mum I would protect you, leaving you to get beat up wouldn't be the best way to start it off would it?" He shook his head.

"Liam Payne." A doctor called from by the door, I stood up and helped Liam to his feet, carefully helping him along to the doctor's office,

"Are you family?" I looked at Liam, who nodded slightly,

"Yeah, I'm a cousin." I lied; otherwise I would have had to have waited outside.

"Okay, bring him in."