When We Meet || n.h

0.7

A/N

Yay! The story is actually getting started! Thank you so much for reading this. I know it gets a little confusing at times, but just bear with me. Before I begin, read the last couple sentences of the last chapter to remember what's going on. So...yeah!

Enjoy!

Addie's POV

Liam and I just sit there for a few seconds looking at each other. Mom is working the night shift again so she won't be home for a while. Who could be at the door? Liam turns white as a ghost as I stand up to answer the door.

"No Addie! Let me do it. I don't want anything to happen to you." Liam says popping up and leading me back to the couch.

He answers the door to reveal Niall. Liam steps outside.

I can't really hear much of what they are saying but when I do, it's only muffled and very hard to understand. Just when I start to go up to my room, Liam and Niall walk in to the house, Liam looking a bit annoyed.

Niall goes straight to where I'm standing on the stairs and hugs me tight.

"Niall. What's up? Are you ok?" I say. I'm so confused.

"I'm fine but are you? I was really concerned about you when I left so I just walked around the neighborhood for a while to clear my mind. Once I circled the block, I couldn't help but walk back in to see what was going on." Niall takes me by the hand and we all sit on the couch. Niall on my left, Liam on my right.

"Um...uh..." I stutter over my words. I can't tell him that I like him. He'll think I'm a stalker freak who cries over everything and everyone.

"I'm fine." I say turning to Liam and putting my head on his shoulder. Liam puts his arm around me and scoots us both away from Niall.

"No you're not. I can see the makeup running from your eyes." Niall takes his thumb and takes all of the mascara off of my face.

"Niall, I'm fine. I just...I'll see you at school tomorrow. Ok?" I say getting up and walking over to the staircase.

"No wait-" Niall gets cut off by someone yelling at him from the sidewalk.

"HURRY UP NIALL WE DON'T HAVE ALL DAY!"

"Ok, Harry one more minute!"

Niall turns around to talk to me but by then, I've already escaped up to my room.

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I lock my door and dive onto my bed so I can just sleep everything away and tomorrow will hopefully be better.

I just start to drift off until I hear and loud bang and the door slams and locks downstairs. Someone comes running frantically up the stairs and I hear pounding on my door.

"Addie open up. It's Liam." Liam says loudly.

"Ok." I get up and unlock the door and sit back onto my bed.

"What is it Li?" I say looking up at him and I see he has a gash in his head bleeding out onto the floor.

"Help." the word coming out in barely a whisper.

"Oh my God! Liam what happened? Let's get that cleaned up." I say running to him and pushing him into the bathroom. He sits on the edge of the bathtub.

"Niall. He got really mad so he took it out on the first thing he saw, and that was me. He took my head and slammed it against the door. I just kicked him out of the house and locked everything." Liam says while I kneel down to his height with a washcloth in hand, dabbing the side of his head to get the blood off of it.

"Niall did this to you? I can't believe him. Why would he take it out on you? You didn't even do anything to him. Why was he even mad?" I say getting up and rinsing the washcloth off.

"I don't know." Liam says.

I finally get everything cleaned off and I tell him to keep a bag of frozen peas to where the wound is to make the pain feel slightly better. We both go downstairs and watch some TV.

Liam is sitting down on one end of the couch, my feet in his lap. He is still holding the peas to his head because he says it helps a little. I can't believe Niall would do something like that. I guess I was wrong about him. Now, Liam has nothing to worry about because I definitely don't like him.

I continue to think about why Niall would do this when I drift off to sleep.

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The next morning, my alarm goes off at 6:45 and I'm still on the couch. Everything is basically the same except that I have a blanket on me, which Liam must've done. Liam's head is on the other side of the couch, his feet where my pillow is.

I get up off the couch and try to wake Liam up for school. I fold the blankets and put the pillows away, then I start to make breakfast for the both of us.

"Liam? You up yet?" I yell.

"Yeah." he says from right behind me as I jump.

"You gave me a fright." I say laughing.

"My head is killing me." he says putting the peas back into the freezer.

"I know, Li. I made pancakes, your favorite. They're right on the table."

His head looks pretty bad, but it stopped bleeding almost instantly so that's good. I guess...

I'm still so mad at Niall.

"Thanks for the breakfast. I'm sorry about Niall." Liam says getting up from the table.

"Oh trust me. I don't like Niall anymore after I saw what he does when he gets mad. I'm sorry that he lashed out on you though."

"It's not your fault." he says pulling me into a hug.

"I know." I say into his shoulder.

"I'm also sorry that I'M GETTING THE FIRST SHOWER AND YOU HAVE TO WAIT!" Liam says pulling away and darting up the stairs.

"I don't think so!" I yell after him, catching up to him on the stairs. I trip.

"Addie! Are you ok?" Liam says running back over to me to help me up.

"Yeah. I'm fine." as soon as he pulls me up, I say, "HAHA SUCKER!" and run into the bathroom and close the door.

"I can't believe I fell for that." Liam laughs through the door.

"Me either." I say before stepping into the hot water.

A/N

Addie hates Niall and Niall still likes Addie we'll see where this goes. Most of the things in this chapter, I honestly don't know where they came from, but it works so I'm leaving it. Love you all!