Spaces Between Us

Liam

"It's so warm." Louis complained as he lounged on a sun bed, next to the pool. After, Lauren's intervention we had decided to take some time apart before reconvening  in a couple days. I had thought the time apart would be good for us. Though we managed to reconcile in the end, hurtful words were still shared and we needed time to process things before seeing each other agin. However, Louis didn't seem to think that. He was bound to go home to Doncaster but decided to  stay with me in my apartment for a few days.

"Yeah, it is." I mumbled with my eyes closed, sleep threatening to take over. Louis was silent for a while after that, which was very unlike him so I raised my head, lifting my sunglasses to see he was asleep. I chuckled, settling back into my original position.

I had only dozed off for about thirty minutes, when Louis shot up and began screaming. "Liam, oh my God, Liam! We are terrible people!"

"What? What do you mean?" I questioned grogilly, rubbing my eyes to become aware of my surroundings.

"We forgot, we forgot about him. We were so caught up with all the drama that we completely forgot about him!" Louis sobbed hysterically. I was alarmed, unsure of what prompted him to begin acting this way.

"Who are you taking abou-" I stopped talking when I realized who he was talking about. Shame and guilt began to fill my mind and I felt the urge to vomit with disgust, disgust with myself. We had completely forgotten about him, our selfish ambitions pushed away all thought of someone who meant more than the world to us, we forgot about Paul.

"Boys! Come on, you're on in less than thirty minutes. Please don't make this difficult for me." Paul screamed through the hallway, opening every door looking for at least one of us. Zayn and I were hidden in a utility closet, muffling our snickers with our hands. "Harry!" Paul shouted and took off running in the opposite direction. I slowly opened the door, peering out the hallway to make sure it was clear before signalling for Zayn to come out. Zayn opened his mouth to speak but I brought my finger to my lips telling him to keep quiet. We slowly headed for the arena's garage where we knew all the golf cars were hidden.

"Paul is going to kill us." I muttered worriedly and Zayn rolled his eyes in response.

"Come on!" He whispered excitedly as he spotted the golf cars. As soon as he entered one of them Paul emerged ,hidden behind one of the seats, and grabbed Zayn's arm. "Liam! Run! Forget about me and save yourself." Zayn screamed and I rolled my eyes at his dramatization before running away. As I ran, I stumbled over Louis, who was hidden amongst a set of trash bags.

"He got Zayn!" I exclaimed, forgetting that this was all essentially just a game. Louis' eyes widened and he got up from his position.

"We need to save him. In One Direction, no man gets left behind. Come, I know where the rest are." I followed Louis to our dressing room, where Lou, our stylist stood with arms crossed.

"Boys, don't you think this is getting a bit ridiculous? You're on in twenty." Louis ignored Lou's concerns and frantically searched the vicinity, Lou gave me a pointed look and I merely shrugged. I knew we had to get ready to perform, I was having way too much fun.

"Harry and Niall, we need you. It's code red, Zayn has been captured and is beyond enemy lines." Louis screamed and Lou rolled her eyes, throwing her hands up in frustration and muttered under her breath. All of a sudden Harry and Niall came out of a closet.

"What do we need to do."Harry asked sternly, determination depicted on his face. Louis turned to look at Niall,putting his hand on his shoulder and gave him a firm nod.

"Niall, get the guns."

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"Guys, this is it. This is where Zayn was captured. I don't know what lies beyond this point but all I know is that we will save our Bradford bad boy or die trying." Louis encouraged as we huddled up in a circle, Niall let out a small laugh, breaking character causing Louis to glare at him. "Let's do this." Louis put his hand out in the middle of the circle and we all did the same.

"One Direction or no direction." We chanted before dispersing into smaller groups as planned. Harry followed my lead and I held my nerf gun as we slowly walked towards the golf carts, where we last saw Zayn.

"Look out!" Harry screamed and I ducked as rubber nerf bullets whizzed past me. I rolled to the side, hiding behind a speaker. I peered out to see, a bunch of security guards holding nerf guns and I almost laughed out loud at the sight.  They formed a cirlce around Paul who was carrying Zayn on his shoulder, most likely trying to get him to put on his microphone. Paul looked annoyed and stressed but he looked like he was having fun at the same time. Zayn spotted me and gave me a nod before thumping Paul on his back, causing him to groan and kneel to the floor. Zayn wriggled out his grasp and ran away, manouevering through the reaches of the other guards.

"You'll never get me alive." He screamed as he ran towards Harry, towards safety. Paul groaned and he stared at the other guards incredously;

"What are you standing here for? Go after them! They're on in five minutes!" He yelled in frustration and I almost felt bad for the guy. I decided it was time to move from my position and I ran, spraying the guards with bullets from my nerf gun. As I reached Zayn and Harry's position, they quicky pulled me in and away from sight.

"So what now?" Zayn asked and  I shrugged, we all knew we had to give this up eventually. At the end of the day, we still had to perform.

"I think we shoul-" Harry was cut off by Paul, we peered through a hole in the wall that was shielding us. Paul and some other security guards had Niall and Louis bent down, nerf guns pointed at their heads.

"Give it up boys, we got them. Reveal yourself or Louis and Niall will suffer the consequences." Paul yelled into the distance, not knowing where we were exacty.

"Don't listen to him!Save yourselves! Don't let him get you alive!" Louis screamed and I rolled my eyes plafully. Harry, Zayn and I looked at each other, with smiles on our faces. If we were going out, we were going out good. We all nodded at each other before we all seperated. I stayed behind the wall, watching through the small hole.Harry was the first to attack but he was quickly tackled down by a guard and brought to kneel next to Louis and Niall. Then Zayn emerged, and Lord did he put up a fight. He shot at the guards with his nerf gun before getting on a scooter and riding around the place. Eventually the guards took him down and placed him next to Harry, it was up to me now.I got up from my position and ran towards Paul, shouting as I shot my nerf bullets at the guards. I dodged and manouvered through all the guards until all my bullets ran out. I dropped the nerf gun to the floor as the guards approached me with smirks on their faces.

"I yield, I yield." I surrendered, placing my hands up. We all looked at each other and erupted into laughter, Paul put us all in golf car before driving off to the main stage.

"Come on boys, it's showtime."

I immediately got up from the lounge chair and picked up my shirt. "Louis, we fucked up real bad."

"I know." He responded, sadness and distress evident in his voice.

"We have to make this right. Call the others now, I'll book the flights." I ordered, Louis ran into the apartment while I grabbed my laptop. We had to make this right.

A/N: There you goooo another chapter!! Only 7 more chapters left, :(. Sadly all good things must come to an end. Thank you all for 4k reads and everyone who's been voting. I've been working on a new story and I can't wait to publish the first few chapters when I'm done with this book. Please give me a follow, 4k reads and only 19 followers we can do better than that. I'm greatful nonetheless, it's just a good way to stay up to date with new books etc. Thank you all for everything and stay safe.

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