Liam’s POV
The boys and I just finished our concert in Amsterdam and I flashed backed to the conversation with Luke.
I decided to call Auri because I miss her and I wanted to hear her voice. I dialed her phone, I know it is really late at night but maybe I will just leave a voicemail.
“Hello?” I heard a deep voice on the phone.
“Auri?” I asked, she wouldn’t usually be up and her voice is never that deep.
“No this is Luke, Aurora is kind of passed out on the bed right now.” Who the hell is this guy? Aurora passed out on his bed! This is not cool! He can disrespect her and hurt her.
“She is what?!?” I am getting really mad because she deserves someone better than this loser. “Don’t you dare hurt her or I swear I will ruin your god damned life!” I started yelling. Harry and Niall were giving me a strange look.
“Dude! Chill! I was just taking care of her I would never hurt her. Besides who are you to yell at me like that.” I didn’t believe him.
“Just tell Auri that her best friend called and that I really need to talk to her” I gave up on being angry because I realized how much I really miss her and I need my best friend back.
“Okay I will tell her in the morning, bye” In the morning? He is spending the night with her. I was about to start yelling that he needs to not spend the night with her when he hung up the phone.
It has been about 3 weeks since that phone call, she hasn’t called me back yet. That guy is such a douche for not telling her to call me, or maybe he did tell her and she just chose not to call me back. Either way I need to talk to her and apologize. We usually argue but we get over it in a matter of a couple hours a day max. It has been a little over a month. I know she called Nici a whore but honestly she means more to me than any of my family because she is everything to me. She is a combination of a friend, family, and the other half of me. I can’t live with her thinking bad of me. When we didn’t talk to each other for a week I called Nici to see what was up with her fight with Auri. She told me the whole story, how Auri walked in on Nici laying half naked on Toby’s bed the day of the concert and how she slept with Toby behind Auri’s back. I am so disappointed in Nici how could she do that to Auri? Nici felt so bad about it but I feel worse for not taking Auri’s side she means so much more to me than Nici and I have always known this.
I must have seemed really upset because Harry came over to me and asked “Liam! Dude are you okay?” He grabbed my shoulders and started shaking them.
“Huh? Yea I’m just thinking about something.” I shook my head to get back into reality.
“Things okay with you and Danielle?” Niall asked as he walked over to me and Harry.
“Yea they are totally fine! Why do you ask?” I was confused.
“Well you remember the interview about the songs on the first album, well they made it seem like you wrote them about Danielle and well um yesterday she was all excited about how you wrote them for her and she was talking to me about it and I told her that she shouldn’t believe everything she hears in the press because that isn’t true. She sort of asked well if they aren’t about me then who else could they be about. Then Harry walked in the room and said ‘Aurora duh, she is his everything! Everyone knows that!’ and he grabbed me and walked out.” Niall stated like nothing happened.
“Well I haven’t seen her for a couple days due to all of the concerts recently, and why would you tell her that? I never told her anything about Aurora because any normal person would be jealous and this was a way to get over my feelings for Aurora!” I was aggravated. Sadly I know that they were right for doing so and the whole time I was with Danielle I wished I was hanging out with Auri. “Okay, you know what it is fine, she had to find out sooner or later, but Auri hasn’t talked to me in a month and I really miss her it is messing with my mood.”
“You mean you haven’t talked like at all?” Harry asked really confused.
“No she has been ignoring me and I called her and this guy answered the phone and I told him to tell her to call me and she never did, I don’t know what to do anymore” I was starting to sound really desperate.
“Well we can go home for a week so why don’t you go up to Glasgow and visit her! Oh we should come too! We miss Aurora, she is so awesome!” Niall suggested.
“I would but I don’t know her dorm building or her room number. And no! If I go I need to talk to her alone, maybe you guys can come on the weekend if things go well.”
“ Okay, I guess that is a better plan, and dude just ask her mom, you’re really close to her family right?”
“Yea I am but I don’t know if she would be mad at me like Auri is.”
“You can at least try!” Niall said trying to encourage me.
“I think she has changed too, have you seen her twitter feed lately? She always has these ‘study dates’ with this guy Luke, and she is usually partying and drunk and I don’t know what has happened to her. I feel like this is all my fault I should have just listened to her and trusted her.” I sat down on a box and hung my head in despair.
“I don’t think it is your fault, mate! You just have to talk to her. But, we should go change before we get in trouble.” Niall grabbed my arm and dragged me up.
We started walking back to the changing room when I saw Danielle walk out of the dressing room and she was looking back and forth until her eyes locked onto mine. They had a pained look. Well this wasn’t going to go well. “Liam!” She squealed. I was not expecting that, I was expecting her to yell.
“Yeah?” I asked, I am really confused right now. She ran up and hugged me and gave me a kiss.
“Oh I missed you so much! Oh and yesterday Niall and Harry were playing this horrible prank on me. They told me that you wrote all those love songs for someone else, and that she means the world to you. That is just so silly because I am your everything!” She was looking hopeful into my eyes.
“Danielle… they weren’t playing a prank on you” I say in almost a whisper.
“What… what do you mean?” I couldn’t even look at her.
“None of the songs are about you, and I hate to tell you this but you aren’t even close to my everything… I am so sorry I mainly dated you to help me get over her. I do like you but she is like that breath of air in my lungs after being underwater for 2 minutes. She makes me happier than someone who has been paralyzed from the waist down for 10 years finally being able to move his leg. Without her is like being tortured by breaking every rib in at least 20 different places making it almost impossible to be alive. So I am sorry that you aren’t her because no one even comes close! She is more important to me than my family, even my own life. I just don’t think that this is going to work out anymore, I need to go apologize for being a huge jack ass to her.” I just had to leave, screw changing my clothes I have to go home now! I need to see and talk to her. I turn and see Niall holding up his phone I could tell he recorded the whole conversation between me and Danielle but I could care less right now. I rushed out of the concert hall and jumped into a waiting car and told the driver to go to Wolverhampton.
The car ride took forever I got to my house around 3 am. I was going to go over to visit Auri’s mom tomorrow. I just ran up to my room and fell asleep on my bed not bothering to take off my clothes.
I woke up around 9, I only got 6 hours of sleep and I felt like I couldn’t sleep any longer. I took a shower and changed my clothes quickly. I grabbed my shoes and ran downstairs to grab some breakfast. I think I shocked my parents because I was supposed to come back around noon today.
“Hi Mom. Hi Dad!” I gave them both hugs. I ignored Nici who was sitting at the table. “Listen I really have to go I don’t have time to stay here long I have go see Auri’s mom and I have to go to Glasgow right after that. I messed something up with Auri, I just really need to see her it is important. I hope you guys will forgive me.” I felt bad that I didn’t have time to catch up with my parents, I really do miss them.
“Don’t feel bad! Auri deserves your attention more than we do! Besides I would hate it if I couldn’t see Auri here all the time when she is home from the university” My mom said. Apparently Nici hadn’t informed them of what she did. I gave Nici a glare and left my house.
I got to Auri’s house in about 5 minutes. I quickly knocked on the door. Today was Thursday so I knew her mom didn’t have work. I heard someone walk to the door and unlock it. The door opened to Auri’s mom smiling so widely.
“Liam! Oh honey I didn’t know you were home! Oh I have missed seeing your face around here!” Auri’s mom hugged me.
“Hi Mom! I missed you too!” I finally felt a little happier.
“So I know that Aurora is mad at you but you are always welcome here because you are like family.”
“Thanks Mom! I actually want your help to make Auri stop hating me. I just really miss her and I need her back in my life. This past month has been the worst in my life”
“Oh Liam honey! Of course I will help you! What do you want me to do?”
“I was planning on going to visit her in Glasgow but I don’t know her dorm building or her room number.”
“Okay get out a pen a paper and I will tell you, her roommate is a total sweetheart too you would love her! So if Aurora isn’t there she would definitely let you in.” I grabbed a pen and pad of paper from the top drawer in the kitchen.
“Okay I am ready.”
“So her dorm building is called Long Hall, and her room number is 310, when you go up the stairs to the third floor, you take a right and her room is the last room on the right. Her window has a lovely view of the quad. Oh and can you bring her this tin of cookies for me. You can steal some from the tin too.” She gave me a tin and ushered me to the door. “I wish you could have stayed longer but time is of the essence! There is a train that leaves here at noon, which is in a half hour so you have to hurry!”
“Thanks Mom! I miss you too! I will tell you that you send your love.” I rushed out the door and went to the car I borrowed from my parents. I drove to the train station in 20 minutes. I put on my disguise of a baseball hat and large sunglasses. I got out and ran to buy a ticket to Glasgow and hurried to the train platform. I hope that no one recognizes me. I only waited for like 2 minutes when the train pulled up and I hopped in and sat down in an empty seat.
The train ride took four and a half hours I just wanted to get off already and see Auri. Thankfully no one recognized me. I walked to the University because it was about a mile away from the train station. I quickly found the quad and looked for Long Hall. It was a very gothic looking building and it was beautiful. I walked to the last row of windows and grabbed a handful of rocks and started throwing them at the third floor window. An angry looking red headed girl threw open the window. She did not look like a sweetheart.
“What could you possibly want?” She screamed.
“Um… I uh am looking for Aurora Green, do you possibly know her?” I asked hesitantly.
“Yea, she is my roommate, but she isn’t here right now she is on a study date. I was about to take a nap but you ruined it.”
“Oh, I am really sorry! Do you know what time she would be back because it is really important that I see her.”
“About an hour or so, but you can come up and wait for her here. Just come in.” The angry ginger closed the window and I walked inside the building. I got to the third floor and took a right and found 310. I knocked on the door. The angry ginger answered. Her hair was thrown up in a messy ponytail. She was wearing a tennis outfit that was really sweaty.
“I’m sorry I am just really tired I had a 3 hour tennis match today and I just got back from it.” The ginger said.
“It is okay! It is really all my fault I should have maybe called but that would have ruined the surprise.” I took off my hat and sunglasses because we were finally away from the public eye. I heard a bang against the door like someone ran into it. I looked back and saw Auri’s roommate pressed up against the door with her hands out touching the walls outside the door frame.
“You’re… you’re…. you’re Liam… Liam Payne from One Direction… and you are standing in my room. I can’t breathe” She started hyperventilating.
“Yes I am Liam Payne. Um… are you okay?” This is weird wouldn’t Auri have told her roommate that she at least knew me?
“Um I think so, will you just excuse me I have to go call Sleeping Beauty.” She straightened herself out and walked and grabbed her phone and started dialing. “Aurora!!! You will never guess who is in our room right now.” I heard her squeal.
I could hear the whole conversation because the volume was so loud. “Who is in our room Rose? Is it some creepy stalker guy? Do I need to come save you?” I could hear Auri’s sweet voice over the phone.
“NO!!! LIAM PAYNE is in our room and he wants to see you!!!!!! I can’t believe he is here. I am NEVER going to let him leave.” The angry ginger, presumably Rose started jumping up and down.
“WHAT?!?! What do you mean Liam Payne is in our room? You know what I am leaving now I will be there in 5 minutes don’t do anything stupid”
“I make no promises” Rose ended the call and turned to me. “So how do you know our Sleeping Beauty?”
“Um who?” I asked, who was Sleeping Beauty?
“Aurora duh!” She said like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
“Oh Auri? Well we grew up together and we are best friends. I am not surprised that she didn’t tell you about me. We got in a really big fight about a month ago and she is really mad at me. I came here because I really need her to forgive me and I miss her so much it hurts.”
“You sound like you dated her.” Rose started looking me up and down like she was analyzing me.
“No we didn’t date,” I looked down on the ground.
“Ah, but you want to!” Rose said.
“What?!? How could you possibly know that? Does Auri know? Is that why she hasn’t wanted to talk to me?” I said panicky.
“No. She hasn’t told me anything. I just guessed. It is painstakingly obvious. It breaks my heart to know that you don’t love me though.” Rose fakingly grabbed her heart.
“I’m sorry, but I will tell you the same thing I told Danielle nothing compares to her. You can’t tell her either! Do you promise me?”
“Yes I promise. Wait! You told Danielle that she is pretty much nothing? I thought that you were dating her and that you wrote most of the songs on the album for her.”
“Yes I told Danielle that. I broke up with her yesterday and told her that those songs were never about her they were all about Aurora. I don’t care if I never date anyone for the rest of my life as long as Auri would forgive me and at least talk to me again.” I was slowly breaking again. I had to stop myself I couldn’t look like this in front of Auri she would know something was up.
“Awe! That is so sweet!” Rose said as she started jumping up and down. I heard heavy footsteps coming from the hallway and I heard someone turn the door knob and I saw her. My light in the darkness, my first breath of air, my Auri. Her hair was windblown and everywhere her cheeks were red indicating that she ran here and her eyes were as blue as the sky, but they looked angry which made me sad.
“Liam! What the hell are you doing here? How the hell did you find out where I lived?” She was pissed. I felt like this was a possibility but I was hoping that she would be happy to see me.
“Auri, please don’t be mad at me anymore. I just really need you to forgive me so I came all the way here to beg you to be my best friend again. Oh and you can blame how I found out where you live on your mom. She sends her love and a tin of cookies by the way.” I passed the tin to her and she angrily took them away from me.
“No I will not forgive you! You were such a jerk to me and you didn’t even try to make me feel better when I was extremely upset and most of all you didn’t believe me. Best friends should always believe each other.” Auri started crying which made me want to cry. I walked over to her and gave her a hug. She pushed me off of her. “NO! You no longer have the right to give me hugs!”
“Aurora! You run so fast I couldn’t catch up!” I heard a familiar voice come from the hallway. I turned my head and saw a brown haired blue eyed boy standing in the doorway. “Who are you? Why did you make her cry?” The boy asked.
“Luke! Please stay out of this, he didn’t make me cry. I made myself cry. This is Liam by the way, my old best friend” When Aurora said old best friend I felt like a dagger was sent through my heart.
“Auri, please I miss you, I need you to be my friend again. I am so sorry I didn’t believe you I should have. I just never thought that my sister could do something like that. You are more important to me than anyone in the entire world, way more important than my family, and even my career.” I knelt down on the ground to continue begging.
“Liam…” She looked down to the ground “get up. Please?”
I looked at her and lifted up her head as I stood up. I looked at her watery eyes. She was so beautiful and she didn’t even know how much she is to me. I wished I could tell her right in that moment but I just couldn’t.
“Am I more important than Danielle?” I heard her whisper.
“She is so disposable she is like a candy wrapper.” I smiled at her. She gave me a hug.
“I missed you too! It isn’t the same without talking to you every day.”
I heard Luke whisper to Rose “What just happened?”
“Shhhh they are having a moment.” Rose whispered back.
“I know this is random but can I stay here with you for the weekend? I would rather spend time with you in my time off than go back to be with my family.” I said as soon as we stopped hugging.
“I would have to ask Rose…”
“YES!!! The answer will always be yes!” Rose cut off what Aurora was trying to say. “You know you should introduce me to the rest of One Direction, Aurora. Because you know how much I love them.”
“Actually, this totally slipped my mind but Niall and Harry wanted to come visit you with me but I told them that they had to wait till I got to talk to you first.” I told Rose and Auri.
“Oh, I miss Harry so much! Of course they can come!” Auri said.
“Wow you miss Harry but you don’t miss me. I am hurt.” I say sarcastically.
“Don’t worry you are more important to me than Harry. Harry is just so much fun!”
“He would be glad to hear that coming from you.” I am so happy that I have Auri back in my life I don’t know how much longer I could handle not talking to her.
“I know this is a random question, but did you really write those songs for Danielle?” Auri asked me hesitantly.
“You saw the interview too? No I didn’t write the songs for her.”
“Yes it was a very cute interview by the way. Well who did you write the songs for then?” She pressed the issue.
“No one in particular” I lied.
“Oh, then why did Harry say it was someone that is really close to you if it wasn’t about anyone?” Shit. She was asking all of the hard questions. It is so hard to lie to her.
“Harry and the rest of the band thought that the songs were about Danielle, and I just let them roll with it. I broke up with her by the way. She was too cocky for my taste.” I said with a sour look.
“Oh okay! Say do you want me to show you around campus? Incognito of course!”
“I would love you to show me around campus! Let me just get my hat and glasses.” I grabbed them as Auri put her arm through mine and we walked out. We totally forgot about Luke and Rose who were probably just standing there confused on what just happened. I don’t even care what other people think I am just glad to be whole again.

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