Timing is Everything (Liam Payne)

The rest of the night we lie tangled up in each other underneath the sheets. We stop occasionally and talk about the day, the tour, the future. The future, a rather touchy subject in regards to his and the bands future. They could break from their current managers and find another, the band could split up, Lord forbid. I scares him, some he doesn't want to think about much less talk about. I kiss his beautiful lips and tell him it always works out.The next morning we awake and order up breakfast.
"I guess we have to put back on clothes and get back to reality."
"Reality you say, this is not reality." I laugh at him.
"Fine then, my reality and yours now" He comes to me and hugs me planting a kiss on my head.
There is a knock at the door signaling our breakfast is here. The guy rolls it in as I come out of the bathroom after dressing. We sit and eat knowing as soon as we finish we have to get back, they have sound check.
We pull up to the hotel and have to wait on security to come out and get us. Reality, don't think so. We walk out of the elevator and onto our floor and to our room. The room has been filled with air filled condoms. We kick, throw and toss them all in the hall laughing. Either everyone is still sleeping or they are having breakfast. They'll enter the hall knowing we are back.
Liam immediately gets in the shower and pulls me in with him. I think we kiss more than we actually bathe. It just feels so right. We get out to both of his phones ringing, he grabs the business one first. By the look on his face, it ain't good. He points to the wedding ring, management now knows. He goes into the sitting area but pulls the bedroom door behind him. He keeps his cool for the most part but I can tell its only because he has to. I sit on the bed worried. I play different scenarios in my head on how they could or might handle this. None of which I like.
He returns to me and hangs up.
"Well . . ."
"We, they, decided that we should not announce it. Just let them find out on their own, a pic, someone just happens to notice I have on a ring. They actually suggested I take it off. I told them no way in hell. I'm proud of it. Whats it matter to them. We'll loose fans? If they truly love us, they'll be happy for us."
I go to him and put my arms around him and look up at him. He's pissed. He puts his arms around me and pulls me close."Still glad we did it? It could have been much worse you know?"
"So glad we did it and yes, it could have been worse. They could have put you on the next plane out of here. Believe me, the threats were there."
II rub his back before he moves out of our embrace to start getting ready. I sit on the bed and watch him. Talk about a kill joy. All the excitement, gone in a matter of minutes. He snatching up clothes and tossing them around and its all I can do not to cry, I'll wait til he's gone.
His phone keeps vibrating and I get it for him. Everyone has been texting him like crazy. He scans through them. They know what just went down and are wondering what happened. He says he'll tell them when they're alone. Cant risk the wrong person hearing it.
II hear my phone go off and its Perrie, shes wanting to know if I'll tell her. I text her back and tell her we'll all go out later.
Liam is dressed. He bends over and kisses me before he heads out the door. "Are you coming tonight?"
"Of course, gotta see my hubby preform" he smiles at this and kisses me again. The door opens and he leaves.
I hear all the commotion in the halls as they all file out and head to the stadium. You can hear when they leave, you don't need to see it.
No sooner than the screams die down I hear a knock at the door, I look through the peep hole and its Perrie and El. I open the door and they all but fall in.
"Oh my God, what did they say? Is everything al right" they almost say in unison.
"Well, it depends on what you say is al right. We cant announce it. They just have to find out. Whether is through a picture of someone happening to notice he has a ring on or happen to notice the extra band on mine." They sit on the bed. "They threatened to send me home on the next plane. I guess I'm lucky I'm still here" El's hand is to her mouth, shes in shock.
"You do realize, you two have broke all the rules. Surprise engagement, and now a surprise wedding, while on tour. Why do you think Zayn and I aren't married yet. We have to jump through hoops. You two just ran past them"
"I'm sorry. I might have really made things harder on y'all"
"No, don't say that. We are so happy for you."
Perrie pulls me in for a tight hug. I notice Eleanor is quiet, too quiet. A tear slides down her cheek. She wipes it away. "I'll just be happy to get a ring." Neither of us know what to say. We both lean in and pull her in for a group hug.
"So now that we are rid of those stinky boys lets go out. Honey, you're married now get that mans credit card." Perrie laughs
I'm taken back at the forwardness of the comment and laugh it off. "I have my own money, I don't need his and wink at them" Way to tip toe around that one.
We are taken to some shops and start looking around. I find a few things and find a shop that does engraving and have something made commemorating our day. Its a crystal clock, the date and our names engraved in the crystal.
The owner wraps it up in bubble wrap for me and I ask if I can have it shipped. He says yes and I have it sent to Liam's place. One less thing to have to pack.
We head back to the hotel to get ready for tonight. I keep watching El, shes not into it,, shes withdrawn. It all has to do what what went down and our wedding. She and Louis have been dating longer than anyone and she has yet to get a ring and that weighs heavily on her heart.
We arrive at the stadium and are escorted back to where everyone is at and getting ready. I don't see any photo ops going on, but that doesn't mean it hasn't already happened.
Liam has started to unwind and relax more. He just needed to get out of the room and talk about it to the guys. Zayn walks by and leans in to hug me and whispers in my ear, "Don't try management anymore, it might get ugly, play by the rules from now on. Please, for all of us." The look in his eyes is sadness.
Liam looks our way and he knows what I'm being told. As much as I want to be here, I want to go home. I'm getting pissed off now.
We find our seats and wait for it to start. The show is amazing. All of their new stuff with all the older favorites. We dance with each other and enjoy the night and try to pull El out of her funk.
During the last song we get escorted to the back and I get pulled to the side and taken down the hall to a room. The door opens and I see two men and Simon standing there. Oh shit.
The whole conversation consists of who do you think you are, do you not realize what you may have created, what were the two of you thinking, you do realize we control the two of you now. I refuse to cry, to let the think they have me where they want me. They end their one sided conversation with me and just stand there and they leave the floor open for me. I look at them. "Are you finished? Duly noted. Can I leave now?" They just talked to me like I was a child.
I walk out of the room and walk past everyone. I walk past the SUV and keep walking. It seems no one takes notice of who I am or that I could be someone of importance. I just walk. I'm working past pissed and making my way to mad. I don't even realize where I am, I don't care at this point, I just had to get out of there. I see a park bench and sit down. I don't know how long or far I've walked but my legs are tired.
I feel my phone vibrate and look at it. It's Liam calling. I answer and he's frantic. They've been searching for me for two hours. I had no idea I had been gone that long. I zoned out. I'm told to stay where I am, great, my number has a tracker on it. When the hell did that happen?
A SUV pulls out and Liam jumps out and pulls me into a bear hug, he's almost crying. He helps me into the vehicle and it pulls away. I tell him what happened and what made me walk. I just had to get away, I had to think it out. If I had told someone, I would have to walk with someone. I needed to be alone. Of course he all but yells at me telling how I scared him and everyone else. They waited as long as they could for me. They even had people waiting til the stadium cleared out to look for me. I apologize and promise never to do it again. I was just so mad at how they talked to me. I'm a business woman, how dare they.
He looks at me with caring eyes but tells me in so many words I will have to get used to it when it comes to this part of our lives.
So now we sit back and wait. Wait to see if someone gets a picture and realize what they've captured. Then we handle the downfall as it happens.
Back at the hotel I'm greeted with hugs and everyone is happy I'm alright. I go straight to the room and look for the bottle of champagne that came from our honeymoon suite. I don't need a glass tonight.
Liam finds me in the tub, slid down, chin to the water, bottle three quarters of the way empty on the side of the tub. He grabs a towel and helps me out. "Looks like I'm paying you back for all the times you've taken care of me." He sits me on the bed and dries me off and helps me into one of his shirts I like to sleep in. He pushes my legs under the cover and covers me up and kisses my fore head.
II hear him take a shower and feel him crawl in the bed next to me, wrapping his arms around me. There's a knock at the door he gets up and answers it. Someone is checking on me, he tells them I'm fine, shuts the door, and re joins me in the bed.
II wake up with a jack hammer in my head and the sun is entirely too bright. Liam has breakfast waiting for me. "Good morning love. I know you feel like hell, but we got to pack to leave."

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