Hero

“I have an idea.” Liam said one morning while we laid in bed watching films at my place.

“And what’s that?” I asked, looking over my shoulder to look at him.

“Well, you’ve basically lived at my place for the past week, you’ve got a drawer full of stuff there… maybe you should just move in with me.” He shrugged, keeping his eyes locked on the TV. I turned over to face him, propping myself up on my right arm.

“Don’t you think it’d be a bit crowded with you, me, and Andy there?” I asked, leaning my head on my hand.

“Well, Andy and Daisy have moved into their own place last night, so I have an extra bedroom, y’know, if you want your own bedroom. There’s another bathroom, as well.”

“You’re… you’re being serious?” I sat up and crossed my legs.

“Well, yeah.” Liam sat up across from me, crossing his legs as well. “Why wouldn’t I be serious about this?” He reached across and took my hands in his. “I want you to move in with me. I want to wake up next to you, or across the hall from you if you want that separate room, I want to make you breakfast in bed and see you every day. I want you to move in.”

I opened my mouth to speak, but no words came out. All I could do was nod.

“I’ll take that as a ‘yes’?” Liam’s smile spread almost ear to ear.

“Yeah… okay.”

“Okay, well… let’s get packing.” Liam smiled and jumped off the bed before going through my dressers and pulling out clothes.

“Whoa, I can’t just leave, Liam.” I jumped out of bed and grabbed the clothes out of his hands and began to put them neatly back in the drawers.

“Why not?” He pulled the clothes right back out.

“I have a roommate to consider. She can’t take over rent on her own.” I took the clothes out of his hand and put them back in the drawer once more. “Quit moving my clothes!” I laughed and shut the drawer. “I have to at least talk to her about this.”

“I already did.” Liam shrugged and opened my drawer again. “She’s okay with it. Actually, she said something along the lines of ‘thank God, I can’t handle hearing you two anymore’. Now where’s your suitcase?”

“When did you talk to her?” I asked feeling slightly betrayed that Quin knew about this.
My boyfriend shrugged his shoulders. “Like three days ago when I nearly walked in on her and Niall.”

“What!?” I gasped.

He held up his hand shaking his head. “It’s a long story. The point is that Quin already has another person waiting to move in as soon as we get you moved out.”

My arms folded across my chest stubbornly. “Quin!” I yelled marching out of my bedroom in search of my obnoxious best friend. “Quin get your curly haired ass out here right now!” I yelled while pounding on her bedroom door.

“What? What? What the hell do you want?” Quin asked yanking open the door with obvious bed hair.

I looked over her shoulder. “Hi Niall,” I gave him a short greeting. “You want me to move out?” I demanded.

Quin rolled her eyes, “Is that what Liam said? He begged me to let you move in with him.”

“Hey!” Liam protested standing in my doorway. He was ignored.

“Why do you want to get rid of me so badly?” I asked. I was hurt. Had I done something wrong? Was Quin tired of having to deal with me? I had been taking the antidepressants like I was supposed to. Okay maybe not like I was supposed to, but I took them.

Quin shook her head, “I don’t want to get rid of you. I’m going to miss you Mel!”

“But you have someone ready to take my room!”

“It’s just my cousin!” We were silent. Liam stood in my doorway and Niall stood in Quin’s.

“A-are you going to move in with him?” The Irish lad asked looking around skeptically.

I sighed heavily, “I don’t know.” I mused looking at my best friend with pleading eyes. “Are you really okay with it?”

“No,” she pouted. “Yes, I can go back to sleeping without headphones.”

“You know way too much.” Liam muttered.

“Okay,” I decided. “I’ll move in with you.” I turned to Liam who was now wearing an amused expression.

“Great,” Quin huffed as her shoulders loosened like a weight had been lifted. “When can we start packing?”

“You don’t have to help.” I shook my head.

“Oh no, you woke me up from my nap. I’m getting you out of this flat.”

~*~

Three hours later all of my stuff was packed and over half of it was now in Liam’s, or I guess our, apartment. The four of us sat in the living room chowing down on Chinese takeaway after hauling box after box inside.

“It’s going to be so weird not having you there tonight.” Quin mumbled in between bites.
I scoffed, “As if I was actually there anyways.”

“Honestly you’ve lived here since you left the hospital.” Liam added. His voice hardened at the mention of my time in the hospital after Mitchell’s worse beating ever. An awkward air settled around us.

Niall cleared his throat, “Who wants to play some Fifa?” He asked standing up as Quin agreed. I grabbed the deserted plates and walked to the kitchen. Footsteps could be heard following as familiar arms snaked around my waist.

“That offer for the separate still stands.” Liam’s voice was low as he pulled my back into his chest.

“And miss the opportunity to wake up to your gorgeous mug every day, I think not.” I turned around in his embrace so that we were facing each other. His face was clouded. “What’s wrong?” I asked touching his cheek softly.

Liam shook his head, “It’s nothing.”

“It’s not nothing Li. What is it? Tell me.” I pressed. If we were going to live together then we had to be willing to be completely honest with each other. About most things, that is, because there is no way in hell Liam will ever know about my monthly blood fest.

He sighed, “I was thinking about that dick Mitchell and how he’s out walking the streets because the authorities keep letting him go.” He muttered. His voice was steely as anger flashed in his eyes. I didn’t like him like this. My body stiffened as I leaned away from him. My hand dropped to my side and Liam looked down on me. His eyes registered my frightened expression and he quickly calmed himself. “I’m sorry baby. I’m just worried about you. I want you to be safe.”

“As long as I’m with you I am safe, right?”

“Right.” He agreed kissing my lips. “I love you Melody so much. You don’t even know.”

“I think I have a pretty good idea.” I taunted with my tongue pressed to the back of my teeth as I smiled.

“How about we kick out our visitors and turn down for the night?” My head nodded at his words. Eagerly we walked hand-in-hand into the living room basically pushing our friends out of the door. We just wanted to finally be alone. Finally it was just the two of us without a possibility of being interrupted.

Notes

And now everyone's 100% caught up to where I've written! (besides what I have of the new chapter, that is) so I hope everyone's patient :D there are only two more chapters left of Hero, but I do have a sequel planned! Thank you all so very much for reading it and putting up with me. I really appreciate it and I love you guys to the moon and back!
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