"I'm tired," It was a simple complaint. Liam didn't leave at that. "I have a fucking headache! I'm not going out to meet any more of those annoying little brats." He spat at his colleagues - he would have once considered them his friends.

Most of them had gotten used to this behavior from Liam. The entire prep for the summer tour, was fit after fit, non-stop complaining. Louis was the first to suggest kicking him out. Harry agreed with Louis most of the time, and although he wsa getting irritated he was more concerned with getting his friend back. Zayn was interested in helping him out. He had tried to talk to him but was quickly swatted away with some foul language. Niall usually just tried to avoid the problem, and pretend it wasn't happening.

There was no more pretending though. Liam had crossed a line. You could be annoying, you could be bitter, you could act like you were PMSing all the time, but you never insulted the fans.
That night, after over a hundred happy fans were dissapointed because they only got to see 80% of One Direction, Zayn called a meeting with his mates while Liam was in the shower at the hotel.

"He just needs to get away, discover what's truly important to him again." Zayn told the group.

Skeptical, Louis asked, "How do we get him to go,and where can he go to get away from the press?"

Zayn pulled out a post-it with an address and a name on it, from his pocket.

Linda Grant
555 Pine St, Ferrysburg, MI, USA

"Your sending him with the wannabe canadians?" Harry asked, laughing.

Niall piped up softly, still not wanting to confront the subject, "Who's Linda?"

" Thank you for the relevent question, Niall. She owns some property she's not using and it's right next door to where she stays, so she'll keep an eye on him" Zayn explained.

"Keep an eye on who?" Liam walked into the room. When no one answered, "If you guys are conspiring against me, at least do it somewhat cool like while eating waffles in some disgusting american diner"

"We were just talking about how you need an attitude check" Zayn told him.

"Oh, and now let me guess, your going to kick me out of the band? Yeah, right you need me" Liam retorted.

Harry spoke next "We don't need you like this."

"Okay, so whats my option? Go to anger management? We saw how well that turned out for Chris Brown"

"We're sending you on vacation" Niall said.

"Oooh, do I get to go to Australia? Hawai'i?" Liam laughed.

"Michigan, and if you dont go your out of the band?" Louis set up the ultamatum.

"Allright, when do I leave, I'm guessing tommorow, because there's only two weeks until the tour begins"

"Your leaving tommorow, but you'll be there for the summer, Zayn has the details" Louis was taking charge of this idea, he hadn't even discussed with the others yet.

"So you'll tour without me?" Liam asked in disbelief.

"No, we're going to postpone the tour," Zayn said going along with it.

"Okay, anything else before I embark on your little experiment?"Liam asked with a very rude tone to his voice.

"No posting on anything, don't want the press finding out where you are, it defeats the purpose." Zayn Said matter-of-factly, "Also, we'll update your family on how you are, but for now it's best that we are the only one's who know where you'll be"

Liam played off all cool and unaffected. Secretly he was thrilled that he could have this chance to escape. And there was even a part of him that was happy that his colleagues were so concerned, who knows maybe they could be his friends again.

Notes

Authors Note: This is my first fanfiction that I actually intend on finishing. I'm really excited about it. I'm still somewhat a newbie.
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So I hope you guys like it! And Please comment and let me know what you think of the story or even what I could better.