Attached at the hip.

*A week before Christmas*

*Liam’s POV*

Christmas is almost here and things have been pretty great. We arrived back home late last night and have been relaxing most of the day. We are staying at Savannah’s apartment and it feels really good to be back home, we are staying here for just over a month before our last two months of tour. I know that Savannah is glad to be home, even though she says she doesn’t get home sick because I’m her home, I know she misses her apartment and the stability of staying in one place for more than a week, so this is a good break for her. She has been doing a lot better lately, she hasn’t gotten any new scars, I check, but don’t pester her about it too often, and she has also gotten better about eating. I still pay close attention to how much she eats though. She has gained some of her weight back, but she still isn’t back at a healthy weight, I can tell she isn’t really excited about it, but her health is more important. Sometimes I worry about her though, she seems really happy on the outside and around others…but when it’s just us sometimes I get the feeling she is depressed. Some mornings she refuses to get out of bed, she claims she’s just tired, but part of me feels like she just wants to hide from the world.I have gotten a lot better about respecting her privacy, I haven’t invaded it for a long time. I really do work on it because I love her and I want us to work.

Tonight we are hanging out with a few of our friends from high school and sort of catching up, I haven’t seen any of them in like three years, and Sav hasn’t seen them in about six months. But as of now I am up cooking breakfast and Sav is still asleep. I made her some chocolate chip pancakes and bring it to her on a tray with some apple juice. ”Savannah baby, time to wake up” I say and set the tray next to her on the bed and gently rub her shoulders.
“No it’s too early” she groans and hides her head under a pillow. I laugh softly and smile, she’s pretty cute when she doesn’t want to wake up.

“Its 10:00 love, it’s not that early, come on we got to get up, I want to take you shopping” I say with a smile, I really do want to take her shopping, it will give me ideas of what to give her for Christmas.

Immediately her head pops up “Shopping?” She asks with a smile and I nod

“Yes baby, now hurry up and eat so we can go, don’t forget we have dinner with Lilly, Michael, and Grace tonight” I remind her.

“Thank you for the pancakes baby, they smell amazing” she says and says a quick prayer before digging into her food “So you want to take me shopping? What’s in it for you?” she asks with a laugh and I laugh as well.

“Well, I get to see you try on clothes?” I say with a smirk and she rolls her eyes at me

“Such a pervert” she chuckles and pushes my face in the other direction

“Oh whatever, I can’t help that I have a beautiful girlfriend, maybe we can even find you something for tonight? So I can make Michael and whomever else decides to show up jealous of you” I say and kiss her cheek

“I won’t protest to new clothes” she says and laughs then puts her fork down “You want the rest? I’m stuffed” she says and rubs her stomach.

“You only ate half babe, you sure?” I ask and raise an eyebrow.

“Babe, I’m fine. I just got used to not eating much so I’m still getting used to eating normally again” she reminds me and I nod.

“One more bite?” I say and she complies taking one bite

“Now go shower and get dressed, I have some spoiling to do” I say with a smile and finish her pancakes. She gets up and heads to the bathroom for her shower. A few minutes later Savannah comes back wrapped in a towel

“I forgot my clothes” she says with a blush and walks to her closet, I just laugh and smile, I check her out a bit but make sure she doesn’t notice because I know she won’t be too happy.
She grabs some leggings and a plain purple V-neck and a bra and panties before going back into the bathroom. When she comes out she is dressed, she tosses on some toms and grabs a Victoria’s secret jacket and puts it on. She dries her hair and then much to my objection puts her makeup on. Finally she is ready to go.

We get into her truck and go to the mall, When we are there I take her to almost every single store. She argues with me every time about paying, but I won’t budge. Where we are meeting out friends tonight is rather fancy so we go into a dress store and buy her a nice strapless green dress that falls just above her knees. It has pleats from the waist down with a brown braided belt and a sweetheart cut. The only reason I know any of this is because she wanted to be sure I understood ‘dress lingo’ she’s so cute I swear.

We keep shopping for another hour or so before stopping for lunch. We grab a bite to eat at subway and then go back to her apartment. She unloads everything we bought and then we decide to watch ‘I love Lucy’ reruns. Even though it is rather old, it is still one of Savannah’s favorite shows, and I don’t mind it, I think it’s kind of cute. But at around 4:00 Savannah starts to get ready and so do I. I wear a dark gray dress shirt with some khaki pants and nice dress shoes and Sav wears her dress with some beige heels. She curls her hair to perfection and applies some soft makeup and we are ready to go.

This time I drive her truck to the restaurant and we get there about ten minutes later, our friends are already there along with a few extra people. I remember them and all is well until I see a face I honestly didn’t expect to see here tonight…



Dylan.



What the hell is he doing here? I stop dead in my tracks when I see him, my fists clench and I am just about ready to walk in and rip his face off. The guy that beat my girlfriend, I can’t believe he had the balls to be here. Savannah hasn’t seen him yet, because when I stop she looks at me confused.

“Babe, you okay?” she asks looking at me concerned, knowing she hasn’t seen him I try to snap out of it, she will see him as soon as we get to the table, but he sure as hell won’t see her without me tonight.

“Stay close to me” I say and wrap my arm around her waist protectively, we continue to walk in and then she sees him.

“They promised he wouldn’t be here.” She says obviously angry

“Just stay near me Sav, I got you” I tell her and we walk to the table. We greet everyone and make sure not to greet Dylan. When Sav reaches Grace she whispers something to her, I’m assuming something about Dylan, and so I just keep a hold on her letting her know that I’m here.

As we sit down she discretely whispers in my ear that he has changed apparently, but I don’t buy it. Dylan had gone to the bathroom and when he comes back we are all seated and there is only open seat left, the seat next to Savannah. I swear if he so much as touches her I will hurt him.

We all go around the table and are catching up, apparently Dylan is still single, go figure, but he says that his mother is sick and so he has been taking care of her, I’m sad for his mother, but I don’t care about him honestly. He also says he has a job as an anger counselor, funny, he’s the one that could use some help with his anger. “So Savannah, what’s new with you?” Lilly asks and Savannah smiles.

“Well, a lot actually” She smiles and looks at me, and squeezes my hand softly “As you lot probably know, Liam and I are together now, I’m still in school for my religion degree, and I will graduate in about two years, but right now I am doing it online so that way I can go on tour with the boys and have a more flexible schedule” She says with a smile

“Oh yeah, we’ve been seeing it on everything! Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, magazines, everything and anything has you two’s faces on it” Michael says with a laugh

“Yeah wasn’t there some drama a while ago with that Danielle girl? Liam didn’t you sleep with her?” Dylan asks me and I immediately shoot him the shut your mouth look

“Seriously?” I ask “I’ll be back I need some air” I get up from the table and walk outside.

*Savannah’s POV*

Liam gets up and walks out of the restaurant, great he was already mad to begin with and now this. I shoot Dylan a glare “Seriously Dylan? You just had to bring that up didn’t you?” I ask and the tension at the table can be felt from a mile away

“What it was just a question? Not my fault he cheated on you, should you really be with a guy who cheats on you?” he asks me and I laugh

“You have no room to talk, Yeah he may have cheated, but you beat me Dylan. You hit me, bruised me, and gave me scars I still have today. Nothing Liam could do would ever be as bad as what you did to me. Before you decide to get all up in my relationship and try and tell me who to date, remember why we broke up. Remember that you ruined our relationship, not me. Honestly, I don’t even know why you came here tonight. This was supposed to be a fun night with friends and yet again you ruined something great. Hope you’re happy” I say and get up. I walk out to go find Liam. He is standing out on the little balcony of the restaurant and looking out at the street “Don’t let him get to you, he is just being an ass” I say and hug Liam from behind. He stays still and doesn’t move.

“Why are you still with me?” Liam asks me

“Babe, that’s a silly question…I love you” I say and kiss his shoulder “Sure you made a mistake, but it doesn’t make me love you less…sure it hurt, but nothing you could ever do would be as bad as what Dylan did to me, you have to understand that. Babe look at me” I say and he turns around, I wrap my arms around his neck “Babe, just ignore him okay? I know he’s a douche but he’s here and we don’t see our friends often, so let’s just go back inside and enjoy our time with them, let’s just act like he isn’t there” I say and look up at him
“Okay, I’ll try, but if he so much as touches you I’ll kill him” he says and wraps his arms around my waist

“Feel free” I say and kiss him softly “Now let’s go spend time without friends” I say with a smile. We walk back into the restaurant and sit back down, making a point not to acknowledge Dylan. It’s best we just act like he’s not here so the whole night isn’t ruined. We continue our conversation from earlier and have a great time, I hear about their lives and find out that Grace is actually engaged. The others don’t have much new, and Dylan ends up leaving early thank God. We talk and talk until the restaurant closes and we all have to go home, but we all decide to have a movie night at my apartment tomorrow night.

We all go our separate ways and Liam and I get a cab back home. Ever since what Dylan said he hasn’t been acting himself… He stayed rather quiet for the rest of the night and only spoke when necessary so I know we are probably going to have to talk about it before we go to sleep. We get inside and start to get ready for bed. I change into a t-shirt and some Nike shorts and Liam just strips down to his boxers, I was expecting to have to bring it up, but I was shocked when Liam was the first to talk.

“If, if one day we ever b-broke up….would you ever go back to Dylan?” Liam asks me. I stop what I’m doing and turn to him shocked.

“What? No, Liam I would never go back to him. And if we broke up..? You’re not going to break up with me are you?” I ask confused

“No…I meant if you ever broke up with me… I would never break up with you, you’ve only been perfect to me and I’ve screwed up so many times…. I know you say what he did was worse, but I don’t believe it… I made you cut yourself….I made you take diet pills… I am just as shitty as he is” he say and sits down with his head in his hands. I crawl across my bed and sit next to him, I massage his shoulders as he is very tense and try to soothe him.
“No Liam… you didn’t make me do all those things… I decided, I made the choice to do it, I was the one that cut myself, it wasn’t your fault babe, and you can’t blame yourself for that. I’m not going to lie, what you did was really shitty, but we made it through, we worked it out and it’s going to be okay. Nothing will ever be perfect Liam, we are a mess. But I love our mess” I say and hug him from behind, I wish he wouldn’t blame himself, even if he did cause some of it…. I don’t want him beating himself up over it.

He sighs heavily and nods “I love our mess too” he says and lays back on the bed, I lay next to him and just look over his features, I guess I began to stare because he looks at me confused and starts laughing a bit “Take a picture, it’ll last longer” he jokes, there’s my Liam. I shake my head and smile

“Maybe I will” I say and take my phone out “Do your sexy smolder” I say with a laugh and he does that goofy smolder that he calls his ‘sexy smolder’ Gosh it’s adorable. I take the picture and post it to twitter

@SavSmith: Don’t you wish your boyfriend was hot like mine? @Real_Liam_Payne thinks that his goofy smolder is sexy, what do you guys think?

I post and attach the picture, the fans go crazy, haha apparently they think its sexy, which not going to lie it kinda is.

We eventually fall asleep and are all cuddled up and peaceful until about 2:00 in the morning when I wake up with sharp pains coming from my abdomen…

Notes

Woahhhhhh A TON happened in this chapter...what do y'all think is wrong with Savannah? Is it cramps? food posining? Or something more? And what do y'all think about Dylan being there? Now that he know's Savannah is back in town do you think he will try to get her back? Or will he just let it go? Let me know what y'all think!