Chapter 2 - Stand up

The schedule was not at all stupid. But to Liam somehow, it was, indeed, since he had to wake up at such an early hour! 8 A.M is a serious job? Nobody knew this lazy side of him, except his 4 brothers. He wanted to see his boys. Liam thought it was ages since they all took a short break after they released One Thing MV. This was the last break for them to take care of what they had to before they came back for another album release, which they knew nothing about. According to Simon Cowell, their manager, the boys had to work very hard after they returned, that this was the last break that they had had for the celebrity life that they're about to experience. Pity! Anyhow, Liam wished as he walked through the company’s gate that he could turn back the time and did something more useful for the little vacation that was coming to an end.

Suddenly, Liam looked up as he noticed an object, or should I say, a person standing in his way. The black-haired boy smiled at his, as always. That was, no doubt, Zayn Malik. It really turned Liam into blushing, he didn’t know why. The thought he had had a couple minutes ago just vanished. Liam walked towards Zayn, as he should.

"Morning man. Long time no see. How’s my Leeyum?" Zayn started the conversation, the very first one since Liam’s complicated life began, with a smirk on his face.

The boy really knew how to kill people with his smile. Liam swore that his breathe was taken away for a few minutes.

"Fine. And you?" Liam and Zayn walked to the empty elevator. As he remembered something, Liam turned to face Zayn. "So… I heard you guys broke up?"

Liam didn’t want to spoil the fun he had when he saw Zayn and didn’t want to see Zayn’s smile disappear. But what could he do? He can’t help it because if he couldn’t do it, sooner or later, the other boys will. And Liam, however, didn’t want be the last one to let Zayn knew he would back him up no matter what happened. That was a weird of him. He could just ignore it and save it for other guys, but….

Zayn’s smile disapeared when he heard about his ex. "I want to avoid discussing this, but since you asked, I’m still alive. Thank you!" Zayn stopped and faked a smile. "I’m finding a new girlfriend though."

Zayn paused as Liam felt an electric shock running through his body. "I saw you and Lisa hugging and snogging the other night, and to be honest, I was quite jealous."

Liam’s face turned red. He didn’t want anyone to see it, especially Zayn. Unfortunately, the bad boy had noticed his expression and he burst out laughing. "Oh my my. Our little Liam is so sensitive, eh? I’m getting jealous of her now!"

Liam smiled goofily at Zayn’s words. He then realised something that Zayn had said, what Zayn shouldn’t have said. "Jealous? About what?"

Now it’s Zayn’s turn to get shock. "Uhmmm… Well…" He mumbled, tried to find an excuse to escape such situation.

Lucky for him, the elevator stopped as they got to their floor. Liam and Zayn, right after that, caught sight of the other bandmates sitting in the waiting room. Louis was doing something ridiculous with Harry’s hair, which made the boy frown. And Niall was laughing at them, with his mouth full of food. He was eating and laughing at the same time.

"Oh hello there LiLi. How are you?" Harry noticed him and he forced a smile. However, that was until he felt Louis pulling his hair real hard. "Ouch fuck Lou. Careful!"

"Well well looks who we have here. My soldier. Got dumped, eh?" Harry finally got rid of the annoying Louis and Louis turned his attack to the poor Zayn.

Zayn tried in vain to fake a smile. However, it failed. And Louis, somehow, found a better way to tease his boy, as he usually did.

"Need my help? I got plenty of experience. Girls can't resist me" Louis mischieviously continue marketing himself. "I told you to hook with her as much as possible but you didn’t listen to me. Now you see the consequence, eh?"

Liam stood still, shaking as he tried to calm himself down after hearing Louis’s fucking bullshit advice. He did reallly want to punch Louis to stop him. But he knew if he did, it was Louis or Liam who had to die. Harry seeing everything from the very beginning finally burst out in words. "OH get over it Lou. He is not going to do what you did everyday to your girls."

Liam must thank Harry for that. But for Harry’s words, Liam would bite Louis right now. He suddenly felt a hand on his shoulders, pulling him back to reality. Zayn’s hand. Zayn forced a smile at the boys, Liam could feel that Zayn wanted to say something to him. "I’m fine now man. About your concern Lou, I’m appreciate but… I don’t date sluts."

The whole group laughed at Zayn’s joke. Well, at least Niall and Harry were. Louis was busy covering his face and Liam, somehow, just didn’t want to laugh.

Louis then opened his mouth, trying to save himself from the embarassment. But Liam cut him off right away. "Louis, just shut up!"

Louis knew he couldn’t fight against a whole gang. So he didn’t breath a word until Simon’s assistant called them into the room. The old man was sitting in his desk, eyeing his 5 angels as they entered the room.

"How’s your holiday, boys?" He winked at Niall as the blonde-haired boy was trying to lick something near his mouth. A piece of cake perhaps.

"Good enough. We’d rather be here however. So what are we doing?" the curly-haired interrupted with a flirtatious smile.

"Well…" Simon turned his gaze on the curious boy and got to the main point. "The company had decided to upgrate the security systems. You have to live together from now on to advoid paparazzi. It was quite inconvenient, but it was the best way for now. The house was on us, which means you have a free house."

"SWEET. I LOVE YOU SIMMY." Louis shouted excitedly. He had always been so impetuous a boy. "We've got our own house to live in

"In case you hadn’t heard carefully." Simon smirked, seeing how stupid Louis was. "You guys were forced to live together. In the same house."

"WHAT? NO!!" Louis protested. He casted a look at Niall. "How on earth do you think we could live with each others, no offense Niall? I mean we got our own life!..."

"Enough Lou. That was set. I believe that it was ok with the rest of the boys" Simon had a sinister smile on his face which frightened everyone.

All the boys were smart enough to know that there was no point arguing over something that was decided by Simon Cowell. About Simon, seeing his boys was well undercontroled, he smiled a victorious smile, mostly to himself. "So guys, are there any other questions? If not, I’d like you to take a look at the working schedule please!"

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P/s: AHHHHH. I finally made it this far. They finally lived together. I always want to write this earlier. I didn’t figure out this would be so boring. But anyway, I’d tried my best, hope you enjoy. Still don’t know how to name this chapter! Phewww. It’s hard just to find a name for the chapter. I’ll just gonna name it “Stand up”

From the moment I met you everything changed

I knew I had to get you whatever the pain

I had to take you and make you mine

I would walk through the desert I would walk down the aisle

I would swim all the oceans just to see you smile

Whatever it takes is fine

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I know your hearts been broken but don't you give up

I'll be there yeah I know it to fix you with love

It hurts me to think that you've ever cried