One More Chance (Part 2)(22)
After crying for a solid thirty minutes, I get myself up and change and crawl into bed. “Do you want me to stay with you?” she asks.
“Yeah, the bed’s plenty big, crawl in,” I say as more tears come.
“I’m going to change, I’ll be right back,” she says as she goes to grab her bag.
I can’t help but continue to cry, as I’ve just changed the life of me and Liam and he doesn’t even know. What the hell am I going to do?
“What’s wrong, why are you crying?” Liam asks as he stops at my door on the way to the spare bedroom.
“Nothing,” I lie as I try to wipe the tears away.
“Hails, you’re crying. Why are you crying?” he asks as he enters my room.
“I just have some things going on.”
“Like what?” he asks as he comes and sits beside me on the bed.
“I….”
“Hey I’m back, OH, Hi Liam,” Kenz says as she comes into my bedroom.
“Hey,” he says to Kenzie, “What’s going on?” Liam asks while looking directly at me.
“I’m okay, I’m just overthinking things.”
“What are you overthinking?” he asks me intently. Kenzie stands there staring at me not knowing what to say or do. I don’t know what to say or do either.
“Just life I guess. Things don’t always go as planned,” I say making up a silly explanation.
“Kenz, can you give us a few minutes please?” Liam asks.
“Umm…sure,” she says hesitantly before walking out of the bedroom.
“You’re not telling me something, what’s going on?” he says.
“I just have a lot going on right now, that’s all.”
“Haley I know you, what are you not saying?”
“Probably a lot, but things aren’t like they used to be. I can’t just open up to you anymore, we aren’t that couple anymore Liam.”
“Babe, you can always talk to me.”
“No I can’t,” I say as fresh tears fall. Before I know it, Liam leans down and pulls me towards him hugging me.
“Yes Hails, you can. We’ve known each other our entire lives; you can always talk to me, no matter what.”
“It’s not that simple.”
“What’s not?”
“Liam, I’m happy that you found someone who can make you happy and give you the world, you deserve that. I won’t be a person who holds you back or that ruins anything for you, I won’t be that girl,” I say as I pull away.
“Holds me back or ruins anything, what are you talking about?”
“You need to move on with your life like you have and forget about me, forget ever knowing me,” I say as more tears fall.
“Hails, I’ll never forget you, why would you even think that?”
“Because for this to work, you need to.”
“For what to work?” he asks confused.
“Please Liam, please do this for me,” I say as I try to hold back the tears, “I love you and you will always hold a special part of me, but I need you to do this for me,” I plead.
“Why?”
“Because it’s better for everyone.”
“I don’t understand,” he says looking lost.
“I know and you won’t, but I’m asking you to forget about ever meeting me. Live your life like you were supposed to without me in it. You’re happy and you deserve that.”
“Hey Liam, Spence is asking for you,” Kenzie interrupts.
“Shit, okay,” he says as he gets up from the bed, “This conversation is not over Haley,” he says before leaving my bedroom.
“What happened?” Kenzie asks as she rushes over to me.
“I asked him to forget about me, to move on and be happy,” I say as fresh tears fall.
“Oh Hails,” she says as she comforts me, “Maybe you should tell him.”
“I can’t, he’ll think I did it on purpose or that I tricked him. I can’t, he deserves better than that.”
“We are going to get you through this,” she says as she crawls in bed with me. She hits the off switch on the nightstand light, “We are going to get through this together.”
“I need to get to London, I need May to get here before I start showing.”
Everyone’s gone by the time I wake up, which I couldn’t be happier about. I know Liam is going to continue asking questions until he knows what’s wrong, but I can’t tell him; he deserves better than my screw-ups. Kenzie left me a note saying she had to run some errands and will be back later. So it’s just me and an empty house.
Chapter Five
“Holy shit, when did you two happen?” I ask as Quinn and Brody enter the house holding hands.