I Cannot Hide This Even Though I Try ~ A COMPLETED One Direction Fanfic

20 - Endings and New Beginnings

“Of course, and I’ve also spoken to Bobby. I was planning to wait to talk to you until we got there, but I was too excited to wait,” Liam replies.

Niall walks out of the bathroom with wet hair, wearing only pyjama bottoms. He is in the middle of brushing his teeth when he notices that Liam is on the phone. “Whoshat?” he asks through a mouthful of toothpaste.

Liam puts up one finger as if to say, “Just a minute,” and then says goodbye to the person on the phone. He hangs up and turns to face his boyfriend. “That,” he begins, “was your mum.”

Niall goes back into the bathroom and quickly puts everything away before speaking: “Why were you on the phone with my mum? Did she call for me?”

“No, Niall, I called her. I was checking if it would be okay with her for us to stay over for a few days,” the brunet replies, smiling at the blonde boy.

“You mean we get to go home for a few days? When?” the Irish lad asks, his excitement bubbling over.

“We’ll probably be staying for around a week, and we’ll be flying over tomorrow.”

“Why didn’t you tell me earlier?!” Niall shouts. He runs around the room, picking up all of his belongings and throwing them haphazardly into his open suitcase. After that, he begins to literally jump up and down out of excitement. He suddenly stops mid-jump and falls back onto his bed. “Do you know if Greg will be there? I haven’t seen him in awhile…”

“I wanted it to be a surprise, and I think he said he’ll try to be there for the weekend at the very least,” Liam answers. He stands up and walks the short distance between the beds, plopping down beside his boyfriend. “What do you want to do while we’re there, Nialler?”

“I want to go to Nando’s.”

“Okay, other than Nando’s because that was kind of obvious.”

“Hmm… Can we go to that park where the bus used to drop us off whenever you came over to my dad’s house? And the music store?”

“We can go anywhere you want to go, love,” Liam says with a grin. He scoots into a better position before lying against the pillows.

“Sounds fun,” Niall murmurs. He moves himself until he’s beside Liam, and then uses Liam’s chest as a pillow. “I’m tired, LiLi.”

“I know you are. You can go to sleep now, and I’ll wake you up when it’s time for us to get ready to go to the airport, okay?”

“Okay. Goodnight.”

“Good night, Nialler.”

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*Liam’s POV*

(Saturday morning)

“Where are you taking me?” Niall asks for what seems like the hundredth time.

“You’ll see,” I reply once again. “If you ask one more time, I swear I will leave you on the side of the road near a pack of teenage girls.”

“I’m hungry. Are we going to get food?” he asks instead, totally ignoring my threat.

“Yes, we’re going to get food.”

“Finally, an answer,” he mutters under his breath.

“That’s all you wanted to know?” I query. I sneak a glance over at my boyfriend whom I have blindfolded and buckled into the passenger seat of our rental car. He isn’t allowed to know anything about what we’re doing, except that he will be getting food at some point. Of course, he only gets to know that much information because it’s the only thing to stop him from being nosy.