Lexi's POV:
When I woke up, something heavy was lying across my back. My eyes fluttered open to see the sun starting to pour in through the blinds in our living room. I struggled to push my self into a seated position on the couch. Pressing my hand into the pillow that my head had recently occupied, and noticed something was beneath it. I turned my head to observe the pillow, and discovered the object to be someone's leg. My gaze followed the jean-covered limb to Kristina's head lightly laying on Niall's torso, up to Niall, awkwardly resting his head on the back cushion of the sofa. My eyes darted from his face to his limp left leg that was once draped over my back and now resting on my hip.
I tried to cautiously slide out without waking him, but my hand slipped from the edge of the couch causing my whole upper half to make contact with the ground below. The bang was loud enough that if someone was upstairs they would be able to hear it.
Niall flinched, most likely because of his leg being jolted so suddenly, and his eye lids peeled back exposing his blue irises. "What happened?" he said as he stretched his arms above his head.
"I fell of the couch, sorry I woke you." My reply made him chuckle.
"Clumsy?"
"A tad," I couldn't help but to smile at the Irish boy who had pointed out a trait that I'm not too proud of.
Niall glanced down at his torso and realized Kristina's head was lightly placed into the crook where his right leg met his upper half. His lips formed an 'o' shape as his eyes became bigger at this new sight; I let out a soft giggle. Niall lightly cupped his hands under her head lifting it just enough for him to slide out and replace his lap with the pillow I had used.
"Top o' the mornin' to ya," he whispered trying not to wake the sleeping girl who lay on the sofa. "Got anything for breakfast?"
"Yeah, I can cook something." I really wasn't a breakfast person, but I could cook bisquick pancakes and the standard scrambled eggs.
Niall began to dig into the two pancakes I had stacked on his plate and the heaping of eggs he had helped himself to. "Good?" I questioned my cooking.
"Not bad. Do you have syrup?" I handed him the small plastic bottle of maple syrup before going to pull out the cereal. "No pancakes?" he looked confused.
"I'm not really a breakfast person. If I'm going to eat it, it depends on what it is and the quality of it. My cooking of pancakes and eggs don't really meet my standards," I grinned knowing he would not understand my picky eating habits, because no one understood.
"Ahh," he said still looking puzzled as he shoveled overcooked eggs into his mouth.
"I'm great at baking, and good with certain dinner and lunch meals, but breakfast foods aren't my specialty, so I'm sorry if it tastes like cardboard," I apologized knowing it would taste terrible.
"I actually want to be a cook at me own pub one day," he said making me feel all the more embarrassed. He was probably accustom to delicious meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner; but here I am, giving him pancakes from a box and overcooked eggs. "But ya know, I'll eat just about anything that is edible," he continued and flashed a smile in my direction, this statement made me feel better. My food was edible.
A groggy Kristina sauntered into the room rubbing her eyes, "Can I have some food? Niall?" She hadn't realized he had stayed over.
"I didn't want to leave you, I guess we all fell asleep on the couch," he chuckled.
"We all slept on that couch?" she sounded amazed that we could all fit onto the one piece of small furniture.
He threw his head back in laughter, "Surprisingly, and Lexi made eggs and pancakes." Kristina helped herself to a plate with two pancakes and no eggs, she knew my skills with the standard scrambled eggs.
"Thank you," she whispered into Niall's ear as she sat next to him, assuming I was still clueless of last night's events.
He looked her in the eye with all seriousness, "Any man who does something like that to a girl, is no man, but a monster. It was fate that I was taking out the trash at the time you screamed, I would have been a monster too if I had done nothing." Tears welled up in Kristina's eyes as he stared deeply into them. The salty water droplets spilled over the edges of her eye lids, trailing down her cheeks. She threw her arms around him pressing her face into his neck.
"You saved my life," she managed to whisper through her sobs.
"No Kristina, I stopped a terrible man from doing a terrible thing. You are strong, and you can overcome anything." Her sobs only grew louder as she took in his words. They were true, Kristina was strong. Strong enough to deal with the trauma of the event, but not to stop it from happening. However, it was stopped, and I appreciated Niall tremendously.
As Kristina's breathing slowed, I made my way toward the stairs to leave them in the kitchen to talk. I knew Kristina would talk to me, but not now, because according to her, I had still no idea what had happened.
I unlocked my phone, turning on my favorite 80's rock station on pandora; if the music was on I couldn't hear them, and I wanted to respect their privacy.
A bar at the top of my phone showed I had unread text messages. My mother always worried. She had sent me 4 messages asking how I was. I replied with a simple: I'm great! Miss you so much mommy! Love you <3xx:)-Lex. However, there was a fifth message: I went to Andrew's house this morning, he is beaten up. Said Liam did it. You were with him right? Please call me, I'm worried. -Kev. There was no doubt in my mind that he was bring truthful, Liam's angered and chaste exit from our flat was proof enough. I quickly pulled up Kevin's contact in my phone and pressed 'call'.
He picked up after the first ring "Hello? Lexi?"
"Oh my gosh how bad was it?"
"He had a cut in the middle of a large bruise on his left temple, may result in a concussion. He also had a swollen lip and another cut near his eye." I knew the one punch to the temple was Liam's work immediately. He would go straight for the knockout.
"He deserved it." My reply didn't receive the reaction I was hoping for.
"EXCUSE ME! How would you like it if I sent someone, who was your friend need I remind you, to come beat the absolu..."
"He tried to rape her," I cut him off. There was a short pause on the other end of the line.
"What?" I wasn't sure if he completely heard me through all of his shouting.
"Andrew tried to rape Kristina, but someone saved her." I said, this time clarifying my previous statement. "Liam thought what the guy who saved her did to him wasn't enough, he thought Andrew was in need of a lesson. I agree."
"I can't believe this. Andrew? Andrew Conell? The guy who supports everything his friends do? That Andrew?"
"Yes." That was enough for him to hang up the phone. I had no idea what was going on through Kevin's head, but it was probably close to the same thing Liam was thinking. I knew he would want his own go at Andrew's face, and frankly, so did I.
When the call ended, my music resumed. I sat on the bed facing the wall paying no attention to the melody seeping through the holes in my phone. My infuriation increased as I thought about Andrew. I laid on my stomach and my boiled rage exploded in the form of screams. I forced my mouth into the fluffy pillow and let out an angry scream. The muffled noise was still audible over the music, but I didn't stop for a good 10 seconds.
I stormed about my room and bathroom as I got ready for bed. I ripped back the covers, collapsed onto my bed, and turned out the lamp. My head hit the pillow and my mind went blank. I was so angry I couldn't think right, I couldn't fall asleep, I couldn't see straight, and my head started pounding. Suddenly an image of Liam's smile flashed in my mind. Liam had given Andrew what he deserved for me, so that I didn't have to. He barley knew Kristina, yet he was willing to punch one of his good friends in the face as hard as he could for her. My punch wouldn't have been as hard and he may have hurt me back. This thought worried me, and I was thankful Liam had taken care of business so that I wouldn't have to. I was thankful of Liam's protective nature. I was thankful to know Liam was there for me and my friends. I was actually thankful that Liam had kissed me, because for some reason, it made me feel safe.
______________AUTHOR'S NOTE___________________________________
Thank you so much for reading this, it means so much to me!! Please comment and vote!! I will take suggestions for upcomming chapters and do my best to try and fit them in. The next comming chapters are going to be so great! New characters, new romance, and some characters from a fan fiction favorite! Thanks again for every one's support! xx:) (p.s. sorry for any typos and spelling errors, it's difficult to catch them all)