It was a staredown. Mitch and Tiffani were on one side of the small desk and Paris was on the other. Alex, Jason, and Hayden had escorted Jackie to their room about an fifteen minutes earlier, after Tiffani had finished talking on the phone with Ariel for a second time. Ariel had insisted that Paris call Liam as soon as possible and talk it out with him, but Paris was to enfuriated to even think about it.
Without taking her eyes off of Paris, Tiffani slid the phone towards her. Without missing a beat, Paris slid it back.
Tiffani sighed. "You're acting like a child."
Paris frowned. "You're dating a child."
"Hey!" Mitch protested.
Tiffani inhaled sharply and grabbed his arm to signal for him to relax. "Paris! You are normally the one who thinks rationally about things! Get over your stupid pride and call him. He wants to explain. At least give him that! He at least deserves a chance."
"Um, Wendy, darling?" Mitch inturrupted. "After what he did, no he doesn't-ow!" he yelped as she elbowed him in the stomach. Paris rolled her eyes at him. Tiffani glared at him. "Fine! He deserves a chance!"
Tiffani smiled proudly and slid the phone back to Paris. Paris frowned and looked at it for a moment. She eyed Tiffani again. "We'll be right here and you can put it on speaker."
Paris sighed and grabbed the phone. She looked back at her friends across the table. They ushered for her to continue. She groaned and tapped in the familiar number and placed the phone by her ear. She looked back at Tiffani and Mitch, who were grinning eagerly. Paris frowned and pressed the speaker key on her phone before placing it on the table in front of her.
He answered on the second ring. "Hello?"
His voice was strained and raspy. It sounded like he had been crying and it's tone was full of worry. She was to dumbstruck to answer him, so she sat silently.
"Hello?" he asked again. "Paris?"
Her breath hitched. She tried to say something but her voice was caught in her throat. "Look, Paris, if this is you I know your super mad at me right now. I'm not going to deny what happened; I messed up. I'm sorry! I'm so, so sorry! I-I-I just, I don't know. I didn't mean what I said-"
"Then why did you say it?" she inturrupted.
"Paris!" he cried. "Its so good to hear your voice!"
"Liam!" she scolded. "Answer me." He was silent. She groaned. "You know what? Don't even try! I don't want to know. Do you seriously think anything you say right now is going to help? Or are you not going to think about that either?"
"Paris! I swear, I didn't mean it!" he defended himself. "But I do mean it when I say that I love you! I love you so much and it hurts so much that I hurt you! God Paris! I love you!"
"Really? You love me? Or do you just feel sorry for me? Poor little Paris, so depressed because her sister is dead!" Tiffani gasped. Paris continued. "Did you just think you could show me some sympathy and that I would fall in love and then you.could crush me and I should just be happy because at least someone wanted me? Well you got me! I fell!"
"Paris! Stop!" Liam exclaimed. "I didn't plan on falling in love with you! It just happened! And I'm so freaking happy it did because its the best thing thats ever happened to me!"
"Then why couldn't you just tell everyone that, huh? Because now,I'll be known to the world as Liam Payne's summer fling!" Paris yelled. "You made me sound so shallow, so cheap!"
"I know and I'm sorry, but you need to understand what that interview.was like! I-"
"What are you freaking talking about?" Paris yelled. "How hard is it to sit on a freaking couch and answer questions about yourself? Its a hey, how ya doing? Fine, thanks for having me on the show. Oh, its our honor, now tell us, did you eat a good breakfast today? Why yes, thank you. You are welcome, did you brush your teeth? Funny you should ask; I did, two and a half times! How do you brush half a time? You only scrub your tongue! Gotta look great for the red carpet! Oh Liam, you're halarious; are you dating someone? Why yes, I am and I'm freaking in love with her!" Paris screamed. "But no! All you did was say 'ya, I'm dating someone but.don't worry girls, she's just a summer fling!"
"What?" Mitch raised an eyebrow.
"Shush!" Tiffani scolded.
"Paris, I'll get on twitter right now and take back every word. I'll tell everyone how much I love you! In fact, I'm booking a flight right now and coming to see you!" Liam promised.
"Don't" Paris instructed. "You've got a job to do. People are counting on you. You can't let them down."
"But what about us?" Liam cried.
"I guess you were right" Paris squeaked. "I should have gone with you because clearly we can't handle long distance. Liam," she sighed. "I'm sorry, but you obviously don't have room in your life for a summer fling."
"Paris, I-"
"Goodbye Liam" she hung up. Tears already stained her cheeks. She looked at Tiffani, who gave her a sympathetic smile. Paris shook her head and began sobbing. Immediatly, Tiffani and Mitch had their arms around her in a tight hug.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world....
"Paris!" Liam yelled. The call was over. He groaned and threw his phone down on the bed.
"Hey! What did that phone ever do to.you mate?" Louis asked. Liam glared at him. Louis frowned. "Liam?"
Ariel and Harry walked into the hotel room, holding hands. "Liam, did you finally get a hold of Paris?"
Liam skowled at Ariel. "Yes" he spat.
Her eyes widened. "It didn't go well?"
"We're over."
And soon, his band mates surrounded him, offering comfort, but he rejected them all. "I'm going to the gym."
About a month later.....
"And that concludes the final tour meeting," a middle aged man in a suit finished. The One Direction boys had been sittinng in the conference room for a little over two hours while they listened to important people from their management and label drone on aboit their upcomming tour, starting in two weeks. The only thing left for the boys to do was to pack and and meet the opening band.
"Now, we intervoewed all of the bands you guys suggested and about a month ago we had one agree to open for you" the man in the suit continued. "These guys are a punk rock style band, they all play their own instruments, they're Austrailian, they've been in LA for a little while, and they are practically unheard of. They're sound is perfect for your audience, making this a good investment for you, plus they'll get some plublicity."
"Who is it?" Zayn asked.
"A band called 4HOW" the suit man.replied. "They are actually here with some of their management team. Would you like to meet them?"
"No, we like sitting here in boredem" Louis sassed.
The suit man rolled his eyes and tapped the button on the intercom. "Uh, yes, Julia? Please send in the people her for 4HOW."
In a few seconds the door opened and a familiar face walked in holding the hand of a familiar summer camp counselor. The boys of One Dorection cheered. Harry and Niall stood up to meet them.
"Mitch! Tiffani! What's up?" Harry asked.
Three guys followed the couple in. "We're attending a meeting for some band we're opening for" Mitch joked.
"Wait, you're 4HOW?" Harry asked.
Mitch chuckled. "Yep. I'm the lead singer/guitar player. This is my buddy Alex, our drummer" he pointed to the first guy behind him. "And the other two are Jason and Hayden, our bassists and our giutarist." Tiffani cleared her throat. "Oh and this is Tiffani, our stylist. But you already know her." Tiffani smiled. "The other two members of our management team will be here momentarily, they went to get us some coffee."
Harry nodded. "So this is your band? 4HOW?"
"Yup" Mitch nodded.
"Dude," Niall spoke. "What kind of a name is 4HOW?"
"Well it was originally 4HJM after our initials but then Alex joined the band and at our first gig, when they asked us to write our name diwn so they could announce us, somebody had terrible handwriting" Mitch eyed Hayden.
"Hey! Don't blame me, I'm a high school drop out!" Hayden defended.
"Sorry we're late the line at Syarbucks was so long!" a femwnine.voice inturrupted. Everyone turned to face Jackie, who had just entered the room carrying a drink carrier full of coffee drinks. Niall's jaw dropped.
"Oh yes" Mitch spoke. "This is Jacqualine. She's our official band photographer and media overseer."
Jackie smirked and began passing out drinks. She completely ignored Niall, who couldn't take his eyes iff her.
"Jackie! Baybee!" Louis pretended, standing up with outstretched arms. "I've missed you."
She laughed and returned the hug. "I've missed you too King of Hide n Seek."
Everyone looked as another girl entered the room. Liam, who had sat quietly through the meeting stood uo in shock. Could it be?
"And here's our personal secretary/mommy on the road, Paris" Mitch introduced.
"Hello Liam" she spoke quietly.