Piper’s POV
It’s been a week since we’ve seen the boys, and I’ve been avoiding Liam like the plague. He’s been texting me nonstop but I haven’t responded to one. I was just in the mindset that it was going to end up either being a bet or really horrible practical joke. I was working late in the sewing room like I normally did because of the projects I had when the door opened.

“If you guys are here to yell at me I don’t want to hear it tonight,” I sighed, “I’ve told you why.”

Mac and Sam always made their way here after dinner to try and talk me into talking to Liam again. They told me that he really did like me and that there was no bet or prank whatsoever.

I was pinning part of my dress together when the response made me drop the pins in my mouth.

“Why don’t you tell me then,” Liam’s voice answered and I quickly spun around shocked to see him standing there with a bag of takeout food.

“What are you doing here?” I asked when I found my voice, “Shouldn’t you be on tour.”

“Well I have to be back to the bus by nine tomorrow morning,” he said, “but I came to see why you’ve been ignoring me.”

“I haven’t been ignoring you,” I mumbled turning back to the mannequin.

“Really because I’ve been texting you a lot lately and I haven’t gotten a single reply from you,” he said, “I thought that kiss meant something. . .”

“It did,” I said quietly looking at the ground.

“Then why are you ignoring me,” Liam snapped and I flinched, “If it meant something to you then you would be talking to me every day!”

“Because I’m scared okay!” I snapped back spinning around, “I’m scared. No boy has ever liked me let alone kiss me Liam! And when they did show interest I was the butt of their joke. Excuse me for trying to protect myself from getting hurt again!”

I then closed my eyes feeling the lump in my throat start to form. When I opened them again, Liam was right in front of my face wiping the tears that leaked out.

“Hey,” he whispered, “Hey look at me Piper.”

My eyes then looked up to see brown ones looking down at me with concern written in them.

“If I didn’t like you at all I wouldn’t have kissed you,” he said, “You’re all I’ve been thinking about since the night we’ve met. I even forgot the words to What Makes You Beautiful last night.”

“You forgot the words,” I said half laughing and half smiling.

“I did and it’s not funny,” he said, “I had to hold the microphone out to the crowd so I didn’t look like an idiot.”

Now that caused me to laugh and Liam smiled down at me.

“Believe me now that I really like you?” he asked and I smiled lightly.

“Alright,” I said smiling lightly, “I believe you.”

“Good,” he grinned, “Now would you care to join me for our first date?”

“I would love to,” I laughed, “Now what did you bring for dinner?”

“Chinese,” he grinned and I smiled widely.

“You totally talked to Mac and Sam,” I laughed and he shrugged his shoulders.

“I tend to think of it as using my resources,” he laughed as he pulled out the boxes and put them on an empty table.

“Well I’m happy you used your resources,” I smiled lightly at him which caused him to wink.

That’s how my night went. Liam swept me off my feet with Chinese food and showing me how much he actually cared. Maybe things were starting to turn out great.

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