Charly

“I think you’ve got me pretty hard there”, Charly pulled a face as she touched her right-side ribs. When they were wrestling in the pool earlier, Lisa had accidently kicked her which had caused her to fall off Liam’s shoulders and to end their victory run. Her muscles were also pretty sore from her training with Mark and Niall earlier. “I was telling you, I wasn’t going easy on you guys”, Lisa replied, showing not too much sympathy. “Yeah, but…ouch”, Charly didn’t know what else to say. “Then don’t take deep breaths”, Lisa said. “Why you gotta be so rude, don’t you know she’s human too”, Harry sang as he walked by and Lisa rolled her eyes. “You’re all little pussies”, Lisa grunted and sped up to walk with Paul at the front of the group. “Growing up with all boys didn’t do her well”, Charly grunted to herself as she still held her side. “Need a hand?”, Liam appeared at her side. “I’m fine, thanks. I just try to make her feel guilty, but it doesn’t seem to work”, Charly smiled and linked arms with him. “I grew up with 2 sisters, so I guess I’m the other way round”, Liam shrugged his shoulders and winked at her. “Yes, you’re way nicer than she is”, Charly joked. Lisa was still one of her best friends and sweet as a kitten, when she wanted to be, but competitions seemed to be one of the things she didn’t want to be nice to.
They all were on their way to a restaurant to eat dinner before another show day tomorrow. Liam sat down next to her and Charly started thinking that they might acted too private around the others. She was afraid that they could find out that they were sleeping together and that would be the end of her career as Paul’s assistant.
Charly instinctively slid a few inches away from him, just to be sure. “I’m not really hungry, I don’t feel so well”, Harry said at the table. “Told you not to eat that banana”, Lisa said without looking up from her menu. “That’s not it, I’m fine”, Harry quickly changed his mind. “Whatever”, Lisa said. “Hey, you’re a bit bitchy today. PMS?”, Louis asked her with a knowing voice, already nodding his head like he wanted to force the answer YES. Instead of an answer, Lisa just threw the piece of bread in the basket in front of her against his head. Charly snorted as she tried to hold down a laugh. Niall and the rest of the boys weren’t as subtle as Charly and blurted out laughing.
“Why are you sitting so far away, love?”, Liam asked with a lowered voice. His face was close to Charly’s. Too close for her. She moved a bit away and smiled at him. Liam still looked at her and waited for an answer. “You know why.”, she answered which put a grin on his face. Suddenly she felt a hand on her knee, which could only belong to Liam. Charly’s eyes got wide and she moved it away from her leg. “Are you fucking serious?”, she hissed and turned her body away from him. Liam laughed and licked over his lips. “Everything ok with you two over there?”, Paul suddenly asked them. Charly jumped in her seat and looked over to her boss. “Everything’s fine here, Paul.”, Liam assured him. Paul turned away again to continue his conversation. “Stop it now!”, Charly warned Liam, but had to smile to herself.

To Charly, it felt like she had just gone to bed as she woke up in the middle of the night because the light on Lisas nightstand was turned on. She turned around and saw how Lisa got up and dressed in jogging pants and her top. “Hey, what’s wrong?”, Charly asked sleepy. She checked her phone. Just 2:37 am. “I’m like a mother who senses when her baby is ill”, she mumbled, half-asleep herself and rubbed her eyes. “What?”, Charly asked confused. “Don’t worry about it, go back to sleep”, she waved her off. Lisa walked towards the door as already someone knocked on it. “Hey, what’s up”, she heard Lisa whisper. “Harry’s not feeling well. He wanted me to come and get you”, was Liam’s response. “I told him not to eat that banana from the lobby, it looked weird”, Lisa sighed. “I’ll stay with him for the night, you can have my bed”, Lisa said and next thing Charly heard was the door being closed.
Suddenly, Charly’s mattress went down a bit. She was lying on her stomach and not able to turn around. “Since we’re awake…”, Liam whispered at her ear. “You are, I’m totally sleeping. Go away”, she mumbled and pushed him away. At least she tried to. “Come on, no one will know”, Liam tried to convince her. “My muscles are so sore, I can barely move”, Charly mumbled into her pillow actually not able to properly move. “If that’s so, let me help you. I already told you to keep moving and I think I know how”, Liam said and she could actually hear the smirk on his lips. “If you touch me, I’m gonna kill you”, Charly said with a much clearer voice now. She really wasn’t in the mood to anything than sleeping right now. “Okay”, he went over to Lisa’s now empty bed and fell asleep immediately, just like Charly.

The next day, when Charly woke up, she wanted to turn around and every fibre of her body hurt. “Oh god, oh god, oh god”, she whined as she turned around slowly to face the ceiling. Her voice woke up Liam in the bed next to her. “Wow, you’re pretty wrecked, huh?”, Liam asked and supported his head on his elbow. “Oh shut up”, Charly said frustrated. “Come on, I help you up”, Liam said and was quick on his feet. “No, really, don’t”, Charly said and shook her head slightly. He pulled her blanket off and smiled at the view he was given, since she was just wearing her underwear. “I’ll have you up in no time”, he said and took her hands in his. For a second she admired his appearance in just boxers which she hadn’t seen last night.
“No, Liam, really, no, no, no”, she hastily said as Liam started a countdown. “And one!”, he said and quickly pulled her up to her feet. “Oh god, Liam!”, she screamed out as a sharp pain wandered through her whole body in just a split second. What they didn’t know was, that right at that moment, Niall went past Charly’s room. As he heard Charly scream Liam’s name, he immediately stopped like he had been running into a wall. A cold shiver ran down his spine as he listened for more, but there wasn’t any. Was Charly having sex with Liam right now in this room? They were pretty close yesterday…It got Niall thinking. Maybe he should have taken a move earlier and it could be his name she was screaming right now. His stomach turned and now it was him feeling sick.

Charly and Liam got dressed and left the room to check on Harry and Lisa. When they went out of the hotel room, Niall was standing out in the hallway. “Morning”, Liam greeted him and walked right past by him to his room. Niall looked like he had been caught doing something wrong and looked down. “Morning”, he said and quickly walked on to the elevators. Charly found it a bit weird and stared after him while he was waiting. He looked back and gave her an unidentifiable look. That was strange, she thought to herself.
Before she could get more into it, Lisa was next to her. “And? How’s he doing?”, she asked. “He’s better. After it was all out, he managed to get some sleep, but it was rough on him. I’m on my way to Paul. The guys will have to do their interview round this morning without him, so he can play the show tonight”, Lisa said and had to yawn. “Seems like you didn’t get much sleep yourself, huh?”, Charly asked and patted her arm. “Not really”, she sighed and rubbed her face, before she went on to see Paul. “Those guys are the best practice for motherhood, I tell ya”, Lisa said while walking.

Downstairs at the breakfast, Charly sat down on the free chair next to Niall. He kept his head down and silently ate his cereals. “Where’s Harry?”, Lou asked. Liam was already sitting at the table, opposite her. “He was sick last night, probably from that banana. Lisa spent the night watching him”, Charly explained and leaned backwards in her chair. She closed her eyes from the pain that she felt in her body. She never thought that she was THAT much out of form.
“And where did you sleep, Liam?”, Niall couldn’t stop himself from asking with a harsh tone in his voice. “In Lisa’s bed”, Liam answered, a bit confused by Niall’s tone. “And what’s up with you, Charly? Sick too?”, Lou asked her. “No, just in pain”, she answered and Liam held down a laugh. “Shut up, Liam”, Charly shot him an angry view. “And what did I miss here?”, Lou asked, knitting her eyebrows. “That jerk over there thought he would be a gentleman today and helped me out of my bed by practically yanking me off the mattress. It. hurt. so. bad!”, Charly sighed every word with closed eyes. “And I made her scream”, Liam giggled.
Niall’s head shot around to look at Charly. So that was why she had been screaming his name that morning. He couldn’t resist smiling at those new information, although that didn’t mean that really nothing had happened between those two. He felt a bit relieved, but the weight of not knowing still pulled him down.

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