From Text To Love

Chapter 3

I have never been this happy in my entire life and I don’t know why. I can’t shake away this feeling in my stomach every time that I think about her.

What do I do now? Leave her hanging or text her in front of a million other girls screaming my name?

Now that I know that she texted me back and she does want to talk to me I don’t want to leave her hanging.

Wait a minute I have a bigger problem. I avoided my name for the username but what do I tell her? The next text would preferably be ‘I’m Liam nice to meet you’ but should I risk it? Or should I come up with a name? But then it would be even harder to eventually tell her the truth because she would realize that I lied to her too many times and that not even my name was real.

I’m James nice to meet you :) -L

I didn’t exactly lie, James is my name but my middle name. I waited for a reply but now wasn’t the time to stare at my phone.

“Mate, we’re on in 5” I nodded at Niall and walked back stage. Me and the other lads huddled up like we always do before a concert.

We said a little prayer, wished each other good luck and then ran on stage. Wow there’s a lot of people.

“Wembley Stadium” I hollered as ‘Steal My Girl’ started playing. “Sing it with me.”

“Wembley Stadium how are you feeling?” I hollered through the mic after the song finished and the audiance cheered. “The sun is shining today, Summer’s coming isn’t it?” I yelled and again the audiance cheered. “This next song is one of my personal favourites. You’re all my girlfriend’s here we go.” And the music for Girl Allmighty started.

“Wembley Stadium make some noise.” Harry hollered and the audience cheered. “Good afternoon we’re One Direction.” He started and he continued making jokes with the audience as we took a sip of water and got prepared for the next song.

I took the opportunity to check my phone but there was no reply yet. “We’re One Direction and this is Night changes.” I turned back to the audience and started singing.

“Wembley.” Louis cheered. “You guys are a really warm crowd today. Thank you very much for having us here at the end of our tour. It’s great to be here on this lovely day. What’s next Story of My life?” I nodded. “This is Story of my life.” He hollered and the music started.

“Wembley.” Niall yelled. “Is everybody having a good time so far?” Niall started talking about how this time last year we were performing here and how today there are a lot more people. While he talked I checked my phone again and smiled as I saw a reply.

I’m Ella nice to meet you too :) -E

How are you doing El? -L

I sent it and turned to Niall as he announced our next song. “Thank you so much for having us this is amazing. Okay moving on, we’re going on to our first ever single, this is What Makes You Beautiful.” As the music started I knew I would be singing this song for Ella.

“Wembley Stadium, now that we got that out of our system, how are you feeling?” I hollered and the audience cheered. “This is gonna be the last one from us, but you have so much beautiful music coming your way today. Are you excited?” I yelled and the audience cheered again. “Hello to the people at the top.” I said waving in their direction. “Okay so for this one, we’re going to need you to go crazy now. This is going to be our last song, so are you ready?” I yelled and the audience cheered. “Louder, are you ready?” I yelled and the audience screamed louder. “Make some noise.” Harry screamed and the music started.

“Thank you so much Wembley you’ve been amazing. I had a good time with you, God Bless.” I said and we got together to bow. “Thank you for having us.” Harry yelled and we bowed. “God Bless.” I yelled and we got off stage waving at the fans.

“That was great lads.” Eleanor yelled as she ran up to us with Sophie. I walked off to the dressing room and got my phone out.

Stuck at work :( you? -E

Same :) you don’t like work? -L

Nope :( it’s pretty boring :/ -E

Oh ic. :/ What’s your job? -L

Assistant :( :( you? -E

Music Industry :) -L

Cool, me too :D but I’m just an assistant :( what do you do? -E

Shit now what do I tell her? Think Liam Think.

Sound Manager :) -L

So cool, I love music :D -E

Me too, I don’t know what I’d do without it. Tell me more about yourself :) -L

I hope I’m not to forward but I really want to know more about her. I want to know why she’s making me smile so much.

What do you want to know? -E

What else do you like apart from music? -L

Drawing :) -E

Cool :D Do you have any you’re proud of? -L

Uh, I drew this once. It’s my favorite band. -E

Wow this girl has got a gift! She got all our features rather well. It’s like looking in the mirror and what’s even more amazing is that we are her favourite band.

Wow, you’re really talented. :O -L

Thanks :) What about you? -E

I like surfing and boxing mostly helps me a lot to find myself and relax. -L

I love the beach and walks in the park so I can relate to that but I’m mostly on my rooftop at midnight. That is truly the time to connect myself with music and just strum on my guitar in peace away from the world. -E

That sounds really nice, maybe I should join you someday :) -L

Yeah maybe ;) -E

So,where are you from? -L

“Everything seems to be going well with Ella, huh?” A voice said ripping me out of my day dream. I turned around to find Louis looking at my blank face. I blinked and cleared my thoughts, focusing on what my best mate just asked me.

Smiling I looked down at my phone as Louis took a seat next to me, mirroring my expression. “You have no idea mate, she’s so awesome. I still have to figure out why she makes me smile so much though. It’s as if I met her or have known her all my life.” I told him, my smile growing wider with extreme happiness as I confessed my feelings to my best friend.

Ella is truly something special, she is no where near other girls I’ve met before. They don’t even match up to her beauty or her talent or her personality.

“Dude, you’re so whipped.” Harry voiced from behind me, I turned around to glare at his statement but instead I found myself shrugging knowing he’s right.

“I can’t explain it, ever since I saw her face and started talking to her I can’t stop smiling.” I said as I glanced at my phone. As soon as my eyes caught a notification from Twitter I unlocked my phone and read her response.

I’m originally from California but I moved to London 5 years ago. What about you? -E

I’m from Wolverhampton England but I live in London as well. Small world huh? -L

Yeah, wow Wolverhamton is really beautiful from what I’ve seen. I would love to visit sometime. -E

You should, it’s lovely. Have you been anywhere else besides the U.S and the U.K? -L

Unfortunately no. But I would love to travel someday. How about you? -E

I’ve been to some places here and there. Traveling never disappointed me, it’s amazing to see what world we live in and get away from our normal routine once in a while. -L

Agreed. So where have you been? -E

I toured Europe and Australia mostly. I’ve also been to Africa that was an amazing experience. I’m glad I could make a difference while I was there. -L

Wow that’s amazing. :D I wish I could go to those places, anywhere is better than here. -E

Wow, you must really hate your job. :p -L

You have no idea. :( -E

Sound like you need Prince Charming to save you. :p -L

Yeah, too bad his horse won’t fit through my office door. :p -E

I think my horse will ;) -L

Who said you were my Prince Charming? ;) -E

I did ;) -L

Lmao, listen I’ll talk to you later Charming. I have to return to my awful job and pray the last hour passes by quickly. -E

Farewell Princess, I’ll talk to you later. -L

I smiled and locked my phone, sighing as I imagined her sitting at her desk working on something on her computer, eager to go home.

“Is he done making googley eyes at his phone?” Niall asked sitting next to us. Harry and Louis laughed as I glared at all of them.

“Whatever.” I said rolling my eyes standing up.

“Oh great you’re all here,” Paddy our bodyguard said entering our dressing room, “Time to go.”

We all stood up and gathered all our stuff, following him out of the arena. I could hear the crowd outside, I put on my hoody and walked next to our bodyguards just in case.

As the doors to the arena opened, the screams got louder. The bodyguard next to me grabbed me from my arm, escorting me to our van. I waved to the fans, smiling at them as we made our way to the van.

Once we were all inside we drove off to our hotel. During the car ride everyone was talking about their plans for tonight being it was only 6pm on a Saturday but I tuned them out, my plans were simply to take a shower and watch some T.V until Ella texts me back. I’m eager to know more about her.

The car ride was short and we soon made it to the hotel. I made my way to my room, ignoring the guys behind me. As I made it to the top floor I got my key card out of my pocket and entred my room, closing the door behind me.

I put my phone, wallet and keys on the coffee table, walking to my bathroom. I took a quick shower and put on some sweat pants. I didn’t bother to put on a shirt because it’s too hot. Summer is truly near because the heat is already here.

I grabbed my phone and went to my bed and got comfortable, switching on my T.V. I flipped through some T.V channels and finally landed on a movie that seemed interesting.

I didn’t have time to focus on it because as soon as I heard my phone go off I picked it up, immediately knowing who it was.

“Hello?”

“Hello Mr.Payne it's Sylvia. Something’s come up, I’m afraid you have to fly back to New York because he isn’t doing very well.”

“Why, what happened?”

“He relapsed a few hours ago.”

“I’ll be on the next flight to New York.”

“I’ll see you soon Mr.Payne.”

“Yeah, bye.”

I hung up and started throwing all my clothes in my suitcase. I have to fly to New York as soon as possible. I can’t loose him, I can’t loose Ethan.