Chapter 21

Tia and I walked through the dorm halls to get to our room, carrying our luggage with us.

"21…." Said Tia as we walked past each room. "22… 23… ahh 24." She pulled out the key and opened the door. I guess you could say that the room was the size of our living room back at the hotel.

"Home sweet home." I muttered, looking around the room. There were two beds on each side of the room, both with desks on the sides and there was a huge window in the middle of them. There were two closets and a bathroom as well.

"We can make it look really amazing." Said Tia. She was always the positive one. "I know this shop downtown that has some really cool stuff. We should go by there sometime."

"Okay, sounds good." We set our luggage down on our beds and got settled in. I still couldn't believe how lucky it was that we were in a room together.

There was a knock on the door, it slowly opened and a familiar redheaded girl walked in. "Hey! Ally, yeah?" said Ashleigh.

"Yeah that's me." I smiled. "This is my best friend, Tia."

"Hey there." Said Tia. "Are you in this dorm too?"

"Yeah. I'm right next door actually." She smiled excitedly. "Ben's helping me unpack now, although he's not much use anyway."

"Boys." I winked.

She laughed." Yeah, I know right." She moved closer to me. "Hey speaking of boys, are you and Liam Payne still tight?"

"Well I think they're a little bit tighter than tight." Mumbled Tia as she unpacked her clothes. I frowned at her. "Oops. Did I say that out loud?" she laughed.

"So, your still together then?" asked Ashleigh.

"Yeah we are… why?"

"It's just I saw in the paper today that you guys broke up." She said looking a bit confused.

"Don't believe anything the news says. It's all rubbish." I said.

"Oh alright then."

Then Ben ran through the door. "Hey Ash, I-" then he noticed me. "Oh, Ally hey! Are you in this room?"

"Yeah I am." I smiled.

"Great!" he laughed. "I have a feeling that we're all going to get really close, you know?"

"Really?" I said. "Wow. Well listen me and Ti need to finish unpacking before our first class. See you guys around, yeah?"

"Yeah definitely." Smiled Ashleigh.

"Bye!" beamed Ben, before exiting the room and shutting the door behind them.

I collapsed on my bed and sighed.

"So, we've been here, what…" Tia glanced at her watch. "10 or so minutes, and people are already asking you about Liam? It's gonna be a long day."

"Tell me about it." I sighed. "I have literally never gotten this much attention in my entire life."

"Soak it up babe." She laughed.

After we had finished unpacking we made our way to our first class. The amount of points and gasps I got when people saw me was crazy. People were coming up to me and asking me so many questions about me, Liam, my family, everything! One girl even offered to carry all of my stuff for me to my class. It was overwhelming. I took out my phone and texted Liam.

The amount of attention I'm getting is overwhelming. It's insane how many people know about us. They're practically treating me like a celebrity now. I feel like I'm Kate Middleton and your Prince William.

Love you x

I pressed send then placed my phone in my bag. We had arrived at our class and were now walking into the classroom to take our seats. Our professor, Mrs. Jefferson, was a small woman, who looked about 35. She had short brown hair and black glasses. She had the potential to be really pretty, but she obviously didn't really care about how she looked. She opened her clipbook and started to call the roll.

"Tia Anderson…" she said, she had a very high-pitched voice. Tia raised her hand and said, "Here".

I felt my phone go off in my pocket. I pulled it out and read the message from under the desk so no one could see.

The best thing to do is to just ignore them all. Be yourself and act like nothing is wrong, because nothing is wrong. They're all just jealous ;) I'll come and visit you tonight okay?

Love you too x

I probably looked like an idiot, smiling at my desk. Liam was going to come and visit me. That could potentially be very dangerous. But I didn't care as long as I got to see him.

"Alyssa Summers…" said Mrs. Jefferson. Everyone turned in their seats to look at me. There were a lot of whispers throughout the entire class. Tia grabbed my hand from under the table.

"Here" I said, my voice slightly shaky.

"Quiet please!" snapped the professor. "What's with all the whispers?"

"Ah, Miss." Said a rather annoying looking blonde girl. "That's Liam Payne's girlfriend." I realized she was wearing a One Direction shirt. She gave me a dirty look and then turned away.

Miss looked shock. "You're kidding!" she smiled. "Wow. Well, welcome Miss Summers. And may I say, you're a very lucky girl to be dating that piece of eye candy."

The class laughed. "I know." I laughed. "Thank you." She nodded then continued to read the roll. Tia let go of my hand and smiled at me. Okay so it wasn't that bad. I had enough strength to get through all of this. I was certain of it.

After the class was over, Tia and I made our way back to our dorm. I decided to call Liam and let him know how my day had gone, and to see how the moving in was going.

"Hey beautiful." His deep voice answered.

"Hey you." I replied, with a massive smile on my face.

"So, how was your day?" he sounded concerned.

"It was good… better than I thought."

"Well that's good then. Did anyone give you a hard time?"

"No, not really. Except there's this girl in one of my classes that seems like she hates me already. I'm guessing she's a very jealous Directioner."

"They're the worst kind." He laughed. "Louis! No, Lou!" I heard Liam yell, and then I heard something crash to the ground and a loud moan. "I told you not to carry them all at the same time."

"Oh." I heard Louis say. "I chose not to hear that."

I laughed into the phone. "Sorry about that." Said Liam. "That boy doesn't think." We both laughed.

"I miss you guys." I said, suddenly feeling depressed.

"We miss you guys too." He said. "It's so weird not having two girls around you constantly."

"Will you still come around tonight?" I asked. "It might be a bit dangerous with paps and stuff."

"Yeah, I'm still coming." He said, not sounding worried at all.

"Okay… well just be careful." I said.

"How about I meet you out the front? And we'll go get a late night coffee."

"That sounds great. Meet you at like 8?"

"Okidokey." He sounded so adorable. "And Al?"

"Yeah?"

"I love you."

"I love you too."

"Bye love."

I hung up the phone and turned around, to see about 10 girls standing at the door with their mouths wide open. Tia walked out of the bathroom.

"Woah." She said. "Can we help you?"

"She just said 'I love you, too' to Liam Payne." Said one of the girls, her eyes wide. "That means he's said I love you to her." They were obviously big fans. I decided to not make them angry, and lie.

"No, no that was my Mum on the phone." I said. "It's okay girls." They all sighed in relief and put their hands on their hearts.

"Oh thank goodness." Then they all walked away and Tia shut the door after them.

"Well, someone's a celebrity." She winked.

"I'm not sure I can handle all of this, Ti." I said, feeling a little sick. "You know how much I hate lying."

"Yes. And I also know how much you love Liam." She sat down next to me on my bed. "This is all for him remember. You agreed to this, knowing what you were getting yourself into."

She was right. I knew it was going to be like this right from the start. I guess I just hadn't prepared myself well enough.

When the time reached 8 o'clock, I headed downstairs and out the front doors onto the steps outside the university. It was absolutely freezing outside. I was wearing jeans, boots and a warm jumper with four layers underneath. I sat on the stairs and waited for my night in shining armor. Actually, more like superstar in shining limo. Except this time he came without his limo.

I ran up to him and wrapped my hands around his neck. I hadn't seen him since yesterday, but it had felt like forever. I realized he was only wearing a shirt and jeans.

"Aren't you freezing!"

"Yeah just a tad." He laughed. He grabbed my hand and we started walking. "C'mon, I know a place we can go."

He took me to a small coffee shop that was around the corner. He ordered us some coffees then we went and sat in a booth in the back of the shop. Luckily, it wasn't very busy so we could have some time to ourselves.

"So, how's the moving in going?" I asked, taking a sip of my coffee. I felt my entire body warm up.

"It's going well. When you called we were just loading everything into the house." He said taking a sip too. "Removalists are coming tomorrow to help us put everything into place. So it should all be done tomorrow."

"You're not going to do it yourselves?" I wasn't surprised. They obviously had the money to pay someone else to do it for them.

"Well, we'll help of course." He smiled. "Oh, and we're having a house warming party on the weekend."

"Oh well that should be fun." I said.

"You don't have classes or anything do you?"

"Nope. We'll be there."

"Great." He beamed.

"Oi, listen." I sat up a bit and placed my coffee on the table. "What the hell is going on with Tia and Louis? Has Lou said anything to you?"

"Actually you know what, he has completely stopped talking about her. Since Harry's party, I haven't heard him say anything about her." He said.

"I think something happened between them." I said. "And they just don't wanna tell anyone about it. I mean, Tia said to me that she was completely over him. And this is the guy that she was heartbroken over! I don't get it…"

"Mmmm." He said. "Maybe she just decided that she wasn't going to let him ruin her time in London? Maybe she just wanted to move past it all."

"Maybe… but I know Tia and I can tell that something's up."

We stayed in the coffee shop laughing and talking for an hour, before the owner came and told us that it was closing time and we had to leave.

We walked back to the university, but found ourselves trapped by paparazzi. I put on my best fake smile and looked down as Liam dragged me through them and we quickly ran into the university.

"How did they even find us?" I asked.

"I have no idea." He said. "They know everything."

"Alright well…" I hated saying goodbye. He placed his hands on my face and kissed me softly.

"Night Al." he smiled. "I'll call you tomorrow okay?"

"Okay." I said. "Tell the boys I said hey."

He waved and then walked out of sight. I walked back to my dorm feeling light and bubbly. I found myself always feeling that way after I was with Liam. It was the best feeling in the world.