*Liv’s POV*

[I miss this, I miss you, I miss us. Love you Romeo xxx (picture)]

I clicked on the picture and there was the picture of me and Dan from when we were in Manchester.

"Everything okay?" Lucien asks me. Moving my gaze that was fixated on my phone to him.

"Everything’s fine." I reply clicking off the picture and putting it back into my bag.

"Would you like to dance?" He smiles getting off his stool and putting out his hand for me to take

"Love to." I reply downing the rest of my drink. I got off my stool but slipped slightly, luckily Lucien caught me.

“‘Easy there .” He smiled holding onto my arm

“Thanks.” I giggle, straightening myself up. I was hammered.

As we got into the middle of the dance floor, Lucien grabbed my hips, pulling me close to him.

This was slightly closer than I was expecting.

"You got a boyfriend?" He asks, his lips next to my ear

What do I say?

*Dan POV*

I was curled up under my quilt when I heard my phone vibrating. I practically jumped out of my bed...just incase it was my baby girl.

*Chris Calling*

I sighed before answering:

Me: What up bruv?

Chris: Dan what you doing now?

Me: Nothing, I’m at home why?

Chris: You need to come out

Me: Why? Chris I can’t be arsed coming out, where are you anyway, it’s loud.

Chris: I’m in Movida, you need to come...

Me: I can’t be arsed mate...have fun

Chris: No you need to, Liv’s here and she’s hammered

Me: Chris she’s not here, she’s gone somewhere.

Chris: No seriously mate, I’ve just seen her. She was sat at the bar and there’s a lad talking to her.

Me: What?

Chris: She’s hammered mate, they’re on the dance floor now somewhere but it’s that lad...you know

Me: No I don’t who is it?

Chris: That Amy’s sister boy

Me: Lucien?

Chris: Yea that’s him, you coming down or shall I go get her?

Me: Go get her; I’m on my way out the door as we speak.

Chris: Okay, see ya soon

Me: Cheers mate

I hang up the phone as I slip on my trainers by the front door. I can’t believe she’s been in London this whole time.

“Dan where you going?” Luke asks popping his head around the corner of the sofa

“To get Liv....long story. I’ll explain later, I need to go.” I reply grabbing my car keys slamming the door behind me.

I jumped into my car and drove as fast as I could to Movida. I parked up around the corner, locking my car then running to the queue. I didn’t care if I’d get a ticket, I just needed to find Liv. Luckily Dave was on the door tonight. He’d let me in quickly.

“Alright lad, how’s it going?” Dave says man hugging me as I walk over to him

“Good mate, alright if I go in? Boys are in there.” I smile

“Sure thing. Have a good night.”

“Cheers Dave.” I smile walking in.

I open the doors into the main room and the smell of alcohol hit me as did the flashing lights. I stood there for a second, my eyes scanning the club for Liv or Chris.

*Liv’s POV*

"I erm, yea. I erm..." I mumble

"So is that a yes or a no?" He cheekily smiles, lifting my chin up so our lips were nearly touching.

My head was spinning right now. I was about to reply when his lips crushed down against mine, forcing his tongue into my mouth.

I pulled away, placing my hands at the top of his chest, keeping him at a distance.

"I am with someone." I reply, looking at him, feeling so guilty for kissing someone who wasn’t Dan.

"You didn't seem to sure about that before." He smirked, his hands wandering from my waist to my bum, squeezing it roughly.

I forcefully take his hands off me. "Well I'm sure." I snap walking off towards the toilets when I feel someone grab my arm.

"You let me buy you drinks all night, flirt with me, dance with me, lead me on and now when I want something from you...you go all frigid on me. Na, I'm not having that."

"Get off me." I shout, attempting to pull my arm out of his grasp. "I owe you nothing."

"I seem to disagree. You definitely owe me something."

"No I don't so get off me."

"You've ruined my life so now I'm going to ruin yours." He snarls at me

"What the hell are you going on about? I don't even know you."

"Oh I think you do.’’

“Get off me, you’re hurting me.” I say, pulling my arm out of his grip but he just tightens his hands around my arm

“Because of you I've got a fucking kid on the way with my slag of a girlfriend and you no longer have a kid on the way because of her sister.” He says down my ear and I freeze.

Oh My God. Lucien.

I tried to compose myself as I pulled away from him.

“What recognise me now?” he smirked

“Get the hell away from me.”

“Not a chance. You’re coming with me.” He shouts pulling me towards the boys toilets.

“Get off me.” I scream, I’ve never been so scared in my life.

*Chris’s POV*

I was sat in the booth with the boys when I noticed a pretty girl sat at the bar by herself...I was about to go over when another lad beat me too it. I sighed turning my attention back to my mates. Having a bit of boy banter, and a couple of shots before the conversation turned to girls and sex...as it usually does.

“Yea bruv, there are so many girls in here tonight.” Andy smiled looking around the room

“Yea I know, I’m loving it.’ Kane laughed before sipping on his pint.

“Ahh lads, you seen that bird at the bar? She’s bangin.” Liam laughs bringing over another round of drinks and shots.

“Yea I saw her before, some lad got in there before me though.” I laughed necking the shot that was passed to me.

“Fuck lad...sambuka. You know I can’t stand that shit.” I moan necking my pint to get rid of the taste.

“Sorry lad.” He laughed

“I’m gona get another drink.” I reply before walking over to the bar ordering myself a drink, glancing down the bar to the girl...oh my god...that’s Liv.

What’s she doing here on her own? Where’s Dan?

She was hammered and that lad didn’t seem to stop getting her drinks.

I got my phone out ringing Dan and letting him know what was going on...he didn’t seem to know why she was here either. I glanced over to where they were at the bar but they’d gone. I spotted them on the dance floor, Liv didn’t seem too happy walking off.

I walked back over to the table where the boys were.

“What’s up?” Harry asked me

“That bangin bird at the bar...I know her. I’ve got to go get her.”

“Get in there lad.” Kane laughs

“Na mate, it’s Dan’s girl Liv. She’s hammered and some lads all over her.”

“Shit mate, you told Dan?” Liam replied

“Yea, he’s on his way now. I’m gona go get her.”

“I’ll come with you, just incase the lad’s a dick.”

“He is...it’s that Amy’s sisters fella.”

“Dan’s ex?” Andy replied and I nodded

“Shit mate.”

“Let’s go.” I replied searching the dance floor for them. Fuck...where had they gone?

***

*Dan POV*

I glanced around the club noticing Chris pushing his way through the dance floor. I followed where he was going, noticing a girl and a boy arguing by the corner of the dance floor.

“Oh my god.” I mumble to myself realising that it was Liv and Lucien.

I literally ran through the busy crowd, trying to get to her as fast as I could.

“Chris” I shouted as I reached him at the edge of the dance floor.

“Dan. They we’re here. I just saw them.” He replied

“Yea I know, I saw them as well. Where the hell did they go?”

“There’s not many places for them to go.” He replied whilst his head seemed to go three hundred and sixty degrees around the club looking for her.

“Thanks for ringing me”

“No problem. But why is she out on her own?”

“Long story.”

I walked towards the toilets pushing open the girls quickly and poking my head inside.

“Has a lad brought a blonde girl in here ladies?” I asked quickly

“No.” They replied before reapplying the seven hundredth layer of lip gloss to their lips.

“Try the lads.” Another replied

“Thanks.”

“Dan in here” I heard Chris shout and I was in the lads toilet within seconds.

“Get off me.” I heard Liv scream

“Shut your mouth bitch before I shut it for you.” Lucien shouted

“Go get Dave.” I whisper to Chris and he scarpers out of the toilets.

I pushed open all of the doors till the one door wouldn’t open.

“This one is occupied.” Lucien shouts

“Not with my girl it’s not.” I shout stamping my foot against it

The second time the door opened smacking Lucien in the face.

Liv was pushed up at the back of the toilet, her dress ripped and make up all down her face. she looked terrified.

“You twat.” Lucien shouts walking out of the cubical

My hands were already in fists as he came at me all fists blazing. He went to hit me but I got in there first knocking him out cold.

“Dan.” Liv cried and I spun around to her slowly coming out the door towards me.

“Oh my god” I sighed pulling her into my arms as Dave and Chris barge into the toilets.

“What’s happened Dan?” Dave asked propping Lucien up against the wall as he came back around.

“He was trying to rape Liv in the toilets” I reply and he nods his head dragging him up

“The police are here.”

“Good.”

“She need checking out?” Chris asked nodding his head towards Liv who was snuggled crying into my chest.

“Baby....Tink.” I ask pulling her away from me slightly, but still keeping a firm grip on her

“Um.” She mumbled before wiping her tears

“Did he hurt you?” I ask nervously, I would actually kill him if he had.

“He grabbed me.” She slurred, pointing to the red marks on her arm

“No baby...did he touch you?” I ask again stroking her cheek and she shook her head. I’d never been so relieved in my life.

“Are you sure?”

‘Yea. He tried to, he kept grabbing my arse and trying to pull my dress down but you came as...well...you know...his pants are undone.”

My head spun around to him being taken out the toilets. “I’m going to kill him.” I shout rushing towards the door only to be held back by Dave.

“He isn’t worth it Dan. Let the police take care of him. Go look after your girl.”

I turned around to see Chris comforting Liv in his arms. I walked over and pulled her so tightly into me, brushing my lips against her head several times as her hands gripped onto my top.

“I’m sorry.” She cried. “I’m so sorry”

“You’ve got nothing to be sorry for baby okay.”

“The police want to speak to her Dan.” Dave says, his head popping around the toilet door

“Right now?”

“Yea. Even though she’s drunk, she knows what happened. The same can’t be sad for the morning.”

“Okay.” I sigh “Do we have to go to the station?”

“I’m not sure, they’re in the office. So go and speak to them in there.”

“Cheers Dave.”

He nodded his head before shutting the door. I pressed my lips tightly against Liv’s forehead

“Come on.”

I slipped my jacket over her and zipped it up to cover where the front of her dress was ripped and showing some of her bra.

I linked our fingers together before walking out of the toilets and up to the VIP areas where the office was.

An hour later we were allowed to leave. Liv gave her statement to the officers who informed us that they had been looking Lucien as his ex (Lindsay) had filed an assault charge against him. Now they could add attempted rape and assault to his charges.

Another officer would be coming around this week to speak to Liv after Lucien had given them his statement.

I grabbed a bottle of water from the bar for Liv who I had left with Chris and his friends at their booth whist I got the details off the officer and her drink.

I walked over to them to see her asleep against Chris’s shoulder. “Wake up .” I say to her, gently stroking her cheek to wake her up.

Her eyes flickered open and she yawned.

“Come on .” I smiled and she swung her legs out of the booth

“Cheers boys.” I smile nodding my head at them.

“No problem Dan. Let us know how she is yea. Erin’s really worried.” Paul says to me

“Will do mate and Chris...thank you so much”

“Not a problem Dan. I’m just glad she’s safe.”

“Well thanks again.”

I wrapped my arm securely around her waist as Liv clung to me. I’d not seen her this drunk in a long time.

“Where you staying ?” I ask her as we get into a taxi. I’d pick my car up tomorrow, I knew it would be safe where I’d left it.

“Hotel.” She replied

“Which one?”

“Mmmmm” she slurred

“The Marriott?” I ask

“Noooo” she giggled

“Take us to the Mayfair please mate.” I say to the driver.

“Sure.”

Liv was now sleeping against my shoulder. I just wanted to get her into bed. This was the nearest hotel to Movida that I could think of that began with an ‘m’ and Liv’s not exactly clued up when it came to hotels.

She never had her bag with her either for me to check her room key, so that was still probably at the club. I got my phone out and text Chris asking him to let Dave know about Liv’s bag and to let me know if he found it.

“That’ll be twenty one fifty please mate.” The driver told me as we pulled up outside the hotel.

“okay cheers mate.” I reply handing him the money

I gently woke Liv up, not wanting to disturb her but I couldn’t carry her asleep into the hotel. Especially since I didnt know if this was where she was staying.

I walked up to the reception with Liv, hoping they would just give me another room key

“Sorry sir but we need some sort of identification to allow you another room key.” The concierge girl informed us.

“Her bag has been stolen.” I exclaim

“I understand that sir, but we have to protect our customers belongings. I need identification to prove that it’s her room.”

“Okay...I understand. Can we have one room for the night then please.” I say pulling out my wallet.

“Sure, a double?”

“Please.”

Once given our room key we made our way up to the fourteenth floor and to our room. I opened it and Liv stumbled in, me following closely behind.

Liv collapsed onto the bed in the shape of a star fish. I laughed to myself thinking of the state she was in. I’d not seen her this bad in a long time.

“Come on , we need to get your changed.” I say walking over to her

“No.”

So I took it upon myself to get her dressed. After allocating where the zip was on her dress, I slipped it off her body, leaving her lay there semi–naked, in just her underwear.

It took all the human strength I had to refrain myself from attacking her perfect body with kisses.

I pulled my top over my head as Liv sat up, staring at me with wide scared eyes.

“Get away from me.” She cried crawling over to the other side of the bed.

“ I’m not going to hurt you.’ I replied holding my hands up, looking at the petrified look in her eyes.

“Please don’t hurt me.” She pleaded grabbing my top from the bed and slipping it over her head.

“Do you think I would?” I ask, moving slightly closer to her.

“I know who you are and my boyfriend will be here any second.”

I looked at her confused for a second then then I realised she was sleep talking...dreaming...a nightmare even. Or she was that drunk she wasn’t sure who I was.

“Tink it’s me.” I whisper and she shook her head

“No. You’re not him.” She cried pulling my top further over her body.

“ it’s me. I’m here.” I say taking her hands in mine, looking into her eyes.

“Dan?”

“Yea , it’s me. Now come on, get into bed and go to sleep.” I say pulling the quilt down letting her slip in. As soon as her head touched the pillow she was out.

I tucked her in, placing a delicate kiss on her forehead before finding a blanket in the wardrobe. I walked over to the sofa, took off my bottoms before getting comfy...well as I could be.

*Liv’s POV*

Oh my god I think I’m dying. I lifted my head up off my pillow and the room was spinning, it was still dark in the room. A wave of nausea rushed over me, I quickly rushed out of bed and into the bathroom where I was ill numerous times. I flushed the chain before rinsing my mouth out. I felt like death warmed up.

I stumbled back into my bedroom, still half asleep.

“You okay ?”

“Huh?” I mutter rubbing my eyes

“Tink?”

“Dan?” I reply confused looking around the room

“...what you doing up?” he asks getting up from the sofa.

“I don’t understand...what are you doing here? I don’t...why are you here?”

“It’s a long story , just go back to sleep, I’ll explain everything to you when you wake up.”

“Yea okay.” I mumble before getting back into my bed.

“Dan?”

“Yea ?”

“Why you on the sofa?”

“Because you’re in the bed.” He replied, I could so tell he was rolling his eyes at me.

“Come here.”

I heard him quietly walk over and kneel down in front of me.

“What’s up baby girl?” he asked sweetly, stroking my hair behind my ear.

“No come here.” I reply tapping the empty space

“, I’m fine on the sofa.”

“Please...I hate sleeping without you.”

“Okay .” He smiled before kissing my forehead and climbing under the quilt.

“I’m sorry.” I mumble

“You’ve got nothing to be sorry for.” Dan replied lying on his back next to me. I hated us being so distant but so close.

I rushed to the bathroom again to be sick. I washed my mouth out again before stumbling back into the bedroom. I looked around the room, my eyes adjusting to the darkness.

Where the hell was I? This wasn’t my room. I glanced down to what i was wearing....one of Dan’s tops.

“You coming back to bed or you gonna stand there all night?” I heard Dan mumble

I began to walk to the bed but tripped over stumbling onto the floor.

“Fuck” moaned clutching my head

“What you doing Tink? Can’t leave you for two minutes can I?”

I just lay flat on my back on the carpet, my hand over my head as I felt my eyes closed.

*Dan POV*

I got out of bed and went over to Liv, she was passed out on the floor, blood on her hand and on her head. What else would this girl get up to tonight?

I cleaned up the small cut on her head and put a small plaster on it from the first aid kit. I washed her hand so she wouldn’t pass out again before picking her up and putting her back into bed.

I slid into the other side just watching her sleep. We’d been through so much lately...I hope this can be the start of ‘us’ being ‘US’ again.