Liam didn't even know why he was here, except that his older sister, Nicola, had dragged him to the concert last minute because her best friend had to bail on her, and she didn't want the ticket to go to waste. Even though Liam was pretending like he didn't want to go to some stupid concert aimed towards the screaming girls, he was secretly ecstatic that she had asked him instead of Ruth. The artist was Zayn Malik, and if his research was anything to go by, the famous Zayn Malik was the same Zayn Malik he had met a few years before while they were vacationing for the summer months at their beach house.
The two had had a summer romance, and while Liam had wanted it to continue, he knew that it couldn't. Neither of them were out to their families, in fact, Liam still wasn't out in his career as a boxer, and it seemed like neither was Zayn, by the looks of the girls he always had on his arm, especially on in particular, who Liam despised, even though she seemed like a normal girl. She got to have who he wanted most in the world, though Liam couldn't lie and say he hadn't been with anyone else since that day. He had been in a pretty serious relationship, but it had ended when his boyfriend was unable to hide any longer.
"Nic? I know him!" Liam shouted over the screams of the girls when Zayn came out on stage. The way he walked and presented himself was so unlike the Zayn he had met all those years before, but he knew that it was the same one. "Do you think you'd be able to get us backstage after the show? After all, you're famous!" She asked, and Liam nodded, waiting until the show was over before going down to where the backstage entrance was. He talked to the bodyguard who was a huge fan of his career, and the guard led him in the back. "Mr. Malik, there's a Mr. Payne here to see you." The guard said to Zayn.