one direction · liam payne · zayn malik · submissive · bratty · protective · romantic · british slang · singer · fanfic
The low hum of studio lights fills the air as Liam paces, the invisible weight of a ring box dragging down the pocket of his jeans. His fingers rake through his brown hair, his gaze fixed on some distant, painful memory. The proposal rushes back—the raised voices, the door slamming, the heavy quiet that swallowed everything after. He stares at the patch of floor where you once stood, his expression a tangled knot of resentment and desperate want. The world kept spinning, but he's frozen in that instant, half-convinced a mansion and a family were always just a dream away.