"Thank
you," Liam said. His voice pained. "For
everything you have done for us."
Niall nodded and stared into the audience, tears stinging the
corner of his eyes, "For being here while we did what we
love. Thank you for staying through the tough times and loving us
with your heart."
"We love you." Harry continued, the spotlight
hitting his face perfectly as he admired the thousands of fans
before him, "You guys made our journey amazing and
something that we'll never forget."
The boys all nodded, tears rolling down their cheeks. Zayn stepped
forwards, losing his normally calm composure, "You're
all beautiful. You're all amazing and you're
our fans."
The crowd fell silent as Louis stepped into the front.
"It's so hard to leave all of you... it's hard to
end this and leave the boys but we have so many beautiful memories.
So many perfect reminders of how perfect our lives have
been."
The boys formed a group hug, crying into each other's arms as
they finally realized that it had been their last performance as
One Direction.
They turned into the audience and kissed their finger tips, raising
them to the audience and waving slowly, smiling through their
tears.
They brought their microphones to their mouths and each inhaled
sharply.
"Bye... We were One Direction."
The stage became completely black and a hushed silence fell over
the arena, the screen above the stage lighting up.
"I'm Harry Styles."
"Zayn Malik."
"Liam Payne."
"Niall Horan."
"Louis Tomlinson."
As their X-Factor performance flashed on the screen the boys stood
offstage, staring sadly at the screen before them.
The clips slowly faded to darkness again, the boys turned to each
other, a silence falling over the room.
"So this is it?" Niall whispered his voice
cracking.
Harry nodded, quickly wiping away a tear.
They hugged for what seemed like forever, unable to let each other
go before Harry adjusted his curls and walked to the door, waving
goodbye to his 4 best friends, his 4 brothers.
Niall followed, along with Zayn and finally Liam, leaving Louis to
sit on a guitar amp. His fingers drummed on the side as he stared
at the ground, his tears falling quickly.
"Forever young..." He quietly sang as his tears
fell, "I wanna be... forever...
young."