Not My Cup of Tea // L.S.

*24*

"Louis. I love Louis." Harry whispered. His eyes were shut, head bowed down. He was sweating like hell.

"Harry that's awesome!" Zayn nearly shouted while Liam hushed Zayn. Harry smiled at Zayn, finally opening his eyes and looking at him. Zayn hugged him and patted his back. Pulling away from the hug, Harry and Zayn both looked at Liam.

It was Liam who was sweating now.

"Li?" Zayn asked.

"Harry...I'm happy for you but I'm so sorry...I-Louis doesn't believe in love for himself...He thinks nobody can actually love him; he is even sure that nobody wants to befriend him...I-I'm really sorry Harry I can't even help it." Liam said shakily.

"I-but why?" Harry asked, almost in tears.

"I can't tell you that, I'm sorry. I'm not the right person who should, Louis is." Liam said.

"Is that why he was silent crying and singing 'The Heart Wants What It Wants' to himself?" Harry asked, clearly shaking.

"Yes. That's his favourite song. I'm so sorry Harry, I've even spoken to him about it but he's unable to move on from what had happened." Liam said.

"Can you indirectly tell me what has happened? Like give me an outline of it?" Harry pleaded, now openly crying.

"All I can tell you is that he had a best friend, who was not me, who Louis had started liking and eventually fallen in love with, but he didn't reciprocate the feelings and things just got really bad..." Liam's voice trailed off and Zayn held him.

"It's okay Li, our Tommo is strong. He's no longer hurting physically. He hasn't taken the pain killers for over a month now, remember?" Zayn told him.

"Hurting physically? Pain killers? What is going on?!" Harry shouted.

"Harry calm down. There are things we both can't tell you, alright?" Zayn shouted back.

"You both? You also knew? And you never told me?" Harry shouted.

"I can't tell you Harry! You are my friend, my best friend, but even Louis is! I can't betray him now, can I?" Zayn shouted and Liam just watched on.

"And you betrayed me?" Harry shouted but while crying.

"He didn't betray you, alright?" A new voice spoke.

All three of them turned their heads to see Louis leaning on the wall, arms crossed on his chest.

"Lou?" Harry spoke.

"Haz. Just know that neither Zayn nor Liam betrayed you. I don't want to ruin your friendship with either of them because of my problems." Louis said flatly.

"Our friendship won't get ruined Lou, never." Harry said with certainty and looked at Zayn and Liam who nodded.

"You three are sure about that but I'm not, especially not when your friendship's downfall could be due to my problems." Louis said.

"If you could just tell me what's wrong Lou."

"Nope, I'm sorry. I can't." Louis said and with one look at Liam and Zayn, he exited the dorm saying, "I'm going back to my dorm, see you tomorrow."

"Lou it's 2am, come back." Harry shouted midst crying but once the door closed, it didn't open.

And Harry stormed back to his room and closed the door behind him. He sunk down to the floor and cried his heart out. Midst cries he said, "Why did I have to fall for Louis?!" and didn't know when but he fell on the floor, while crying.