Don't know yet

Chapter 30

Louis' heart is pounding in his chest. He can hear the roaring crowd from the changing room and it's definitely a good way to help him get hyped up for today. The team has been working hard all year long and now they're at the semifinal and there's no way Louis is going to go home without another win tonight.

"Alright guys, get your butts off the benches, it's game time!" The team gets up and they all start making war calls in unison. "Styles, you come with me."

When they get out on the field, Louis is first greeted with his best friend, who seems to be waiting for him outside.

"You finally came to a game for me?" Louis says with a surprised expression. Zayn raises his eyebrows at him as he smirks.

"Don't be so naive, he obviously came for me." Laura comes from behind Louis dressed in her cheer uniform.

"I didn't come for either of you, you're not that important." He waves at someone behind them and as soon as Louis turns around he understands what he means; Gigi is waving back at him with a playful smile.

"And here I thought you would finally come to support me."

"Maybe next time, mate." Zayn walks away to go talk to Gigi so Louis turns to talk to Laura but when he does he sees she's gone to say hi to Niall so he jogs to the center of the field to find Liam.

The game starts soon after that and Louis forces himself to focus on the game and not the chants of two particular people in the crowd who seem to be shouting "Towel boy" over and over again.

15 minutes into the game he seems to drown their voices out and with all his focus on the ball in front of him he scores the first goal of the game. The whole team jumps on top of him as he falls on the floor, all of them shouting his name and patting his back in praise. When they all finally get off of him, he sees Harry standing awkwardly next to the pile of players on the floor. Louis looks away at the same time as he hears him say "Well done" but he keeps walking to his position without acknowledging him.

After half time, the score is tied 2-2 and the pressure is higher than ever. Their team starts the play quickly the center field passing to Harry, who runs towards the goal with the ball close to his feet, but apparently gets distracted and lets the other player take the ball from him easily. Thankfully, Liam is able to step the ball when the opposing player shoots at their goal.

Towards the end of the game, the score was exactly the same and teams are already too tired to continue. Harry's been off during all of the second half and Louis really wants to punch him into consciousness because if he wasn't for him they would have scored twice already. Now there's a minute left of the game and the fate of the team is in the air.

Ashton starts the last play of the game and soon enough the ball is in Louis' feet. He sprints towards the goal, dodging some defenders on his way, as he hears Harry call for him to pass the ball to him. He thinks about it for 2 seconds before he decides the best idea is to just shoot it himself. He approaches the goal quickly and shoots the ball with all the precision he can gather and then stops to look at it as it flies towards the goal and hits the net.

It's a goal.

The referee blows on his whistle indicating the end of the game and it suddenly hits Louis, they've won, they're going to the final. The team tackles him once again as the crowd cheers for them.

The team lifts Louis up in the air and they carry him back to the changing room whilst chanting "Tommo" repeatedly. He looks back right before they go in and spots Laura and Zayn talking to Harry. He frowns, confused as to why they would talk to him, especially after Louis finally told them what was happening.

They start to get changed as someone shouts "Party at mine!" from a bench. The voice of the person too familiar in Louis's ears for him not to recognize that Harry is the one throwing the party. Louis rolls his eyes as everyone else shouts and thanks Harry for the party.

"You want to grab a couple of bears and go back to mine?" Liam asks as he pulls his shirt over his head.

"You're not going to Harry's?"

" Nah, seems like it's going to be lame anyways."

"Thanks Payno." He says, sincerely.

"I'll tell Maya about it, why don't you tell Zayn and Laura too?"

"Sure." He replies before closing his locker and shuffling his way out the room.

Louis drives Liam and Maya to his house and they start organizing the snacks and drinks as they wait for the others to come. A few minutes later, Zayn walks through the door shouting "I brought Gigi with me." as he looks for them. They all sit down in the living room as they hear Laura enter the house with Niall trailing behind her.

"Shouldn't you be at Harry's? You're his best mate." Liam says in a friendly way.

"Laura said she wasn't going so there's nothing interesting in that party anymore."

"Fair enough." Liam replies as he brings his bottle to his lips.

"So now I'm seventh wheeling? I need a stronger drink." Louis says in an ironic voice though what he's saying it's true.

"We all need stronger drinks, how else are we supposed to play drunk monopoly?" Laura says while she pulls a monopoly game out of her bag.

They all chuckle before grabbing another drink.

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"Yes!" Laura shouts as she grabs Niall's money leaving him bankrupt. "I'm too good at this game when I'm drunk."

"How is it possible for you to always win at this?" Niall says bitterly but with a smile on his face.

"You've played drunk monopoly before?" Maya asks giggling.

"Yeah, we've played once before and she also beat me then."

"I didn't just beat you, I crushed you. Although Harry was harder to beat, I'll admit."

Louis' whole face drops at the words of his best friend. "You've played with Harry?"

"It was just once, plus he's not that bad..."

"Not that bad?" Louis interrupts her. "You know what he's done and you say he's not that bad?" His voice keeps getting higher as he gets up.

"I just mean that he has his reasons."

"Please, do enlighten me." Louis is properly mad now but it's not like he doesn't have a reason to be so...

Laura and Zayn look at each other with a look that Louis can't quite read before they nod at each other and then at everyone else in the room.

"Just sit back down, we'll explain everything." Liam says as he pushes Louis back onto the couch.