P.S. I love Marcel

Chpt. 10 Conflicting Viewpoints

Bethany's POV
I still couldn't believe the words that came out of his mouth. After a while, Zoey finally came back in again and started being her sarcastic and witty self again. Ugh, Zoey can be a hassle sometimes but ya gotta love her. Marcel, Zoey and I proceeded to watching a couple more movies with Marcel and I constantly exchanging awkward glances at each other, of course.
But because Zoey is, well, Zoey, she had to interject.
"What are y'all being so awkward about? Did u guys kiss or something? Was there tongue?!" She looked so amused. Our cheeks quickly turned a beet red.
We stayed silent.
"Okay well, you guys are being weird. What should we do now?" Marcel looked down at his phone as it loudly chimed.
He let out a sigh of relief but then quickly returned his serious expression.
"Oh um-sorry I uh have to go. Sorry. " Marcel stuttered out. He stood up quickly and brought me into a stiff hug, then awkwardly pulled back.
"Bye Beth, bye Zoey. " Marcel looked at the floor and flew out of my room, down the stairs and out of the house.
"Well, wasn't THAT interesting. " Zoey gave me a grin, clearly satisfied with herself.
I glared back.

Marcel's POV
I felt bad about leaving them so abruptly, but I had to. I got a text from Liam. He could definitely help in this situation.

We agreed to meet at the nearest McDonalds to discuss my difficult situation. I was hoping he could help.
As soon as I entered the fast food restaurant, I was met by a tall Liam, wrapping me in a big hug. He was wearing his usual disguise- black sunglasses and a hoodie- and I was of course dressed up as Marcel.
"Ah lad! How've ya been?" Liam gave me his familiar warm smile and I couldn't help but loosen my stern expression.
"I'm in a bit of a tough situation. I was hoping you could help. "
I told Liam the whole story, from Beth and I first officially meeting in the cafeteria to the bedroom incident.
"Wow. " was all Liam said.
"Yeah. " I respond with the same flat tone.
"Well, she sounds wonderful. And you guys sound perfect for each other. But I mean, what did you want to hear? What did you want the next step to be? Did you want to ask her out?"
My cheeks become pink.
"Well- I don't know- yeah, maybe. "
"I don't know? Harry! Do you like the girl or not?"
"LIAM! My name is Marcel. " I muttered under my breath, cautiously looking around to see if anyone had heard him.
"Sorry GEEZ! I guess it's hard to remember when one of your best mates is pretending to be someone else all the time isn't it?" He finished with a bitter tone. My heart shrank a little.
Liam saw that he had hurt me and quickly tried to apologize. "Look I'm sorry mate, forget I said that. So tell me more about this girl. "

I poured out everything to him. I told him what types of emotions she made me feel, how my entire mood brightened the minute she locked her gaze on me, how her cool and nonchalant stride gave me heart palpitations. Everything.
I was now an open book.
"Wow. "
"Liam will you PLEASE stop saying 'wow', and actually say something deep and meaningful like you always do?!" We both broke into laughter.
"Deep and meaningful?! What the hell?!" We laughed some more.
"Well it's true. Oh right, I AM Daddy Direction. " Liam finished with a cheeky smile.
"Oh shut up. " what just happened. I began to slip into my British accent again. Oh no. I cannot let this happen when I'm with Beth. She'll find out. And then. And then what happens after that. Everything will be ruined. Oh no. Oh no no no-
"MARCEL! MARCEL! " Liam was loudly clapping in front of my face to grab my attention.
"What- what is it?" I asked. Why was I out of breath?
"You were wheezing and panting for like a minute! What's wrong?!"

Huh. I guess I'm a wheezer.
"I was just thinking how everything would play out if Beth found out who I really was. "
I cautiously looked up at him but his gaze was stern.
Now Liam was angrily whispering.
"Harry, you know you can't do that. No matter how much you might love this girl or think you love this girl-"
"Liam. Have you not heard anything I've said in the past 15 minutes?! Would you really think she'd tell the whole world?!" I was actually slightly offended that he thought Beth would actually do that.
"Do you really know her Harry?! Do you really?!" Liam raised his voice.
"Thank you so much for your help. " I said sarcastically and stormed out of the McDonald's.

As sad as it was, I did realize one thing about what Liam said. And he was right. If Beth knew, it would ruin everything between us forever.

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A/N!!!!!
Hey lovelies! Again I deeply apologize for not keeping up with my writing but summer is slowly approaching and I'll be able to write a lot more consistently when summer comes! Of course until then, I will keep writing as much as I can, as fast as I can, but thank you so much everyone for sticking by my story even when it's sucked and when I haven't updated in a loooong time. I do have a lot more chapters in mind, so definitely stay tuned! Once again, I love you all, and stay amazing 💕🌟🌟🌟
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