Fireproof

15 - Irresistible - L

The time flied, Harry and I worked together as a great team so we got a good collection of flash fiction. Liam and my challenges only became harder after I've really had impressed him with the curl. Zayn and I took care to spend from time to time some time together and Niall impressed us all with his music. He teached me to play the guitar a little bit and I did great.
But what Niall did was really impressive and beautiful as he turned his guitar playing, his voice and Harry and my words into songs. Yes, Harry and my words, he asked us if he could use our texts for his songs. And it turned out better than anyone could have imagined.

One day I visited Harry and Nialler in their room. My intention was only to work with Harry but after a bit we could barely concentrate anymore because Niall couldn't keep quiet and just played on his guitar. We tried to ignore it first and finished a few lines of a new text.

„Don't ask if I'm okay, I don't have the answer.
Don't ask if I'm alright, I don't have the answer.
They say this doesn't last forever.
They say that I'll be fine.
I've tried to ask myself, if I believe in this.
I wish I knew the answer.
But I know if I'll stop thinking about it, I'll never know the answer",
I read out loud while Niall played some chords in the background.
„It's okay so far, we have to work on it of course", I said.

„Yeah, I like it. It's represents our topic, confusion, good in my opinion. Should we first work on it or should we add a bit?", Harry asked, but before I could answer he turned around to Niall and asked „Why can't you be quiet for a second? Or play somewhere else?"

Niall didn't only played chords anymore, you could hear an idea of rhythm and melody. Without answering Harry's question or stopping to play he said: „Louis can you please read that again?"

„Erm, okay..."

Automatically I waited for a good start in Niall's play and read the text again.

After I finished Niall repeated the first lines of the text but with a melody that fitted perfectly to the guitar.

On this day we didn't work on flash fictions for James course anymore. Harry, Niall and I formed the few lines about confusion for such a long time, that we had an actual song at the end. It hadn't much of the original, that we kept for the course, anymore, but I really liked the song. To not forgetting it the three of us recorded the song on Nialls phone. The quality was shitty and we weren't professional singers at all, but we had fun, and in my opinion it sounded really good anyways.

Some times Harry and I switched to my room even if we started in his though, because the presentation day came closer and we couldn't allow us to get distracted by Niall too often. Still there where 5 songs in bad quality on Nialls phone after a while and one song was actually sung by Liam and Zayn as well because we thought it would be fun. It was, we laughed a LOT.
But the creative writing course was more important and it definitely wasn't like someone of the five of us had less to do with Uni.

For the presentation of our work in creative writing we should pick a few of our flash fictions, present them to the class, tell what we thought and show the connection to our topic emotion. On the same day we should give James all our flash fictions printed and via e-mail.

Two days before the big presentation day Harry and I where in my room and practiced our presentation. The plan was to get rid of the last mistakes in the presentation, read over all our flash fictions one last time and print them.

„Thank you for your attention. Do you have any questions?", I asked an imaginary audience, standing in the middle of my room in real life.
„Perfect!", Harry said from his chair, „I think we have it now. Save the Power Point and then we can go to the texts and prints."
„I already saved it of course, you idiot", I said and rolled my eyes.
Harry laughed. „Should have known that."

Hold on, when did that happened? Seemed like I could call Harry idiot now without him getting upset and offended. I thought of using this more often from now on.
„Okay, let's start with the texts then", I said.
„Yess."
I sat down next to Harry on my desk and we both looked on my computer.

The next two hours we spent reading all our flash fictions and editing the document there where in. We deleted the worst, corrected typos and changed the order. We had thought that it was going to be faster, because we already had gone trough the texts when we picked those for the presentation, but we were wrong.
The work was worth it though and Harry and I both were completely satisfied with the result.

„Okay, great, I'll turn my printer on. Do you have the folder?", I asked Harry.
„Here it is. I already wrote everything on it, is that okay?"
„Yes. Yes, of course. ... Ugh, fuck you!"
„What the hell is your-" Now Harry was upset. But I didn't let him finish.
„No, not you, idiot. My fucking printer isn't working. Again. I already fixed it and got some help for it. But, UGH", I moaned in annoyance.
„Hold on, I have the same printer, let me see."
„If you want to destroy it completely so bad, go for it."

I stepped a few steps back and Harry went to the printer. He was okay as a person, and it was okay, that he was in my friend group, but he still was an annoying little kid that thought it was better from time to time.
„Fixed it."
I breathed out loudly but I didn't say anything but „Thank you, wizard."
He laughed again. It wasn't usual that he laughed as much as today.

We watched the paper come out of the printer.
„That's not good for the environment", I breaked the silence.
„Indeed"
We watched along.
It was much paper.

But then it was done, we looked through the papers if everything was exactly like it should be and Harry put it in the folder. It was a rainbow folder. I couldn't help, I had to smirk a bit. That wo so typical Harry. Glad that it was James we had to give the folder to, he was the only lecturer I didn't mind giving a rainbow folder to.

„I can take the folder till the day after tomorrow", I offered.
„Okay, great. See you tomorrow evening. One last practice and we'll send the e-mail, right?"
„Right. See you."
Harry walked out of my room and I took a deep breath. A smile spread across my face. This was going to be great.

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Hey, it's me again!
I hope you are well.
Actually I really like that chapter, I hope you like it too!
Have a great day, Love you all <3
Lu