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𝒟ℯ𝒶𝓇ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝒷𝓇ℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇,

ℐ 𝓀𝓃ℴ𝓌  𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓋ℯ'𝓃𝓉 𝒷ℯℯ𝓃 𝓉ℴ 𝒪𝓁𝓎𝓂𝓅𝓊𝓈... 𝒻ℴ𝓇 𝒶 𝓁ℴ𝓃ℊ 𝓉𝒾𝓂ℯ 𝓃ℴ𝓌. ℐ 𝒶𝓂 𝓈ℯ𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒶𝓃 𝒾𝓃𝓋𝒾𝓉𝒶𝓉𝒾ℴ𝓃 𝓉ℴ 𝓂𝓎 𝓌ℯ𝒹𝒹𝒾𝓃ℊ

𝒩𝒾𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝒶ℊ𝓇ℯℯ𝒹 𝓉ℴ 𝒷ℯ 𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇ℯ, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 ℐ'𝒹 𝓁𝒾𝓀ℯ 𝒷ℴ𝓉𝒽 ℴ𝒻 𝓂𝓎 𝒷𝓇ℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇𝓈 𝒷𝓎 𝓂𝓎 𝓈𝒾𝒹ℯ 𝒹𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝒾ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝒹𝒶𝓎

𝒴ℴ𝓊'𝓇ℯ 𝓎ℯ𝓉 𝓉ℴ 𝓂ℯℯ𝓉 𝓂𝓎 𝓂ℴ𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓃ℯ𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 ℐ 𝒽ℴ𝓅ℯ 𝒻ℴ𝓇 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓉ℴ 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝓉 𝓈ℴℴ𝓃

𝒜𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝒻 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝓌ℴ𝓃'𝓉, ℐ 𝒽ℴ𝓅ℯ 𝓎ℴ𝓊 𝒹𝒾ℯ 𝒹𝓊𝓇𝒾𝓃ℊ 𝓎ℴ𝓊𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝒾ℯ𝓈𝓉 𝓂ℴ𝓂ℯ𝓃𝓉𝓈

~𝐿𝑜𝑢𝑖𝑠 

Zayn blinked at the letter before balling it up and throwing it away. This letter is definitely not in Louis' handwriting. It's too cursive.

"Your reply?" Hermes asked.

Zayn put his hands behind his head. "Dear brother, I hope you get fucked. Sign it with my name," Zayn said, standing up.

Hermes sighed. "You're a pain—"

"Yeah, yeah, I know," Zayn waved him off.

"You haven't acted like brothers in the longest time. When was the last time you both saw each other?"

"A century or two ago," Zayn said, sipping his coffee.

Hermes sighed. "What happened between you two?"

Dionysus snorted, sipping his wine. "More like what DIDN'T happen."

Hestia shook her head. "Stop it now." She turned to Zayn. "You're being allowed into Olympus to see Niall again. You've been given a green card to fix your relationship-"

"I don't want to fix something that should never have been built," Zayn gripped his coffee mug before he shook his head and walked out

Hermes sighed. "Whatever the hell happened between them?"

~~~~~

"Now give me a smile," Dionysus said, but when he got nothing, he sighed and nodded. "I guess that'll do..."

"Need I remind you that I'm here by force."

Dionysus dropped his head back. "Okay... You have an issue with Louis, but what about Niall? I'm sure you miss Niall." Zayn stayed quiet, then shrugged. "You'd be much easier to understand if you spoke more."

"I guess now you know why I don't speak a lot. I don't want to be understood, nor do I want to be heard."

Dionysus leaned forward. "If you didn't want me, Hestia, and Hermes with you, you could've stopped us from coming down."

Zayn hummed. "I'll remember to do that," he said before slipping on his sunglasses.

The car door opened, and they both got out.

"You'll be walking like six steps-"

"It's too bright."

"Like your personality."

Zayn turned away from Dionysus and to Louis. "Nice to finally see you again." Louis said with a smile

The corner of Zayn's lips turned downwards. "I wish I could say the same."

Louis mumbled something under his breath before he sighed, "Follow me in."

Dionysus put his hand on Zayn's back but immediately pulled it away when Zayn gave him a look before they both followed Louis.

~~~~~

"I haven't seen Niall at all," Hermes said, and Zayn shrugged.

"Do you, Dionysus, and Hestia plan on watching me and staying by my side every second I'm here?"

Hermes sighed and turned around. "Should we leave him?"

Dionysus and Hestia came out from behind a wall. "We just don't want you to feel alone."

"If I didn't want to feel alone, I'd be running around everyone," Zayn said, looking out the window.

"We'll leave you... for tonight, but we'll be back tomorrow," Hestia said.

Zayn waved them off. He heard a bit of movement before the door to his room opened and closed.

"Never said I'll stay in the room," Zayn mumbled, picking up his coat.

~~~~~

Zayn was walking around the backyard when he heard loud laughter. He stopped and turned toward three figures that appeared a slight distance away. He immediately recognized Niall as one of them.

One of the other two was Louis' partner; Zayn and he had exchanged greetings earlier, but that was the extent of it. The third figure... Zayn had yet to meet.

He was laughing loudly with his head dropped back as Niall splashed him with water. He was dancing under the moonlight with Edward until they both fell, still laughing out loud.

Niall shook his head, said something to them, and walked away. Edward sat up and helped the other person up. Zayn wanted to turn around, but he couldn't. His eyes stayed off Edward and on the other person

And that's when their eyes met