The Wires Case [ h.s ]

chapter 22

i've changed Niall's name to nick cause I liked it more

anyways enjoy

Harry Styles

My eyes meet the blue eyes on his after so long. His hair has grown a bit on the roots, but he still looks the same.

"Harry mate!" He says as he gives me a hug. "How have you been? It's been ages bro." He laughs, and so do I.

"I've been good, Nick. How about you?" I say as we make our way to his living room. We sit down on his couch as he speaks again.

"It's been crazy. Just opened up a few more clubs over Europe and I'm finally glad I'm settled here. It's good to be back home." He says.

"We missed you." I say to him.

He scoffs. "That's a lie. You just missed getting free drinks on The Swan." He looks at me and I just smirk.

"I haven't gone there for so long to be honest." I admit. Nick has one of the most popular clubs in our side of town.

It's a pretty normal place, nothing too elegant but he sure knows how to attract people. Blake and I used to go there a lot and we became really good friends with Nick. Now he's like our brother.

We were pretty new here when we first went to his club, and it was his first week opening, so we literally were his first clients ever. He didn't know many people like us, so we stuck together.

"Oh I know. Mariah has been texting me to see if something happened to you cause she didn't see your face this last month. She's so into you mate." He laughs.

I shake my head. Mariah was one of my first hookups when I moved here, she was and still works at the club with Nick and because we were always there we ended up fucking more than once. But that was all it was for me.

"I told her she should look for another dick, but she has something for yours apparently. It's been years since you guys stopped fucking but I guess she still hopes you'll come back to her." He says, and I sigh.

Mariah is gorgeous, that's for sure, and while we had our fun, I ended up telling her I wasn't interested in something else, in something more. And at first she didn't take it very well, but at the end she understood I wasn't in a good mental place to start a relationship.

I've been in that stage for the last 5 years.

Still, we ended up being really good friends, and we still care about each other. Her more than me apparently. She should definitely take Nick's advice, she deserves something better than me.

"Anyways, you're staying here for a long time or are you leaving again?" I ask him. It's been at least 5 months since I last saw him.

"Nah, I'm stayin'. Everything else is taken care of so you won't miss my face so much."

"That's great."

"Where's Blake though? I thought he was coming too?" He runs a hand through his dyed blonde hair.

"Yep, he is. Just had to do something first." I say, not giving him much detail about what it is because it's something about the case.

He had to go to Sienna's house to continue their project but he should be here in a few minutes.

"Oh yeah! You guys started a new case, how's that going?" He asks, totally into it. He's always had a thing for our cases since we told him we worked at the FBI.

I frown. "How'd you know?" I don't remember telling him and I don't think Blake told him either.

"I know everything. Now spill."