I Hate You ~ Louis Tomlinson

DON'T ACT LIKE YOU CARE

Work ends thankfully without any more trouble and right now Natalie is very relaxed. The events of earlier today already forgotten as she is now currently cuddled up next to Liam in his bed. The two of them have made some of sort a fort that would definitely be knocked down if they move too much, but they had fun making it.

They have a blanket up on the head board and got the broom and the mop and tied them to the end of the bed so they have a canopy with the blanket. They brought in another blanket from the living room so they can still be cozy while they watch the movie.

She decided on The Proposal since they thought a funny movie was in order. They have snacks and candy, and Liam ordered some take out that they have for dinner. Both of them have seen the movie before so they talk during it and she keeps stopping it to point out her "favorite part." This may have happened at least 4 times, but Liam doesn't mind.

45 minutes into the movie Niall knocks on Liam's door. Liam pauses the movie and tells him to come in.

"Hi, do you know where- oh! Natalie, there you are. I was looking for you." Niall says.

"What's up?" She replies.

"Nothing really. I'm bored though, what are you guys doing?" He says wiggling his eyebrows suggesting he wants to join in on their plans.

"Oh um, the two of us are having a relaxing movie night." Liam says, trying not to be mean, but Niall isn't exactly known to sit still for very long.

Niall visibly shrinks, looking sad.

Natalie looks to Liam with pleading eyes. He nods and she says, "Come on Niall, get in here!"

"Yay cuddle party!" He replies very happily, jumping on the bed and remarkably not ruining their poorly constructed fort.

Niall gets all comfortable right in between the two of them making Liam groan and Natalie giggle. Niall is yawning in minutes and using Natalie's stomach as a pillow. He falls slowly into sleep as he curls up into her, almost knocking Liam off the bed much to his dismay. Natalie is pretty comfortable, her hand is in Niall's hair playing with it until the movie is over.

After it finishes Liam turns to her, "I left you one of the face masks you like in your room."

"Thank you so much Liam. I don't know what I would do without you." She says. She's overwhelmed by how kind he always is.  

"Don't worry, you got me now."

"Good," she says and leans over to hug him.

"Couldn't get rid of me if you tried."

"Don't want to," she says and smiles at him and tells him goodnight. It's now 11 and they all have to work tomorrow seeing as it is only Monday.

Niall stays in Liam's room for the night, Liam is too lazy to wake him up and get him to move. Natalie goes into Harry's room to say goodnight but ends up talking to him for close to an hour before they both get tired.

Harry insists he carry her to her room since, she's a princess and should be treated like one, as he likes to say. So he scoops her up in his arms to carry her the three feet to her bedroom but who is she to complain. She can't lie, she likes to be carried around and taken care of.

Louis, with her luck, at that moment comes out from the bathroom going into his own room for the night. He interrupts her giggling to say, "Really, she can't even walk now? You've got to be kidding." He scoffs. 

Harry starts to say something nasty back to Louis, but Natalie interrupts him, "It's not worth it Harry. Just ignore him." She says and turns away from Louis as best she can in Harry's arms. She tries to get down, but Harry doesn't let her. He won't let Louis ruin their fun.

Harry sighs and walks away from Louis, knowing in his head he is certainly not going to leave it be. Louis has been really out of line and someone needs to put him in his place. He brings Natalie into her room and tucks her in, kissing her head before saying goodnight.

Harry is torn, he wants to respect her wishes, but he can't stand by and let Louis treat her like this. He's already had enough of Louis today with the stunt he pulled earlier, so this interaction set Harry over the edge. He makes up his mind and all but slams Louis' door into the wall opening it and walking in without even knocking.

"You need to cut your shit right now." Harry says sternly, but he is careful not to raise his voice. The last thing he wants is for Natalie to hear them, she has been trying so hard not to cause problems. What she doesn't see is standing up for herself isn't causing a problem, Louis is the only one causing a problem.

"What the hell?" Louis screeches turning around and to look at Harry.

"You know what I'm talking about. She's just doing her job. Unblock her from your story and cut the shit," he says the end slowly through gritted teeth.

"Chill out-" Louis starts but Harry cuts him off.

"No Louis, I won't chill out because today," he pauses knowing Natalie wouldn't want Louis to know she was crying earlier.

"What happened today?"

"Don't act like you care, just do what I said." Harry says, even though Louis does sound like he genuinely wants to know if she's alright, Harry is too mad to recognize that right now.

"Yeah, okay." Louis says solemnly.

"Good. And if you say anything about this to her," Harry trails off because he has never been the kind to threaten someone.

Louis wants to challenge him and say something like yeah what are you going to do about it? But he has never seen Harry this mad, much less to him, so he lets it go.

"Just don't do it." Harry looks at Louis expectantly until he nods. And with that Harry leaves, slamming the door only a little less aggressively this time.