She Stole My Heart // Hariana

The Decision

"I'm quitting the band"

The four words spill out of my mouth before I can explain them and it leaves three boys jumping up from the couch and staring at me with confused expressions.

Liam is the first to react and stomps over to me and grabs a handful of the front of my shirt, "What did you just say?!"

I gulp then repeat myself, my voice strong and serious, "I'm quitting the band. I'm tired of all this craziness with the fans making up rumors and all this stress with the tour and the new album." I pry Liam's hands off of my shirt and flatten the wrinkles he left.

Niall walks over to me with a frown glued to his face, which instantly makes me feel guilty, "Harry... we've already lost Zayn to that loser Naughty Boy. We can't lose you to."

"I was actually planning this a long time ago before Zayn had the idea to leave the band. I'm not following his footsteps and going to a solo career with a trash bag of a music producer... I'm just quitting the music industry. For good." I explain to them quietly.

A door slams loudly, rattling the whole room and we look to find Louis has disappeared.

Aw man... I'm gonna have a harder time explaining this whole thing to him. He was my best friend and I was basically abandoning him.

I face Niall and Liam again and smile at them sadly, "I already told management and they accept my decision... it took a little convincing but they let me go and I'm letting them post about it on Twitter tomorrow to make it official to public."

Niall throws his arms around my shoulders and hugs me tight enough to make me lose my breath and he starts to cry. I hug him back and will myself not to cry as well. Liam wraps his arms around both of us and just sighs deeply with sadness.

"I'm sorry lads..." I mutter.

Niall pulls away first and his tear covered cheeks almost breaks my heart, "You better go talk to Louis right now if you want to keep his friendship." He wipes his tears then tries a wobbly smile.

Liam goes to the fridge and pulls some ice out then puts some in a plastic bag, "Here, this will come in handy for that talk." He hands the baggy to me.

I stare at him in confusion, "What...?"

"He might punch you." He informs me.

My eyebrows furrow lightly but I still nod then head in the direction my best mate went.

I walk into his room silently and he's sitting on his bed with his elbows on his knees and head in his hands.

"Louis..." I move towards him slowly and place my hand on his shoulder, "I didn't mean for you to get upset about this whole thing and I-"

"You're what, Harry?!," Louis smacks my hand off of his shoulder and gets in my face, "Sorry that, along with Zayn, you're abandoning us? Sorry that I have to go through another betrayal from one of my best mates? Well, sorry isn't gonna save your ass this time! I'm so done with this! Maybe I'll quit too!" He snarls angrily at me then goes to the window.

"Louis, come on be reasonable. You can't quit the band." I say quietly.

He whirls around with the nastiest glare on his face and, just as Liam had predicted, punches me square in the jaw.

"How fucking dare you tell me to be reasonable and stay in the band when you are leaving it! Now we are down to three and I'm not sure if I can keep up with this anymore!" He shouts at me, his face red with hate.

I take a few steps backwards from the force of the punch and hold my jaw, moving it around, "I guess I deserved that..." I say half-heartedly and try to smile but Louis just rolls his eyes and turns back around.