*flashback: 4 years ago (before you and Niall were dating)*
'Harry, we have to tell him!' You say angrily to the curly haired Brit. 'I don't see why. Not like it matters anyways.' He yelled equally loud back at you. 'It does too' you said. 'Either we tell him now or later and the later we wait to tell him the more it's going to hurt him and I really don't want that and neither do you,Hazza'. 'You know I hate that stupid nickname, right?!' He said. 'well of course I do. That's exactly why I used it. You didn't answer my question,curly.' you answered back. 'sure, fine, do whatever you want.' he answered before walking away angrily,stomping back towards the O2 stage in London.
*back to present, back in London, a few weeks after being at home in Oklahoma, with Niall and the rest of the boys*
You couldn't believe the flashback you'd just had,realizing you'd never done as you wished to. The thought of this had made you space out from the conversation the boys were having about flatulence and belching and other things of the male mind. Paul snapped you back into reality asking you to come with him for a moment. You followed him out of the room shrugging your shoulders as to what Paul needed to talk to you about.
'You got the job, y/n. Congratulations' he told you almost immediately after walking out of the dressing room. 'No way' you shrilled. 'yes m'am. You'll be with us all tour starting in a couple weeks. You'll be in charge of capturing pictures of the boys during performances, before shows, in their off time, etc.' Paul told you. 'Thank you Paul so much for believing in me and giving me this opportunity. I greatly appreciate it.' you told the boys burly bodyguard. ' You're welcome y/n. I believe in you, don't let me down" he said. 'I'll do my best not to' you exclaimed. ' well you better tell the hooligans the exciting news.' Paul said before walking in another direction.
You walked back into the dressing room with a huge smile on your face. You noticed all the boys staring at you, but it didn't matter you were just so excited because of the news you'd just received. 'what'd the higginator need?' Louis asked. You took a seat in a makeup chair in between where Niall and Harry were with Louis, Liam, and Zayn all sitting on a couch across the room from you.
'You remember how I told you I had the opportunity for a great job, but was just waiting on approval from one of the head honchos to start it?' they all murmured a 'yeah' before you continued on. ' well Paul just let me know that they had made a decision and that they decided to give me a chance.' 'yay for y/n!' Liam said with a huge smile on his face. 'and I forgot to mention the best part of it all. It's actually a job that's going to allow me to be with you guys a lot, like all the time, because I'm now officially the One Direction tour photographer. Has a nice ring to it, huh?!' you said trying to maintain a straight face.
'You didn't tell us it was a job involving us!' Harry said. 'aw man how dare I!' you said with a grin on your face looking at the cheeky boy to the right side of you. You looked to the left of you where Niall was sitting waiting on him to say something. 'well how do you feel about it all, babe?' you asked him. 'I can't believe I'm going to travel and spend so much time with you. This is amazing!' he replied getting up from his chair and coming over and giving you a big hug before leaving the room to go get ready for show, along with Liam, Louis,and Zayn.
This just left you alone in the room with Harry, who always got ready earlier than the rest of the boys. 'hey Harry.' you said hoping to initiate some sort of conversation so you weren't just sat there awkwardly. He sat there staring at you a few moments before responding 'y/n, what do you think you're doing?'. 'I'm getting myself a start in the career I love and spending time with some guys who are very near to me while I do it' you responded a bit agitated with the questioning from him. 'you never told him, did you?' he asked. ' told him what, Harry?' you said back. ' you know what I mean, don't play stupid with me. you're so much smarter than that.' he replied. 'well I suppose every intellect is entitled to moments of lower intelligence so please spell out what you're asking me about' you responded. 'you never told Niall about us,did you?' he asked in such a soft tone it startled you for a moment. 'no I didn't' you said in a subtle town, with a slight head shake of no. 'you should tell him. just get it off your chest. not to ruin your relationship in anyway, but I know that it burdens you and I want us to be able to rebuild a friendship and it's a bit hard to do with all this still hidden like the entire relationship. Just be upfront with him, he appreciates honesty, okay?'
'alright, I will.' you tell him. 'it's good to be able to talk to you Harry. I've missed it' He walks over to give you a big hug before leaving you alone in the room to decide how exactly you are going to Niall about your past relationship with Harry.
*a few hours later after the boys concert that evening*
You're leaving the venue the rest of the boys leave their separate ways home. Harry gives you a look, you know what he means by it. You send him a text saying you'll call him later and let him know how it goes. You catch up to Niall who was just opening the passenger side door his Range Rover you slide in the seat and he closes the door. You were practically silent the entire ride home except singing some songs that played on the radio and answering some of Niall's questions about how you liked the concert, etc. You were still trying to figure out how to break the news to him. You were finally back at Niall's house. You both changed into some clothes to lounge around the house in, ate some dinner, and then were sitting in his living room before finally piping up and saying 'I need to tell you something,Niall.'
'how come you didn't tell me any of this earlier?' Niall asked you.
You'd exposed to him how you and Harry had at one point been a couple, secretly of course, because you didn't think you could handle all the paparazzi and crazy fans who would threaten to kill you for dating 'their man'. Harry had respected this wish to an extreme to the extent of never filling the boys in on dating you. So the day Niall met you was when you'd gone in to talk to Harry about going to Oxford to major in photography, which didn't end up working out since your US school credits wouldn't transfer. Niall bumped into you as you were leaving from talking to Harry. You struck up a casual conversation with the Irishman and eventually Harry rolled around and introduced you as a friend of his. Before you left that day you had Niall's number in your phone, and Harry Styles as your top secret boyfriend. You and Harry figured out that either you were going to have to expose your secret relationship to the world or just let it end with your busy schedule in college starting soon and his busy tour schedule starting up you made the mutual decision just to end it.
This didn't stop you from becoming great friends with Harry though. He'd been the first one you told that you and Niall were pretty seriously talking and he supported you in that. Even though you and Harry has put little over 7 months into your relationship, you both knew that moving on was the best thing for the both of you to do. You and Niall started dating after 5 months of getting to know each other better via text, calling, Skype, etc. Niall had paid for you to fly over to London, where he took you sightseeing and to Nando's then took you to the O2 arena and sang you a song he'd written and asked you out right there and of course you said yes.
You ended up being able to spend around a month with Niall in the UK and were able to meet his parents and he was able to meet yours before you had to return home to start your freshman year of college.
'I could make up some sort of excuse and say well I didn't want to hurt you,but I'd just be making it worse. I honestly didn't think it would be a huge deal. Me and Harry were well and done at the point I met you. He thought you needed to know to relieve me of the weight I've been carrying on my shoulders this whole time.' you answered him. ' I'm glad you told me all of this' he replied. ' but seriously you and Harry were a couple ?!' he said in a shocked tone. 'yeah' you said with a sheepish grin on your face. 'I just don't see it.' 'oh well we were quite an adorable couple I must say. Not that anybody ever saw it besides us. It was nice not having anyone know, but at the same time there were so many times I just wanted to be like oh yeah, I'm dating Harry Styles, but I never could' you explained to him. ' but why with me was it alright to make us public?' he asked. ' I guess after going through the whole secretive relationship with Harry I decided it's just better to deal with all the hate and attention than not be able to let anyone know you've found someone who you adore and who adores you right back' you commented back.
