The Duo (Narry and Lilo)

The Duo

"Hey, Harry, what song are we doing next Saturday for Steven's?" Niall inquired as Harry ate a Hot Pocket just out of the microwave, walking around his room to look through his song journal to answer Niall's question. 'What do you think of that song Girl Almighty we were working on the other night?" "Oooh..I think so. Yeah I liked the way it sounded when we were jamming it out." Niall said as he drank from his Fiji water bottle. "Do you wanna run through it? Zayn, Alex & Sierra and Jalex are brilliant and they're performing." 

Hearing the names of their opponents, one stood out to Harry. Zayn. The previous year, Harry and Zayn had been like brothers for all of their lives, always messing around music, well, brothers, like they always said they were whenever anyone asked. Until Zayn got a new friend. No one knew his name. Everyone just called him Naughty Boy around school. Zayn started to act weird and eventually replaced Harry with Naughty Boy. He's like Zayn's little adviser. Ever since then Harry hasn't mentioned him. Niall was there to pick up the pieces and instead of just messing around with music, they started to get serious as a duo and start battling other local artists from their high school and around the town at this bar called Steven's. They lived in California and on Saturday nights, go to the music side of town and compete. They competed against solo and duet artists, sometimes even bands. 

They called themselves Narry. Niall played the guitar and they both sang. When they started out they were just singing covers of their favorite artists, turning them into duets. After winning 2 battles, they decided to start writing their own music, starting with their first song, More Than This. Snapping out of thought, Harry looked at Niall's worried blue eyes, pushed away his half eaten Hot Pocket and said "Yeah, yeah sure. From the top?" Letting it go, Niall grabbed his guitar and gently, "Alright. From the top."

  "Let's have another toast to the girl almighty
Let's pray we stay young
Stay made of lightning"

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With a final strum of his guitar, they both sang

  "I get down, I get down, I get down
On my knees
I get down on my knees for you."

"Amazing, mate. Brilliant practice." Niall beamed and unstrapped his guitar, setting it down on Harry's bed. "I think I'm gonna head home. We've got school tomorrow." he said, looking at Harry's clock, it reading 12:16 A.M. "Do you want me to give you a ride?" Harry answered. Niall looked flustered, feeling shy for wanting the ride. Harry noticed and smirked, "Come on, love. I'll take you home." Walking out of the bedroom, Harry grabbed his keys, waited for Niall to grab his guitar and backpack, motioned him up, and slammed the door. They walked out of Harry's apartment, Harry telling His mother, Ann, that he would be taking Niall home. Throwing keys up and catching them, walking over to his car.  He stopped suddenly, hearing the blond boy say, "Thank you for the ride, Harry. I can pay you or I can-" Harry, cut him off saying "It's perfectly fine, Niall. I know you'd do it for me. Just get in the car." He chuckled on the last bit, opening Niall's door. He noticed out of the corner of his eye two boys, walking with their bags into the complex. Probably new move ins, Harry thought as he drove onto the street.