This Means War

Over For Now

I went home feeling numb. Valerie's words ringing in my head.

"Do you really think you're worth all of that?"

No. I didn't. I didn't want my best friends no longer being friends.

I entered my house and everyone was there. I had completely forgotten they would all be there.

"Hi." I whispered.

"How did it go with Valerie?" Resa asked.

"She didn't deny it. She said I was ruining the friendship between you two." I looked at Zayn and Niall. "And she's not wrong about that."

"Scar, don't think for one second this is any of your fault." Zayn said.

"It's our fault." Niall said. "We practically bombarded you. Making you choose between us. It wasn't right."

"I went along with it, and that was also wrong." I replied.

The silence was heavy in the air. "Let's order a pizza." Louis said.

We all laughed in relief. An hour later we were all scattered around my living room, with the telly on very low, because no one was watching it.

We were all talking and laughing in a way we hadn't since the silly competition started. And there wasn't even any talk of it. Niall and Zayn were actually getting along.

And as usual, Resa and Harry weren't.

"Who took the last piece of cheese?" Resa asked.

There was silence, except for loud, deliberate smacking coming from Harry.

"I called dibs on that piece, Styles!" She exclaimed.

"Oh did you?" He asked innocently. "Sorry didn't hear you."

"You're gonna pay for that." She whispered dangerously.

"Good thing I have a lot of money, then huh?" He asked, grinning. He was definitely enjoying getting under her skin.

"Money can't save you from this!" Resa grabbed one of the pies I made and she smashed it right into Harry's face. She then took the piece of pizza and ran.

"RESA!" Harry shouted, scrambling up and tackling her to the floor. She was already half way done with the pizza.

Harry wiped the cream off of his face and smushed it in Resa's face. She sputtered and shoved him away from her.

She reached for the table, but ended up sending a pie flying into Liam's face. Niall laughed loudly. Liam then smashed his pizza in Niall's face.

"Guys..." I said, but it was too late. A full fledged food fight had broken out. Pies and pizzas were flying around my living room.

A vegetarian pizza hit me square in the face. "Oh now you guys are gonna get it!" I yelled, joining in the fight.

It was absolute chaos! Louis continually smashed Niall's face into a pie, while Zayn and Liam slapped each other with pizza. Charlotte and I rolled around shoving whatever good we could find in each other's faces as Resa took two pieces of pizzas and shoved them both down Harry's pants.

He screamed and smashed a pie down in her hair, which made her scream in return. The rest of us stopped fighting and just laughed. I don't think I'd ever laughed so hard in my life.

Resa and Harry joined in our laughter and twenty minutes later we were all on the floor, looking up at the ceiling.

"Man am I going to miss times like these." Louis said.

"What do you mean by that?" Charlotte.

"Nothing." Niall said quickly, hitting Louis. "He's just being nostalgic."

"Well I'm nostalgic for a time where I didn't have pizza sauce in my underwear." Harry said shooting Resa an annoyed look.

"And I for a time that I wasn't using cream pie as gel." Resa retorted.

"Okay, okay, we're all very nostalgic!" I laughed.

"So...who's gonna clean up this mess?" Zayn asked. We all laughed.

Surprisingly enough, Zayn and Niall stayed behind and helped clean up the place. They didn't argue once.

Once we were done, we all sat down. We were all aware that we needed to talk. I had to tell them that I was calling off the whole competition. 

"I need to tell you guys something." I said.

"Actually, there's something we need to tell you first." Niall said.

"Um okay." I nodded. It seemed what they had to say was very important.

"We're leaving in two days." Zayn said.

"Where are you going?" I asked.

"On tour in America." Niall whispered.

"What? Why didn't you tell me before?" I asked, confused.

"We just found out this morning. And with everything else going on, it wasn't the right time to tell you."

"So when are you coming back?"

"In three months." Zayn answered.

"Oh." I said running my fingers through my hair, only to get them tangled as usual.

"So what did you want to say?" Niall asked.

"I was going to end the competition." I told them. "It was ruining your friendship. So we can't do this anymore."

They both nodded. "So did you make your decision?" Zayn asked.

I shook my head. "No, I actually didn't. I'm sorry."

"It's okay." He said. "This isn't a really good time for this anyways."

"Yeah, I guess you're right about that." I whispered.

"We're both still very in love with you, Scarlette. But we've got jobs to do. We won't fight over your anymore. Whatever happens between us is completely your decision now." Niall explained.

"Well, three months is good amount of time to think things through." I smiled slightly.

"That's exactly what we were thinking." Zayn said.

"So until then, we're all back to being friends then, and we'll see where my heart lies when you guys come back." I said.

They both nodded.

"I want you to know that I love you both very much and I'm sorry for what's happened." I apologized.

"Don't be." Niall said. "We put you in a difficult situation. And we're really sorry."

"It's okay. It's over now."

The next two days went by too fast and then the boys were gone. I didn't realize it was going to hurt so much.

"I can't believe you went from having two boyfriends to none in the span of two days." Resa said.

"If for the best." I said. "It's supposed to give me time to really think."

"Well you got three months." She said.

"I don't need three months." I whispered. "Today when I saw them off, I knew who I really wanted to be with, who I was really in love with. I knew because it physically hurt to see him go and know I wouldn't see him for three months."

"And I'm guessing you didn't tell him?" Resa asked.

I shook my head. "I couldn't it was too late. So now I'll have to wait and hope he's still in love with me when he comes back."

"So, who is it?"

A/N: it's been so long since I've written anything for this story but I missed it. Next chapter is the last one! Thanks for reading!