Come Back (a Zerrie fanfiction)

Chapter 16: So Weak, So Fragile, So Delicate, So Broken

Okay, guys, I just wanted to say that this is still the continuation of Louis' flashback. Until you see the "~END OF FLASHBACK~" thing, then that's when his flashback finishes. That's all!

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"I...Let's just say that recently...I've been checking out someone..."

Yes, Louis never expected those words to come out of her rosebud lips.

Eleanor has been fancying someone behind his back even before he did that to Harry?

"When?" Louis had blurted, breaking the tension between them.

"Just about...a few weeks ago..." Eleanor replied quietly. So, now it was Eleanor feeling nervous and it's Louis asking questions, huh? Wasn't this what people usually say? "Look how much the tables have turned", was it?

Suddenly, all the things that happened between them prior to a few weeks ago flashed in his mind. The cuddles that she usually initiates but it was he who initiated them now, the kisses from going mostly on his forehead or his cheeks or his nose, and she seldom kisses him on the lips, her constant rejections if it was okay for him to visit her, the usual phone calls that begin in the morning or at noon and ending pretty late now being short, not even reaching two minutes, everything.

Why didn't Louis notice them? Why didn't Eleanor talk to him about it so they can sort it out? Why wasn't he there to help her? Why did she bother telling him now when he's feeling like shit?

So many questions were coming in his brain at once, making his world spin a bit. No, he shouldn't be stressing about this too much. If Eleanor wasn't having a headache over his confession of kissing Harry, why would he stress about Eleanor fancying someone behind his back?

"Lou, are you okay?" Eleanor's concerned voice snaps him out of his thoughts. She had been watching him all this time, hadn't she?

Louis looked at her with wide eyes, as if he just saw her appear out of nowhere, and vigorously nodded. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine,"  he lied.

Okay, he wasn't exactly mad at her, he was just bothered over the fact why she never told him about this.

"Do you want to know why I never told you about this?" Eleanor shyly asked him, twirling her hair in her finger.

"Y-Yeah..." Louis replied immediately, pretty much eager about Eleanor's reason as to why she never told him about her infatuation over...whoever it was she was infatuated with.

"It's because I know you won't approve of it. I know that the minute I tell you about it, you'd start thinking that there's someone that's so much better than you and you'd do everything you can to make me forget about that someone."

Louis froze at Eleanor's reasoning. That was just plain genius, wasn't it? Louis has never heard anyone reason out like that.

"It's common sense, Lou."  Oh.

But what Eleanor said was so right. She knew that he was a jealous boyfriend, no doubt, and she knew that he knew she was...attracted to both genders. She had confessed it to him one night before, and he was really surprised by it, but he told her that nothing was going to change in their relationship. And nothing did.

Suddenly, a fearful thought popped in his mind.

What if...the person she liked was a girl? Then that meant a girl captured Eleanor's heart so fast. And Louis remembers that when he and Eleanor first met, it was he who began a conversation with her, not she, even if she was a fan of One Direction.