Simon's Secret (One Direction FanFiction)

Chapter 21

Harry's POV

  I got Niall's text a bit after I sent Alex one. She hadn't responded immediately like usual, so I guessed that she wouldn't respond at all. After reading what Niall had to say, I was sure that she wouldn't. She was upset - and so was he.

  I read his message again:

To: Hazza

From: Nialler

Re: Who do u think u r, txting Alex?! she cried over u and u ignored it. u've been a jerk, haz, and i think it's time u clean up ur act. get it together man.

  He was totally right, wasn't he? I felt awful looking back on what I had done. Alex knew that I had been upset about getting bad publicity from punching the paparazzi man, but that wasn't her fault. I had done it of my own free will and I had blamed her. It really didn't make any sense, did it? I had to explain to her that I understood this now.

  That was why I had texted her. I didn't mean to offend her, but apparently I had. She had every right to ignore me, in my opinion. I had, as Niall put it, been a jerk. I just wished there was some way I could talk to her. It would have to be in person, as she would simply ignore my calls and text messages.

  So I guess I had to wait for her to come back up to our room. She might not, though - for all I knew she planned on staying with the boys tonight. It would make sense for her to, but I really did need to talk to her.

  Suddenly I was reminded of the night before now, and almost laughed at how different it had been. Alex and I had been on good terms and were talking to each other freely. Everything had been worked out from our disagreement about the OTHER fight. Her fight, not mine.

  Last night I had told Alex that I loved her. She may or may not have heard me, and I found myself hoping that she hadn't. I did like Alex - but did I love her? No, I didn't, did I? Now I just felt bad all over again for lying to her like that. She couldn't have heard me say it, she was asleep. That was good. She didn't hear me.

  Or did she? Maybe she had heard me, but was afraid to answer. Maybe she didn't love me and didn't want to have to explain that.

  Then again, maybe I was just being paranoid.

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Alex's POV

  Niall and I  stopped singing and dancing around the room after I got the message from Harry. I continued to play the music, but neither of us were really listening to it. We hadn't done much other than eat some crisps after that, but it was fine by me. Chilling out and eating was pretty ideal right about now.

  We were both sitting the small couch and messing around on our phones. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Ni set his phone down beside himself and turn toward me. I frowned a little in confusion, setting down my own phone and facing him.

  "Al, you've been under a lot of stress," he began. I nodded, laughing a bit. "And you know I'd hate to put you under any more, so you don't really have to answer this if you don't want to, but... What's going on between you and Harry?"

  I sighed heavily, shrugging and saying, "I honestly have no idea. We've never fought like this before. I mean, I know we've only been together for a couple months, but this is weird. I think it's stupid, really. Of course, I'm not the famous one who's got a reputation that they need to uphold. So yeah, I don't know what's going on."

  "I don't know about that, Al. Have you been on any social media sites lately? You're all over the place, especially Twitter. Check it out, I think you'll be surprised," Niall said.