Love Me {Sequel To Last Hope}

Chapter Sixteen-Human Shield

"If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it." - Mark Glamack

H A R R Y

"You slept with Eidee?" Louis drawled.

"Did I say Eidee?" I asked quickly. "I didn't mean Eidee. No, um... I meant Eddie. Yeah, so I'm gay actually. I don't sleep with girls so I've never slept with Eidee ever." I said bluntly. I was wishing I hadn't said a word, slowly rising to my feet. Liam was staring at me in almost horror, and Louis looked like I had told him somebody died.

"You slept with Eidee?" Louis repeated. "What the hell? You slept with my ex fiancée?"

Liam chimed in as I began to back towards the door, Louis getting up and glaring at me. "You do realise Louis' slept with her right?" He asked. "I mean, like, personally I wouldn't want to put my... You know... Anywhere where Louis has put his... You know..."

"Liam how old are you?" Louis snapped. "You can say the word dick."

"One of your kids could walk in at at time I'm keeping it low key." Liam replied. Nobody noticed me slipping away.

Louis looked baffled. "Liam. Have you ever met my daughter? Do you actually think there's a swear word Chase hasn't heard yet?" He stopped. "Harry!"

"I said Eddie! Not Eidee! I haven't been sleeping with your ex!" I called and I tried to walk to the foyer. Louis was following.

"How long have you been sleeping with my ex!" He demanded.

"I haven't!"

"How long!"

I turned and just tried not to look guilty. I had never planned on telling anybody about my sexual activity with Eidee. Let alone Louis. I barely understood it. And now all I was thinking about was what Liam had said.

"You haven't been with her in years." I said bluntly. Louis still glared. "It's not like I slept with her while you were together."

"So you did sleep with her?" Louis hissed. "What the hell?" Just as he said it, the front door opened and Tellie walked in almost tripping over at the sight of what was happening. When the door closed I took her by the shoulders and pushed her in front of me.

"What the hell?" She snapped.

"I'm using you to make sure your dad doesn't punch me." I told her. "Because I'm thinking he might."

"You slept with my ex!" Louis shouted. I swallowed the lump in my throat and tried to refine of a way out.

"It's no big deal-"

"What would you say if I went and fucked Taylor Swift?" He hissed. He had a point. I'm not sure I would be exactly pleasant if I found out one of my friends had slept with my exs. But I hadn't just slept with his ex girlfriend; i slept with his ex fiancée. Who also had his child. (Even if he blandly disregarded that child).

I began to speak, but Tellie just scoffed. "Taylor Swift has standards she'd never sleep with you." She mused. I almost got hopeful. This was gonna be the perfect chance to get out. Louis would get pissed off her, I would skip out, and then I'd go bury myself in a box and leave instructions for me to be sent to the middle of Australia.

"Have you slept with anyone else's ex?" Louis completely ignored Tellie, and I mentally cursed. "You don't sleep with my ex!" I pushed Tellie forward again. "Stop using my child as a human shield!"