Trying to be Superman

Chapter 17

“Niall! Oh god Nialler please! Ni!” Liam sobbed, his curled up fist banging on the door to the room which housed the crying Irish boy. “Niall you don't understand! I-” The door was ripped away from Liam and he fell forward at the sudden loss of support.

“THEN EXPLAIN IT LIAM! EXPLAIN NOT ONLY WHY YOU'RE HURTING OUR BEST FRIENDS. BUT EXPLAIN WHY YOU'RE HURTING ME TOO!! I THOUGHT YOU WERE THE BEST OF ALL OF US.” Each word cut into Liam like knives, and he sobbed even harder. How could he have turned the one person he cared about, against him.

“Nialle- Niall I did it for you. Simon said if I did it I'd be protecting you from losing your dream. Singing. I- I only cared about you okay? But I don't know my emotions are nothing but confusion, I know I care but I- I'm not- I'm not gay Niall! I just, boys have never interested me, well except you and I just I don't know what to do but just-" Liam's words were cut off by the sobs crawling their way up his throat. Niall sat down, scared by this emotional side of Liam, his feelings were hurt that Liam didn't feel the same way Niall did, but seeing Liam happy was more important at that moment.

"Liam it's okay, I'll wait. I'll wait until you're ready to be who you are, be who you are with me." Niall mumbled, slightly embarassed, but meaning each word.

"Well maybe that's not who I am Ni! That's the fucking thing! I don't know! God, it's just this whole Larry shit talking. I mean I love Danielle!" Liam stated, trying to find some explanation for how he was feeling, the whole 'not knowing' was even worse than the confusing feelings, but not knowing why; why he felt them, why they were confusing, just why. Niall was still just as upset, as when he had read the message, but he knew that Liam just needed some comfort, so pushing down his own feeling, though they kept trying to come back up, like bile in the boys throat; he swallowed them down.

"I have an idea, lemme go talk to Zayn, he'll know what to do. He can fix all of this," Niall suggested, there was an alterior motive to his suggestion; he just wanted to get out of the house, away from Liam, away from the rejection of actually telling Liam his feelings. Liam nodded, wiping his eyes, he felt almost embarrassed by his weakness.

"Yeah, I need a shower, need to clear my head." Liam agreed, he quickly pulled his tank top up over his head, and stood. Niall couldn't help but star at the muscles Liam had been building up recently, Liam had a nice tonned, tanned, chest and it captivated the blue eyed boy.

"Erm, yeah good idea. I'll talk to Zayn, probably just stay there," Niall stated slowly, as he dragged his eyes of Liam's back, as Liam was walking into the bathroom down the hall. As the bathroom door closed behind the shirtless boy, Niall waited to hear the shower start then finally the bile like sobs erupted from his chest.

"S.O.S.

-Ni. X" Niall shot the text at Zayn, knowing well that he wouldn't be able to drive through his tears.

Quick A/N: I wrote this half twice, the first time, Niam worked out then upon thinking about it, I realized that wasn't the right way to have it go. It's not just a magical "Oh I like you too!" "Oh let's be a couple!" in real life, so why should it be in my fic. So I changed it, hopefully that change was for the better. Try to guess what I'm gonna have happen? ;)

"So what are we going to do?" Harry asked Louis, they had been discussing what to do about Simon.

"I've got a great idea," Louis suddenly spoke, standing up. He pulled his phone from his pocket, and paused to stare at his screensaver, it was Harry. It was an old photo, but nonetheless it was Harry.

"Zayn?" Louis mumbled, into his phone. "What's wrong with Niall? Well we'll have to deal with that later. Don't yell at me! Of course I care about Nialler but there's a bigger problem! Simon threatened Harry to hurt me, and-" Louis paused, then his jaw dropped.

"Niall likes Liam and so this thing about relationships hurts him too! It's time to deal with this bullshit." Louis was pissed beyond belief.

Harry wrapped his arms around Louis' waist and kissed his neck softly.

"What are you going to do?" Harry whispered, Louis set the phone down and turned to face Harry.

"I'm going to make you mine, forever. Harry Styles, will you marry me? Simon can't hide our love," Louis, knelt down and pulled a ring out of his pocket.