A/N So here’s Chapter 17. This is dedicated to Lyric_Loser because their comment made me smile. So, yeah, vote, comment, send me cookies, ya know. Enjoy! (: xx
Harry’s POV
“I have a plan to get you and Niall together,” Zayn told me quietly, as though it were top secret information. I lifted my head to look at him, unable to contain my curiosity.
“What is it?” I asked after a moment when he didn’t continue talking. He slung his arm around my shoulders and turned me around, forcing me to walk further into the school with him.
“Here’s the thing Harry,” he began, “I like Liam.” My eyes widened, and I stared at him in shock. I had no idea! Ok, well, I knew he found him attractive enough to “tutor” him so they could fuck, but I didn’t know he actually liked the guy.
“And you like Niall,” he continued. I rolled my eyes at him. Duh. Sometimes he really is too impressed with himself. I mean, I’d like to think that I’m not so obvious that everyone knows, but as one of my best mates, I kind of expect him to notice these things.
“Yeah…” I trailed off, prompting him to continue on to this so called plan of his.
“Ok, so here’s what we do. We have to split them up and then keep the pieces for ourselves.” He smirked back at me, but I was lost.
“Uh…what? How?” I asked him. Really though I just tried that with the whole threatening thing. It obviously didn’t work. Maybe I can kill Liam and Zayn can help me hide the body…but he likes Liam…damn.
“You have to pretend that you want Liam,” he said simply. I just stared at him. I have to do what?
“I have to do what?” I asked, finally speaking my mind. Zayn rolled his eyes and spoke to me again the same way he speaks to his younger sister.
“You have to act like you want to be with Liam. That way Niall will get jealous of him because he’s got you, and that will force Niall to admit his feelings for you, leaving Liam completely free for me to take whenever I feel like it.” He smirked at the last part, and I mentally cringed a bit at the image that put in my head. I frowned.
“So you want me to ask Liam out?”
“Not exactly,” Zayn raised his eyebrows and looked at me until I understood it.
“Ohhhh,” I drew out the word as I finally understood his meaning. He wants me to pretend to seduce Liam, not date him. Well, that shouldn’t be too hard. I smirked. Seduction is one of my best talents. I shouldn’t be as proud of it as I am, but who cares? I’m really popular, and this is high school. It basically comes with the territory.
Zayn noted my smirk and grinned.
“So you’re in then?” I nodded.
“Let’s do it,” I told him. I am gonna take Liam and Niall’s weird relationship thing and rip it to shreds. They won’t even know what hit them.
The bell rang and Zayn and I headed off to our homerooms. I spotted Liam coming down the hallway, arm around Niall’s shoulder as usual. I held in my growl and forced a smile. Liam saw me coming, said something to Niall, and moments later, Niall was gone. He just sort of vanished into the throng of students crowding the hallway. Liam looked more than a bit worried, and I smirked to myself. Good. He should be scared. Bastard.
I walked straight up to him and put a hand on his shoulder. I put on my best sincere face and looked him right in the eyes. He looked very confused. I don’t really blame him. He’s gotta think I’m bipolar or something.
“Look, Liam,” I began, layering honey into my voice so I sounded genuinely sorry.
“I’m really sorry about earlier…I don’t know what came over me…I guess I just always feel protective of people who I think are getting bullied because of what happened to my sister…” I trailed off awkwardly before biting my lip. I hope I look nervous.
“Can we just forget it ever happened? Or at least try? I’d really like to be friends again,” I told him, holding my eye roll back. He has to believe me. Or else I’ll never get him to think I’m interested. He sighed and studied me intently before he smiled. YES! I celebrated inside my head. He totally bought it! I was tempted to do a fist bump, but I restrained myself.
“Yeah, I guess…we could try being friends…” he agreed slowly, still smiling at me, albeit a bit hesitantly. I gave him my best smile back, the one that makes my eyes crinkle and my dimples appear.
“That’s great! Thank you so much Liam!” He just nodded, still smiling at me.
“No problem…I’ll see you later, yeah?”
“Yeah, later mate,” I told him. Mission accomplished! I can’t wait to tell Zayn. Now I just have to make Niall jealous. Lunch should be interesting today…
