Past Or Present? (A Niall Horan and Harry Styles Fan Fiction) (*ON HOLD*)

Chapter Fifteen - Urgh!

Liam's P.O.V

This was strange. Harry didn't even look nervous as he walked in and greeted his ex girlfriend; also know as Scarlet and the apparent love of his life at one point, by hugging her and smiling.

"Hey." She smiled at him with her straight white teeth.

"Hiya." He waved casually at her, carefully locking up any negative emotions and keeping a happy, welcoming, cheeky smile plastered to his face. Oh, he was good at this.

I wondered if they would ever get back together. However, it did seem unusually strange that Scarlet was staying at Niall's place. Maybe she remembered Niall. No, she would probably remember all of us if she remembered Niall and then she would remember Harry and then....... I honestly don’t know. Everyone always used to say they were perfect for each other. They were supposed to be made for each other. They wanted to spend the rest of their lives together. All you had to do to see that it was really true love was to observe the way they still looked into each others eyes. They had been dating for about a year and you could tell they still got butterflies in their stomach.....

Louis must have been thinking the same thing as he watched Harry and Scarlet looking at each other and he scrunched up his face as if in disgust and shuddered. And Louis, being Louis of course, did things the Tomlo way and decided to completely ruin the moment.

He pranced over to where Harry and Scarlet were and leaned his head (including his entire brown quiff) into the small space between them.

"So, no awkwardness between you two then?" He pointed at both of them and Harry cleared his throat and glared at Louis who flashed him an innocent, sweet smile in return.

"Course not." Harry shrugged, leaving the area where Louis was and sitting down of the farthest sofa away from him. Playing it cool, Hazza.

"Good because I just wanted to know." Louis smiled evilly and looked at Harry out of the corner of his eye for a couple of seconds when he realised he had succeeded in causing an awkward silence.

"Anyone for cheese cake?" Niall asked trying to fill the silence in. Of course, Niall. What better to fill the silence in with than the thought of food eh?

Oh yeah, sorry I forgot, didn’t I? It was his stomach he was filling, not really the silence.

Zayn's P.O.V

Well, Harry and Scarlet seemed to be getting on well. They had been flirting for the past half hour and hadn’t even touched their slices of cheese cake which Niall had (very generously) handed out. About five minutes later though, Niall went up to them and waved his hand in their faces.

"Earth to the lovers who should totally get back together." He waved his hand again and poked Harry on the cheek. "I am now taking the cheese cake." He informed them in a slow robotic voice as he went to take the cake. "I am currently holding the cheese cake and I'm going to eat it in a minute seeing as you wont. What a waste when people like me are starving." He scolded and Scarlet looked at him, half frowning and half laughing while Harry mumbled something about greedy pigs.

Louis' P.O.V

For the love of fucking god, I was getting impatient! Why weren’t Harry and Scarl snogging each others faces off by then?! It had been like....... An hour?!

Flirt

Flirt

Lol

Giggle

The look of 'Aha that’s so funny I could shit myself right here, right now.'

Smile

Hehe

Haha

Looking into each other's eyes.......

That was the breaking point for me! I couldn’t stand it anymore! I leaped across the room and..........

Niall's P.O.V

"Fucking kiss for fucks sake!" Louis yelled as he pushed Harry into Scarlet. Harry groaned as he was shoved into her and she went bright red as she was squished into the side of the sofa by Harry, who by this time was going bright red too.

"Geroff, Louis!" He shouted angrily as we all went into hysterical fits of laughter. This time though, Louis had pushed it way too far. When Louis finally loosened his grip, Harry got up and punched Louis across the face, making him fall on top of Zayn and Liam whilst I had a lucky escape as I dodged to the side, before grabbing his jacket,  storming out of the room and yelling, "Fuck you Lou, you arse hole."

"Wowa." Liam and Zayn blinked and I wasn’t sure which one of them said it.

Scarlet slowly got up and shook her head, frowning. "I'm going up to my room." She muttered, glaring at Louis before leaving the room and quietly padding up the stairs quickly.

Louis, Liam and I both sat there silently for a couple of seconds after we heard Scarlet’s door click shut and the sound of her thudding onto her bed. I quickly made a note in my head to remind myself to be prepared for mascara stained sheets in the washing pile the next morning as I bit my nails.

"I think that's our signal to leave." Liam said, getting up. "Come on Louis, party's over." He dragged Louis up by his arm. Louis still had a satisfied smirk on his face but then it quickly disappeared as I glared at him.

"Harry's probably forgiven me already but say sorry to her for me." Louis told me and I nodded.

Half an hour later.....

I was still on the sofa, biting my nails. Think, Niall, think!!!!!!! I thought to myself.

How do you comfort your best friend who doesn’t even know you?

How do you tell your best friends ex without it turning into something more that it will all be okay?

How do you do that?

How?

I fancied her. Shit.

Shit.

Shit.

Shit.

I fucking fancied one of my best friend's ex's who he still loved. I never thought I'd say this but: Fuck you love and feelings! I felt envy when Harry was flirting with her. What was I up to? Luring her to come and live with me. I was sick. It would break Harry, if he knew. It would tear him apart knowing he had lost the love of his life and that one of his best mates, someone he was supposed to trust, was hitting on her.

I decided to just leave it. Don’t go up there, Niall. Don’t do it. I know you want to but you can’t. She’s upset and I know you just want to cheer her up but it could lead to something more. You. Mustn’t. Do. It. I debated with myself.

I needed a distraction! Anything! Distraction! Distraction! Distraction! Something to take my mind off it! So I did what I do best.........

Mmmmmmmm delicious food.