Apartment 12 | Niall fanfic/ Larry.

3: Together

As I walked back into Apartment 12 from getting my things out of the apartment I'd stayed in last night, I saw the back of Zayn's head...Niall and Zayn turned their heads around from the sofa and Zayn says "ahhh, this is Cassie" then looks at Niall who's face turned slightly red. I shook this off because Niall would never fancy me, I mean....me.

"WAIT WHERE IS CASSIE?!" Louis runs out of the bedroom and sees me standing there with my things "aw come here!" He opens his arms out and pulls me in for a bug hug, oh my one direction he gives good hugs. My head buried into his chest and he doesn't let go until Harry comes in from the same bedroom.

" Do you want me to show you you're room now?" Harry said, his voice still causing me to sizzle inside...

I agreed and he took me down a little hall with a few rooms coming from it and then opened the end door and a room that looked almost exactly like my other room appeared, just without the bathroom.

"Ah, thank you!" I say, placing my toothbrush and coat on the end of the bed.

"Stop saying that, or I'll get Niall to start saying it to you for being here" he smirks at me and I take it as a joke...once again, me.

"Liam should be here tonight, he's been somewhere, I dunno...probably having a lovely chat with management" he ended sarcastically.

"Harry...is this seriously not a dream?" I had to lift my head up so the tears wouldn't fall.

"Cassie...sweet checks" he giggled and made his way over to me "you're aloud to be here with us...we are normal people you know, just...look, we all have shit going on and I guess I am just a wounded healer, you'know. I have crap going on and wanted you to feel a bit better, feel a bit safer and be around people who hopefully make you feel better?" By now he'd managed to turn me to face him, taken hold of my lower back and was holding my chin up so he could look right at me and some of my tears were falling.

Beautiful is what this is.

We stood there for at least a few minutes....just standing. I think he was waiting for everything to settle in for me but that isn't going to happen. It's not even that I am with the biggest boy band in the world....I am with my world. Mine. This is everything I have ever wished of, this is my dream.

Me and Harry walked back into the living room and Harry went back into the bedroom He and Louis were in earlier. Niall shouts over to me that i can sit in the spot next to him on the sofa.

It was cool sitting with Niall and Zayn...Zayn would say something about the people on telly and Niall would laugh really hard, which would make me laugh. It was like being at home again watching there videos online and laughing at his laugh but I wasn't there, I was right next to him. Niall would occasionally look over to me and smile. Then Zayn whispered something to Niall that sounded a lot like "its nice cats like hair" to my nosey ears. Niall turned his head round to Zayn and Zayn laughed....I wondered what was so funny they had to whisper it.

When Harry and Louis came out of the bedroom, they both had red eyes...which made me want to go and hug them better and As I got ready to ask if they were okay, Niall clutched my knee and gave me a 'leave it' look.

***Harry's POV***

I can't believe what I just heard, the words swirled around my head

But Harry, we can not be together!

Argh, we planned this location just for us, so even if we couldn't be like before... We could still try. I never, ever thought he'd stick up for management like this. What happened to the 'forevers'.

Everyone was silent when I came out of that room with Louis, and I headed straight for the balcony. I know I said I'd given up but this was not expected. I grabbed the pack of 10 laying on the windowsill next to the doors and took a cigarette out, balancing the lighter in between my fingers.

I coughed at first, but then it helped me think. Of course the memories of Louis and me back during X Factor killed me...and even just last year. But my fingers holding the little wrapped up piece of paper, stuffed with what?...nail varnish remover or something? Made things a little clearer. You'know, me and him are one thing I wouldn't mind the world judging me on...but clearly Louis sees it differently. As he said

But Harry, we can not be together!

I was quite happy thinking to myself when Louis had to come out and put his hand on my shoulder...

"What?!" I turned round to him shaking his hand off of me.

"You should have seen this coming Harry!" Louis voice was angry but I could tell he was jut as broken about this as me....his eyes were on fire.

"No, do you wanna know what I thought was coming?" i say shoving him even further away from me with my arms....quickly regretting doing that on a balcony...where people could see I face away from him and rubbed my eyes...wondering if that would rub what just happened away too, but it didn't. I stepped towards Louis, who was just standing there gawping at me. I balanced myself on my feet and said into his ear

"I thought we'd stop caring, and so would they. I thought love was equal. And I thought you thought that too..." I stand there for a second, letting the emotions from each of those words sink into Louis. Then I drop me cigarette of the floor and flatten it with the bottom of my shoe, Louis watches me walk back inside, I can feel it.