Heart On Fire - One Direction

Chapter 7

Omg, this is great. I can even write offline, rn I'm on my way back home, in the train. Finally some time to update ;) xx Annelien

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Emma's pov

I close my bedroom door and fall on my bed; my face in the sheets. I can't believe he just said that. First making me confess my fake act to get him jealous, and then implying cheating. isn't that bad...

Ugh Harry.

"Emma?" A knock on my door followed by a soft, boy's voice interupts my thoughts. Though I have no idea whose voice it is. It can't be Harry, hell no. And I recognize my brother out of thousands, so it isn't him either. Louis then? I guess...

Whoever it is knocks again. "You're in there, right?" Sounds a lot like Zayn. I sit up.

"Yeah... You can come in, it's not locked," I eventually reply.

The door opens and reveals Zayn leaning at the door frame. "Are you okay?" He asks and I nod.

"Kinda. I guess. I'm probably just overreacting," I answer. Zayn walks in and sits next to me on my bed.

He looks at me. "I disagree. You're not overreacting," he simply says.

"And why do you think I'm not?"

"Look, Harry's one of my best mates, that won't ever change, but cheating is wrong. A man can never treat a girl that way, and vice versa. Harry knows that and I'm guessing he didn't mean what he said. I mean the whole 'it's not that bad' thing. I don't exactly know what happened to make him say it though, but I think you can figure that out. I mean, that's between you two," Zayn says and I smile a little, nodding.

"Yeah..." I answer. It propably has to do something with yesterday night, this morning and the unspoken things that happened between us. Like the whole jealousy thing. "Thank you Zayn. You know, for coming after me and this talking stuff." I smile at him and he returns it.

"No problem babe," he says.

"Though I'm wondering why you are here." I say and laugh after that. "I didn't mean it that way!" Zayn joins my laughter.

"I know, I know. We never really... did something just the two of us, so why would I come after you and not Niall or Louis? That's what you meant, right?" He sasks and I nod immediately.

"Yes, exactly."

"Well... Harry obviously wouldn't, Niall was kinda pissed at him, Liam tries to fix that and Louis kinda ran off quickly after you left."

"Liam fixes—wait, Louis ran off? Why would he do that?" I raise my eyebrows.

"Err—Why don't you look for him and find out?" Zayn says and I look confused at him.

"You know why he ran off?" I say.

"No. Well, yes. I figured, but I can't say anything, Louis has to do when he feels like doing that," Zayn confesses and I nod slowly.

"Okay..." I furrow my eyebrows. Was it something I did to upset him? 

"Let's go back downstairs, okay?" Zayns says and I nod. 

We walk down the stairs, when I see Niall, Harry en Liam standing in the kitchen.

"Why on Earth would you say that to her? I thought we discussed this, you promised! No more bringing it up, no more nasty comments! Comments like the one you just made!" Niall exclaims. None of them seems to notice Zayn or I.

"Well mate, I only got to go with you guys on this vacation if I promised those things, so of course I did!  I didn't really know how this all would go," Harry defends.

"Hey, guys, take it easy! This is no—Hey, Emma!" Liam says and they finally notice Zayn and I.

"Hi..." I awkwardly say.

Zayn notices the extreme tension and leaves us four in the kitchen. A complete silence falls over it for a while.

"Why don't you apologize to her?" Liam breaks the silence and he looks at Harry.

"Why would I? She started," Harry crosses his arms over his chest.

"She started? What the fuck, Harry," Niall says.

"No, it's true. She started by trying to make me jealous," Harry explains and he looks at me.

"You did?" Niall looks at me, confused.

"Er, well..." I start blushing. "It’s just, after last night, the club, I mean... and then this afternoon and even this morning… After that I just felt like I had to get Harry back, you know, and I couldn’t really think of something so I went with... that,” I say, while shuffling my feet and scratching my head.

“Now I understand it...” Liam whispers. 

"Yeah, me too," Niall replies. He smiles, not forcing an apology from Harry anymore. He opens the fridge and grabs something to drink. He walks out of the kitchen and Liam follows him. Just great.

"I'm not gonna apologize, you know that right?" I look at Harry.

He raises his eyebrow. "I'm not expecting that from you. Maybe Louis is though..." He replies.

"What's with Louis? Do you know why he ran off?" I ask and he sighs.

"Like you don't know. I mean, come on, didn't you really think of the consequences?"

"What consequences?"

"Let's just say I'm not the one who is hurt by your actions," Harry says simply and then turns around, walks out the kitchen, leaving me.

I stare at the window and think. My actions? That would be me making Harry jealous. But then... Did that effect Louis?

Oh god. It hits me like a bomb. It did. I think back to when Louis and I were in the shed. He kept on seeking contact between our bodies. So when I tried to make Harry jealous, he felt like the feeling was mutual. But then... Harry said I was trying to make him jealous, which I was, and Louis realised that. Oh God.

I have to talk to Louis. Now.

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It's a bit short, I know, but I figured this was the right time to end the chapter and I couldn't fill it up any more. Hope you enjoyed it! Please, fan, vote and share!