Secrets to Keep (One Direction Hybrid FanFic, Larry Stylinson)

Chapter Three

I ran into the woods, trying to avoid trees and brush. I finally reached a clearing, scratched up and bleeding from all the thorn bushes I ran through, just to see four teenagers sitting around drinking.

"Bloody hell! We thought you were the police!" A drunk blonde haired boy exclaimed, his Irish accent ringing in my ears. He was the same boy with Louis in front of the cafe. 

"Niall, shut up, for all we know he could be the police." A boy with brown hair and brown eyes squinted at me. He hadn't had any alcohol, I could tell. "But he looks awfully young. How old are you? 16? 17?"

I stared at him. "Seventeen."

He nodded, and glanced at his drunk friends. The blonde, Niall, had passed out in the few seconds of me and the brown haired lad's conversation. "My names Liam, that ones Niall, the black haired one is Zayn--" He gave a tiny wave. "And uh, thats Louis."

Louis.

"Huh?" Louis, who had been laughing at Niall (Who was making weird faces and muttering random sentences), snapped his attention to me and Liam. 

"Harry?"

At that split second, I realized my beanie was in my hands. I raised my hand up onto my head, panicking, but sighed in relief as my ears had been flattened the entire time.

"That's me."

"Good to see you again, mate." Louis got up, and patted me on the shoulder as if we were old friends.

"Uh.." I started, but Niall snorted loudly.

"WHERE DID YOU PUT THE BANANAS?" He shouted, his face turning purple.

Louis, Liam, and Zayn ignored him, and he started frantically searching under rocks and leaves for missing bananas. The three lads and I talked for a long time, and after awhile, Niall joined us. They talked about the Highschool, complained about the Highschool, and a bunch of other things.

"Shouldn't you be in school?" I asked.

"Shouldn't you?" Zayn countered. Louis spoke up. "He's home-schooled."

A bunch of "Ohh"s rippled through the four of them. 

"But I'm not anymore." I said, looking down at the piece of grass I was twirling in between my fingers.

"What?" Louis said loudly, an emotion in his eyes that I didn't quite understand.

"My only family, my mother-- well, she wasn't really-- er, she.." I stuttered out the words, looked at the ground. "She's dead. I have nowhere to go now. And I don't have any family to rely on."

The boys mouths were open wide, all signs of their drinking totally gone. After a few minutes, Liam finally spoke up. 

"Why don't you stay with us? My parents just helped my buy my own flat that me and the boys could stay in. We have an extra room and everything! Come on, it'll be great!" 

I was shocked at the offer. "Really? You would do that? You only just met me."

"Yeah, I mean, Louis hasn't stopped talking about you since Saturday." Zayn said, receiving a slap from Louis. I smiled weakly, giving them all a huge hug. 

"Thank you so much. Wait, we've got to tell the officers and Mark about the plans. What time is it?" 

Niall checked his watch. "Two-turdy." (A/N: SORRY I HAD TO AHAHAH XD) he said, causing the boys to chuckle. He frowned and crossed his arms. 

"Okay, we'll take our time to get over there. That way it won't seem like we were skipping class." Liam said, shaking his head. "How did you three manage to drag me out here?" He didn't wait for an answer, just shook his head again and started walking. I glanced at Louis and he just shrugged.