MUTE

14. You didn't go for it

"What's wrong?" Louis questions as he approaches Jess, who is sitting by her locker with tears in her eyes.

She looks up to him while wiping her cheeks and he crouches down to face her. "Riley is dead," she says "Riley?" Louis questions confused. "Riley Floyd, the quarterback...my best friend...is dead," she explains with her voice cracking and Louis takes her in his arms, because he's a nice person and she's friends with Liam and Dani.

She buries her face in his chest and cries for a few more seconds.

Louis didn't know Riley, he didn't even know that they had a quarterback in college. He thinks they don't, because they're in art school....maybe Riley was on another campus and that's why Louis doesn't know him and anyway, aren't quarterbacks a High school thing?

"I've heard...poor Jess," Liam says as Louis approaches his friends "I just saw her, she was pretty broken up about it," he says getting everyone's attention "How did he die anyway?" Frank questions looking at Liam, considering he's the one that knows Jess best. "Ehm...he killed himself. No one knows why...that's why Jess is so broken up about it...she didn't know that he would do this," Liam explains and it leaves everyone speechless.

But Frank? He's thinking about something else, something really bad and Louis notices it. "Are you okay Frankie?" he questions and Frank snaps out of his thoughts shooting a look at everyone, before walking away without uttering a word. Leaving the other boys confuse.

Louis - being the good friend he is - goes after him and when Harry is about to walk after his boyfriend, Liam holds him back.

"Frank, what's wrong," Louis questions as he catches up with his friend. "I'm sorry... I'm being stupid," Frank says wiping his cheeks "You're not stupid...crying isn't stupid, it's okay," Louis informs "You don't even have to tell," he adds taking his friend into his arms.

Frank holds onto him and argues with himself if he should tell Louis or not.

"It's my dad," he starts, deciding that he should tell Louis, because he can trust him, "He committed suicide a few years back," he continues and Louis lets go of him, and sits down followed by Frank and he looks hurt, Frank can tell that.

"I was there when it happened...I went home early from school and I caught him pointing a gun at his head. When he saw me, he accidently pulled the trigger," Frank explains and Louis looks horrified. "I'm so sorry Frankie," he says "My mom found me on my knees staring at his corpse...she was the one who called the ambulance, because I was frozen and I didn't say a word for the next six months," Frank finishes before getting another hug from the taller boy.

"Everyone I love always leaves," Frank informs, his voice cracking. "I will never leave you...I'll always be there...I promise," Louis promises.

"Before you came, I was mute, because of something that happened a few years back. I only started talking again like a few months ago," Louis informs once Frank calmed down a little. "What happened?" the shorter of the two questions. "Nothing as traumatizing as what happened to you, but...Ehm...I was abused by my ex-boyfriend Andrew... it was mostly verbal, though, sometimes even physically...but what made me go mute was the sexual abuse. He only did it once, but that was when I decided it was enough." Louis explains.

"That's why you don't eat, right?" Frank questions out of nowhere, "Because of the verbal abuse?" he adds. It sounds more like a question rather than a statement and the only thing Louis does is nod.

"Did you find out why Zayn was acting so weird?" Niall questions as the three of them make their way to the cafeteria. "Nah...I don't really care...it's Zayn, he's just weird sometimes," Louis responds, before freezing on the spot when he sees Harry and Zayn arguing. Niall and Frank follow his gaze before doing a weird kind of walk-run when Harry punches Zayn in the face. "What's the fuck is going on," Frank questions as he stops Harry from hitting Zayn again. "That stupid son of a bitch slept with my boyfriend," Harry half-yell. "It's not my fault that you didn't go for it; he's your boyfriend after all," Zayn argues as he wipes the blood from his cut lip.

Niall has to help Frank hold Harry back, or else he's going to kill Zayn.

"He was raped, I didn't want to hurt him, you arrogant asshole," Harry says and that's when Louis turns up. Niall shoots him a shocked look because he didn't know anything about the rape.

"Louis tell him that you wanted it," Zayn says and everyone looks at Louis while he's fighting the urge to beat Zayn into a bloody pulp for telling Harry.

"I was drunk and you were the one after me wanting to fuck," he informs and he's not totally lying and that's good, isn't it?

Okay it's not good that he's blaming everything on Zayn, but you know, Zayn was the one who completely dismissed the deal they made.

Zayn is hurt and Louis knows that so he throws him an apologetic look without the others noticing and Zayn decides to follow Louis' lead, even if it means losing his friends and probably even his girlfriend. Because he knows he made a deal and he was the one to break it.

"Fine... I wanted to fuck and you agreed...sorry Harry," Zayn says before disappearing without another word and Frank lets go of Harry - followed by Niall.

"I'm sorry Harry...I should've told you," Louis informs and his friends look at him. "You were drunk, it's not your fault," Harry says wrapping his arm around the shorter of the two and Louis is relieved that Harry didn't break up with him.

He feels bad for Zayn though...he's definitely getting dumped by Perrie when she finds out.

Zayn doesn't really give a fuck if she does find out, he was never in love with her in the first place. He just started dating her to get rid of his feelings for Louis, which worked perfectly as you could see.

"That's not like Zayn...he would never take advantage from a drunk person especially not his best friend," Niall says as they sit on their signature table, not bothering about what just happened.

"I've known him for as long as I can remember and he would never do something like that," Louis says "But he did and the worst part is that he took advantage of you," is all that Harry says before eating his food.

"What about Italy? What are we gonna do then, with him in the same room?" Liam questions.

"I know you guys are mad at him and believe me...I'm mad too, but he's our best friend, we can't erase him from our lives because of that one mistake," Louis explains and he's right, because, come on, Louis agreed to sleep with him.

"Fine, he can stay in our room, but I'm don't want to have anything to do with him, because he knows how much you *looks at Louis* mean to me," Harry says and Liam looks up "You do know that Zayn is in love with him too, right?" he questions, nonchalantly motioning to the feathery-haired boy and Frank looks surprised, to say the least.

"So this is some kind of weird love-triangle?" Frank questions, trying to understand the situation "You could say that...but I'm in love with Louis and so is Zayn, but Louis is in love with me," Harry says "Right?" he adds shooting Louis a look. "Yea...definitely you," Louis responds nodding his head and he's telling the truth isn't he?

At least he thinks he is.

To be honest he's not sure.

He is in love with Harry, no questions asked, but he also feels something for Zayn. Emphazis on 'something' because he doesn't know what he's feeling for Zayn.

Let's just say he can't make up his mind.