Stronger

Chapter 8

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The crowd erupted into screams and my all but familiar epiphany was lost in the uninviting sounds.

My head was hurting.

Not necessarily from the over enthused audience, which, if I were to be fair, should have been the source, but moreover the fact that I had feelings for a guy.  Louis to be exact.

Although I'm still quite surprised, I cant shake this small voice in the back of my head telling me that this was all to be expected.

After the crowd had died down, I noticed Paige staring at me from the corner of my eye.  Turning to lock eyes, I lifted an eyebrow and waited for her to speak.

"What?" I asked after she refused to respond.

"It's um, I, nothing," her words fumbled out.

"Are you okay?" I replied, my eyes flicking to Niall so she would understand what I meant. 

She looked to Niall as well, her eye's brimming with tears as he chased after the ball.

"I'm not sure," she began, "I just, what if he doesn't want it?  Like what if he leaves? What if I don't want it? What if-"

"Paige don't," I bit back, cutting her off, "Niall loves you, I see it when he looks at you, I've never seen so much passion in the littlest gestures and it drives me insane.  You asked what was wrong with me earlier yeah?  Well, I'm jealous of you.  You have an undying love and someone that will cross multiple oceans to make you happy and I fucking envy you."

My words shook something in her.  Something that has seemed to always have been there; just wallowing beneath all her insecurities and doubt.

"Harry I-"

"No Paige," I started again, "I don't want to hear about how he might do this or how he might do that, from what you guys have shown me, and from what I see when he looks at you, I know that he will never leave you."

"but Harry-"

"Paige I'm serious, if you can't see that he loves you more than-"

"Harry stop," she interrupted with a smile on her face, "I just wanted to say thank you."

"Oh," is all I said while slumping back into my seat.

"Haha, it's fine, I was kind of ranting weren't I?"

"Maybe a little," I said with a small laugh.

"I just didn't know you felt that way, I can always hook you up with one of my friends, or if you don't like girls I could, oh my-I-I'm sorry, " she blushed before trying to hide her face within her jacket.

"It's fine Paige, really."

"Okay good," she said, exhaling loudly.

"Are you guys done?" Zayn's voice rang from around Paige, "Because the game is over."

I looked around us to see that everyone was getting up and the players were no longer on the field.

"Wow why am I so oblivious," I whispered to myself.