Foolproof [ON HOLD]

Chapter 7- You let me complicate you

My head hurts thinking so much about Harry, Liam, Zayn and Harry. And about the fact that I may be beginning my slow descent into madness.

Liam had point blank refused to tell me anything further. He just kept saying he was sorry over and over again. Zayn had called him a million times during the whole time we were at the park and Liam didn’t answer any of his calls. I drove Liam home after making sure he was nowhere near another breakdown and somewhat normal- well, if normal involved red eyes and copious amounts of tears being held back. Zayn calls me soon after, asking if I had spoken with Liam after school.

What was I supposed to say?

“Nah, I didn’t. Why is everything all right?” I ask cautiously. There’s the sound of shuffling from the other end of line and a muffled ‘thud’ and Zayn cursing lowly.

“Yeah, I mean nothing’s wrong. Just that Liam isn’t picking up my calls now or replying to my texts. And I’m kinda worried,” he says sounding anxious and I am genuinely afraid of what was going happen if Zayn found out about Liam.

The near future doesn’t look peaceful at all.

“I’m sure he’s fine. Might have slept off,” I offer, praying that Zayn would agree.

“Yeah, maybe you’re right,” Zayn says after a beat and he doesn’t sound convinced at all but thankfully he doesn’t push it any further as he hangs up soon after.

My phone rings again and my eyes widen when I see its Liam.

“Zayn’s here! He’s throwing rocks at my window!” Liam screeches into the phone. I should have known Zayn would do something like this.

“Open up the window then!” I say and Liam just shrieks again before hanging up. Oh, I wasn’t supposed to say that.

 When Liam doesn’t pick up my call even after the fourth try, I grab my jacket and rush out of my room.

“Louis?” my mother calls out from the study. “I’ll be at Liam’s!” I say as I shut the door behind me, running towards Liam’s house which is a block away from mine.

“Louis!” Karen, Liam’s mom greets me warmly as she opens the door and  I hug for a second before making my way towards to the stairs.

I’m knocking frantically on Liam’s door in a few seconds when Zayn opens the door.

“Louis? What are you doing here?” he asks suspiciously and I glance at Liam who’s standing by the window, face pale.

“Um, I, um, came to check up on Liam?” I manage to splutter and Zayn narrows his eyes at me.

“There’s something going on between the two of you. What is it?”

“Zayn-” Liam starts to speak and then he’s looking at me with a defeated look in his eyes. “Lou, I gotta talk with Zayn. I’ll see you at school tomorrow, okay?”

Zayn looks thoroughly confused as he looks back and forth between me and Liam.

“Yeah, I’ll see you. Just hear him out, okay?” I tell to Zayn and it doesn’t make any sense to me because I don’t know myself what exactly Liam did. He never did tell me.

I just hope Zayn understands.

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I have no idea how I ended up writing this. I was thinking of giving Louis a break but apparently not. Oh, well.

Title from Closer by Nine Inch Nails

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