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Chapter 10

"How am I gonna tell Niall?" Harry frowned as he walked down the sidewalk with Louis and into the hotel, "he hates that Liam's doing it. It's gonna be awkward for me to just tell him he's gotta too."

"I know, baby. I know." Louis mumbled. They had gone up to Niall's room and let themselves inside with the key Niall had given them when he checked in. "But we'll be paying off bills with what they'll pay you." Louis gave Harry's arm a squeeze.

"Yeah. Just pay our school debt off." Harry mumbled.

"Ni, you okay?" Louis shouted through the suite, expecting Niall to poke himself out of the bathroom or bedroom at any second.

"Yeah, I'm fine. Just kind of bored." Niall replied. Harry and Louis followed his voice and let themselves into the room. Niall was sitting on a bean bag chair and he rolled his head back against it. "Think we could go do something? I never get to go out anymore. I haven't been on tour in a few weeks, I've just been stuck in here. We can go for a walk or something."

"I actually have a few patients at the clinic, so I can get Harry to go with you if you like. We needed to talk about something with him as well..." Louis smiled and Harry looked at Louis, off put. "Harry-"

"What do we need to talk about?" Niall asked.

"Yours and Liam's management noticed you were spending a lot of time with us or somethin. So they decided to give you a fake boyfriend, like Liam's fake girlfriend. They asked if one of us could do it and Harry's closer to your age so, yeah.."

"I don't wanna go through thiiiiis." Niall groaned. Harry frowned. It's not like they had to make out, jesus.

"I know you don't but you have to... You're pretty big there." Louis laughed weakly, "You can't just go out and not have anyone, they're gonna start suspecting Liam."

"I guess you're right." Niall nodded.

Harry stepped closer to Louis, his hair was pulled back into a bun and he had on a pair of skinnies with the knees ripped out. He had his wedding ring on a chain tucked into a half unbuttoned shirt. "Hey Ni." He smiled softly.

Niall stared at the both of them for a second, "Zayn set this up didn't he?"

"Yeah," Louis nodded with his reply, "He thought you'd need someone to hang out with and chill with and stuff."

"I'll have to thank him. Can one of you help me up?" Niall laughed and Harry grabbed his hands, helping him up. Harry was very sure to stay so careful of his seven month tummy.

"Ready for this?" A soft smile was toying at Harry's lips but worry was playing in his eyes. he didn't want this. He wasn't going to be able to go out in public with Louis without being called a cheating whore or something.

"Absolutely."

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Harry slipped his sunglasses down over his eyes and slid his arm around Niall's waist, just as he had with Louis so many times before. "You sure this isn't going to make things weird between Lou, Liam, and I?" Harry asked, his voice was barely over a whisper. He knew nothing would change between him and Loui, but he'd rather not lose a friend over something this stupid as well.

"I'm sure." Niall's hands were placed over his tummy. "Liam will understand the whole thing. I mean... He's doing it to me."
Harry glanced at where his hands were and sighed, he wanted that.

"Alright, I just don't want things to be weird."

A few girls stopped the pair smiling and looked from one to the other. "Can we have a picture please?" Niall nodded and smiled at the two. Harry glanced at Niall before he stuck his thumb up, gave a small grin, and he waited for each of the girls to take their photos. He missed Louis.