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Chapter 13

Songs of the chapter:

This love (will be your downfall) - Ellie Goulding

Dearest - Buddy Holly

Fall for you - secondhand serenade

The funeral - band of horses

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I walked into school with Niall. Ever since me and Louis haven't really been talking I've grown a lot closer to Niall. Hard times show true friends I guess. I drifted to my locker promising Niall to meet him by his locker. I felt a tap on my shoulder, I turned around to be greeted by Liam. I smiled, "Hey, Liam." He smiled back, "I've got newsssss!" He smiled from ear to ear, he seemed truly happy for the first time since the whole, El & Lou thing. He wiggled his eyebrows, "Spill it, Payne." I smiled.

"I met a boy," he went on. I raised my eyebrows, "Liam just ramble on about the lucky man and stop wasting my precious time." I laughed louder than I should have, gaining a few looks. "Okay so his name is Zayn Jawaard Malik. He has like a ton of older sisters, he likes art, and singing, and he has the most dreamy eyes, and jet black hair, and he wants tattoos. Lots of them." He sighed happily as he finished. I just laughed more as I said, "you sound like a 14 year old school girl." He slapped my arm playfully. Liam and I walked onwards towards Niall's locker before hearing our names called.

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Louis' pov

"What do you want?" Harry asked me, his voice flat with no emotion. I narrowed my eyes slightly. He never had been this good at hiding his emotions. "Want to hang out tonight or something? We haven't talked much the past couple of weeks an-" I was cut of by Harry and Liam scoffing. "What?" I was getting annoyed by the fact that they were hiding something from me. "What? Are you serious?" Harry was rising up in anger now. "You have been oblivious to mine & Liam's feelings, hanging out with that bitch, you call your girlfriend, and ignoring us. And all of a sudden you get the nerve to come up and ask us to hang out?" Harrys face turned red in anger and I felt myself retaliating back with just as much force.

"First of all, yes I am serious, second no I have not been oblivious, if I was oblivious I wouldn't be here, now, it would have taken me weeks to realize the fact that we haven't been talking, is this being oblivious?! And she is not a bitch, she's just a friend, there's no need to get jealous Harry." I regretted the words as soon as they slipped out. He looked at me his face full of shock and hurt. "If she isn't a bitch," he states slowly and calmly, "then ask her about the conversation we had two mornings ago." He sniffed, "She should remember it pretty clearly."

I looked over to El, her face turned bright pink. She looked at me with her eyes wide. I stomped up to her, people around us walking away after watching Harry & I's shouting match. "What did you say to him?" I whisper shouted. "Uh nothing." "Don't give me that shit El, it's pretty damn obvious you said something." She scratched the back of her neck, "I told him, basically that I was uh, sorta your girlfriend." She looked up to meet my eyes, "Dammit El, I'm gay! And you know that." I let out a couple tears of frustration. "And you fucking knew, dammit you knew I fucking liked him." I dropped down leaning ok a locker, tears basically pouring out of my eyes.

"I- I." El dropped down to look me in the eyes. "I'm sorry Lou." I looked up, "why?" Was all I could choke out.

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Eleanor grabbed me by my hand, pulling me up. She pushed me against the locker. She looked at me with stone cold eyes, there was still a bit of sadness in them but it was hard to tell, "where does he live?" "I don't know, he wouldn't be there anyways." I looked down. "Then where would he be?" I looked around, the bell had rung about 7 minutes ago and everyone had rushed to class. "Out in the field." I looked down. We sometimes would sit out there for lunch and whenever he was sad or really emotional or confused he would go out there to clear his head. I looked around and saw that El had left. I sighed and walked out of the building.

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***Harrys pov***

"There's no need to get jealous Harry." As soon as I heard that my tough facade dropped. It's not like I was good at hiding my emotions anyways. I tried to stay calm. "If she isn't a bitch," I stated, trying to stay calm, "then ask her about the conversation we had two mornings ago." I felt myself sniff, trying to keep the tears that would eventually slip in, "She should remember it pretty clearly." I walked through the crowd, and into the empty lunch room, at this point I was jogging, I didn't want anyone to ask or question me about the tears gathering in my eyes, threatening to slip. I was going through the indoor track, surrounding our gym then out to the field.

I was full on sprinting just to get out of this school. I finally reached it, the place I go to get rid of my anger, anxiety, any emotion that was stronger than me. I sat down on the stretch of green behind the school and the outdoor track.

I remember this place, last year I did track here, memories flooded into my mind, replacing the old with the new, filling my mind with happy thoughts, I remember always missing my meets, flirting with the boys who happily returned the gesture. I remember one in particular, it was one with me and a guy who was like a brother to me, we were playing duck duck goose, I ran to tag him and we ended up tripping, and I fell on top of him. I smiled at the thought. I was always happy with him, even when things weren't right, even when I was bullied by things I can't change, I was happy.

It was so simple.

I just wish it could be like that again.

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**IMPORTANT**

The next chapter will have a bit of El's pov and Harry's thoughts on what happened, and their fight. It basically just continues this chapter.

SO PLEASE DONT BE LIKE "HEY TELL US HIS THOUGHTS."

one more announcement//

I have also decided that this story would only have about 20-25 chapters. I figured it would be a good length bc this is my first story.

Anywhore what would you like to see in the story? Any thoughts? Fluff? Smut? I'm probably not going to go into depth if EVER even did smut but idk it might be an adventure.

ALSO I AM GOING TO WRITE ANOTHER BOOK! It's going to be more like dialogue if that makes sense. Idk ok bye.