Chapter Song: Secrets - OneRepublic
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Niall and Harry were becoming fast friends, that was evident over the course of Friday and the next week. Harry was rather forward about the fact that he fancied Niall, finding it amusing when a cheeky comment would make the pale boy flush vermilion in embarrassment. Niall got on pretty well with most of Harry's mates in the section as well, especially Louis. Being on the footie team together had also aided in the building of their friendship and they were often hanging around each other, laughing about some joke or calling obscenities down the halls at each other in passing.
None of this was going over too well with Josh of course. Though he didn't mind Louis so much, Niall had yet to ask him what he had against Harry Styles.
It had been like this since the Friday after the sort of date and Niall was pretty happy with how things seemed to be going. He and Natalie had even gone on a real date on Saturday, to the zoo a couple towns over. They had had a lovely time and then hung out a bit on Sunday, but then both of them had to work for the remainder of the day.
Right now Niall was sat in the back of Geography class with Louis beside him in 4th block, chattering away about something or other.
"So how was the date last Thursday?" Louis asks with a grin.
"So he told you then" Niall states looking to Louis now. Louis just shakes his head.
"Not exactly, I read his texts. Then I pestered him until he caved." Louis admits. Niall laughs at how Louis-like that was.
"Technically it wasn't a date" Niall says, marking something from the textbook down on his notepad.
"Don't tell Harry that!" Louis chuckles and Niall joins him.
"He's really quite forward" Niall admits. Louis nods.
"One of his many 'charming' qualities. Don't worry about it. He's a bit like a Warhead. He has that sour, asshole outer layer that no one particularly likes, but when you get past that, he's got a-"
"Sweet and delicious centre?" Niall asks with a wry smile.
"You tell me" Louis winks with a grin, causing Niall to realize exactly what he had said and how it had sounded. He blushes and rolls his eyes at Louis and his gutter-mind.
"No but really. He's not actually that bad" Louis reiterates after Niall's self-inflicted embarrassment subsides. Niall nods just as Eleanor comes up to their table.
"Hey Niall, Lou" she greets them. Niall responds with a like 'hey' and Louis gives a nod before ducking down to start his class work. Niall finds that odd but doesn't comment on it until after Eleanor leaves with his pencil sharpener that she was asking for in hand.
"Suddenly a diligent student? When did this happen?" Niall asks with a smirk in his voice. Louis chooses to ignore Niall until his next comment.
"So you fancy El, huh?" Louis glances up at him and then to Eleanor's desk at the front of the room where she was chatting with some other girls while working away.
"No, what makes you think that...?" He replies rather vaguely. Niall snorts.
"You're an even worse liar than Harry mate. And that's saying something..." Louis shoots Niall a glare which makes Niall laugh, drawing the teachers attention to the pair.
"Niall! Do you Louis need to sit on opposite ends of the classroom?" Mrs. Burles asks.
"No ma'am" Niall answers as Louis just rolls his eyes. Niall turns back to Louis now.
"How long have you fancied her?" Louis averts his eyes and clears his throat.
"Uh, since..." Louis mumbles the last bit and Niall doesn't quite catch it.
"Sorry?" Louis sighs.
"Year 7..." Niall's eyes widen.
"You're joking!" He exclaims a tad louder than he had meant to.
"Louis! Niall! Last warning!" Mrs. Burles snaps. Niall apologizes and once again turns back to Louis.
"You've fancied her since year 7?" Niall asks incredulously in a whisper. Louis nods sheepishly, looking towards the brunette in the front row once again.
"We have drama together" Niall is surprised and it must show, because when Louis looks at him he frowns.
"You're in drama?" Louis nods looking annoyed.
"Yeah, I like acting. Listen, if you're gonna mock me too, save it. My other mates already do enough for you too." Niall shakes his head.
"Nah, I won't mock you. I just didn't have you pegged as the drama type." Louis seems a bit relieved at that but just shrugs.
"Do you talk to her?" Louis shrugs a shoulder and scribbles an answer from his textbook down on the page.
"We were partnered for an improv assignment. We kinda have to talk to each other."
"Well are you going to ask her on a date?" Louis frowns, looking back up to Eleanor now.
"She's too smart to go on a date with a scrap like me, she'd never say yes" Niall raises his eyebrows.
"Really? Well she seems to know quite a bit about you for a scrap she'd never date." Louis' attention snaps to Niall now and he seems extremely interested.
"Oh yeah? Like what?" Niall shrugs.
"On my first day here when you stopped Josh and the rest of us on our way to lunch, afterwards Josh was warning me to stay away from you and your lot-"
"That fucking prick. Of course he was. This must really piss him off then" Louis interrupts, referring to their budding friendship. Niall glares at Louis for interrupting and Louis raises his hands in surrender.
"Sorry, sorry, won't happen again. Please, go on" Louis grins.
"As I was saying, he told me not to get involved with you and Eleanor jumped in saying that you really weren't all that bad. She said you flunked year 12 twice 'cause you just wanted to get high, but you were determined to graduate this year." Louis nods.
"So she said I'm not that bad, huh?" Niall snorts.
"Is that all you heard?" Louis grins.
"Of course not! I heard something about graduating and getting high too." Louis states, smirking. Niall rolls his eyes and the two of them go back to working on their textbook questions for a minute.
"So what exactly is the deal with you and Harold though?" Louis asks, not looking up.
"Honestly, I don't really know." Niall admits truthfully.
"Well do you fancy him?" Niall shrugs.
"Again, I don't really know. Maybe a little?" Niall can almost read the word bull shit newly emblazoned across Louis' forehead at that.
"Bull shit. The answer is simple Niall. Either you fancy him, or you don't." Niall sighs.
"Then yeah, I guess I do" he admits quietly. Louis grins and slaps him on the back. Hard. Niall winces and rubs his shoulder.
"Good for you mate. Now you can tell him that, so he'll stop texting me at all hours about you" Niall's eyes widen.
"He... what?" Louis exhales through his teeth, sweeping his fringe to the side where it had slipped into his eyes a bit.
"He texts me at bloody 3 in the morning whining about how he doesn't think you actually fancy him back but he doesn't want to stop harassing you. He also whines a lot about how your bird is the whole fucking problem" Niall stares at Louis like he's grown a second head for a moment before hunching down and scribbling away furiously on his notepad, unsure of what to think.
Louis stares at Niall like he's gone crazy as the lad begins mumbling quietly to himself in rapid Spanish as he scribbles away. Eventually he seems to come to some sort of a decision and sits back up with a final 'si' and finally notices Louis' look. He blushes bright red a instantly.
"Sorry, that wasn't English, was it?" Louis shakes his head.
"Do you do that a lot...?" Louis asks, still staring weirdly. Niall shrugs.
"Not entirely sure honestly. I kinda don't notice when I talk to myself in a different language. I think in Spanish sometimes..." Niall admits before shaking his head, almost as if to clear it.
"But that's not what I wanted to say! Listen, I need you to not tell Harry, okay? I'm planning on breaking it off with Natalie, uh, soon. Just don't tell him, alright " Louis narrows his eyes at him. Niall chews his lip. He had sort of lied about the breaking up with Natalie bit. He had all bit given up on ignoring his feelings for Harry, but he still really did like Nat and didn't want to hurt her. She really liked him, so if Niall broke it off with her and hurt her feelings or made her angry, he'd feel like an absolute prick. Plus, his friends would hate him for dumping her for someone else. Especially Harry Styles. No, she'd have to stop liking him him as a boyfriend before Niall ended it.
"And why not? This would make him stop annoying the fuck out of me"
"Well just remember, I know about your little crush on Eleanor now" Louis looks disbelieving.
"Are you really trying to blackmail me Horan?" Niall shrugs.
"No, just bargain. You don't tell anyone about my crush on Harry or breaking it off with Nat, and I don't tell anyone about your crush on El" Niall thinks Louis is about to go off on him or something, but instead a grin creeps onto Louis' face.
"A man after my own heart. Blackmailing your way to what you want" Niall grins right back and Louis sticks out his hand. Niall takes it and they shake on it.
"You've got yourself a deal"
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Sorry for that mini update there but at least there is one, huh?
I was SUPER unsure about this chapter so it kinda sat stagnant on my writing app for about a week.
Not to mention the fact that I've kinda become a tad obsessed with Orange Is The New Black and am almost finished season 2...
Guilty of binge-watching that show this week to aid in my procrastination...
Sorry...
The next chapter will be up soon because I've writen quite a bit of it already. Like before I had even published part 5... wow...
I've got a preposition for you guys.
Sometimes I procrastinate or have writers block and I have a book of Narry drabbles that I started a while ago.
If there are any scenarios that you want me to write our favourite couple in, like AU's like Omegaverse, college/uni, new dads, work collegues, or 'real life' scenarios like secret relationship on tour with the boys, them playing in the pool with Lux maybe, the boys setting them up or something, or even something that you want to see happen in the future of this fic, please send me some prompts.
I want to be writing some drabbles on the side so I'm not, not doing something Narry related, at all times. If that made sense.
Anyway, I would be SO grateful if you'd PM me some prompts or comment them this week.
Thank you lovelies!
-Sam xx
