The Start of Something New

Chapter 11 - "7 is perfect!"

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Niall's P.O.V.

It was morning. The sun shone in my face and woke me up. It seemed to be a really warm morning, because my room was quite hot. I stood up and went to the bathroom. I closed the door behind me and took my clothes off. I took a shower. Not a short one. I had to think about many things. Mostly, I thought about Phie. How we held hands with each other. How she looked, when she was asleep. How she took my hand in her sleep. It was so real but so unreal at the same time. It was much too difficult between us, but I guessed, it would become even more difficult. When I finished showering, I quickly dried myself and put my clothes on. Then I went downstairs and saw the others sitting at the table, eating. "There are you at last. Morning!" I smiled sat down next to Phie. "Morning.", I replied. Today was the day, the other lads would leave. They stayed 3 nights at our house and it was really enough for now. Phie helped Lou and Harry. I helped Liam and Linda helped Zayn. 

Harry's P.O.V.

"Phie? Were are my socks?", "Which? The socks with the hearts on it?" Awkward! "I haven't socks with hearts on it!" Phie went out of the room. Sure, I had socks with hearts on it. They were a present of my grandma, I couldn't discard them. "Oh my gosh, Phie! Is that really necessary?", "Yes!", she grinned cheeky. I thought about, how could I revenge at her. I let all my clothes fall on the floor and began to tickle her. She hated it, when someone tickled her. "Hey! Stop it! Harry!", she yelled at me, while laughing. I tickled her a few minutes. When I stopped we both laid on the floor. We couldn't breath. "Are you guys ready?", Louis laughed, too. We went on in packing our cloths. While Phie and Louis packed some stuff from the bathroom, I heard a noise from another room. I thought, it was the room were Zayn slept the last days. And I was right. I went over to the room. The door was less opened. I saw Li and Zayn laying on the floor. They talked about something. They were so cute together. Zayn had his arms around her carefully. I listened to them. "Did you know, that we're like a real couple?", Zayn smiled at her gently. "Yes.. It feels good.", "How long shall we go on with kidding the others?", "I don't know. I mean. It's weird if we don't kiss as a couple. Either, we tell them, we're broken up or we tell them that we're kidding them." Did they really talked about their relationship? Were they really kidding us? I went on listening to them. "I don't know.. It's a weird situation. But I truly have feelings for you.", he gave her a kiss on her forehead. Since this, I knew, they were just kidding us. I coulnd't believe it, but I understood them, also. It was difficult for them. I meant, who would fess up after 2 weeks, that they had feelings for each other. Whatever. I went back to Lou and my room. "Where were you?", "I just searched my shirt." I decided not to tell them now, about what I heard. I wanted to tell it Lou, when we were alone. Maybe, that night, when we were at our flat. 

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It was already 10pm. We all were at our own flats. The last day passed fast. It was great. We had so much fun together. Now, I wanted to tell Lou, what I heard in the morning. We laid in our beds. "Boobear?", "Yes, Curly?", I couldn't help, but laugh. "What I wanted to say.. I.. Um.. I heard Li and Zayn talking to each other.", "And? They're a cute couple, aren't they?", "Yes.. couple..", "What?", "I heard them talking about kidding us. They aren't a couple. They're just kidding us, because we all thought, that they were a couple.", "Really? Oh my gosh.. But that's nuts!", "I know. But otherwise.. it's kinda cute, that they hide their feelings.", "Huh? They have feelings for each other?", "Yes!", "Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait! You mean.. They're just kidding us. For real, they aren't a couple. But they have feelings for each other? Why aren't they a couple for real?", "I think.. it's kinda awkward for them. They know each other only for 3 weeks.", "Maybe.." We talked a bit about their relation. But we fall quickly asleep. That day was to much exhausting.

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Zayn's P.O.V.

The next days were going to be boring. Yesterday, I left their house and lived now on my own, again. There was nothing to do. No interview or concerts. For the next evening, I hadn't any plans, yet. I could ask Li, whether she wanted to go on a picnic or something like that with me. But that would be a date. And we weren't a couple. Well. Not for real. But before she had other plans, I decided to ask her.