Running Out Of Time - Completed.

Chapter 18

EPILOGUE

Louis's POV

Six months ago, I had a heart attack. A heart attack at 24 is nothing to joke about. You see when Harry's heart stopped, mine did too. Fans like to think it was because we're soul mates. We're only half without the other. Half a heart. All I know is when Harry died, I wanted to die too. My heart wouldn't beat without him.

I recovered but it left me with a weak heart. So now I have restrictions on my diet and how much I do. Heart disease sadly runs in my family and because it was my first attack, there was a big chance I would have another and not so mild this time.

The boys didn't seem too surprised with my plan, oh yes, we are still together. We're still recording and performing, I just had to be careful how much running around I did. The boys kept a watch. A close watch which creeped me out.

I informed them I was leaving. I couldn't pretend things were the same. I was fucked mentally and physically. Things would never be the same again. As I said, they weren't surprised. We had all been through so much this past year that they were ready to call it quits as well. There was one problem. One huge problem - we were still contracted. A binding fucking piece of paper that owned our arse. Unless I was on my death bed, there was no way of getting out of it.

We had a world tour coming up and it was going to be hell for me. I couldn't jump and run around up and down the ramps for an hour. But apparently, I didn't have a good enough excuse not to do it. Especially as my vocals were not affected. And then there was Harry, so with Liam, Zayn and Niall, One Direction was broken, and it wouldn't work. The boys assured me they were ready to leave, and I wasn't forcing them into anything.

So, we came up with a plan. It wasn't foolproof though. There was still a chance we could get sued and lose everything. But after weeks of secret meetings with the boys, the band, lawyers and the top guns in the music industry. We decided it was worth the risk. We'd all had enough of being bossed around and afraid to fucking breathe around management.

If we were gonna pull this off, we needed backing from those in the industry who knew what went on and were willing to help. I think we were all surprised with how much love and support there was for us and our situation.

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There were always nerves before the first show on a new tour. However, something big was going down tonight and it was going to blow up social media, if not the internet. And guaranteed to be trending worldwide for days if not weeks. Which was exactly what 1D had to happen if everything was going to work out.

When management first announced there was going to be a world tour, even with Louis's bad health, the band, musicians, and crew threatened a walkout if they didn't decrease the size of the tour. Eventually, they got it down to 50 cities, which was half the amount they normally played to on a world tour. 50 cities were chosen around Europe, the USA and Asia. The first concert was in the Philippine Arena in the Philippines to a sold-out crowd of 55,000.

As the boys stood in their positions, ready to go out and face the crowd that was chanting 1D, they turned and looked into each other's faces and grinned. Louis reached his hand out to Harry and mouthed. "I love you." Harry replied with, "I love you more."

No one could hear anything apart from the crowds chanting and screaming that was getting louder every minute they were made to wait. Harry used his two fingers and pointed to his eyes, then back to Louis. Louis nodded his head. Yes, Harry was going to be watching Louis like a hawk.