the ballast of life // narry (slow updates) boyxboy

one

unedited ~

harrys pov

I inwardly cringed when the old, squeaky swing made a sound almost like a piercing shriek as I rocked back and fourth. My head snapped up to the thump I heard from infront of me. Niall was jumping on and off a metal slide that was too icy to go down, so instead he converted to jumping.

"What do ya think of the newbie?" Niall asked me as a brushed himself off.

"Ruby was it? Yeah, she's cool." I shrug my shoulders.

"Pretty sure it was Ruth." Niall called me out. He started to walk over to the dying grass, with areas of mud and ice compiled into it.

"Whatever, they both started with 'R'." I say. I've always had a problem in remembering names. I would only bother to remember if I was close to them.

Niall laughed quietly, "She's got the looks, yeah?"

I made a noise that was a mixture between a scoff and a laugh, "Yeah, if she weren't Zayn's cousin, you know what I'd be doing."

"You're sick." He shook his head.

I smirked and swayed back and fourth on the rusty swing I was seated on. It squeaked loudly everytime I would change directions. Much to my satisfaction, it irritated Niall a lot.

To him, I am like a brother, so it's fine to annoy each other sometimes. To me, it's a little different; he's like a brother, but I may or may not have the slightest feelings for him. Which was fucking stupid, because this town would burn me alive if the ever saw me look at Niall the wrong way. I hated having these small -but affective- feelings, because not only was it 'wrong', but because he obviously doesn't care for me like I do him.

The sky was getting darker and colder by the minute. I glanced up at the sky to see it sprawled with dark grey clouds. It looked like it was going to rain soon.

"Wanna play some footy?" Niall asked from the opposite end of the park. I took one last look at the sky before nodding my head.

"Yeah, did you bring a ball along?" I reply.

"It's in the back of my car, I'll go get it." With that, he hurried off down the icy path.

I waited for Niall to return. The harsh wind hit my face and I felt small droplets of water falling from the sky. I brought my hands up to my mouth, breathing and rubbing them togaether until I felt warm enough to get up. I heard the distant sound of a car door slamming.

My head snapped to the area I saw Niall heading off to. He was now running towards me, with a furrowed brow and soccer ball between his boots. A smile was plastered on my face as I got up and shouted for him to pass the ball, just as the rain started to pour.

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The music had been continuously pounding in my ears since the moment I stepped in this damned place. The lights were only the same three colours repeating and it was eventually going to drive me insane. There were way too many people and not enough rooms for their 'dirty deeds.' The smell of sex and smoke in the place was highly intoxicating, I wanted to get this party started straight away, excluding the fact that we're an hour late.

The oblivion in this house was so high it was funny, with the amounts of illagal substances and reckless crimes, I'm suprised no one's been arrested yet.

We were in the middle of a huge frat house party. Even though we weren't in college yet, we still knew a few people. Louis, Niall, Zayn, Liam and I were seated around on couches with a few other people. On my lap was perched a bleached blonde girl who I couldn't even properly remember her name.

"Kate, go get me another drink." I shook her off by nudging her with my knee. She turned around to glare at me. To say I was amused of her attempts to intimidate me would be an understatement.

But, before I could even register what was happening her hand forcefully made contact with my cheek. The sting was rising, but by now I was pretty used to it.

"It's Casey." She spat, flicking her ruined hair over her shoulder before walking away. Talk about anger management.

I looked around to see if anyone had seen my encounter with Kathy or whatever the fuck her name was. Relief washed through me when I noticed the only people who had seen were Louis and Niall, who were trying to hold back there laughs. I flipped them my finger and they couldn't hold it in anymore, the two of them burst into hysterics. Everyone in earshot had stopped there small conversations to study the two boys who where laughing as loud as the music, that must mean something.

I couldn't help myself but to join them with there little scene. Who could blame me? Niall's laugh was extremely infectious.

After a few more drinks and long hours, we were ready to head out.

"Haz, can I crash at yours tonight? The girlfriends mad at me." Zayn slurred as we made our way to the end of the street, where we would be catching a cab.

"Yeah, me too. Me mum would kill me if I woke her up at his time again." Niall said from behind me.

"Okay, but you have to be gone before Dan gets up." I say to them both. Last time, Louis and Niall stayed the night and he went physco. Still not sure why though, he's only my stepdad, he can't control who my friends are. My mum is completely fine with them, she's met all their parents before and thinks theres nothing wrong with them, so I don't get why Dan wont leave me alone about this

I look around, it's pitch black and everyone who is walking this busy street at this time are all wearing heavy clothing and the occasinal umbrella. The alcohol in my system is the only keeping me warm right now, Louis and Liam are singing some old song toghether infront of us that is entertaining us for now, they has a lot more to drink than I did, that says something.

I stumble a bit, but catch my balance again as Niall starts talking.

"Hate that fucker, he thinks that we're some little 'rebels' who are secretly out to get him." He says, referring to Dan.

"To be honest, I don't even know his problem." I chuckled.

For a group of drunk guys, we were doing awfully well just to stably walk down an icy street. No one would suspect a thing unless they were close enough to hear Niall and Louis giggles here an there.

We stopped at the end of the path and yellow cab pulled up infront of us. It took us ages in our state to all get in the car, and there was only four seats, so however we all fitted into the vehicle was a mystery to me.

Liam and Louis had already gotten out of the cab since there houses are closer to mine. Once we stopped, I payed for everyone, as I was the only person with money left. Niall, Zayn and I made our best attempt to be quiet as we opened the door, but it wasn't quiet enough. Because the voice I heard directly after was the one I had been dreading to hear all night.

"Harry? What a-"

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a/n

Guys omg have you heard fireproof? I'm actually screaming. The new album is being realesed on nov. 7 asjakdhluafhalfjab it's so perfect ahhhhh

And does anyone know the official track list? Bc yeah there's only unofficial ones and i dont know if they're true or not so yeah.

Anyway, sorry if this chapter was short, i dont really have an excuse i just wanted to upload a chapter before i go on holidays. I might not be able to post in a few weeks because of that so sorry. If i do post something it will probably be short.

One last thing,

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NIALLER

ILYSM

AHHHHHH

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-twerknxrry