Little Louder Now (Harry Styles/One direction fanfic)

Chapter 37: Goods to back up the swagger

Chapter 37:  Goods to back up the swagger

*Harry's POV*

"Tell you... tell you..." I was grasping at straws here.  I had nothing and Ollie was staring at me with her big green eyes expectantly.  Even though every single person in this room knew about mine and her's sex life, I wasn't about to explain that we didn't have sex in front of everybody.  That needed to be a private conversation.

At this moment, Zayn decided to walk into the kitchen and went to the fridge.  He looked exhausted and out of sorts.  Zayn grabbed a beer, popped the top, took a sip, and leaned against the counter top.  He noticed the awkward silence and looked around at everyone.  "What'd I miss?" he asked, his usually smooth voice gruff.

Louis butt in and said "Haz was just about to tell Ollie that he is going to shave his head." 

My eyes bugged out at his ridiculous statement.  Once again, Louis tried to save the day and failed miserably.  He looked so damn proud of himself though and all I wanted to do was face palm.  That or slap my best friend stupid.  Since that wasn't an option, I went with plan A and slapped my forehead.  Shit, that hurt.

Olivia walked over to me and inspected my head.  She ran her thin fingers through my fringe, looked at the back of my head, and then lifted up my curls to see my ears.

"No offense Harry but I don't think it'd suit you.  You have small ears and a weird shaped head.   If you cut off all your hair, it wouldn't look right.  Besides, girls everywhere would have a small coronary at the idea that they couldn't run their hands through your curls.  You're famous for them," Liv told me truthfully.

"My ears are not small!" I protested, but I knew she was right.  When I was little, Gemma had always teased me about my ears.  It was one of the reasons I grew out my hair in the first place.  That and the popularity of Justin Beiber's hair.  I never got that hair style down like Liam, but it turned out I had something better.  I had the power of the curls to get the girls now.  That and the dimples.  It was a winning combination that worked even better than what Justin had in my opinion.

Holland and Charlie now stepped up to check out my ears.  They were both lifting up my hair to see.  I swatted their hands away defensively but they had already had gotten a good look.  I glanced over at Zayn and Niall, giving them a pleading look.  Giving Louis a look to help me out of this situation was completely pointless.  He enjoyed watching me squirm and was currently thrilled with himself.  Lou had already tossed me to the wolves.

"Err, that wasn't actually what Harry was going to tell you Ollie," Niall said, picking up on my uncomfortable state.  This caused the girls who were currently gossiping about my lumpy head and undersized ears to go quiet.

"What was he really going to say then?" Charlie asked with curiosity.

"He was going to say that he and Liv are going out together tonight," Zayn interrupted.  "Nowhere fancy, just the local pub so no reason to go and get changed.  Nice and simple.  Harry just wants to take you somewhere you can get to know each other better," Zayn told LLN.  

I shot my mate a look of thanks.  Zayn was a god in disguise.  This was a perfect idea.  Maybe I could steer tonight's topic of discussion towards what happened between the two of us last night.

"Exactly," I said with a sigh of relief.

"Why tell me instead of ask me to go with you?" Ollie asked, playing with the hem of her shirt.

I took a step towards my girlfriend, who was watching me uncertainly.  "Because this way, if I tell you you're going with me, you can't turn me down," I told her, flashing her a lop sided smile.