It had been one week since the boys played Truth or Drink and Harry officially "forgave" Louis and to be honest, Harry hadn't felt that happy in a long time. The boys met up almost every day to get food, hang out or talk about the album. They all agreed that if they made a new album it had to be as transparent and raw as possible, they didn't want to create another chart topper, they couldn't care less for numbers whatsoever, they wanted to create something that was 100% them.
It was almost creepy how easy it had been for Harry and Louis to fall back into their old habits of being best friends and partners in crime. Harry was sure that he would have abs in no time from laughing about Louis' stupid jokes and pranks that he pulled on poor Liam. Harry hadn't realized how much he had missed all of it, not just Louis but the band, the other boys, everything really. He felt like he had a purpose again and he loved it.
Today was officially the first day back in the studio and Harry was buzzing, but not only him, he could see from Niall's giddy face that he was just as excited as he was and the other three looked thrilled as well. They all brought their little notebooks and word documents full of ideas and were ready to get back into it.
"Boys, pleasure having you back in here", beamed Julian their songwriter, "it's been ages, Jesus Christ, you lot got even more handsome, that's not fair to the rest of us."
Harry and the other boys broke out into laughter and hugged Julian.
"We missed you as well man", said a happy Louis.
"Alright, let's get straight into it and talk music, what direction, haha pun intended, are we thinking?" asked Julian and looked at them expectantly.
"We all gathered some ideas, it'll be hard to like find a common ground since we all branched out a little bit musically but uhm yeah I guess we could settle for like Indie Rock, if that works for Liam and Zayn as well?" explained Harry slowly and looked over at his two friends. He knew that they didn't share the passion for Indie Rock that him, Louis and Niall had but they probably still preferred it over the bubblegum pop that the band was doing back in the day.
"Do we have to stick to one genre though? I mean if Zayn and Liam want to do some RnB and HipHop tracks they should be able to do that. That's why there were tensions in the band the last time, because we didn't get to do what we wanted and I wouldn't want them to go through that again", said a concerned looking Louis and Harry's heart melted some more. He knew that he had always been gone for Louis but today was even worse than usual. He looked at him and his heart did that little backflip thingy every time he touched his feathery brown hair or his blue eyes sparkled, for fucks sake why would anyone be this beautiful?
"Works for me, what are you thinking boys?" said Julian and Niall, Liam and Zayn were nodding, Harry was too caught up staring at Louis and his beautiful tanned skin to even realize that he had been addressed directly.
"Harry, stop staring at Louis and concentrate", said a smug looking Zayn and Harry's cheeks heated up. Great, he felt like he was 16 years old with a massive crush all over again.
At least he saw that Louis was furiously blushing as well, which made it at least a little bit less embarrassing for him.
They were one hour into writing and Harry knew that this would be way harder than he had expected. It wasn't as prominent when they just hung out that they hadn't seen each other in ages but when it came to writing it couldn't have been more obvious. They really weren't the boys Harry used to know anymore, which wasn't necessarily a bad thing. Zayn and Liam had gotten better at speaking up and expressing their opinion whereas Louis had stopped overdoing that exact thing. Niall probably had improved most when it came to songwriting, Harry never know how talented he was when it came to writing and lyrics and it was sad thinking about how his talent was wasted almost completely during the One Direction days.
They obviously had to rethink everything they knew about writing within a group and adapt to how they felt and how they had grown but he was certain that if they did, they could create something magical.
"I wrote something a while ago, if you don't mind I would like to play it for you, if you don't like it nevermind, I just yeah, wanted to share it really", said a blushing Louis and Harry could practically feel how tense he was.
Louis started playing and Harry knew that he was fucked.
Oh, I can't believe I gave into the pressure
When they said a love like this would never last
So I cut you off 'cause I didn't know no better
Now I realise
Yeah, I realise
We were too young
To know we had everythin'
Too young
I wish I could've seen it all along
I'm sorry that I hurt you, darling
Harry couldn't control his tears anymore by the time the second chorus came around and he felt the others not only stare at Louis but stare at him as well. When Louis was done playing, he looked Harry directly in the eyes.
"I wrote that for you."
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The press conference
FanfictionCOMPLETED Harry is still mad at everything and everyone and just wants to forget about the time he spent in One Direction and the day everything fell apart. But a phone call 5 years later pushes him right back into his old life. Will the band be abl...
