Issues Inc. | AU

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Harry's P.O.V
The drive to work with Riley was more exciting than I expected it to be, I mean she was crying all night. She came over two hours after she went home with Louis, Riley stayed all last night and didn't get any sleep.

She stayed up until 3:00 am, I couldn't let her stay up alone so I stayed up with her. It was tiring, all we did was watch American Horror Story from the first season to the third season.
I knew it would keep her awake all of the gore and the monsters, it scared her all to much.

But she liked being scared.

That's the thing I don't understand about Riley, another thing is how she acts all crazy at home but at work its another girl more like a sophisticated woman.

Riley's the person that comes to me and that I go to when I have problems and she's always there, I'd die if I lost her. I never want that.

"Haz...Whats wrong?" I snapped out of my thoughts and looked at her. I blankly stared for a couple of second before confirming everything was alright.

But everything wasn't alright, not right now or ever really.
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Zayn's P.O.V
My eyes slightly closed causing the rest of my body to shut down. I dropped all of the artwork onto the elevator floor, jolting to action my hands picked up the medium and large sized pieces.

The only good thing that was coming to me today was seeing Ryan, all I needed was a few minutes just to be around her bright personality. It always got me up to work harder, she was the inspiration for all of this.

Every picture that I did last night was of her, if not an actual picture it was in her liking.

I couldn't control myself, she was the only person that made me feel like this.
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Liam's P.O.V
I grabbed the papers from my mailbox, most of it was junk but there was one from Harry. It was a report, and it had a lot of numbers, low numbers. I gathered up the sales and everything in my computer, and they weren't good.

I went through all the files and printed them out putting them in each individual folders. I never thought it would come to this.
But as someone once said 'if this is to end in fire, we should all burn together' and that's exactly what's happening.
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I rushed over to Louis and handed him the information paper, we could either fix the numbers or it would fall. I really hope this works, if I can't fix this Louis can.

I walked back to the office and Sophia stood by my door giving me completed magazine templates from Riley. "Is this all of it?" She nodded.

"Riley's been having an off morning, she might have the rest but give her time Liam this always happens she's got to get all together. Your job is to keep Louis all together, talk more about this problem you have tonight. I can see something's wrong love, Calm yourself and talk at home okay?" I nodded and walked back in going back to type on the computer to different studios just in case this doesn't work.

'Your job is to keep Louis all together' repeated over and over in my head.

I don't know if I can. If anyone can really.
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Louis' P.O.V
Liam slammed a large stack of papers on my desk an hour ago, I still haven't looked at it.
My head is working right, nothing feels right today. It's like everyone's having an off day, or it's just me.

"Here are the other completed templates, I forgot to give to you this morning Mr.Tomlinson, I'm sorry I gave only half to Liam." I looked up expecting to see Ryan.

I felt my heart split in half when I saw Riley looking down at me, she had never called me Mr.Tomlinson unless she was on her period or just on a really tight schedule. It felt like she didn't want any kind of relationship with me other than a business coworker.

"It's fine Riles, uhm..I mean Ms.Farrell." she gave me this serious look, her eyes were dead and her facial expression non existent. I took the papers from her hands after searching for some kind of intimacy left in her eyes.

There was none.

She left the room slowly, almost as if she didn't want to leave. I at least expected a hug or a kiss, it was normal for Riley to do that when she left my office. But not now.

I really screwed up this time. I'm fucked.
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Niall's P.O.V
I didn't have much to do but watch, just watch how she flew from one side of the room to the other. It was excruciating pain knowing what I saw last night, I had to apologize for walking in suddenly on her like that. It wasn't my place and she obviously didn't need help.

"Riley." She turned around twice trying to untangle herself from the measuring tape and pins. It was cute seeing her like this, she worked so hard and it's paying off while I'm an assistant.

"Uhm..im sorry that me Ryan walked in on you like that last night it was really late and I didn't mean-"
She cut me off.

"What do you mean, I didn't see you guys last night?" I gave her a look and looked around for Ryan.

"Weren't you home last night with Louis, you were but you were sleeping."

"I left Louis at home at 6:00 yesterday, I never went to sleep I was at Harry's all last night." my lips went into a straight line, I thought for a minute.

"Does Louis have a silver Hyundai?"
She shook her head slowly. I put everything together and it was Eleanor in the bed and that was Eleanor's car. That's why Louis was acting weird and why Riley didn't wake up. It was Eleanor!

"What...Niall?" I shook my head not wanting to bother her and throw her off task right now.
She nodded and went back to work. I had to tell her but it's going to hurt us both.
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Ryan's P.O.V
I took about a million pictures today. It was so tiring, plus the Zayn thing I don't even want to thing about. I went to lunch and bumped into Zayn, I kinda shielded myself and hid in the corner.

"Hey, I'm so sorry I couldn't make it last night, I had so many plans and ugh, I'm here now so you want to reschedule that date?" I scoffed and looked down.

"Zayn," I started off, "I'm not going to be a player in your fame okay I don't help people cheat on their girlfriends and, I don't wanna be once of those people who are the ones causing a breakup. So thank you but no thank you I'm not being that kind of girl." he looked dumbfounded as I walked out with my lunch to my office.

It felt like a weight from last night was lifted, it felt nice.

Way better than last night.
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Riley's P.O.V
I went up to Harry's office grabbing my bag, he sat there with his glasses at the tip of his nose, his dress shirt sleeves rolled up, his tie undone laying on the desk.

He ran his fingers through his hair, slightly frustrated, I smiled and opened my bag grabbing my phone. I walked back over to the chair sitting in front of his desk, the plastic container banged slightly on the desk as I sat his lunch in front of him.

"Thanks, love are you alright to go back home."
I nodded hugging him tightly. Harry had done the best thing I've ever thought a man could do for me. Not even Louis would stay up till morning watch American Horror Story.

I hope Louis gets his mind straight so he could actually do that for me.

I just hope.
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- Rain