So Wrong, It's Right (Louis)

Chapter 6

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At lunchtime, I wasn't any bit calmer from the run in I had with Niall, and more so Liam, this morning. I didn't pay too much attention in any of my day's lessons because I was just too annoyed. I felt like everything was suddenly against me but that didn't mean that I was scared. 

I thought Liam was going to be at least a pinch pleased with the fact that I didn't wait around for Niall after his maths lesson like Zayn and I had pretty much every day. Maybe Liam wasn't as stupid as I sometimes thought he was but that also meant that he knew me better than to be resilient. 

I can see Liam right now and he's chatting away with Harry, who is doing that thing when he's uncertain  by rubbing his hand up and down the back of his neck. He's leaning on the one crutch under his arm as he's confiding in Liam, or something. 

Before all of this with Niall, Harry and I used to be best friends. I don't really know when that changed. I guess it was once the both of us got really serious about where we wanted to go into football. It didn't help that my dad was putting pressure on me to also be better than Harry. Our falling out was more of just a fading away, neither of us really caring much to put any effort in to make it last. 

Now, what I'm doing to Niall is definitely not going to make our friendship any better. I know that and act like I really don't car. It's because I don't. I'm purposefully doing my best to keep people away from my personal business. Harry doesn't ask any questions or talk to me at all unless it's football related and I need to work harder on pushing Liam far away from me, even though I do sometimes have this pull towards him. I still don't know why I do but I want to break that invisible connection. It's better that way. 

Beside me, Zayn, Blake, and a few of the other lads are having a laugh about something. I usually am very involved with them when we're messing around but this time I was too focused on trying to figure out what Harry and Liam were chatting off about. It wasn't a simple task due to Liam having his back facing me. 

"Louis," I glanced over to Zayn, who was now leaning into me and taking his line of sight over to Liam and Harry as well. "So, when does your plan go into action? Actually, what is your plan?"

"I've got it handled. I already told you that." There was no way that Zayn was allowed to ruin the plan that I had. It's not that I wanted the take down of Liam all to myself for my selfish reasons. I've just noticed this change in Zayn that I didn't need to bring up because I'm hoping he'll snap out of it. Plus, I could really see Zayn ruining this by wimping out or thinking that I was insane. I know that he wanted to get Liam to leave me alone. I've mentioned to Zayn when Liam annoyed me sometimes. 

"How am I supposed to help you out if I don't even know what's going on with you? You can't leave me out of this." He told me, keeping his voice low so the others didn't notice that we weren't listening to them. Also, I didn't need more people tryign to figure out what I was doing. 

When Liam nodded to Harry, turning to walk away, I felt as Zayn brushed me as he stood up beside me. I couldn't help but to look up at Zayn and see his leg step over the table's bench. I could see his eyes narrowing in on Liam. I felt liek I had to stop him from whatever the hell he was thinking about doing, but I couldn't make it seem like I was doing anythign to defend Liam. 

"Zayn," I hissed out to him in a warning tone. "What are you gonna do?" My eyes looked away from him as Liam passed by our table, his eyes meeting our group when Josh called out to him.  

Liam sent him a smile and a wave, his eyes never meeting mine as he told Josh that he had somewhere to be. My guess was that Liam was off to go play hero to Niall again. At least, he wasn't trying to be mine right now.