Maybe I Even Love You - Larry Stylingson

Chapter 14 - Dinner

*Louis' POV*

"What the FUCK?!" We both simultaneously pulled away from the passionate kiss we were having, to look at the fake blonde Irishman that had just screamed at us.

"Hey there, Niall. What do you need?" I asked innocently.

Niall just stood there with wide eyes, darting between me and Harry, "Uhhh, we... we're going for dinner now. You- you should come back to the villa to get ready."

"Oh right, sorry, lost track of time, we'll be right there, Nialler!" Harry replied and Niall practically ran away.

He turned to me, smirking, before we both erupted into full blown laughter.

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*Niall's POV*

I was walking back to the house, wondering whether I should tell the other lads what I saw, or if I should wait for Harry and Louis to tell. I'm not sure, but I know I always shipped it, but now I know it's actually real....

Wait, what have they been doing when we're not at their house?? Oh shit...

I shouldn't tell the other boys... I'll let Harry and Louis keep it a secret if they want, I'll actually be nice for once. I can do this, I can do this.

I realise that without thinking I'm already back at the villa, so I snap out of my thoughts and open the door, seeing the other two boys on the sofa, Liam in the corner with Zayn practically on top of him, cuddling.

Jesus, so are they both couples? Why am I the only straight one here?

I cough to get their attention, and Zayn springs to his feet, "Oh, um, hi Niall." He says.

I just give him a questioning look, and go to sit as far away from them as I can, but still on the sofa. "They're coming. You can keep cuddling, I don't mind, I had suspicions of Ziam anyway."

They both looked to me, shocked, but then I guess realised how obvious they were being, and Zayn sat next to Liam, resting his head on his shoulder.

I took out my phone and found the number to text if we wanted to speak to management.

Me:

Hey, is it alright if I tweet this:

Why is there nothing good on the telly? And can my mates hurry up so we can go get something to eat? I'm starving!!

Idiot management 🖕:

Yes, that should be fine, just don't answer to any comments, please. We will make sure there is a fake story out there saying you went to dinner with some of your other friends.

Me:

Thanks.

I rolled my eyes and went to twitter to tweet it, and it immediately got a response, people saying that they hadn't heard from any of us boys in a few days, some asking if I was alright, so I asked management if I could say that yes, I'm alright, but they said no, I couldn't respond to any comments. Bit weird, but whatever, I'm still going to have a nice holiday, even if it's restricted.

A few minutes after I had posted it and was going through the comments, not liking or replying to any of them, Louis and Harry came through the front door together.

"Hey guys, we going to get something to eat then?" Asked Louis.

"Yep, Kevin knows a good restaurant, let's go." He says, reaching for the remote and turning off the telly, and we all get up and find some appropriate shoes and sunglasses, as it's still sunny outside.

We all walk down the path together, me at the back, Liam and Zayn at the front of the group talking to each other, and Harry and Louis behind them, so close they could be physically connected and you wouldn't notice.

So, I poke my head through the middle of theirs, "Hey guys, whatcha talking about? I'm feeling left out at the back here."

They laughed and moved apart so I could walk in between them, Harry responding with, "What we were gonna have for dinner." Whilst looking directly at Louis, not me. Oh god.... at least my room isn't next to theirs.

This is going to be a fun holiday...

~.~

*Harry's POV*

After about ten minutes in the car, we pulled up to a nice looking restaurant that has a deck going over the beach. Kevin left to go and eat somewhere else, whilst we were taken to a booth inside, Liam and Zayn sat on the left, Niall at the back, and me and Louis on the right.

A waitress came over to take our drinks order and Niall very obviously thinks she's hot, and he tried flirting with her but was failing miserably, it was then I noticed a ring on her finger... oh no, Niall.

After she'd gone and we'd all ordered our drinks (Coke for me!) I looked over to Niall.

"Hey Niall..." I said smirking slightly, knowing he'd be embarrassed in a minute.

"Yea?" He asked, looking up from the menu to me.

"Did you see the ring on her finger?"

He went silent, and clearly didn't know what to do, his eyes were slightly wider than normal, he just trained his eyes back onto his menu and murmured a small "No."

I could hear Louis chuckling beside me so turned to the beautiful noise, any noise that Louis made was beautiful. Well, not any, maybe most. Yea, let's go with most.

I just gave him a small smile before looking down at my menu, pondering on what to get. In the end, I decided this chicken dish sounded nice.

Once we had all decided on what to get, we started talking about if we would use any ideas we get from being here in any future songs.

"Yeah, why not? It's a beautiful place and I want something to remind me of it forever. Yes we'll have pictures but it'd be nice to write a song or two about our experiences here." I explained to the boys, I said the last bit whilst looking at Louis, he knows what experiences I'm talking about.

"Yeah, I think that'd be nice." Agreed Liam.

We talked a little more about new songs and work, before we realised that we're here to get away from that, we should be having fun, talking about other things in our lives! But, we realised there isn't much else, but talked about families instead.

Everyone talked about their parents and siblings, and what they're all doing now, Louis was last before me, and he took a while, talking about each and every person individually.

Eventually when it came to me, I realised I hadn't really spoken to them in a while, and the last time I did, they weren't doing anything interesting. It was just mum telling me to go for it and tell Louis I love him.

"Well, I'm not sure what to say about Mum, Robin and Gemma, because nothing's really changed, not that I've heard of anyway. They're just doing what they always do, I guess." I say with a shrug, a little upset that if they are doing something interesting, they haven't told me. "Called mum the other day but didn't ask her what she was doing, it was an advice call. I wasn't doing too great."

I feel a small hand creep onto my leg, giving it a comforting squeeze, and then just staying there, resting on top of my thigh.

I look to my right to see Louis already looking at me, eyes calm and comforting.

"That's alright, Hazza." He said quietly, I guess hoping the other boys wouldn't hear. I'm not sure if they did or not, but if so, they all acted like they didn't.

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A while later our food arrived and we enjoyed it whilst talking about some random things.

After we'd finished, Liam texted Kevin to come pick us up, and after all, he had the money from Simon to pay for the bill, none of us brought any with us, let's just waste Simon's!

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Thanks for reading! Now onto the next...

-Dan