Hearts Devoured • LT&ZM

12 || In Her Shoes

"Like both of them? At the same time!?" Dani exclaimed an hour later after she arrived in her honeymoon cottage when I texted.

Truthfully it took me a long time before I was able to formulate the correct sentences without sounding like an idiot. Dani had to tell me to just spit it out and there it went. I told her about being trapped in between two men who were basically proposing a rather strange relationship. As we sat on the bed facing each other, you'd think we were having a sleepover and all we were talking about was our high school crushes. "Yes, literally," I answered, slightly out of breath. "I mean, can you believe they'd come up with something like that?"

Was their plan a crazy idea? Absolutely. Was it disgusting? Far from it. In fact, the more I thought about it, the more curious I felt. "I mean, how will that even work out? I can't just choose them both! No one does that. That's crazy, right? I mean, isn't that illegal?" It was definitely, morally questionable.

All of a sudden, Dani's flabbergasted face turned serious. She looked so deep in thought as she rested her chin on her knees. "Give them what they want."

"Huh?" I asked. I knew we were each other's enablers, but didn't they draw a line somewhere? Did they?

"Do it," Dani repeated, more firmly this time. Then, the light returned in her eyes, her brows wiggling up and down at me. "Come with us. Be with us. Join us! And be with them!" She giggled. "It's a pretty amazing set-up. I mean sure, I thought of it first (the you joining us part), but I'll let that loud-mouthed Louis take the credit this time."

For the record, Dani looked insane as she talked on and on about our future together with the boys. I didn't know what to feel about it, her sudden acceptance of what supposedly was a questionable idea confusing the hell out of me. Well, she had always been a little rebel, Dani was. Still, both of them liked to believe they still chose to do the right thing when the situation called for it. "Dani, what the hell... Is this reverse psychology or something?"

Dani laughed, started shaking me by the shoulders. "I'm serious, I swear! Like FUCK I'm so serious about it, I'm a bit pissed that I have to forgive the boys for pulling one on me earlier."

"Pulling one on you?"

"It doesn't matter!" she yelled. "All I know is, you should totally do this!"

"Dani," I started. "What has Harry done to you-"

"I KIDNAPPED HARRY STYLES!" Dani screamed at the top of her lungs and suddenly shoved her face down a pillow.

I frowned. "Is this the whole 'she stole my heart' thing Harry mentioned? Because fuck that's cheesy-"

"No, Jewel!" Dani said anxiously, grabbing my hands as she shook her head furiously. "I kidnapped him. I LITERALLY BROKE THE LAW AND ABDUCTED HIM! FOR DAYS!"

My mouth hung open. How could she possibly-

"Remember when Harry sent a mass message to his friends and family that he needed time off?"

"Yeah, I-"

"That was ME!" Dani shouted. "I kidnapped him. Kept him locked in my room for nearly a month. ME! I'm basically an outlaw! A CRIMINAL!"

I stared at her. "Is this your new fanfiction plot?"

"Oh why don't you write it, Jewel-OF COURSE IT'S REAL!"

I covered my ears for the hundredth time as she screamed. I gaped at her when I realized she wasn't retracting anything. She wasn't laughing. She wasn't giving me that knowing look we shared. She was serious. If anything, she was hyperventilating. "Dani..."