Just Another Stunt

40- Tom

"I just don't get it. He gets a girlfriend, then kisses you?" Niall questioned.

Harry had rushed out of Louis' kitchen after the kiss, telling Niall he'd completely forgot about his date tonight and they needed to be going. Niall wasn't entirely sure what was going on, but played along anyways until he got Harry home and he'd told Niall everything that had happened in the kitchen.

"I don't understand either," Harry huffed.

"Maybe he's crazy. You shouldn't date crazy people Harry."

"He's your best friend Niall. And we aren't dating, we never dated," Harry corrected.

Niall rolled his eyes, looking down at the curly lad that had his head laid in his lap.

"Have you been writing?" Niall questioned, nodding at the brown journal laid on the glass-top table in front of the sectional.

"Yes. But not in that," Harry stood to grab the journal, disappearing into his hall to presumably put the journal away in his bedroom.

"What? You got secrets in there?" Niall questioned once Harry reappeared in the living room.

"Maybe. Hey, you hungry?" Harry asked, knowing it would change the subject.

The journal held nothing Niall didn't already know, but it all seemed more personal when it was wrote down somewhere, somewhere no one was supposed to read, where it was simply Harry talking to himself.

~~

"I can't tell if you're dick or stupid. Both?" Zayn ticked his tongue in a questioning manner, sitting further back in the sofa.

"Okay okay I get it, I'm stupid and a dick. That doesn't help me here," Louis sighed.

Once everyone had left Zayn kept staring at him like he knew something, so Louis had to tell him. In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea, but he had no one else to talk to.

"Just answer me one thing here. Why? Why the girlfriend? Why kiss him? Just why?"

Louis took in a deep breath like he was about to confess the biggest secret the world held. And to him, maybe he was.

"To convince him I didn't like him I guess. Make him move on. If nothing else, convince myself I could actually be with someone else. That didn't have to have him."

"Mhm mhm and how's that working out for you bud?"

"Shit" Louis huffed.

"Okay so let's go with what you're saying. Let's say you're trying convince Harry you don't want him, why would you kiss him?"

"Because I obviously can't convince myself that I don't want him, that I don't need him."

"So you like him, you know that now. He likes you, you obviously know that. Why not go get him? Tell him everything you just told me. It's easier now than ever to be together when the whole world already thinks you are."

"Because I can't!" Louis practically yelled.

"Why?"

"I don't want to talk anymore," Louis huffed walking out of the living room up stairs to him room.

~~

•ONE WEEK LATER•

LouLou🌎💙: hey Haz, you coming tonight?

Was he going tonight? He had no clue.

To: LouLou🌎💙: Yeah ofc!

Okay so apparently he was going.