Two Roads ≫ l.s

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A/N: I feel as if this chapter is abnormally long idk it probably isn't but here u go

"Are you in there?" Kylie made a whiny complaint, turning to Louis and trying to edge him towards her tent. "There's already 4 people in that one."

"Which is why it's a 4 man tent..." Louis shifted his eyes, replying with an uncomfortable grin.

"Come on, I have loads of room in mine." She jerked her head towards the unzipped door, grabbing Louis' arm and trying to tug him towards it.

Louis dropped the gaze uncomfortably, his eyes darting back to 3 outraged-looking friends back in the tent where he belonged; one of which being myself, watching the whole thing happen from through a slight crack in our own tent door.

"I'm in this one, though..." Louis glanced over to us weakly. "All my stuff's in there, too." He threw in any excuse.

Kylie rolled her eyes. "Never mind the stuff! That'll take like, 2 seconds to shift."

"Look, Kylie, why can't you just leave Louis alone for once? I know it's such a lot to ask seeing as you can never keep off his back, but don't you think that it would be nice for him to make decisions without you? You know, out of his own accord?" Zayn suddenly lost his patience, snapping at the black dressed girl standing opposite him. She gave him a severely offended-sounding gasp, folding her slim arms before giving her hair an infamous toss over her shoulders.

"You hear this?" She sidled up to Louis, indicating at Zayn.

Louis narrowed his eyes, responding nearly equally as sharp. "Well, I do have ears."

Kylie, for probably the first time in her life, was silenced, staring open-mouthed at the boy who was now absent-mindedly picking at his nail, not daring to look up at her, as if he immediately regretted what he said as soon as he said it.

"Louis..." She sighed, trying to take his hand. "Why are you being like this?"

"Being like what?" He didn't attempt to take his hand away although he still wouldn't look at her.

"You know what." She hissed, before an unfamiliar glint flashed deep in her dark brown eyes, which unexpectedly made a dramatic flicker over to me, sending a chill straight through me.

"We were fine until he came along..." She took a deep red fingernail and stabbed it over in my direction.

My heart suddenly leapt up to my throat as I suddenly became overcome with extreme discomfort, feeling my face begin to burn up.

"What...?" Louis' voice suddenly quietened, staring over at me along with Zayn and Perrie with pretty much the same clueless expression. "Harry...?"

"Yeah. Him." She continued to address me in the 3rd person, as if I was regarded as more of an object than a person in her eyes.

"Don't dump this all on Harry!" Zayn suddenly butted in, his assertively truthful personality after 5 cans of Cider beginning to shine through again. "What's he done?"

"Maybe he can answer that...?" Kylie glared at me expectantly.

"Answer what?" I mumbled quietly, trying to conceal the shaking in my voice and pass it off as nervous laughter. My eyes avoided Kylie as much as I possibly could, and I flickered them straight over to Louis, my eyes crying out for help. I mean, I wasn't one to admit when I had done wrong, especially to someone I barely even knew, but I figured actually knowing what I had done wrong would probably be a step forward to apologizing for whatever it was.

Was it simply my existence that was enough to send her in a hair-toss in the other direction? Or was it just anyone who dared to even do so much as look towards her precious Louis without her permission? Maybe there was some kind of contract I forgot to sign with her before interacting with him.