Friends keep us grounded, they bring us home, they remind us where we belong. For as long as they can remember, Poppy Morgan and Liam Payne laughed, squabbled, and acted like siblings. Growing up just across the street from one another, they had never spent more than three weeks apart before, until one day Liam is accepted as a contestant on The X-Factor. Suddenly, Poppy and Liam's friendship is forced to either conform to the pressures society has placed upon their backs, or have their treasured friendship dwindle into a distant memory.
Louis and Harry spent half their lives in eachothers orbit, first as bandmates, then as something more complicate.
They never dated, not officially, not in a way the world could ever see.
But everyone saw it. Everyone assumed. And those assumptions ruined everything.
For years they tried to laugh it off, ignore the rumours, pretend they were just friends. And for years they kept coming back to eachother anyway.