Liam's POV:
After hanging up on Louis, I grabbed my keys and went as fast as I could to his apartment. He sounded awful, I just had to see him and find out what was going on. I ran up the stairs of Louis' new building and knocked on the door
"Come in" someone cried from inside and I opened the door slowly
"Hey Lou" I said and he signaled me to come closer. Grabbing my shirt's neck he looked into my eyes and said
"I screwed up bad, mate, I screwed up"
"Why? What did you do?"
He let me go and started running his hands trough his hair desperately, mumbling something I couldn't quite catch.
"What?" I frowned "Keep yourself together, woman!" I shrieked and slapped him in the face
"Thanks" he looked to the ground "I needed that"
"What happened?" I said and crouched to the ground
"I…." He looked to one side "I slept with Marissa again" He swallowed
"What!" I yelled "Are you kidding!"
"Wish I was" he shrugged
"Why?"
"I…." he looked down
"Louis" I said and placed my hands on his shoulders "Trust me"
"Weak moment, that's all" He lied
"Terrible liar" I sat down "Spit it"
"Things aren't well with Eleanor" He said, I sensed he was telling the truth
"That's it?"
He shook his head "Apart from the fact that I was terribly drunk there's something else…But you have to swear on your own grave that you will never, ever, speak about this, and you won't tell anyone, neither think about it, nor judge me for it" He said nervously poking my chest
"I swear" I placed one hand on my heart and raised the other
"Liam I'm serious…You say something and I swear to God that our friendship is fucking over"
"I swear, Louis, trust me, I won't say a thing"
"I…." He hesitated "I think I have a crush on Emma" He said quickly
"YOU WHAT?" I widened my eyes and leaned backwards
"Don't make me say it again" He clutched his head between his hands, leaving a little space for his eyes so he could see and screamed loudly.
"W-when? Since when?"
"The day she picked me up in the airport" He said horrified "I don't know Liam, I don't know why I just have it, I can't…Ugh" He threw himself to the ground, face down and mumbled to the floor "I hate myself"
"But…Eleanor?"
"She's cheating on me" He shrieked, his voice muffled by the floor.
"Are you sure?"
He proceeded to take his phone out his pocket without taking his face off the ground and shoved it to me. A picture appeared on the screen where two people sat, eating each other up. As I looked closer, I distinguished Eleanor's face being sucked by some guy I didn't know.
"Her cousin sent it to me saying "Sorry, this is unfair to you and thought you should know"" He sat up and rubbed his face
"Are you ok man?" I said and patted his back
"Yeah, I saw it coming" He shrugged
"What are you going to do?"
"Well, I was thinking about ignoring Marissa like I have been doing for four months." He got up and sat on the bed "And about the Emma thing, I figured I should hang myself"
"Don't be ridiculous"
"You've seen how jealous Harry is, and of course I'm not going to do anything about it Liam, but I can't help being flirty and all hyper around her" He sighed
"I know, it's hard when that happens"
"You tell me" He let himself fall on his bed and covered his face with a pillow
"Help me mate, help me, what can I do?"
"Nothing" I shrugged "I'm sorry lad, they're official now, Harry's like your brother, she's off limits"
"I know that" He took off the pillow and rolled his eyes "But what can I do to get over her? I don't want to look for anyone else, I'm already about to break up with Eleanor"
"Just wait, dude, just wait, you'll grow out of it" I smiled and he looked out the window, he was right, he screwed up indeed.
Emma's POV:
I woke up alone in my bed not sure what the heck had happened last night. The last thin I remembered was telling Niall that Harry and I were official and Harry leading me to the dance floor. After that, puff, pitch black; I swore I wouldn't drink ever again after Riley's party but I sure forgot about that promise soon enough.
Wait a second.
Harry did it, Harry asked me to be his girlfriend.
I'm Harry's girlfriend.
I'm Harry Styles' official girlfriend
Oh shit, I'm going to be over the internet.
And magazines, magazines too.
More importantly, he's my boyfriend.
The guy I love
Finally, he did it.
I'm Harry's girlfriend.
I turned up my IPod and Rihanna blasted trough the speakers as I danced around my apartment.
I'm his girlfriend, oh my god.
I was probably freaking out, but I didn't care, I was too happy about it.
I went to the kitchen and as the music changed to Cobra Starship while I twirled around and buttered some toast to the rhythm of the music.
My house phone started ringing and I pressed the pause button in the wall in front of me. Oh yeah, I have speakers all around my apartment that have many control buttons all over the place, my flat rocks.
"Hellooo?" I sung
"Look who's up!" Niall's accent pierced trough the phone. If I wasn't with Harry I would totally hook up with him. After Italian, Irish was my second favorite accent in the world. I know Italian is a language, I mean the way they enunciate every word. Oof, I loved it.
"Hmm" I smiled
"Well, aren't you happy?" He laughed "Got a little something last night?"
"Honestly, I don't remember. I think not, I woke up alone" I giggled "Doesn't matter, had the best night of my life last night"
"You sure did Mrs. Styles" He joked and I blushed
"Oh, speak for yourself Niall, you and little Miss Red Hair" I teased
"Oh, nothing more than making out I assure you, I'm not that kind of guy" How cute is he?
"I'm proud of you" I said "So what's the thing behind this conversation?"
"Oh, we're going to have lunch at my place, Nando's takeout. We were hoping you would come" He said
"I'd love to" I smiled
"2 o' clock, don't come late or you'll eat nothing" He said and hung up.
I could get used to this.
Niall treated me like I was his little sister, and we've only seen each other like five times tops. He was the clueless cutie everyone wants as their best friend.
I had them all figured out in only six days of seeing them all. Except for Harry and Zayn, of course, I had my share of seeing them.
Liam was like their dad, all responsible and bossy, but so caring and loving.
Niall, as I said before, was clueless and he was the goofiest of the five.
Zayn was the quietest one. Not that he was quiet, but next to Harry and Louis, oh dear god he did not speak. Next to Louis and Harry we all seem quiet. But he was the typical popular guy who knew he was absolutely hot.
Louis. Oh, what to say about Louis? He is absolutely crazy, a whack-o and even though he's the oldest, he looks like the youngest of the band. He's also the one who is more loveable. Like Niall, he treats you like you've known each other for life.
And Harry, the absolute flirt. He always gets what he wants, but he is a jealous freak, let me tell you. Well, you've read it already, my bad.
They were there when nobody was. Everyone was out for the holidays and there Harry and Zayn stood with me. Not that I complain about everyone else, they have their all freedom to go wherever they want, but I'll always remember them both staying with me so I wouldn't spend Christmas alone.
Harry's POV:
"Hello everybody!" I said as I walked trough Niall's main door
As usual, Niall was munching on some chips even though we were going to eat in less than ten minutes. Louis was sitting in the couch by Liam and Zayn trying to decide whether to watch Mean Girls or A Night at the Museum. Both excellent movies, they'll stay there for hours.
"Hi" they all said in unison and the door bell rang once again. I quickly opened the door and greeted my girlfriend with a huge smile plastered all over my face.
Yes, my girlfriend. Emma's my girlfriend now. Did I mention she is my girlfriend? Oh yes, she's my girlfriend.
"Hi sweetie" I said and kissed her on the cheek
"Hello" She smiled back and looked over my shoulder
Niall muttered something with his mouth full to which she nodded and smiled awkwardly to. He swallowed and repeated "It's nice to see you" He laughed
"Oh, nice to see you too" She laughed along
"Hey Emma" Liam and Zayn said behind the couch.
Louis turned around, took a glimpse at Emma and darted to the hallway, disappearing behind the glass door. Liam rolled his eyes and followed him
What the fuck?
They both reappeared from behind the gate, Liam pushing Louis and placing him in the middle of the living room.
"What's wrong?" Niall asked
"Nothing" Louis muttered "Hi Emma" he waved and looked concerned to Liam who gave him a weird glance and Louis moved awkwardly
"Okay…?" I said and raised an eye brow
"It's nothing" He gave a weak fake laugh "Still hungover"
I nodded assuming Louis' weird spree had begun. Every month he has a Screaming Spree, a Weird Spree and a Naked Spree, that's just Louis.
"Let's eat" Niall clapped, still holding his bag of chips and pointed to the table all set up.
Trough-out the whole meal, Louis didn't say a single thing, which was actually driving me crazy, and I could feel that it drove everyone crazy too. We were so used to him doing weird stuff, screaming and yelling random things at the table that his quietness didn't seem normal at all.
"Louis, could you tell us what the fuck is wrong with you?" Zayn said loudly, interrupting the silence and placing his fists on top of the table
"Nothing" He muttered and glanced at Liam
"You can trust us" Emma said and placed her hand on his arm. He shoved it off quickly and stared at her, almost scared.
"I…I'm j-j-just" He stuttered "I have to go" He announced getting up "Everything was delicious, buh-bye" He waved and ran trough the door.
"Why is he acting so strange?" Niall asked Liam
"Don't look at me, he's the one acting all weird" He leaned back and snaked out of his chair, taking his plate to the sink. "If you excuse me a second, I'll go check on something" He said and ran towards the door to where Louis had disappeared moments before.
He knew something and didn't want to tell us.