Continued from last chapter.
After the harsh insult from Harry, Louis decided to ignore him for the rest of the night as best he can.
It really did hurt. He already has to live with the guilt of the pain he put Harry through that day so many years ago, the memory still as clear as day to him.
But now he has Harry bashing him for it at every chance he gets, making snarky comments every two minutes and using the waitress as a toy to gain jealousy. What happened to not objectifying women?
The man sat across from him right now is not his Harry. His Harry is kind and compassionate, treating people with kindness all day every day no matter who the person may be. His Harry doesn’t smoke, or drink and doesn’t purposely try to disrupt an event, in this case the meal.
No this Harry is different, and it’s all his fault. If only he hadn’t listened to Simon and management, they could have been happy.
“So, Harry, become quite the sensation since the break I believe” James says, breaking Louis’ train of thought.
Harry shrugged before replying.
“I guess so, what can I say? They love the music. Had a lot to get off my chest while writing, a lot of the bad sh*t came in handy” His little dig there was obviously directed to Louis.
“I see, I really liked sweet creature by the way, beautiful song” James said with a knowing smirk.
Louis was confused, seeming as he hadn’t listened to Harrys album he had no idea what song James was referring to and was pretty useless in this conversation.
Harry gripped his knife and fork tighter at that comment, pausing mid bite of his food.
“Did you now” is all he said, not thanking the man for the compliment.
Weirdly, Harry glances up at Louis, for the first time without a glare or cocky smirk, he looked worried, scared almost. But why? Is all that Louis could think. Louis just sends him and James a confused glance at which Harry seems to relax, like he’s come to a realisation.
Louis looks towards the other lads to see they had all stopped eating and we’re now sending knowing looks towards one another. This just confuses Louis further. What is going on?
“Yes, however I have to know, who’s the song about Harry?” James dares to ask.
In a second Harry has thrown his knife and fork back onto his plate and stands abruptly from the table, he turns and walks away towards the bathroom but not without sending a deathly glare towards James. The look even sent shivers down Louis spine so he can only imagine how James is feeling.
“Okay what the f*ck was that about” Louis exclaimed, having a feeling that everyone at the table knew something he didn’t.
“Louis, have you listened to any of Harrys solo material?” Niall questioned.
“Course I haven’t, how could I after everything that happened?” He replies, earning an exasperated sigh from him in return.
“Look we don’t know for sure but we think one or two of his songs were written about you Lou” Liam carefully says.
Louis was stunned into silence. Just-what? Harry’s written songs about him? He thought he didn’t want anything to do with him yet there he goes, writing songs about him? This makes no sense.
“Great, I’m guessing he took a tip from Taylor and wrote a break up song then, can’t wait to listen to that face to face on tour” he says dramatically.
“No Lou, you don’t understand, they were love songs, like I don’t know, saying he missed what you had” Liam explained.
Okay what the f*ck? Well, this just keeps getting better and better.
“Even his fans could tell the song was written about you, however I wanted to be sure as he would never tell me under normal circumstances, so I wanted to see his reaction in front of you, I mean he’s a good actor but not good enough to hide his feelings in front of you-
“Seems like a pretty damn good actor to me, one minute he’s a total pr*ck and the next he’s apparently wrote me love songs” Louis cut James off, still in shock.
“It’s pretty obvious this whole bad ass act is just to mask his hurt Louis, I don’t blame him either” Zayn said.
“Either way his reaction just then proved my point, he’s definitely still got some feelings in there” James confirmed, digging back into his meal just as Harry returned from the bathroom.
“You quite finished then?” Harry asked James as he sat down.
“Was only a question Harold no need to get so defensive” James replies, causing Harry to huff and ignore his comment.
“So, are we actually going to discuss what we came here for or am I wasting my time on chit chat?” Harry asked, directing it more towards Simon than the lads.
“Oh, Yeh your right, got too caught up in this obvious tension but never mind, we can discuss it now” Simon sassily replies, not taking any of Harrys bullsh*t.
“Get on with it then” is all he said in return.
“Right then. As you all know the first proper reveal to the fans will be on James’ carpool karaoke, which we will start filming in about a week ish, that is if everything is sorted with his crew and our own. You all know how the carpool goes so I doubt I need to explain that, unless you have any questions of the matter?”
Simon looked at each of them expectantly until nobody spoke up.
“Good, glad to know you lot don’t have amnesia” he sarcastically said, gaining a few eye rolls from the lads.
“After this we will be filming a Tour promo video which should be ready on time to release to the public about three days later-
“What are we doing for the video?” Harry rudely cut in.
“If you let me speak I would explain it Harold” Simon replied, making Harry scoff and sip his jack and coke.
“The video will probably consist of a few old throwback videos of you guys with a voice recording over layering it, we will have Ben helping us produce the video and direct it so if you have any questions on that before the shoot is suggest you give him a ring.” Everyone nodded their heads in understanding.
“Once the promo video is out tickets will go on sale two weeks later, that way we have time for you to do interviews on talk shows such as Allan Carr, jimmy fallon, Jonathan Ross and of course James” with that James cheekily winked at the lads and they all returned him a chuckle, with the exception of Harry who just sat there unaffected.
“Once tour has started your set to begin with the uk leg, followed by Europe and ending with America. In total you should be doing anywhere between 80 to 130 shows but I’d have to double check that one. As this is the made in the A.M tour you will of course be singing the songs from that album but we’ve decided it would be best if you also took turns in singing your own solo material, give it a bit of variety seeming as this has to be your biggest tour yet to make a statement comeback. How you chose to perform your solo material is entirely up to you, wether you want to have the boys back you up or completely sing it on your own is fine as long as you let each other know your plans before hand” Simon explained.
Well, this is new, Louis thought to himself. They don’t normally get this much freedom during tour, so to be able to make their own decisions for once is incredible.
“Can we pick which of our own songs we would like to sing?” Zayn asked.
“Yes, like I said, that part is entirely up to you” he replied, making the boys sigh with relief.
“Choreography and run throughs should be the same as always-
“Please no dancing, I don’t think I could last” Louis quickly exclaimed, god he hated dancing, by the look on Zayn’s face he could see he agreed.
“You’ll have no luck with that one having Payno and Haz on stage with you” Niall said, looking quite amused.
“You two dance now?” Louis asked, shocked to say the least.
“It’s called stage presence Louis, ever heard of it? Don’t exactly want to bore the crowd now do you?” Harry smugly replies.
Louis didn’t answer him, he simply rolled his eyes and decided to not ask the d*ck anymore questions for the night.
“Don’t start again” Liam warned, thinking Harry had finally quit it with the snarky comments, clearly he was wrong.
“Whatever” is all Harry said back with a huff.
“If your both quite done could I finish telling you what the f*ck is going to happen or are you going to continue squabbling like five year olds all night?” Simon said, clearly not happy with the bands behaviour tonight.
When everyone was silent he continued.
“With a reunion you obviously have to bring out another album, otherwise what’s the point? So in between tour and interviews I want you all noting down lyrics and song ideas that we can then put together to start making your album once you get off tour, your schedules will be too hectic to try record anything in the hotel rooms like you had previously done with the last album so we think it’s best to hold it off for a bit until everything has calmed down. Other than that, that should be everything you need to know so far, if you need anything or have any questions let management know as they’re the ones with all the answers, if anything comes up they will contact you to let you know. For now just do what you please until we start filming the carpool” Simon finally finished off.
Jesus that was a lot of information at once, Louis didn’t know how he would keep up with it all.
Harry then abruptly stood up, his chair making a screeching noice against the expensive flooring.
“Thank f*ck that’s over, I’ll be heading off then” Harry said causing yet again another scene in the incredibly busy restaurant.
He grabbed his cigarette pack and phone before throwing $1000 onto the table like it was nothing.
“This should cover the cost of my meal, have a nice night ladies”
And with that he was out the door into the now dark streets of California, ready to be whisked off to the hotel in his matte black Bentley.
Everyone at the table just sat there in silence for a moment to try process what had just happened, until James spoke up.
“Good luck dealing with that on tour” is all he said before he said a quick goodnight to everyone and left the table just like Harry had done a few minutes ago.
“What is his problem? like he has seriously changed” Niall questioned.
“We know what his problem is, the real question is how do we solve it” Liam answered nonchalantly.
Louis shrunk further into his seat at that, once again swallowed up by guilt. His band mates shouldn’t have to deal with this when it was his doing. He pitied them really.
Louis only hoped Harry would come to his senses quick, or this tour is without a doubt going to be a nightmare.
Author notes:
I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Again there was conflict and tension mainly thanks to Harry and I tried writing it as best as I could.
I will try get the next chapter out as soon as possible for you guys as I’m actually really enjoying writing this, even if I don’t get many reads or comments I love putting chapters out.
Please do feel free to comment your opinions and constructive criticism is always welcome 🙂
Q: So far what do you think of Harrys behaviour?
Love you all xxx
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