Continued from last chapter…
By the time louis had finally snapped out of his daze, the front door swung open and in came his sister fizzy.
“Louis mate, what are you doing? Inspecting the walls?” Fizz said sarcastically. Only worsening his mood.
“Not in the mood right now fizz” Louis replies monotonously.
“Jeez who’s put a stick up your ass, oh wait, you’d probably like that wouldn’t you” she says with a smirk, winking at him so he knows she’s only joking.
He can’t help but crack a smile at that, even if it’s small. He really can rely on his siblings to cheer him up, no matter how down he is feeling.
“I think I would pass on that one, wouldn’t want splinters” he plays along with her little joke and she chuckles before taking out a pack of cigarettes.
“You look like you need a smoke, come on” with that she walked back out the door she just came from leaving Louis once again alone in the living room.
He quickly follows Fizz outside and closes the door behind him, she lights one up for herself then hands the lighter and pack to Louis, leaning against the brick wall lining their street.
He checks for no paparazzi before lighting up his own and inhaling the poisonous chemicals into his lungs without a second thought. The nicotine quickly spreads throughout his body, giving him a buzz he didn’t realise he needed.
He knew he shouldn’t be smoking with a long line of cancer related deaths in his family, but when you’re constantly followed by people and never have a second to be completely care free, it comes in handy to relieve the stress building up inside him.
After a moment fizzy speaks up again.
“So, what was that about in there?” She asks cautiously.
“Nothing, I’m probably just making a big deal out of nothing to be honest” he lies, Louis knows it’s a big deal, he has things with management to sort out in such short time and then there’s Harry to worry about. His stress levels are over the roof by this point and he didn’t need to deal with this while on his “break”. When will work ever end?
“Louis, I know you better than anyone and I can see when your stressed out about something. Maybe if you tell me I can help you out, or at least help you calm down about it” she says softly, it reminds him too much of his mother when she gets like this, she has the exact same caring nature as her and it brings back both good and bad memories.
With a heavy sigh he decides to tell her, what’s the worst she could say?
“I had a call from Simon today” is all he could come out with.
“Okay…and?” She pushes him to continue. “Is it another PR stunt again, is that what’s worrying you.
“No, nothing like that, it’s much bigger than that actually”
“Come on then spill, we haven’t got all day Lou” she says, not in an annoyed tone, more playful than anything.
“He wants a one direction reunion” he finally gets out the words, it feels quite good saying it actually, knowing he won’t be able to tell many people just yet.
“Oh wow that’s great, about tim-
“In a month” Louis quickly interrupts her, not wanting her to make it seem like the greatest thing to grace the earth.
Fizzy looks shocked, eyes bulging, mouth agape, Louis almost shut it for her until she spoke up again.
“A MONTH? Louis I- how can they expect you to be ready for this in a month, don’t u have plans for your own career or something, Simon can’t just spring this on you out of nowhere” she exclaimed, clearly irritated with the lack of planning going into this.
“It’s already been decided Fizz, all the lads have agreed and I know if I refused I’d have my head chopped off by Simon, I would just be letting down the band if I said no. There’s nothing I can do about it” he explained with a bored expression.
“But a month Lou? What are they thinking? How the f*ck is a month long enough to plan a whole damn reunion?”
“I don’t know, just calm down alright your giving me a headache, I’m worried about it as it is. They have it all planned out already, all I need to do is call management to sort out a few details and go with the flow I guess.”
Truthfully, he had no idea what was going to happen after his call with management, which was going to take place either today or tomorrow depending on if he felt up to it. He thought he might as well just get it over with though.
“Okay I’m sorry, your right, I didn’t mean to react so drastically but still I can’t believe they’re making you do this on such short notice. The other lads agreed then? Did h-
“Yes, all off the lads agreed” he cut her off, not wanting to hear his name.
“Look if you don’t want to talk about…that, then it’s fine but I’m here you know, we could even have a girly night and talk about boy drama” she tried to lighten the mood and it worked, yet again Louis cracked a smile at his sister.
“Thank you, it really means a lot, I’m just confused honestly, Simon mentioned that he has completely changed, and I quote “you’ve messed him up big time” is what he told me, I don’t understand how he agreed so easily if he was really that messed up by what went down between us, isn’t he supposed to hate my guts? I thought he never wanted to see me again?”
Fizzy pondered this for a while, clearly just as confused as Louis is.
“I’m honestly not sure, maybe this is him giving you a second chance, or maybe he just knew not to argue with Simon, could have gone either way” she finally said with a shrug of her shoulders, taking another drag from her cigarette.
“Yeah I guess your right, hopefully not the latter, I don’t want to be around him if he doesn’t want me there” he said sadly.
Fizzy pulled him into a soft hug, dropping her cigarette onto the floor, and spoke into his ear,
“It will all be fine big bro, don’t worry yourself, I’m sure Simons just talking a load of crap with the whole “messed up” sh*t to try and intimidate you”
“Yeah, I hope so”
Boy was she wrong.
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Incoming Group FaceTime call: Liam Payne, Niall Horan
Although Louis is very much still in contact with Liam and Niall he can’t for the life of him bring himself to answer the damn call.
It’s not like he hasn’t spoken to them in ages, with being on X factor with Liam and having a birthday FaceTime call with Niall, he just really doesn’t want to talk about anything reunion related until he can get his sh*t together and, come on, it’s obviously gonna be the topic of their next conversation.
As much as he doesn’t want to answer he realises he needs to get this chat over with and is also slightly interested on their thoughts about it.
He finally brings himself to answer the call on the third ring, they can be so insistent sometimes.
Louis is instantly greeted by a smiling Liam and Niall, waving enthusiastically.
“Tommo!” Niall shouts down the mic, not doing Louis any favours for his headache.
“Alright nialler, Liam” he replies with a grin.
“How you doing then, back in donny?” Liam asks.
“Yeh yeh, just visiting my family, been a good few months since I last saw them, what with being on tour n’ sh*t, been a bit hectic you know” he explains.
“Yeh I get what you mean, been the same for us, hey, why’d it take you so long to bloody answer? You can’t keep us waiting like that tommo, we thought u we’re ignoring us for a second” niall exclaims, pouting like a child that had been refused a cookie.
“Yeh” he laughed nervously “ignoring, haha, what a thought, how could I ever” Louis tried and fails miserably to cover up the fact that yes, he had in fact been ignoring them.
“You little sh*t, u we’re ignoring us weren’t you” Niall says.
“Why though” Liam adds on, looking confused. Louis would never intentionally ignore them, only if he was working or in the middle of recording, he was always one for chatting being the loud donny boy he is.
“You seriously don’t know? I would have thought you’d bring up the reunion by now lads”
“Yeh we were obviously going to talk to you about that of course but why don’t you want to talk about it? For one, I’m extremely excited about it, it’s about time Simon realised we needed this reunion” Liam said, still confused as ever.
Did they seriously not know why he’s not up for the reunion? After everything that went down between him and Harry he would expect them to realise his reason for not exactly being ecstatic about the news. Were they even there for the whole breakup ordeal or did he just imagine that?
“Have you heard from Harry?” Is all he replied with, not wanting to go into details about his worry of meeting him after all this time.
A look of realisation crossed both their faces and they simultaneously “oohed” and clicked their tongues, not knowing what to say or who should speak up first. They kind of just sat there and looked at one another.
Finally Liam spoke up, knowing the blue eyed Irish man over there wasn’t going to help this situation what’s so ever.
“Had a hunch that was your reasoning for lack of enthusiasm but I didn’t want to mention it in case, well, you know, anyway. I uh, I have spoken to him actually, was about a month back though so I’m not sure what his opinion is on the reunion” he awkwardly says.
“Yeh? And what did he say last time you spoke? Did he mention me?” Louis spoke quickly, having so many unanswered questions he was dying to ask, as he knew he couldn’t ask Simon.
“We mostly just talked about his tour, it had great success did u know that? Won best tour of the year for multiple outlets. Niall went to one of his shows I think” Liam questioned.
A bright smile graced Niall’s face at the mention of the concert.
“Yeh oh my god it was so good, his new songs are unreal, has such emotion in them, I didn’t realise he could write like that until after the split, the one direction split I mean… not-uh, never mind, it was great. Danced around the stage like a lunatic, I came out of it with a sore jaw from laughing so hard”
Niall was full on rambling by this point, but Louis didn’t miss his little slip up with the “split” thing, that hit him hard, in a way he thinks Niall did mean his and Harrys split and not the bands, otherwise he wouldn’t have gave it a second thought. He also realised if his songs were written more emotionally after the split, there was a good chance a song or two in his album were about him and their relationship, which he hadn’t listened to by the way.
He was dragged out of his thoughts by Liam once again speaking up.
“Wait, so your saying he seemed fine while on stage?” He questioned Niall.
“Yeah, why? Was he not supposed to be?”
“I- I’m not so sure actually, when I spoke to him he seemed a bit- I don’t know, off? Like, he wasn’t as bubbly and charismatic as usual. Had like zero emotion-
“Sh*t, Simon was telling the truth” Louis cut in abruptly, causing Liam to pause his explanation.
“What do you mean, what has Simon said?” Niall asked.
“Apparently I “messed him up” as Simon put it, said the exact same thing liam just did, the no emotion thing, apparently he agreed to the reunion with nothing more than an ok and then he hung up, I’m not sure, I thought he was just trying to intimidate me like Fizz said” Louis explained, with a worried face yet again, this call really wasn’t reassuring him like he had expected.
“Surely he’s just going through something, I’m sure it’s nothing to worry about, I mean if he’s fine on stage then what’s there to worry about, if it’s too much of a problem Lou just try avoid him until we have to perform” Niall said.
“Oh yeh sure Niall, I can just avoid a band mate who I will be constantly around and sharing a tour bus with, may as well just get an invisibility cloak while I’m at it eh nialler?”
He knows he shouldn’t be taking this out on Niall and he was only trying to help but this was seriously the worst day of his life, nothing seems to be reassuring him that this will all be ok. Everything so far has pointed in the direction of being a complete disaster.
“Didn’t think about that, sorry mate” Niall mumbled.
“No I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to take it out on you I just- what am I going to do, I f*cked up big time” Louis said sadly.
Liam finally cuts in again after silently watching the whole conversation.
“It can’t be that bad I’m sure of it, just get sh*t sorted with management and then you can relax until further notice, now go get some sleep you look like you need it” he instructs, and Louis can’t deny that order, it sound like the most perfect thing he’s heard all day.
“Alright see you lads, have a good one” Louis replies and with that he’s hung up the call and headed straight for bed.
Author notes:
I’m honestly not sure about this chapter, I know it’s been really boring so far but I promise you it will get more exciting when the first meeting happens which shouldn’t be too long of a wait.
I’m pretty sure my upload schedule will just be random, I will try to post as much as I can and when I find the time but I am still in school and have a lot of sh*t going on haha. However I do have a week off so I will try get as many chapters out as possible.
I’m honestly not sure how many people are actually reading down to this point but if your enjoying it please leave a comment and I will be sure to reply, love you all xxx
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