Sorry for leaving you guys on a cliffhanger.
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Harry's POV
I feel like all the air in my lungs has taken away from me making me feel light-headed.
I refuse to believe this is reality, this must be one of my dreams.
I hear the loud noises from the arena echoing through the place but now all the sounds feel filtered like they can't affect me. It feels like I'm far far away from this place right now while I look into his eyes. All the stress and discomfort from earlier leaving my body, almost like he is sucking the negative energy away from me.
I don't know how long it's been that I'm standing there unable to move, talk or function in any way. I'm still looking into his beautifully structured face like it's the first time I'm seeing it. He finally pulls away from my touch.
Oh! I haven't even realized I have been holding him the whole time.
Holding him? Oh my god. I feel like my insides are going to burst out from the things I'm feeling.
This is not the best time to have one of my 'Louis freak outs' I remind myself.
How does he look so good all the time, having this effect on me?
We have a fair amount of distance between us but not as close as it's before. Which helped me to finally find my voice.
"Umm hi," I say smiling widely at him, probably looking like a total idiot.
I see his lips turn upwards "You already said that" he remarks.
Oh, What a way to look like an idiot.
And Of course! I totally forgot about him being a sassy fucker.
"Uh yeah," I say letting out a nervous laugh. My hand goes up to my hair, then to scratch the back of my neck trying to think of a way to make our encounter less awkward.
But he giggles. He fucking giggles at my nervous state.
I think I never saw anything more adorable in my life. The way his eyes crinkle when he laughs makes my knees feel week.
Then it hits me. He doesn't know the real me, Harry. He only knows Marcel. So calling him by his name wouldn't be the best. So I decide on asking his name would be appropriate.
"What's your name?" I ask can't able to hide my goofy smile off my face.
He looks taken aback "Louis" he answers simply. I was about to open my mouth to reply I hear the security guards making their way here.
Shit. The show is probably about to start.
"Mr. Styles you need to go back to the backstage," the long build bodyguard says and the other trying to escort me. "Gotta go" my face falls as I mumble.
The bodyguards start to take me backstage. I look behind and see Louis is still standing looking at the scene in front of him. Before I pass the corner, I realize it would be rude not to introduce myself too. "I'm Harry by the way" I yell back.
Right after I do that I mentally facepalm myself for saying that. He definitely thinks I'm a total idiot now, even If he didn't before.
The guards escort me to the changing rooms and I see we have about 15 minutes before the show starts. I change into my stage clothes which weren't really different from my usual wear.
I've just put on a black t-shirt, black jeans and to top it off I've put on my green bandana which I found in my car this morning.
I found Liam sitting in the same position when I've felt but now he had a guitar in his arms, slowly strumming the strings. His head snapped up. "Where were you? There is not much time left"
"I was walking around then my mum called we talked and um yeah" I replied. I didnt wanted to add the part where I stumbled on Louis and almost lost my shit.
"Well then let's go, mate, we have a show to perform!" Liam said while getting up from his seat and putting the guitar down.
We started walking to the stage, the stage was currently dark and they were doing the final touches before we go on stage. I found my earpiece putting them on quickly and grabbed my microphone.
I felt the nervous feeling in my stomach. It was normal, I always felt nervous or more like excited before I got on stage. But today there was something else and I knew exactly why.
The blue-eyed boy was one of the thousands of fans here waiting for me to go on stage. He was going to be here all night listening to me, his eyes fixed on me. I felt my stomach make jumps at the thought of that. I sighed nervously.
I felt Liam putting his arm on my shoulders, squizzing me to his side. "We are going to do great, don't worry H," he said reassuringly.
I closed my eyes trying to calm myself, the image of Louis when we bumped into each other popped in my head, And the slime on his beautiful face.
Before I knew it I was smiling uncontrollably.
Liam was only going to be there when we performed our new single. No one had heard it yet, we had written it months ago and now it was time to reveal the song to the world.
The stage was ready the band was taking their places behind their instruments and it was my time to step in. The intro music has started to play.
I stepped on the stage, fastly walking to the front while I heard the crowd cheer. My eyes glanced around the whole arena. There were thousands of fans holding up flags, signs or lights and they were screaming to show their support.
I was smiling widely my dimples showing. I heard the best song ever starts playing.
Maybe it's the way she walked
•••
The concert was going great, I had sung song after song also entertaining the crowd often talking to them to make sure they are having a good time.
It was about time Liam was going to go on stage and we were going to perform our new song.
Even after being on the stage for hours, I was still feeling giddily The fact that Louis was actually here. I wandered around plenty of times but never saw him.
He was probably in the back or something so I've let go of searching.
After Liam and I performed the concert was coming to an end.
"We have a special guest tonight as you all might know," I say into the microphone.
I turn my head to see Liam and he is about to get on stage. "Liam Payne everybody! Make some noise!" I yell.
The crowd goes wild everyone shouting at the tops of their lungs. Liam gets on stage speaking to the microphone.
We speak to the crowd for a while just having a great time.
I look at Liam checking if he is okay and he is ready. He nods back in return.
I hear the song starts to play
Diana
I hear Liam sing. The crowd cheers then the screams go down to hear the song that they are going to listen to for the first time.
The front pages are your pictures, they make you look so small
How could someone not miss you at all?
I never would mistreat you, oh I'm not a criminal
I speak a different language, but I still hear you call
We both sing the first verse then I took a deep breathe and start with the chorus
Diana, let me be the one to
Light a fire inside those eyes
You've been lonely, you didnt even know me
But I can feel you crying
Diana, let me be the one to
Lift your heart up to save your life
I don't think you even realize
Baby, you'd be saving mine
Diana
I finish as Liam starts the second verse.
It's only been four months, but you've fallen down so far
How could someone mislead you at all?
Then I take over the last part
I wanna reach out for ya, I wanna break these walls
I speak a different language, but I still hear you call
I sing the chorus again while walking around the stage in front of the massive crowd. I go towards the right side, I haven't been to that part of the stage a lot during the concert I think.
When I finish the chorus Liam starts singing the bridge.
I take a chance to look around the crowd to see the reactions that we're getting from the song. Then my eyes land on him.
He is in the front row, nearly right in front of the stage. How could I miss that?
He is jumping around to the song and smiling widely. His one arm is hanging around Danielle, their eyes fixed on Liam singing on the other side of the stage. Then my eyes linger on the guy who has his shoulder around Louis. I see no other than Niall smiling widely while recording on his phone.
What? What is he doing here? He never told me anything about coming here.
I've been probably looking at them for a while I don't realize Liam finishing his part. I start my part a second later. I bet no one in the crowd noticed my slip up but I'm sure Liam did.
He gave me a questioning look while I left the right side of the stage.
The song finally ends. There are so many thoughts running through my mind.
The crowd is shouting louder than ever. We say our thank you's and leave the stage.
A let out a deep sigh thinking how did Louis and Niall end up being friends? Or whatever they are. I never even seen them interact with each other in school.
"You slipped up back there," Liam says right after we got off stage seeing the puzzled look on my face.
"I got a little distracted, it's all fine don't worry"
He shrugs and we move on back to the changing rooms. I jump back to the couch to take a quick nap after the tiring concert.
I fell into sleep rather quickly, pressing my head into the pillow of the couch.
•••
"Hey H" I feel someone shake me. "Mate we have meeting greets to do" Liam shakes me again.
I open my eyes to look at him. I grunt wanting to sleep more but I was also fealing better, less exhausted than earlier.
"How long I've been sleeping," I ask.
"About an hour" he replies. I grunt and take a look at my watch it shows 10:50. I've only slept about 50 minutes.
"Okay, let's go" I mumble. I take a look at myself in the mirror and see my hair is a curly mess now. I run my hand through it a couple of times.
We leave the room quickly after, rushing through the halls. They put us in an area it's like a room-ish place.
The fans start getting in one by one, taking selfies, and getting autographs. They all leave with huge smiles on their faces.
Apparently, we have to see about 50 people tonight. I'll say we're rather lucky because some meet and greets can take hours, where we have to meet hundreds of people.
As I say this night can't be more eventful I see Louis entering the room. I think my eyes might have pop out of their frames because of the way I'm looking at him. I keep my eyes on him while he towards Liam and me.
I can tell he is nervous, he is looking anywhere to avoid my eyes and the way, he is standing. "Hi again," I say smiling widely at him. This is way different from our previous encounter.
"Hey" I hear him mumble quietly. I see that he is holding a CD of my album with both of his hands wrapped around it. "Want me to sign that for you love?"
He nods. I swear I see his cheeks heating up and turning into a light pink but I must be seeing wrong, because why would Louis get all blushy at a simple pet name.
Then he holds the album forwards for me to take it. While I take the album from his hands I realize how small they are compared to mine. I coo at him internally.
I go towards the table to sign the cd. While I sign it I saw Liam and Louis talking. I finish up with the autograph and walk towards them.
"How did you like the concert?" I ask. "Loved it, it was great," he says smiling. "Diana is such a good song It might even be my new favorite" he adds.
"Really? Glad you liked it" I reply "What's your current favorite then?" I ask.
He stops to think for a moment. "Probably You & I or Midnight Memories."
"Good to know" I reply.
Before Louis is going to leave Liam offers to take a selfie.
Louis gives his phone to Liam and I place myself between both of them. I subtlely put my hand around Louis's waist.
His waist is so small under my hold. All I want at that moment to hug him tight as I can and never let go. I smile at the camera with my dimples showing while these thoughts wander around my head. Liam takes at least 3 photos.
Louis pulls away making my arm drop from his waist. That makes me sadden but I try not to show it.
I move towards where Louis is. He is about to leave the room and I stand in front of him. With a sudden boost of confidence I lean towards his ear "I hope I get to see you again" I whisper into his ear.
Before I pull back I put the autographed CD back to Louis's delicate hands. When I pull away I meet his now widened eyes. He has a dark blush on his cheeks. I smirk at his state and wink cheekily then turn around to sit back on my chair. From the corner of my eye, I see Louis stand there for a couple of seconds in shock before rushing out of the room.
I act like nothing happened seconds ago, while I sit down my chair unbothered but the butterflies in my stomach would say otherwise.
It would be a lie If I say I didn't enjoy messing with him. I never knew he could be this nervous and blushy? I'm still not sure why he would blush and get flustered but it's really fun to mess with.
In school he always this tough, popular, mean guy but now I see that he can be the exact opposite. It makes me wonder which is the real Louis.
Another fan entered the room while I sit down and Liam greets her.
I just had my first real conversation with Louis. As Marcel it was mostly like me speaking to a wall, only getting replies once in a while.
I was acting like a girl with a stupid high school crush. But matter a fact I wasn't a girl and he wasn't only a stupid crush, he was more than that.
Louis's POV
I nearly ran out of the room, quickly getting out of the building to find fresh air. It was too hot and I felt like I couldn't breathe through the thick air.
When I was finally outside I took deep breaths in to relax myself. My heart was beating so fast. My legs weren't holding me anymore so I decided to sit down against the wall.
Did that actually happen?
I never felt more flustered in my life! I want to reply back to him at that second but my throat had gone dry and no words could have fallen out of my mouth.
The way he looked at me straight in the eyes and hotly whispered into my ear. It made my knees go weak. I was lucky that I didn't faint right there and then.
After a couple of minutes, my rapid heartbeat had gone slow and I had no idea where the others were. I reached out for my phone and opened it, only to be face to face with the pictures we've just taken.
He looked good as always maybe even better. I closed my gallery before I started questioning was he a real angel or not.
Instead, I called Danielle. She finally took the call on the 5th ring. "Hey Dani, where are you guys?" I asked while I drew patterns on my jean with my finger.
"We were about to head out, Where are you?" She asked.
"I'm outside and kinda sitting on the floor, see you in a minute" I replied ending the phone call.
They appeared from the doors a couple of minutes later.
"Lou!" Danielle called while they approached me.
"Are you okay Louis? Why are you sitting on the ground mate" I heard Niall say.
I slowly pulled myself up "I'm fine just a little tired I guess" It was a total lie I wasn't feeling tired at all more like I was full of adrenaline.
"Are you guys going to leave it's quite late at night?" Aria said I looked towards Danielle and she nodded. "Yeah it's late, it's just best to head to our hotel," she said.
"We're going to head out to, we're very tired," Aria said while resting his head on her girlfriend's shoulder.
"See you later guys, have a good night," I say while Danielle and I start heading to the bus stop.
"You too. Better not forget about me" Aria yelled.
"Sure won't" I replied yelling.
•••
Our journey to the hotel was no fun. We waited for a bus to come by and luckily there was. I watched the city while passing by the dark roads.
After the ride and a small walk we've finally gotten to our hotel room, I unlocked the door and let us in. Danielle took off her clothes and immediately jumped on the bed. I chuckled at her actions.
I walked to the bathroom to take a shower to relax from the events of tonight was still fresh on my mind.
I slipped off from my clothes and turned the hot water on and got into the shower. The showers eased my mind a little also made me feel cleaner after jumping up and down all night and sitting on the ground all day.
I got out of the shower and wrapped a towel around my waist and grabbed my dirty clothes to take them back to the room but something fell to the ground when I lifted the bunch.
It was the CD. The CD that Harry had signed. I sucked on my breath. I got out of the bathroom and headed towards the bed.
I sat on top of the duvet and eyed the CD. There was Harry's signature on it but there was something else.
I must have been seeing wrong because there was no fucking way Harry Styles had given me his number.
Text me XX XXX XXXX
It said. I grabbed my phone quickly as possible and typed out the number. I didn't want to seem super eager. But I was.
My hands were shaking when I wrote
Louis: Hi
Louis: I'm Louis btw
I pressed send and closed my phone not wanting to see how he was going to reply.
Not even after a minute later a notification popped up on my phone. I quickly opened it to see his reply.
Harry: Hey
Harry: I was hoping you would text me :)
The texted read. Was he really? or was he just playing with me.
Louis: Yeah?
I wrote on the message and saw harry writing as well.
Harry: Ofc! Then why would I give you my number?
He had a point. Why would he give his number to a total stranger if he really didn't want to talk to them?
Louis: Makes sense
Louis: So Is there a specific reason for you giving your number to this stranger?
I asked and waited for him to reply.
Harry: Maybe I wanted to get to know this stranger
Harry: If you also like to, I want to meet up sometime?
My eyes widened at Harry's messages. What would a worldwide popstar want to do anything with me?
My hands grazed over the keyboard trying to find something to reply. Of course, I wanted to meet up but why did he?
Louis: Yeah, I would like that
Louis: Do you have anything in mind?
I don't know how I was keeping my calm while texting because internally my stomach was doing backflips.
Harry: Want to go out for coffee, tomorrow afternoon?
Danielle and I were planning on heading back to Doncaster around 12 pm.
Louis: Sorry can't, I'm leaving tomorrow at noon.
I sighed deeply after pressing send.
He was a fucking pop star, he probably has tons of stuff to do and I would be just a burden. It was all for the better If we didn't meet up but I really wanted to see him too.
Harry: What about tonight?
Was he seriously offering to go out tonight? Right now? My eyes wandered off to the alarm clock. It was almost 1 in the morning. There was another message from Harry.
Harry: I really want to see you again.
I bit my lip trying not to blush at his text.
Louis: It's like 1 in the morning.
Harry: You can come over to my penthouse, we can even grab a cup of coffee?
I paused for a second to consider my options.
Louis: I don't know
Louis: How do I know that you're not going to murder me If I come to your place?
Louis: For all I know you might be a serial killer out to get me.
Harry: hahaha promise I'm not a serial killer.
Harry: But If you don't want to come over to mine, I know a 24/7 open coffee shop here.
Louis: Do you really want to see me so much?
Harry: Yup, is that a yes?
I sighed smiling dumbly at my phone.
Louis: Fine! send the location, you loser.
Harry send the address of the coffee shop over quickly.
Louis: See you there
Harry: See you!
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