Harry's POV

"Oi Tyra, come back!" I call after, as she starts running away. When I pick my foot to start after her, Tommy touches my shoulder stopping me.

"You're better letting her go dude, I promise she'll be back here when she cools off," He smiles.
I have no clue who this bloke is, and how Tyra knows him, but I reckon I might as well stay here and try and learn as much as I can until she decides to come back.

"Tommy is it?" I turn to face him. He is slightly shorter than me, brown hair and blue eyes. He had a team jumper on, the sleeves pulled up to his elbows, and those basketball shorts I constantly see these American lads wear.

"Na.. The name's Louis, and you are?" He offers his hand for me to shake, and I do.
"Harry, I recall Tyra calling you Tommy.." I raise a brow, trying my best to keep up with all these people we've been meeting these past few days.

"Yea well.. Tommy is my nickname I got when I joined the team back home- Tommy, for Tomlinson.. it was easier I guess screaming QB Tommy then Tomlinson," He shrugs flashing another one of his grins.

"Back home.. So you and Tyra are from the same town?" I question.
"Yeah man, Ty was my high school sweetheart, broke my heart when she dumped me," He placed his hands on his chest, where his heart is to emphasize the heartbreak.

"Ha.. An ex boyfriend.. did you mess up that bad for her to run away like she just did then?" I smirk at him.

"Don't you English people listen? I just told you she broke my heart when she dumped me," He sat down on the bench. I followed sitting down next to him.

"So how do you know Ty?" He rests his hands behind, spreading his legs, making himself comfortable.
"Well she hitched a ride with me a few weeks back, and,-"
"You became fast friends and decide to help her find Niller, yep.. sounds like Tyra is back to her old self," Louis cut in.

"What do you mean? Her old self?" I thought things will finally come together by talking to this boy, but I am feeling more and more confused, as if there is a big part of the puzzle I am not seeing.

"Let's just say the Tyra you know now is not the same Tyra who broke up with me, she is not the same person I last saw before leaving for Uni," He sighs.
"Different how?" I demand an answer.
Louis gives me a long look, but before he gets a chance to answer a group of students pass us calling out to him when they spot him on the bench.

"Yo Tommy!"
"Ready for the big game QB?!"

"Big shot hey?" I say smiling.
"Na.. Once the season's over they don't remember the football players," He shakes his head. I know he is lying trying to be modest, I've seen the Americans and their ball games.

"Anyway, where was I? Tyra… Did she tell you why Niller left home? Did she tell you anything about what happened to her family?" He asks me.
I shake my head. Tyra said Niall wasn't himself when he left, that he hated her, but that was all.. She had mentioned her mum, but…
"Is her dad not home or something?" I inquire

"You should ask her, it's not my story to tell… But let's just say that she changed, it was like she lost herself, and she couldn't find her way back.." He let it hang for a while keeping silent.

"God, I can't believe she is here.. that she came.. I can't believe she is back, I mean did you see her eyes? They were alive again even though she was pissed off finding me instead of Nialler," He chuckles.

I make a mental note of things I should straighten out with Tyler once she shows up. I reckon Nialler was Niall's nickname for when he played for the team.

"So how is it you have Niall's phone?" I decide to get to the point of all this.
"He left it with me about two months ago… Said Ty might come looking," He whispered.
It was late and I suddenly I felt tired, wishing Tyra would come back so I could find us a place to sleep, we can deal with all of these questions tomorrow.

"Is there an Inn close by or something I can book us a room?" I ask him.
"Don't be an idiot, I'll hook you up here, no need for you to pay for a room," Louis laughed.
He fished out his phone to make a phone call. I look around, noticing Tyra walking back towards us.

I reckon that he knew her well after all.

Tyra's POV

I was so disappointed to see Tommy standing, waiting for us, I was sure I finally found Niall, so how was it Tommy standing there instead of him?

I took off without thinking, not wanting to show the boys my rage and disappointment, forgetting about Harry, leaving him behind with no explanation, with a stranger.
I make my way back to where I have left them, hoping they are still at the same place.
When I get closer I can make them out sitting on the bench, relief taking over. I didn't want to be left alone with Tommy, so I was glad to see Harry's curly head beside him.

"Ty, I know you hate me right now, and you have a lot of question, but I think it should wait for tomorrow morning," Tommy stood up.
I shift to stand next to Harry as he stood too, and I notice Tommy's eyes run from Harry to me.

"Louis talked to his lady friend, you can stay with her tonight," Harry spoke to me, his voice soft, understanding there is something big going on that he doesn’t fully understand, and I feel bad again for not keeping him fully in the loop.

"Where will you be staying?" I look up at him.
"With me," Tommy replies smiling.

"I want to stay with Harry," I say, sounding a little like a two year old, though I didn't feel like staying with a stranger, and I wanted some time explaining a few things to Harry, knowing I owe him that much.

"Oh, well.. let's see, EL! Over here!" Tommy calls out suddenly, waving someone over.
"Let's see what she has to say," He says to us.

A girl about Tommy's height and long curls approaches us. Tommy reaches out to her, and when they are in hand's reach she tucks herself to his side in a hug, while he kissed the side of her head.

"El, meet my friends, Tyra and Harry, This is Eleanor my girlfriend," He smiles.
"Hi! Nice meeting you," She shakes our hands, a smile painted on her lips. She was cute and seemed nice. I was happy for Tommy, it seemed he was doing well at Uni, and I felt a little better about the way we left things.

"So El, Ty here wants to stay with Harry, is your roommate in tonight?" Tommy asked Eleanor.
"No, she's out, so why don't you two stay at my place, and I'll just stay with Lou?" She asked, raising slightly her perfect eyebrows, in a wait for an answer.

I nod to that, glancing up at Harry to see if he agrees.
"Great, I'll go get you some clean sheets, I know how fussy you are," Tommy chuckles.

"Fussy? With covers?" Harry furrowed his brows in question. I feel my cheeks blush, never telling Harry about my problem with people and my sheets.

"Ty hates when people touch her sheets, she's like a freak when it comes to it, when we were younger no one was allowed on her bed, she had a little couch in the corner of her room for friends who came over, and if we did end up sitting on her bed she would change them soon after we left," Tommy laughed.

"That is so funny, why didn't you use a bed cover then?" Eleanor asked smiling kindly.
"I don't know I never thought of it," I shrug, feeling my face burning up.

"Well, come on then, you must be tired, did you eat anything? Are you hungry?" She asks, and I can't help but like her, happy for Tommy he found such a nice girl for himself.
We weren't hungry, so Eleanor and Tommy took us to Eleanor's dorm room, placing clean sheets on the bed.

They wished us goodnight, and Tommy promised to meet us for breakfast in the morning.
Once alone I turn to look at Harry, he was sitting on the bed, the pile of clean sheets next to him. I was sure he would start asking questions about everything, but instead he had a smirk on his face while watching me.
"What?" I ask, pouting at his smirking face.
"Fancy explaining how it is I am allowed in your sheets, while your boyfriend of so many years was not?" He scoffs playfully.

"Well first of, we were younger and boys were smelly back then, anyway it wasn't that I was grossed out by everyone, but I couldn't pick and choose the friends that were allowed and the friends that weren't," I explain fast.
"So I reckon I'm allowed," His smile widens, and I can see his dimples more permanently now.
"I don't mind you on my sheets for some strange reason," I crinkle my nose, not quite understanding myself how that is.

I walk over and sit myself next to him.
"So you and Louis," Harry finally speaks.
"I'm happy to see he has Eleanor, we didn't end that well," I whisper.
"Yeah he mentioned it, though he also said that if I want to know more I need to ask you," Harry replies.

"Do you want to know more?" I question, looking at him.
"Well, yeah… why did you break up?" Harry asks.

"For three reasons, the first is as much as Tommy was the best, and he knew me better than anyone, he only loved me for the good things he saw in me,"
"How come that is a bad thing?"
"Well it isn't but I needed him to see the bad things in me too, and love me even though," I explain.
Harry nods at that.

"And the second reason?"
"I was going through a bad faze, it was the year before Niall left, I wasn't myself, no one was," I whisper, scared to speak of those days aloud for the fear they might come back and haunt me.
"Ty.. What happened to you?"

Hearing Harry call me by my nickname made my heart flutter, and for the first time I felt I was strong enough to talk about my past, about the tragedy that hit my family two years ago.

"The day of Niall's graduation… My dad was supposed to be there, he was at the last game.. and was suppose to stay home for the next 6 months, but then he got called back, getting in a huge fight with Niall, and hateful things were said.. Niall was so hurt and mad.. When we got back from the ceremony, they were waiting on the steps of our house, two officers, their hats tucked under their arms, and their faces.. their faces haunted me for so long.." I chocked, my voice catching in my throat.

Harry took my hand, holding it firmly but yet softly in his.

"He died in Afghanistan, and we never got to tell him we are sorry,"

Notes

A sketch I did a while back of Niall...

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