Never Is A Promise

“For Harry. Who is… Are you serious?” Louis read. My eyes shot up to the screen ‘Who is Mickole? –Anna’ read up on the screen. “Really?” Louis said clearly mad his face dark as he glared at the screen.

I hissed I knew Darren was gonna pull something like this. I checked my mic light blue the audience couldn’t hear me “Harry, you don’t have to answer that.”

“No. I’m not answering that. ” He said, I closed my eyes taking in a breath.

“We have already told Sugarscape everything concerning Mickole I suggest you ask them about it.” Simon’s voice came out of the speakers as he walked out he made eye contact with me. “We’ll be back for the second third of the show in just a minute, Ed.” He said as the ginger haired man walked on to do two songs while the boys changed clothes and the set changed. Aly and I walked backstage with the boys as the middle curtain was drawn.

I grabbed Harry's hand pulling him off stage a little faster, as he began to shake, as soon as we were off stage and pulled him into a hug stroking his hair as a nuzzled into his neck. Simon watched from the side as Harry calmed down from the original shock of Darren's stunt. I kissed his neck as I tightened my grip around his waist, Harry sighed into my neck as the shaking of his shoulders stopped. "You good to go?" I asked as the boys changed into different clothes for the second half of the concert. He nodded as I rubbed his shoulders.

"I will be." He said into my hair.

"Ok," I nodded, kissing his neck again "Let's get you changed and back out there." Harry let me help him. The other boys and Simon watched as I helped him out of his shirt and blazer. I held out his second shirt for him as he slipped into it. I cuddled into his side as we walked back toward the stage rubbing his back.

"Can I stay at yours tonight?" He whispered. I nodded.

“Of course you can,” I said "It’ll be ok, I’ll fix this Harry. I’ll talk to the fans about it during the next break, no one will know she’s you’re ex," I said bouncing up on my tip toes to kiss his cheek.
“Now go kill it!” He nodded taking a deep breath and shaking his head before walking back to the stage with the boys.

I smiled to myself as Louis pulled him into a hug, before telling him “Do it for Mickole, she’d want you to hold your head high, and not let anything touch you because you’re amazing.” Harry nodded still looking at the ground, Louis looked up at me and I nodded smiling.

Liam put a hand on his shoulder staring over at me “Hazza your gonna kill it, I know its not the same but whenever I miss Dani and need a little extra I imagine how it felt last time I was with her and the love I felt from her and in her arms and I pour it into my music in the hope that she’ll hear it. Dani can’t hear me when I’m half way across the world, Mick always can, show her your love.” Liam said starring at me. I nodded again, Harry looked up taking a deep breath he glanced back at me. I smiled and nodded for him to go ‘Own this.’ I mouthed to him, as he stood up straight and looked up before shaking his head as he clapped his hands together, leading the boys out onto the stage to their places behind the second curtain.

Simon pulled me off to the side as he turned off our microphones "Mick you do know that if he ever finds out that you're you, you are screwed, he isn't gonna be happy." I nodded.

"I know, it won't be pretty, but I'm here for him, I need to be here for him, especially when I'm the problem in the first place." I said.

"If you had told him from the beginning..."

"He wouldn't have believed me. He still thinks I'm dead." I said cutting Simon off, knowing it just wouldn’t have worked.

Simon sighed and nodded. "Well I can honestly say that I believe that you are probably the best girl for Harry, until just now I didn't believe Louis and Liam when they said you know him better than anyone else including himself. Until just now." Simon sighed shaking his head. "I really hope everything works out in this. But, you know my rule, you can't date him until he knows you're you." I nodded in agreement as we walked back to the stage storming the microphones back on.

Harry owned the second third of the show, I smiled as he sang with everything he had to the ceiling. Aly wrapped her arms around me as I let a few tears fall it was beautiful but heartbreaking. Liam and Louis smiled at me sadly nodding in sympathy. I watched the second third of the show proud of my ex-boyfriend, all the boys ran off the stage as the curtain closed again Ed walked over to play again. Simon held out a hand “Give us just thirty seconds Ed, we have to stop any rumors that are gonna come out of that Mickole stunt Darren pulled, and is losing half his concert pay over.” He nodded letting Simon and I walk out, “Hey! How’s everyone liking the concert?” Simon asked as the crowd screamed in response, I smiled as Simon and I nodded to each other, “Alright well we just thought we should clear up this whole Mickole thing, but we had to clear it with Harry first since it is his personal life that we’re getting into.” The crowd went silent as they waited for the answer.

Simon looked to me not knowing what I had in mind. “We’d like to finally clear up the rumors about this Mickole situation that have been going on in the past few months, the rumors that her and Harry dated, Harry is still in love with her, etcetera, I finally got to sit down with Harry a few weeks ago and figure this whole thing out, no they never dated, no he isn’t in love with her.” The whispers broke out as well as a few thousand phones all headed for twitter. “Mickole was his neighbor in Holmes Chapel they grew up together, however, Mickole is a touchy subject for him, and we do ask you all to be respectful of this subject since Mickole is someone who he grew up with who, is no longer a part of Harry’s live do to medical complications.” I said choosing my words careful. Simon raised an eyebrow slightly and gave me a nod and a half smile looking mildly impressed by my choice of words to give the impression I wanted but still being as truthful as the situation allowed.

“Enjoy the rest of the concert we have a few more surprises for you guys. Ed take it away.” Simon said as Ed walked out onto the stage for the third and final part of his set before he joined the boys for moments as the last song before their encore.

As Simon and I walked out I got pulled into a hug “You have some gift in the way you twist words to your advantage.” Liam said as the rest of the boys came back.

“There is a reason I’m your PR manager, I can insinuate something without lying, sure its not pure truth but its not untruthful either.” I countered smirking, as Louis and Simon laughed. Before we all turned to watch Ed perform his songs.


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We all were lounging on Aly and mine’s floor playing Kings cup, all of us were had had our fair share of drinks. “Alright!” Harry yelled, wobbling as he sat up, we all stared as he struggled to stay still, while his extremely full drink never spilled a drop. “Ground rules for the tour and tour bus!!” he said looking around before yelling, “Alright! Someone write this down, now!”

We all laughed as Liam grabbed a pad of paper and pen “I think he turns into Louis when he gets drunk” I whispered to Zayn who in turn spit his drink out all over Harry.

“Hey!” Harry yelled as Zayn and I broke down into fits of laughter.

“Its too true it hurts!” Zayn laughed gasping for breath before grabbing his phone and pulling up twitter ‘When @Harry_Styles gets drunk he may just out sass the king of sass Mr @Louis_Tomlinson. “Alright! Someone write this down, now!!” x :) ‘ he showed it to me and I nodded as he pressed the send button.

“Ok back to the rules! Once tweedle dumb and, and tweedle dump Darren are done.” Harry said glaring at us.

I snorted laughing as I set my drink down before poking Harry in the side “Dating Darren was Simon’s idea.” I said pointing at Harry.

“Really?” Liam asked.

I nodded “I agreed and there is a good reason behind it.”

“Which is?” Niall asked.

I shook my head “Nuh uh, my lips are sealed.” I said laughing.

“Rule number one!” Harry suddenly yelled, “Darren is not allowed on the tour bus!” all the boys nodded as Liam scribbled it down.

“Two! Any girls on the bus besides girlfriends and MJ have to be approved by all people on the bus!” Zayn said as everyone stared at Harry. He shrugged.

“Three! Use the God Damn Sock Rule!” Liam yelled “I’m tired of walking in on you guys!”

“Black sock for Sex, White sock for messing around, red sock for Harry’s naked?” Aly said.

The boys all laughed as Harry blushed before pulling off his shirt and throwing it in Aly’s face.
“Didn’t know you wanted to know when I was naked so badly.”

“Blue sock for when Harry finally gets MJ. We all know that blue sock is gonna be on the door for a while.” Zayn said. I choked on my drink as I saw Liam write it down.

“What part of dating Darren don’t you guys get?” I laughed.

“Four! What happens in the bus stays in the bus, unless you have sex in someone else’s bed, on the couch in the kitchen on the table, somewhere besides your bed then please tell us, so we can disinfect it with bleach.” Harry said pulling me into his chest.

“Five! No Bed time!” Zayn said downing the rest of his beer before going to grab another one.“Oh Six! One refrigerator for alcohol and one for food.” He yelled from the kitchen.

“Seven. Chocolate cake must always be on the bus!” Louis said we all looked over to him “El’s request.” He said holding up his phone.

“Invite her and Dani over! We won’t see them again for a while!” Aly said frowning.

“Actually we’re meeting them tonight back at our flats in about 10 minutes so Harry Black Sock rule!” Louis said, all of us laughing.

“Eight. MJ and Aly stay on the bus with us!” Niall said.

“Where are they gonna stay?” Louis asked.

“The upstairs part of the bus,” Liam said. “I asked for it to be fixed up since it wasn’t in working order last time.”

“Ohh smart one!” Harry said. “Nine -”

“I get top bunk!” Niall cut in we all laughed as Harry glared at Niall.

“I was going to say, family nights once a week, home cooked meal, or best we can do, games night and a movie, karaoke whatever.” He said.

“I like that rule” I said I leaned my head back onto his shoulder he smiled down at me.

“Ok Rules are done, and I’m going head off to see Dani.” Liam said as Louis nodded standing up with the others leaving just me and Harry.

“All of you are leaving?”

“Skype date with Perrie.” Zayn said, as Liam Louis and he gave each person a hug “See you all tomorrow!” He called ducking out, with the other two to go see their girlfriends.

“We don’t want to keep you up.” Aly said.

I raised and eyebrow. “Is that so?”

“We aren’t exactly planning on being quiet or private.” Aly said.

“You just want a rug burn.” I teased as she blushed.

She gave me a hug “We’ll see you tomorrow morning here for breakfast since we have all the boys luggage.” I nodded as they headed out before shutting the door though Aly called back to us “Have fun tonight you two, and remember what happens in our house stays in our house.” She said as I blushed bright red and groaned before turning into Harry’s chest he was frozen.

I leaned into him, “Is that really the rule?” I nodded, “So if I did say this?” He asked making eye contact with me dipping a finger into my sweats and started tugging them downward gently, never breaking eye contact.

“It would stay between us.” I said leaning my head into his neck “I wouldn’t tell.” I whispered. I felt his lips turn up in a smile as they pressed against my shoulder, he stopped tugging on my sweats, instead he pulled me back to the couch turning on the tv. “I’ll go grab popcorn and tea?” I asked he nodded.

“So we have a choice of Blinddating, Just My Luck, or Never Been Kissed.” Harry called from the other room.

“Never Been Kissed!” I called back. “It reminds me of school before I moved to London!”

“Why were you the geek that moved and suddenly got really fucking fit and popular?” He asked as I set the tea and popcorn down.

“Yep. I’ve only ever kissed two boys.”

“Wait really?!?” I nodded “Who’s the other one besides Darren?”

I laughed smirking at him “Remember the last night that we were here and you don’t remember anything?” Harry nodded sheepishly “We kissed.”

“We’ve kissed?” I nodded.

“We’ve done a lot more than that, you just don’t remember it.”

“Really?” I nodded, “Shit MJ, I’m sorry,”

“Don’t be,” I said slipping in the tape. “Its not like it was a one sided thing.”

“How far?” he asked, I turned to him raising my eyebrows and giving him a smirk.

“How far do you normally go when you’re drunk and have a girl with you?”

“Sex.” I nodded, he closed his eyes as I sat back on the couch leaning into his chest. “Was I at least good, while completely smashed?” I laughed nodding. Harry was silent for a bit I could feel his eyes watching me as I watched the movie. “You remind me so much of Mick, is weird, almost too much, but you guys look so different. Is that weird?”

“A little, but I’ll take it as a compliment” I said laughing to myself as we curled up for the rest of the movie.

It felt nice to be in his arms again, even with the knowledge that I would never be able to properly date him. Yes it naïve to believe he’ll never figure it out but I could dream. As sad of a dream as it is that I’ll never have that relationship we both want back, I just couldn’t bring myself to tell him that I had up and left. Especially not now after I’d seen what I had done to him, the best I could do now was try and fix it as best I could and pray he never caught on.

“So this was really your life before you moved?” Harry asked.

I laughed “No, I was bullied, but never like that. It was more of a snide comment about weight or about my lack of makeup trivial things like that.” I said he pulled me closer.

“Ok what kind of name is Guy?”

“Not a clue, I’ve heard some weird names before but that one is defiantly up there.”

“Wow going for the teacher!”

“Not like he’s actually her teacher.”

“True.”

“Or older than her.” I said nudging him.

“Hey!” He whined. I laughed leaning back into his chest. Eventually we shut up and stopped laughing at the stupid names and fell silent. We both fell asleep a little after the movie ended still on the couch cuddled close together in a tangle of arms, legs, pillows and blankets.

Notes

Hey I wanna know how you all are liking my story!!! What are your thoughts on Darren, Harry, Mickole and Harry's relationship etc!!!

XX til next time!!!