“HOME!!!!” Aly screamed running into the house. I laughed as we put our bags down. I checked over everything from while we were gone as Aly unpacked and made us some food.
I came across a letter from our realtor, I tore into it seeing that we had gotten the pent house apartment in the middle of downtown that we’d been looking at before we left on tour “Hey Al don’t unpack too much!”

She stuck her head into the living room “Why?” I waved the letter with the building logo on it.
“WE GOT IT?!?!” Aly screamed I nodded “When do we get keys?”

“Today we can go and pick them up after our meeting with Simon.” I said smiling as Aly bounced up and down.

“So what’s our agenda for before we go back on tour in the states?” Aly asked.

“Today meeting with Simon, pick up key and recover, then in the next week we have to move and then there is the single release party, I have another hospital visit.” I said. “All in the next two weeks.” I sighed.

“Lets get the move done first!” Aly said “As in start right now!”

I nodded “ok let me call the place and we can take a load over. Then we’ll text Harry and the boys to come help us and bring their cars after we get back from Simon’s” I said typing in the phone number of the landlord as I packed up a bunch of things into my car.

Aly was doing the same running around and yelling about how much we were going to love our new flat. We tossed our luggage back into ours cars along with a bunch of our food. We’d move our bed that night when Harry brought by his Range Rover. Aly shoved most of our linen closet and pillows into her car, as we drove downtown to pick up our keys they had carts for people moving and for people carrying in bunches of groceries a little like a hotel with their luggage carts. We checked in and signed the last bit of paperwork and put down our first and last and well as the security deposit before the manager handed us the keys.
We loaded stuff onto the dolly before hitting the top button, 33. “Floor 33!!!” Aly squeaked as the elevator traveled upward.

“And with roof access!” I added as she rocked back and forth on the balls of her feet. We landed on the 33rd floor but the lift wouldn’t open until I inserted our key unlocking the elevator doors. The doors slid open with a quiet ding as we walked into the entryway that had stairs and a hallway in front of us a storage closet and coatroom to our right and a living room to our left. We walked up the stair to three of our four bedrooms, we’d already decided the one bedroom downstairs was going to be an entertainment room.

“Take the Master Mick.” Aly called running to check the other two rooms deciding on the far one. We stored the blankets in our linen closet and unpacked our clothing bags from tour into the dressers of our fully furnished rooms and new flat. We then unpacked our food into the fridge and cupboards. “Hey Mick aren’t we supposed to meet Simon?” Aly asked looking down at my phone.

I looked over seeing Simon’s name blinking on the screen. “SHIT!!!” I yelled grabbing the phone and answering it “Hello Simon.” I said smiling.

“I believe I said meet me in my office at 3pm its 3:15 Mick.”

“Yeah, we lost track of time. I’m so sorry we’ll be over from our new flat as soon as possible.”
I said indicating to Aly that we needed to go grabbing my keys and running for the elevator.

“New flat?” Simon asked as we flew down to the ground level.

“Yeah, we’re now downtown closer into London about halfway between our old house and work.” I said.

“Alright well I will see you soon.” Simon said “now hurry a long,”

We ran into work skidding into Simon’s office our hair a mess from sprinting to the car driving to the office then running all the way from the car to his office.

“Hi Simon” we said together, sitting as he pointed to his couch not looking up from his stack of papers.

“Mickole, Aly, its good to see you how is everything going? How was the tour everything running smoothly?”

“It went well nothing to eventful, at least nothing we couldn’t shut down immediately” I said handing him the documents of all the rumors and our responses to the media from the month on tour for him to put in the records.

“That’s good, have you guys started looking into all the things that are going to be needed for the US tour dates? Hotels, transportation etc?” Simon asked thumbing threw the document.

“We have” Aly chimed in “We split up the work Mick is getting the Hotels, meet and greets, and the venues to work with us. While I took on transportation, contests and anything else that comes up since Mick is starting to get sick again. We’ll have them done for the meeting tomorrow.”

I spun to glare at her as Simon looked up, his eyes wide “Is that true Mick?” he asked his voice soft. All I could do was nodded.

“Yes it is.” I said after a breath to clear my thoughts. “I went to the doctors in France and they put me back on a chemo regiment because what looked like a low stage of lymphoma was starting to return.”

“This changes things Mick.” I nodded acknowledging Simon’s words not expecting the next ones out of his mouth. “You have until tomorrow to tell him,” My eyes popped open.

“Tomorrow?!?!” I yelped Simon nodded. “But, I, How?” I froze up.

“You both are dismissed, you have enough to work on for tonight. Good Luck Mick.” Simon said motioning to the door.

Aly drove us back to our place to pack up more stuff. I however sat on the floor in a state of shock. Aly had called the boys to get there help with our stuff. Liam was the first to arrive and the first to see me. Aly filled him in on my current situation after which he immediately came over and sat down next to me. “Its gonna be fine, Mick.” He said rubbing my back, “It has to be fine, you’re family now,” Liam said rubbing my back before helping me up. All the boys came over except Harry who was over at a friend’s house for the night. We surprisingly got all of our stuff moved that day with the help of the four boys we also didn’t have much stuff to move since our old apartment had come fully furnished. The boys even helped us move our stuff into the new flat. The night was spent with boxes of pizza sitting on the floor around the TV and a computer shopping for furniture. We’d fallen into and easy silence a movie playing in the background Aly working on her stuff for the tour and me looking at couches.

When Liam broke the silence “Call him Mick.”

“Mick?” Niall asked his and Zayn’s head snapping up and too me. “As in Mickole? Mickole Harry’s dead ex-girlfriend?”

“Technically we never broke up” I said “I just left”

“WHAT?!?!” Zayn and Niall chorused.

“I left when I got cancer cause I didn’t want him to change as he basically watched me die. So I moved away and I barely survived the cancer I flat lined 4 times during surgery and the letter I wrote him got sent when I had flat lined for the longest time.” I said pulling out my phone.

“Well that’s the short version.” Louis laughed. I smirked nodding as I dialed Harry.

“You two knew?” Niall asked his eyes wide darting from Liam to Louis.

“They’ve known since we met Louis pieced it together with in an hour” I said as the phone rang “Now hush” I pointed to the phone.

It rang a few more times before Harry picked up “Hello!!!!!” he yelled into the phone over the loud music in the back ground.

“Hi Harry”

“MJ!”

“Yep.. Have you been drinking Harry?”

“Only a little”

“Ok Babe” I laughed “Hey so I wanted to talk to you about something, can you come over in a bit?”

“Ohh sounds serious” he joked “Are you breaking up with me?”

“Harry we aren’t even boyfriend girlfriend. Yes it is serious though.” I said deathly calm.

“OK!” He sang into the phone “I’ll be over later the new address Aly sent or the old one?”

“The new one thank you Harry. I’ll be waiting up for you.” I said

“Got it!” he said hanging up.

As I put the phone down Liam looked at me. “I want to do it in person, its only right.” He nodded.

“WHY DIDN’T YOU TELL HARRY BEFORE!!!!!!” Zayn exploded.

“Because it would only hurt him more! The only reason I’m telling him now is because if I don’t Simon will, I’d rather Harry never know! I don’t want to rip him apart again and open old wounds only to pour salt in them.” I said rounding on Zayn “I wanted him to get over me so he’d get better! But that didn’t happen he went and fell in love with me again and since I can’t say no to him no matter what we ended up in this sticky situation.”

“How can you live with yourself? Lying to Harry and his mom how did you do that how can you live with yourself?” Zayn hissed.

I couldn’t help but bark out a laugh “Please Zayn Anne saw right through me and agreed with me she knows exactly who I am I didn’t fool her for a second. Harry is the one who can’t find the nerve to connect the dots and see me as Mickole instead of just MJ.” I said shutting Zayn up.

“Anne knows?” he asked.

I nodded “We talk quite often actually.” I smiled at him shrugging.

“I guess if Anne is ok with this its fine she knows you and Harry better than any of us.” He sighed. “Now what?”

“I wait for Harry to come by cause if I don’t tell him tonight Simon is gonna tell him tomorrow at our meeting.” I confessed.

“Wow that’s soon” Niall murmured for the first time breaking his silence.

I nodded absentmindedly turning back to my computer.

I stayed up all night with no sign of Harry I woke the next morning everyone gone asleep on the floor the TV still on, cold tea on the small table my laptop pushed away by my feet asleep and no sign of Harry.

Notes

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