Foreign Exchange

Liams POV
“I can’t believe she left the gym early and had the nerve not to tell me” Louis grumbled as he drove out of the gym parking lot. Louis planned on coming here earlier than planned and surprising her, but when we got here, she was no where to be found. We checked the tennis courts, the weight room, the pool, the basketball courts, the field, we even snuck into the girls locker room.

By we I mean Louis.

Anyway, she wasn’t here, and she wasn’t answering any of our calls. It would go straight to voicemail. “Try calling again” Louis instructed Harry who was sitting in the passenger seat. Harry nodded and dialed her number again.

“She’s probably just home, tennis practice could have just ended early” Nick said, not really seeing the big deal. Wait, actually there really wasn’t a big deal, but Louis was making it one.

“Straight to voicemail” Harry said with a frustrated sigh.

“Her phone could have run out of batteries” Zayn shrugged next to Nick in the middle seat row.

“I just texted Anjelica, she might know where Nikki is” Niall announced, sitting next to me.

“Why are you so eager to see her? I see why Harry would be” Nick asked, leaning forward to tap Louis shoulder.

“So I can squeeze every ounce of information out of her about last night” Louis said bluntly and I froze. I didn’t want to be reminded of last night. It was obvious that Nikki and Harry made up, and went out somewhere together. They probably had fun....probably even kissed.

Liam, stop. Be happy for your best mate and friend.

But..she’s everything I want.

Okay, don’t be so over dramatic.

“I just got a text from Anjelica” Niall said.

“Well, what does it say?” Louis said, staring at the road and driving in no particular direction.

“She says that Nikki texted her saying that Gage would drop her off at home and that they ended practice early” Niall replied as he read the words on his iPhone.

“Told you” Nick said and Louis glared at him through the rearview mirror.

“But that still doesn’t answer the question of why our calls are going straight to voicemail” Harry pointed out, fidgeting in his seat.

He’s so anxious to see her.

“Won’t she be surprised when she sees us at her front door” Louis said with a smirk.

“Are we gonna get food after this?” Niall innocently asked after a few beats of silence.

“Yes, Niall” Louis answered, sounding almost polite.

“Wooo!” Niall cheered, then focused back to his phone when it vibrated in his hand.

“I wonder why they decided to end early” Zayn wondered aloud.

“Who cares, just be glad that she isn't hanging out with Gage any longer today” Nick said, his tone hard.

“You really don’t like Gage” Harry said, looking over the passenger seat at him.

“I have my reasons” Nick said with a frustrated sigh.

“Oh, I see...” Harry replied awkwardly, probably not sure if he should ask what happened or just drop it.

“We’re here” Louis said, turning into a parking spot in front of the flats, or as Americans call it “condos”. We all hopped out of the van. As we were walking up the steps to her flat, we could hear Nikki’s frantic voice. This made us all rush up the stairs.

“I’m really sorry..” Nikki said to two men and a woman who were standing at Nikkis front door. Nikki’s hair was wet and her face was so red.

“You’re lucky that this is only a warning” A man spat, rubbing his head.

“I’m really sorry, I didn’t mean to hit you. I mean-with all due respect-you did kind of just walked into my home-”

What?

“What’s going on here?” Louis said, walking over to them. Nick and Zayn exchanged a look while Niall nervously rocked back and forth on his heels. Harry, Niall, Nick, Zayn and I remained standing at the top of the stairs, not daring to approach them like Louis did. Nikki looked at us with wide eyes.

“Are you her guardian?” The woman said, meeting Louis halfway.

“Yes” Louis said without hesitation and Nikki bit her lip nervously. I bit the inside of my cheek to stop from gasping and just completely freaking out on how irresponsible this was. We were dealing with people who had authority over us. The two men seemed suspicious, but the woman was too mad to even notice just how young Louis was and how completely obvious it was that Louis couldn’t be her guardian..

“She was blasting music very loud” the woman said, pointing her painted nail at Nikki. “I complained and brought over the supervisors at the main office to get her to stop the music” the woman explained, obviously frustrated.

“What is it about just walking into my place?” Louis sassily asked, putting his hands on his hips. Harry shook his head and while Nick and Zayn giggled quietly, finding all of this amusing.

“She wouldn’t answer the door and it was unlocked, so we walked in.” one of the men explained.

“Yeah and she went crazy and hit me in the head” the other one grumbled, still rubbing his head.

“I-I didn’t mean to cause any trouble! You scared me an-and-”

“That’s enough” Louis said, pretending to be stern with Nikki. Louis glared at the three adults in front of his and now I was nervous more than ever.

Please Louis, don’t go and diss them.

“I’m sorry about the disturbance, it won’t happen again” Louis said in a surprisingly authorative and mature tone.

“It better not” The woman growled, walking away and entering what I assume was her flat a few doors down.

“As for you young lady” Louis said, walking up to Nikki and grabbing her ear.

“Ow ow!” Nikki whined in pain, scratching at Louis wrist.

“You are in trouble” Louis said to her and I actually cracked a smile at the scene in front of us. Louis looked back at the two men before addressing them. “Thank you and I apologize.”

“This is a warning, if it happens again I will have to call the police” the man not rubbing his head said. Without another word, the two men passed us and walked down the steps. Once they were gone, Louis still held onto Nikki’s ear. We moved away from the stairs and walked over to the two.

“Louis please! That hurts!” Nikki complained, scrunching up her nose.

“Not only did I just save your arse, but you did not answer our calls! Why haven’t you’ve been answering?” Louis asked, pulling harder on her ear.

“Ow Ow! I’m sorry!” Nikki squeaked. Nick, Zayn and Niall just laughed at how sassy Louis was being, but Harry and I just looked on.

“Louis let her go” I said, smacking his hand away from her. Nikki took a step back from Louis and rubbed her ear.

“That was mean..” whined Nikki and Harry stepped closer towards her.

“Are you okay?” he asked, looking down at her as she looked up at him.

“Yeah..just got a little scared” Nikki awkwardly laughed and blushed. “And I didn’t pick up my phone because it’s turned off” Nikki said, looking over at Louis.

“You turned your phone off!?” Louis yelled and went to pinch Nikki’s ear again, but Harry wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her out of harms way. Nikki looked away and didn’t wrap her arms around Harry. She seemed tense and gave me a helpless look.

Hmm...that’s....

“I’m sure there’s a logical reason why” I said, tearing my eyes away from the two..

“I’m going inside, I can’t wait any longer!” Niall said, rushing through Nikki’s front door, to the kitchen no doubt.

“I’m not done with you missy” Louis said, shaking his finger at Nikki before winking at Harry and walking inside with Zayn and Nick. I awkwardly stood outside with Harrys arms around Nikki as Nikki kept stealing glances at me.

“Put your feet on mine” Harry said and Nikki gave him a confused look. “Just do it” he said and she hesitantly obeyed his command. Harry started walking forward, Nikki’s feet on top of his. Nikki squealed and clung onto Harry, her tension easing thanks to Harry.

Nicole’s POV
After throwing away what was left of my old CD player, I walked back into my living with Niall trailing behind me with a bag of chips. I looked around the room full of teenage boys. Nick, Zayn and Liam were all squished on the couch together, casually chatting about something regarding school while Harry fiddled with his fingers.

“So uh-” I awkwardly started, but Louis walked out of the bathroom with the bathroom towel rack.

“Why is there a big hole in the wall?” Louis said, raising his eyebrow and twirling the towel rack.

“I kind of went into survival mode..” I said, blushing and looking away in embarrassment. “And kind of hit that guy with the towel rack....”All the boys immediately bust up laughing, thus making me even more embarrassed.

“Ah now I can’t stay mad at you” Louis said, walking over and tapping the top of my head with the towel rack. I glared at him and snatched it from him.

“It’s not funny, now I have to fix it..Oh my gosh Anjelica is going to kill me!” I said, suddenly becoming aware of the consequence of my action. I dropped the towel rack and smacked my hand to my forehead. “I’m so dead” I whined, becoming more and more worried by each passing second.

“Hey, it’s okay. We got it” Liam said, standing up and walking over to me. He placed his hand on my shoulder and I peeked up at him. “We’ll fix it.” he said with a small smile. His smile made an unconscious smile spread across my lips.

“Don’t you mean you’ll fix it?” Louis sassed.

“Liam and I will do it” Harry said, and I noticed that he had been staring at me. He winked at me and my stomach ficiously churned like a washing machine.

“Thanks” I said, looking away from Harry and into Liams eyes, where my stomach eased and turned to a warm hum. Liam looked strangely handsome and for once I looked at him like I looked at Harry the first time I saw him. Liam is absolutely gorgeous.

This can’t be happening...

“No problem love. Where will I be able to find some tools?” he asked. I shook my head and watched Harry stand up.

“Oh, follow me” I said to Liam and walked down the hall to the laundry room. I heard the door close behind me after entering the laundry room and I turned around to find Harry instead of Liam. In one quick movement Harry grabbed me, turned me around and pinned me against the laundry room door. The only thing I was able to do was blink, looking surprised no doubt. “I thought that you were-” before I could finish, Harry’s mouth was on top of mine.

I closed my eyes and his cherry lips worked eagerly against mine. He keeped me pinned as he gently sucked on my bottom lip. My lips could hardly keep up and air was starting to become something I desperately needed. Harry broke away for a second to breathe, but wasted no time to kiss me again, this time urging my lips to part. And I surely was glad that I gave in.

His tongue slowly made it’s way into my mouth, making me weak in the knees. If Harry wasn’t holding me up, I surely would have collapsed. His tongue met mine and I shivered in complete desire. First he worked slow, tracing every inch of my mouth before he lapped my tongue. I forgot to breathe again and had to pull away, panting quite loudly. Just as I was catching my breath, Harry swooped in once again, tangling his long fingers into my hair.

The feeling of kissing Harry was bliss, and it was a little hard to believe that I was making out with him in my laundry room when just a couple of minutes ago I was thinking of how gorgeous Liam looked, and then a little before that how I was confused about my feelings for Harry and Liam. But kissing Harry right now put away all doubts. There was no insecurity and I didn’t think about him kissing the other girls that came before me.

“Ah...” I gasped, pulling away from Harry for the last time. There was a loud smack of our lips. Brown met green as our chests both rose and fell in synch. I studied the way his eyelashes curled up, and how intense his eyes looked. Harry gently rested his forehead on my shoulder and some of his curls tickled my cheek.

“I thought about you all morning..” Harry whispered.

“Same..” I said. Harry pulled back and gave me one more kiss before fixing my hair. He then turned around and walked to the corner of the small room where the shelf was. On the shelf lied tools and cleaning supplies that Harry looked through until finding what he was looking for. I just watched him, wondering how he just went from heated kissing to looking at supplies like a curious child.

We are exactly a like at times.

I walked over to him and silently checked to see if he got all the necessities. “Is this all?” he asked.

“Yep” I said, nodding.

“What are you two doing in there?” Louis obnoxiously yelled. Harry smirked at me as I blushed and walked over to open the door, but I stopped him.

“Wait!” I whispered and he politely stood, waiting for whatever I was going to do or say next. I quickly fixed his hair that I realised was messed up. “There” I said and opened the door. We both came face to face with Louis. He eyed the two of us and I awkwardly rubbed my arm. He then suddenly broke out into a wide grin and patted Harry on the shoulder.

“Couldn’t help yourself, yeah?” Louis teased.

“I can’t resist” Harry said, and to prove his point he turned my head with his finger and gave me a quick smooch. I blushed as Louis practically squealed. I could tell that Louis wanted to bombard us with questions, but thanks to Harry, it was avoided. For now. “C’mon” Harry said, grabbing Louis and walking down the hall.

As I watched Harry’s tall figure, I came to the conclusion that I have come to accept. It’s a bit scary, but there’s no getting around it. There’s no changing my mind. There’s no doubting it. Gage’s words didn’t seem to affect me anymore. And even though Liam was my best friend and was indeed gorgeous, he didn’t make me feel what I felt for Harry.

It’s crazy.

It’s incredible.

It’s risky.

It’s painful.

It’s beautiful.

It’s raw.

It’s life-changing.

It’s delicious.

It may be even dangerous.

But it’s one hundred percent true...

I barely let out a chuckle as I touched my lips.

































I was in love with Harry Styles.

Notes

There's not much to say....because i can never apologize enough. I just hope that you like this chapter. And I love you guys :D

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