I woke up because of my pillow vibrating, caused by my phone underneath it. Is it time to wake up already?

I opened up my eyes and realized that my whole room was black. Stupid alarm…
I pulled out my phone to cancel the alarm, but something else stroke my mind; it was a call from Louis.
I dragged my finger over the screen to accept the call.

Wait, how much is the clock now again?

“Um… Hello?” I said being slightly surprised by my raspy voice.
“Sarah, I really need to talk to you” I heard him say through the phone.
“Louis, do you have any idea about how much the clock is?” I yawned as I lay back in the bed with my eyes closed, waiting for his answer.
“It is half past three, I know. But I just couldn’t fall asleep. I’ve been thinking about one thing that I really need to talk to you about”
“Uh, well… you may talk” I said as if he was some sort of a servant and I was the queen.
“I can’t talk about it over the phone, I need to see you in person”
“Louis, I’m really tired. Can’t we just talk about it tomorrow?”
“No” he simply replied.

Okay, I’m starting to get a bit anxious. What was going on?

“What is it about?”
The conversation got filled with silence for a few moments.
“It’s about Harry.”
“Where do you want me to meet you?” I asked before even thinking about it.
“I’ll come over to yours right away” he said as he put an end to the conversation.

If I was starting to get a bit anxious earlier, I can definitely admit that I feel like I’m going to die right now.
My stomach was twisted and I felt like having a big lump in my throat.
All of this at the same time, because I knew there were no positive reasons behind him coming over to talk in the middle of the night. And definitely not if it was about Harry, now when we’re in the middle of a small fight. But this time I’m going to swallow my pride. I’m not risking anything.
What were we even fighting about?
I can’t even remember...
Oh yeah, right, Megan and her stupid text message.
This reminded me of the fact that both Louis and Liam have something to do with this, which just made my stomach twist even more, if it’s possible.

I squeezed my eyes once more before I decided to get downstairs and wait for him there, since both of my parents were asleep and I didn’t want to wake them up. And I didn’t want them to know that I was up either. And especially not because of a boy coming to visit me.

I peeked out of the kitchen window, fingering nervously with my hair. All I could see was the streetlights, lighting up the dark atmosphere. There were small puddles everywhere on the ground, guessing it had been raining not so long ago. It was actually looking pretty scary, and I wouldn’t dare to get outside by myself at this point of time.

Finally I saw a silhouette coming closer, guessing it was him.
I opened up the front-door as he climbed inside, while I put my index finger in front of my mouth, showing him that we have to be really quiet. He quickly took his shoes off as we sneaked up to my room. I carefully closed the door behind us, trying to be as quiet as I possibly could.

I turned around and saw that he had taken his jacket off and thrown it on my floor, as he was now sitting on my unmade bed.
Yeah sure, go ahead and make yourself at home…

I was too tired to stand on my feet, so I decided to sit in front of him on my bed.
“What is happening Louis?” I asked him quietly.
He sighed.
“It’s about Megan” he started off, making a pause long enough for me to realize that this didn’t start off well, and it’s definitely not going to end up well either.
“I promised Harry not to tell. But I do think that you should know about it”
“T- Tell me what?” I widened my eyes while my lump in my throat grew even bigger.
“Maybe I should start off from the very beginning”
I only nodded my head in response.

“Well it all started in high school, and all of us boys plus her was attending the same high school. Megan has always been the most popular girl in school, and it’s just like the standard story; every boy wanted her, and every girl wanted to be her and blah, blah, blah. But there’s actually something really special about her… You see, when she wants something, there’s nothing in the whole world that can possibly stop her”

I was just nodding my head the whole time, because I just wanted him to continue.

“At first, she makes you feel really special. I mean, the fact that she has chosen you of all the others. She builds you up, makes you do stuff you usually don’t do. You do some really sick shit, because you really want to impress her. She turns you into something you’re not, and then… well, she tears you down. And the worst part is that there’s nothing you can do about it. It’s like… it’s like magic. A spell.”

He was fingering with the edge of his shirt during the whole time, showing me how nervous he was. And suddenly it stroked me.
“It sounds like you’ve been through it yourself”

Just by the silence I could tell that this was a really sensitive subject for him to talk about.

“She made me feel so special, it felt like I loved her. She made me do some really bad stuff. Stuff that made me hate myself. But one day I was talking to this really pretty girl. She understood me so well, it almost scared me.”
“And that girl was Eleanor” I filled him in realizingly, making him nod his head.

“Later on she showed me what real love is. She’s been the first girl that I’ve trusted. She changed me back, and she loves me for who I am. Not for what I’ll be.” He made another pause.

“And just how Megan was affecting me, she was now affecting my best friend, Harry. Although it only managed to be during the end of the term, which meant that he was still under her spell during the summer break, but he didn’t manage to do something stupid because of the small amount of time he’d been hanging with her before the big break. So therefore I managed to break the spell in the middle of the semester, and it wasn’t easy, believe me. But then he met you, and before he knew of it, his whole world had been turned upside down. Everything was suddenly going great, and we all really do like you because you’ve never tried to change him. You love him just the way he is, and that’s what’s so special about you. You’re just like another version of Eleanor”

I started blushing in the middle of it all. Although it took a while for me to melt all of that information, I still tried to keep up the conversation.

“So what happened when Megan decided to show up again?” I asked, afraid of the answer.
“Sarah…” he started off.
“I promised Harry” he continued.
“But you confessed to me that you thought I should know” I said frustrated.
He sighed while he was nodding his head. He took a deep breath.
“Do you remember that time when he told you that he’d been to that football game nearby?”
“Yeah, what about it?”
“I guess you figured out that I hadn’t joined him at all. None of us went to a football game. There weren’t even a game plaid that very day”
“W- what?”
Sure, I had a feeling telling me that they were lying. But to get that confirmed..? It was actually hurting me. A lot.

“When you texted me, telling me that Harry had told you that he was at the game with me, I called him immediately. He told me everything, and he made me promise to lie to you and he’d stop hanging out with Megan. Which I agreed to”
“W- wait… What do you mean by ‘hanging out with Megan’?” I said while I widened my eyes once more.
“He had been hanging around with Megan many times during his spare time. And during that very evening, he had been out with her on a restaurant. He said it was a friendship thing, but… I don’t know Sarah”

“Are you telling me that Harry has been cheating on me with that bitch? Without me even knowing of it?” I was almost shouting, but then I remembered to keep quiet. But I could still guess that my face was a deep shade of red because of anger.

“No, I’m not telling you anything like that! Let me continue before you make up your mind!” he replied.
“Harry then told her about how much he loves you, and that he doesn’t want to risk anything between the two of you because of her. But instead of her backing off, she decided to say that he ‘deserves better than you’, and that he should dump you because you’re nothing more than just disturbance. Which for a fact is totally not true! But that’s what she told him this the very day you and him left school. That was why he was so angry and upset. And he told me this whole story the night after, when you had just picked up a fight. He was really upset and he told me that his whole heart was shattered into pieces. I even think he was crying at one point, I couldn’t really tell. But if he was, you should know that that’s some really deep shit”

He made a long pause

“Please Sarah, forgive him for what he have done. He loves you so much, believe me”

I was in complete shock as my mouth felt like being as dry as sandpaper
It all makes sense now. The text from her, him acting so strange…
How could I be so stupid?

Notes

Okay now guys, honestly, did you see that one coming?
I HOPE NOT!
Wow, it's finally out. The main reason behind all of Harry's strange acting. Who Megan is, and the story behind Louis & Eleanor. But then again, what does that have to with Liam?

Hehe, kisses xx