Far Away

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Harry's POV 

"What's going on?" I asked Louis cautiously. I'd never seen him so worked up before. 

"I talked to Macy." Louis said. 

"What?" I asked, getting up from the couch. "Are you serious?" 

"Don't get pissed, Harry. She called me." 

I blinked. "She called you?" For weeks I have been sitting by my phone pathetically waiting to hear from Macy, so to hear that she called Louis was a little more than shocking. "What did she say?" 

"She said a lot." Louis said. "Including the reason she broke up with you." 

I bit my cheek. "I already know why-" 

"No, you don't." Louis said, taking a step towards me. "She didn't mean to say it, but it slipped. If didn't happen to El I wouldn't have picked up on it-" 

"If what didn't happen to Eleanor?" I asked with a frown. 

Louis looked around the room as if thinking of the right way to start off what he wanted to say. "It's William." He looked at me to catch my reaction, and when he saw I wasn't following along he continued. "When El and I started dating he tried to convince her that she wasn't right for me. He tried breaking us up. But, unlike Macy, Eleanor confronted me about it. I warned William to never get involved in our personal lives again, he has no right to. But obviously he didn't listen." 

"Macy told you William did that?" 

"She didn't say his name, but it makes sense, Harry. This exact thing happened to Eleanor, too. William has this belief that we should only date girls in the public eye to boost our reputations. Eleanor told me what he said, and it's exactly what Macy was saying too." 

I felt the room spin a little bit. I didn't want to believe Louis. William was with us from the beginning, I didn't want to think he would go behind our backs like that. But I also knew that Louis wouldn't make up something like this.

It made sense, too. Macy went from being her usual self, to ignoring me within hours. Something had to have changed her mind. Someone. But how would have William contacted her. A phone call? 

"Look, Harry. At least confront William about it. I'll go with you." Louis said.

I closed my eyes and took a deep breath, then nodded. "Let's go." 

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Macy's POV 

I stared at my phone, waiting for it to light up. I half-expected Louis to call me back after the abrupt end to our call. I had accidentally let it slip. There was no way that Louis could have caught on to it, though. Right? 

I lay back in my bed and hugged my pillow. What if he did catch on? What if he told Harry what he knew? What would happen? 

What would have happened if I had been honest with Harry? He would deny everything that William had told me. He would assure me. But would he really be telling the truth, or telling me what I want to hear so we could stay together? There was no way that he would admit that was bad for his career. 

And what would William do? He already disliked me, that was obvious from the beginning. It's not like talking to Harry about it would get me in trouble in any way. If anything, he would be the one in trouble. 

I didn't want to cry. I didn't want to be sad anymore. I didn't want to be apart from someone I loved so much. I knew I was being pathetic, but when you're forced to let go of someone you love so much, who made you believe that for once everything was perfect, and genuinely cared about you it hurts. A hurt like that doesn't just disappear over night.