HARRY's POV
I woke up in the morning thanks to the alarm I forgot to set off. I was up already anyway so I slowly made my way downstairs and found Louis, Liam, and Zayn already having breakfast.
“Morning.” I said as I sat down on my usual seat beside Louis.
“Morning.” The rest of them greeted, nothing more, nothing less. I gave a little sigh as I took some toast and put it on my plate to butter.
“Harry did you go downstairs last night?” Liam asked.
“Yeah…”
“Turn off the lights next time.” Liam sighed, sounding a bit… annoyed?
“M’sorry.” I mumbled, immediately looking down at my toast to avoid eye contact.
“Liam chill, it was just two light bulbs.” I heard Louis say from beside me. “What were you doing up, anyway?” Louis asked in a much gentler tone than Liam used.
“I… just went down for a drink.” I lied. I didn’t really feel like admitting I soiled some sheets again, not with the mood Liam was in. I could tell Louis didn’t believe me, but thankfully he just let it go. Halfway through breakfast Niall decided to join us.
“Morning Niall.” I said, hoping he feels a bit better. “Are we--.” I was going to ask him if we were still hanging out today, but I was cut off by his facial expression and I literally sunk in my seat.
“Niall, Harry greeted you.” Zayn said, looking pointedly at Niall.
“What?” Niall asked as he sat down. “Oh. Morning.” He huffed. Okay so I guess hanging out was out of the question.
Like our car ride home last night, everyone remained silent as we had our breakfast. Once Niall and Zayn were done, the two of them went upstairs without saying one word. Louis left too, but at least he acknowledged me by even just ruffling my hair a bit before leaving. I grabbed my plate and brought it to the sink since our dishwasher was broken and it was mine and Liam’s turn to clean up. I was about to turn around to ask Liam to pass me the rest, since we usually do the dishes by pairs, but he was already gone.
I sighed before gathering all the dishes, silverware and glasses to wash them up in the sink. I was dead tired from last night, but I didn’t really have much of a choice. I got it done in about 15 minutes and just crashed on the sofa for a bit to rest. I didn’t even realize I fell asleep until I was woken up some time later by someone noisily going down the stairs. I sat up straight just in time to see Niall storm through the living room.
“Niall?” I asked, a bit confused. Niall didn’t acknowledge me again, and just went out, slamming the door a bit on his way out. I frowned to myself and shook it off, deciding to just take a shower first.
Lunch was practically the same as breakfast; insanely quiet, and yet again I was left to wash the dishes by myself. I wouldn’t complain on a regular day but the fact that no one was talking and Niall seemed really mad made things just completely worse.
I decided to bake some cupcakes since I knew the lads loved them, in the hopes of having them feel a bit better. I was trying to convince myself that they weren’t mad at me, like what Louis said. Maybe they were just having their own problems… yeah that’s it.
It took an hour and 45 minutes, but I did it! I even used their favorite colors for the icing and everything. I arranged them neatly on a nice platter before grabbing all the utensils and washing the dishes for the third time today, alone. I looked back at my work and couldn’t help but feel pleased with myself. I decorated some to make them look like our outfits from the UAN tour!
I went upstairs to call them all and stopped at Liam’s door first.
“Li?” I said while knocking. In a moment Liam’s door was opened and I was greeted by a not-so-pleased looking Liam. “Li can you come downstairs with me?” I asked in the most innocent voice I could muster.
“Maybe later, Harry.” Liam sighed.
“Oh… okay.” I said. Liam gave me a straight smile before closing the door shut. I pursed my lips and forced myself to try some more.
“Zayn? Can I come in?” I said as I knocked on the door to Zayn’s room. Zayn opened up the door in a few seconds, but I didn’t even have the chance to talk.
“Harry I’m kinda busy right now… let’s talk some other time, okay?” Zayn said… I just nodded my head, feeling rather dejected and defeated.
LOUIS’ POV
I got bored in my room and decided I should just watch some tv downstairs with Harry, but when I went out I was a bit surprised to find Harry standing by Zayn’s door, looking a bit sad.
“Hey Harry,” I said. “what’s wrong?”
Harry jumped a little, probably surprised by my sudden appearance. He tried to mask his sad expression, but I already saw it, anyway.
“Hi Lou.” He tried to say in a happy voice. “Do you want some cupcakes?”
“Did you make them?” I asked with a small smile.
“Yeah…” Harry said, looking down afterwards.
“Then I’d love to.” I said. “Come on, you got my attention.” I chuckled as I wrapped an arm around Harry and we both made our way downstairs. While we were walking that’s when I figured Harry was probably just sad because Zayn and Liam wouldn’t try his cupcakes at the moment. The two were just a bit preoccupied, that’s all, but I’m sure they’ll eat some later.
“These are amazing, Harry.” I said in complete honesty as I bit into one of them.
“Thanks.” Harry said with a small smile. I took another bite before looking at Harry, and he really did seem off. He was biting his lip, playing with his hands, his back was hunched and his eyes weren’t as happy. I put my half eaten cupcake down before walking around the table and sitting next to our youngest friend.
“What’s bothering you kitten?” I asked in a soft voice, bending over a bit so I can look at Harry.
“You know I didn’t mean it, right?” Harry started, not making eye contact still. “What happened last night… at the interview?” Well of course I knew that. I thought I already told Harry that last night? Was that what’s been bothering him all along?
“Harry I already told you, we know okay?” I said. “No one’s mad at you, kitten.” I tilted his chin up so he could look at me. Harry pursed his lips, sighed and just nodded.
“Maybe a short nap will do you good.” I suggested, since Harry didn’t look fully convinced, but he looked fully tired. “You can take a nap in my room, come on.” I said as I scooped Harry up easily into my arms. I kissed his cheek before making my way upstairs into his room first so I could get him into a diaper.
“Didn’t you sleep well last night?” I asked as I brought the front of the diaper up.
“I was just having bad dreams…” Harry mumbled. I finished diapering him up before scooping him back into my arms. I bent down afterwards to grab Harry’s bear from the bed.
“Well you know those aren’t real, right?” I whispered as I carried him to my room. “We won’t let you get hurt.”
“Yeah.” Harry said. I gently lay him down on my bed and gave him Dusty (his bear, cute right?) to cuddle with. I put a blanket over Harry before sitting down next to him.
“You get some rest, you’re probably just a bit tired.” I said in a soft voice before I started singing him a lullaby and stroking his hair. After the second song Harry started breathing evenly, but I could tell he was still awake… If I hadn’t know any better I’d say he was pretending to be asleep.
“Sleep tight.” I whispered as I bent down and planted a kiss on his forehead. I brought the blanket up to his shoulder and left Harry with the lights on, figuring he probably just wanted to be left alone.
LIAM POV
Waking up from a two hour nap, I could say I felt a whole lot better. I got home around 4am last night due to some errands I had to do, which explains my mood earlier today. I vaguely remember Harry wanting me to go downstairs with him so I got up and decided to make it up to the kiddo. When I got downstairs though, only Louis was there.
“Louis? Where’s Harry?” I asked.
“Oh you’re up!” Louis said, turning around to look at me. He was watching a show on television. “Well, Harry’s taking a nap in my room,” He said. “But I think it’s about time to wake him up.” He continued after he looked at his watch.
“Alright, I’ll go get him.” I said before turning around to head back upstairs. I was just outside Louis’ room when I heard someone, presumably Harry, crying inside. I slowly opened the door and sure enough Harry was curled up into a ball, clutching Dusty close as tears continuously streamed down his face.
“Harry baby?” I said softly so as not to scare him. “What’s wrong?” I walked over to Harry and sat down beside him. “Did you have a bad dream?” I asked, since that was usually the reason. Harry didn’t look at me but he tried to stop crying, but it was a bit of a fail attempt.
“Harry come on, tell me what’s wrong?” I said as I picked him up and cuddled him on my lap. We stayed like that for some time as I rubbed Harry’s back, trying to calm him down. Louis probably wondered what was taking so long since after a couple of minutes he came in.
“What happened?” Louis asked, a concerned look on his face as he took in the sight in front of him.
“I don’t know, he was already crying when I got here.” I sighed.
“P-please don’t be mad.” Harry cried, which utterly confused me more. “I’m sorry.”
“What? Why what happened?” I asked, genuinely confused.
“I think I know what’s up.” Louis told me. “Harry baby is this about the interview?” Louis asked in a gentle tone, and I looked down to see Harry nodding. “He thinks we’re mad at him.” Louis sighed, now talking to me.
“Harry, we’re not mad at you over some stupid interview.” I said, hugging him a bit tighter.
“But…” Harry stopped talking and pursed his lips, looking even more upset.
“But what? Kitten you can tell us anything.” I said.
“Everyone seems so mad… like how you took a different car home last night… And…”
“Harry didn’t anyone tell you?” I frowned. “I had to do some errands, that’s why I took a different car. And I got home around 4am which probably explained how I acted this morning.” I sighed, finally realizing how awful I probably sounded earlier. I snapped at Harry because he left two lights on for crying out loud! “I’m not mad at you, I promise. No one is.”
“N-n-not even Z and Ni?” Harry hiccupped. Louis and I made eye contact, wondering what Harry was getting at, and I swore we both made the same “Oh shit” expression at the same time.
“Harry, Niall had an argument with his brother,” I explained. “He went out to meet his brother so they can settle things a lot easier, but that’s just it.”
“But it was since last night.” Harry frowned.
“Yeah, it started after our interview when he texted Niall.” I frowned. Didn’t anyone tell Harry anything?
“And Zayn just wanted to spend the day skyping with Perrie.” No matter how cheesy it sounded, it was true. The two lovebirds haven’t talked in months and this was an open opportunity so Zayn naturally took it. “You know how much he misses her.” Luckily, Harry finally stopped crying and was reduced to sniffles.
“M’sorry.” He said after some time. “For jumping to conclusions…”
“It’s our fault, Harry. We should be sorry.” Louis said.
“Yeah, we completely forgot to tell you even just one detail. We’re sorry.” I said, kissing the top of Harry’s head. “Hey, I saw Louis digging in to some great looking cupcakes earlier, did you make those?” I smiled, trying to lighten the mood.
“Yeah.” Harry said, finally making eye contact.
“They’re amazing, Liam.” Louis said.
“How would I know? You practically ate them all!” I joked, making Harry laugh a little.
“I did not!!!!” Louis defended. “Yet…” miserably, may I add.
“Come on, I wanna try at least one cupcake before Louis devours them all.” I joked as I stood up with Harry in my arms. We went downstairs to the dining room where the cupcakes were set so I can try one for myself. I sat Harry down on a chair and sat beside him as I grabbed one for each of us.
“Hey guys!” I turned around to see Zayn walk into the dining room. He looked happy, I guess he just really missed Perrie. He took one look at Harry though and saw his tear streaked face. He was about to open his mouth to ask what was wrong, but luckily Louis was behind us and was making hand gestures at Zayn to say nothing about it, so Zayn stayed quiet.
“Wow did you make these Harry?” Zayn asked, trying to cover up the silence before.
“Uhhuh.” Harry said, sounding even the slightest bit better. Zayn looked at me for an explanation, but I just mouthed a “later,” not wanting to upset Harry again.
“Wow can I try some?”
“Yeah they’re for all of us.” Harry said, smiling a bit. We all sat around, eating the cupcakes Harry made, seemingly a lot happier than earlier. Zayn was even messing around with Harry now, eating the cupcake in such a way that icing got onto his nose so he can get Harry to laugh. Half an hour later I was about to suggest we save some for Niall, when the lad himself walked in.
“You fix things with your brother?” Zayn asked as Niall sat down on the other side of Harry.
“Yeah,” Niall sighed. “Wasn’t easy, but we’re good now.” He said, running his hand through his hair. “Hey Harry,” He said, smiling at Harry. Harry was still a bit surprised but he smiled back nonetheless.
“We saved some cupcakes for you.” Harry said cutely.
“Aw, thanks kitten.” Niall smiled, giving Harry a one arm hug. Luckily, everything went back to normal, and everyone was a lot happier, especially Harry. Niall also noticed that Harry looked like he cried, but I told him I’d just explain later. The rest of the day passed smoothly and in no time Harry and I were washing the dishes after dinner.
“Can we watch a movie after?” Harry asked as he placed the last plate down.
“Not tonight.” Niall said from the table.
“Why not?” Harry frowned.
“You need to get some rest, we’re still having our Narry day tomorrow.” Niall said with a playful wink.
“We are?” Harry said, looking a bit shocked… I guess we also failed to tell him Niall did say he and Harry were just going to hang out the next day…
“Yeah, didn’t I tell you..?” Niall frowned, and Harry shook his head. “Well, now you know!” Niall chuckled. “Li I’m gonna steal this one from ya!” He said as he made his way towards us and scooped Harry up into his arms. “He’s gonna need all his energy for tomorrow.”
“Alright, you can go Harry.” I chuckled.
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Niall brought Harry upstairs to get ready for bed, and Harry fell into a peaceful sleep at last. When Niall went back downstairs once he was sure Harry was asleep, Liam and Louis had a lot of explaining to do. Niall and Zayn looked utterly guilty, but they all felt that way. Needless to say, the following morning before Niall and Harry left, was full of apologies and cuddles.
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sorry for the crappy ending, but it was already too long D;