Not One Alike
Chapter 4
Liam
“C’mon, M, just this one!” I heard Lou try to convince Kenzie to have a drink. “We’re in the UK, it’s legal here!” We were at a club in Cambridgeshire, so if there was a problem with Ellabree, we could get home quickly, in about 15 minutes, tops.
I laughed a little when I heard Kenzie cuss out Louis. “I’m not going to get fucking drunk like all these sluts here.” Kenzie said, with the hint of a smile on her face. “I’m a young professional athlete who can’t afford to ruin my career over one stupid night. Now fuck off, Lou.”
He rolled his eyes and snatched a glass of water out of her hand. “At least have a coke or something. You’re not coming to a club and having nothing but water.”
“Fiiiine,” she scoffed, but she smiled at Louis as he waved over the bartender. I smiled to myself as I saw Louis and Kenzie fight over who was buying her drink. They are so funny together, they would be amazing best friends.
Maybe they might date one day. That would be so cute. Lou and Kenz could go on dates with me and Ell, and we could-
Stop.
Liam, you just said you could go on double dates with Ell. Thank god I didn’t say it out loud, I thought to myself. I had secretly fancied Ell for 2 years now. Sure, she was a year younger than me, and sure, the band and basically the whole country always have joked that Harry should go out with her, but she was secretly mine.
She was my celebrity crush, my dream girlfriend. Harry liked Rihanna, and I like Ell. I just have to keep that a secret. I have for 2 years now, I thought sadly. I guess I just have to keep it a secret for a little longer.
“I’m gonna have you naked by the end of the song,” sang Justin Timberlake, also known as Harry’s ringtone. Was there an emergency with Ell? Shit. Kenzie will kill me.
“Harry?” I answered the phone, moving away from the bar and walking towards the exit. “Is everything ok with Ell?”
“Well, nice to see I'm the first priority.” I could tell he was rolling his eyes right now. “No,” Harry replied. “Ell’s fine, she’s making us dinner right now. I needed to talk to you, though. It’s really important, and I needed to talk to you.”
“Me? Important?” I asked, kind of confused. Harry would give us every gross detail of his sex life, but he doesn’t really tell us any of his important problems. “Umm, can’t you just get some hot chick wasted, fuck her, and tell her then?” I questioned him. “She won’t remember anything, so it would be a safe way to get it out. Isn’t that’s how you solve every problem?”.
“God, Liam, I don’t solve every problem like that. I just need some advice, and I trust you the most with this.” What? “Umm,” I was super confused. “Okkk, so, what do you want to talk about?”
“Ok,” Shit. He sounded really serious. “You have to promise not to tell anyone.”
“Ok, Harry, I promise. Just spill.” “Ok.” He sounded really serious. “When I was at home with Ell-“
“What does the fox say? Bring Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding-“ What. The. Hell. That was Kenzie’s ringtone that she set for herself. Why was she calling me? She’s literally two feet away from me.
“Umm, sorry Harry. I have another call. Why don’t we talk tomorrow?” “Yeah, I guess so. See you tomorrow at Nandos.” Hey sounded really sad. “Yeah, see you then. Bye.” I hung up and answered Kenzie’s call, still confused why she would call me.
“Why are you calling me?” I don’t care if I sounded rude, but Harry was about to tell me what happened, and Kenzie just had to call! And, his problem involved Ell. What did he do to her? “Well, I’m sorry, but Lou just wanted me to tell you that you’re wasting daylight,”
“Oh,” I was kind of upset now. “Now it’s my turn to be sorry! I just got off the phone with Harry, who, by the way, seemed really upset, and, in case you forgot, he’s the one taking care of your best friend, so tell Louis to lay off! ‘Kay?”
“Fine,” She said, and I could hear the sarcasm dripping off her voice. “Someone’s on their period.” Then she hung up.
“Kenzie!” I walked over to the bar. I feel kind of bad now, and Kenzie shouldn’t have to suffer because I'm really protective. “Listen, I'm sorry, I’m just a little upset, that’s all.”
She smiled at me. “It’s ok, Liam. I’m honestly freaked out about Ell, too.”
“Yeah, well, we can be freak out buddies tonight, cause I don’t think I can really have fun.” I admitted. Zayn walked over and grabbed my arm. “C’mon, Liam! Do you need me to start singing?”
“Noooo,” Zayn starts singing whenever people don’t do what he wants. It’s funny, I guess, but he matches the song to the situation, so it’s instead of just talking. One time, he started singing Party in the U.S.A when we landed in L.A.X for a concert. So embarrassing. I wrestled out of his grip and grabbed a seat next between Kenzie and Joey.
“Alright, freak out buddy,” I motioned to Kenz. “I think I need to have a proper introduction to your godly friend here,” I elbowed Joey playfully.
“Please stop,” Joey smiled. “People call me Zeus and other stupid stuff. I just went to the Olympics. I mean, no big deal.”
“NO BIG DEAL!” Niall practically yelled. “You won, like, more medals then Michael Phelps ever did in one Olympics. He won, like, 5 medals in one games? You won 7. And, you were 16”
“Plus,” Zayn added. “You just happened to be able to date Alex Morgan for 3 years. Alex Morgan!” I rolled my eyes at that statement, but Joey found that funny and laughed.
“Yeah, I get that a lot. The only reason we actually broke up was because we were both focused on sports. It was hard, but we’re good friends now. Plus, she was, what, 4 years older than me?” Joey pointed out, shooting a look at Kenzie as I saw her face go red. Wait, didn’t she date Zac Efron, with, what, 6 year age difference?
“Danielle Peazer and I were 5 years apart.” I jumped in, getting a grateful look from Kenzie. I knew she got a lot of hate for dating someone so old and having her still in school. “As long as it’s less than 10 years apart,” Niall added. “More than 10 just gets a little creepy.”
“Well!” Lou said, making me jump. “That was a lovely story, heartwhelming actually, but we happen to be just sitting here. So, let’s do something actually fun!”
“Well, Einstein,” I heard Kenz joke. “What are we going to do?”
“Let’s go crazy crazy crazy ‘till we see the sun!” Shit. Zayn started singing. “Let’s go dance!” I heard Niall say as I watched Louis pull Kenzie on the dance floor. “Anything to stop Zayn’s singing.”
“Hey!” he pouted, giving me a puppy face. “You know,” Joey said, brining Zayn back to reality. “We could just watch Kenz and Lou dance,” I smiled as I saw Kenz arguing with Lou on how she didn’t want to grind on him.
“You’re drunk, Lou!” She pushed him off her, while he was grabbing onto her. “You twerked on me at Harry’s, this isn’t any different.” he pouted, as Kenzie shot me a look reading ‘Help Me’ I shrugged my shoulders as Lou started trying to kiss her.
“This could be interesting,” Zayn leaned over and whispered, and I smiled in response. I just wish that could have been me and Ell, though. Then it would be interesting. At least, to me.
“Louis Tomlinson!” I heard Kenzie shout in the room next to mine. “You need to sleep. Get in the bed right now or else I will eat you with a spork!” I laughed as I sat down on the couch in Niall’s living room. We were at the house Niall bought in Northampton, and everyone was already asleep except for me, Kenz, and, at the moment, Louis.
It was about 2:30 in the morning, and the only ones who were not drunk are me and Kenz. I hate alcohol, but for the guys who drank, who were Joey, Niall, Zayn, and Louis, they were absolutely hammered.
We had a very interesting night clubbing, including Lou trying to take Kenzie home and ‘do stuff’, Zayn thinking Niall was a girl, and some really aggressive blonde named Regina who will soon be getting a restraining order.
“Oh my fucking god Louis! I am not Harry!” Kenzie sighed from the room she was in. “Go to bed. Now.” She walked out of the room, shutting the door and collapsing on the couch next to me, smiling.
“God, Lou’s acting like he’s 6 years old! Is he always like that?” I laughed and shook my head.
“Not all the time, but when he’s drunk, he’s absolutely impossible to take care of.” She rolled her eyes. “Well, next time we go clubbing, I’m not taking care of him.” Hold on. She said ‘next time’.
This isn’t just a one-time thing? “Next time?” I asked her, making sure she meant to say that. “We barely know you guys. Well, Harry and Ell are getting a little too close to comfort, but the rest of us are just getting to know each other.”
“Well,” she looked down at her legs, a blush rising to her cheeks. “I don’t know, I guess I wasn’t thinking, but-,” she stopped. “Never mind. Ell would kill me.”
What? “Why would Ell kill you?” “
Umm,” she sounded really uncomfortable. “She kind of doesn’t like you guys.”
“Oh.” I hope I didn’t sound too disappointed.
Coming from the girl who I basically counted down the days until I could meet her, that statement really hurts. “That doesn’t mean she will always not like you guys!” I knew she was trying to cheer me up, so I put on a smile.
“Well, that’s a relief. I’m glad you guys like us, because I think Niall might want to break off a piece of that,” I joked, motioning to Kenzie.
“What!” Kenzie basically screamed. “Did he tell you that?” Damn. This suddenly got interesting. “No,” I started.
“But if he was to tell me that, would you like that or not?” Kenzie suddenly got super red in the face as she smiled at the ground. “Umm,” she stalled. “Oh my god! It’s seriously fucking 2:35! Why are you not passed out?”
I grinned. She was totally changing the subject, but jokes on her; I slept 14 hours last night, plus a nap on the way to Cambridgeshire. Ha! “I slept about 17 hours last night. Now, stop changing the subject.”
“You know what? I really miss Ell right now. Why don’t we stop being secret buddies and start being freak-out buddies? What happened to that?” Wow, McKenzie Carson is impossible. She totally likes Niall, it’s really obvious from her reaction.
“Yeah, I could use a piece of Ell right now. I think Niall has Fishtail on Apple TV. Wanna watch?” I have secretly seen Fishtail about a million times, because it was Ell’s big break in the show biz. It was made about 2 years ago, and Ell was actually a big supporting character as well as the screenplay writer.
She won at least 4 awards for her acting, and 8 awards for directing, not including the Oscars for best director and best picture. Sure, Ell happened to play a lesbian, but she was hot in that movie.
“Ohmygod yes!” I actually love that movie and have never gotten sick of it even though I’ve seen it about a million times!”
“Well then what are we waiting for?” I grabbed the remote and turned on the TV. You have no idea what goes on in my head as I watch this movie, Kenz. Of course, no one does.
And that’s how I have to keep it. At least, for now.
“C’mon, M, just this one!” I heard Lou try to convince Kenzie to have a drink. “We’re in the UK, it’s legal here!” We were at a club in Cambridgeshire, so if there was a problem with Ellabree, we could get home quickly, in about 15 minutes, tops.
I laughed a little when I heard Kenzie cuss out Louis. “I’m not going to get fucking drunk like all these sluts here.” Kenzie said, with the hint of a smile on her face. “I’m a young professional athlete who can’t afford to ruin my career over one stupid night. Now fuck off, Lou.”
He rolled his eyes and snatched a glass of water out of her hand. “At least have a coke or something. You’re not coming to a club and having nothing but water.”
“Fiiiine,” she scoffed, but she smiled at Louis as he waved over the bartender. I smiled to myself as I saw Louis and Kenzie fight over who was buying her drink. They are so funny together, they would be amazing best friends.
Maybe they might date one day. That would be so cute. Lou and Kenz could go on dates with me and Ell, and we could-
Stop.
Liam, you just said you could go on double dates with Ell. Thank god I didn’t say it out loud, I thought to myself. I had secretly fancied Ell for 2 years now. Sure, she was a year younger than me, and sure, the band and basically the whole country always have joked that Harry should go out with her, but she was secretly mine.
She was my celebrity crush, my dream girlfriend. Harry liked Rihanna, and I like Ell. I just have to keep that a secret. I have for 2 years now, I thought sadly. I guess I just have to keep it a secret for a little longer.
“I’m gonna have you naked by the end of the song,” sang Justin Timberlake, also known as Harry’s ringtone. Was there an emergency with Ell? Shit. Kenzie will kill me.
“Harry?” I answered the phone, moving away from the bar and walking towards the exit. “Is everything ok with Ell?”
“Well, nice to see I'm the first priority.” I could tell he was rolling his eyes right now. “No,” Harry replied. “Ell’s fine, she’s making us dinner right now. I needed to talk to you, though. It’s really important, and I needed to talk to you.”
“Me? Important?” I asked, kind of confused. Harry would give us every gross detail of his sex life, but he doesn’t really tell us any of his important problems. “Umm, can’t you just get some hot chick wasted, fuck her, and tell her then?” I questioned him. “She won’t remember anything, so it would be a safe way to get it out. Isn’t that’s how you solve every problem?”.
“God, Liam, I don’t solve every problem like that. I just need some advice, and I trust you the most with this.” What? “Umm,” I was super confused. “Okkk, so, what do you want to talk about?”
“Ok,” Shit. He sounded really serious. “You have to promise not to tell anyone.”
“Ok, Harry, I promise. Just spill.” “Ok.” He sounded really serious. “When I was at home with Ell-“
“What does the fox say? Bring Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding Ding-“ What. The. Hell. That was Kenzie’s ringtone that she set for herself. Why was she calling me? She’s literally two feet away from me.
“Umm, sorry Harry. I have another call. Why don’t we talk tomorrow?” “Yeah, I guess so. See you tomorrow at Nandos.” Hey sounded really sad. “Yeah, see you then. Bye.” I hung up and answered Kenzie’s call, still confused why she would call me.
“Why are you calling me?” I don’t care if I sounded rude, but Harry was about to tell me what happened, and Kenzie just had to call! And, his problem involved Ell. What did he do to her? “Well, I’m sorry, but Lou just wanted me to tell you that you’re wasting daylight,”
“Oh,” I was kind of upset now. “Now it’s my turn to be sorry! I just got off the phone with Harry, who, by the way, seemed really upset, and, in case you forgot, he’s the one taking care of your best friend, so tell Louis to lay off! ‘Kay?”
“Fine,” She said, and I could hear the sarcasm dripping off her voice. “Someone’s on their period.” Then she hung up.
“Kenzie!” I walked over to the bar. I feel kind of bad now, and Kenzie shouldn’t have to suffer because I'm really protective. “Listen, I'm sorry, I’m just a little upset, that’s all.”
She smiled at me. “It’s ok, Liam. I’m honestly freaked out about Ell, too.”
“Yeah, well, we can be freak out buddies tonight, cause I don’t think I can really have fun.” I admitted. Zayn walked over and grabbed my arm. “C’mon, Liam! Do you need me to start singing?”
“Noooo,” Zayn starts singing whenever people don’t do what he wants. It’s funny, I guess, but he matches the song to the situation, so it’s instead of just talking. One time, he started singing Party in the U.S.A when we landed in L.A.X for a concert. So embarrassing. I wrestled out of his grip and grabbed a seat next between Kenzie and Joey.
“Alright, freak out buddy,” I motioned to Kenz. “I think I need to have a proper introduction to your godly friend here,” I elbowed Joey playfully.
“Please stop,” Joey smiled. “People call me Zeus and other stupid stuff. I just went to the Olympics. I mean, no big deal.”
“NO BIG DEAL!” Niall practically yelled. “You won, like, more medals then Michael Phelps ever did in one Olympics. He won, like, 5 medals in one games? You won 7. And, you were 16”
“Plus,” Zayn added. “You just happened to be able to date Alex Morgan for 3 years. Alex Morgan!” I rolled my eyes at that statement, but Joey found that funny and laughed.
“Yeah, I get that a lot. The only reason we actually broke up was because we were both focused on sports. It was hard, but we’re good friends now. Plus, she was, what, 4 years older than me?” Joey pointed out, shooting a look at Kenzie as I saw her face go red. Wait, didn’t she date Zac Efron, with, what, 6 year age difference?
“Danielle Peazer and I were 5 years apart.” I jumped in, getting a grateful look from Kenzie. I knew she got a lot of hate for dating someone so old and having her still in school. “As long as it’s less than 10 years apart,” Niall added. “More than 10 just gets a little creepy.”
“Well!” Lou said, making me jump. “That was a lovely story, heartwhelming actually, but we happen to be just sitting here. So, let’s do something actually fun!”
“Well, Einstein,” I heard Kenz joke. “What are we going to do?”
“Let’s go crazy crazy crazy ‘till we see the sun!” Shit. Zayn started singing. “Let’s go dance!” I heard Niall say as I watched Louis pull Kenzie on the dance floor. “Anything to stop Zayn’s singing.”
“Hey!” he pouted, giving me a puppy face. “You know,” Joey said, brining Zayn back to reality. “We could just watch Kenz and Lou dance,” I smiled as I saw Kenz arguing with Lou on how she didn’t want to grind on him.
“You’re drunk, Lou!” She pushed him off her, while he was grabbing onto her. “You twerked on me at Harry’s, this isn’t any different.” he pouted, as Kenzie shot me a look reading ‘Help Me’ I shrugged my shoulders as Lou started trying to kiss her.
“This could be interesting,” Zayn leaned over and whispered, and I smiled in response. I just wish that could have been me and Ell, though. Then it would be interesting. At least, to me.
“Louis Tomlinson!” I heard Kenzie shout in the room next to mine. “You need to sleep. Get in the bed right now or else I will eat you with a spork!” I laughed as I sat down on the couch in Niall’s living room. We were at the house Niall bought in Northampton, and everyone was already asleep except for me, Kenz, and, at the moment, Louis.
It was about 2:30 in the morning, and the only ones who were not drunk are me and Kenz. I hate alcohol, but for the guys who drank, who were Joey, Niall, Zayn, and Louis, they were absolutely hammered.
We had a very interesting night clubbing, including Lou trying to take Kenzie home and ‘do stuff’, Zayn thinking Niall was a girl, and some really aggressive blonde named Regina who will soon be getting a restraining order.
“Oh my fucking god Louis! I am not Harry!” Kenzie sighed from the room she was in. “Go to bed. Now.” She walked out of the room, shutting the door and collapsing on the couch next to me, smiling.
“God, Lou’s acting like he’s 6 years old! Is he always like that?” I laughed and shook my head.
“Not all the time, but when he’s drunk, he’s absolutely impossible to take care of.” She rolled her eyes. “Well, next time we go clubbing, I’m not taking care of him.” Hold on. She said ‘next time’.
This isn’t just a one-time thing? “Next time?” I asked her, making sure she meant to say that. “We barely know you guys. Well, Harry and Ell are getting a little too close to comfort, but the rest of us are just getting to know each other.”
“Well,” she looked down at her legs, a blush rising to her cheeks. “I don’t know, I guess I wasn’t thinking, but-,” she stopped. “Never mind. Ell would kill me.”
What? “Why would Ell kill you?” “
Umm,” she sounded really uncomfortable. “She kind of doesn’t like you guys.”
“Oh.” I hope I didn’t sound too disappointed.
Coming from the girl who I basically counted down the days until I could meet her, that statement really hurts. “That doesn’t mean she will always not like you guys!” I knew she was trying to cheer me up, so I put on a smile.
“Well, that’s a relief. I’m glad you guys like us, because I think Niall might want to break off a piece of that,” I joked, motioning to Kenzie.
“What!” Kenzie basically screamed. “Did he tell you that?” Damn. This suddenly got interesting. “No,” I started.
“But if he was to tell me that, would you like that or not?” Kenzie suddenly got super red in the face as she smiled at the ground. “Umm,” she stalled. “Oh my god! It’s seriously fucking 2:35! Why are you not passed out?”
I grinned. She was totally changing the subject, but jokes on her; I slept 14 hours last night, plus a nap on the way to Cambridgeshire. Ha! “I slept about 17 hours last night. Now, stop changing the subject.”
“You know what? I really miss Ell right now. Why don’t we stop being secret buddies and start being freak-out buddies? What happened to that?” Wow, McKenzie Carson is impossible. She totally likes Niall, it’s really obvious from her reaction.
“Yeah, I could use a piece of Ell right now. I think Niall has Fishtail on Apple TV. Wanna watch?” I have secretly seen Fishtail about a million times, because it was Ell’s big break in the show biz. It was made about 2 years ago, and Ell was actually a big supporting character as well as the screenplay writer.
She won at least 4 awards for her acting, and 8 awards for directing, not including the Oscars for best director and best picture. Sure, Ell happened to play a lesbian, but she was hot in that movie.
“Ohmygod yes!” I actually love that movie and have never gotten sick of it even though I’ve seen it about a million times!”
“Well then what are we waiting for?” I grabbed the remote and turned on the TV. You have no idea what goes on in my head as I watch this movie, Kenz. Of course, no one does.
And that’s how I have to keep it. At least, for now.
Notes
Ohmygosh I feel sooo bad for dragging out the whole 'Harry' thing! I thought I was pacing this wayy to quick, so I'm setting it back a couple chapters. What do you think about Elliam? Ellarry? Let me know!!
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