I woke up next to a warm solid body. I snuggled into him closer. The scent of Harry filled my nostrils as I pulled the blanket up higher over my naked body. I looked at the person next to me and screamed. He jumped up startled.

“NIALL?” I asked.

“Holy hell. What did we do?” he asked lifting the blanket, wiggling his eyes.

“This is no time for joking!” I swatted his chest.

“Well we’ve already done it, no use in trying to change that.”

“What are we gonna do Niall?”

He sighed loudly, “Get dressed, we’ll go get some coffee and talk this through, it’s gonna be okay Spenc.”

I nodded as he left the room still naked, he had an adorable bum, no Spencer! I tugged on a pair of Harrys sweat pants and found a shirt I had left over. I threw my hair on top my head and headed out to the kitchen.

“Ready?” Niall asked from behind me, making me jump. I nodded again and we left the apartment. The elevator ride was silent, what do you say to the kid you just cheated with?

As we neared the front door we noticed the crowd of paparazzi and fans that had gathered in front of the building.

“I’ve been with Harry and there hasn’t been one person here before.” I said

“We’ll thanks to your meltdown at the restaurant, people followed us back here and now they know.” He shrugged.

“Oh sorry, I did act like an idiot.” I frowned.

“Ya think?” he joked.

I sighed knowing he was right, it was crazy when I went out with Harry. We made our way outside and the group of people went crazy. The flashes from cameras were blinding and the question being shouted at us were absurd.

“Niall, are you stealing Harrys girlfriend while he’s at home for his Grandmothers funeral?” “What’s going on between you two?” “Are you guys good friends?” “Do you miss Harry?” “When’s Harry coming back?”

We made our way through the crowd onto the street, the paparazzi following closely behind us.

Once we got inside the Starbucks, the craziness died down a bit. We ordered our drinks, Niall of course getting food too. After receiving our order we found an empty couch and plopped down. Niall chose to sit awfully close, but I wasn’t gonna say anything, I knew he was just being over protective since I was new to this life.

“At least no one else stayed at the flat so it’s our secret.” He started.

“I guess, I still don’t know what to do.” I sighed.

“Well we have to tell him sooner rather than later.”

“I know but I wanna put it off as long as we can, I don’t like fighting with Harry. I care so much about him and I feel like shit.”

“How do you think I feel? I’m one of his best mates.” He ran a hand through his messy hair. “We’re in a band together for god sakes. How did we end up in this situation?”

“You kept giving me shots and one thing led to another.” I blurted out, quickly covering my mouth.

“Well I guess being drunk makes it marginally better. But not much really.” He said frowning.

“He comes back tomorrow, I’m picking him up. How am I supposed to not blurt it out?” I sighed.

“Well just keep calm, just try and act normal. We can figure out when we’ll tell him.”

“We’ll tell him?” I asked, surprised thinking he was going to make me tell him alone.

“Yeah, it took both of us to do this, so I’m not backing out now. We are in this together.”

“That means a lot Niall.” I smiled, placing my hand over his.

“Spencer, the paps are gonna think we’re dating, not you and Harry.” He joked, realizing what he meant I quickly retracted my hand. I looked towards the window and noticed the swarm of paparazzi still outside.

“That’s going to go viral pretty fast huh?”

He looked outside and laughed, “Harry will know something’s going on before he even gets on that plane tonight.”

“Exactly what I need, great.” I smiled sarcastically.

“Ready to go home?” he asked. I nodded, we stood throwing our garbage away.

“I need to come back to your place though, I left my house keys I think, I can’t find them.” I said rummaging through my wristlet.

“That’s fine, let’s go.”



As we entered the boys apartment, we instantly heard laughter. As Niall shut the door and we made our way into the living room everyone went silent.

“Ah you two are finally back.” Liam looked up at us. “Where were you?”

“Starbucks, we were a tad hungry this morning once we both woke up.” I smiled.

“Sure ya were.” Louis looked at us strangely.

“Lou don’t…” Liam started.

“No, we have too.” He glared at Liam. “Sit, now, both of you.”

Great, they knew. Somehow our secret was no longer a secret. I glanced at Niall, whose ears were turning beat red. This couldn’t go well.

“What’s up?” I tried to act normal as possible, in case this was nothing about me and Niall hooking up.

“Yeah what’s going on Lou?” Niall asked, voice cracking slightly.

“What’s going on? You guys are going to sit there and act like nothing is going on?” Louis raised his voice.

“Louis, stop yelling, I agreed to talk to them but I don’t think this is a yelling matter.” Liam said.

“One of our best mates girlfriend cheats on him with another one of our best mates and I’m supposed to be calm?” he scowled.

“Guys it’s not as bad as it seems.” Niall started.

“How is this not bad?!” Louis jumped up off the couch.

“Calm down Louis, we’ve already talked about this and we’re going to tell Harry when he comes back.” I straightened the wrinkles in my shirt out, avoiding eye contact with anyone but Niall.

“Stop looking at each other!” Louis pointed between us. “How long has this been going on?”

“It only happened last night.” Niall answered.

“And it’s never going to happen again.” I added.

“Damn right it’s never going to happen again! Harry is my brother, and I will not let him date a lying cheater. If you don’t tell him, I will.”

“And if I know one thing about Harry it’s that he doesn’t like being lied too.” Liam stated.

“That’s rich considering what he did to me!” I was getting angry.

“HE didn’t have sex with one of his best friends in his girlfriends bed. He protected her instead.” Louis stated matter of factly.

“A. I’m NOT his girlfriend B. he hid me away, not really protecting and C. I’m handling this, so everyone who isn’t Niall or Harry…” I paused mainly looking at Louis.. “Stay. Out. Of. It.”

With that I turned on my heel, storming out of the room. I started my trek back to the Upper East Side, very upset. I felt like crying because part of me was worried I completely ruined everything with Harry. I wasn’t one for showing much emotion, so this was new. I dialed Harry against my better judgment. It was only 9 in the morning here making it 2 in the afternoon in England. I chickened out and was about to hang up when I heard his raspy voice on the other end.

“Hey baby.” He said, I could tell he was wearing a huge smile.

“H-Hey.” I stuttered out.

“What’s wrong Spencer?”

“Nothing, I was just calling to make sure everything was okay and I was still getting you tomorrow?”
Wow how lame do you sound right now Spencer?

“Yeah, yeah as far as I’m aware everything is the same. I’m heading to the airport now, I’m leaving about 5pm here so a couple hours, and I’ll be at JFK around 2 pm tomorrow.”

“I still don’t get why you didn’t take up the private plane offer.” I joked. Jack, the boys’ manager, offered for a private flight to be arranged for him, but refused, saying he liked to feel ‘normal’.

“I just want to be me.” He laughed. “Babe, I can’t wait to see you. I miss you.”

“I miss you too Harry. It’s been an interesting week without you here.” I said, without realizing what I was talking about.

“What do you mean? What’s been going on? I saw pictures of Liam, Lou and the girls leaving the building online this morning. It was quite funny actually.”

“Yeah, last night got a little crazy. I’ll tell you everything when you land tomorrow on our way back. But I gotta run, I’m about to head onto the subway.”

“Alright, I’ll call you when I land tomorrow.”

“Bye Harry, have a safe trip.” I was about to hang up when he caught my attention. Harry was talking to someone, a male, he thought he had hung up.

“Yeah, that was her, she’s really great. I can’t wait for you guys to meet her one day.” He paused, the other person talking, I couldn’t make out what they were saying though.

“Yeah, mum will flip, she’s going to love her.” he paused again. “No, I don’t love her, not yet
anyways. It’s getting close though, she’s so perfect, everything about her, she just takes my breathe away with everything she does.” Another pause. “Yeah right, she’s not like anyone else I’ve dated before, I doubt she’d do anything to ever hurt me. Another long pause, I heard Harry sigh. “Ella, is just Ella. I don’t know. I’ll always have a thing for her, I guess. But I care about Spencer way more than to do something stupid.” Pause. “Shut up! I told you nothing happened! A few drinks after the wake and then we hung out at her flat. That’s it.” The other person said something that caused Harry to laugh. “She’s fit, I know. Now stop.”

I was so screwed but apparently Harry had secrets of his own. I had done the worst thing possible to hurt Harry, and he almost loved me?! I hung up quickly and went down the stairs to the trains. I needed to get home and talk to Kasi and Ana. But what did Harry mean by he’d always have a thing for her? That’s the girl that I saw the picture of. Maybe we both had some explaining to do. I knew this was too good to be true.

Notes

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrgh, so much is happening, trust me, it all helps in the end.

sorry if you hate this, just wait. Everythings going to be okay! and it's almost time to meet Ella. She's a huge part in the story coming up.

let me know what you think!