“Liam, I honestly cannot do this!” I threw the bottle of water I was holding as a fake microphone, down on the floor and sat down right next to it. We had arrived to Los Angeles this morning and after sightseeing, which consisted of going to the zoo which only took about an hour or so as well as driving around Hollywood, buying more stuff than any of us needed, we had decided to head back to the arena and get a feel of the atmosphere. However, for me that involved me having to dress in sweats and a tank top. My hair was on top of my head in a bun and I had Liam practicing the song I had chosen to perform. The song had both a male and a female part, so it worked out perfectly.

We had been practicing and mapping out exactly how we were going to step first, and then we decided to actually practice the actual song. All was well until I had to hit the highest note in the song which seemed to be the most difficult part of this practice.

“Kat, you still have time. We have at least a month and a half left. It’s not that big of deal.” I threw myself onto my back and let out a huge sigh.

“Katerina Styles, get up!” I groaned at the sound of my little brother’s voice. He had decided to come along
with us to help out with my vocals, which I was grateful for. However, I usually don’t work with Harry so I forgot how demanding he could be.

“I don’t want to.”

“Katerina, I will go up there myself and stand you up, if you do not stand up!” I groaned, knowing Harry Styles always kept to his word. I stood up on both of my feet and glared down at my brother who was sitting first row in front of the stage. I looked up and took in how huge the Honda Center was, it was crazy how many people could fit in it and tonight the boys were playing a sold out show. I stopped to just take it all in, but the door slamming made me look to where Harry was sitting. In walked Zayn and Louis. Louis was looking down on his phone, though which wasn’t anything new. The past couple of days he had been glued to his phone. I knew exactly who he was texting, but considering I hadn’t talked to him since I told him we were over, it was none of my concern.

I heard Harry and Louis exchange hi’s and then watched as Zayn crawled up on the stage with Liam and me.

“Where’s Niall?”

“Sleeping,” Was all Louis said as he took a seat next to Harry. I didn’t say anything back and looked at Zayn who was talking to Liam.

“How does it feel?” All four boys looked at me.

“What, love?” I smiled at Zayn.

“To perform? To have fans that will support you and to perform for sold old gigs?” There was a moment of silence until Liam decided to speak up.

“I can speak for the lads when I say it’s unbelievable. It’s amazing, it’s a rush like no other and we’re grateful for it every day.” I smiled at them knowing that everything Liam had said was the truth.

“And one day you can have all of it too, but you know how you get there?” I looked down at my brother
waiting for his answer.

“You actually practice and not lay down on the dirty floor!” I laughed at him and threw the water bottle at him. He giggled and sat down.

“Now one more time, Zayn get off the stage and let them practice.” Zayn jumped off of the stage and went to take a seat next to the other two. I sighed and looked at Liam.

“Ready?”

“As ready as I’ll ever be love.” I nodded and waited for the piano to start. We went through what we had practiced, even adding in new moves for now to just play around with the routine. I knew the high note was coming up really soon. Liam had just got done finishing his part as I brought the water bottle up to my mouth and sang the lyrics, I could feel my voice gradually get higher and when I went to sing the note, it wasn’t strong. It was a weak note and I knew it. I threw the water bottle down again, frustrated.

“Kat, what happened? You were doing so well.”

“Nothing! I just can’t hit that note, my voice isn’t strong enough.” I sighed and threw my head back.

“That’s shit and you know it.” I tilted my head back to see Louis still staring down at his phone, but he was the one the voice came from. I waited for him to continue.

“Excuse me?”

“You heard me,” he finally decided to look up from his precious phone. His blue eyes piercing into my green ones.

“My voice isn’t strong-“

“Yes it is Katerina. You’re Harry’s sister and you guys both have really strong voices. You just need to practice more.” I continued to stare at him, taken back with all his advice.

“Someone’s going to need to work with her over the next month between practices. I mean I can-“ Zayn was cut off when Louis stood up.

“I’ll work with her, I can teach her how to use her voice. “ There was a strong tone lingering in his voice and he was staring straight at me. What was he doing?

“Alright it’s settled, Kat you’ll practice your routine with Liam and Louis will help you with the high notes.” I stared at my brother who was obviously oblivious to the whole situation. I looked at Zayn, hoping my facial expression didn’t give anything away. His face was just as shocked as mine, especially because Eleanor was coming very soon.

I heard heels clicking on the floor along with small feet patters. I took my gaze away from Louis and looked behind me. I saw Lou and Lux walking in our direction. Lux was running actually, Zayn jumped onto the stage and ran toward her picking her up.

“Hey Lou,” She smiled at me.

“I’m sorry but I need to take the boys now. I need to get them ready.” I nodded.

“I’ll go with you; I haven’t talked to Tom in awhile.”

“Alright, boys. Come on!” I looked back to Louis and Harry. Harry was already jumping onto the stage, Louis right behind him. He was staring at me, and he was wearing that smirk. It was the Louis Tomlinson smirk and it was the smirk he wore when he just got what he wanted. What exactly was he up to?

x-x

I was laying down on my stomach in the hotel room. I had been in the hotel room all day, after the show last night I had come back to the room I was sharing with Harry and fell asleep. This morning the boys went to go out to eat and went shopping some more for clothes for Carlos’s party tonight.
I had passed the opportunity up considering I already had clothes that I bought yesterday and I needed to finish part of the article to show my editor that I was still doing my job. I had finished it an hour ago and decided to just lay down and get some rest before I had to start getting ready for Carlos’s party. I closed my eyes and decided to try to take a nap but that was cut short. There was a loud knocking on the door making me snap my eyes open.

Harry had told me he was going to text when he was on his way back. I got up from the bed slowly and made my way to the door. I rubbed my eyes and reached for the door knob pulling it open. There stood Louis looking down at his phone, he looked up at me and sent me a small smile. His hair was spiked up a little and he wore a white tank top with some sort of weird design. His legs were covered in black tight pants and I would be lying if I said he didn’t look good.

“What do you want Louis?” He pushed past me and sat on the bed I was currently laying on.

“I’m here for your first vocal practice.” I rolled my eyes and slammed the door when he sent me a cheesy smile.

“Yeah, what the hell! You know you’re the last person I want to deal with, why couldn’t I just work with Zayn?” Louis sighed.

“Because Zayn doesn’t know how to work with higher, lighter notes. My voice is like yours Kat, it’s much softer and much higher than the rest of the boys. They wouldn’t understand how to teach you.”

“And you do?”


“Duh.” I ran a hand through my hair and groaned. I knew if I didn’t go along with this the rest of the boys would get suspicious, but I also knew if I did do this I was risking breaking my word. Especially if Louis kept coming around dressing like how he was but then again Eleanor was coming so maybe I could have some self control. I sighed and looked at him.

“Fine, but I have a couple of rules. Everything I said to you that night still applies. You’re still a dick and I still want nothing to do with you-“

“You can’t be still mad about that?” I glared at him.

“You called me a slut and you said I didn’t deserve Harry, as in my brother. You know I love him more than anything…I’m not having this conversation. Do we have a deal?” He nodded but didn’t say anything.

“Good and you are not allowed to touch me.” He smirked.

“Afraid that you won’t be able to control yourself love?” Even though he was right, it didn’t stop me from rolling my eyes. I’d be damned if I let him know that.

“No, I just don’t want to be touched by the hands that will be all over Eleanor in about two weeks.”The atmosphere in the room got quiet and no one said anything. It wasn’t awkward, it was just tense.

“Who told you about her coming?”

“Zayn.”

“Of course he did, I wanted to tell you myself. I-“

“Can we just not do this, Louis? We’re done, now can we just get on with this lesson.” He sighed and nodded.

“Stand in front of me.” He sat down on the edge of the bed and I walked in front of him.

“Stand up straight but stand in a comfortable position.” I nodded and adjusted my body into a position I was comfortable with.

“Okay, now I am going to sing lyrics to you and you are going to sing them back. Each lyric is going to get higher in tone and you are going to need to hit those notes. You cannot get to the next lyric unless you hit
the right tone, got it?”

“Got it.” He nodded.

“Okay, we’re going to start off slow. Ready?” I nodded. I watched as Louis sang the first lyrics.

“Yellow Diamonds in the light, and we’re standing side by side as your shadow crosses mine, what it takes to come alive.” He looked at me when he was done. I nodded and counted to three before reciting the lines back to him.

“Good, you hit the notes. You let go cause your hope is gone and every question fades away it’s a shame you don’t know what you’re running for, would your bones have to break and your lights turn off would it take the end of time, to hear your hearts false start.” The last line of the lyrics was a tad bit higher than the rest but I was able to hit them. Louis nodded and continued.

“When you’re gone for days, on your own. Tear your heart out just to find your way home, I’ve been so high, I’ve sunk so low. I’ve come so far with nothing to show for it. Mistaken I’ve got so good at taken, but now I’m tired of faking, this story’s getting ooooold.” I sighed, this was a little more complicated and involved my voice to change tones quite frequently. I sang them back and stared at Louis.

“Again.” He sang them to me, making me listen to the way his voice changed. I then sang it back once more.

“Listen to the pitch of the tones, Kat. Mistaken, I’ve got so good at taken, but now I’m tired of faking. This story’s getting ooold.” Every time a note changed and went higher he moved his hand as if on a scale.

“Got it?” I nodded. He nodded at me to go. Right when I was about to sing them back a loud ring rang through the room. Louis looked down at his phone and stared at the screen for a couple of seconds. I knew the ringtone but instead of answering it, he silenced it and looked back at me.

“Go ahead.” I was shocked but continued on with the practice. He nodded once I got those lyrics down.

“Okay, it’s going to start getting higher, do you want to get some water?” I nodded and looked up to see his blue eyes staring back at me. He had a small smile on his face and handed me the water bottle from the desk by the bed. I opened the cap and took a giant swig then threw it back on the bed.

“Ready?”

“Let’s do this.”

“Isn’t she crazy, crazy beautiful? Isn’t she strange, strange and wonderful?” He held out the last notes of beautiful and wonderful. I recited the lines back and he smiled.

“Good. There now, steady love. So few come and don’t go. Will you, won’t you be the one I’ll always know. When I’m losing my control, the city spins around. You’re the only one who knows you slow it down. Ooh, ooh, be my baby. Ohhhhhhhhh…” I smiled recognizing the song right away since he did a cover of it. I
sang the lyrics back and looked at him and I swear there was a charge pulling me to him but I stayed rooted to the spot.

“One more time. You’re the only one who knows you slow it down. Ooh, ooh, be my baby. Ohhhhhhhhh…” I did it again and he nodded his head.

“You need a little more power in the chorus.” I sighed and sang it back again using more force.

“That’s better. Now I’m thinking of all the times you screwed me over. Always making me believe it was something that I had done. But I don’t want to live that way, living into every word you say. You said that you could let it go and I wouldn’t catch you hung up on somebody that you used toooooo knoooooow.” I looked at Louis in awe as he closed his eyes and sung the lyrics and harmonized the last couple of notes. I could tell this pitch was going to be harder to hit and I was proved right when I sang it and my voice cracked. He stood up.

“Again.” I sighed and did it again, this time my voice didn’t crack but it wasn’t strong like Louis’s. He shook his head.

“Again.”

“Louis-“

“Again, Katerina.” I shook my head and did the lyrics again, and again I couldn’t hit it.

“You’re going to get this note today. If you don’t, we won’t go to Carlos’s party and we will stay here all night practicing. You need to really want this. Now go.” I looked at him in shock.

“You’ve got to be kidding me.”

“Does it look like I’m kidding love?” He had on a straight face. So for the next two hours we stayed locked up in the room until I got the pitch note right.

x-x

“That was the longest two hours of my life.” I threw myself on my bed; I could literally feel my throat becoming sore.

“Just make sure you don’t drink too much tonight and you don’t make your voice shot. It won’t help you.” I leaned up to see Louis leaning against the dresser. He was looking at me, waiting for me to say something. The thing was, I didn’t know what to say. I leaned up all the way and fiddled with my hands.

“I just want to say thanks, Louis. I know Liam really wants me to sing and this is the only way in order to sing the song the way I want us too.” He nodded not really saying anything.

“Besides this being for Liam, why else are you helping me? You were so persistent on being the one who helped me.” He sighed.

“Because you do deserve it, Kat. We may not be the best of friends but I can admit when someone has a good voice. You have an amazing one, only if you let yourself show it. You could be going places with us and not just as a journalist. You can have your own tour, but you need to want it. Your brother, look at him. Sure, he’s crazy but he wanted his dream and he worked at it and now he’s here. Plus, since you weren’t talking to me, I figured I could use this practice time to get some conversation in.” I nodded, not fully understanding him. One minute he wants me, the second minute he doesn’t, the next thing you know he wants to talk to me.

“You know I don’t forgive you.” I could see the sadness grace his face.

“I’m not expecting you to.”

“Like I said before, Louis. This changes nothing. You’re just helping me and Liam because Liam wants this for his birthday. If I had a choice, I’d just sit backstage like I always do.” He didn’t say anything. He picked up his phone and shoved it into his pocket.

“I’ll see you later, then.” I nodded and watched as he walked out of the hotel room, slamming the door.

“Now, what to wear.” I stared at my suitcase not knowing what exactly to wear to this party thing tonight. I got up and smiled when I saw an outfit on top of the rest of the clothes. Perfect. I pulled everything else I was going to need, shavers, shampoo, all that jazz. I grabbed the rest of the clothes and made my way to the bathroom to get ready for tonight.

x-x

“Kitty Kat!” I smiled and ran up to Kendall who was sitting on one of the couch’s in Carlos’s living room. We had arrived half an hour ago but there were so many people here that we just found Kendall and Logan. Kendall picked me up and spun me around. Putting me down, he looked behind me.

“Hey boys, help yourselves to some drinks. We don’t mind.” The boys all did their handshakes and I smiled and turned my attention back to Kendall.

“Katerina Styles. You are looking damn good if I say so, myself.” I giggled.

“Are you going to get me a drink or just stand here?” I asked with a small smile on my face. He knew I was joking.

“Kat, remember not too much tonight.” I looked at Louis. He wasn’t staring at me, but more at Kendall. I nodded.

“Thanks Louis, I got it.” Kendall smiled and led me into the kitchen where there were various drinks. It ranged from grey goose to vodka to punch to soda.

“You guys sure it’s safe?” Kendall nodded and took a swig of his drink. He put his cup down.

“Yeah, everyone here is our close friends. Plus, I doubt any of them want their private lives out in the open. So they would do the same and show the same respect.” I nodded, I knew if the press got a hold of any of us in the house, they would have a field day watching all of us drink.

“So how have you been? How’s the tour?” I shrugged.

“The shows have been good and I mean we’ve been to a lot of places but the tours not even half way done and I’m already feeling overwhelmed.” He laughed and pulled me closer.

“I know, it can be but I mean it’s worth it. You get to travel around the state with your brother, seeing things many people only see on the internet, in person.” I snorted.

“Like Liam shirtless?” Kendall shook his head with a playful smile on his face.

“I was thinking more on the lines of Hollywood and New York but sure if that’s what people want to see then you are a lucky girl.” I laughed and poured some vodka into my coke.

“Speaking of, how is Liam?” I looked down to my cup.

“He’s still hurt. I mean him and Dani were together for a long time.”

“I know. I heard and couldn’t believe it.” I nodded.

“And Zayn?” I gave him a confused look.

“Him and Perrie don’t talk?” I shook my head.

“Not that I know of. I mean the last time he talked ABOUT her was a couple months ago. I know she’s been back home for awhile now.” He nodded and shrugged.

“Sometimes it’s just better being single.” I didn’t say anything.

“Not unless you can’t have the person you want.” I didn’t realize I said it aloud until Kendall gave me a weird look.

“Uh oh, you’re not telling me something.” I blushed.

“No, I just meant-“

“Who has caught your attention Kat?” I shook my head.

“No one, I just-“

“KATERINA STYLES!” I let out a squeak when I felt two arms wrap them around mean and spin me around.

“JAMES! PUT ME DOWN!” He was laughing and I was gripping onto his arm for dear life.

“James, you’re going to make her sick.” He finally put me down and it took me a minute to get my sight back.

“Hello!” I shook my head and looked at James. He was much taller than the last time I saw him and he had been working out. His brown hair was shorter but he still had that perfect smile on his face.

“Hello, James!”

“You’re not getting out of the previous question, Kat!” I shot Kendall a look.

“What was the previous question?” James asked.

“She was going to tell me-“

“If I would dance with him!” I shot Kendall a pleading look. I mouthed a I’ll tell you later. If I said anything in
front of James, my secret about Louis would be out and that was the last thing I wanted. James was not one to keep secrets easy, I loved the boy but he was the worst at keeping secrets.

“Well, she can dance with you after she dances with me!” James grabbed my hand and led me to the backyard where other people were scattered. There were tiki torches everywhere and there was a place in the backyard where cement was placed and people could dance on. The DJ was by the wall and there was a pool in the middle of the yard. Carlos Pena was making bank and he made good use of his money.

“James, I just got here. I want to say hi to everyone and make sure my brother is okay!”

“You can say hi to everyone later and your brother is right there! He’s talking to Alexa!” I looked to where James was pointing and found Harry actually talking to Alexa Vega, Carlos’s girlfriend. I shook my head and felt James grab my hips and we started moving to the beat. James’s dancing was much different than the dancing I was used to. Instead of hip to hip and chest to back it was literally just random dance moves that made me burst out laughing. I was twirled around and thrown into someone else’s arms. I looked up and saw Logan.

“Why, hello there darling.” I smiled and laughed as Logan attempted to dip me. It was going to be a long night.
x-x

I stood outside by the pool next to Kendall, Ashley Tisdale, Zayn , and Louis. We were all just talking and Kendall had his hand on my back, just making sure I was okay. Louis would glance at me once in awhile and I kept telling myself it was because he was making sure I didn’t drink too much.

We were all laughing at Ashley’s story about how she had gotten pulled over and the cop didn’t believe she was actually Ashley Tisdale. I then felt my bag be taken out of my hands and I heard laughing.

“Kendall, why did you-” I never saw it coming. All I felt was a body tackle mine and I could hear Ashley and someone else scream. My body was then hit with freezing water and I had realized I was just pushed into the pool. I opened my eyes under the water and could see Niall swimming his way up to the surface. I could feel my lungs clothing and I started swimming upwards grabbing Niall’s ankle along the way.

When we finally came up for air, I let out a huge gasp. I wiped the water from my eyes and flipped my hair back. I blinked and then looked up to see my friends laughing.

“Sorry Kat, we had to give Niall the chance.” I smirked at Niall who was laughing.

“You suck so much right now!”

“I’m sorry love, I was dared to throw you in. So I figured if I went in with you, you wouldn’t be as mad.” I glared at him.

“You were wrong!” I jumped on top of him, pushing him down into the water. I quickly swam away and to the side of the pool where Kendall held his hand out for me. I gratefully, took it and was pulled out of the pool. I shivered from the air hitting my bare skin. I looked back down at the pool to see Niall resurfacing. I stuck my tongue out at him.

“Come on Kat, Alexa should have some clothes you can borrow.” I nodded and followed Carlos into the house. Harry gave me a small smile and I glared at him.

“You were the one who dared Niall!” He started laughing.

“I’m sorry! It was just way too easy.” I pouted.

“You suck, Styles.”

“You know I love you Kat.” I shook my hair getting some water on him and continued following Carlos into the house. I ignored the looks I was getting from people and followed him upstairs. Carlos’s house was a nice house for just it being the two of them. He led me to a door on the far left of the hallway. He walked in and I took in my surroundings.

There were two brown dressers against the walls. A vanity on the other wall, a window behind it. There was a huge King bed in the middle of the room and a small bathroom connected to the room. I was assuming this is where they slept. I looked back at Carlos who was pulling out clothes from the drawers.

“Here are some clothes and a towel. I mean, I doubt she’ll mind if you wear them and she’ll understand. Go ahead and put them on. I’ll dry your clothes when you’re done. You can change in here.”

“Thanks Carlos.”

“No problem, just come back down when you’re done.” I nodded and watched him close the door behind him. I sighed and shuffled out of my shorts and shirt as well as my bra and panties. I took the towel and dried myself off real quick. I then put the towel around my hair considering it was soaked. I sighed and looked back down at the pile of clothes. It was a simple outfit, bra, panties, jean shorts and a tank top.
I slid the panties and bra on. The bra was a little small but it was okay, my boobs would be covered up with the tank top. I heard a knock on the door, I expected it to be Alexa.

“Come in.” I didn’t turn around as I squeezed my hips into the jeans. Alexa was not as curvy as me around the hip area so it was a struggle.

“Hey, thanks for letting me borrow the clothes. I mean I can’t believe Niall did that. I’m almost done getting dressed though, so Carlos could dry my clothes.” I turned around and looked up from the button on the pants. Alexa was not the one standing in front of me, it was Louis. I saw his eyes roam my body and I covered my midriff with my arms.

“What are you doing here, Louis?”

“You said I could come in!”

“I thought you were Alexa!” He smirked.

“It’s been awhile since I’ve seen you like this. I won’t lie, I missed it.” I shook my head.

“Get out Louis,” Instead of listening, he moved closer to me.

“I’ve missed you Kat.”

“You just saw me!”

“No, I missed you…” His hand cupped my crotch through the jeans and I jumped away from him.

“NO!”

“I know you’ve missed me Kat. I-“ He was cut off when the door opened. I looked up and saw Zayn standing
there with my purse in his hands. He looked confused as he took in the scene before him.

“This really needs to stop happening,” I mumbled.

“What’s going on?” Zayn put the purse on the bed and waited for an explanation.

“Louis was just leaving, right Louis?” He shook his head and sighed.

“I guess I was. I’ll see you two downstairs.” He pulled away from me and walked out the door. I watched
his retreating figure, realizing how easy that was. I turned back toward Zayn.

“Are you okay?” I nodded and turned my back toward him as I fixed the front of the bra, already feeling my boob falling out.

“Yeah, sorry. He just , urgh he was being typical Louis. Hold on, I’m trying to fix my bra.” Zayn laughed.

“What did he say?” I heard Zayn sit on the bed.

“He said he missed me and then I told him he just saw me and then he said he really missed me, in that way…”

“Kat…”

“I mean can you believe him? Urgh, I can’t even deal with him. I mean he thinks just because he’s helping me out with the lessons that he can just come in here and tell me he misses me?”

“Kat…”

“Just because we slept together, like what? A couple times? Okay, more than a couple, but just because we slept together does not give him the right to say what he feels when he decides HE FEELS it.”

“Katherina!”

“What?!” I turned around after sliding on the tank top and my blood ran cold. I guess in between my rant I didn’t hear the footsteps entering the room.

“Hey, guys.” None other than Niall, Liam and Harry stood in the doorway. I took in a big gulp of air and looked at Harry. He looked pissed. His arms were crossed and his hands were clenched together. He was gritting his teeth and his eyes held nothing but anger. I looked at Niall and Liam; they had shock looks on their faces. I looked back at Zayn who had his head in his hands.

“Harry, I can explain. I just-“ He didn’t move and his expression didn’t change.

“Everyone out.” I flinched at how stern and low his voice was. Niall and Liam shuffled out of the room.

“Harry, she can explain-“ Harry glared at Zayn.

“Get out Zayn.” That’s all it took for Zayn to walk out the door. He looked back at me and mouthed an ’I’m Sorry.’ I shook my head, knowing it wasn’t his fault. Harry looked back at me.

“Zayn, close the door on your way out.” I gulped and looked at my brother; His eyes glaring into mine.

“This is family business now.”

Notes

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