“What are we doing tonight?” The boys, minus Harry and Liam, El, Lux and Lou were hanging out by the hotel pool. Harry and Liam felt like taking a break and staying upstairs to watch movies, weirdos. I shifted around on my chair and flipped over onto my stomach. I was attempting to get a tan considering my brother got tan very easy, you’d think it’d be the same for me. Nope, I was still my normal color and I was not having it. I shifted again and asked Lou to untie my bathing suit top for I didn’t get tan lines on my back. I sighed and closed my eyes until I felt someone sit their wet shorts on top of me. I shifted slightly to look at the body on top of me. I glared up at Niall, he had got my back wet.

“Can you get off of me?” He shook his head making me groan. I heard a voice from the pool chirp up.

“Let’s go to a club tonight!” Eleanor suggested. My body was away from the happy couple in the pool, so I didn’t have to see them.

“It’s up to everyone else. I don’t care.” I yelled back. Everyone else agreed and decided we’d go to one of the local night clubs.

“Alright, I’’ll let the other two know when I go up.” I felt Niall nod and I felt his wet hands tie the back of my bathing suit back up.

“Niall, what the hell?” I was soon lifted into the air making me let out a huge scream.

“Put me down, Niall!”

“It’s not Niall!”

“Zayn!” He laughed as I held onto him for dear life. I was now in his arms being carried bridal style to the edge of the pool.

“Zayn, don’t!”

“After you, Kat!” He threw me in making me let out a scream right before I hit the warm water. I pushed off the ground with my feet and swam to the surface to see Niall laughing and Zayn smirking. I wiped the water from my eyes and glared at the two.

“I swear Zayn, if you could swim you’d be in here too!” He sent me a cheeky grin making me roll my eyes. I swam to the shallow side and watched Zayn walk over into the water. I pushed him away playfully and turned around to see Louis hugging El.
I sighed and tried not to let the feeling get to me. She had her hands placed on his chest and his hands were on her hips. I sighed and felt two hands place themselves on my hips. I looked down at them.

“What are you doing?” I could feel Zayn smile.

“Cuddling.” I laughed and placed my hands over his and brought them a little higher on my hips.

“Are you uncomfortable?” I shook my head.

“No, I’m okay. Your hands were just too low. You’re okay now.” I felt him nod. I didn’t know where this affection came from but it was comforting.

“Are you going tonight, love?”

“Yeah, are you?” I felt him nod again as we continued to watch the people around us.

“Go with me tonight.” I turned around quickly and looked at him. Was he asking me out?

“Zayn…”

“Just go as my date. Nothing serious. I just don’t feel like getting asked a thousand times to dance by random girls and your occasional guys. So just be my date.” I bit my lip, be Zayn’s date? I mean he said nothing serious, plus it would just be for fun. I looked back up at Zayn’s face and smiled.

“Alright, Malik. Just friends. Just tonight, a simple date.” He nodded and smiled. He held his arms open and I stepped into his embrace. I felt him place his hands on my lower back making me jump a little. I pushed him back and splashed water in his face.

“Alright, I’m going to go shower. I’ll see you guys later.” I kissed Zayn’s cheek and got out of the pool, saying bye to Lux , Niall and Lou on the way out. I grabbed my towel and made my way away from the pool, not even bothering to say bye to the couple.

Zayn watched as Kat got out of the pool and said bye to the rest. He looked back over to Louis and let a small smirk play on his face. Louis was staring at the two the whole time. When Zayn caught him staring, he looked away quickly and pretended to pay attention to what Eleanor was saying. Zayn got out of the pool and went to sit next to Niall.

“How’d it go?” Zayn chuckled. He dried himself off with his towel and laid all the way back on his chair.

“First part of get Louis jealous, check.” Niall smiled and put his sunglasses back on.

“We just need to plan with Liam for the last part and we’ll get Kat and Louis exactly where we
want them.” Zayn nodded. He knew what him and the lads were doing was sneaky but it was for Kat. Oh Katherina. Zayn could still see her retreating figure in his mind. She was fit, she looked good in her two piece bathing suit. Her chest wasn’t over exaggerated as if she was trying to impress anyone. She had curves around her torso and hips and she had a backside girls would kill for. Several guys on tour have asked Zayn about her but he always told them no because one it’s Harry’s sister and two if they wanted the plan to go the way they wanted to, she’d need to be single.

Zayn would be lying though if he said he wasn’t going to enjoy having Kat as his date tonight. He looked at Louis and saw how pissed he looked even though Eleanor was right in front of him. Yeah, the plan was going exactly as they wanted it to.

x-x

I made my way into my hotel room. I saw Harry and Liam watching a movie and both were on their phones. I threw my stuff by Harry’s feet and lay down.

“Hey Kat.”

“We’re going out tonight.” Liam gave me a look.

“It was Eleanor’s idea. Don’t worry, we’ll be back early. We have to practice tomorrow.”

“Good point.” I laid my head next to my brother’s stomach and closed my eyes.

“Katherina, can’t you wear a bathing suit that’s longer and doesn’t show your who ha?” I busted out laughing, so did Liam, at the fact that Harry had just said who ha.

“Who ha? My God Harry! And it doesn’t show my who ha!” He grunted.

“It’s close to it!” I laughed and closed my eyes hoping to get some sleep before tonight. Ten minutes had past without one of us saying something until we heard yelling, a door opening and slamming. Then there was a rapid knock on our door. Liam looked at us as we sat up and walked over to open it. When he opened it Zayn and Niall ran into the room. We stared at them like they were crazy.

“Everything okay?” I asked with my eyebrow slightly raised. Niall shook his head and sat down on the desk while Zayn took a seat on the bed with Liam.

“Louis and El started fighting and we wanted to get out of there.”

“Was that them right now?” They nodded. We could hear Louis yelling and then we heard something hit the wall making us jump.

“What are they even fighting about?” Harry asked.

“It started off at something simple like who called Eleanor’s phone and when she said no one, she completely snapped at Louis.” They continued to yell and we could hear their muffled voices. None of us wanted to move in case they heard us. Twenty minutes later none of us had moved still and they were still yelling. We sat there and were either on our phones or watching the end of the movie, which was the Avengers.

We had decided to drink some of the beverages the hotel had given us so there various cups full of liquid throughout the room.

“Wait do you guys hear that?” Liam asked. We all looked at him.

“Silence.” He was right, there was no more yelling. We immediately got comfortable until there
was a loud, hard knock on the door. Niall got up and opened it and in stepped Eleanor. She was pissed and we could tell by her appearance. Her makeup was smeared and her eyes were red. We all watched as her eyes scanned the room until they found me sitting next to Harry. I sat up straighter once I realized I was her prey. Louis was now running in behind her and he had a shocked look on his face. I watched as she made her way over to me and grabbed a handful of my hair making me let out a yelp and stand up with her. My hands immediately went to pry her fingers out of my hair.

“You dirty whore.” She pulled me to the middle of the room and threw me on the floor. I could see Harry get up to say something but Louis stopped him.

“Eleanor…”

“Stay out of it, all of you!” I immediately got up and she got in my face. We were the same height, I might have been a little shorter but I didn’t back down.

“How dare you, I told you to stay away from him. You lied to me, how messed up of a person do you have to be to mess up someone else’s relationship?” I looked at her, there was anger in her face.

She slapped me making my head turn sharply to the right. Granted, I slept with her boyfriend but she needed to stop hitting me.

“Eleanor…”

“Don’t Eleanor me! Harry, your sister is a slut. Because her boyfriend gave her a black eye she had to come after mine.”

“And Louis, El?” I asked quietly. She turned around to glare at me.

“He told me the truth. He told me how you initiated it all and that you told him you fell in love with him!” My jaw, I swear hit the floor. I looked up at him and glared at him.

“But Louis,”

“Liam.” I heard Louis whisper. He was avoiding my gaze. I was pissed and hurt. I was glaring daggers at him. Someone grabbed my chin and I was looking back at El.

“Eleanor, if you think this was just me. You are clearly demented. It takes two to tango. He came to me, half the time he initiated. So don’t come in here just blaming me because it’s not just my fault Louis wasn’t satisfied with you.” I could see the fire light in her eyes and that’s when all hell broke loose.

Eleanor lunged at me and I had had enough. I lunged toward her as well and as soon as our hands met each other punches and slaps were being thrown. Hair pulling was going down and I couldn’t hear anything that the guys were saying. Eleanor had managed to practically jump on top of me making me fall to the floor and she was now sitting on top of me grabbing and hitting as much face as she could. I kept moving my head to avoid her hits. I had punched her two or three times and she now had a strong hold on my hair. I felt her weight disappear from on top of me.

She didn’t let go so it made me get up with her. I immediately felt to hands grab my waist and pull me from El.

“She still has my hair, get her off of me.” I felt her hands leave my tangled mess and we were yanked apart. I finally pushed my hair out of my face and saw her face. She had a busted lip and her hair was everywhere but because her makeup was trashed she looked a lot worse. I knew I looked just as bad and I felt stinging on my ribs. I looked down and saw two long, red scratches considering I still had my swim suit on. They were bleeding a little.

“Louis, hold onto her and get her out of here.” Eleanor was still trying to get to me until Louis yelled at her.

“Stop!” She finally stopped and ripped away from Louis. Liam and Zayn were still holding me back. My gaze followed Louis and El as they walked past me. No one said anything as Eleanor picked up Niall’s drink and tossed it on me. My face and eyes getting the impact. I struggled against my restraints again. Louis pulled her forward but she didn’t move.

She looked back at me.

“You’re pathetic Katherina. You have nothing going for you. You think you do but you don’t. No one’s going to want someone that’s used. You’re a whore Katherina Styles and that’s all you’ll ever be.” I stared at her and I could feel the tears coming.

“Louis!” Harry yelled. Louis was shocked but he lightly pushed Eleanor out. I was no longer struggling, I was just standing there. Louis stopped at the door and turned to look at me.

“Kat,”

“Get out, Louis. I don’t want to see you. I don’t want to talk to you, I want you to get out.” My voice was low and calm.

“Katherina, Please.”

“Louis, just leave and get things straight with El.” I heard Zayn sigh. I could see the hurt flash across Louis’s face. He closed the door and Liam and Zayn released their grip on me. No one said anything.

“I’m going to shower.” I grabbed clothes from my suitcase and pushed passed the two boys and slammed the door.

x-x

The four boys didn’t know what just happened. They stood at their spots not really knowing what to do.

“So Eleanor and Kat just duked it out.” Niall started but Liam continued.

“And Louis lied to El about the whole situation.”

“What the hell do we do? Kat’s not going to want anything to do with Louis anymore!” Zayn sat down on the bed. Harry stood up and stared at his band mates with an angry look on his face.

“We continue the plan.” The other three looked at him like he was crazy.

“Harry,”

“No! We go through with it. There’s no way El and Lou are going to stay together now. Kat’s hurt all we need is for Louis to explain everything to her. He messed up but this is fixable. Kat and Louis care and they need to stop playing this game with each other. We continue. That’s final.” Harry walked out of the room ad left the other three standing there, speechless.

“Doesn’t he realize the hurt his sister is going through?” The three stood there unsure of what exactly to do.

x-x

I sat on the bed in an empty hotel room. I had on sweats and a tank top. I had been sitting here after my shower for the past two hours just thinking. It had hurt me, everything El had said. It hurt that Louis lied to me. Harry had constantly been asking if I was okay and for the sake of the boy, I said yes. But inside I was stuck with my mind.

I had no idea if anyone was going out but I knew for sure I wasn’t. There was a knock on my door making me grunt and get up to go answer it. I thought Harry forgot his key card. However when I opened the door I saw Louis, he was looking at the floor.

I went to close the door but his foot stopped me.

“No, no, no. Give me five minutes. That’s all. I glared at him and opened the door. I literally had nothing left to lose. He walked in and stood in front of me.

“Kat, I’m so sorry. You guys kept telling me to tell her and we got into the fight and it just slipped.”

“ I told you to tell her the truth! That wasn’t the truth.”

“I know and I’m sorry. But I told her it wasn’t just you. She knows now. She knows everything.” I shook my head.

“This needs to stop Louis. I’m done with you; I’ll bury everything I’ve ever felt for you. I’ll make it go away but I can’t deal with this anymore.” He looked up at me and I could see the desperation in his eyes.

“No there’s something else you need to know.” His voice cracked making me give in. I pulled out the desk chair and sat down And for the next two hours I let him explain. I sat down and listened to his story because I could see the pleading in his eyes, I could see his walls come down. I remember feeling betrayed, hurt, sad, shocked all in one sitting. He had told me how he really cared and how he did love El but he wasn’t in love with her anymore. She wanted him to stay away from me, and he told me about Tom and how he threatened to get me fired. He also told me how he might have been failing for me. I sat there when he was done, letting it all sink in. I was now sitting with my back toward him.

“Kat, Eleanor doesn’t want to end it. I know this is a lot to take in but she wants to keep trying and as shitty as this sounds. I need to know if you’ll give us a chance.” I looked up at him.

“What did you tell her?”

“I told her I’d have to think about it. Either way if you say yes or no I’m going to tell her no. I can’t keep leading her on when I’m not in love with her.” I was breathing hard and I couldn’t feel anything. Louis had now stood closer to me and grabbed my face in his hands making me look up at him.

“Katherina, I’m falling for you. I’ve done what I’ve had to do to protect you and it’s killed me every day. You’re amazing and you’re not a whore and that’s not what you’ll ever be, Eleanor was wrong and I’m sorry for what she said. Katherina I’m admitting to you that I have feelings for you. I need to know if you want to give us a chance. I realize you’re reputation will be torn apart. Which is why I’m leaving it up to you. I’ll respect your decision. You need to let me know though.”

This was the moment I had been waiting for but it wasn’t how I pictured it. I shook my head and pulled away from him. I could see the confusion in his face.

“Kat…”

“No, Louis. You can’t just expect me to fall into your arms. You hurt me Louis, you made me feel so stupid for having feelings for you. When you’ve been lying this whole time.” He was looking straight at me. What I was about to do made my heart clench and tears spring to my eyes. I looked at him and I could see how confused and hurt he was. Right now, he wasn’t Louis Tomlinson from One Direction. He was just Louis Tomlinson, 21 year old. I looked at him once more not saying anything, he looked exhausted and I could see the sadness in his eyes.
I walked closer to him and held his hand in mine. I admired his tattoos on his arms and how his hand fit nicely in mine. I bought his hand up to my lips and kissed it letting out a sigh after.

“Louis, I have been waiting for this moment for so long. I have been waiting for you to tell me everything you just did. But as I’ve been waiting, I realized something. We’re bad for each other Louis, we fight, we yell and we’ve hurt each other. A relationship would never work. We’re already crashing before we could even take off.” I paused letting some tears fall from my eyes. I could see tears threatening to spill from his.

“But Louis, the idea of us is crazy. Which is why I’m saying no; We need to break away from this, we need to get over each other. I’m done Louis. I’m not saying no because of my reputation. Fuck my reputation. I’m saying no because we would tear each other apart. I’m done once and for all Louis and I’m sorry.”

I kissed his hand once more and closed my eyes feeling the tears fall. I knew this was for the best, turning down his question. It was the right thing, we would tear each other apart and even though he was going to be single I was going to have to deal with moving on and so was he.

“Kat, how could you do this? How could you walk away from someone who’s practically spilling their heart out to you?” I felt my walls coming back up and my eyes turn cold. I stepped back away from his presence.

“How could you lie to the person you’re supposedly falling for and just use them for sex for months on end?” He didn’t say anything as my voice got louder.

“You want to know how Louis? The same way you did, the only difference is you know the truth. Welcome to what I’ve been living with for the past months. Doesn’t feel too good does it?” I pushed past him and walked out of the room, slamming the door behind me.

Notes

I AM SO SO SO SO SO SORRY FOR MAKING YOU GUYS WAIT THIS LONG.
That wasn't the plan, but my dad was in the hospital for the last two weeks so I literally went from my cousins, to school, to the hospital back to my cousins. It has been hectic but he's finally home!
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Don't worry this isn't the end, not even close.
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