I sat at the table between Niall and Harry, Liam was sitting next to Harry and Zayn next to him. Louis and Josh were across from us and, Lou, Tom and Lux were at the end of the table and Paul was at the other end. We had decided to just go eat something so we found a little low key restaurant to eat at. It was cute and dark inside with little lanterns hanging from the ceiling. The tables were all angled to where they could face the small stage in the middle of the room for karaoke or just for live acts, considering there was a keyboard in the corner and microphones. I was surprised we managed to get here without any fans tracking the boys down, they had found out where we were all staying and it had been hell trying to get out of the building. I knew the boys loved their fans but sometimes it was overwhelming.

I looked around the table and saw everyone talking and eating their food. I, on the other hand felt horrible. Harry had made me come out tonight even though I told him what had happened with Louis. No one else knew about the talk we had but my brother and I think Niall, because Harry was with him when I called him. I did notice when we all met up, Louis was alone and Eleanor was nowhere to be seen, I didn’t question it though. Paul did.

Louis responded with a simple, ‘she had to go home early. Something came up.’ I didn’t know if that meant she was on a flight back to England or she was merely staying in another room to really talk things out with Louis, I was not about to find out.

The tension between us was thick, we hadn’t spoken one word to each other and we hadn’t made eye contact. No one seemed to notice, and if they did they didn’t say anything. I didn’t regret my choice but I also couldn’t deal with the sinking feeling in my stomach that felt like it was saying I made the wrong choice. I looked up from my food to steal a glance at Louis, he was eating his food and talking to Josh about something. He had a small smile on his face, but it wasn’t his normal, happy smile. His hair was tousled up in a messy way. He was attractive, there was no denying that. But I knew we were toxic for each other, we wouldn’t survive as a couple. We’d both tear each other apart. Plus, he cheated on Eleanor for me, how do I know he wouldn’t do it to me?

I shook my head, low blow Kat. As far as I knew we were the only two girls he had been talking to for the past two years. I looked away when he moved to look in my direction. I looked down at my food and ate another piece of my enchilada.

“He’s looking at you.” I ignored my brother and drank some of my tea.

“You know you’ll never know unless you try.”

“What are you rooting for him now, Harold?”

“No, Kat. I’m just saying you might think you know how it’s going to end but sometimes, people might surprise you. Do you see El here? No, that means he was true to his word Kat. I’m just saying maybe giving him a chance won’t be so bad.” I sighed and moved the food on my plate back and forth.

“I just don’t want to get hurt, Harry. I’m afraid I will, worse than I already am. I’m tired of running in circles with him.” Josh cut Harry and I short of our conversation.

“Kat, you should sing. I heard you have a voice to die for and I have yet to hear it. Plus we need some entertainment.” I shook my head before he could even finish his sentence.

“Sorry Josh, I’m just not feeling it tonight.”

“Please!” I shook my head and sent him a small smile. He sighed and took a drink of whatever he was drinking.

“Someone needs to do something, I’m sitting here at a table with the world’s most famous boy band and there is no entertainment on that stage.”

We all heard a quiet voice speak up. It was the first time he had spoken to the whole group all night. I looked at Louis who was staring right back at me.

“Really?” Zayn asked. Lux clapped making Louis look at her.

“You want me to sing love?” She clapped and giggled making Louis smile. My eyes followed him as he stood up and walked over to the guy at the bar to, I’m assuming ask about performing.

“Niall, what is he doing?” I whispered.

“I don’t know but he looks horrible what did you tell him?” So he didn’t know. Harry hadn’t told him.

“That we needed to end this, we aren’t right for each other.” I could feel him tense up next to me as I continued to watch Louis make his way to the stage.

“Niall?”

“You told him what?” He sounded so shocked.

“Kat, what-“

“Hello, everyone. So we have someone who wants to take the stage, he’s quite a youngster.”

Our attention was now on the host in the middle of the stage. He was wearing a plaid shirt with dark jeans and vans. He looked like he was in his mid-twenties. He was taller than Louis but he was defiantly gay by the way he was talking. As he continued to introduce Louis to the audience, he even tried to hit on Louis lightening up the mood.

“Well, I won’t take up any more of your time. Clearly, he’s straight since he has yet to offer to take me out on a date. Here is Louis Tomlinson, one of your live acts for tonight. Be nice and show him some support.”

The restaurant clapped as the host left the stage and Louis moved the key board to the front near the microphones. It was weird because I was so used to seeing him with the guys; it was a different view seeing him up there alone. He looked up and looked straight at our table making me tense up.

“Hello, everyone. Well my friend decided he wanted some entertainment so here I am. Hopefully you guys enjoy it.” He looked back down and started to play the opening notes of the song. I was mesmerized by his appearance, he looked so at ease.

“High dive into frozen waves where the past comes back to life, Fight fear for the selfish pain, it was worth it every time. Hold still right before we crash cause we both know how this ends. A clock ticks til it breaks your glass and I drown in you again…” He opened his eyes and he looked straight at me. I shifted in my seat but continued to watch him. I held his gaze as I listened to the lyrics. I knew why he picked this song.

“Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn’t need. Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don’t know why. If our love is tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our loves insanity why are you my clarity?”

I shook my head and looked back down at my hands. He was getting to me. I closed my eyes as he repeated the chorus. The notes slowed down and I looked back up, he was back to having his eyes closed and I watched as his fingers moved across the keyboard.

“Walk on through a red parade and refuse to make amends. It cuts deep through our ground and makes us forget all common sense. Don’t speak as I try to leave cause we both know what we’ll choose. If you pull then I’ll push too deep and I’ll fall right back to you.” I could feel the tears threatening to spill. His voice was so soft and angelic and I could feel the emotion he was putting into the song.

“Cause you are the piece of me I wish I didn’t need. Chasing relentlessly, still fight and I don’t know why. If our live is tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our loves insanity why are you my clarity?” He looked back at me.

“Why are you my remedy?” I shook my head.

“Why are you my clarity?”

I stood up not being able to deal with the rest. I walked out of the restaurant, ignoring the looks I was getting while the tears fell from my eyes. I was quick to brush them away but new ones kept falling. I pushed the door open and walked outside. I leaned against the wall and closed my eyes. I took in a deep breath but it came out as a quiet sob.

I know it was stupid to get this emotional over a song, but I was scared. I was scared because I knew I was falling in love with him, I knew what my heart wanted and what my head was saying. I was torn because I didn’t want to get hurt but in return I wound up hurting him. I opened my eyes when I heard my name being called.

“Harry?” He came running over to me.

“Kat, what happened?”

“I hurt him, Harry. I hurt him all because I’m afraid of getting hurt and I’m just tired emotionally. I just feel drained and I don’t think I can do this anymore.” I could see the fear and sadness flash in my brother’s eyes.

“Why don’t you just go back to the hotel? You can rest there. I’ll go with you and we can talk more about it. You can’t leave, Kat.” I looked up at my brother, surprised that’s what he thought.

“Harry, I don’t want to leave the tour. I can’t even if I wanted to. I have a job, but this might be the last tour I accompany you on. I can’t keep doing this.” He pulled me into a hug. I hugged him back, tightly as I felt him kiss the top of my head.

“It’ll be okay. You’ll get through this.” I nodded and gripped onto his shirt a little tighter.

“Harry?” I pulled away from my brother and tried wiping my eyes as fast as I could for Louis wouldn’t see me crying. Harry turned around to face his best friend.

“This isn’t the best time mate.”

“Is everything okay?”

“Louis just go back inside.”

“But, she’s crying.” I didn’t say anything.

“She’s fine, Louis. I have her. Tell everyone we’re going back to the hotel we’ll see them later.”

“But…”

“Louis, please. Just listen to Harry, I’m fine.” My voice betrayed me though as it cracked.

“Louis, just please.” He shook his head and angrily stormed back into the restaurant. Harry looked back at me.

“He’ll be okay for now. Let’s go.” I nodded and followed my brother to hail a taxi.

x-x

I woke up the next morning to my alarm beeping loud and clear. I groaned and decided to ignore it for a second. I opened my eyes and thought back to last night. Nothing really happened. Harry and I came back to the hotel and watched movies. We wound up falling asleep; we didn’t really talk about my break down because there was nothing he could do. I had to just deal with it and if I didn’t, it was going to tear me apart and I couldn’t let that happen.

I had texted Lou telling her to tell the rest sorry for running out of there, that I didn’t feel good. Harry had texted Louis telling him we were fine and to not worry. Louis of course wanted to know the truth but Harry just kept telling him I was okay. Louis knew the song he picked, he knew the lyrics he was singing and he knew it would get to me. But I also knew he was singing it for himself, he was singing everything he couldn’t say.

I leaned up and stretched finally deciding to turn off my alarm. I turned over to shut my alarm off when I realized it wasn’t my alarm, someone was calling me. I rubbed the sleep from my eyes once more and looked at the screen. The screen read: Niall. I looked at the time and saw it was 7:30am, I didn’t have to be up till 8:30am because Liam and I decided to practice today before their show. I unlocked the phone and brought it to my ear.

“Kat?” I laid back down but made an ‘mhmmm’ sound.

“Have you seen twitter lately? Or TMZ?”

“Nope. I just woke up.”

“You may want to see it.” There was a knock on my door making me get out of bed to answer it.

“Why, Niall?”

“Just look and call me back.” He hung up on me. I shook my head and opened the door to see a very angry Louis.

“Uh, hi?”

“Have you seen it?” I gave him a weird look as he pushed past me and into my room. He started pacing the room as I closed the door.

“Seen what?! Niall just called me asking about twitter and TMZ.”

“Go on your phone Kat.” I opened my phone and opened the twitter app.

“Go to trends.” I went to trends and almost gasped when I saw it. Trending worldwide was LouisandKat.

“What the hell?”

“Press it.” I pressed it and it took me to everyone who was talking about the trend. They varied
from:

‘I can’t believe Harry’s sister would do that.’

‘Who is she anyway? Louis and Eleanor loved each other.’

‘Eleanor is torn up.’

‘I can’t believe Louis, maybe he was drunk.’

‘What does this mean for the rest of the boys?’

‘Katherina Styles, Harry Styles older sister that’s who she is. She works for a magazine. She’s on tour with them right now.’

‘I can’t believe her and Harry are related.’

‘Maybe it’s not true. No one has pictures or proof.’

‘I can’t believe they would do this to El.’

Some of them were talking about Larry Stylinson, some said they didn’t care as long as Louis was happy, some said they were rooting for me. What I didn’t understand was what the hell happened?

“Go to the TMZ page. It’s there.”

I looked up at Louis who was sitting on my bed now. I typed in the TMZ address and there was a picture of all of us taken before one of their shows. The headline read: Katherina Styles, home wrecker or Louis Tomlinson’s new girl? I read the article with shaky hands.

“Katherina Styles, 21 is Harry Styles older sister. She has been on tour with One Direction for their American Tour. Styles works for the magazine called the Chase back in England. She was in charge of doing an article for her company; however she wound up doing band member, Louis Tomlinson instead, according to a close source.” The world knew, the world knew Louis and I slept together. I couldn’t breathe and I felt my chest tighten.

“We’re still looking for proof but so far close sources say that Louis and Katherina have had a thing for the past couple of months. Maybe even longer. What does girlfriend Eleanor Calder have to say about this? More information to come.”

I fell to my knees on the floor, I was still staring at the phone. I couldn’t believe this, the only thing keeping me from passing out is the fact that they don’t have proof.

“I called Eleanor earlier. She had just gotten home, she said she didn’t say anything. She made a good point saying that why would she want to spill something that would make her look like an idiot. It wasn’t her.” I looked at Louis.

“Then who?!” He shook his head.

“I don’t know. “ Harry had stirred in his sleep and leaned up to look at us.

“What are you two going on about?” I tossed him my phone from the floor. It took him two minutes to read it.

“Who would do this?” Louis and I shrugged.

“What? I mean- who?”

“Harry, we don’t know. Eleanor said she didn’t say anything she just got home from the flight.” None of us said anything.

“What do we do?”

“Well they don’t have proof.” I looked at my brother, he was getting out of bed.

“They don’t have proof of you two, therefore they can’t prove that this actually happened. Let people believe what you want. If you two want to come clean go ahead but remember that it will affect all of us. I love both of you, but it’s your choice. I would just let it ride out, I mean they don’t even have the name of the sources so for all we know it could be a lie. Just let it ride out, ignore twitter, ignore what they say and don’t let any proof get out. I don’t think there is any, is there?”
Louis and I shook our heads. It was the truth we were careful in public because we wanted to avoid this.

Harry walked into the bathroom, surprisingly calm about the whole situation. I got up from the floor and picked my phone up from the bed. It was only a matter of time till my work called me and now I had to wait for that dreadful call to explain that I wasn’t sleeping with Louis, at least not anymore and that it wasn’t true. I just prayed that they’d hear me out.

“Stay off of twitter Kat. It’s not going to do you any good.” I looked up at Louis.

“I know you, you’ll go on because you’re curious what they’re going to say. It’s all bullshit, stay off of it.”

He stood up and left the room without another word. I was left to sit there and change into clothes for I could go practice with Liam but I couldn’t seem to get the thought out of my mind that they would eventually find proof and it would affect all of them. I got up and changed into sweats and a tank top. I texted Niall to tell him about what I knew and what the plan was.
I left the hotel room and prayed that the rest of the day would go okay.

x-x

“Come on, Liam! Your birthday is in three weeks! This needs to be perfect!” He was sitting down on the floor in front of me. We had been on this stage practicing for two hours and he was tired, but I wanted to keep going. I wanted this to be perfect for him.

“Katherina, it’s fine! We still have time, there’s only a couple of things we need to work on still but we’re good to go. The audience is going to love you.” I sighed and sat next to him.

“Not after the article that came out this morning.” I took my tennis shoes off for I could stretch my toes.

“Hey, even though it’s true, the whole world doesn’t need to now. There’s no-“

“Yeah, I know there’s no proof. But even if it’s treated as a rumor it still sucks because these people don’t know me but they’re willing to talk about me like I murdered there family or something.” Liam chuckled.

“I know, the fans can be a little overwhelming but what matters is that we know who you are. We already talked about this, yes you messed up Kat but we’re not mad at you. We won’t stop loving you, you’re still our friend, no matter what that stupid TMZ said.”

“And what about Eleanor going home?”

“What about it? That was between her and Louis. They haven’t gone public with their break up
yet so all the media knows is that El went home early because of photo shoots.” He was right, no one knew that they had broken up yet. None of us even bothered to talk to Louis about it. I sighed and laid back against the floor.

“I guess you’re right,”

“I know I’m right. Kat, if you guys don’t give the media something to use they won’t even bother after a week. You and Louis just need to not panic and let it pass.”

“That’s what Harry said.”

“And right he is. Now do you want to practice one more time?” I leaned back up and nodded. He stretched his hand out to me so we could both pull each other up. I laughed when we almost fell.

“I still don’t think you should give up on him.” I looked back at Liam.

“I think you should give him that chance.”

“What is with all of you guys all of a sudden wanting me to give him a chance.”

“He broke up with El, Kat. That should tell you something.” I shook my head not wanting to talk about it.

“Can we just practice, Liam?” He sighed but nodded. We got into the beginning position. I brought the microphone to my mouth but pulled it away when I heard the ringtone for work blare from my phone that was placed in my purse by the edge of the stage. I ran over to get it and took a deep breath before answering.

“Hello?”

“Katherina.”

“Erica, hi.”

“I’m pretty sure you know why I’m calling.”

“Look, Erica I can explain. There is nothing going on between us, we have no idea how this
rumor got started.”

“Even if it isn’t true, it is stated that a source made these comments about you. Therefore they must have saw something that would make them want to sell away this information.”

“Erica, I can guarantee you nothing was or is going on between Louis and I.” I heard her sigh from the other line.

“Katherina, even if you could guarantee it, it’s making our company look bad considering you were supposed to be writing an article for us. We’re the ones who sent you out there so our company will wind up looking bad in the media’s eyes and we’ll lose readers.” I bit my bottom lip and shifted my weight from one leg to another.

“Which is why I hate to say this Katherina but you’re fired. You need to finish this last piece of article and make it the final piece. Make it flow with the rest and that’s it. You will send it to your editor and we’ll send you your final paycheck. We will not be paying for your trip home considering we only pay for employees. I’m sorry Katherina, but we can’t risk our company looking bad no matter how good of a writer you are. Understood?”

I didn’t know what to say. My job was now being taken away and it hurt. I worked hard at what I did and I loved it and now I had just gotten fired.

“I understand, Erica. I’ll have the final piece of article to you by Friday.”

“Goodbye Katherina.” She hung up. I stood staring off into the empty chairs that would soon be filled with One Direction fans in a couple of hours. I wasn’t crying, no, I was numb. It was all because of a piece of information that someone had leaked and the public doesn’t even know if it’s true or not. I shook my head and turned back around. I expected to just see Liam, no, instead I saw Liam, Harry, Louis, Niall, and Zayn holding Lux. I jumped back a bit not expecting them all to be here.

“What happened?” Zayn asked while he adjusted Lux on his hip. I looked down at my phone then back at them.

“I no longer work for them.” I walked over to them and kissed Lux on the cheek.

“What? Why? Because of the article?” I nodded at Niall.

“They said true or not it’s going to affect the company and it’ll give them a bad name and they’ll lose business.”

“I’m sorry, Kat.” I shook my head.

“It’s not your fault.” I picked up my purse and slung it over my shoulder.

“Why are you guys here, not that I mind but you guys don’t usually come when we practice.”

The five looked between each other until my brother sighed.

“Best Song Ever was leaked today.” I groaned, the boys new single was leaked four days before the music video. I looked at them and saw how disappointed they looked.

“I’m sorry you guys.” Louis shrugged.

“It’s not your fault. It just happened. Management is trying to figure out who leaked it and they’re on TMZ trying to figure out who told them that information.” I shook my head.

“I guess it’s just a hard day for all of us.” I let out a sarcastic laugh and pushed past the boys.

“Katherina…” Louis grabbed my arm softly. I looked at him and shook my head.

“Not now, Louis. Just, not now.” He let go and I walked off the stage, confused, stressed, disappointed, sad and most of all exhausted.

Notes

Guess whose back?
Haha, hey guys I'm sorry! I know this update was long, I had family to deal with and then I got a job so I had to deal with that! But there wasn't a day I didn't think about you guys and this story!
I'm not giving up on it!
Thank you all for sticking around, reading, commenting and subscribing. You guys are seriously amazing!
Let me know what you think of this chapter.
I know the dates are off with the best song ever and Liam's birthday but I needed it to be like this for the story! There will be more Kat and Louis's scenes in the next part so look forward to that.
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By the way the song Louis sings for her is called Clarity by Zed but the version I had in mind is on youtube. It's by Alex Goot so go ahead and give that a listen so you have an idea of what kind of song it is.