The Only Reason || Harry Styles ||

My hands were sweating and so was my forehead. My body was shivering as I made my way to door and spoke, “Who is it?”

There was a short but eerie pause.

“Niall.”

He seemed to sense my hesitation for not opening the door so he, once again, spoke in, “Max, open the door. Cliff sent me here to keep an eye on you tonight. Let me in.”

“How d’you know my name?” it was a dumb question but there can be a possibility to answer my unreciprocated questions about this whole thing.

Scoffing, he replied, “Everyone knows your name, Max.”

Bingo.

“Wha-“

“I mean, I'm a friend of Cliff so… I know your name.” he cut me off then continued, “Open the door, Max.”

Cautiously, I unlocked the door and grabbed the nearest object beside me in case he planned on something I wouldn’t like the time I opened the door.

And it was a rolling pin.

It was not a normal rolling pin but it was made of wood and is a souvenir from one of Cliff’s ‘friend’, at least that what he said. And our surname was engraved on the middle with a triangle shape beside it. Also, the ‘A’ in McNaire was replaced with the triangle shape.

It was like a symbol I at all times noticed etched on every item Cliff declared it’s from his ‘friends’. Maybe this one’s a baker. The recent object I spotted was a model of a four leaf clover which was made of metal but without our surname written on it but the triangle symbol and another sign beside it.

Niall stepped in and looked at me then at my trembling hands.

“Why are you clutching a rolling pin?” he asked, his eyebrows furrowed.

My hands stop shivering as I raised the object a little higher and glared at it.

“I just… checking… it.” I shrugged. “It’s not a normal rolling pin but it’s lovely, though.”

He hummed.

Niall walked past me towards the living room and sat on the couch.

“D’you have beer?” he asked, his Irish accent towering. So he’s Irish. I just noticed.

Wait.

“You’re Irish, right?”

“You just noticed?” he chuckled, grabbing the remote.

“So… if you’re Irish and you’re one of Cliff’s friends… that four leaf clover…” I pointed to the book shelf at the corner where the model was placed. “…Was from you?”

“Uh yeah. It was.”

“Oh” was all I said.

After seconds of silence, Niall spoke, “So d’you have any beer?”

“I don’t know.” I said sitting beside him with an appropriate distance from.

“It’s your house, you should know.” Niall said flipping through the channels then stopped on a football match. Boys.

“I don’t drink beer. Why don’t you just check it?” I looked at him with a frustrated look.

He lifted his hands in mock defense while chuckling and said, “Okay, okay.”

Niall stood up from the couch and walked towards the kitchen.

A buzz sounded from my pocket indicating a text. I pulled out my phone when a noise sounded from the kitchen.

“You don’t have any beer!” Niall shouted.

I didn’t respond and just opened the text. It’s from Luke.

From Luke:

Hey

To Luke:

Hey. What’s up?

A gasp left my lips when Niall jumped into the couch like a child.

“What the-“

“Why the hell don’t you have any beer?”

“Why don’t you just buy some?” I said looking at the new text Luke sent me.

“No can do. Your brother’s gonna kill me.” He laughed at what he said.

“What? Why?” I asked eyes still on the mobile.

From Luke:

Just tired. What r u doing?

“Because- who you’re texting?”

“No one.”

“Bu-

A knock interrupted him. I replied from the message which says ‘Watching football. u?’ without locking it then I placed my phone on the mini table in front.

“I’ll get it.” I said standing up from the couch to the door.

As I made my way to door, I slowly opened it then a serious Niall quickly ran to my side and grabbed Cliff inside and into the kitchen.

“Niall what’re you doing?” Cliff asked.

Sensing a bit tension in the room, I spoke, “Uh hey, Cliff. Um… I’m going upstairs.”
“Okay.” Cliff responded with Niall beside him looking a bit bothered. I walked to the couch and grabbed my phone then made my way towards the stairs. When I reached my room, I sat on the edge of the bed and lift my phone.



But the thing that I noticed was my phone being locked.

Notes

Sooooo after a very long time, I finally updated. Thank God I had time for this. I'm very very busy with school stuffs. I hope you enjoy reading and I'll try to update again this week.

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