So Cool (Larry)

Chapter 16

"There's a 50/50 chance we'll win. One he's blood, however, you're nearly 18. I just don't want you to get your hopes up just in case I'm not able to give you the results you want."

"It's ok, Mrs. Payne, I put all my faith into you. I won't blame you for the outcome."

Liam just watched the exchange with a slightly shocked expression. His mum was always polite and formal, but seeing him not be a dick and professional is quite shocking.

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Niall kicked the ball around a bit, this was incredibly awkward for him. Usually when they ran drills, he had Josh to hang out with. But since that little incident, Josh hasn't spoken to him, won't even look at the Irish lad. And now Niall is alone, and he feels like he did at the beginning of the season. He feels alienated again. God this sucks, they're supposed to be team. Now everyone hates him just because he rejected Josh.

"Listen up, the lot of you! Next week we're facing the lions, if- when we win, we'll be placed in the championships. I don't want any slacking off this week! Pair up, we're gonna run some drills." Louis announced. Niall lifted his head and watched all the boy's pair up with a small frown. Someone is gonna end up with him.

"Niall?" Niall turned to one of his teammates. Niall smiled at Jonathon before putting the ball down.

However, before they could begin, Ollie came over and talked to Jonathon. Niall frowned as the two walked away.

"Let's start, mate." Niall's face twisted into grimace when he saw Louis standing across from him.

"I'm not your mate." He said before kicking the ball hard. Louis sent Niall a look once he had kicked the ball back.

"Stop being an ass, this isn't a place for personal problems." Louis scolded causing Niall to roll his eyes.

They continued practicing, but there was an obvious tension. And there were a couple of times where Niall purposely aimed to hit Louis. Louis would just roll his eyes and kick the ball back. A couple of times he'd yell at Niall for actually hitting him.

"Oi, what the fook!" Louis shouted as the ball came to hard towards him and knocked him on his bum. Niall attempted to keep a straight face but couldn't help himself and bursted out laughing. Niall has a very contagious loud laughter that caught the attention of the other players, that as well began laughing when seeing their beloved team captain on the ground. Louis himself couldn't help but let out a little laugh.

"Ah mate, you have to practice your footing." Stan teased as he helped Louis to his feet. Louis pushed his friend away with a laugh.

"Get your arses inside, class starts soon." The couch called from the bleachers. The team was still laughing and joking around as they made their way back inside. Niall was beaming as his teammates patted his back and congratulated him on 'taking down tommo'.

Niall couldn't help but glance around. Specifically looking for someone. And he spotted him in front of his locker. His head was tucked inside but Niall could see the small smile on his face. Niall smiled and turned away before Josh could see him. He quickly gathered his clothes and ran to the showers. The first five boys to use the showers got all the hot water.

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Harry was cuddled under Liam's arm as he played a game on his phone. He groaned and flung his head back when he lost again. He glanced over to Liam's phone to see he what he was doing. He was just flicking through social media. He was too busy staring at his phone to notice the person approaching them.

"I'm gonna go to the loo." Harry announced before he slid out of the booth in cafeteria and walked away. He gave Zayn a look when the boy hesitated to walk up to Liam.

"H-hey Li." Liam's head shout up immediately to stare at Zayn. Liam didn't respond, instead he glanced around trying to look for Harry, or anyone to get him out this mess.

"What do you want?" His voice didn't hold any anger or annoyance to Zayn's surprise. Just a simple meaningless monotoned voice that frightened Zayn.

"I-I wanted to talk. I know I've been doing stupid apologies hat obviously meant nothing. I wanna talk about what happened, truly apologize. I want you to understand that what I did, weren't my true intentions." Zayn explained as he slowly sat down in front of Liam.

"You want a lot of things, huh." Liam said with an eye roll, looking back at his phone.

"Please, could you at least listen?" Zayn asked trying not to sound desperate, but he was. And he couldn't help the feeling of accomplishment when Liam sighed and put his phone down. "Ok, um I don't know where to start. Uhm, I'm sorry, I'm sorry that you had to go through with something you didn't want. Is-is that a good way to word it. And I'm sorry, I'm the one who-who took advantage of you. God, if I hadn't drunken that night, we wouldn't be in this mess. And I'm so sorry Liam, I shouldn't have drunken anything, I shouldn't have encouraged you to drink. If I could go back in time to change it all I would. What the fuck is wrong with me? H-how c-could-"

Liam watched with wide sad eyes as Zayn broke down crying informs of him. He put his hand on the table and wrapped his arms around his head so Lima couldn't see him. Now Liam was feeling bad, but he shouldn't he's the victim.

"Zayn." Liam said, hesitantly placing his hand on Zayn's arm.

"I-I'm sorry, Li." Zayn whimpered out. He felt his breath hitch when Liam held his hand comfortingly.

"What're we doing?" Harry jumped from where he was hiding, watching Zayn and Liam. He turned around and grimaced when Niall's wet hair flew into his face.

"Idiot, we're watching Zayn and Liam make up." Harry said turning back around to see them both talking now.

"Is that a smile!" Niall gasped when seeing Liam smile at Zayn. Harry quickly shushed his friend while watching the two. They continued talking until Liam looked up and spotted his two friends.

"Uhm, I'll see you later, yeah?" Liam asked as he stood up and grabbed his book bag too.

"Yeah, yeah, of course. I'll see you." Zayn said awkwardly with a small smile. Liam smiled back before walking towards his friends with a stern look.

"We weren't eavesdropping." Niall said immediately when Liam stood in front of them.

"Idiot, he didn't even accuse us yet." Harry grumbled before slapping Niall's arm.

"You're both idiots." Liam shook his head fondly before pulling his friends into a hug. He felt relieved and kind of at peace. He didn't realize that he wasn't until he was. Everything was going to be ok.

I really don't know what I'm doing at this point and I'm sorry. So Ziam sort of made up. You guys should go send some love and appreciation to my new story Sweet Delivery. I think it's a very cute story.