Part 15

Friends with benefits - Part 15

Isabel POV

It's been a few days since the unexpected incident with Harry and I still haven't builded up the courage to tell Niall about it. All I can think of is why. Why would Harry even go there?

A loud and deep cough swiftly interrupts my stressful thinking in front of the fogged bathroom mirror. I wrap my towel around my newly showered body and open the door to walk out into the living-room.

The deep coughing can be heard again and I walk over to the couch, witch Niall lies all over like a dead body. "You alright, baby?" I ask as I lean over him. He groans and nod his head.

You see, Niall started to feel a bit sick a couple of days ago. I didn't think he would get as sick as he is now. Earlier today he threw up all his breakfast and he haven't eaten anything since, and Niall always eat. The only thing he has managed to get down his throat is a half a glass of Coke.

"-Do you want me to get you anything?" I ask again and stroke his warm forehead. "No, I'm alright." He says and pull his navy blanket over himself. He always try to put on such a brave face. Poor thing.

I walk up to Niall's room and find some of my own clothes. Yes, that's right. I've brought some of my own clothes into Niall's apartment and he has some of his clothes in mine. We have started to just have our stuff at each others places because we always randomly choose witch apartment we end up in.

After all my clothes are on, I can hear Niall throwing up the little he had left in his stomach. I feel really bad for him and decide to walk downstairs again to see if there is something I can help him with.

As I reach the stairs, I can hear him flush the toilet and turns the sink on. After rushing down the stairs, I walk into the bathroom and wrap my arm around him. He just finished drinking some of the water from the sink as he turns it off. "You sure you're alright?" I ask and stroke his back.

He is leaned over the sink with his arms on each side. He just nods with his eyes clothes before he slowly walk out of the bathroom, past me. He walks almost zombie-like over to the couch before he slowly lies down on it.

I decide to follow him and I sit down on the edge of the couch. "I can take care of myself you know" Niall says quietly as he looks at me. I'm not sure if he can, to be honest. He can barely walk.

"Do you want me to leave?" I ask, not quite sure what he wants. "It's nice to have you here, but you can do other things if you want to. Maybe you could go buy some food?" He says with a sleepy look.

I think about it: There isn't much food left in his fridge, so maybe a trip to the supermarket wouldn't hurt. "Ok, I'll go to the supermarket to pick up some food. Do you want anything?" I ask. "Maybe some chips" He says and closes his blue eyes.

"I'll be back before you know it" I say and stand up from the couch and walk over to the front door to grab my car-keys and shoes.

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I put the bags with food into the kitchen and start putting all the different things in where it's supposed to be. Niall is asleep and I don't want to wake him, so everything I do is done carefully.

I take the chips I just bought and put them down in front of Niall on the table. This causes him to wake up, something I feel really bad about. It is just like waking up a baby. "Thank you" Niall says with his beautiful eyes slightly open. He is probably referring to the bag of chips.

"No problem" I say and walk out to the kitchen again, so he can continue sleeping. "Isabel?" Niall asks a bit loudly, witch causes him to cough. I make my way back to the living-room, "What?" I ask calmly.

"Me, Louis, Liam and Harry were supposed to go out tonight, but obviously I can't. So I called Harry and told that maybe you wanted to go instead" Niall says and tries to smile at me, but he just ends up coughing again.

I don't know if this is such a good idea to be honest. If Harry tries anything again, I'm not sure what I will do.

"-Isabel?" Niall interrupts my thinking. He probably wish to know my answer, so that he knows if I'm going or not. "-None of the girls are going, but you get along with the lads, don't you?" Niall asks again, trying to hurry my answer.

"Isn't Zayn going?" I ask, wondering what the lad is doing tonight. "Nah. Perrie just got home from tour." Niall says and shake his head "-Are you going or what? You know that you don't have to worry about me" Niall says.

At this point I feel like Niall just really wish to get me out of here for a little while. I understand him though. If I was the one who were sick, I would probably want to be alone as well. I mean, I remember my mom alway used to nag me when I were sick and that's probably what I'm doing to Niall right now.

"Fine. When do they pick me up?" I ask and shrug at him. A little smile spreads across his sleepy face, "At 9" Niall says and grab his phone. He starts typing, probably texting one of them that I'm going.

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The clock has hit 9 and I can hear a car outside. I look out the window and see Harry's car waiting in the driveway outside. I walk to Niall, who is still lying on the couch and try to give him a kiss goodbye. Unfortunately, he turns his head and my lips is pressed against his cheek instead.

"Nialler" I whine and kiss his cheek again. "I don't want you to get sick, babe" Niall says with a little smile on his face. "-You look stunning by the way. Don't forget that you belong to me now" Niall says and playfully sneak his hand under my tight dress and squeeze my bum. I can't help but laugh.

"I have to go now" I say and smile at him "Have fun" He says and starts coughing again.

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I buckle up my seatbelt in the backseat beside Liam and Harry starts driving. "You look pretty" Liam says and friendly smile at me. "Thanks" I say and smile back at him. "-So where are we going?" I ask and see that we're heading down a dark street. "You'll see"Harry says.

After a while the car drives up to the backside of what seems like a nightclub. Harry stops the car and we all step outside. "What is this place?" I ask as Louis opens a black door that we all walk inside of. "Just a club" Liam says and we reach yet another door.

Liam opens the door this time and we all walk in to a really crowded place. There's literally people everywhere. Girls are dancing on the tables and on the bars, Boys are grinding up behind the girls on the dance-floor and there's drinks everywhere.

Without thinking, I grab hold of the first hand I can find. To my surprise it is Harry's hand I am holding so tightly. He smiles at me and lead us over to a table in the corner where a waitress comes with champagne right away. I let go of Harry's hand and grab the champagne glass. It doesn't take long before girls starts to gather around the three boys.

"It's a shame Niall couldn't join us today. He usually loves all the attention all the slutty girls give him." Harry says into my ear so I can hear him properly. To be honest his words stings a bit as first, but I swiftly understand what his trying to do.

"Oh really?" I say as I take a sip of my glass, trying to act like I care. "Yeah, he's quite a flirt. You should have seen him on tour" Harry says and shakes his head as he chuckle. I just roll my eyes. Niall have already told me that he didn't get laid while he was away and Harry can't convince me otherwise.

Liam and Louis seems to be struggling a bit with all the attention from the ladies, because they have their girlfriends at home, waiting for them. Harry on the other hand is flirting with every single one of them, but after a while he winks his hand at security who shush them away.

"It can get a bit intense sometimes" Liam says and stand up, "Does anybody want anything in the bar?" He asks us. All three of us tell him what we want and he goes over to get it for us.

"How's Eleanor's cold going?" I ask Louis and completely try to ignore Harry whom is in the middle of us. "She's a lot better. I think I was the one who brought her germs over to Niall's place" Louis says and later apologizes for himself. I just giggle.

"Maybe it was another girl" Harry says as he stands up to help Liam with the drinks he just brought over. I frown at Harry and so does Louis. Does he know something I should have known about?

Liam and Harry sit down again and hand out the drinks. Liam got me something strawberry-ish, witch tastes quite lovely. I think I might have tasted it before.

"What do you mean Harry?" Louis says, interrupting my peaceful thinking of the amazing drink. But he was right. What does harry mean when he says that it might have been another girl?

"Let's not forget about Niall's fame and his love for the ladies" Harry continues and Liam frowns. To me it sounds like Harry is describing himself, but turns it around to make it look like he is the nice guy.

"Don't go there, mate" Louis says and take a huge sip of his beer whilst shaking his head in confusion. Harry shrugs before looking at me, possibly to see if what he says have any affect on me. It doesn't.

"Are you accusing Niall for cheating?" Liam asks, studying Harry's face. "Of course not. I'm just pointing out facts" Harry says and smile before he puts his arm around me. It probably just looked friendly to Liam and Louis, but I know how Harry sees it.

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As the night goes on, Liam and Louis decides to leave earlier than Harry and I. This is probably because of the two inpatient ladies waiting at home. I have a boyfriend waiting at home, but I don't think he wants to have me there at the moment because of him being sick and all that.

"Are you tired?" Harry asks loudly into my ear because of the loud music and base. I nod my head, because even if Niall wants me there or not, I'm still his girlfriend and he just have to deal with it.

Harry grabs my hand and leads me out of the nightclub, the same way we came in. When we are on the outside of the club where Harry parked his car, he starts looking for his keys in his pocket. He finds them and open the car, which we both enter seconds later.

I wait for him to start the car, but he doesn't. "Is there anything wrong?" I ask and try to tug my dress down a bit further. "You have't mentioned anything since that day we almost... kissed" Harry says and look at me.

I really hoped he wouldn't bring it up, but obviously I couldn't avoid it when I am alone with him. "I've tried to forget it and pretended that it never happened" I say and put my seatbelt on.

"I thought you and Niall still were doing that friends with benefits thing" Harry says. I roll my eyes. "God, Harry. We told you that we are a couple days ago" I say a bit more angrily and start playing with the button on my clutch.

"I guess" Harry mumbles and start playing with the steering wheel. "I'm sorry if I..." Is all I get to say before Harry grabs my face and press his lips against mine. I push him away swiftly. "-This is wrong" I say and look out the window.

"I'm sorry" Is all Harry says before he starts the car and start driving.

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I enter the door to Niall's apartment and as I take a step inside, I see a crying Niall on the couch. What have happened?

I throw my heels off and put my clutch on the little table beside the door, before I rush over to him. "Hey" I say as I sit down beside him and stroke his back. He budge me away and stand up with his hand across his mouth.

His eyes are red and he have tears falling down his face. "-Babe?" I ask worried and stand up as well. As I try to walk closer to my crying boyfriend, he puts his hand in front of me as a sign to not get any closer.

"-Niall, can you please tell me what's wrong?" I ask and put my hands up. Niall wipes all his tears away and grab his phone from the table. He suddenly looks a bit angry and I figure it might be a new rumor about him like that time people thought he smoked.

"Please tell me that this is not true!" He yells at me and hands me his phone. I look down at the screen.

"HARRY STYLES CAUGHT KISSING MYSTERY GIRL."