I Love You

Zayn could not sleep. He waited for Harry to put Emma to bed like every day, but he didn’t show up. Zayn was scared; he had never felt anything like that before. The actor heard a noise in the hallway and ran to Harry's room to see if he had arrived.

"Zayn, you scared me." Harry said, taking off his jacket and putting it on the bed. "Did I wake you?"

"No, I couldn’t sleep. I was watching a movie that I have wanted to watch for some time." Zayn had tried to watch the movie, but all he could think of was Harry and Isaac together, and he couldn’t pay attention to the movie. So, he gave up. "How was your night? Did you have fun?" Zayn asked him, leaning against the door.

"It was cool. Isaac is a great company." Harry replied smiling.

Zayn did not like the smile on Harry's lips, especially because, in his head, the reason for his smile was Isaac.

"And, you managed to help him with his problems?" Zayn walked over to him and sat down beside him on the bed.

"What problem?" Harry asked, taking off his shoes.

"Are you kidding me, Harry? You made me go to your rehearsal, then asked me to go home alone because Isaac was in trouble and needed your help. And now you come back home, drunk, telling me‘What problem?’”

"What I said to you was exactly what he told me, but when he got there he didn’t talk to me about any particular problem. I think he just needed some company." Harry's voice was low, trying to reassure the actor, although he did not understand why Zayn was so annoyed. "If you didn’t want to go home by yourself, you should have told me. I didn’t think you'd look this way."

"What way, Harry?" Zayn shouted.

"This way..." Harry pointed at him "What's the problem?

"You want to know what the problem is Harry? The problem is that I felt awful when you moved out. I felt like an idiot for not feeling the same for you…" Zayn's voice seemed to be cracking. Harry turned his back on him, not liking that the sensitive topic was brought up again. “I remember when I asked you if you had ever loved someone, you told me that you just had infatuations. I'm one of them." Zayn left the room, punching the door.

"I wish you were just one of them." Harry said to himself, letting his body fall on the bed.

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The weekend was a complete disaster. Zayn talked to Harry with hints of sarcasm in his voice who makes Harry did not understand why Zayn was behaving that way with him.

"Good evening." Louis greeted them. They were watching a movie in the living room. "Did you go to a wake that I don’t know about?" Louis was confused to see their dejected faces.

"Uncle Louis,wants popcorn?" Emma climbed out of Harry's lap, holding out the bucket of popcorn to Louis.

"Thank you, little angel." Louis kissed her cheeks. "Zayn, are you coming tomorrow to see the final casting?" Louis asked him, Zayn did not answer. Louis understood; Zayn needed to talk. "Can we talk in your room?" Louis had barely finished his question when Zayn got up from the couch.

"Emma stay here with Harry, daddy will come back soon."

They went upstairs, while Harry wished that Louis could fix Zayn's mood. He could not take it anymore. For the past few days, Zayn was like "Who did you learn this from?" "I didn't know you liked it. Why did you start liking it, or rather,  because of whom?" But Harry could not see what was right in front of him, Zayn was in love with him.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Louis asked him, closing the door.

"I'm confused, Louis. Until yesterday, I was straight, a single father, and now I'm in love with a man. How is that possible?"

"Zayn, love has no gender or sexual orientation. You're not in love with a man; you're in love with Harry. Who wouldn’t be? You have to talk to him, tell him what you feel."

"I don’t know, Louis. Now there's this Isaac guy. Grr" Zayn felt like ripping out all his hair just by hearing or saying his name. "I'm afraid, Louis."

"Afraid of what?"

"I have a fear, Louis…fear of surrendering myself and ending up getting hurt. I cannot let myself get hurt again."

"Zayn, even if you are of afraid of getting hurt, have patience and don’t give up on love. Life is full of fresh starts.

"You're the best friend in the whole world, you know?" Zayn pulled him into a hug.

 

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Louis had revealed the results—Melissa, Harry, Isaac, Ashton, Courtney, Jennifer, David, Hanna and Joey were the official cast of the highly anticipated film.

"Good folks, congratulations to the whole cast. Tomorrow you have the day off. Wednesday, we start the official rehearsal and shoot, okay?" Louis announced.

Melissa hugged Louis, thanking him. The rest of the cast did the same. Harry walked over to Isaac.

"Congratulations, you did a great job!" Harry hugged him cheerfully. 

"I'm so happy, Harry." Isaac pulled him into another embrace.

"Congratulations, Isaac." Zayn said, shaking his hand.

"Thank you." Isaac replied and turned to face Harry again. "Harry, we should go out and celebrate. What do you think?"

"I think it's a great idea." Zayn said first, without letting Harry reply. "We could go to that karaoke bar you took me to." Harry smiled when he heard "we". Harry was glad that Zayn had gotten out of his bad mood.

"I don’t want..." Isaac didn’t know what to say, that was not his idea. But Zayn would not let the kid win the game so easily. He was not willing to leave Harry alone with him again.

"Come on, Isaac! Zayn really enjoyed it. It's going to be fun." Harry patted his chest and gave Zayn his dimpled smile. 

"The idea of celebrating was yours, Isaac. Are you going to back off now?" Zayn asked, making sure that the irony in his words would be clear to Isaac.

"Ok, let's go."

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Zayn was no longer so sure that it was a good idea. Harry and Isaac's laughter was making his stomach lurch. 

"I couldn’t compete with that dog. He paid more attention to the dog than to me." Isaac told Harry, completely excluding Zayn from the conversation. Harry smiled as he sipped his drink.

"You're the one who should have been his puppy." Harry told him, making Isaac spit his beer out of his mouth.

"Excuse me, I'll be right back." Zayn told them they but neither seemed to notice the actor leaving the table

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arry turned around, feeling Zayn's absence. Harry searched the whole place but couldn’t find him anywhere.

"I have to go, we can hang out again some other day." Harry told Isaac and threw some money on the table.

"Harry." Isaac stood up and kept him from leaving. "You know you have more options, don’t you?"

"What are you talking about?"

"Well, I didn’t want to talk about it today but…I'm very attracted to you, Harry." Harry looked at him, not knowing what to say. "It's your turn to say something"

"Isaac, you're a good friend, and I am .... I'm in love with Zayn, I made that clear to you."

"I know, Harry…but he doesn’t love you. How long will it take for you to realize that? He'll never love you, but I am right here."

"Isaac, I'm going to wait for him for as long as he needs to come to me. He'll love me someday. I am sorry." Harry told him, leaving the bar.

                                       

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"Why did you not tell me you were coming home?" Harry asked, seeing Zayn's shadow in the greenhouse.

"Why? You were having so much fun with your little "new friend"."

"Zayn, what's going on? You've been treating me a lot differently since the day you came with us to the final audition." Harry came closer to the actor.

"Isaac is your new infatuation, Harry?" Zayn asked him, seriously.

"What? Of course not! What does this have to do with my question?"

"Because I'm in love with you, Harry, and I cannot stand the idea of that asshole stealing you from me."

" What?You're an egoist, you're scared, Zayn. You’re just afraid to be alone again in this house, afraid to be alone with the ghosts of your…" Harry could not control his tears. “You have no right to play with my feelings just because you're afraid of being abandoned. You know that I will never leave you." Harry told him, leaving the greenhouse

Zayn held his wrist and pulled him hard against him. Their lips met; the kiss Harry had wanted for so long, since he had first met the actor. It was finally happening. Zayn smiled knowing that he’d never been so certain of anything in his life. Harry was holding the back of his neck tightly, wanting their lips to be joined forever.

"I love you, Harry." Zayn said, sealing it with a small kiss.

"I can’t believe this is happening." Harry gasped, parting away from the kiss. "There's nothing in the world I want more than you, Zayn. My dream of being an actor, of getting rich, is nothing compared to you. Everything has changed since I met you." Harry hugged him.

"I love you, Harry. And, I never felt so happy saying this to anyone."

They smiled and cried at the same time, but both emotions were of real happiness.

"The only certainty I have in my life is you. And, I'm the happiest man in the world for that, Harry. Thank you for coming in my life."

They brought their lips together again, feeling full.

They say people fall in love in mysterious ways, but that was not the case for them. It was no mystery why the pretty dimples fell in love with the perfect cheekbones and vice versa. It was destiny, and one cannot escape what is predestined.

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AN: Was this chapter cute? Lol.. Well, guys, I’ll wait for your comments, okay?Everyone who reads this fanfiction, I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH ♥️