3. Rainbow Curse

Anxiously, Louis was biting his nails backstage. His leg waswobbling like every time and his heart was beating out of his chest.His pulse was racing like crazy and he felt his throat closing up.Just like every fucking time before a show. Louis couldn't say why hewas always this nervous. None of this was a big deal.

To distract himself, Louis took out his phone and texted Zayn, whowas sitting right in front of the stage. Like every time. Zayn toldhim over text that Sam and Chris were both here alongside Luke andhis boyfriend Cody. Dylan was here just like Sean, Kayla, Maya, Baileyand Chloe. Quite literally everyone Louis knew around here. That madehim even more nervous but he appreciated their support. Every timehis band performed here or somewhere else they all tried to be thereto cheer them on.

"C'mon, Tommo. We're on in a minute. The crowd won't become morefamous the longer we wait" Liron, his bassist, joked.

The word famous reminded Louis of the three annoying popstarslurking around the town. Since their horrible incident at his andZayn's home, they had stayed away. By now, it has almost been a wholemonth without hearing anything from them. Louis has seen all three ofthem alone here and there sometimes but not once did they acknowledgehis presence, which was very welcomed.

"You're not funny, Li" Louis retorted with a neutral face.

"Not everyone can be you" Liron countered poutily.

"Too bad" Louis shrugged while standing up.

"Guys, let's go. We're gonna rock the stage" Maribel cheered.She was playing the keys.

Meanwhile, the owner of the pub/bar announced them to the crowd ina loud voice, which earned him loud and excited cheers. Full ofadrenaline, the five of them stepped out on stage and took theirplaces. Aria on the drums, Maribel on keys, Liron on bass and Àmberon guitar while Louis took the microphone.

"Hey, everyone. How ya doing tonight? We're Rainbow Curse.You're ready for some music?" Louis spoke thrilled into themicrophone, like always smirking because of their band name.

They kicked the set off with their song called High On You.He could still remember how they'd written this song. High off theirasses, funnily enough. That was years ago when they had tried to findthe right sound for them. Now their sound was a mix between IndieRock and Pop Punk. Perfect for all of them and to rock the stage.This was their thing.

Their second song was calledPeaches and waswritten by Aria about Àmber because she called her Peaches all thetime and they were disgustingly in love. It was so cute you justwanted to vomit all the time. Fittingly, a new song called Flowerwas what followed, written by Àmber about Aria a few days ago andthe song she had begged Louis to play for quite some time afterAria's song has been eaten up by the crowd almost a month ago. Louisloved his two girls to pieces. He couldn't deny them anything.

All available air was leaving hislungs when he was announcing their song Almost.And yes, he knew they had a lot of one-worded song titles but thatwas unimportant right now because Niall, Liam and Harry had justwalked into the pub. They haven't seen him yet or heard him becauseLouis had abruptly stopped talking the moment he had seen them. Fatecould be cruel sometimes and had its mysterious ways. No punintended. (Only makes sense in the book with their band name)

"Err ..." Louis cleared histhroat, drawing their attention to him. "Anyway, this is Almost.A classic. Sing with me".

Louis has never felt this watchedwhile performing. Their eyes were burning holes into him while he wassecretly singing about something one of them should know had happenedyears ago between them. Louis just wished certain memories might begone for him and weren't still haunting him like they were hauntingLouis every night. Because this song was about every possible almostsituation there could be when you were falling for someone, who wouldnever love you back but led you on unknowingly.



We were almostthere, Baby. Almost there.

We almost took thenext step

But life decidedto drop a sword from the sky

and tear us apart

It felt like aslap to the face, making me wanna cry

All I wanted wasfor you to stay when I had to walk away

Why did you nevercare?



Blinking back some uncalled tears, Louis' gaze fell on Zayn, whowas worriedly watching him. Louis offered him a brave smile beforehis gaze drifted back to the person he had tried to ignore this wholetime but wasn't able to. He got lost in the deep green ends of theworld, which seemed to be endless and surprisingly warm. His band eyed him concerned when he only croaked out the last sentence of the song.



We could have been there



The crowd erupted into cheers but to Louis, they sounded far away.Like white noise. When Àmber put her hand on his lower back Louisstartled awake, shook his head and focused back on the last twosongs. Happier and Not A Phase. Assoon as he blocked the three past ghosts out Louis was able to getlost in the music again and enjoy every second with his band, which hewas so grateful to have although they had other everyday jobs.Still, they found a way to make music on the side because they lovedto do it and had a great connection. One out of a million.

In the end, they bowed downbefore they went backstage, where they fell into a tight group hug.His blood was rushing loudly through his veins and his heart didn'twanna stop racing. Louis loved moments like this. They were special.

"What a sick gig, guys. We weregreat" Maribel was practically glowing right now.

"I agree with her. Sick one"Aria beamed at them.

"You sounded amazing, Lew"Àmber praised him but there was something in her eyes Louis knew alltoo well. He was thankful she wasn't acting on her natural instinctthis time.

"We sounded amazing. All of us.Let's get drunk and celebrate" Louis clapped his handsexcitedly.

A few minutes later Louis foundhimself by the bar with his friends. They all took three shots tostart with before ordering their individual drinks for the night.Pretty fast, the group spread out. Àmber, Aria, Maribel, Kayla,Liron, Sean and Sam disappeared somewhere together for god knows whatwhile Chris and Zayn were deep in conversation with Cody and Lukesnogging next to them. That sight brought a smile to Louis' face.

"Louis?".

That voice made his smile vanishfaster than he thought was possible. When he turned around he was metwith Harry but to his surprise, he looked kinda small and jumpy.Seeing him like this brought back memories Louis had tried years tobury deep inside of his heart. Now they were all coming back to life.

"Should I get ready for a pubfight this time?" Louis wondered strangely because he really wasn'tin the mood for an argument.

"Actually, I'm here to offeryou peace" Harry scratched his neck awkwardly, looking like alittle boy.

"I think I don't understand"Louis frowned in confusion.

"I have been unfair to you andpretty mean. Cruel even. And that for no reason at all. I mean, Itold myself I had a reason but now that I had time to really thinkabout it without anyone around I realised I did you wrong. I treatedyou horrible ever since we saw each other again and I wanna apologisefor my behaviour. This whole week I have been looking for you butcouldn't find you. Just when I was about to give up, Liam and Nialldragged me here tonight to get drunk and clear my head. I had no ideayou'd be here, performing even and ... Louis, you were amazing. Yourlyrics are even better than I remember. You have always been the bestsongwriter I've known. Um ... What I ... I mean, ... I'm truly sorry,Louis. Can you forgive me?" Harry rambled out an unexpected apologyand left Louis speechless.

"Um ... Sure" Louis actuallyblushed under Harry's intense stare. "Can you forgive me?".

"There is nothing you ...".

"We both know that's not true,Harry" Louis cut him off uneasily. "A couple of weeks ago I saidhorrible things as well. I mean, you kinda really pissed me off and Ijust tried to even it out but still. I could have handled this wholesituation better. Just ... seeing you all again hit me really hard. Ican't explain why but ... Of course, I forgive you, Harry. How couldI not?".

"And I forgive you too, Louis.For everything, you should know. I might not understand all of it yetbut it's in the past and we should let it rest. We were young anddumb and naïve and didn't know better. I mean, ... We can start anewand get to know our present selves, right?" Harry stumbled over hiswords. Louis felt weird hearing him bringing up the past like thisbut he was right.

"Whatever you want. We're notdumb and naïve anymore" Louis forced a smile onto his face. Fromthe corner of his eye, he could see Liam and Niall watching them talkand he could feel a presence behind him. He knew it was Zayn.

"How about we all meet uptomorrow afternoon and see if we can really all move on? Let's have alads day" Louis offered and wanted to slap himself. Very hard.

"You sure about this, Tommy?"Zayn asked shocked.

"Positive. We all need to letthe past rest. We might never become friends again but we cantolerate each other. We need this, Joey. All of us" Louis lockedeyes with him to make his point clear.

"If you want this, I'm in,Love" Zayn gave in easily.

"It's a good idea. See youtomorrow" Niall appeared next to Harry with a silent Liam andstarted to drag him away.

"Oh, and by the way, Zayn and Iare just friends, Harry. Best friends. Brothers. I'd even sayplatonic soulmates. We love each other, cherish each other,appreciate each other and support one another but we're not in love.Not a couple. We're too close to ever be a thing. Just so you know,I'm not cheating on Zayn. You can relax and stop your investigations"Louis called after them, flashing Harry a peace sign in the mostsarcastic way possible. That made Zayn crack up laughing and Harryfrown.

"I was only ...".

"I know, Harry. But you wereoverdoing it. This needed to be out in the open before we start anew"Louis didn't let him explain.

"Just like the sugar daddything" Zayn cackled tipsily.

"No, Joey. Bad. Stop" Louisrolled his eyes at him.

"Okay, Daddy. Whatever youwant" Zayn giggled cutely.

"Oh God, I'm surrounded byidiots".


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Can they really already forgive each other? Will they be able to talk it out?

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