Hey guys,
I'm back with another story I just started writing two days ago. Like always, it's my original book turned into a Larry Fanfiction, which means apart from their names everything else is fiction. Their families and appearance are different here and there, just like their heritage.
I'm not sure how often I'm gonna update because I'm working a lot. Let's see how this goes.
If you have any ideas for the plot and you see I'm not done yet you can tell me in the comments. I might consider it because I'm not sure yet where this story will lead me.

For now, have fun with the first couple of chapters.

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"I can barely breathe. Never would I have called, in your shoes.The delete option is there for a reason, Niall" Benny, the radiohost of Triple Style, chortled loudly.

"For someone who can't breathe you're still talking an awfullot" Niall shot back smugly.

"Nice one, Nialler. No idea how you always come up withsomething like this on the spot" Liam patted his shoulderimpressed.

"It's called natural talent" Niall laughed carefreely.

"Not everyone can be ...".

"Don't start this now, Lima. We're still on the radio and Idon't think you wanna embarrass yourself in front of the whole UK,right?" Harry stopped him amused. His two friends could never leaveit be. It was always the same.

"So, you don't think I could take him?" Liam raised an eyebrowat him questioningly.

"Really?" Harry threw him an annoyed look. "We both knownone of us two is sassy, sarcastic or witty enough to battle Niall.It's his job to be a pain in the ass".

"Yeah, Lima. HEY!".

"As amusing as this is, we should get back to our game. Liam,you're next. Scroll down your contacts with your eyes closed until Isay stop" Benny instructed them entertained.

"I'm gonna regret this" Liam sighed out heavily but startedscrolling anyway because he had no choice.

"Loosen up a bit, Lima. What could possibly go wrong? You haveno interesting contacts in your phone anyway" Niall joked tolighten his bandmate up.

"Did you just call yourself boring?" Harry grinned at him.

"Stop trying to be cheeky, H. You're not" Niall shut him down.

"Stop," Benny said loudly and immediately, Liam's hand stilled."And, who is it? Call or Delete?".

"Actually, it's Evan. Let's just call him. He won't answeranyway. He's a busy man" Liam sounded totally relieved.

"How boring but okay".

The dialling tone sounded over the loudspeakers in the radiostation and Harry thought Evan might really not pick up but then hisvoice sounded lowly out of nowhere. "Liam, Hi. What's up?".

"Nothing much. Just having an interview marathon but it's thelast one for today. You?" Liam answered and made all of them groan.

For as long as Harry has known Liam, he has never been good at startingrandom conversations, especially not with people listening in on him.When he wasn't prepared for an interview and had no clue what wascoming his way he was always freaking anxious. This man needed a planto breathe and couldn't take a joke to save his life. Or more like,he wouldn't understand it's a joke until it's too late, which wasobviously used by his other bandmate Niall to his advantage becausehe loved to prank people and take the piss out of everyone and Harrycouldn't love two people more.

"Let me guess, Call or Delete with our favourite Drama QueenBenny?" Evan guessed over the phone but Harry could clearly picturethe smug smirk on his face.

"How did you ...?".

"I'm just good" Evan cut him off. "Hi, Niall. What's up,Harry?".

"Not much" Harry shrugged, being as unable to come up withgood answers as Liam.

"I have to endure these two useless idiots ruining the game.Nothing good happened apart from me calling an old friend of mine. Itwas freaking hilarious" Niall let him know.

"Childhood days or early band days?" Evan checked curiously.

"Early band days. His name is Isaac and let's just say he wasconfused about why I called and I might have interrupted something Ishouldn't have" Niall told him, already cackling again.

"Oh my god! This is so you" Evan started laughing out loud.

"Guilty as charged" Niall laughed along with him, which madeeveryone else laugh as well.

"Anything you wanna add before we move on to torturing Harry,Evan?" Benny threw in, tried collected because he still had a showto run and an interview to continue.

"Not really. I'm working on new songs. So, I guess I'll go backto it" Evan teased evilly.

"What? You can't just leave us hanging after you dropped thatbomb! Evan!" Benny exclaimed horrified.

"Bye, guys".

And with that, the line went dead.

"I hate when he does that" Benny grumbled cutely.

"He is a good old tease, isn't he?" Harry chuckled amused.

"Innit" Niall grinned broadly.

"Whatever. Harry, your turn" Benny clapped into his hands,startling all three of them.

Still trying to stop laughing, Harry grabbed one of his twophones. For this interview, they had all been digging out the oldestphone they still possessed. The one Harry had with him was from thevery early band days, way before they've become famous overnight. Ifthis had been a good idea ...

"And go".

With his eyes closed and a racing heart, Harry started scrollingthrough his old contacts. Many people in there he hasn't seen inages. Most probably had totally different numbers by now. Hopefully, he would just land on an old number of his sister or something. Thenhe would call but no one would pick up.

"Stop".

With Benny's voice signalling him to stop his movements and openhis eyes, Harry's whole world stopped around him. He blinked a fewmore times to make sure his eyes were seeing the actual downfallright in front of him or if he had made this up in his head. But no.His eyes weren't betraying him. This was real.

"Harry? Call or delete?" Benny's voice sounded somewhere inthe far distance but Harry couldn't focus on it.

He knew a camera was pointed at his frozen face, loving everylittle piece of this personal nightmare but he couldn't care less.His thumb was hovering over the contact. Internally, he was fightingthe biggest battle of his life over something that wasn't worth it.Someone who wasn't worth it but he couldn't help it. After some moresilence and hesitation, Harry decided to just call the number fromover eight years ago. He could never delete it.

When the dialling sound stopped with a loud click and someoneanswered the call Harry's heart stopped. But the voice soundingthrough the studio made him freeze in his seat. "Why the fuck areyou calling this number, Harry?".

Everyone was staring in shock at him, but Harry was totallyconfused. "Zayn?".

"Don't sound so surprised, Styles. After all these years youshould be able to recognise my voice" Zayn snorted unamused.

"No! I mean, what ... Zayn, why did you ...?" Harry stumbledover his words, making no fucking sense.

"Don't bother, Harry. Don't ever call this number again" Zaynordered sternly and ended the call.

The deafening silence afterwards felt like tiny needles werepoking him all over his body and it was going on for way too long.Zayn's cold and dismissive voice was echoing through Harry's mindwhile everyone was still silently staring at him, even the producersand other staff members from all around.

Highly embarrassed, Harry cleared his throat. "Niall, it's yourturn again. C'mon. We don't have all day".

Awakening from his stupor, Niall took his phone and scrolledthrough it but couldn't stop looking at Harry. When Niall had to callhis brother the mood relaxed again but Harry could feel the tensionin his bones paralysing him. His old phone was still safe in hisstrong grip underneath the table because he couldn't seem to let itgo. Let him go.

His second call ended up being one of his ex-flirts, Megan.Calling her was fun and he realised she hasn't been so bad, afterall. This almost made everyone forget about his first call. Almost.

"Guys, I'm afraid that's it for today. It was fun to have youhere" Benny smiled friendly at them towards the end.

"Thank you for having us" Liam thanked him politely.

"Always. After your break, I demand your first comebackinterview" Benny joked light-heartedly.

"We'll see about that" Niall chuckled freely.

"Okay. This was it, guys. This was One Direction playing Call orDelete with me before their undefined break after 7 years of beingtogether. Let's wish them a great time off. They deserve it and tunein next week when I will try and tickle some secrets out ofDolphin's Curve. See ya" Benny ended the show.

Letting out a sigh of relief, Harry jumped out of his seat andsprinted out of the room and right into the backstage dressing room.He needed to get a second to breathe before his bandmates would makehim talk about what happened earlier. With a lump in his throat, hewas staring at the still open contact on his phone without a namesaved, just two symbols.

"Harry, what was that out there? Why would you call Zayn? Youcould have deleted his old number. No big deal. But this now is a bigdeal. The press will be all over it" Liam stormed into the room andimmediately, attacked him riled up.

"Liam, calm down. They most likely will cut this out of thefinal version. Our label won't let this bit air. You know them"Niall tried to reason with him unexpectedly.

"And if not? It will be all over the internet. Harry Stylescalls ex-band member Zayn Malik and gets told off. Another proof theboys are no longer in contact and the friendship is broken" Liam waslosing it now.

"That sounded pretty accurate. Maybe you should write ityourself" Niall threw him a mad look, making Liam shut up.

"Sorry. I'm just worried about you, Harry. You don't need morebad press. He's ruining your image enough as it is. Band dramashouldn't be added to the mix" Liam apologised ashamed.

"It's okay, Lima. I understand and I appreciate your concern. Idon't want that to happen" Harry smiled softly at him.

"Then why did you call Zayn? Deleting the number instead was anoption. You couldn't possibly think Zayn would be wanting you tocall" Liam wondered perplexed.

"I hate to say it but he has a point, H. Why would you call himand risk this drama?" Niall sided with Liam.

"I wasn't calling Zayn" Harry scratched the back of his neck.

"What?" Niall looked incredulously at him.

"But it was Zayn on the phone and ...".

"If you didn't call Zayn, whose number was that?" Niall cutLiam off hesitantly. "Whose number wouldn't you delete?".

Harry looked down at the heart and hedgehog symbol on his oldphone and swallowed heavily before answering, shocking both of hisfriends to the core. "It was Louis' number".

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Why are Louis and Zayn not part of the band? Why was Zayn so mad that Harry called and what happened between Louis and Harry?