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"So what did you use Haz Bear?" I asked Harry walking up to him while he took a drink from his water bottle.

Often times girl and boys soccer practiced at the same time, today being a prime example. Whipping sweat from his brow he gulped down his water while I waited with my hands on my hips.

"Haz Bear?" He giggled looking over at me when he finished taking a drink. Sweat glistening on his forehead while he panted slightly from the energy he was putting into practice.

"It was the first name that came to mind! Anyways how did you do it?" I asked him desperate for answers in what had been rained all over my skin. I also wanted to know how he managed to pull the entire thing off in the first place.

"That's for me to know and for you too..." He stalled for a moment not knowing how to finish the sentence, "not know."

"Harry!" I whined hoping that he would give in by my annoying tone that had conveyed whinny. I had to know how he did it.

"Kendall!" He mimicked laughing at me while I huffed in frustration. Folding my arms I tilted my chin up and began to try a different strategy with him.

"Why can't I know? It's not like I'm going to dupe your prank! It's already been done." I arched a brow doing what I could to convince Harry who wasn't swayed so easily.

Before Harry even had the chance to say a word a whistle was blown towards our direction causing me to whip my head to the left. Standing a few feet away with the other girls on my team I saw my coach begin to shout towards me. "Ramsey! Stop flirting and get back over here!"

"Sorry coach!" I shouted back looking back at Harry who chuckled under his breath. His eyes lighting up in the sun that sat lower in the sky now. "Meet me back here after practice?"

"Sure." Harry smirked running back towards the other boys that were doing assigned drills that the Coach Robinson had instructed that they do. I watched Harry's curly ends bounces in the breeze he created by running. The white and red school colors looking good on him, Harry looked nice in anything really. I don't know why I was thinking about this however...

Running on my own back to my team I stood next to Blair who passed me the ball as the other girls did partner drills my Coach had taught us awhile back. "What did Harry say?" Blair asked me bouncing the ball of her knee of me to receive.

"He said he won't tell me! Which I don't understand why he wouldn't, its not like I'm going to get him back with the same prank. You have to come back with something fresh and new." Squinting as the sun came back into my vision and making Blair a shadow of an outline.

"I bet he is just trying to tease you, I don't know if you have noticed this but Harry likes when you want something from him." Blair spoke wiping some sweat from her forehead with her arm before looking back at me.

"No he doesn't he just likes to be annoying." I told Blair ruining the streak we were in from passing the ball back and forth. Blair loved to tell me that Harry and I had feelings for each other no matter how many times I told her it wasn't a thing. "What about Louis?!" I quickly changed the subject on her looking over towards the guys that were playing a field away from us.

"What about Louis?" Blair questioned shrugging like she didn't know what I was talking about.

"Ummm hello, you were there that night we played truth or dare! Blair, you and Louis like each other?" I asked hoping that I would get a straight answer from her. I wanted to know the details between their secret love. I had never known that Blair took interest in Louis especially when she talked about Calum so often. Although maybe she had used Calum as a diversion.

"I don't know its complicated." Blair sighed when I kicked the ball to her and she caught it. As the whistle blew I closed the huge gap between Blair and I so we could talk as we walked to coach.

"Why didn't you tell before you had the hots for Louis?"

"I don't know because I didn't think anything of it. I thought it was a little crush but when we hooked up and things happened after that..." Blair trailed off flipping her ponytail away off her shoulder.

"Wait a second!" I stopped in my tracks pulling on Blair's white uniform sleeve for her to stop like I had. "You hooked up with Louis? Blair!" My mouth dropped open hearing her little confession about the history between her and Louis.

"SHHHH!" Blair smacked her hand over my mouth causing me to rip it off and drop my jaw once again as she folded her arms. "I don't want this all over Gigi!"

"Blair!" I was speechless as my dropped jaw became a huge grin that spread over my lips like butter spread across toast. "When did this happen?" Now that Blair had opened up about the big details I become more interested in the little ones.

"Junior 'Grad Night', we may or may not have done a quickie in the janitors closet..." Blair trailed the end of her lips curving up into a little smirk. Junior Grad Night was an event put on by our school where the juniors got to celebrate making it through our junior year. There were games, food, and of course the alcohol was present in the punch bowl that had been spiked. Come to think of it I remember not being able to find Blair for a good 30 minutes that night but had chocked it up to being too drunk to differentiate a piece of bread from Niall.

"Ooooh B!" I drew out my words beginning to walk to the team again since they had been shouting at us to hurry our asses up.

"You can't tell anyone K, I'm serious no one can know!" Blair stressed coming up to the team that was gathered around Coach Miranda. Her tone decreasing in volume when we stood beside out other teammates.

"I would never." I assured her abiding by her wishes for her relationship with Louis to stay on the down low until they figured out what they were.

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"Look who it is, K & B!" Louis shouted as Blair and I walked towards the spot I had told Harry to meet me at. Our team meeting had gone over and finally everyone was headed home with whoever they carpooled with mine being Blair.

"How was your practice?" I questioned the boys who were gathering there bags and things like I was. Taking a drink and sitting down to take off my cleats I looked up to see Harry part his lips to answer for the boys after a groan had erupted for all of them.

"Coach is hammering down on us this season. It was a long practice." Harry said putting his hands on his hips and looking down at me while I tied a pair of converse to my feet.

"Same with Miranda she wants us to go out with a bang side this will be our last year in North High." I stood up slinging my bag over my shoulder and moved closer to Harry who was ready to go. "Anyway so how did you pull it off?"

"You really want to know?" Harry smirked walking with me while the other followed behind at a medium distance.

"I really want to know." I nodded biting my bottom lip and keeping an even pace with Harry while we walked across the field to the parking lot.

"While you were at Liam's I snuck around back and jumped in through your window. From there I went into the bathroom unscrewed your shower head and put jolly ranchers in the facet head. I screwed it back on and went through and out the way I came." Harry explained with a triumphant smile earned from his victory of a flawless prank.

"Jolly Ranchers! It makes sense!" I looked towards the parking lot laughing slightly. "So you didn't have homework!"

"Well I did but I had other things to tend to."

"That's why Niall and Liam were so adamant on not scaring you! They knew you weren't home! They knew you were at my house!" I connected the dots in my head going back to when Blair, Liam, Niall, and I all hung out. No wonder Liam and Niall had instantly denied Blair idea of scaring Harry, they were covering for him!

"Wait a second!" Harry stopped for a moment looking at me. "You were going to come and scare me?" His face contorting into one of mischief.

"Yes." I chuckled already seeing he was going to do something to make me pay for even coming up with an idea like that.

"It's good you didn't because if you did I would've done this!" Harry tried to strike and grab me but I went off in a mad jog. Pony tail flying behind me I found feel Harry gaining up on me. My feet picked up but my speed was no match for Harry's when he scooped me up and threw me over his shoulder.

"Harry!" I squealed as he began to tickle the pits of my legs. Squirming in his arms my gaze fell the ground as my stomach laid over his shoulder. "Harry let me down!"

Taking my hand I began to smack his bum, hand coming into contact with it I felt the firmness under my touch.

"Ooo Kendall!" Harry spoke in response to me hitting his bum.

"Harry!" I squealed again going limp as my arms swayed from side to side going through the parking lot.

"Tell me that I am your favorite prankster!" Harry said with triumph when he stopped walking.

"No way!" I laughed as the blood rushed to my head from being held upside down for as long as I had.

"Say it." Harry said nonchalantly with his arms wrapped around my legs constricting them with his muscles.

"Harry..." I whined knowing the red pigment in my face was getting worse by the second.

"Say it!"

"Fine! You are my favorite prankster!" I shouted louder then I needed to. Doing what he asked he helped me down and back onto my feet as I planted them on the ground. Seeing his smirk present in his lips I saw all the others pile behind us.

"You're a menace Harry Styles!" I poked his chest before the others gathered around each other and distributed themselves into their cars.