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Harry is in love with his boyfriend Liam. And James. And even Li, who hates him with a burning passion. Yeah, yeah. I know what you’re thinking. “Why is Harry dating three guys, including a guy that hates him?” Well Harry is only dating one person. It just so happens that this one person has three separate personalities. Liam is the quiet, romantic one. James is the extremely happy and sometimes a little too horny one. And Li… well he’s the aggressively heterosexual one.
•Harry’s P.O.V.•
Liam and I are currently cuddling on my living room sofa while finishing a romantic comedy on Netflix. As the credits pop up, Liam stuffs his head into my neck and asks for the time. “5:45.”
“We should go do something.”
“Like what?” I asked.
“Could we go to your mum’s bakery?” He sat up. I followed suit and wrapped my arm around his shoulders.
“Of course we can. Why don’t you go take your medication then we’ll go.” Liam nods. He kisses my cheek quickly and stands up. “Hey,” I grab his hand before he can walk too far. Liam looks back at me with a questioning look. “I love you, Liam.”
“I love you, too, Harry.” He smiles. I release his hand and he turns and walks up the stairs. I start to get worried when five minutes pass and Liam hasn’t come back down. I get up off the couch and head upstairs. I open our bedroom door and see him standing there looking at his phone.
“Hey, Haz. What’s up?” Well that explains a lot. It’s James.
“Oh, hey, James. Just wondering if you wanted to go to the bakery?”
“Did I just switch?” James questioned. James and Liam are aware of the multi personality disorder, but they can’t control it. Li, however, doesn’t really understand the whole concept. Liam is his main personality, James pops up every once in a while, and Li, thankfully, does surface too often.
“Yeah.” I chuckle.
“I’m sorry. Let me make it up to you.” He smiles suggestively as he walks closer. I clasp my hands behind hid neck and he wraps his right arm around my waist, pulling his body closer to mine, and placed his left hand up my face and kissed me deeply. I kiss him back, obviously, just with a little less eagerness than him. Usually, I match his energy. He must have noticed this because he pulled away. “Not in the mood today?”
“No, I am. It’s just… well I really want to go to the bakery.” I laugh at my lame reasoning. James smiles widely and shakes his head.
“Well then let’s go! We’ll call it a date,” he leaned in and whispered, “and maybe we can continue this after.” James kisses the area just below my right ear.
“Okay.” James’ enthusiasm always makes me really happy. I unclasped my hands from behind him and grabbed his hands. He looks at me. “Let’s go.” I say.
We are just about to walk out of the room when I remember about the medication. I stop James from walking and go back to the table where we keep the pills. Liam, James, and Li all have different prescriptions. I take out James’ pills and a notebook. The notebook is how I keep track of who takes the pill and when. Just so I don’t accidentally tell two of them take it and have the body overdose.
“Do you remember what time you switched?” I asked.
“Like 6:47. Not really sure.”
“Come take your medicine.” James groans but walks over and takes it anyway. He complains that it makes him feel weird. “It really helps, James.” I write in the notebook then put it, along with the medicine bottle. I look at him. He’s smiling. “What?” I smile back.
“Nothin’.” He pecks my lips. “I love you.” He kisses me again. I mumble against his lips that I love him back. He grabs my hips and pulls me closer to him. Surprisingly, he pulls away. “You want to go to the bakery. Let’s go.” We walk out of the room, down the stairs, and out the front door.
“Do you wanna drive or walk?” It’s a three minute drive and a seven minute walk.
“Let’s walk.” I should have figured. James loves being outside whereas Liam prefers the indoors and Li likes to be anywhere I’m not. James and I start our walk hand in hand.
~time skip~
While drinking tea and eating various pastries, James was asking me about his other personalities. James has always been the most curious out of all of them, even the ones that have merged into the current ones.
“So Li really hates you?” James says in disbelief. “I could never imagine any part of me hating you. Well, I guess it’s not really me. It’s my body, but not my state of mind, right?”
“Well, technically, it’s Liam’s body. You see, when Liam was younger, he was harassed for being gay. That’s why he’s so quiet and really only talks to the people he knows. But when Liam was being tormented, he created this… cover; this other person who went by Alex. Alex would both verbally and physically hurt people who attempted to make fun of him. Now Li stemmed off Alex. Li is the angry and homophobic heterosexual form of Liam. Although Alex is gone, Li still exists. Als-“
“Do you love him?” James cuts me off.
“Who?”
“Li. Do you love him even with the way he treats you?”
“Yeah. I do.” I say truthfully. “I have loved every single personality. That includes you, and Li, and Alex, and even Max.”
“Who was Max again?”
“Max never talked. He was another cover that Liam made during his years of harassment. Max would usually run and hide somewhere. And the weird thing with max was that he was fluent in sign language. It took me weeks to learn enough to have simple conversations with him. But after I did, I got learn so much about the entire person. I fell for Max a lot quicker than the others- and no, that does not mean I loved him more.”
“Do you know where I came from?”
“Personally, I think you’re who Liam really wants to be. You’re confident, happy, and always sure of yourself. I think you came up when Liam moved schools. He wanted to change, but he wasn’t really sure how so he made you.”
“Do you really love me? Or do you only love me because you love Liam and I’m a part of him?”
“I love you, James. I would love you even if you were physically a separate person from Liam.”
“I love you, too, Haz.” James holds my hands over the table. “I gotta use the loo. Be right back.” I watched James with a loving gaze as he walk off. Minutes pass. I noticed he walks out, but seems unsure of where he his. He makes eye contact with me and I immediately realize that this is not James.
“What the f-ck?” Ah, yes. The wise words of Li.
Fun.
“Well hello to you, too, Li.”
“Where am I?”
“This is my mum’s bakery and we’re here on a da-“
“We’re not on a date because I’m not dating you and I’m not gay.” Li gets in my face. I’ve learned over time to just smile when this happens. So that’s what I do; smile. Li makes an unreadable face. “You’re always smiling with that same f-cking smile.” He backs away from me. “I’m leaving.”
Well it’s a good thing we paid already. I quickly gathered up all the garbage and threw it out. I noticed that Li left the building. He couldn’t have have gotten too far, mostly because he doesn’t know where he is. I walk out of the door and found Li a few paces away leaning against a wall.
“Aw, look who waited for me.” I said with sickly sweet voice. Li glares at me.
“You know very well why I waited for you. I don’t know where the f-ck I am.” He stated.
“Well where would you like to be?”
“Away from you.”
“Hm… sorry that’s not an option. Try again.”
“I’m done with your sarcasm, Harold. How do I get back to the house? I’m tired.” I roll my eyes when he calls me ‘Harold’. But nonetheless, I give him one of my biggest smiles and turn in the direction of our home and start walking. I hear Li following close behind me, yet I’m sure he’s keeping a distance between us, as usual.
After a few quick minutes, we arrive at our house. As soon as I unlock and open the door, Li walks into the living room, plops onto the sofa, and turns on the television. I close the door behind me, walk into the living room, and join Li on the couch.
“Could you not sit so close to me?”
“I could… but I don’t want to.” I say as I scoot closer to him.
“Freak.” He mumbles.
“Love you, too.” I laugh. At first he glares at me, then his face turns into mock-confusion.
“I don’t love you? I’m straight?”
“I don’t think so.” I take my phone out of my pocket. James loves to take selfies with me, so hopefully this can make Li understand. “Besides, if you were really straight, would we be taking pictures like these?” I hand him my phone.
“This doesn’t prove anything.” He hands my phone back to me. “I don’t remember any of those photos being taken.”
“That’s because it’s not you in the photos.”
“Are you trying to tell me about multi personality disorder? You’re just going to tell me that I’m not real; that I am just a cover.”
“That’s not at all what I mean. Look, Li, I’ve noticed you only come around when Liam is either stressed, scared, feeling threatened, or when he hears bad news about the LGBT community. You are who he turns to for help. You know how to deal with these problems. You may not handle them in the most logical ways, but you do handle them.”
“So? I’m a problem solver woo hoo.” He says with sarcasm. “How does that relate the me being homosexual, which I am not?”
“I know you understand the whole concept of Liam being the host, so I’m not going to explain that. Anyway, when Liam was middle school, he came out of the closet as gay. I know this because we went to the same school before and he came out shortly before I moved away. What I don’t know is what exactly happened after he came out. According to Liam he was being bullied. He started skipping school just to get away from it. Somewhere along the way, he made you. You seemed to convince everyone that was harassing him that he was just joking that that he is one hundred percent straight. So now he switches to you when ever he needs a problem to be solved.”
“You said earlier that you love me.” He stated with a questioning tone.
“Is that a question or a statement?”
“Why do you love me?”
“Because you are a part of Liam, Li. You protect him. And just because you don’t feel that way about me, doesn’t mean I can’t love you.” I give him a small smile.
“Can you kiss me?”
“What?” I ask, taken aback by his question.
“I wanna see if I feel anything. It doesn’t have to be long. Just a quick peck is fine.” I oblige. I move closer to him, rest my right hand on his left cheek, and peck his lips. “Do it again.” I repeat my previous action.
It doesn’t actually occur to me that this is my first time kissing Li until he tells me to kiss him again and this time he pushes his lips back on mine. I’m not sure what he wants to do from here, so we just keep our lips pressed against each other’s.
“Move.” Me mumbles against my lips. I begin to slowly move my lips, and he copies my actions. Soon enough the simple lip kiss turns into an extremely heated snog secession. Li swings his leg around me, straddling me. He tangles his fingers in my hair as I start to unbutton his shirt.
Out of nowhere Li pulls back sharply, takes his hand off of me, and started massaging his temples while groaning in pain.
“F-ck! What’s happening!?” He yelled.
“You’re switching, Li.”
“No.” He groaned again. “Not now. I want to stay with you.” He kisses me once. “I love you.”
“I love you, too, Li.” I pull him close, hugging him. Within seconds the body relaxes. A new personality had taken over.
“Harry?” It’s Liam. I loosen my grip and he pulls back and looks at me. “Were we about to have sex?” He asks, noticing our position and the fact that his shirt was half unbuttoned.
“I think so, yeah.” I smiled softly at him.
“Can we still have sex?” I laugh a little bit too hard. “Why are you laughing at me?” He tries to sound offended, but the smile crawling onto his face showed otherwise. I kiss his cheek quickly before responding.
“I’m not laughing at you. Do you want to have sex?” He nods. “Then let’s go.”
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