Julie and Harry spent a couple of days in Paris enjoying the city.  It was amazing and breathtakingly beautiful.  Julie's favorite part though, was when they would order dinner, and eat on a blanket on the hotel floor, just talking and enjoying each other's company.  It was better than she could have imagined.

Harry had gone out, and Julie was bored, so she decided to go online and check out recent happenings.  She regretted it almost immediately.  She couldn't believe what she was looking at.  She just stared.  She didn't know what to think.  She heard the key card in the lock and slowly shut the laptop.  She didn't know what to do.

Harry walked in and saw Julie at the laptop.  He watched her close it.  She kept her hand on it and kept looking at it though.  "Hey baby.  I got something for you."  He handed her a small bag.

Julie was still unsure of what the heck was going on.  She took the bag, opened it and pulled out a small box.  She opened the box to a beautiful heart shaped diamond necklace.  She stood up, put the necklace back in the box, and shoved it into his chest.  "Do you think I'm stupid?  Seriously?  I don't want that.  What is it, a guilt purchase?  Is that what all this is?  I don't want any of it."  She walked towards the bedroom of the suite.

"Wait.  What the hell?  What is going on?"  Harry asked confused.

"So, you just went out to get that for me?  On a whim?"  Julie asked hand on the door to the bedroom.

"I thought it was perfect for you.  Why are you so mad?"  He asked her.

"Figure it out."  Julie said as she shut and locked the door.

Harry stood there for a minute looking at the box.  What the hell was going on.  He looked at the laptop and decided to start there.  He opened the lid and looked at what she was last looking at.  "Shit."  He walked to the door.  "Julie, that's not what it looks like.  Please let me explain.  Please open the door and let me explain."  He wasn't surprised when he was met with silence.  What the hell was he going to do.  It was a long quiet night.  She stayed locked in the room all night.  No matter what he tried he got nothing.

After a few days of enjoying family time in Ireland, Amanda and Niall were heading back to the airport to go back to London.  Amanda was catching up on messages and social media updates.  She wrinkled her brow and shook her head.  This had to be a mistake there was no way she was seeing what she was seeing.  "What the hell!"  She said out loud.  She immediately tried to call JJ.  No answer.  She tried again.  No answer again.  "Answer your damn phone, JJ!"  She tried again.

"Whoa.  Princess."  Niall said glancing at her.  They were almost to the airport.  "What's going on?"

"We need to change our flight to Paris.  Now, we need to go right now."  She tried calling JJ one more time.

"Um, Princess.  Care to explain?  Not that I would mind going to Paris with you."  Niall said completely confused.

"Your friend is a jackass, and I need to get to JJ.  I can't believe she didn't call me."  Amanda said.

"Wait.  Slow down.  What's going on?"  Niall said pulling into the rental car return.

Amanda pulled up the posts from the day before.  She showed Niall.  "What the hell was Harry doing out on the streets of Paris, with Kendall Jenner?  Hugging her, and getting lunch with her, when he took JJ there?  I need to go see about her now."  Amanda said getting out of the car and getting her things.

"Slow down."  Niall said taking her hand.  "Don't you think there is an explanation, and don't you think that we should let them work it out?"

"Are you going to change our flights to Paris or not?"  Amanda asked looking at him.

"No Amanda, we can't go fight their fight."  Niall said.

"Are you kidding me?"  Amanda said pulling her hand away.  "Either you do it or I will go myself."

"Princess."  Niall started.

"Don't call me that right now.  Are you seriously refusing to take me to Paris right now?"  Amanda said crossing her arms at him.

"I don't think we should go Amanda.  I think we should stay out..."  Niall started.

"I can't believe you.  I'm going to Paris with or without you.  If you want to be a jackass, then you go right ahead."  She said grabbing her bags and stomping towards the airport.

Niall sighed.  He had to admit seeing the picture of Harry in the streets of Paris with Kendall was a surprise to him, but he still thought they should stay out of it.  He grabbed his bags and hurried to catch up with Amanda.  "Amanda please, let's just go back to London and we will try to get ahold of them to figure out what's going on."

Amanda looked at him.  "Wow!  I thought you had more compassion than that.  You tell me Niall, if I were with you in Paris, and decided to go meet my ex model boyfriend without you, how you would react.  Then pretend you're JJ and react that way."  She watched his face drop.  "Yeah so go to London yourself.  I'm going to Paris."  She walked up to the counter to talk to the ticket agent about getting her to Paris on the soonest flight possible.

"We can't always fight their fight Amanda.  I'm sure Harry has a good explanation."  Niall said trying one more time.

"The only explanation is he's a jackass too.  Must be running in the veins of One Direction members today!"  She waited for the representative to find the next flight.

Niall sighed.  When the representative told them that a flight left for Paris in 2 hours he booked two seats and got their luggage checked.  Amanda grabbed her carry on and went towards security.  She was angry, she couldn't believe Niall would try and fight her on this.  There was no explanation Harry could give right now that would make sense.  She wished JJ would answer her phone.  She sat down at the gate and pulled away from Niall when he tried to take her hand.  She tried calling JJ one more time.  She couldn't give up yet.  She got no answer.  She was concerned.  Did JJ know about Harry's meeting with Kendall?  She almost hoped she didn't.  She almost hoped that she could be there when she found out.  But it was all over the internet and social media.  Maybe JJ didn't go online since they were in Paris.  She didn't spend much time on social media lately.  But then, why wouldn't she answer her phone.  "Dammit!"  She looked at Niall.  "Call Harry."

"Amanda.  Can we talk about this?"  Niall asked.

"No!  Call him please."  When Niall didn't get his phone, she swore again.  "Dammit!"  He couldn't even do that for her.  She gave in and called him herself.  When Harry answered, she wasted no time.  "Where's JJ?"

"Hey, Amanda."  Harry said.

"Don't hey Amanda me.  I said, where's JJ?"  She said angrily.

"She's in the bedroom.  Has been since yesterday afternoon."  He said.  Amanda obviously knew.  "She didn't call you?"

"No, and I will deal with that later.  I'm coming there, and you better stay out of my way."  She said hanging up the phone.

"Amanda."  Niall started.

"Don't talk to me right now.  I'm angry at you too."  She got up and walked to the bathroom.

Niall sat back and sighed.  Great.  What was Harry thinking?  He knew he and Kendall were friends but why would he go out in Paris with her, especially when he took his girlfriend there.  And he was kicking himself.  He should have just agreed to take Amanda there.  This was going to be a long quiet flight.

Niall and Amanda were walking into the hotel in Paris that Julie and Harry were at.  Amanda still wouldn't say a word to Niall.  Luckily, it's a relatively short non-stop flight from Ireland to Paris.  "Amanda, I think we need to talk."

"Not right now we don't."  She said as she knocked on the hotel door.

"Amanda, come on."  Niall started as Harry opened the door.

"I said not now."  She said, as she pushed past Harry, dropped her bag, and went to the bedroom door.

When Niall saw Harry looking at him concerned, he said.  "Yeah she won't talk to me."

"Why won't she talk to you?"  He asked.

"Because I told her we shouldn't come.  I initially refused to get tickets to fly here.  Thought we should stay out of it."  Niall said walking in.

"Yeah, I'm sorry.  She locked herself in the room yesterday afternoon and hasn't come out at all."  He said walking back into the room.

"What were you thinking?  Seriously?"  Niall looked at him.  "I mean I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that there's nothing going on with you and Kendall, but it does not look good Harry."  Niall said.

"I guess I wasn't.  She called, said she was in Paris, and that one of our friends was having some trouble and maybe I could help.  So, I just went.  Turned out to be nothing though."  He said.

"And did you tell JJ where you were going?"  Niall asked.

"No."  He sighed.  "Yeah I get it.  I screwed up but she may be overreacting a little.  She won't even let me explain."

"Oh, I would not say that too loudly right now."  Niall said looking over at Amanda.

"Yeah."  He said.  "I'm screwed, aren't I?"

"You don't find it funny that all of a sudden Kendall called you from Paris when you brought your girlfriend here and had to talk to you in person this second and it turned out to be nothing?"  Niall asked him.

"I didn't think about that."  Harry said sitting down.

"Well you must have thought about something if you hid it from JJ."  Niall said.

"I might have known she wouldn't like it.  But it was nothing.  And I did go get her a necklace."  Harry said.

"So, you went to see who she thinks is your ex-girlfriend, who happens to be a supermodel, without telling her, and then you brought her a gift thinking it would make up for it?"  Niall said.

"Well when you put it like that it sounds bad.  But I thought about getting the necklace or a gift before I went and met with Kendall."  Harry said.

"Well I can guarantee that's exactly how JJ and Amanda are looking at it."  Niall said.

"Shit."  Harry said.  Apparently, he didn't think hard enough about this.

Amanda knocked quietly on the door.  "JJ it's me will you open the door please?"

Julie got up quickly and went to the door when she heard Amanda's voice.  She opened it quickly, and when Amanda wrapped her in a hug, she squeezed her tightly.  Oh, thank god Amanda was there.  When she saw Harry look at them, she pulled Amanda into the room and shut and locked the door again.

Amanda looked at her.  "Are you ok?"

Julie shrugged.  "I don't know what to think right now, honestly.  He said he had something to take care of and left.  Before I know it, I'm looking at pictures of him and Kendall at a restaurant in Paris, where people are talking about the rise of Hendall.  He comes back, hands me a necklace, which I shoved right back at him.  I don't need a guilt gift, and then I locked myself in here.  I can't even process it right now."

JJ was too calm, Amanda thought.  "Why didn't you call me?  As soon as this happened.  Why didn't you let me help instead of sitting in here yourself for over 24 hours?  Dammit JJ, you should have called me!"

"Because you were with Niall's family, and you weren't supposed to leave until this afternoon.  I wasn't going to get in the way of that.  And I knew you would do exactly this and come...."  Julie started

"You are damn right I would have!  You should have called me.  I'm pretty upset you didn't!"  She scolded Julie.

"Panda, what would you do?  If this is the end of my relationship, what would you do yesterday that you can't do today."  Julie said to her.

"Why are you so damn calm?  Seriously JJ!"  Amanda said to her.  "I could have been here for you, instead of you doing this!"

"Doing what?"  Julie said sitting down.

The calmness was really bugging Amanda.  "Going to that place where you don't feel a thing.  You're there now.  I can sense it.  I hate it!  You should be angry.  You should, I don't know, but not this!"

"I don't know what to think.  I don't want it to hurt.  I don't..."  Her voice finally broke.  "I don't want to think about it."

She walked over to her.  "It's ok to be upset.  You should be upset.  This is not ok."

Julie kind of pulled away from Amanda, she knew if she touched her now she would lose it, and she didn't want to lose it.  She didn't want to hurt.  "Please don't.  I don't want to do this Panda."

Amanda wasn't having it.  She grabbed her and hugged her.  She could feel her once again start to shake, and knew she would be in tears soon.  "You need to cry.  You need to feel.  You need to deal with this.  You are not running from me and hiding where ever it is you go.  Stop being so damn calm."

"Why would he do this?  Why?  He just told me he was in love with me the night of your birthday.  I told him I loved him.  Why would he go to her?"  Julie said finally breaking down.

Amanda was livid.  She didn't know how to answer.  "You told him you loved him?"

"Yes.  The day we got to London.  Then the night of your birthday even after we, well, did whatever it was we did, he said he had no doubts he was IN love with me.  Then he gives me this gift, bringing me to Paris, and then leaves me, doesn't tell me why, and goes to her."  Julie said trying to calm down.  Now that she was thinking about it she was trying to calm the hurt.

"I don't know JJ; I don't understand either.  I can't think of any excuse that makes sense."  Amanda said.

"I don't want to let him explain.  I don't know if I'd believe him anyway."  Julie said wiping her eyes.

"You don't have too.  Not right now.  I'm angry.  I'm angry at Harry, and I'm angry at Niall, and I'm a bit upset with you for not calling me."  Amanda said.

"Don't fight with Niall because of me, please.  I don't think I could handle that."  Julie said to her.

"Not because of you.  It's because of him."  She looked at her.  "You've been locked in here for over 24 hours.  Have you had anything to eat?"

"I couldn't figure out how to get anything without facing him.  He was at the door a lot.  I couldn't face him, Panda.  I just couldn't."  Julie said.

"Alright.  It's alright.  But you need to have something."  She picked up the phone.  She was going to have to take control.  Wherever JJ's head was; she wasn't going to.  She ordered some room service.  "I will get it, so don't worry about that."  She put her hand on JJ's back when JJ sat down and put her head in her hands.  "I'm sorry JJ."  She knew at some point they were going to have to get an explanation from Harry but she was with JJ right now.  She wasn't ready for one either.  She couldn't believe he left JJ to do what he did either, especially without telling her.  She had to go check on the room service.  She had to get JJ to eat.  "I will be right back.  I'm going to check to see if the food is here.  You need to eat."

"I'm really not hungry Panda."  Julie said her voice still breaking with emotion.

"I know, but you have to eat something.  I ordered a few different things.  Just eat something."  She said getting up.  She needed to go out and face Harry and Niall, and she wasn't sure how that was going to go.  She was angry.

Harry stood up when Amanda opened the door and walked out.  He needed to talk to Julie.  He had to explain.  He started to go towards the door when Amanda shut it and stood in front of him.  "Absolutely not.  You stay away from her.  Did the room service get here yet?"

"Amanda, I need to talk to her.  This isn't what you guys think.  Please."  He pleaded.

"No, she doesn't want to see you right now, and I don't blame her.  I swear to you Harry if she goes back to being cold and closed off, I'm going to come after you."  She said.

"Amanda.  I think maybe you should let them deal with this."  Niall said to her.

"Oh, don't you even try to talk to me either.  I'm still extremely angry at you.  I'm upset with her for not calling me; I could have come here last night BEFORE she went so far into her head I'm not sure I can pull her out of it.  And you wouldn't even simply help me get here today."  She said to him.  "Right now, is NOT a good time to mess with me."

"Amanda, I swear to you there is NOTHING going on with Kendall and I."  He tried to explain.

"Don't even mention her name in my presence."  Amanda practically growled at him.

"Amanda."  Niall started.

"Shut up!  I swear right now if you tell me to calm down..."  She glared at him.

"I wouldn't dare."  He said quietly moving to the side when there was a knock at the door.  Room service was there with the food.  Amanda thanked them and brought the cart into the room.

"How could you Harry?  Seriously?!  How could you tell her that you're in love with her one day, bring her to Paris, and then leave and go to your ex super model girlfriend without telling her, in a public setting, where there would no doubt be people around taking pictures."  Amanda said.  She wasn't sure what she was going to do but she had to know.

"She called, and said she was here and that one of our friends was having a problem and she thought I could help.  I just went to talk to her and our friend."  He said.

"You just...seriously?  You JUST went to talk?!  You don't find it funny that all of a sudden, she was in Paris same time you brought your girlfriend here, and she HAD to see you to talk to you about or with this friend; and she had to do it by coming all the way to Paris?  Does she know about JJ?  Does she know you have a girlfriend?"  Amanda crossed her arms and looked at him.

"Yes.  Not like we spoke about it in detail but she knows."  Harry said quietly.  He'd never seen Amanda so angry.

"And did she know you were here with her?  How did she even know you were here?"  Amanda said.

"I told her."  Harry said.

"Oh, so you spend a lot of time talking to her then, do you?"  Amanda asked.

"Amanda, I swear it's not like that.  I swear to you."  He pleaded.

"Yeah well you should have thought about that BEFORE you fucked up!  And trust me you fucked up!"  She said taking the cart to the room.  The door was locked when she tried to open it.  Julie must have thought Harry would try to get in.  She knocked quietly.  "JJ, it's just me."

Niall tried to walk over to Amanda he needed to try to calm the situation.  He could tell Harry was miserable.

"Don't you dare Niall.  You are not getting in on this now.  You didn't even want to come for her.  Stay away."  She pushed the cart into the room.

"Julie, please, just let me talk to you."  Harry tried.

Amanda pursed her lips and glared at him.  "Both of you can go straight to hell."  She slammed the door and locked it.

Harry looked at Niall.  He didn't know what to do.  He thought maybe with Niall and Amanda here he could get through to Julie, but Amanda was so angry she wasn't going to be any help, and Niall was in just as much hot water as he was.  He definitely didn't know what to do.

"Yeah next time maybe stay away from your super model friends when you're on a romantic getaway with your girlfriend.  Especially when she's my girlfriends best friend."  Niall said to him.

"Yeah, sorry.  I deeply regret all of this right now.  Trust me I wish I could turn back time.  And I wish I would have looked at the whole situation differently."  Harry said.  "I never even thought she had an ulterior motive but obviously, Amanda does."

"Yeah, I don't know but it does seem a little strange she knew you were here, came here, and this friend has an immediate problem that can't wait that turns out to be nothing."  Niall said.  "But I don't know her like you so..."  Niall said sitting down.  "But this is bad Harry."

Amanda watched Julie go sit in the window seat and stare out the window.  She was calm and unemotional again.  "Please eat something JJ.  Then we'll get out of here for a while."

"Where are we going to go?  I mean we're in a strange city we know nothing about.  I just want to go home."  Julie said.

"We are taking advantage of being in Paris.  We are going out by ourselves.  We don't need them for this JJ.  We can go out like we're on vacation ourselves.  Look I know it's not going to fix things, but neither is sitting in this room.  Just eat something please."  She took her over a little bit of everything she ordered.  Even if she just ate something.  She watched her pick slowly at things.  She mostly just moved it around the plate.  How was she going to pull her out of her dark spot?  Her "safe place", her head?  She told Niall and Harry she wished she got here before she got too far into her head.  It was too late though.  She was there already.  "Damn it JJ.  You should have called me yesterday.  You didn't need to torture yourself this long."  She watched Julie just continue to play with the food on her plate quietly.  "You make me want to scream.  JJ please."

Julie got up and put the plate back onto the cart.  "If only I were good enough.  Taller, skinnier, prettier, talented.  Something.  He wouldn't think he needed her.  If only I were just good at something.  If I weren't so difficult or needy or have such a horrible history."

Amanda took in a sharp breath.  "What?  You cannot be serious right now.  You cannot be blaming yourself for this.  Get out of your damn head and stop that!  You are beautiful, you deserve to be happy; to have whatever it is you want.  Believe me!  Believe in yourself.  Stop thinking you don't deserve him!  Right now, he doesn't deserve YOU!"  She walked over to her grabbed her shoulders and practically shook her.  "JJ, you are better than you will ever give yourself credit for.  This is NOT your fault.  Let's get out of here.  Maybe some distance and some air will knock some sense into you."  She took her hand and walked her to the door.  She was not going to let go until they were out of the hotel at least.  They would go out in Paris, and they wouldn't forget, but they would have each other.

"Panda, I can't go out there."  Julie said.

"You can, just follow me."  Amanda said opening the door.

Harry and Niall both stood up when they heard the door.  They were going insane.  They both walked around the couch towards the girls.

"Amanda, I can't."  Julie said, her voice trembling.

"Get out of the way."  Amanda said to both Niall and Harry.  She pushed right between them and pulled Julie with her.

Harry reached out for Julie's hand but she quickly pulled it away.  "Julie, please let me explain.  All of this has gotten way out of hand."

"Don't talk to her.  I told you already."  Amanda said grabbing her coat and Julie's off the back of the chairs.

"Where do you think you're going?"  Niall asked her.  "We have things we need to deal with here."

"None of your damn business.  Last I checked we were grown ass women."  Amanda said opening the door.  "Don't bother waiting up."  She shut the door behind them and realized Julie let out a breath.  She must have been holding it the entire time.  "Let's go walk wherever it leads us, bestie."  They put their jackets on and Amanda linked her arm in Julie's and they started walking.  In silence.  The fresh air and the city was a good idea.

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