Hello and welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about Hardin Scott, a fictional character legally distinct from Harry Stiles, so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate.

And for this episode, we read After by Anna Todd.

Joining us to discuss this extremely uncomfortable One Direction fan fiction is Harry Styles, Stan, and Dark Larry, Liz.

Hello.

Hi, Liz.

Hi.

For starters, what's a Dark Larry?

Well, a Larry is someone who ships Harry Stiles with Louis Tomlinson, one of his former One Direction bandmates.

And a dark Larry is a secret Larry, which, you know, not exactly secret, but, you know,

I like to keep it low key.

You're not out here getting blocked by Harry on Twitter like Anna Todd is.

Oh, yeah, absolutely not.

Great job.

I would never, I would never shove it in his face, you know?

If he wants to, if he, if he was really in a relationship with Louie and they want to keep it a secret, that's their business.

Yeah.

I feel like there's like a weird

erasure of the fourth wall, and it's probably because social media is so big, between like

younger fans and older fans, I would die if the creator, let alone, like, if I was writing

RPF and like it was a real person and I was writing about them, but even if the creator, let alone, like, if I was writing RPF and, like, it was a real person and I was writing about them.

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