Chapter 14: Chapter fourteen :)
"I'm seriously worried about him Niall," Louis said closing the bathroom door behind him. "I know but if he doesn't tell you it must have a reason. Give him time." Niall tried to calm him down. "No, you don't understand he, he was shaking and he couldn't breathe and, and..... and I know it's not right to tell you this but I need to talk to someone."
"Okay, you need to calm down." Niall gestured to Louis to sit down. "I mean I thought he trusts me." Louis sat on the edge of the bathtub. "Don't worry, I'm sure he does, it was probably really just a nightmare." Niall sat down next to him starring at the ground.
"You should stop thinking about it, if something is wrong he will tell you."
All Louis wanted was Harry to be happy and if something was wrong he wanted to help him but how, when Harry didn't want to talk to him. He felt defenceless, not able to help Harry made him feel sick.
Louis lifted his head "Maybe you're right but I don't want him to feel insecure about talking to me." He noticed a little smile on Nialls face. "What are you smiling at?" Louis asked sadly. "I like the way you care about him." The smile grew. "And Zayn told me about the Hazza thing."
Niall looked some sort of excited. "He what??!" Louis' eyes widened. Niall was the last person Louis wanted to know about 'the Hazza thing' because he knew exactly what it meant to him. "Listen it's not like you think I just I-" Louis stuttered trying to find an excuse. "Uhm I accidentally called him that once and-"
Louis knew Niall wouldn't believe it but it was worth a try. "Yes sure. Louis, I really don't want to disappoint you, but you are pretty obvious. I'm wondering why Harry hasn't noticed yet."
"Can we go back to the fact that I don't know what to do now?"
Niall tried to look serious "Yes sure if you want to distract from the fact that you may be in love." He said sassily. Louis rolled his eyes "Firstly I'm not, secondly you are freaking me out, and thirdly-" Louis breathed in to say something as he saw Niall's asking look "and thirdly?" He asked amused "It was just first and secondly." Louis said his head in his hands. Why was it all is complicated?
He got up to leave as Niall stopped him. "Just try to act normal, if there is really something wrong with him." Louis just nodded "Thanks, Niall." He gave him a little smile.
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Loud voices were coming out of the living room it reminded Harry of the time his Dad and sister were still at their house. His room was exactly next to the living room and kitchen so they always waked him up by just talking. But as Gemma moved out and his dad left for work it was quiet in the mornings.
He slowly opened his eyes, he was still holding the blue pillow. He fell asleep again which was surprising to him because he expected to stay up the whole night, trying everything to avoid his thoughts about Charly and the panic attacks. But there were none he just fell back to seep, it was the first time in those two years that he just fell asleep after he had one of his nightmares.
Maybe it was finally over now, he could finally stop thinking about it and just try to forget it and everything will be fine. Maybe. This thought made him smile. Harry sat up and pulled the sheets away, the bed was empty Louis must be in the living room already, together with the other boys. Harry changed before he went to the bathroom.
He didn't want the other boys to see him in Louis' clothes, it felt weird. He didn't know why maybe it was because he wasn't used to having friends around who could see him in pj's or the fact that it was Louis'. Anyways he changed and went to the bathroom to brush his teeth.
The whole apartment smelled like a bakery. Harry smiled as he entered the kitchen, seeing Liam standing at the stove, a frying pan in his hand, he even had a towel above his shoulder like a professional cook. Harry immediately smiled "Good morning" Liam flipped a pancake with the pan like it was the easiest thing in the world.
"Good morning Mr Cheffcook." Harry watched Liam amazed, it remembered him of that one day back in middle school when he and his mom made pancakes and he tried to flip his one and it landed straight on the floor behind him. Anne and he couldn't stop laughing, it was one of his favourite memories with her.
Liam's laugh brought him back to reality, "What are you laughing at Payno?" Niall entered the room he still wore that hoodie and the sweatpants Louis' had given him last night. His hair looked different tho, it wasn't in its usual quiff, it looked messier reaching across his forehead as Louis's hair does. "Morning Harry " he smiled. "Morning." Harry yawned stretching his arms above his head.
"Hey Uhm I'm sorry that I took your place on the couch last night I hope it wasn't too uncomfortable with Louis in one bed, he can be a really loud snorer." Niall laughed. "At least I don't drool in sleep," Louis said sassed behind Niall resting his hand on the blond boy's shoulder. "I don't drool at sleep." Niall tried to laugh it off.
"Yes, you do," Zayn said rubbing his eyes "All over my Pillow." All of the boys burst into laughter. "Alright lads the pancakes are ready," Liam said after he managed to catch his breath.
The pancakes tasted so good, Harry ate so many his belly started to hurt. "Zayn and I thought about leaving at about 12 pm. Because we have to bring the transporter back to my dad and prepare for our presentation tomorrow." Liam explained. Louis just nodded "What about you Niall?" Harry watched Louis take another of the pancakes.
"I don't know, I don't have my car so I guess I will go with Liam and Zayn." He took a sip of his orange juice. "If you want to stay longer Harry can drive you home." Louis smiled from Niall right at him. "I Uhm, yes sure," Harry said starring into Louis' eyes. They were so beautiful, they had a little green spot in them that you could only see if you were really close.
"If it's really ok for you Harry" Niall smiled. Harry ripped his eyes off of Louis', did the other boys notice him starring? Why did this happen every time? "Y-Yes sure." Niall's eyes lit up "Grate" It felt so unreal that he sat here with four other guys his age and they were nice to him. And that he just ran from home. But he felt good.
"What are you smiling at?" Zayn asked. Harry didn't notice that he started smiling "I Uhm, it's just I never had Uhm friends like you guys before." He didn't mean to say this out loud. All of the boys looked at him. "What do you mean like us?" Louis asked eyeing Harry kind of concerned.
Harry cleared his throat "I mean like you guys are caring, you don't judge me and you all go on so well and you live such a carefree life, I just never had friends that really, you know, cared about each other. We were friends in school just so no one of us would be alone." Harry intentionally left out the friendship with Charly. He just didn't want them to know. Not yet.
Charly and Harry used to be best friends. They met in 4th grade since then they did everything together and were inseparable. They have had a lot of sleepovers but they weren't as funny and comfortable as with Louis, Niall, Liam, and Zayn.
"But that's what friends are supposed to be." Niall said seriously "Yes, and if they don't care about you then they aren't real friends." Liam continued. Harry looked back to Louis, he drew his eyebrows together. "Why should we judge you? And for what? For being yourself?" Harry just shrugged his shoulders and looked down at his empty plate.
"We would never judge you for being yourself did you understand me, Harry?" He looked up to Louis who sat next to him "I know." He said quietly and gave all of the boys a grateful look. "Thank you, guys." He smiled.
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"I will go and bring those to the car already. Bye guys see you at school" Harry waved shyly and watched him leave the room "Wait I forgot my keys." Zayn said running over to the kitchen table "Typical" Louis said smacking his hand against his forehead. Harry just laughed at it as they heard Liam yell from downstairs "Guys I think we have a problem." Louis and Harry looked questioning at each other.
"What problem?" Louis yelled back as Zayn came back to the doorway. "Problem?" Louis just shrugged his shoulders "I don't know"
"You should come down and see it yourself." Harry frowned as Louis looked over to him. "Let's go and see what it is," Zayn said shrugging his shoulders and walking downstairs. Harry, Niall, and Louis followed him.
Liam stood in front of the entrance door "That's..." Niall raised his eyebrows "a door?" Liam opened the huge door, but all the boys could see was a white wall, a white wall out of snow, which reached to his waist.
"Fuck" Zayn said "We're snowed in? How is that even possible the storm just started yesterday?" Liam shrugged his shoulders "I have no idea but we're stuck here for probably the next two or three days." Niall jumped excited "That's going to be fun."
They all laughed at his reaction. "At least you went grocery shopping yesterday." Harry didn't know how to feel about the fact that they're snowed in. It was some sort of exciting because they had no school or stuff to do and they could have even more movie nights, but he also knew that they didn't have any new clothing except for Louis'.
Or that the food may be not enough or the taught of his mom calling him because even when they had a fight she called him when something happened to make sure he was ok and that made him shiver. But then again he thought about the time was going to have with Louis... and Niall, Liam, and Zayn.
"Okay, so I would say let's get back up," Louis recommended. "What are we going to do the whole time?" Zayn asked closing the door behind him. "Well, I don't know." Louis let himself down on the couch, let a deep breath out, and leaned his head back.
Within a few seconds, all of the boys sat all across on the ground of the living room "Let's make a list." Liam took a pen and paper out of a drawer. "Tell me anything that comes into your minds and I will write it down."
"We can play Singstar or Mario cart."
Niall said sitting in front of the cabinet underneath the TV looking through the games. "Or we can play board games I saw some in one of the boxes," Harry said pointing at one of the few still unpacked boxes in the corner of the room.
They collected a whole list of things to do. "So we have a total of 13 ideas which should we start with?"
"I'm for hiding and seek," Niall said in a children's voice. "But the apartment is pretty small and we don't give that many opportunities to hide." Louis got up and took the list out of Liam's hand.
"But we can try. It's going to be funny I'm sure." Zayn tried to influence Louis. He pinned the list on the wall next to the TV "Fine let's play hide and seek, but I don't want to start counting." Niall jumped up covered his eyes and started counting. "You guys are so childish." Harry laughed as Louis started running through the Apartment to find a spot to hide as well as the other boys.
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Kind of a boring Chapter I know but I need to stretch the story a little :)
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