BUTTERFLY EFFECT🦋 (L.S.) [finished]

CHAPTER 18

Two weeks had gone by since the catastrophic day, how Louis called it. Charlie had been suspended for a month, along with two of the boys that helped him with that awful thing. The rest of the boys had gotten two weeks worth of detention, that had been used to educate them and discuss different gender, sexuality, social and political matters, led by Miss Maples. Louis had detention too for breaking the moron's nose. Worth it, he thought.

After the events, people at school had become more vocal about their support for queer people, or even about being part of the community. Lottie, Niall and Harry  gave away little pins and stickers of the gay flag, and now you could spot them in backpacks and lockers at school. Liam and Zayn held hands and enjoyed some pda in the hallways and they looked over the moon. Maybe things had to get worse for a bit for them to get better.

It was starting to get cold, the wind hitting mercilessly on Louis' face, his arms wrapped around himself, who was regretting immensly not wearing a fluffier jacket. Instead he rushed to get into the building.

Harry was already in the room, waiting for him, laying on thr floor, looking into the ceiling.

After that day, Harry had been worried, not himself, his mum drowned between trying to make a harsher case against his dad and of all of her other work as a lawyer. Louis offered to help in any way he could, and what the lad did was ask for some kickboxing lessons in the evening. Louis knew it was so he would be more at ease, in case the worst happened, he could take the motherfucker down, of course he knew, and he agreed to it without thinking it twice. Glad that it could give him some more time with Harry, who was very distant this days, his head in the clouds, closing himself at touch. He was careful to give him the space he needed, to be there when needed but to let him be able to breathe again.

Harry was still in his black short ballet leggings, a really sweaty white long sleeved shirt plastered on to his body, going translucid on some places, his butterfly tattoo visible through it. Some wild curls escaped his bun, his face was a deep shade of red, and he looked completely exhausted.

Louis laid on the floor next to him, proceeding carefully.

'Hi, how was today?'

'Less shittier than yesterday?'

'Well, I'm glad Haz, that's good.'

'Yeah..by the way, thanks...'

'For what?'

'For doing this for me, you know? Helping me out, giving me something else to distract myself from my head, for letting me be me, and giving me the time and space...'

'Hey, it's alright baby, of course. That's the least I could do. I've got you.'

Harry smiled at Louis' words, and Louis had missed that smile so much he couldn't help himself and hugged him tight. Harry gave in to the embrace, searching for Louis lips with his own, letting out a relieved sigh when they finally melt into a kiss.

'Wow, I missed so much kissing you.'

'So did I Lou, believe me.'

'I do Haz, I do.'

Harry just widened his smile and buried himself into the other lad's arms.

'Hey baby, you look like shit, you sure you wanna train today?' Louis laughed.

'Oh, okay, thank you very much... Mathew completely destroyed us today. Maybe I could use some rest actually...'

Harry aknowledging his phisical limits was something very new for Louis, who had witnessed the past few days how much pain could the boy handle or ignore, it worried him lots, so this was a huge relief.

'So... what do you say if we order some pizza, and look for shooting stars? I saw something about it in the news today, we might be lucky.'

'I'd love it actually. Let me shower first though, I'm the grossest of gross right now.'

'You're beautiful.'

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The two boys were outside in the garden with full happy bellys full of pizza. They were laying on a improvised bed with an old matress and lots of blankets that Louis had put together, looking at the black sky above, the stars shining more brightly because the moon was gone.

'It's incredible the amount of stars you can see here. In the city there's always a starless sky.'

'Yeah, it's pretty special. To be here, watching them, these small dots, I always feel so small, but so big at the same time, like I am part of something bigger than me.'

'The wise Tommo has arrived...'

'Hey don't mock me!'

The boys laughed and talked, going into deep subjects like the cosmos and the mening or life, or wondering who thought of inventing the zipper when buttons existed and why the color pink was called pink.

'Do you ever wonder all the things that have brought us here?' Louis asked, softly.

'What do you mean?'

'Like here, you and me, in this moment, being us, like this.'

Harry smirked.

'It's funny, that you tell me this when I have it tattooed on my skin...'

'What???'

'My butterfly... have you ever heard of the butterfly effect?'

'M...maybe?'

'The flutter of a butterfly's wings in Tokyo could cause a tornado in Tennessee...'

'Wait, for real?'

'Yes, for real. The smallest thing can cause some great things, good or bad. It makes me wonder, all the things that led me to where I am, how all that I do has an impact, how to get the most out of the things that are also thrown at me...I don't know if I'm making any sense.'

'A lot actually, at least to me. I do believe everything happens for a reason, good or bad, but it has to mean something.'

'Maybe, maybe it does, maybe the butterfly wanted the tornado even though they didn't know it before it happened...' Harry said so softly that Louis almost didn't hear him.

'Hey, how come you've got tattoos if you're just sixteen?'

'My mum lets me get away with more things than I should I guess...'

'Maybe when I turn eighteen I get one...'

'Really? What would you like to get?'

'Your dick, tattooed on my forehead.' Louis couldn't even finish the sentence without laughing, it ecoing through the silence of the night.

'Oh my god, Lou! You're unbelievable...'

They continued on messing with each other, lost into each other's eyes, the moment a shooting star crossed the sky, completely oblivious to it.

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Hi!! I know updates are getting slower but I have tons of work at uni, I'm sorry!

Things are starting to look a bit better thank god!

Let me know what you think of this chapter :)

Hope you are doing well!
Love,
Leo x