Just Friends (Larry Stylinson Oneshot)

Just Friends

“Remember that day, Zayn? Remember that day....”

“How could I forget?” Zayn mumbles as he straightens Harry's tie. The younger boy smiles and stares off for the millionth time today.

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“You're doing it again.” Zayn sighs and watches his friend practically drool on his history notes. Harry jumps and slickly wipes his chin growing a slight blush. Zayn just shakes his head. “Just go talk to him. I mean, he's in our group. Be more open. What's the big deal?”

“It just is.” Harry sighed and shut his note book. “He'll think I'm a creep. He'll think I'm lame, stupid. It's not that easy, Zayn. It's just not.” he shrugged hopelessly. They both stood up and walked out of the classroom to the lockers.

“Okay, I'll talk to him, for you. He's a really nice guy, he's pretty sick. Probably likes you, too. He likes staring at you, that's for sure.” Zayn added softly. Harry's eyes shot up and he quickly turned to face the boy. “What? You two both do it! You think you're sneaking, but you're not!” he laughed. Harry's face was bright red as he shuffled the books in his locker. “Oh, hi Louis!” Zayn spook up. Harry gasped and dropped his notebooks as Zayn just laughed. Louis wasn't there with them at all. Zayn bent down and helped Harry with his things when he noticed something. His hand stopped short of the notebook which was flipped open to a doodle of two stick figures, a house, a fence, and some flowers. He raised his eyebrows at Harry.

“Um.......that's just.....for an art project.....? Oh look! There's the bell!” Harry laughed nervously and grabbed everything to run away. Zayn just shook his head after the boy and smirked. His next class was with Louis, and not Harry.

“Hey man, how's it going?” Zayn smiled sliding next to Louis at the lab desk. He put his pencil in the science text book, to mark its page, and turned to Zayn.

“We're at school.....I have a presentation next period...and Lottie took me phone charger this morning. How about you?”

“Oh, you know....just, I was just talking to Harry. In the hall. He showed me this drawing.” Zayn laughed and flipped open his notebook. Louis gave him a look and touched his wrist.

“Harry draws? You were, is he doing okay? He's been in a daze lately...should we be worried? When I first started hanging out with you guys, he seemed more, in tune. You know? To be honest.” he kind of rambled. Zayn picked up on this and sent him a look.

“Harry...is good. Yeah, just good. Don't worry too much about him. He's just being Harry.” Zayn smiled forward as the teacher started the class. Zayn had all the answers. Louis' random urgent concern finally showed the proof he was almost certain existed. Seeing him shuffle next to him didn't lead to doubt, either.

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“you okay?” he typed.

Harry jumped up from his homework as the computer made a noise. He read the message over and over again and checked the receipt. Harry smiled and grabbed the keyboard.

“Fine.” he typed.

“Good, because you just seem, distract, you know? Just wanted to see if your life was alright..” Louis wrote. Harry's body filled with warmth as he read it over and over.

“No.” “It's all as I said.” “It's just a lot of school work..” he sent back as three separate messages.

“Oh, yeah? I had three projects due this week and also a book report to write! Work citing page and everything! The work load has been mad lately! I barely have time to sleep or anything!” Louis laughed behind the screen. Harry smiled.