I Hope That You Listen

How It All Works Out

Featured song is the video above. Credits will be given below.
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He was backstage and uncharacteristically nervous. He hasn't felt like this since the first time he performed with the boys long ago.

God, how long ago has that been?

Harry couldn't properly remember the last time he was this nervous for a performance aside from that time, but aside from the fact that he didn't have the other boys with him, there was one big gaping hole that was missing, one that he didn't want to miss due to the pain it brought forth in his heart. He couldn't help but miss that presence though due to the memories attached to it, the good and the bad.

Louis Tomlinson.

Harry's only nervous because he's decided that he's going to perform a song that is extremely personal to him. One that he wrote while in One Direction. One that he wrote when he and Louis were in a relationship.

Their relationship had its ups and downs like all relationships, but theirs seemed like it was every average relationship multiplied by one hundred.

Their highs were like heaven, the ambrosia or nectar of the gods. He never wanted to leave them. When they hit their lows.

They were absolute, unadulterated hell.

There's a reason why he wrote "We're both stubborn, I know." Louis had a stubborn streak a mile wide and a mouth to match, and to be honest, Harry knew that he was no better even though on camera he looked like the sweeter, more subdued of the two of them.

He knew Louis could be just as sweet, if not sweeter than him. He took  the time to interact with their fans, to get to know just a bit about them in the little time that they had to interact with him. Harry tried, but there were times that things got to be too much, especially with the shit their management liked to spread to the tabloids regarding his image. The way Louis had an ease with their fans and could just interact with them like he was their best friend so effortlessly was part of the reason Harry adopted the motto Treat People With Kindness.

It was something that he was never truly afforded in the media.

Their fights, however, were legendary and thankfully, quite few when they first got together. They fell into their roles of equal partners in their relationship because neither one of them liked the idea of one of them being "submissive" or "lesser" to the other. When they did fight though, the boys got the hell out of the way and just supported them from the sidelines and tried to pick up the pieces once the storm blew over.

This was the status quo for a long time. The boys would have a love/hate relationship with Larry Stylinson, because yes it was real the world at large just was not allowed to know, until they started to fight with each other. If they started to fight, then they would fight tooth and nail to save it, especially Niall and Liam, because later on, Zayn had other issues of his own to deal with.

In the end, they would always come back together, which is why he ended it with "You bring me home."

He was so sure about that then. But then they started touring more, working more, interviewing more, recording more. He hardly ever saw Louis anymore because he had a penchant for partying, and Harry never minded it before, but then it started to cut into the time they would normally spend together, their personal time. He didn't bring it up much but he started pouring his feelings out into his writing. He wrote "Just a Little Bit of Your Heart" and "Don't Let Me Go" because Louis was out doing 'work' with Eleanor, and then partying that night instead of spending time with him. He would write out doodles and ideas down, but wouldn't really come up with a comprehensive song until one night.