Say Something

Chapter 21

PRESENT

Harry sits in his chair asleep, holding Louis's hand. In walks, Anne holding a purse, she attempts to walk in quietly. Harry's eyes flutter open and he looks at his mom.

"Did I wake you, honey? I was trying to be quiet."

"No, I just woke, it's hard to sleep when the love of your life is fighting for his life."

Anne walks to Harry and sits next to him.

"Oh, sweety he will get through this and so will you. How are you?"

"I'm the best I can be I guess."

"H, really how are you."

"I'm not okay mum, I can't lose him! I should've seen it coming he'd been so distant the last few days and angry. I should have checked in on him, I'm a horrible husband.

"Don't say that H, you are an amazing husband. You can't blame yourself for what happened to him. Louis loves you and has stayed with you through it all because you are such an amazing husband. One day you will be an amazing father as well, you and Louis are gonna raise some amazing kids. You are so sweet and caring H, you have always been that way since you were little. Don't be hard on yourself, there's always a rainbow after the storm. I love you so much H, and it hurts me to see you hurt."

Anne cries as she hugs Harry. Harry holds his mum in a tight embrace.

"I love you mum, thank you."

Anne lets go of Harry; she starts digging in her purse looking for something.

"Louis is the best son-in-law a mother can ask for. The other day I was going through photos, and I found this photo of you and Louis, that just made me happy. It should be somewhere in this purse of mine, I brought it here because I thought you would love it. Oh, here it is," Anne says pulling the picture out of her purse.

"It's a photo from the prior Christmas and my all-time favorite photo of you two," Anne adds.

Anne hands the picture to Harry, Harry looks at it and smiles.

"Thank you, mum, I love it."

In the photo, Harry and Louis stand in front of the tree with matching Christmas pajamas on. They each hold a mug with the first letter of their name on it. Louis is kissing Harry's cheek and Harry smiles; the photo is adorable.

"I'm glad you like the photo, I'll let you hopefully get some rest in. I'm going back to the waiting room; I should check in on the girls and the boys. Bye honey, you try and get some rest okay."

"Okay, goodbye."

Anne leaves, Harry sits staring at the most recent picture of him and his husband with tears running down his face. He shows the picture to Louis.

"Lou look how hot we are. We are the hottest couple, aren't we? You know Lou when you wake up, we can show the world this love. Cause Lou baby I'm done hiding it."

Harry closes his eyes and dazes off into asleep.