Blue-Eyed Baby

Chapter Forty-Six - Delays

For the next two and a half days Harry spent most of his time either in the room watching movies, on the balcony talking to Louis or down by the pool. He went to the restaurant whenever he needed food, never felt like dressing nice though, he either wore jeans or shorts and avoided any possible conversations.

It was his last day, he had woken up at eleven a.m. to his alarm and he had two hours and ten before he had to be at the airport, sat at his gate. He packed his bags and made sure there was nothing left in the room, making sure to keep a pair of boxers, sweatpants, a t-shirt, and a jumper out so he could put them on after his shower. He laid them out on the bed and walked into the bathroom. Harry stared at himself in the mirror for a couple minutes before slipping his boxers off and stepping into the shower. He turned it on and let the freezing cold water run over his hot body before it heated up. When the water was finally hot he ran his fingers through his curls making sure they were all wet before he grabbed his shampoo and squirted some onto his hand. He pushed the shampoo through his curls and rubbed it into his roots, once he was sure his hair was fully coated he rinsed the shampoo out and grabbed the conditioner. He ran the conditioner through his ends before leaving it to soak in while he grabbed a body wash the hotel had given – raspberry flavour – and rubbed it over his tattooed chest, torso, and arms. He soaped it up allowing it to bubble up over his tanned skin before he rinsed it off and rubbed the conditioner out of his hair leaving it with a silky feel. He stood under the shower head for another few minutes just letting the water beat down his front. When Harry heard his phone ring in the other room he was quick to shut the shower off and wrap a towel around his waist. He stepped out of the shower and walked out of the bathroom over to the bedside stand. He looked at his phone seeing Louis' face and contact name flash across his screen, picking up his phone a small smile spread across his face. Harry slid the 'slide to answer' and put the phone to his ear before speaking, "Louis."

"H, hi," Louis breathed out.

"Everything okay?"

"Yeah, every-" Louis started to say but was cut off by Harry.

"Louis, I can hear it in your voice, what's wrong?"

Louis silently cursed on the other end of the phone, Harry was too good, "Fine, no. Everything is not fine, I just... I miss you."

"I miss you too, Lou."

"When's your flight?"

"Six p.m., I'll be in your dorm for quarter past midnight, yeah?"

"Okay, I'll see you then, I love you."

"I love you too, babe." But what harry didn't know was that his flight would be delayed.

Once Harry hung the phone up after speaking to Louis he walked back into the bathroom to brush his teeth. He cleaned his teeth and brushed through his hair, he grabbed all of his bathroom things and walked back into the main room with the soft white towel still around his waist. He pushed everything into his suitcase, zipping it up before going over to his bed and pulling on the boxers he'd gotten out followed by the sweatpants. He waited to put the jumper and t-shirt on until just before he left the room. He sat back on the bed and rang his mum. Harry spent an hour on the phone to his mum. When he hung up the phone he pulled the t-shirt and jumper on as well as his converse, checked the room one last time before heading out and going down to the lobby. When he got to the lobby he handed the key card over, thanked them for the stay and then called an uber. The uber arrived thirty-five minutes later the uber arrived. He put his bag in the back and got in the seat, he told the uber his terminal and they set off.

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When he got to the airport half an hour later he got out of the car and made his way in. he cleared the airport in twenty minutes and had two hours left to sit and wait. Harry went and grabbed himself some dinner and snacks for on the plane as well as a bottle of alcohol to share when they got home before going to find a seat by his gate. He sat down and pulled out his phone. He scrolled through his social media apps, shooting texts to the group chat and before he realised it he only had half an hour left to wait. Harry was just about to send a message to Louis about boarding in thirty minutes when a very loud voice boomed through the airport on the intercom stating, "Flight one forty-two," 'fuck that's mine,' Harry thought before the voice continued, "to Manchester has be delayed by two hours." Harry deleted the message and re typed.

Harry: Flights been delayed two hours; won't be back until 2 a.m.

Louis: Shit, really?

Harry: I'll still come to your dorm if you want but I don't want you to be awake if I do.

Louis: You and me both know that I'll be awake.

Harry: I won't come to your dorm then.

With the last message sent and the read symbol appearing Harry's phone lit up with Louis contact name and photo. He laughed to himself before answering.

"Harold."

"Lewis."

"Please," he dragged out the 'e', "come to my dorm when you get back," Louis whined.

"Lou, listen to me," Harry started, "we have an exam tomorrow, you need to sleep. I'll come to your dorm but please, try to at least sleep."

"I don't want to until you're here."

"I'll be there at two a.m., promise."

"I love you, Harry."

"I love you too, Louis, so much. I'll see you soon yeah?"

"Yeah."

They each finished the conversation with a 'bye' before hanging up the phone. Harry messaged his mum and Johannah about his new arrival before turning his phone off and drifting off to sleep.