The Tutoring Project

Chapter 16

It was really early. 6AM to be exact. Louis was on his way to Harry's room. He had a surprise to Harry, no reason really, he just wanted to do something special for him.

He tiptoed to Harry's door and knocked. He opened the door and heard Harry, with his face pressed down to his pillow, mutter "fuck off".

 "Its me" Louis said and walked in. Harry shifted in his bed, "what?" he asked and opened one eye to look.

Louis stood there with a little box and a plate of cookies. "So I thought id surprise you with cookies and a gift" he said.

"I'm not accepting a gift but I'm happy to have cookies for breakfast" said Harry while he sat up in his bed.

Louis sat down on the large bed. "well think of it like a late birthday present" he suggested. Harry laughed, "my birthday were, like two months ago"

Louis rolled his eyes, "whatever". Harry sat up in his bed. "Just open it" he said, and gave Harry the black box.

Harry looked unsure but opened the box, and gasped when he saw what was in it. "You got me a ring? How expensive was this?" he asked and picked it up and held it with his two fingers.

"My mum gave me some money a few days ago, I didn't know what to use it on." He said, "oh and here's the money borrowed me for my laptop" he said and handed Harry money.

Harry was still studying the ring, not caring about the money Louis just gave him. He frowned when he saw three letters inside it. Louis got slightly nervous, "it stands gay, I know you're still struggling about the fact that you like boys" he said looking down at his lap, twiddling with his thumbs. "Its like, a symbol, you shouldn't be ashamed of who you are"

Louis looked up and met Harry's eyes, "thank you so much Louis" he smiled and kissed him, not caring about the horrible breath he most definitely had.

They ate cookies for breakfast and went to school. Louis' classes went by fast, he was now sitting in the usual classroom waiting for Harry. Harry had made great progress in math and really got it now.

Harry came in the door, and smiled as he saw Louis sitting on his usual chair. He took out his books from his bag and sat down, with his chair right up to Louis'.

"So I talked to Mr. Stewart earlier today" Louis said and opened Harry's book.

"What did he say?" he asked as he reached for a pencil. Louis shrugged, "nothing serious, I just thought you should know. He said he would talk to you tomorrow," he said and Harry frowned. "Just to check on how this is going" he assured.

"So, go to page 69" Louis said and opened his book, hearing Harry's laugh. "Seriously? That was funny, five years ago" he said and looked at him trying not to smile.

Even though Louis didn't think it was funny, he let out a little laugh just because he couldn't resist.

"Oh my god, you're just childish. Now focus" he said and got Harry to at least look down at the page.

***

Weeks pass by and the tutor sessions seem to work because Harry gets good grades on his tests. But that's not the only thing that's getting better, Louis and Harry's relationship is growing. Louis can say that he can trust Harry 100% now.

They do almost everything together, but are sure that there isn't any chance of being seen by people from school.

Louis was sitting in English class when he felt his cellphone vibrate. He glanced around the room to see if anyone was looking at him. Normally he wouldn't be on his phone in class, but what if it was Harry?

He unlocked his phone and opened the text, which was from Harry.

Guess what?

 

Louis smiled and typed in his answer.

What?

He didn't even get his cellphone back in his pocket before Harry had answered.

I got B+ on my math test!!!

 

Louis smiled down at the bright screen feeling very proud. Then he answered.

That's great!! Very proud of you! xx But you shouldn't text in class!

 

Right away he got an answer.

Neither should you!! And I have my free period now, haha See ya later then:) xx

Louis heard the teacher say something about their homework but he didn't listen, he was sure he'd already done it anyway.

You should be studying then!!

 

He typed back and started paying attention to what the teacher had to say. When his class was over he met Harry at the boys' toilet, they agreed to go to the movies tonight and watch the new movie that had its premiere yesterday.

Harry picked Louis up from his house thirty minutes before the movie started so they didn't have to stress when they would buy candy.

They went to the most popular cinema in town so they had to be careful not to do any funny business just in case someone they knew would see them.

Louis jumped out of Harry's car and walked over to the other side and took his hand in his.

The walked in the big center and went to buy candy, Louis picking all of his favorites which was almost every little package of sour candy. Harry gladly paid for it before Louis could find his wallet, earning a glare from him.

They got their tickets and were on their way to theater 7 when Harry saw a familiar face. In the cue stood Niall with a girl, but next to him stood also Zayn with a girl.

Harry stopped Louis did too even though he didn't know why. Louis was confused because he didn't know why Harry suddenly got so weird.

He followed Harry's gaze, and then he saw the two familiar faces.

"Is that?" he asked, but he didn't expect an answer. Harry took his hand and pulled him with him behind a column.

"They are standing in the cue to the movie we were supposed to watch" Harry said and took a last glance before standing fully behind the thick column.

Louis suddenly didn't want to be here anymore, not only is he really scared of Niall and Zayn but also if they see him and Harry together they're dead.

"We need to get out of here," Harry said, looking down at Louis who just nodded.

Louis looked up at Harry, he was till holding his hand. "Okay when I say now we are running out. It will probably look really stupid but they can't see us" said Harry.

Louis nodded again, he didn't even want to look at Niall and Zayn.

"Now" said Harry and they got out of there.

They got in the Harry's car, and Louis buckled his seatbelt.

"That went well" Harry said jokingly.

Louis looked at him to see if he was being serious, when he saw Harry's face he couldn't help but laugh. Both of them just laughed.

When their laughed had died down Louis spoke up, "Wanna go to mine and watch a movie instead?" he suggested.

Harry agreed and they went to Louis' house where they got a weird glance from Jay who just thought they left.

They watched a movie on Louis' laptop, after that Harry went home.