Movie Nights

Liam wasn’t feeling happy with how things had ended between Harry and Louis. He indeed had had a suspicion that Harry was cheating for quite some time, but he never really thought it was a real thing, nor that it would be a reason for them to split up. In a way he felt like it was his fault, because he didn’t tell Louis and because he didn’t manage to persuade Harry to stop. Seeing both of them apart and how it affected them had been horrible. From Niall he knew that Harry wasn’t really holding up and since he hadn’t heard from Louis since the breakup Liam one day decided to run by the boy’s flat to check up on him.

The familiar apartment complex looked peaceful but the closer Liam got to (since Harry moved out) Louis’ own flat, the louder got a rhythmic pounding accompanied by an even lower bass. Shaking his head lightly he walked down the hallway to the front door and ignored the doorbell, using his spare key to open the door. Louis wouldn’t have heard it ring anyways.

As soon as he pushed the door open the pounding sound got louder, now joined in by a melody that sounded oddly familiar to Liam, but he couldn’t really match it to anything. Trying to block out the loud sounds he pushed through the apartment, reckoning he would find Louis in his bedroom, which also appeared to be the source of the music.

Liam pushed the door to Louis’ room open and the sounds got even louder, if that was even possible, and distracted him for a moment before his eyes fell on Louis. He was dancing and jumping in the middle of them room, clothes and random things scattered all over the floor.

“Dance hard, laugh hard, turn the music up now!” Louis sing-yelled and Liam furrowed his eyebrows at the horrible sounds coming out of the boy’s mouth. With two quick steps he stood next to the boombox, reaching out for the volume leveler right away and turning it down a good amount.

Louis swirled around, looking for the intruder in his home and glaring at Liam angrily as he realized what he had done. Grabbing a remote next to him Louis turned the music up again, wiggling his hips as he continued singing.

“See I’m fine, no I don’t need nobody else! ‘Cause I’m, I’m going, I’m going, I’m going..” Louis jumped up on his bed, raising his hands in the air and acting like a maniac as he continued singing awfully. Liam was instantly glad that they didn’t have any life performances for the next couple of days because apparently Louis wasn’t in a state where he cared about what he did to his voice with loud screaming or purposely missing the high notes in the song. “I swear I’ll do anything that I have tooo..” And Liam stopped caring as well, only trying to block out the terribly off-key sounds coming from Louis as he stretched the last word. “Till I forget about you!”

He gave up, thinking it would be best to let Louis finish his musical breakdown and just stood and watched as the other boy didn’t get any less crazy or loud, still jumping and dancing through the messy room. As the song finally came to an end Louis collapsed onto the floor, laying on his stomach and breathing heavily, gasping for air as Liam quickly turned down the volume again to something that was actually appropriate in an apartment complex. He sat down next to Louis on the ground in between some dirty laundry and touched the other boy’s hair lightly, pushing a few strands to the side.

“Listening to Big Time Rush, huh?” Liam asked as he finally remembered why the song sounded so familiar to him. Louis hummed in response and for a short moment Liam remembered being on tour with Big Time Rush and how much fun they had had with those boys and how much better they had performed the song Louis had just sung. He decided not to comment on his friend’s poor singing performance and instead to continue with asking what he had actually come here for.

“You should come to the movies with me and the lads tonight.” Liam suggested but Louis didn’t respond right away so Liam kept pushing. “We’re watching the new ‘Batman’ movie. It’ll be fun!” Louis muttered something into the carpet his face was still resting on. Liam gazed down at him.