You look at her, but secretly I love you [l.s]

17.

3rd person POV:

"Lou! Shit, we forgot the cat food. I'll grab it, just wait here" Harry said. He went inside the shelter and a man almost immediately recognized him and gave him the food. "You two just left... I was confused," the man said. "Oh, I'm sorry" Harry said and grabbed the food. The volunteer said it was nothing and Harry went back to the car.

While Harry was in the shelter Louis was petting Edward and the cat slipped off of his grip so Louis was going to send a message to Harry but the phone fell from his hands and Edward stepped on it. Louis laughed and grabbed both Ed and his cellphone back.

That's when he heard Harry's phone dinging multiple times. He realized messaging him would be a waste of time since he left his phone in the car. "He doesn't forget his head because it's glued to his neck," Louis mumbled.

The dinging didn't stop, so he grabbed Harry's phone just to make sure it was not something urgent. When he saw what it was his heart dropped. There were multiple messages from someone called "Baby Girl 💙". "Oh my fucking god" he didn't even bother seeing the messages and when Harry finally arrived he pretended everything was ok.

They decided they needed to buy some things for the little cat because Louis said if they slept with him on the bed, they could hurt him and that he did not want it to happen.

When they arrived at the pet shop, Edward was a little scared. There were too many people for his liking. Louis made sure to pet him so he would be calmer, that seemed to work so they were happy.

Harry felt fond all over, his baby was so cute with the cat, he was so happy.

"Loulou, I think I found a cute bed for Ed. What do you think?" Harry asked.

Louis snickered. "H... this is too big for him. That's like for a Golden Retriever"

"Oh... well, I don't think he would mind having space" Harry mumbled

"What was that?" Louis asked as a warning.

"Nothing love... ehrm we can buy whatever you want" Harry said smiling

"Nah, it's alright. Let's buy the big one." Harry grinned. "Well, at least he doesn't have any fur, which means we don't have to worry about the house being full of cat fur." Louis said.

"You're right. Do you think we should buy some toys?" Harry asked. "Well, if you don't want the cat to die of boredom... yes, we should," Louis said sassily.

"Ok, what's up with the attitude again? Are you ok?" Harry asked.

"If I'm ok? I am completely fine, in fact, today" He checked the day on his phone. "February 26th 2022. At 8:45 pm. I, Louis Tomlinson, am the happiest man alive. I am glowing, I am fantastic. My life is just perfect isn't it?" Louis said angrily and sarcastically. Harry was so confused. "C'mon let's buy what Ed needs and go to your house for fucks sake"

Harry cringed when Louis said "Your house" instead of "home" like he always did. Harry sensed something was wrong obviously, but decided not to interfere. At least not when they were surrounded by dog and cat food.

Louis' POV:

I was livid. How could this motherfucker do this to me? What is wrong with him?

When we arrived I set the things aside and placed Edward on the couch where the cat stayed and licked his paw, slowly calming down.

"What the fuck was that about?" Harry asked

"I don't know, you tell me. Or better yet, ask your bitch what happened" I said, tears rolling down my cheeks.

"My bitch? What are you talking about?" Harry was genuinely confused.

"I saw the messages your 'Baby Girl' with a fucking blue heart sent you" I said moving my hands around and crying more. "Was it Dana? Answer me you prick!"

"What in the knuckles fuck- No it was not Dana I don't even have her number... and did you say Baby Girl with a blue heart?" And I was starting to doubt him.

"Yes I fucking did" I said angrily.

"Well, because that's you," He said laughing. Why the fuck is he laugh- oh, wait me?

"No it's not- wait is it? How? I didn't send you any messages" I said

"Well I don't know then, because I know for a fact I saved your contact as: baby girl" He said calmly.

"Let me see your phone" I demanded. He complied and when I saw the actual messages everything made sense...

The messages were random. Some of them with only one letter or sometimes two. "Oh shit! I remember, my phone fell when I was going to text you and Ed stepped on it." Harry's face went from calm to a death glare.

"You did not  just get mad at me because of the cat... next time talk to me instead of giving me the cold shoulder and acting like everything's fine. There's something called communication and you act like it doesn't exists" Harry said madly, he had the right to be mad.

I stayed quiet. "Penny for your thoughts?" He asked. "Where's the penny?" I said

It made him laugh so it was ok. "I'm sorry, I won't do it again" I apologized. "I love you"

He grinned and hugged me from my waist. "It's alright, I love you till my dying days" we kissed and finally went to organize Ed's things.

"It was actually so funny when you said 'Today, February 26th, at 8:45 pm. I, Louis Tomlinson, am the happiest man alive' I was going to laugh but you were mad" Harry said snickering.

"I know, I'm sorry. I can be a little dramatic sometimes" we laughed and set everything up for Ed. I already loved this cat like he was my son.

"H? Would you consider Ed like... our family or something like that? 'Cause you know... we take care of him together and stuff. If you don't it's ok" I rambled.

"Yes, yes I do." He said and grinned.

"Heeeey! That's my line!" We laughed.

We fed Ed and now it was 9:30 pm so we went to bed. We have school tomorrow. Lame right? Anyways, we changed our clothes and went to bed. Not even 10 minutes in and we felt a body trying to lay down between us.

"I knew we didn't even have to buy a bed," Harry said laughing.

"Aww he's so cute," I said cooing.

We made space so he would feel comfortable and he curled up into a ball and nuzzled against Harry's curls. We sighed happily and drifted off to sleep.
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Heyy! How are you beautiful people? Hope you're having a great day :)

AYO! I just remembered I forgot to write about Harry's birthday... I literally wrote a whole ass paragraph on February 1st and I FORGOT?? wth... anyways, his birthday is not on February 1st in this fic anymore 😂 sorry abt that, welp, it's alright. His new birthday will be February 28th :)

(Happy thanksgiving break)

Word count: 1159

Lil' poem:

(One of my favorite poems, written by me)
Byeee, love you all -Ema <3