Make Me Beg [l.s - edited version]

seventeen

Louis' POV:

It's Wednesday and the lunch rush at the restaurant has finally died down. Juan Luis and I are on lunch break in the backroom while some of the other chefs are working in the kitchen, our voices raised so we can hear each other over the sizzle of onions sautéing and the clattering of pots on the stove.

He's told me all about his newfound love for Niall, and his face is lit up like a Christmas tree the entire time he does so. After hearing about his upcoming plans to go on a date, he pries about me and Harry and it doesn't take for me to cave in and tell him.

First off, I tell him about my own upcoming date with Harry, the contents of said date still undecided. Juan Luis suggests we go bowling, but I absolutely suck at bowling and want to impress him.

Apparently, Juan Luis wants me to take him back to Duckies as often as possible in hopes that he can talk to Niall again. I tell him that he's a grown man and can surely go alone, but then he insists I should invite Harry when we go, and wouldn't stop asking until I agreed (it really didn't take much convincing, though). Like a double date, but better. Gayer.

His lunch break ends twenty minutes before mine and before I know it he's headed back into the kitchen, throwing the remaining bites of his chicken salad in the trash can as he leaves. I settle back in my chair and pull out my phone, already having finished my sandwich.

The ding of a text notification goes off the moment I unlock my phone, and it's from Liam. I remember he's got a big day today with a new photoshoot, so I'm surprised he's on his phone at all.

Liam: Hey Louis

Me: Hi

Me: How's the photoshoot?

Liam: Good so far! They brought in some people from other brands for a big collaboration. It's nice meeting all these new people, they're quite friendly and make good conversation

Me: That's so cool! I didn't know you were going a collab today, I thought it was just a normal Hugo one

Liam: I did too, but clearly I don't pay enough attention to the weekly memos they send out, because here I am

Liam: Are you in the kitchen right now?

Me: No, just sat down eating lunch in the break room. What's up?

Liam: ...

The utter confusion I feel from telling Liam reacting like that when I told him I'm simply sitting down eating lunch means somethings up. I don't know what, but something.

Me: Liam?

Me: What the actual fuck is ... supposed to mean?

Me: Bitch pick up your phone

After a near eternity (three whole minutes, to be precise), he finally texts back.

Liam: Sorry, I was just talking to one of the other models, I'm back

Me: Oh okay. Now answer me: what does ... mean??

Liam: There's someone here

Me: ?

Me: Well no shit, you told me that already. Said there's loads of people there, actually

Liam: Hold on let me get them

Me: okay?

Me: Why are you being so mysterious, Payno? You sound like you're trying to hint at something and I don't know what's going on in the slightest

Liam: Maybe a picture will help clear things up a little

Liam: