play it cool [L.S]

chapter sixteen

dear mr worldwide,
i love you more<3
-sm1 who isn't MWW

dear paulina,
you're so sexy😈💪
stay sexy you mf 😮‍💨
-swag master 3000

also happy new year all you swaggy people

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it'd been two days since louis' breakdown, harry spent the morning with him making sure louis was already after he woke up. louis claimed he was and thanked harry over and over before harry had to leave for class. he hasn't seen louis since.

"i'm sorry"

"i know you are, you always are..."

on the other hand, today was the first day harry had talked to liam in almost two weeks. he's missed him so fucking much "i shouldn't have jumped to the conclusion that you... you know"

"you can say the word li"

"relapsed... it's just it's happened before where you came home hours later high or in some cases you didn't even come home at all"

they were in liam's room, harry was sat on liam's desk chair as liam grabbed his dorm mates desk chair and rolled it over to harry. liam started texting harry the morning after he spent the night at louis'. the messages asking to talk and how liam had run into niall a few minutes before who mentioned harry didn't come back to the dorm. harry knows niall knew where he was but didn't tell liam because he would probably freak the fuck out.

"it's different this time, i'm almost a year this time. that's good"

"it's more than good harry, it's incredible and i'm proud of you..." liam paused looking down at his hands and back up to harry "it doesn't stop me from worrying"

"i'm not going to relapse!" harry threw his arms up, trying to hold my tears. he had a feeling he'd end up crying just not so soon "harry i know, but you never know what or who could send you on another bender-"

"for fuck sakes" he rubbed his hands over his face and stared at liam "this is why you don't like louis isn't it?" liam didn't say anything, all he did was stared back at harry "this is why you don't want me around him. you think he's this bad person but he's not, you stated from day one you didn't like him"

"i never said he was a bad person harry"

"no but you indicated it" harry looked up to the ceiling, blinking back the tears before they start "and honestly liam, i really bloody like him"

liam did a double take "you said that last time"

"i know" the tears turned to embarrassment, making his cheeks heat up and his head fall to the floor. he felt his best mate look over to him "you really do?" liam asked.

"yes and i know for sure he won't drag me back to where i was a year ago. he's a good person, i swear"

liam sighed "you also said that last time h..."

"i'm serious!"

"and that"

"will you fuck off! i'm trying to get out of that world and anytime i try and find a way out you dismiss it and watch me fall back down and wait to pick up the pieces" the tears came back "he is a good person, he cares about the people around him" harry stopped talking for a moment.

liam rubbed his hands over his face "it's not that i'm dismissing it and watching from the side lines" harry was about to burst into tears "you just are so lovestruck that i can't get through to you"