Larry Oneshots

It's Always Been About You

Word Count: 4550
A/N: The timeline that the stuff is released isn't 100% accurate. The release dates for Harry's albums are the right dates but the events mentioned when the two are on the phone are not in the accurate time frame. It just fit better with the storyline to have everything happen one after the other.

NO POV
It was the week after Harry released his first album, Harry Styles.

And of course his ex boyfriend, still the love of his life, listened to every song.

He hung onto every word Harry wrote.

The song Sweet Creature stuck out to him the most, but he never said anything about it.

It's now December 2019 and Harry has just released Fine Line. And once again, Louis listened to every song and every word. And it seemed like every song, since 2017 really, had been written about Louis.

LOUIS POV
After hearing Harry's album for the one hundredth time this week, I can't do it anymore. I want to get drunk, but I know that won't do me any good, and getting drunk alone is just sad. So I did the next most reasonable thing, I cried. And it's only 11 am.

God is this sad.

I curled up in a ball on what used to be our bed and I cried. And cried. And then I picked up my phone and stared at it for a moment, trying to decide if I wanted to make one of the biggest decisions of my life. So I dialed his number and then stared at the green button to call. And hit the button, putting the phone to my ear, still crying. His groggy voice answered, " 'ello?"

"Are they about me?" I asked through my tears.

"Louis?"

"Are the goddamn songs about me?" I hear him sigh. Hell, I can feel him sigh and he's in LA and I'm alone in our flat in Donny.

"Of course they're about you, Lou. Everything's been about you since the day you left me. Every thought in my head is always louislouislouis because I'm still in love with the person that broke my heart. Just because you left me does not make you any less of the love of my life. Or the one that got away, I guess."

"All it would have taken was one phone call. One phone call and I would have dropped everything and came home to you."

"Yeah well how the hell was I supposed to know that? How was I supposed to know that you would ever come back? You told me you couldn't hide anymore and you left. Not me, you. So if you have nothing else to say, I think I'm going to hang up now."

"Harry! Harry please don't hang up the phone! Please!"

Great, I'm sobbing again. I hear him sniffle on the other side of the phone. "Are you crying, Haz?"

He hesitates, "...no."

"Oh, H. I never meant for this to happen."

"Then why'd *sniff* you l-leave me?"

My heart breaks all over again, I swear this boy will be the death of me.

"Simon made me. Said if I left you I could get rid of Eleanor and you could be happy, but if I didn't leave you, he was gonna destroy your career and everything you worked so hard for. And look at you now. You're so successful, Haz. You've got two amazing albums, hell you've been in a Christopher Nolan film. You've made me so proud. If I wouldn't have left you, you wouldn't have any of this. You would've lost it all."

"Lou, I don't understand. Why would you ever think that leaving me was the right choice? Losing you was the worst pain I've ever felt in my entire life. I would give up my career a thousand times before losing you. Even if I had nothing, at least I would have had you."