inferno // l.s.

fifty four

hi! i have returned with another chapter, but i wanna give you a heads up about what is about to happen.

there is talk of drug use, actual drug use, and all that stuff in here. this chapter is, quite literally, all over the place. THIS is where shit starts to go down.

here we go. (: pls don't kill me yet wait until after october okay thank youuuuuu have fun reading!!

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it's nine in the morning and louis has learned that sharks are older than trees.

niall should really take his damn meds for once.

trees, though?

niall invited him upstairs so he could visit sonic and hoped he would come with him to the pet store so he could get some stuff for the hedgehog. they also needed to get supplies for neon night tonight. niall was tickled shitless for this party. liam gave him his card to purchase anything they wanted for the event, so that part was covered. though michael was the "host", he put niall in charge of putting everything together in the club. michael would cover the bar, the front lobby, and locker rooms, while the strippers would take over the main floor and the balcony upstairs.

niall may be a social butterfly, but he didn't like going places alone. he always had someone at his side.

oddly enough louis has never been to niall's apartment and they have been neighbors for a year. it's nice. very colorful, very organized, and niall is a collector of many things. he can see there's traces of zayn around the apartment. his leather jacket lays on the recliner in front of the tv and his newer pair of doc marten's sit by the front door. he smokes a different kind of cigarettes than niall. both packs sit side by side on the small oak coffee table in the living room.

liam's got stuff here, too. there are photo collages all over the walls with pictures of liam and niall that have to backtrack way before the dinosaurs, because liam was lanky with barely any meat on him and niall had braces. he can see the progression and development over the last few years, though. there are even photos of when louis and zayn first moved to los angeles — one of them being the photo the three took together the night of friday the 13th with their costumes. that was one hell of a night for all of them.

"hi, sonic," louis whispered to the sleeping rodent in the tank. he looked between niall and the hedgehog. "i'm taking him home with me."

"no you are not," niall scoffs.

"but harry would love him! i just know it." louis croons as he turned back to the confinement. "good morning, little love. your dad niall says that i can't take you home with me. but uncle lou is gonna take you home anyways, and you're gonna make a whole new family with a cat-sister named emma, a cat-brother named shark, me and your uncle harry-"

the lilac haired boy laughs while louis continues to ramble to the hedgehog. "you will be neighbors, but he will have his own space in your apartment for when he comes over."

"another roommate!" louis squeaks. "you, little lad, pay your part of rent by cuddling with me. otherwise you're out."

even though sonic was snoozing through every word, louis decided it was good to tell him all of that information while he had the chance to.

sonic is very cute, and very small. niall reminded him that he has to have a strict diet and can be potty trained with a litter box. sonic doesn't have many things for his confinement for the downstairs apartment, which is where niall needed louis' assistance. so far they have bedding, a new litter box, and food, but sonic needs toys.

"i think he'll be just fine staying with zee," louis hums as niall closes sonic's cage. "it'll give him a bigger responsibility, something to keep him focused especially if sonic is picky. emma's starting to become a picky eater like her father so i have to make sure if i give her wet food, that it's salmon only. she hates chicken."