Don't forget where you belong

Chapter 4.

The next morning Harry is woken by a wet cold nose on his cheek. He opens his eyes and turns his head and sees Hera standing there, she's whining a bit.

"What's wrong?" he asks the dog as he sits up on the couch, rubbing sleep out of his eyes.

As soon as he moves, she runs to the front door, whining at it. 'Someone really needs to go out' he thinks to himself as he gets up, hurrying on some sweatpants and a hoodie.

Once they get outside, he realizes it pouring rain, 'great' he thinks and pulls he hoodie over his head. But she really needs to go so he bites through it. He decides to take a walk around a few blocks instead of going to the woods since it gets so muddy whenever it rains. Hera walks in front of him sniffing around as she goes, apparently not a rush anymore. As he's walking, he's keeping his eyes on the ground, trying to avoid the enormous puddles of water everywhere.

Louis touched him yesterday, he could still feel Louis fingers on his skin. He had reluctantly gotten in the shower last night, not wanting to wash it away. No, he's not a creep, he just missed it so much. And then Louis mentioned "You bring me home". I mean sure, it's possible that Louis has the lyrics written down somewhere and has read it. But the fact that he connected it to Harrys tattoo that's just... More than Harry had dared to hope for. For the first time since the accident Harry actually felt hopeful, for every time they had met, Louis had given him a hint, a little subtle sign, only for Harry, letting him know that Louis, his Louis, was still in there. He was just lost.

Just then Hera yanks the leash hard and Harry doesn't react in time and he loses grip of the leash. Hera takes of running down the street.

"Hera! stop!" Harry yells after her to no avail.

He sees up ahead two people are walking towards them and Hera runs straight up to one of them jumping all over them. Harry starts jogging up to them, wondering what the hell's gotten in to his dog, she never does that, and never jumps on people.

When he closes in on them, he realizes why, it's Niall and Louis. Louis is now crouched down petting her and Hera is so happy she looks like she could burst.

"I'm so sorry, she never does that usually" Harry says as he's finally standing in front of them

"Who's this, Curly?" Louis stands up, looking at Harry while still petting Hera and holding her leash

"It's Hera" Harry can feel he's starting to blush again.

"Louis you're soaked!" Niall points to his clothes and he's right

"It's alright, it was worth it" Louis says and smiles down towards Hera

"You're going to get sick if you stay out like that" Harry points out

"Where are you going?"

"Niall's place"

"That's a 30 minutes' walk!"

"Well according to Loueh, fresh air, or pouring rain does you good" Niall rolls his eyes

"I'm not wrong" Louis shrugged

"Well Harry's right though, you're going to get sick like that. I'm sure Harry has something you can borrow!" Niall beams at Harry

Shit, fuck. How's he going to get out of this? He doesn't want Louis to get sick... He starts thinking through if he has anything unpacked that Louis could recognize.

"I'm sure I'll be fine" Louis says, given that Harry didn't answer.

"No, he's right. You can borrow something of mine. It's a mess at my place though"