Pumpkin Spice Season - Larry Stylinson

3: Fearless

Louis closed the door and finished making his tea, he sat down looking at the clock on his wall, five o clock, he had two hours to kill. He decided to set up the home delivery while drinking his tea sighing at the hassle of finding his details and picking a username.

After he finished setting it up he decided it would be better to find an outfit and get ready so that if he forgot he would be ready when Niall rang the doorbell.

He looked over his outfit fifteen minutes later he had picked out black skinny jeans and a dark blue band t-shirt he shrugged quickly styling his hair he only used a tiny bit of product so it would stay out of his face. He winced as his fingers tugged through the slight curls getting them to lay smoothly.

He didn't look half bad for twenty minutes, actually, he looked pretty good but he still had an hour and fifteen minutes according to his clock.

Maybe now was the time to check out the piano? He headed downstairs and brushed the dust off the lid of the instrument before slowly opening it and running his fingers lightly across the keys.

He pulled out his music notebook from the shelf where he had put it earlier this morning, placing it on the music stand.

He opened it to a page that had scribbles and notes all over it, he chuckled "I haven't looked at you in a while" he played the first chord of the song and lightly smiled "kind of miss composing" he muttered "and since I didn't even finish fearless that's not fair, I'll just finish it"

Louis was sat at the piano playing and occasionally quietly singing a lyric, writing it down, crossing it out, and trying something else.

There was a knock on the living room doorframe and Louis jumped about a foot in the air slamming the notebook shut, "whoa mate, sorry didn't mean to scare you" the familiar-ish Irish accent spoke,

Louis turned round visibly relaxing when he noticed Niall's similar casual attire. "sorry to let myself in, you just weren't answering and the door was open... you play well though" Louis smiled "thanks"

Niall shrugged "you ready to go?" Louis nodded, standing up, carefully closing the piano lid, and heading over to the door. Louis jumped again when he saw another boy in the kitchen, he had quite long curly hair and extremely long legs, he was facing the other way clearly looking at something on his phone. The tall boy turned around slowly jumping slightly in surprise by Louis' sudden presence in the room with him. Green met blue and sparks flickered between them a light blush appeared over the boys face and Niall laughed.

"Louis this is Harry" Louis gulped looking up at the much taller boy "Harry this is Louis" Niall quirked an eyebrow in question at the other boys blush but Louis' eyes widened when he noticed Niall's flying hands as he talked to Harry.

Louis realized then that Harry was deaf. 

Harry smiled signing back to Niall "nice to meet you Louis" Niall smiled "he says nice to meet you Louis" Louis smiled, he chose not to bring up his knowledge of sign language so it wouldn't make them feel awkward "nice to meet you as well Harry" Niall translated, and Harry nodded his head happily.

Louis still looked confused though, so Niall added "Harry lives with me across the road we're housemates, dont worry he's all yours" Harry elbowed the irish man while Louis blushed and then laughed slightly "Oh, that makes more sense" 

Niall was signing everything Louis said to Harry so he wouldn't feel left out "well let's go then," Niall said happily heading out the door, acting as though nothing had gone down in the kitchen.

Harry nodded still looking at the smaller boy, Louis was also staring back, but Niall pushed them both out of the door.

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They walked for about fifteen minutes before reaching a nice little local pub, Harry and Niall immediately grinned upon seeing another two boys.

Louis didn't, his face dropped upon spotting the dark-haired boy at the bar, he didn't say anything though and moved forwards with Harry and Niall, "Guys this is Louis he just moved in on our street" he said waving his hands at Louis

"And Louis this is Liam and-" Louis cut him off "Zayn," he said icily.

The two had locked eyes staring coldly at each other "I see you know each other already then" Niall said awkwardly stepping away "Yeah" Louis took a deep breath and sat down at a table causing the others to follow.

"Zayn was me best friend for years, but he moved out of Donny and we left it on bad terms" Zayn ran a hand through his hair sheepishly "yeah, I'm sorry it wasn't a good time for either of us... would it be ok if we could maybe start over? New place and all"

Louis smiled gratefully "I think that would be for the best for both of us, look at us being mature and It's what me mum wanted" the two stood up and embraced tightly "i think i actually missed you, ya eejit" Zayn laughed "love you too, you gotta tell me everything though"

Niall nodded "you gotta tell us a bit about yourself Louis, we are dying to know" Niall looked pointedly at Harry but the other boys just nodded unaware of Niall's teasing towards the awkward tall boy sitting across from him.

After ordering a round Louis started "so I guess you could say I was a pretty normal kid, I have four sisters well half sisters but that's complicated, Uhm, I like football?" the boys laughed at how much difficulty Louis was having talking about himself.

"Harry has a question" Louis nodded turning to the boy, "he wants to know your favorite color and how tall you are" Louis' sent the boy a playful death glare.

"it's like a deep forest green" Niall obviously translated for Harry who quickly responded "and how tall are you" and leant forward leaning on his palm, Louis waited for Niall to speak "I'm 5'9"

Harry shook his head "you definitely aren't" "yeah he isn't" Zayn said agreeing "fine I'm like 5'7" Louis said crossing his arms and huffing. Harry smiled and shook his head.

"awe he's so cute and small... Niall don't translate that" Niall chuckled and Louis tried not to react "what did he say, Niall?" Niall shrugged

"he essentially called you small" Louis flipped the taller boy off because even if Niall had lied about the translation the blonde wasn't entirely wrong.

"that's my personal favorite bit of sign language" the other boys at the table laughed, even harry who had figured out quite easily what Louis had said.

Zayn stopped laughing first "so Lou how's your mum" Louis' face dropped and the laughter at the table died out quickly.

"Zayn she's- she, me mums no longer with us" there was a pause Harry and Zayn both put an arm around Louis from either side to show support and comfort, "Sorry Lou, I didn't know" Louis was feeling a little overwhelmed and stood up "yeah its a recent thing. I'm going to get some fresh air, won't be a minute" he hurriedly walked out but not before seeing Harry sign "I'm worried bout him, someone should go check on him... Niall?"