Pumpkin Spice Season - Larry Stylinson

7: Tattoos and Competitive board games

Niall and Harry were evidently squabbling over what game to play, "hey guys you picked a game yet?" the two whipped their heads over to Louis as he put the tray down in the free space on the sideboard.

"Well Niall wants to play tension but that always ends in a fight, and I wanna play scrabble and he said that's for grumpy old people"

Louis laughed at the two "Guys it's one unless you two have somewhere to be we have time to play more than one game" a look of realization came over the two "Ohh that makes sense" Niall said picking the scrabble box of the top of the stack. Harry did a little dance of celebration and pumped his fist in the air.

About fifteen minutes later the group had pooled their letters and were trying to get them all on the board, "Niall why did you have to put jams down? You've messed up the poor board" Harry was leaning over the board absolutely distraught at the mess Niall had made in the few minutes he was in the bathroom.

"What else could I have done Haz?!" Harry rolled his eyes "you obviously could have put tames down or even games neither of which would have blocked off the board" "Well him sorry I'm not a professional scrabble player Harry.

The younger boy flopped onto the chair sighing, "How about we put away scrabble for now yeah" Louis said pulling the board away while the other two agreed. The Idea of games was discarded for a while and the boys just ended up chatting about what they did.

During that time Louis found out that Harry worked part-time in the nearby library to teach younger deaf kids sign language to help them communicate as well as working in the bakery- which came with challenges but he passes his co-workers things and worked the drink section.

While Niall did some sort of confusing sales marketing job but occasionally helped out in a café called August rose near the pub they were in last night not that he needed the money it was more of a fun thing because he knew the owners.

Niall and Harry had found out that Louis was a music teacher and self-employed designer who would be starting work again on the 1st of September when his school went back for the first term, Harry was pretty interested in Louis' designs, so Louis showed him a few of the ones he had designed that had ended up on his skin.

This led to Harry showing Louis a few of his own while Niall just watched the pair utterly terrified of the idea of a needle full of ink stabbing you repeatedly just to make lines on your skin.

"Enough of that" Niall said as Harry had just started joking about other places he had tattoos. Waving the two away from each other's arms- that they had been scrutinizing and shoving the monopoly box in between the pair.

Niall got dibs on being banker and aggressively sipped his tea while organizing the money in the tray and then handing out the correct amounts to everyone.

About an hour later Harry had ended up in jail again and Louis had landed on a chance card "okaaay Mr. Tomlinson are you ready to take a chonce?" Niall exclaimed dramatically, Louis rolled his eyes taking a card and paling "skip ahead to Mayfair do not pass go or collect 200" Louis read out loud.

He paled as he saw the Mayfair square with Harry's house on it. "I am not paying him 200," Louis said staring at Harry dead in the eye Niall pinched the bridge of his nose "Louis give Harry the 200 dollars you landed on his property" Harry nodded in agreement

"NO, I'm not giving 200 dollars to a criminal!?" he said pointing at Harry's little boat-shaped playing piece in the jail corner. "THAT'S NOT HOW YOU PLAY LOUIS"
The older boy grumbled, Gathering the 200.

"jeez," Niall muttered "Don't you talk NIALL. YOU can't say anything after you took, No STOLE My last RAIlroad!"

Niall put his head in his hands "I WISh I waS never BorNNNNNN" Harry groaned "MMEEE TOOOO"

The three smacked their heads down on the table "Let's just be glad Liam and Zayn aren't here or this would have been so much longer" Niall mumbled still face down on the table.

Louis smirked "That's what he said" Harry burst out laughing making both Niall and Louis jump "Sorry guys" 

Harry switched to speech "but that's the absolute GAYeSt thing I have heard Louis say so far" Niall looked confused "what was gay about that?" Harry patted the boy's shoulder 

"Niall sweetie he said 'That's what he said' "

 Niall's jaw dropped in an 'O' shape "Righttt, Must just be that you're rubbing off on me Harry, cause that sounded completely normal"