baby, i'm haunted ➡ lilo/larry

Unpretty

"HEY, hot stuff." A wretchedly annoying Wolverhampton accent came through Louis' Bluetooth.

"What do you want, Payne?" Louis sneered, gripping his steering wheel so hard that his knuckles had turned white.

"Are you on your way home? We have a project to do." Liam said in that sing-song voice that drove Louis' absolutely nuts and not in a good way. That man would be the death of him. Also not in a good way.

"I know." Louis grumbled, backing into his driveway.

"Great. I see you. Meet me at your door." He said, hanging up. As Louis stepped out of the car, he groaned when seeing Payne standing at the front door.

"Hello babe." Liam greeted him, to which he scoffed.

"Do not call me babe. I am in no way, shape, or form, your babe." Louis spat at him, to which he smirked.

Now hear Louis out. It wasn't that he disliked Payne, it was that he hate his guts and his very existence. To put it lightly. Louis hated him for one simple reason. Liam stole his promotion spot. Louis had been working at Starlight Studios for seven years and Payne got the promotion after one year at the company. Louis hated his guts after that. Yet, somehow, Payne seemed to love bothering him because he flirted with him constantly, even when Louis was with Harry and trust him when he says that Harry wasn't too fond of him then, and definitely not now. Not that Louis was too fond of him either.

"Whatever you say, babe." Liam smirked, making Louis scold him in return.

Louis quickly unlocked his door, walked in and shut it in Liam's face. Louis was just the nicest person, wasn't he?

"Louis, I think you're forgetting something." Liam yelled through the thickness of the pasty white door.

"No, I don't think so. I have my computer. I'm all set." Louis teased, smiling to himself in triumph.

"Very funny. Now open the door." Liam said.

Louis opened the door to see Liam with a playful expression on his face. Then the crash sounded.

"W-what was that?" Liam stuttered.

"Oh, I think it was the cat. The only thing I have left of Harry, you know?" Louis lied straight through his teeth. Louis quickly jogged down the hall and opened the bedroom door to see a pissed off and ghostly Harry. No pun intended.

"Uh, what's up?" Louis asked.

"What's up? I'll tell you what's up. My boyfriend is being sexually harassed by his colleague and I can't do anything about it because I fly through everything I touch!" Harry yelled.

"Okay, okay. Calm down and be quiet. Liam is in the other room and he can't know about you still being somewhat alive. Undead, whatever you are. If he finds out, then the whole world finds out, okay? Calm down. He's not sexually harassing me. He just flirts too much. Don't let it get to you, babe." Louis whispered, going to rub his hand on his bicep and that was when Louis noticed that his hand didn't float through.

"What the hell?" Louis voiced as Harry grinned.

"I've been looking into it more and I guess that if I focus hard enough, I can be solid, but only for a short time. I wanted to surprise you." He explained.

"That's great!" Louis squealed, wrapping his arms around his boyfriend just like the old days.

"Louis? You okay?" Louis heared Liam's voice call out. Harry growled under his breath, but Louis kissed him quickly to get rid of his anger.

"I'll be back soon, babe. I promise." Louis smiled to Harry, before walking back to Liam.

Liam was pacing back and forth in the living room, rubbing his hands together and muttering under his breath.

"Uh, Payne. What are you doing?" Louis asked the worrisome man.

"I'm just nervous, I guess. This is my first real assignment since the promotion and I don't want to mess this up." He ran his fingers through his hair.

At the word of promotion, Louis cringed and glared at Liam. It wasn't Liam's fault that Louis was so jealous. He was just never very good with competition. Anyone who was better than Louis became his mortal enemy and right now, Payne was very high on his hit list.

"Don't worry. Let's work, shall we?" Louis suggested, making Liam nod and take a deep breath before joining him to the kitchen island where his computer and notebooks laid.

"Okay, so where would you like to start?" Louis asked.

"Well, I guess we could start with famous YouTube singers and go on from there." Liam said, getting out his own notebook.

Louis typed in famous YouTube singers in the search engine and came across a guy named Zayn Malik.

"What about this guy?" Louis asked.

"Well, play it." He said.

"Hello guys. It's Zayn here. Today I'll be doing a cover of Taylor Swift's 'You Belong With Me'. Let's do it." The Zayn guy introduced.

"I'm in my room, it's a typical Tuesday night, listening to the kind of music he doesn't like, but he'll never know your story like I do, you're on the phone with your boyfriend, he's upset, he's going off about something that you said, but he doesn't get your humor like I do..."

"Wow." Liam and Louis both said in synchronization.

"The boy's got some pipes on him." Liam said and Louis nodded in agreement.

"We're putting him on the list." Louis said and Liam nodded writing down his name and strengths and weaknesses.

So far, Louis hadn't torn Liam's head off, but he was sure that that just made Harry madder because Louis knew that Harry wanted to beat Liam to a pulp, but that wasn't going to be happening today. Louis was set on keeping his job.