A Handcuffed Christmas

10

Harry woke up the next morning from something poking his ass. His eyes flew open when he realized what that thing was and he rolled away, just to fall out of bed, taking Louis with him.

Louis fell on top of him.
"What the hell, Harry?" Louis grunted.

"Sorry, sorry. You were poking me." Harry explained with flushed cheeks.

"Pok... Oh! It's called a morning erection, Harold. Perfectly normal." Louis huffed but Harry could see that he was embarrassed.

"Geez, I know what it's called. Can you get off me now?" Harry replied dryly.

Louis rolled off him. They got back in bed and laid on their backs.
"I have a problem." Louis said after a moment of awkward silence.

Harry raised his head and looked at Louis' crotch.

"Not that!" Louis immediately said and shoved Harry's head back on the pillow.

They were silent again but then Harry started giggling. Louis turned his head to look at him and burst out laughing. When they had calmed down Harry smiled.
"So what's the problem then?"

"I haven't bought any Christmas presents yet." Louis informed him.

"What? Why?" Harry wondered.

"What do you mean why? We have been on tour!" Louis defended himself.

"So? I bought presents whenever we had a day off. I started in January. You know, when I found something special somewhere in the world I bought it." Harry shrugged.

"Oh, look how cool you are. Well, I haven't. Not everyone plans their Christmas shopping a fucking year ahead." Louis snorted.

"I don't really see the problem. We'll go out shopping then." Harry shrugged.

"Imagine the headlines. Band members Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles were seen shopping handcuffed together. Did they forget to leave their kinky sex life at home? Were Larry shippers right all along?" Louis said with humor.

Harry cackled loudly.
"Modest would love that."

"Almost worth the spectacle just to see them panic." Louis laughed.

"Almost." Harry agreed.

"So, what do we do then?" Louis asked when they had managed to calm down.

"We will go out shopping. We'll try our best to hide the handcuffs. Big sweaters, some kind of disguise." Harry answered.

"And if we're front page news tomorrow?" Louis questioned.

"We'll blame Niall." Harry replied with a smirk.

"Definitely!" Louis agreed.

They got up and got dressed before they headed downstairs to eat breakfast. When they were done they borrowed Jay's car and headed into town. They managed to find an underground garage and got out of the car somehow.

They walked close together so the chain to the handcuffs wouldn't be seen and headed to the mall. They kept their heads down so they wouldn't get recognized.

They stopped at a jewelry store and Louis dragged Harry inside and walked up to one of the showcases.
"I thought about buying something for me mum. What do you think?" Louis asked.

"How about that necklace and tennis bracelet in gold? Classic design." Harry suggested and pointed at a set.

Louis looked at it and then he skimmed over the rest of the selection.
"You're right."

"And then I can buy her the matching earrings." Harry said carefully.

Louis' eyes snapped up.
"You want to buy me mum earrings?"

"Yeah, as a thanks for having us over. Bad idea?" Harry asked with his breath caught in his throat. He didn't want an argument in public. That would surely draw attention to them.

"That's actually sweet. Erhm, I mean, eh, what would your mum like?" Louis asked.

"Why?" Harry questioned.

"I'm not gonna be the prick who doesn't buy a present, and you can see it as a thanks for celebrating Christmas at our house so we don't have to split our time between our families." Louis shrugged.

"Sweet." Harry grinned. Louis rolled his eyes at him.

Harry pointed at a pair of earrings. A sales clerk joined them and they made their buy.

Two hours later they had found presents for everyone. Louis had bought gifts for everyone in his family and Harry's and Harry shopped for Louis' family as well. A couple of fans had recognized them and they knew that they would be the big talk on Twitter for a couple of days, but hopefully no one would have seen the handcuffs.