The next morning.
Harry wakes up in bed with Louis, still embracing each other, still in love. He stares at Louis for a moment, admiring his exquisite cheekbones, excellent hair, perfect face, and perfect lips. He tries to get up, but Louis grabs him tightly and refuses to let him. Harry stays. They stay in bed together for a while longer, snuggling and in love.
Now, Harry is in the kitchen preparing breakfast for his sweetheart, and Louis is sitting across the kitchen, admiring Harry.
"Lou, breakfast is ready," Harry says.
"Coming, sweetie," Louis responds.
They've been reunited after a long year filled with stunts but also nearly the best year of their life. Fans adored both of their albums. A successful year of touring across the world, as well as the release of two new films by Harry. Louis is incredibly proud of Harry for achieving so much and he makes sure Harry knows it.
They finish up breakfast quick, they have a full day of Christmas movie marathon planned.
"Are you ready for some Christmas movies?" Harry asks.
"Yes, but before we begin, I have a gift for you," Louis says.
Harry stares at Louis, perplexed, but Louis simply asks him to wait and promises to return shortly. Louis returns with a book, and Harry looks at him puzzled. "It's a scrapbook," Louis hesitantly explains, "I collected all our memories and happy moments in this book. If you like, we can sit and look at it," Louis says.
"Yes, darling, of course, we're going to go through it, you made it for me," Harry says as he closely embraces Louis.
They sit on the couch and begin turning through the pages of the book, or more accurately, the pages of their lives and some of their best memories. The book is filled with images, and Louis wrote beneath them about what they did that day, how he felt, and how much he loved him.
Harry has the largest grin on his face, and Louis is staring at him. They flipped through the book together, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying. "Do you like it, Sun?" Louis asks. "Of course, I do, this is the nicest thing I've ever gotten in my life," Harry says, stroking Louis' face. "I adore it, thank you so much, Lou," Harry says, kissing Louis on the cheek.
They are now preparing to begin their Christmas movie marathon. Louis isn't a big fan, but Harry loves Christmas movies, so Louis only watches them with him. Harry asks Louis to pour them some wine and promises to return shortly. Louis is on the couch with the wine, and Harry appears with some matching Christmas pajamas.
"Seriously?" Louis says, his eyebrows furrowed.
"Please, Lou," Harry replies with a puppy face. Louis agrees, and they both change into matching pajamas.
After some time.
They fell asleep with the movie still on, Louis still in Harry's arms, head on his shoulder, and Harry still holding Louis. Harry wakes up to a knock at the door "Someone's knocking," he says. Louis grumbled and said, "Let them, don't go away". There's another knock at the door.
"Don't they realize that we don't want to open the door?" Louis snorted, annoyed.
"I'll go see, you stay here, okay love?" Harry says as he kisses Louis on the forehead.
"Surprise!!," Louis jumps up from the couch, almost scared, "What are you guys doing here?" Harry spoke to someone at the door, "I mean, wha-, I'm so happy that you guys are here, but I'm shocked," "That was the plan, haha," a guy replied with a thick Irish accent.
"Who is it, sun?" Louis inquired.
Niall jumps in and scares the sleepy Louis, while Harry, Liam, and Zayn laugh, "OH MY GOD, NIALL, I AM GOING TO MURDER YOU," Louis says while pulling Niall into a tight hug.
"Zayn, you came!" Louis says almost tearing up, "That's what he said," Niall says interrupting Louis while pointing at Harry, all of them shake their head looking at Niall, Harry throwing his head back and laughing loud "You will never change, will you Niall".
"I have missed you Zayn," Louis says, "it's been so long, I'm sorry for being upset at you," he continues. "Hey, Lou, I missed you too, and don't apologize, we were kids, we were stupid, and I'm sorry too," Zayn replies while embracing Louis tightly in a hug, tears in their eyes. They stay there for a while before Liam interrupts.
"Enough with the emotions and everything," Liam exclaims, moving his hands in circles in the air, as he jumps into the hug between Louis and Zayn, Harry and Niall follow in. "I've missed everyone so much," Harry begins, "and so have I," Liam adds. They stay there for a while, holding each other.
"What are you guys doing here?" Louis asks. "Not that I don't want you guys to be here," he adds.
"We just thought we'd come and visit the two of you," Niall says. "We knew you'd be together, so it'd be a fantastic surprise," Liam adds.
"Liam called me and asked if I'd like to meet up, it had been a long time since we all chatted, so I agreed," Zayn says, "and I'm glad I said yes," he adds looking at Louis.
It had been a long time since they had all gotten together. They met, although not all together in the same room. They were all happy to see one another, especially Zayn and Louis.
"But, how did you know that we were here?" Louis wonders.
"I told Niall about this place because I wanted him to come visit us," Harry adds, "or more like surprise you," Niall continues, pointing to Louis. "Ah, I see," Louis says.
"What took you so long to open the door?" Liam asks, his brows furrowed. "They were probably, you know, having fun," Zayn replies, using his hands to make air quotes.
"Oh, my goodness, Zayn, we weren't," Harry sighs, burying his face into his palms. "Sure, you weren't," Niall adds, laughing. "We were just watching a Christmas movie and fell asleep during it," Harry explains, "not having fun," Louis adds, mimicking Zayn's air quotes. Niall's laugh is joined by Liam and Zayn.
"So, what do you guys wanna do? Order some food and talk? Or do you have something planned?" Louis asks. "Of courseee," Niall says, "we don't have anything planned," Niall adds chuckling. Harry laughs shaking his head.
Zayn is on the couch by now and notices the scrapbook Louis made for Harry as a gift. He picks it up confused "What is this?" Louis grabs it from his hand and hides it behind his back.
"Oh, come on Lou, show us," says Zayn.
"It's um...," Louis says looking at Harry, Harry all smiley looking back at Louis completing the sentence goes "It's a gift. A scrapbook, Lou made it for me as a gift."
"Umm yea...," Louis murmurs, his cheeks as crimson as a plum.
"Can we please, see?" Niall asks. Liam and Zayn join Niall in his plead, "pleaseee," all of them obnoxious.
"Alright alright!" Louis exclaims, surrendering and handing in the book. They take seats on the couch, Zayn in the middle, Liam to his left, and Niall to his right. Louis and Harry were standing behind them, holding hands and staring longingly at each other.
"Are you sure you made this Lou?" Liam asks jokingly. "What do you mean, of course, I made it you fool," Louis replies. Harry's laugh fills the room, Niall and Zayn join in.
"Stop laughing," Louis replies annoyed, "I put a lot of time into it okay," he continues. "And I appreciate it, I love it so much," Harry replies, kissing Louis on the lips.
"Oh, by the way," Liam starts talking, "we bought some sushi for lunch! "I'll go get it from the car," he adds running out to get the food.
It is lunchtime by now. They all finish up the sushi and just sit and talk for hours, laughing and crying, forming new memories while reminiscing about old ones, time spent in the band, time spent together on tour buses, and so on.
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One At Last?
FanfictionA year filled with stunts for both Harry and Louis, but it was a huge success. They are finally home for Louis' 31st birthday and Christmas. Will the year conclude happily, or will it be one of the worst of their lives?
