I Hate You ~ Louis Tomlinson

THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING

"What did you do to her?" Harry yells. It's the only way his brain could make sense of the fact that Natalie is letting Louis take care of her instead of him.

"Harry cut it out." Natalie says sternly, "He would never."

Zayn hands her a towel and she gives him a grateful smile.

"Louis, move your hands," she says gently.

"Give me the towel, I got it," he replies.

"No Lou, go clean your hands. I'm alright." She says putting a hand on his shoulder. 

He looks up from where he kneels on the floor beside her and she pulls on his wrist so she can replace his hands with the towel. Louis walks out of the room only turning back a few times to look at her.

Liam watches him go and says, "I'm going to go follow him, make sure he's alright. You're okay here, yeah?"

She nods.

"Here sit," Niall says pulling her over a chair.

"Thank you," she mumbles all too aware of the eyes on her.

She pulls back the towel to see that it has stopped bleeding thanks to Louis' quick action. He comes back into the room quickly, going into his bag and pulls out another bandage. Just like the one he put on last night.

"You brought another one?" She asks almost blushing. It isn't lost on her how sweet and caring he's being.

"Figured I should just in case." He shrugs and kneels down to put it on her. She doesn't want to look around her and deal with all the boys' questions. Louis looks up at her and puts his hand on her thigh trying to encourage her to tell them.

Before she can explain everything, Niall breaks the silence, "Well I thought you guys were acting weird because Lou got you pregnant, so guess I was wrong."

She actually chokes on her spit and Louis throws his head back hysterically laughing.

"Bloody hell Niall," Harry says and puts a hand over his face. He looks at Natalie and the two of them bust out laughing too.

"You gonna tell us what happened?" Zayn asks after the laughter dies down.

Louis squeezes her thigh again and then stands up. He moves behind her chair, putting a hand on her shoulder. 

She tells them what happened, and Harry looks at her with tears in his eyes. He can't believe she didn't tell him. He slowly backs away from her and goes to leave the room.

"Please don't go Harry," she says trying to stand up but winces. Louis' hand on her shoulder pushes her down gently.

"You should sit," he says looking down to meet her eyes.

She nods. "Harry can you please stay?" She turns and looks up mostly at Louis, but she is addressing all of them, "Can you guys give us a minute alone?"

Louis nods at her and gently squeezes her shoulder before leaving.

Harry waits until they are all gone to address her, "You told him. You didn't tell me, but you told Louis." She hears the way it hurts him in his voice. 

"Harry, I didn't-"

"Yeah? Then how does he know?" He asks harshly.

"I came into the house after it happened and I was looking in my mirror. No one was home so I left my door open and he saw me when he came home to grab his sweatshirt. I wasn't going to tell anyone."