Two Ghosts

Chapter 3

"Hey Daisy Maisy"
"Hey Lou Lou, I think I might try something new today."
"Oh really" said Louis, fully knowing that Daisy is going to look at each and every flavor and still end up choosing vanilla.
"How was your day sweets?"
"It was fine, but Tommy kept trying to put gum in my hair again." This makes Louis furious. Every time he picks up Daisy from school he hears about how Tommy is picking on her. It makes him want to walk right into that school, grab the boy by the collar, and threaten him that if he ever hurts his sister that he knows were he lives. But he has to weigh out the pros and cons. Either he lets Daisy get picked on, or he goes to jail. He feels as though its his fault that she gets picked on. However Daisy has been getting good at standing up for herself. Just last week when Tommy pulled her chair out from underneath her, she poured her water bottle on him. She did end up going to the principles office since the first kid never gets caught. But after, Louis made sure that he brought her home ice cream.

After they picked up their ice cream and got many brain freezes Daisy pulled up an address on her phone. That's for emergencies only, it can only call and text, no games or YouTube allowed. That's app is poisoning too many kids brains for Louis to let her use it.
"Hey Lou Lou can you take me here?"
"Why, what is that" he said not meaning to come off dismissive.
"Um its just my tutors house, shes helping me with maths."
"Oh sure, of course Dais. Do you mind if I come in and meet them" he said suddenly much calmer. He's just nervous for his sister thats all.
"Sure Lou Lou she's very nice." With that they both put their attention back on the road, enjoying the moment of peace and quiet that they don't get at home.

When they arrived to the house Louis gasped. It was a cream color with a patio that had a bench that you could swing on in the front. It wasn't to big or too small. The lawn was extremely well kept and had flowers outlining the stone trail leading up to the door. It looked so much nicer than their house Louis thought.
"Wow"
"I know right" said Daisy. When they got out of the car Daisy skipped right up to the door and instantly started knocking.
"Daisy hold on" Louis said as he scrambled to be by her side when the girl opened the door. The cream colored door opened and a girl about 5'6 with chocolate brown hair and brown eyes opened the door.
"Hey Daisy, are you ready to do some math with me?" The girl said very enthusiastically.
"Yes I am so excited" the little girl said immediately slipping through the door and heading inside.
"I'm sorry about her, Hey I'm Louis her older brother" he said while shaking the girls hand.
"I'm Gemma" the girl said with a smile.
"Do you want to come in and have some tea?" she said.
"Oh I don't know, I wouldn't want to intrude."
"Nonsense" she said and ushered him inside. When he got inside he could instantly smell tea brewing, taking that as a good sign he went to sit on the couch opposite from Daisy. It felt like sinking into a bed of marshmallows.
"Thank you" Louis said as Gemma handed him the cup of tea. Once he tried it he knew that this was going to be good for Daisy. you can tell a lot about a person based on how they make their tea.
"So Louis your in high school I assume?"
"Yes I am actually my schools just down the road" he said trying to make small talk.
"Oh really my brother goes there." Now this peaks Louis' interest.
"Who's your brother?"
"I'm not sure you'll know him, his names Harry he's a junior, he's always got his nose in his sketchbook. Seems it's all that boy cares about."
She says with what seems like a loving sigh.
"Oh actually I do think I know of him, I think we are in the same AP art class" he says.
"Thats nice" she says, then focusing on Daisy who was seeming to be having significant trouble with the current problem she was on. Louis figures that since he's here he'll just wait til the girls are done and then take Daisy home, rather than leaving and hoping their mom picks her up.

After half an hour Louis really has to go to the bathroom.
"Hey um were is the loo?"
"Oh it's just up the stairs and to the right."
"Ok thanks" he said jogging up the stairs skipping a few. Once he was done in the bathroom he sees a door across the hall with band posters littering the front. Out of curiosity he goes to look at which bands the boy must like assuming that this was Harry's room. Once he was close to the door he could hear humming coming from inside. He tried peaking through the crack of the door but failed and pushed it far enough for it to hit the wall and startle the boy. The humming starts to increase as the boys posture straightens.
"Gem I told you that scares me" the boy said while turning around. Suddenly looking frightened when he sees that who he thought was his sister is actually some stranger. The boys humming then gets increasingly louder as he gets up and goes to sit in the corner of his room which was littered with blankets and pillows. The boy then starts grabbing his hair and starts rocking while on the ground. In an instant Louis runs over to the boy and says
"Hey I'm sorry for startling you I'm Louis" he then makes the mistake of putting his hand on the boys shoulder which causes him to yelp.
"Oh I'm sorry no touching got it" he says just sitting next to the boy.
"I'm Daisy's brother, I think we are in the same art class, I heard your pretty good" he says with a calm voice. After a while of waiting for the boy to calm down, he speaks
Louis?"
"Ya thats me and your Harry right?"
"Mhm okay" says the boy now getting up and going back to his desk. Suddenly Louis was alone. The boy acted as if he didn't have the meltdown in the first place. He just went back to doing his own thing and completely disregarded that Louis was even there. He wasn't going to lie and say that he was a little hurt. Tired of being ignored Louis got up and went to see what the boy was doing. When Louis went to look over the boys shoulder he could feel the lad tense up.
"That looks really good" said Louis as he looked at the drawing.
"Thanks" said the boy who still seemed tense. Honestly Louis was pretty awestruck of the drawing. It was a landscape piece of what seems to be the backyard from his perspective of looking through the window in front of him. He then moved to sit on the bed beside Harry so he didn't crowd the boy too much but could still look at his drawing. For a while he just watched him draw, he became fascinated with the way Harry barely had to erase anything. He knew were to put the strokes of the pencil and never messed up. He also caught himself looking at the boys face, mesmerized by how focused he was. But also by his milky skin and luscious curly brown hair. He found the boy so fascinating without even knowing anything about him really.
"So Harry I know you like to draw but is there anything else that you like to do?" With that Harry pointed at the guitar hung up on his wall, like it was extremely obvious and Louis should have already known that.
"That's cool I tried playing instruments but I'm honestly rubbish" he said laughing awkwardly
"What's your favorite song?" He asked trying to get Harry to engage with him.
"Coffee & Contemplation by Nic Howell" he said while instantly getting up from his seat and looking through his bin of records he had lying on the floor. Louis watched as he tried to find the one that he was looking for but becoming frustrated when he couldn't.
"It was here, its not here, where is it?" Harry said, starting to pull his pretty hair.Louis started getting concerned for the boy not really sure if he was just emotional or extremely anxious. When Louis found a record laying behind him on the bed he handed it to Harry hoping to come him down.
"Is this it?" He said hoping it was cause at this moment he would do anything to get that distressed look off the delicate boys face. The sudden change in the boys expression was almost unbelievable.
"Yes, that one, yes, yes" he said jumping up and down as Louis handed it to him. He then ran over to his record player and put the record on making sure not to scratch it. As the record began to play the boy started humming and mouthing the lyrics. Louis recognized the song as the one that Harry said was his favorite. As he started getting familiar with the chorus he started to quietly sing along the words. Harry then ran over and put his hand over Louis' mouth
"Shhh the best part is coming" when the apparent best part of the song began Harry got up and started jumping up and down in a circle never missing a beat. Louis sat on the bed admiring the cute boy in front of him. He looked like he was in his own little world.

Suddenly Gemma walked in, Harry rushed to turn off the record and went back to drawing.
"There you are" said Gemma
"Been looking all over for you" she said as she pulled him out of the room. When Louis looked back all he saw was Harry's face looking down at his sketchbook. Just like how he found him.