Stark Heir (Larry stylinson)

{Chapter 24}

3rd Person POV:

    A few days after seeing Louis through the window at the store Harry texted his mom. They agreed to meet for lunch two days later at a private restaurant just the two of them. Anne agreed instantly, wanting to see her son again.

    When the day came they were both nervous because of the last time but knew they needed to sit and talk, just them and no one else. Anne arrived first and was directed to sit in a private room separated from the main area of the restaurant. Harry arrived ten minutes later and was shown to the same room. Anne and Harry wouldn't even look at each other until after their drink orders were brought to the table and the waitress took their food orders.

    "How have you been?" Anne asked her son, trying to start a conversation. "Good, mainly working in the lab and hanging out with Zayn." Harry answers awkwardly. "Good. Zayn's always been a good friend for you to have around." "Yeah." Harry said, still awkward.

"Harry, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have tried to take you away from your dad and your superfamily as well as the company. It was wrong to think that just because I can now give you a stepdad and brother then you would prefer me more." Anne told her son sincerely.

"I loved being around you before,mom. I don't prefer dad over you. I love you both. Yes, he gives me a family to surround me with, but sometimes I liked the peace and quiet at your house. Now, I don't know." Harry said, still not knowing how to feel about everything. He was still extremely upset at his mom, he is one hundred percent sure Alec was also pushing for him to take over as Harry's dad, and still pissed off at Louis for being so selfish wanting to keep him there all of the time. On the other hand he missed his mom and wanted to cuddle with Louis in his arms again.

"Please, Harry. I'll do anything to make you forgive me." Anne almost begged as she reached across the table to gently hold Harry's hand. Harry let her hold his hand as he spoke, "I'm still having trouble with everything. Maybe for now we can just meet once or twice a week to eat, just you and I. Then we can go from there, but I don't want to spend weekends at our house until I think I can trust you again." Anne nodded her head yes as she tried to keep her tears at bay "Okay, I can deal with that."

Shortly after that was settled the waitress brought Anne and Harry's food over to their table. For the rest of their lunch the duo talked about Anne's wedding, the new projects Harry and the interns were working on, and about Anne's job. Everything was going smoothly until Anne brought up Louis. It turns out that over the past few weeks Louis has been acting differently. His grades had been steadily falling, he had been lashing out in anger at anyone who even looked at him, and had been pushing everyone away to spend all of his time in the room he and Harry used to share. Harry felt bad for Louis but knew that it was Louis' own fault for being selfish instead of thinking about what Harry would have wanted. Harry bit his tongue about how he really felt and just told Anne that he was sorry that Louis was stressing her and Alec out before resuming to eat.

The conversations flowed between the mother and son well without any awkwardness for the rest of the meal until it was time for them to leave and go back to work. Harry used his credit card to pay for the meal and share a hug before going to their respective vehicles. During the drive back to the tower Harry couldn't stop thinking about what his mom had said about Louis. He sounds nothing like the Louis he got to know during their interactions and that bothered him. Where was the sweet loving Louis that was never disrespectful, always had his work done, and was very cuddly. Not seeing Louis was affecting Harry more than he wanted to admit.

Once back at the tower Harry threw himself back into work again to get his mind off of Louis and no one saw him again for the four days.