Boundless •L.S•

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There are errors and grammar mistakes, but please ignore them since I really don't feel like going through the chapter right now. Also, there will be an epilogue, but I'm not sure when so, yeah, enjoy!

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Louis wasn't really the religious type. His mother used to try and keep up with it, but at the end of the day, she couldn't find the time to go regularly like all the other mothers in the neighbourhood. The blue-eyed boy loved to tease her about it, more than happy that he didn't get dragged to church by his mother like his other mates at school. He can still remember his mom clear as day, rolling her eyes and saying that 'God loves all', she couldn't hide her smile from Louis, though.

Yeah, it wasn't really their thing, was it?

And yet here he is. Rays of muted light filter through the colourful glass windows, casting gentle hues onto the polished wooden pews below. The air is cool and serene, carrying the faint smell of lingering scent from burnt candles. Stillness holds sway, broken only by the occasional creak of ageing floorboards or the whisper of a breeze through the open doors.

The first time Louis had found himself here was a month or so after he had gotten out of rehab, after staying way too long at the hospital with Gaia and trying to finalise the papers so he could take costudy of the baby he didn't really do much well- other than eating and sleeping (barely). Liam and Niall had practically kicked him out of his own house and the hospital telling him to 'go take a walk or something'. By the time the blue-eyed man  had ended up in front of the church, it had started raining.

It had been then that someone had approached him with an umbrella, and well- it's not that you always see a man standing uselessly in the middle of the rain, so a fellow sister who had seen him came to see if he was alright. That's where and when he met Sister Frances Evelyn, whom he has come to call sister Frances or just Frances as she demands him to call him most of the time.

Sister Frances who possesses sharp features that hint at her confident demeanour. Her piercing gaze, framed by arched eyebrows, reflects her sharp wit and a hint of mischief. With a sardonic smile that more often than not plays at the corners of her lips. She had offered to take him in the church (which at those hours was closed), and Louis remembers saying, 'I'm not really religious.' Something that had just mad the girl roll her eyes, 'you're cold, I think that's enough for you to come in." And she had just turned around and walked towards the church, Louis following shortly after her.

After that , he started coming way more often than he could have imagined, but there is something about the place that pulls Louis there all the time, quiet and peaceful. This is where he had come when he didn't know what to do with himself when Gaia couldn't breathe on her own, being put once again on that ventilator that Louis hated to see his baby hooked on, feeling helpless Louis had prayed for the first time in his life but this time not because of his mother forcing him to.

That day, Louis had told Frances about Harry, and how he had rightfullu so left after making sure that Louis was awake, the young lady had right up called Louis, an arrogant dumbass and then pulled him into a hug following with a whispered 'if it's meant to be it will be.'

Now it's 6 months later, and Gaia is at home with her two uncles while Louis has left 'for air' as Niall likes to tell him, since Louis barely leaves without the baby, having gotten quiet protective of the way too small human.

Louis has no idea why he hasn't left yet. If he's honest, he has finished praying several minutes earlier, and yet he hasn't found it in himself to leave yet and it's then when his is about to get up and leave when he hears some slow footsteps which echo softly through the empty space.