Wish from a shooting star (Larry Stylinson)

Chapter 12 (Lies, lies, lies)

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TW: DRUGS (being under the influence) [I'm sorry if it's not written right!!]

Monday, 3:25 p.m., the bell rings, meaning that Zayn now has to go home or just hang out outside on his own. He packs his stuff and leaves the school building, taking his time.

The thing is, he's cut off contact with everyone who was present in the bathroom during the 'incident' at his party, which was pretty much all of his friends. He hasn't cut them off completely, because they keep annoying him at school, but he is just avoiding being around them outside of the building. Despite that, since Louis doesn't know Zayn was in the bathroom as well, he still talks to him. And of course, Zayn would love to hang out with him, maybe even right now. However, since he knows what's going on with Harry, he'd rather leave Louis alone and not waste Louis' time.

He would also love to help Harry somehow, but he doesn't know how. They haven't talked in a friendly manner for years and he's not sure if he's the right person to help. He's scared Harry might not want, or care about his help.

14 hours prior, he received Harry's text message. Since then, Zayn has sent him 10 messages back, with 2 of them being quite long paragraphs, tried calling him 3 times and even looked Harry up on social media, knowing it won't make any difference, but "you never know," he told himself.

As he's mentioned to Louis, Harry hasn't answered his texts nor has he answered his calls. Zayn had hopes that Harry was only ignoring him and would answer to Louis, but as it turned out, Harry isn't answering to anyone.

Just when he was waking on the sidewalk, making his way home, he sees Louis' short posture on the other side of the road, running towards the local library. He speculates whether he should go and follow him, just so he could waste his own time, but he knows that Louis doesn't visit the library very often, meaning he probably has a good reason why he's going there now. Zayn's also aware Louis hasn't noticed him back, so he ends up deciding against it and continues walking home.

3:48 p.m. is the time he gets home. He opens the door and pushes them shut behind him. He drops his bag onto the floor with a soft thud. It's weirdly quiet, not even the hum of their refrigerator can almost be heard. It doesn't bother him for long, because his phone buzzes, meaning he's got a new message. It's from Louis.

harry still hasnt answered you has he? - L

still nothing - Z

He makes his way upstairs and goes into his room, throwing himself on his bed. During doing so, he gets another notification, and something deep inside him hopes it's from Harry, but it's coming from the same person.

i found him it the library today after school tho - L

but we ended up fighting again so i guess no luck there - L

everything okay? - Z

i dunno - L

but thats not important - L

im worried about him - L

Zayn stares at those messages for a couple of minutes. He doesn't mean to ignore Louis, he's just gathering his thoughts together before replying.

im worried too - Z

wanna call? - Z

And so, they do. And Louis tells him everything. Well, almost. No one pressured him into doing so, but after he started talking about the fight, he couldn't stop himself from talking more and more. He asked Zayn multiple times if he's sure he doesn't mind listening to his 'never-ending-gay-crisis yapping' as he called it, but Zayn assured him back that he doesn't, which wasn't a lie. Even though Zayn didn't have much to say, he's a good listener, Louis told him.