Hiding in the Shadows

Lunch

Louis started when he heard Niall's alarm go off, he'd forgotten about that. Groaning he turned over to look at the time, it was four in the morning. Sighing he closed his eyes for just ten seconds, he'd finally laid down not even half an hour ago. As he heard a door click he opened his eyes thinking that it was time to get up, he should probably stop Niall from changing since the boy wasn't going to be working out this morning. Louis rolled over and got up out of bed, heading for the bathroom door. Only catch is when Louis got to the bathroom he found the door wide open.

Louis did a quick scan of the room only to see no sign of Niall, what he did see though was that he had not shut his eyes for ten seconds he'd shut them for ten minutes! Bolting for the door Louis made it into the hallway just in time to see the stairwell door click shut. Shaking his head in disbelief and agitation Louis chased after Niall.

Niall jumped when he heard the stairwell door bang open. Turning around he groaned as he saw Louis running down the stairs towards him. "What now?"

"Where do you think you're going?" Louis demanded as he made it to the landing Niall was on.

Niall was tired, annoyed and so many other things but mostly he was confused, "I'm going to the gym like I do every morning" and then, just to make himself clear, "You're not coming"

Louis snorted at that, "Believe me I have no intentions of submitting myself to another three hour torture session that you call a workout"

Niall laughed there, he couldn't help it, "That's not a torture session, trust me"

That response did nothing to appease Louis, just made him more determined actually, "It doesn't matter. I'm not doing it again and neither are you"

"I'm not sure what you're on about but since I know that you don't have the right to control what I do I'm going to be leaving now and I'll see you later" and with that Niall turned and started heading down the stairs, he didn't even make it one step.

Louis grabbed Niall's lower arm and started dragging the boy up the stairs, "This isn't a debate Niall. Your 'workouts' are unhealthy and they're going to stop"

Niall just couldn't believe it! Where did Louis come off telling him what he could and could not do with his time? What had caused this sudden power trip? "Piss off"

Louis gave up trying to drag Niall up the stairs. He turned the boy to the side, gave him a hard swat to his bum and then picked a stunned Niall up and carried him back to the room.

Niall was floored. Louis had smacked him! Louis had carried him back to the hotel room! What the hell was going on? Why was this happening? And most importantly why was he just staying still and taking it?

With that last thought in mind Niall came out of his shock and started fighting, hard. "Let me go"

Louis once again dropped Niall on the bed, "You need to stop fighting me"

Niall snorted, "You need to get off this power trip" he said as he stood back up and started heading towards the door fully intent on going to the gym for his workout.

"Arrgh" Niall yelled as Louis picked him up, again! "PUT ME DOWN!"

"Stop thrashing around" Louis ordered as he struggled to keep ahold of the flailing boy.

"LET ME GO AND LEAVE ME ALONE!" Niall yelled as he started hitting and kicking any part of Louis he could reach. Screw trying to get Louis to like him, it wasn't important at this point he'd figure out another way to get some sleep. He didn't need Louis to accept him he could just work on the others and Louis could go back to ignoring him.