girl almighty • larry stylinson

seventeen

chapter seventeen

Louis enters his flat with a stumble, slamming the door closed loudly. He hangs onto the doorframe as he removes his shoes and leaves them there on his foyer. He marches straight into bed, groaning when he hit the mattress face first. He's tired, and well, drunk, really drunk. His mates have called him earlier to have a few drinks -which escalated to drinking more than necessary-.

Louis manages himself to lie down properly in the bed, on his stomach. He turns his head towards the nightstand before he grabs his phone from his pocket. As he clicks it on, the light tortures his eyes for a moment before adjusting.

"I miss you." Louis pouts at Harry -at his wallpaper of Harry, rather-.
Louis sighs and drops his phone. He just wants to go back to tour so he can have something to do all day; to meet fans and sing for them. That'd be extremely lovely. He already scheduled to be with his family, but that would be on the second month; it's only halfway through the first. Louis picks up his phone again and dials a number, pursing his lips as he taps it on loud speaker. He lays it down beside his head, waiting for a certain someone to answer.

"Lou?"

"Niall," Louis greets back, "You awake?"

"Of course I'm awake; you woke me up, you little crap." Niall yawns, "What's up?"

Louis takes his time to glance at the clock; 2:29 am, "I'm drunk."

"Saw it all over Twitter, mate." Niall informs him, "You've been drinking for three straight nights."

"I'm just bored. Oliver invited me."

"You can say no." Niall says, "Not interfering. You can have fun once in a while, that's why we're on break, yeah?"

"I'm missing a certain someone." Louis admits suddenly, "I think you're the one who can understand. Liam and Zayn will only nag me."

"They won't." Niall snorts out a laugh, "Is that certain someone happen to be your best mate pal, Harry Styles?"

Louis rolls his eyes, "How'd you know?"

"Because I can practically hear you guys every night on tour." Niall laughs, "You're missing him too bad. Why can't you just call him?"

"Because I don't have the right to." Louis huffs to himself, "You can because you two are best friends and there's nothing wrong with it. I, on the other hand, isn't exactly a friend of his. I'm more than a friend but we're not boyfriends so I don't what we are to each other and I don't want to seem clingy at all-"

"Rambling." Niall informs and Louis stops. The blonde says, "There's absolutely nothing wrong with a simple call, Lou. I personally think that Harry won't think about you like that. He adores you. What makes you think Harry has that kind of attitude?"

"I'm just being... careful, alright?"

Nia chuckles, "From what?"

"I don't want him to think that..." Louis closes his eyes and winces as he says the words, "... that I'm bothering him. I don't want to assume things."

"To be honest, you two have every right to assume things." Niall's fully awake noe, and his brain is functioning properly for advices, "You and Harry have way more things done other than sex. There were looks, blushes, sappy crap, and hand holding. Cuddles between you two exist and you sleep, literally, in the same bed. It is a relationship and you two like each other. What's there to hide?"

"We don't like each other like that." Louis murmurs, "I don't like him like that."

"That's a weak defense." Niall says, "It's like you're on denial stage or something. It's been four years, Lou. Jesus, no couple can even last four years in this generation and apparently, you two did. It's impossible that you only think of each other as glory holes."

"I don't." Louis scowls, "I don't think Harry's a fucking glory hole, Niall. He's my... whatever the hell he is to me, and he's important because whatever our relationship is, he's a part of me."

"Talk to him if it would help." Niall suggests, "You know you're not official with him so there's always an opportunity that someone else might sweep him off his feet."

And well, Louis doesn't want that to happen. At all.

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[A/N]: shiiitty ending but new projects and new everything has settled in school and I'm kinda running for the high grades and all. Sorry for the long wait. I promise to write longer chapters for both Sword and this fic. Thank you so much for the patience. I really appreciate it.