Just So You Know (Larry Stylinson)

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

A/N Sorry this chapter was so short- I just lacked… umphf or motivation or whatever… lacked the staying power of writing this- I may edit this eventually or add to it or whatever- either way… this is all I’ve got for now. None of this story is edited at all as you can probably tell so… sorry. I can feel the writer’s block slowly come back to me- I am fighting it as much as possible. Gah! And this is now a pointless paragraph… get to it!

Liam’s POV-

            It’s been two weeks since Harry started going out more frequently. At first I hadn’t really noticed the reason behind it, I mean, yeah so what if Harry was going out with friends. We weren’t his entire world.

            Really, I wouldn’t have noticed it at all had I not seen what it was doing to Louis. Then I noticed how he would only do it when Louis was around.

            He was perfectly fine when he was just hanging out; when Louis went home for a few days last week, and again when Niall and Louis went to a football game, and even when Louis went with Joe McElderry to a concert. He would hang out with Zayn, Niall, and I, like nothing was going on with him.

            After I realized that Harry was avoiding Louis, it was like it stuck out like a sore thumb, I could see it from a mile away. This made me wonder what else I hadn’t noticed between them. I began to see that every time Louis enters a room or is heard from the hallway, Harry stiffens up or stops what he’s doing and suddenly finds an excuse to either go up to his room or out.

            What really got me though, was Louis noticed this too and watched Harry exit with sad eyes. It’d gotten to the point where he knew the moment he’d enter a room, Harry would leave. It had gotten to a point where Louis would text me or one of the guys to see if Harry was in the room and ask if he was enjoying himself. If he was, he would silently leave the house without interrupting his fun. So this is how, depending on who was in the living room first, Louis and Harry never saw each other.

            That is, until Louis got tired of avoiding Harry’s evasion. Louis began just going back to how it was, he would enter a room and Harry would leave. He would be enjoying himself and Harry would escape to his room.

            This is where I decided to step in; after all… they were best mates. Even when they were fighting or when Louis kicked him out, neither of them acted like this… what was so different this time?

            Louis started to head out when I pulled him into the kitchen. I knew Harry wasn’t here so we could have a conversation without him walking in. I needed to get to the bottom of this. This was not how we were supposed to act and I refused to let them continue on this way.

            “So… spill,” I began. I expected him to put up a fight. “What’s going on with you and Harry? And don’t say ‘nothing’.” He looks over at me with an apprehensive expression.

            “I don’t know. I thought everything was fine…” He started but paused as he saw the ‘not buying it’ look I gave him.

            “I realized last week that he hasn’t forgiven me… for what I said… maybe he thinks I hate him.” He responded.

            He continues explaining to me what happened between them, what he said. I was so shocked that he’d ever even said any of those things to Harry. I hadn’t seen it coming at all. Louis used to be okay with it, and even if he explained how he’d just been fed up with the Elounor Haters out there, he’d always joked about Harry bringing home blokes so I didn’t understand the change in attitude. It all explained how hurt Harry had been.