Couldn't Thank You Enough- boyxboy

Chapter 2

Harry stood there on the spot frozen, unable to move as he saw the woman sitting on the couch nervously playing with her bag.

What was she doing here?

Harry thought to himself. He was about to quietly walk back up the stairs hoping that the woman had not noticed him, but to his dismay she noticed him and called out, "Harry." From her voice it was clear that she had been crying and is nervous, which in turn was making Harry nervous.

What if something has happened to Louis?

Harry thought making him even more nervous.

The teary eyed woman slowly walked towards Harry and stuttered out, "I w-ann-a se-e Louis." Her voice cracked by the end of the sentence and she had now started crying.

Harry's eyebrows shot up in confusion. He opened his mouth and closed it again not understanding what to say.

"Please call Louis, I want to meet him. It's been a year Harry, please I want to meet my son." She said as there were tears still falling from her eyes. "I accept him. We accept his sexuality. We were stupid and selfish then. We love our son more and we just want him back." She said wiping her tears with the napkin in her hand.

Harry was confused, "What do you mean?" Harry said with his brows arched up.

"I told you not to trust him." A voice came from behind. Louis' mother moved to reveal Louis' stepfather Dan. "He is a bastard and won't give in easily." Dan said through his gritted teeth. Dan had his palms fisted ready to punch Harry.

"Honestly sir, Louis is not here with me." Harry pleaded and looked around seeing people gathered around probably enjoying the scene and expecting a fight.

"Can we go somewhere else and talk about it." Harry said and gestured them to follow him.

Harry led them to the waiting room and asked them to sit down. There were two black couches and a huge television set and a desk with a stack of magazines besides the couch. There was a glass center table between the two couches.

"Mathew." He called out and a short fellow walked in. "Please get some water for them." He said and made his way to sit opposite to them.

"Harry." Louis' Mom started, "It's been a year since we have seen our son. And we have realized that we have been terribly wrong. We love our son more and his sexuality does not matter to us anymore. Can you call him please? We want to see him please Harry." She continued and held Harry's hand pleading him, tears falling from her eyes.

Harry felt sorry for her but did not have the guts to tell her that he did not know where Louis was, so he thought it would be better if he lied to her.

"Louis is happy and misses you all as well." Harry said trying to convince her.

"Now how do you know that? You just said Louis is not with you." Dan said angrily.

"That means he is with you?" Caroline, Louis' mother, said with hope filled in her eyes.

Harry shrugged nervously and nodded. "Yeah, he is with me." He said a little nervously.

"See Caroline I told you we cannot trust him, he just lied to us." He said looking at Louis' mom.

"Can you please call him?" Caroline said still holding on to Harry's hand.

"He's not in New York for a while." Harry lied trying to sound convincing.

"What the fuck are you playing at?" Dan said angrily as before. He looked back at Caroline and said, "Will you stop trusting him, he will never let us meet Louis."

Harry looked at Caroline who was on the verge of crying again.

"Louis is not in the city for the moment, but I promise to get him back to Oklahoma once he comes back." Harry said looking straight in Caroline's eyes trying to gain her trust.

"You promise you will get him back?" Caroline asked with her voice quite low.

"Caroline," Dan said her trying to warn her.

"I promise." Harry said confidently.

"How long?" Caroline asked.

"A week." Harry assured her.

"What if you don't get him?" He asked.

"You can do whatever and I won't stop you." Harry told Dan.

Caroline placed her hands on Harry's cheek gently rubbing it, "Please don't let us down." She said with a little hope in her eyes.

"I won't." Harry assured her again.

"I think we should leave now." Caroline said and got up and walked out.

Dan got up and looked at Harry right in his eyes, "You better get him back." Dan said and walked out.

Harry just stood there with his head low while Louis' image filled his memory.

"Where are you Louis?" He just spoke to himself.

Nick walked in the room with confusion written all over his face. Harry just stared at him.

"Do I have to ask or can you read my face?" Nick asked exasperated looking at Harry who stood there with a blank expression on his face.

"What the heck just happened? Who were they?" Nick asked again when he got no response from Harry.

He snapped his fingers in front of Harry to get him out of daze.

"We are going to Murray Hill." Harry said and Nick just stared at him.

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