Prince of the Seven Seas

Chapter 28

"So... Did you have a good time?" Liam questioned, his voice was so filled with that familiar teasing tone that Louis could practically see it while he assisted the First Mate in picking up the wooden crate from the center of the deck.

Louis was still trying to catch his breath after his dance with Harry. His feet felt kind of sore from the brutal amount of times that that Harry's gigantic hooves practically smashed them into the floorboards while they danced just minutes ago.

Harry kept trying to dominate the dance, take over the lead and guide Louis through it, but it was as though he didn't even know how to dance properly to the beat that they were provided with. Due to that, Louis tried repeatedly to take away the dominance in the dance only to have it taken away from him and have his toes graciously stepped on by Harry's boots over and over.

The curly haired captain obviously knew what he was doing because Louis frequently expressed his displeasure in the way things were going, even threatening to end the dance at one point. Harry treated the empty threat like nothing, brushing it off and grasping Louis tighter in response.

In between his and Harry's movement, he'd caught glimpses of Niall and Liam dancing with one another while Zayn watched on in amusement and Danielle and Eleanor sitting on the crates near Josh and the rest of the pirates who supplied the upbeat music.

At one point, it was apparent that it was only he and Harry that shared the dance floor because everyone who'd been sitting down to the side began clapping their hands in rhythm while giving occasional whistles and teasing calls to the pair, Niall and Liam's voices were very noticeable in it.

As embarrassing as it had been, Louis couldn't find it in him to stop because he and Harry had admittedly, been having a good time.

It had to be his first time dancing in front of people that didn't expect a lot out of him.

Whenever he'd gone to royal galas and he'd been forcefully set up with different noblewomen for the sake of appearances, it'd been a stiff process... Ballroom dancing with a girl who didn't have much interest in him and had been pushed toward him for the sake of her parents' image got irritating after a few years.

Dancing with Harry where he was allowed to mess up—not that he did— and he was allowed to criticize him for every wrong move and laugh at whatever he did, was a nice change.

"No, of course not. I'm sure you heard me complaining about Harry's titanic feet always finding their way on top of mine." The royal sarcastically piped with a sigh right when he and the pirate rested the large box to the edge of the ship.

The fact that the duty of cleaning up the deck after they adjusted a few things had been a game of 'Not It' kind of made Louis question a lot of things.

First Dan stated it was getting late and his hands were beginning to cramp, then Josh held up his hands and quickly said 'Not it!' and before Louis knew it, a loud surge of 'Not it's choired throughout the deck and everyone was rushing to the stairs down below the ship.

It'd just been him, Harry, and Liam left and Harry scoffed before letting Louis go and walking to his quarters without another word.

Liam had apologized and insisted Louis could go and he'd clean up everything himself, but Louis felt bad about leaving everything to him.

But how exactly was One Direction one of the most deadly ships on the seas when the pirates all acted like little kids when it came to cleaning up?

Almost as strange as the fact that Harry could be three different people in one body.

With a crack to his knuckles, Liam gave Louis a knowing look and a smile, "Don't blame him all too much."

"Because he's Harry and all of you have a nice time kissing his ass since he's a 'good guy'?"