Once Upon A Coffee Shop *Larry Stylinson AU*

Homier than Home - Louis's POV

**Louis' POV**

    Soon after introductions were done, we were seated around the dining room table playing Monopoly. Daisy and Phoebe were oh so hopeful we'd be able to play on the ground like we usually do with Zayn, but remembering how hard it was to get Harry off of the ground back at the coffee shop we couldn't even imagine getting him down to the ground, comfortably, then getting him up off of the ground yet again. So here we are sitting at the table in teams. The teams were Daisy and Phoebe, Lottie and Fizzy, and Harry and me.

    "Come on lucky 17!" I chanted as i rolled the dice. (A/N they use 4 dice when the play in the Tomlinson family, just something I made up! :P) If I got a 17 then I would get Boardwalk. Boardwalk was the one property Lottie and I would always compete to get. As soon as the dice left my hand I watched as they landed 6, 4, 2, and 5. "YES! Lotteh! Guess who just got to Boardwalk!" I yelled quite excitedly.

    "Right Lou," she replied, "now will you buy it? You know its not just enough to land on it right?" I scoffed, obviously I knew to get a property you had to buy it.

    "Yes Lottie, I will buy it, here's the money. Now property card please?" I said as I made the most puppy-like face I could.

    "Ugh, you're such a child Lou," she laughed as she handed me the card. As the turns went around it was mine and Harry's with in what seemed to be the snap of ones' finger.

    "Haz, er gosh sorry I'm really not trying to be mean," I corrected when I saw Harry tense, "Harry, do you want to roll on our turn for once?" I asked still noticing he was a bit tense.

    "Uhh...sure, I guess," he replied as he calmed down a bit.  As Harry rolled I noticed he did what I did, never took his eyes off of the dice. He just landed on four 6's! He looked really surprised with himself, hmm I wonder why...well anyways that just means he gets to go again. This time as he rolled I heard him chanting something faint, "Anything but 7. Anything but 7," he chanted barely audible as though he didn't want anyone to hear him; only this time the dice weren't in our favor and we got 7 landing us 5 short of a railroad and on the 'GO TO JAIL' space.

    I heard him let out what sounded like a whimper, but it was so quiet, maybe he didn't want anyone to hear him. I don't know, but what I do know is that I will do whatever I can to get him to smile again. "Hey, Harry. Come're, love there's nothing to be sad about, it's just a game, we can get out on our next turn, yeah?" I tried soothing him to get him to stop and return back to normal.

    He sniffled, "M'sorry, I-I didn't m-mean to-o. I-I can't con-control w-what the d-dice do-o. I j-just-"

    "Hey, come on love. I'm not gonna hurt you if that's what you're afraid of. Harry, please look up at me?" I cut him off.

    "M'kay," he said as he looked up alerted.

    "Harry, we can get out of jail on the next turn. Don't worry," I reasoned. He calmed down at that and continued staring intensely at the game. Suddenly the doorbell rang, making all of us jump. "One second!" I yelled towards the door. Rushing towards the door, I knocked over my chair taking my time to make sure it didn't hit Harry.

    I opened the door to be greeted by none other than my mum, Johanna 'Jay' Tomlinson! "Hey mum! Need any help?" I asked as she walked back to the car.

    "Sure sweetie, can you please help me grab these two boxes?" I nodded and walked over to the car. Just when I thought I'd balanced out the two boxes, the one on top fell to the ground with a thud. As soon as the noise was heard a frantic looking Harry rushed, well attempted to rush with his limp, out the door.

    "L-louis, are you okay?" he asked timidly looking down.

    "Yeah I'm fine, just gotta get this box back up to the top of the stack," I replied while putting down the box to pick up the one that dropped. As soon as I'd put the box down, I noticed a green-eyed boy hobbling over to help me. "Hey, Harry, it's okay I've got it, go sit back down," I said thinking about what was best for him at the moment, "or actually, you know what, stay right here, let me just take these boxes inside and I'll be right back out to get you. Just wait here!" I called over my shoulder bringing the boxes in the house.