Fall (One Direction) [Sequel To Run]

Chapter Ten

 Harry

Callin spends the night at Liam's house, after the fight.

And I'm stuck with an angry, sad Louis.

He's reading our book, Dare To Dream, now.

“Louis, d'you want dinner?” I ask him, watching him carefully as he reads. I know him so well and he doesn't remember me.

“Mhm” he mumbles, nose in the book. He always reads like that, when he reads at all, which is rarely. He needs to concentrate so hard on the book because reading isn't something he enjoys. It's hard for him, so he needs to focus on it, and he so rarely does. I know all this about him but he doesn't even know my favourite food.

“I don't think I've ever seen you read this much” I say, as I get out of my comfy armchair to get him a plate of pizza from the kitchen.

“I don't like reading” he mumbles, as I set his plate on the coffee table and return to the kitchen to get a plate for myself.

“I know” I say, settling myself back into the armchair, about to take a bite of my own pizza.

“Can you just pretend you don't?” Louis asks me, finally looking up from the book to make eye contact with me. “Can we just pretend . . . I don't know, we're roomates at University. And we don't know each other and we're learning all this stuff for the first time.”

“O-okay” I stutter, taken aback. I suppose I didn't even think about how maybe that would be easier for him.

I didn't even think about him.

I only thought about how much I need him.

Liam was right, I'm too focused on how Louis losing his memory affects me, instead of being here for him.

“So, you're from Cheshire?” he asks me. The book is open to my section. The part with my life, the part I remember writing with the management team in charge of the book.

“Yeah” I say softly. Louis doesn't remember writing his part. “Holmes Chapel. I used to work at the bakery there, and I was in this band, White Eskimo. My mum signed me for the X-Factor. I sang 'Isn't She Lovely' by Stevie Wonder for the audition. And it was loads of fun.”

“I'm from Doncaster” Louis says. “I party a lot. My favourite film is Grease. I was in a TV show when I was younger, just one episode, but it was a big deal. And I don't like reading.”

He laughs softly, and then I do, too.

And maybe this will be okay.

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Callin

“It's one in the morning, Callin, why are you still awake?” Liam asks. I can't quite see him, but I think he's standing in the doorway to the den.