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"Hey. Louis. Wake up." a deep voice rumbled over Louis's sleeping figure.

Louis's eyes cracked open as he felt his body being shook awake. He saw Harry standing over him with a concerned look on his face. Louis moved to get up but Harry just pushed him back down.

"No Louis you don't have to get up. I just wanted to see if you were ok?" Harry asked setting his hand on Louis's shoulder.

"Wha...?" Louis said confused but then remembered everything for the evening earlier when Niall and Ed had said all those horrible things to him.

"Oh.."

"I heard about what happened. I'll take care of Niall and Ed later" Harry said glaring at the wall as his hands clenched, Louis grabbed his hands hoping to calm him down "but right now all I care about is you. Are you really ok though?" Harry asked squeezing Louis's hand back.

"Oh well I guess I'm alright" Louis said shrugging awkwardly since he was still laying down on the bed.

"I'm s-sorry I wasn't there" Harry said shakily.

"No Harry it wasn't your fault!!" Louis really did now sit up and he hugged Harry tightly laying Harry's head on his shoulder as he threaded his fingers through the curly hair.

Louis kept having to whisper it wasn't your fault it wasn't your fault it wasn't your fault into Harry's ear so that the boy wouldn't have another episode. Louis didn't want Harry feeling guilty of something that wasn't even in his control.

The two boys fell asleep like that.

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The next day Louis and Harry walked into the main hall with Louis partly hiding behind Harry as he was scared since he now felt a new level of vulnerability.

Harry sat down at the table and of course sat Louis onto his lap. Louis just slipped off and sat in the chair next to Harry since he now felt ashamed for sitting in Harry's lap. Harry just gave him a hurt look but then looked to the floor with his bottom lip pouting out.

"Louis" Zayn said standing up walking towards the boy.

"Yeah Zaynie?" Louis asked looking up at the tall male.

"I have a sweater in my room I don't want because it's too small so I was wondering if you wanted it?" Zayn asked raising an eyebrow and pointing towards the door.

"I'm not small..." Louis huffed crossing his arms stomping his foot like a child.

"Never said you were" Zayn laughed "cmon come with me to go get it" Zayn said after getting an approving nod from Harry.

Louis got up and the two boys left walking down the hall to Zayn's room. Zayn opened the door to his room and motioned for Louis to come inside.

Zayn closed the door and Louis noticed Zayn's bed was messy and unmade and his pillow was on the floor. Louis noticed though that there was only one bed in the room.

"You don't have a roommate??" Louis asked confused scrunching his brows and tilting his head.

"Nope" Zayn said as he made his way over to his dresser to grab the sweater.

"Oh why is it that I have Harry as my roommate when you're alone?" Louis asked still confused.

"Only some people get roommates. It's all up to the warden about who is paired up with who. I don't know it's always been a messed up system anyways..." Zayn responded as he threw the sweater in Louis's arms.

"Oh.." Louis said understandingly before his face turned into one of cautious curiosity.

"Hey Zayn...if you don't mind me asking...I never did figure out why you're in here. To me, you seem perfectly normal..." Louis said quietly not wanting to overstep any boundaries.

Zayn just looked out his tiny window which couldn't even be opened that had bars on the outside as to make sure nobody got out. You could see the rust on the window bars from the age.

"Alice in wonderland syndrome." Zayn simply stated before closing his drawer.

"What?" Louis asked not knowing what that was.

"It means sometimes I see things differently as what they actually look like. My syndrome is rare and not many people have it. Imagine it like looking at someone in a fun house mirror. Their head or body might be a different shape or size. I've learned to live with it." Zayn explained.

Louis stood in shock since he had never heard of alice in wonderland syndrome and never even knew that it was possible for someone to have something like this.

"Why don't you ever react to what you see? You always act so calm though." Louis said still wanting to seek more answers.

"Like I said, I've learned to live with it. It's not that bad since it's not like something that is 24/7, it only happens maybe once or twice a day. My parents are the ones who put me in here. Now cmon lets go back I'm sure Harry is wanting you back with him."

Louis blushed "Thank you for telling me all this Zayn. You are one of the people here I actually trust."

"Sure, now cmon hurry up" Zayn rushed Louis out of his room closing the door.

The two friends walked back while Louis thought about everything Zayn said and how different his syndrome was.

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