Fate ( L.S )

Chapter 5

After the bargain Louis was made with Harry's father, Louis was led to a new room which was on a whole new level of luxurious.

There was an enormous bed placed in the middle of the room with soft bedding, white sheets, and a tribal decorative band at the base of the duvet. A gorgeous view of the whole jungle could be seen in the corner alongside the big staircase. Where it lead was still a mystery to Louis.

"Wow, this place is incredible!" Louis was supposed to keep that thought in his head but ended up divulging it aloud. His kind observation resulted in Harry smiling widely and telling Louis what he was afraid to hear. "I'm glad you like it, Lou. 'Cause this will be your home from now on." Louis was ready to protest against the statement, but decided not to, wanting to stay on Harry's good side for the time being. He was exhausted, and more than anything else he just wanted to lay down and relax after the crazy day he had experienced. Then maybe tomorrow, after he gained some energy back, he - and maybe Niall - could try to plan their escape and hopefully find their way back home.
Harry placed his hand at the bottom of Louis' back and gently and guided him towards the very desirable-looking bed at the moment. "You're probably very tired. Get some rest Louis." Harry encouraged sweetly once he had noticed the boy's tired eyes. Louis nodded and let Harry lead him to the king-sized mattress. As Louis laid there he confirmed to himself that this was, in fact, the softest bed that he had ever felt. But he couldn't get used to this. He was going to find a way back to this village. This was not his home.

"Good night Lou," Harry said as he touched Louis' soft feathery hair and looked intensely down at the little lad, who looked so so small in the middle of the huge bed. Harry wondered how Louis could be so tiny and fragile while he still had so much fire in him. The warrior smiled to himself. Lou was his little firecracker.

Louis lay in the bed after Harry left, unbelievably tired but still unable to sleep. He laid there listening to the sounds of all the exotic birds flying around and making noises. Suddenly the door opened and Louis looked toward the entryway worriedly thinking that Harry was back to demand that they share a bed for the night.

But to his great relief, It was Niall, who entered the room and looked around until his eyes landed happily on Louis. Once he was completely inside the room, Niall glanced quickly over his shoulder to see if he had been followed, and after deeming that he was in the clear, he closed the door behind him.

"Hi, LouLou." Louis lifted his languid body from the mattress and sat up while Niall took a seat on the soft bed beside him. "Hi...." Louis answered back sleepily to his blond friend, greeting him with a small wave.

"I missed you so much Louis!" Niall said. His eyes tearing up; he was so emotional. Guilt filled Louis' heart for what felt like the twentieth time in the last 24 hours. "I'm sorry Niall! I'm sorry that I didn't look more for you. I'm sorry that you had to live here for years! I'm really sorry!" Louis tackled Niall with a bone crushing hug. They stayed like that for a while, the two childhood friends embracing each other again, as if holding one another would make up for all the time that they had spent apart.

"It's okay Louis. It wasn't your fault and actually it's not so bad here. You just have to get used to the different lifestyle that they have. Like the weird traditions and the polygamy relationships an-"

Niall was interrupted by Louis who looked slightly disgusted. "Polygamy relationships? As in more than one partner?"

Niall was used to the reaction strangers had towards the tribe's customs and didn't mind explaining it to people. "Yeah. It's quite common here, to be honest, there aren't really many rules when it comes to relationships. Like you fall in love with who you fall in love with, and the tribe is really accepting about stuff like this. If you fall in love with more than one person, and everyone wants to be together, then you can be! It's quite accommodating, and convenient, and just great all around!" Niall said proudly, a large grin painted on his lips.

"Are you a relationship like that?" Louis asked very hesitantly, as if he was almost afraid of the answer. Niall was still so young like himself. And... Niall couldn't be in a relationship already could he? And with more than one person? Just the thought made Louis' eyes grow wide, the small lad overwhelmed by the possibility of his friend having multiple lovers.

"Yes, I am. But Louis they are great guys! You'll have to meet them one day I'm sure you'll love them....or at least one of them." Niall chuckled, trying to be a little humorous in an attempt to calm Louis down.

"How many people are you with!?" Louis asked incredulously, almost going insane over the thought of how a relationship like that can even work. "Relax. Just two. It's really not as bad as you may think Louis. I promise!" Louis looked at him skeptically not really sure what to believe.

Looking beyond Louis out the at the warm nighttime sky, Niall reminisced on how him and his two lovers met.

Niall remembered when he was younger, and how he got accepted into the tribe after a woman had found him a few days after he lost his friends in the forest. She had been willing to 'adopt' him after learning that he had no friends, and was extremely homesick when he was not able to find his way back to his village. After Niall had gotten comfortable in the woman's house, he would sit outside the cozy shelter and play with small sticks and stones, or whatever things he could find. Nobody had wanted to play with the weird foreign blue-eyed kid. Nobody knew where Niall was from, only that it was a place far away. This sadly made many of the children fear him, looking at him like an alien and not the kind-hearted lad that he was.

Niall remembered the two boys who were the first boys to go near him, despite the fact that they were both equally frightened by each other at first. They were a few years older than Niall and a lot taller, and cuter in his opinion. One of them was healthy tanned while the other one was a tad lighter and muscular. They went by the names Zayn and Liam. After the two boys accepted Niall as their friend, the duo became a trio. No one in the tribe would ever find one of them without the other two. They were inseparable, mostly because Liam and Zayn never really left Niall alone. Some might say that it was bad for the three of them to be so close, seeing as Niall never made any other friends besides Liam and Zayn. But after acknowledging that they were just kids, the adults reasoned that their closeness was 'cute'. As the three boys became older, Liam and Zayn got more protective of Niall. They never allowed their blond friend to go out hunting with them, nor do anything dangerous with the other boys from the tribe. To keep him safe, they only allowed Niall to watch the babies and toddlers.

Niall remembered when Liam and Zayn turned 18, and that they both left their own homes and built a shelter for themselves. Seeing as Niall was only 15 back then they had to wait a year before they were allowed to have Niall move in with them. But when he was of age, the blond did not think twice before leaving the woman's home into the boys' house, because even though he had grown to love his adopted mom, he loved Liam and Zayn more. It didn't take long after that for the three of them to admit their feelings and establish a relationship loving and healthy between themselves.

Now two years later whenever Niall thought back on all the things in his life that he regretted doing, falling down that mountain and meeting Liam and Zayn definitely wasn't one of them.

Niall, after seeing a shooting star in the black sky, looked back at Louis and then wished aloud reflectively, "I really hope you'll find the love - or loves - of your life here Louis. Just like I did."

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