Merman In The Water - Larry Stylinson AU Merman!Louis

Chapter 17

[A/N] HELLO ONCE AGAIN, AUDIENCE. Fall break is in two weeks! We're super pumped because Thanksgiving food, no Uni for a week, and we can update more. Speaking of updates here's this! ♥ xx.

 Liam and Niall had stood outside waiting while Zayn went in to ask Paul about the driftwood fire. Like they had expected, Zayn came out nodding, "Yep! Paul said he'll be off in about ten minutes. He said we could wait for him or go ahead and head down to the beach, but since we've gotta wait for the curly haired klutz to change his ketchup pants I figured we'd just wait." 

"I figured they'd be out by now," Liam pursed his lips. "Maybe they're on the porch."

The three lads made their way up the steep incline of sand covered grass, Zayn grabbing Niall's elbow to keep him from tumbling back down it, and walked up onto the wooden back porch. The two lads still weren't out, and Zayn sighed, "Harry probably spilled something else on his pants, who knows with that boy." 

"I can go find them!" Niall offered, and Liam nodded, opening the door and gesturing for him to go inside. 

"Drag them back out here so we can collect a lot of driftwood before sunset. This fire is going to be the best fire ever." 

The blonde merman laughed, stumbling over the step up into the house before he hurried throughout the house, calling out, "Lou? Harry?" 

He didn't receive a response, so he simply wandered down the hall towards the guest room. The door was shut, but he didn't bother knocking, simply pushed it open and peered in. He expected to see Harry showing Louis some of his clothes or something, but he certainly didn't expect what he did see. He found his best mate and boyfriend caught in a lip-lock, Louis draped between Harry's bare legs as they were sprawled out horizontally on the bed. So of course he did the only logical thing he could think of. He screamed. Louis and Harry forced themselves apart, turning to look at the shrieking boy.

"Niall-" Louis started in bewilderment

"What are you doing?" Niall asked in a shrill voice. "Is Harry naked other than his shirt? Am I interrupting something?"

"No, Niall. We just-"

"I come in to tell you that we need to collect driftwood before the sunsets fully and I find you two freaking..." Niall waved his hand toward them. "Kissing like Gourami!"

"What the hell is a goo-rom-ee?" Harry asked.

"They're kissing fish," Louis explained, under his breath. "They're mostly found around Indonesia."

"Are they cute?"

"They're really tiny and they are incredibly adorable," Louis gazed fondly at the boy.

"So like you?" Harry cooed, and Louis blushed furiously.

"That isn't the point here!" Niall shrieked. "Harry's not wearing pants, who's to say you two weren't about to just strip it all off and go at it?!"

"Harry was changing his pants and rambling about something," Louis wiggled off of the human, glaring at Niall. He'd been enjoying kissing the younger boy, hadn't wanted to stop kissing him. "I kissed him quiet."

"And Louis' clumsy so he fell on top of me... we weren't going to go at anything."

"I can't work these stupid human feet!"

Back out on the porch, Zayn and Liam were sitting on the steps, waiting for the boys to come down. Zayn had his head resting on Liam's shoulder as his boyfriend traced unpattern designs on the back of his hand. A loud scream broke the world the two boys were about to lose themselves in. They both immediately jumped to their feet, breaking into a run as they made their way toward the scream. Liam heard a shrill voice talking, recognizing it as Niall's and he assumed the scream had belong to the merman, too. When Zayn and Liam reached the hallway that led to the room the other boys were standing in, they saw Harry, who was pantsless, and Louis standing up from the bed.