Save You (Harry Styles fanfic)

Chapter 17

**3rd person POV**

Liam, Zayn and Niall were slumped on the sofa in the hotel living room watching a football match on TV looking bored out of their minds. Liam's eyes were glued to his phone as usual and Zayn looked like he was close to closing his eyes and falling asleep. Louis was in the kitchen fixing himself a glass of water.

He walks over to the two sofas, slumping down on the one and placing his water on the coffee table after a few gulps. He looked awful. His hair was sticking up at different angles, he looked like he hadn't shaved in weeks and his choice of clothing was sluggish and didn't even match, seeming like he just shoved on the first item of clothing he saw.

"Louis? You alright, mate?" Liam asks cautiously.

Louis scoffs and takes another sip of his water before placing it down again. "Oh yeah, never been better." He snaps, harshly.

"Geeze, he only asked." Niall defends.

"Indeed he did." Louis huffs with a roll of his eyes.

"Come on, Lou. Why are you being like this? You've been in such a bad mood for three weeks straight now, what's wrong?" Liam presses on.

Louis sends him a glare from the corner of his eyes and doesn't answer.

"Come on, just tell us. We're just trying to help. We can't help you if you don't tell us what's wrong-"

"You should bloody well know what's wrong!" Louis suddenly screams, standing up from his seat.

"Hey, woah! Calm down, Lou-"

"Don't you tell me to calm down! You don't have the fucking right to tell me to calm down!"

"Louis, you're getting yourself wounded up, just sit back down and calm down." Zayn intervened.

"Don't fucking tell me to calm down, Zayn! Harry is still out there god knows where in the world and we're just sitting here doing absolutely Jack shit!"

"Well what can we do, Louis!? It's not like they'd allow us to leave anyway." Liam said, gesturing to the bodyguard standing at the door who seemed to not notice the boys arguing.

"How can you be okay with this, Liam!? How can you just sit there and not do a thing about it!?"

"Louis, Harry went missing three and a half months ago. He might not even come back."

Louis looked at Liam with utter shock and hurt in his eyes. "How could you even say that...?" He said, his voice cracking.

Liam slightly recoiled, suddenly realising that he just struck a pretty bad nerve. Niall began to gnaw on his bottom lip as he watched Louis' fists clench and unclench.

"Are you seriously just going to give up on him like that? He's been our brother for three years, Liam. He's been by our sides almost every single day. We all made a promise to look out for each other no matter what happens. Have you forgotten that already!?"

"Louis, I didn't mea-"

"How could you just give up on our brother like that, Liam!? How would you feel if it was you who went missing and we gave up and forgot about you!? Huh!? How would you feel, Liam!" He was screaming at him now.

"I never said we were giving up on him or forgetting about him, I'm just saying that he might not come back."

"That basically means that you're giving up on him, Liam!"

"Louis, chill out man, you're getting yourself worked up over nothing." Zayn interrupts.

"OVER NOTHING!?" He explodes.