Pinky Promise *ON HOLD*

Chapter 5- You Can Trust Me

It really amazes me how much Louis has grown, not just physically but mentally, since the last time I saw him.

"Can I take you somewhere?" Louis asks abruptly after a long moment of silence.

"Uh I guess, just let me freshen up quickly." I smile climbing put of his arms and walking to my bathroom before shutting the door and removing my smudged makeup only to reapply it carefully.

I leave the bathroom grasping a coat from my closet before swinging it over my shoulders and smiling in Louis' direction.

"Ready?" He askes standing from his spot and making his way towards me.

"Yup." I smile as he takes my hand pulling me out of my room before I could even snatch my phone from the bedside table.

"Mum, can Louis and I go out for a bit?" I ask smiling as we reach the bottom of the stairs hand in hand, my mum gave us a questioning look and I groaned quietly knowing exactly what she was thinking.

"Mum, no." I say firmly glancing at the amused smirk playing on Louis' face.

"Okay I guess but be back by ten." She sighed looking towards Johanna.

"Louis come home after because we probably will be leaving soon." She states giving a warning look to get the point across.

"Okay mum, see you soon." Louis replys pulling me towards the door of my home.

"So, where are we going?" I ask as he guides me down the steps and towards the sidewalk.

"You'll see." He smiles mischeviously linking our arms together.

"Okay." I sigh. "So you're staying all summer?" I ask.

"Yup. Are you?" He asks looking down at me due to the tremendous hight difference between us.

"No, I'm only staying for two weeks."

I reply.

"Oh." His smile falls into a pout. "What do you have planned for this summer?"

"Well I will be going back to my flat which is about a two hour drive from here, but the only real plans I have are going to paris with Lucas and my friend Connor is coming to visit late July." I smile.

"Going to the city of love with your gay best friend, that sounds interesting." He laughs.

"Shut up." I say playfully hitting his arm.

Just then Louis stops walking and turns taking my hand to guide me down a dark path. I instantly knew where we we're going but I kept quite so Louis wouldn't be upset about the surprise.

"I really want to spend time with you this summer." Louis says looking at his feet intently before turning his gaze to me and continuing. "Who knows, maybe we could get back what we used to have, or maybe even more than that." He trails off slightly before stopping his paces and turning to me.

"Maybe." I reply quite taken aback by what I think he just implied, I had never really thought of Louis that way but thinking about it right now didn't seem that crazy after all.

I look up to see us standing under a tall willow tree. I smiled thinking back to all the memories we shared here. It was very close to my home so we snuck out quite often to play or sometimes just to climb a tree and sit on a branch, we would talk for hours or sometimes just sit in silence.

This tree was a very important part of our friendship and it was very thoughtful of him to bring me here.

"C'mon." Louis said gently pulling me towards the tree before climbing to the first branch and offering me a hand to help me up. I gladly took it carefully hopping on to the branch, our feet were about four feet off the ground from this branch and it made me uneasy but I pushed my thoughts aside consintrating on Louis.

"Ya know, we had so many memories here by this very tree. So many good times but by far my favourites were the times we would sit on this branch. Just not saying anything but sometimes you would lean your head on my shoulder and we would just sit in silence. I always felt so connected to you in those moments." Louis sighed.

"I liked those times too." I smile before gently resting my head on his shoulder and letting out a deep breath. The tree looked off on a lake that we always used to swim in on hot sunny days. I had never witnessed the view like this before though because when we were young we couldn't sneak off once it was dark, that was to risky.

"Remember that day you fell off the tree branch." I smiled at the memory of me frantically panicing over the small injury on his knee, He quickly assured me it was fine.

"Yah, you were freaking out when I didn't even feel it. All I wanted was for you to kiss it better." He chuckled at the memory, swinging his feet back in forth. "I'm sad that you're leaving in two weeks." He sighed rubbing small circles in to the palm of my hand.

"Me too." I reply before a comfortable silence falls over us, I don't know how long it was before Louis abruptly ended the silence gracefully hopping of the branch. I frowned staying in my place as he turned around to face me.

"Need some help?" He asked smirking.

"Uh..." I mumble uneasily looking to the ground, how did I do this when I was 5?

"Here, jump." He said holding out his arms.

"Are you crazy?" I reply.

"Delilah you can trust me." He says firmly placing a hand on my leg before backing up slightly and looking in to my eyes.

"I'm scared."

"I promise I won't let you fall."

I take a deep breath in before slowly sliding off the branch and in to Louis' arms his strong hold keeping me from touching the ground.

"I told you you could trust me." He smiled before gently placing me back on my feet and intertwing our hands together.

"Thank you." I smiled back as we made our wayback down the dark path, it was quite creepy at night but I felt safe under Louis' warm touch.

"What time is it?" I ask causing Louis to lift his wrist up checking his watch.

"Ten o'clock, we still have an hour." He says letting his arn fall back to his side.

"Wanna just walk?" I ask as we escape the dark path and make our way back to the street walking slowly down the sidewalk in silence.

"I know it's been awhile, but I still feel the same." Louis states after a brief moment of silence immediatly causing me to go back to the moment he left my driveway as I quietly told him I loved him only for it to be carried away with the wind.

Do I still feel same?