Funny Kind of Friendship

Chapter 39: Harmless Pranks

Last night was... Unexplainable. I'm only worried about how I'm going to tell Louis. Not about the meet up with Liam, but the fact that I am leaving.

I'm going back to Minnesota.

Don't get me wrong, I loved it here in London and If I could stay here forever I would. But my time is done for the semester. The start of a new year and I have to go back, and Louis doesn't even know. No one does, except Liam. It makes me nauseous thinking about losing Louis again. All the friends I've made here that could never come close to the people in Minnesota. Staying here as I move on. How am I supposed to cope with this? I lost Lou once, and I don't want to lose him again.

I wake up to the sun streaming in through the window. Louis had resumed his position with his arm around me after I got back into bed. I wonder if he realized I left. I decide to get up and make some tea for when he wakes up. I carefully lift up his arm and make my way over to the cupboard.

After a few minutes he begins to wake up. He groans as I see him reach to find me in the covers.

"Justine?" He mumbles. His eyes still fully closed. I take his tea cup and being it over to the bed. I wave it under his noes until the sent sinks in. Once it does his eyes shoot open. He sits up, grabs the cup, and kisses me on the noes.

"This is why I love you." He takes a sip of the tea. "You make it so perfectly too. What would I do without you?" My eyes travel to the floor as I give half a smile.

"Louis, there's something I have to tell you." He looks up and scrunches his eyebrows together.

"What's wrong babe?" He says grabbing my wrist and encouraging me to sit on the bed next to him. I start to feel shaky and I feel like my stomach is doing flips. I wasn't sure how he would react to it either. So I just kinda sat there thinking of the right words to say.

"Louis, I..." I stop, getting choked up trying to hold back tears. "I'm leaving... In three days." He doesn't look at me. He just stares into his tea.

I want him to say something. I need to know his thoughts.

"Why didn't you tell me?" He finally says.

"I didn't want you to think about it. With everything that happened I didn't want that to tie in with me leaving." I grab his tea and set it on the nightstand. I grab his hands, but he pulls them away, and instead engulfs me in a hug. I bury my head in his shirt. There is silence again. For some reason neither of us shed a tear.

"I want these last few days to count." He smiles. " is there anything you really want to do?"

"I just kinda want to hang out with you and the rest of the boys, maybe with the girls too?" He chuckles a little.

"That sounds great, but..." I raise my eyebrows.

"But... what?" I encourage him.

"I wanna do something with you, just the two of us." I smile.

"Of course." His eyes light up.

"Perfect." He says leaning in to kiss me.

"But there's also one more thing.... I snuck out last night and talked to Liam... Nothing happened I swear! But he's the only other one that knows I'm leaving." He stops to process it for a few seconds.

"What did you talk about?" He finally says.

"He wanted to tell me that he's happy for us, and he still wants to be friends. He didn't want things to be awkward." He smiles and nods.