Ten Years [Zourry]

Lies

Anne visited around one as promised, which was a surprise to Louis.

Regardless of their previous fight, Harry and Louis put on happy faces for Anne, and had a late lunch with her.

They all chatted for a while, and Harry survived one of her hugs and about ten kisses before she left.

After she was gone, Harry went right back into his room, slamming the door again.

He settled back down in bed, getting his book and escaping back into another world.

That evening, after ages of sitting around thinking, Louis left and went to Zayn's.

Zayn was surprised to see Louis when he answered the door.

"Can we talk now?" Louis asked.

"Of course, yeah." Zayn said, letting him in.

"I don't know what to do, Lou. I'm so sorry. I kept telling myself it was wrong, I really did but he's just so hard to resist." Zayn admitted.

"I know." Louis said quietly, emotions conflicting within him.

"So you see it too?" Zayn asked.

"He's attractive. It's a fact, I'm not blind." Louis shrugged.

"Yeah, those eyes really get me. And his body-"

"I get it." Louis said sharply.

"Look, don't talk to Harry anymore okay? He's being punished, first of all. Second, I'm warning you now to leave him be. His mother is trusting me to take care of him, I can't let my friend who's my age be messing around with him."

"I know, I understand. Whatever you want Lou, it's done. I don't want to fuck our friendship up." Zayn said.

Louis looked into his eyes. "Yeah, it'd be such a shame if an emotional storm were to roll up into paradise."

"So are we cool now?" Zayn asked.

"You fucked my seventeen year old roommate. We won't be cool for a while." Louis said.

Zayn stared at him. "Why does it bother you so much?"

"What?" Louis asked, beginning to feel a little nervous.

Why?

"I asked why does it bother you so much? I mean I get that you're upset about it, that's understandable, but you keep mentioning his age and the fact that he's your roommate. Why?" Zayn asked.

"Oh that's what you pick up on?" Louis scoffed, wondering where that level of awareness was back when he used to drop hints about his true feelings every day.

"What's going on? Do you have feelings for him or something?" Zayn frowned.

Louis decided to consider the question instead of automatically saying no.

He did care about Harry, and had lately grown very fond of him.

But that didn't mean he felt that way about Harry.

Right?

"No." Louis chose to say.

"You sure?"

Louis nodded. "It's not like that at all."

"But you said you know he's hard to resist." Zayn pointed out.

"I know. I won't deny that he's attractive but that doesn't mean I have feelings for him." Louis said.

"So you're not actually attracted to him?" Zayn asked.

"No." Louis lied.

"I'm just upset so much because I know and care about both of you. It was just weird to see and I didn't like it."