The CDs Boy [Larry AU]

Part Nine

A/N: I'm sorry it took a while to update the last part. I'm hoping you enjoyed this story, and all credits go to the author, just a reminder that all I did was translating it to english!

The next seven days were really long for Louis. Every minute. He couldn't take Harry off his mind. Everything that had happened. He needed to prepare himself for whatever was going to happen. He fixed his navy blue uniform, he wore the gray beanie that Harry had given him over his straight hair, and he headed to the shopping centre.

"You're here early" the owner said as he opened the store to start that day's work.

"Yeah, I woke up early and couldn't go back to sleep" He said chuckling. In fact, he couldn't even get any sleep last night.

The work shift had started. Louis tried to get himself busy so he couldn't think about Harry, but it was pointless. Every human figure that entered the store caught his attention immediately, hoping it would be him but it wasn't.

It had been a while since the lunch break had ended and he wouldn't show up. He was hungry, of course, but nothing he couldn't handle.

"Why do you have to take so long today?" He mumbled to himself.

Minutes and hours passed and what he had feared the most happened. The closing time of MusicWorld.

He had a lump on his throat.

The owner had the keys ready to close the store. Louis had asked him if they could wait extra fifteen minutes, with the excuse that he needed to check some papers. He remembered the time Harry had arrived minutes before the closing time of the store. He was hoping that would happen again. But once again, it didn't.

"Fifteen minutes. Sorry I can't wait longer than that" said the owner in a cold tone, turning off the lights that brightened the room.

Louis was devastated. He hadn't gone after all.

Megan and Cynthia watched him worried.

"Maybe something came up and couldn't come" said the blonde girl, trying to give some sort of consolation to whatever the boy was feeling in that moment.

"Go home. You need to rest, you haven't even had lunch" said now the brunette, with worry in her voice.

But Louis didn't even make a sound.

They said goodbye to him cheerfully and left. Now he was by himself and his loneliness. 'Why?' That question repeated over and over in his head. 'Why?'

It was the second Saturday that Harry did not show up in the store. Louis started to feel a terrible acidity building up in his stomach each time he thought about it.

Third Saturday without any trace of him. Had he screwed up things, making Harry not want to talk to him again?

Fourth Saturday. Louis locked himself in the employees' restroom.

"Is a promise not worth anything to you?" He mumbled, sitting in the cold floor of the restroom with his arms wrapped around his knees.

Fifth Saturday. Meghan saw how depressed Louis was for the absence of the boy and she placed her hand on his shoulder to show him some support. But he pulled away quickly with an angered expression in his face. He was no longer the happy boy he was before. He was just there, expressionless staring at nothing.

Sixth Saturday. He couldn't handle it anymore, he couldn't stand being behind the counter with a stupid fake smile and pretending that everything was okay when it wasn't. That day, immediately after finishing his shift, he took his jacket and exited the store quickly without even saying goodbye to his workmates. He walked past the parking lot and then the stores complex in front of it.