A Little Mixed Up || l.s.

Thirteen - The Nursery

"I should start designing the nursery." Harry spoke as they both were walking out of the building since he was Louis' last appointment of the day and he was definitely willing to wait for Louis to clock out and get his things ready to leave because well... He doesn't know. He could have left ten minutes ago.

"You won't even know the gender of the child until you get approved and when the parents know it. Not to mention I've had cases where they didnt want to know the gender until birth. You've got a while to plan that." Louis said as he dug his keys out from his pocket and clicked a button to unlock his car.

"I've been planning for years, trust me. I want a baby blue and light pink room so the baby doesn't grow up to stereotypical colors assigned to boys and girls. And the designs are gonna be animals like elephants, giraffes, hippos, lions, meerkats, zebras and cheetahs." Harry explained with a wide smile, following Louis to his car since he wasn't done talking about this yet.

"Thats a lot of animals." Louis commented.

"Mhm. Well, I have a lot of animals so I want my baby to be accustomed to growing up with as many animals as I possibly could." Harry explained with a nod of his head. Though, they eventually got to the car and Louis turned to face Harry with a small smile.

"You know.. I'd love to discuss this further. Seems like you need some ideas because that idea is in every baby room. Animal paintings are so three years ago." Louis explained before just looking around. "Its only five thirty. Wanna go to that small café down the street? They've got some pretty good desserts and tea."

Harry grinned widely and nodded his head. "Yeah, that sounds good. I haven't had dinner yet, either, so I'll just get something there."

Louis agreed. Then he just watched as Harry practically ran to get to his own car, smiling a bit to himself. He won't deny the fact that Harry was pretty adorable. But he was divorced and Louis didn't remember if he said that he was married to a man or a woman. If he even said it at all. Harry could probably swing both ways and he'd have extra competition. Wait. What? No. Not competition. He doesn't date clients. Thats in his contract, actually, when he agreed to work here because of the fact that most people fill their hearts with a child and love easily. He doesn't want to take advantage of anyone at all. Plus, divorce seemed to make Harry angry so who's to say he even wants to start anything.

Louis needs to stop thinking of this, really. He went from 'Harry looks adorable' to thinking of marriage. Thats most likely the definition to both being stupid and overthinking.

Harry on the other hand was absolutely ecstatic about the way that Louis was helping him with this. It was so sweet of him to offer up his time like he was right now. Not to mention how he was helping him finally achieve his absolute dream of having a child. He was bouncing in his seat as he got in the car and started it up. He of course waited for Louis to start driving before he followed behind him. He can't wait to call his mum again. He called her to tell her he was going to adopt and missed an appointment so he might bit get the child he wanted and this call would consist of nothing but good things. He would leave out the email where Louis made him scared for his life, though. She didnt need to know the full story.

The café was quite literally down the street and on the corner. So it didnt take longer than a minute to get there. Harry parked one space away from Louis because he doesn't fancy parking close to anyone's car. Thats why he likes parking at the farthest possible spot when he goes shopping. He doesnt mind the walk it takes. But the lot was empty and he didnt want to park far when he didnt actually have to.

Harry got out of the car, shutting the door behind him and just watching the way that Louis got out of his own car and went right to the doors to open one and waited for Harry to enter. It was such a sweet gesture and it made Harry smile and give a small nod as to say thanks as he stepped inside first. There was probably three other tables filled with people and it felt overall peaceful and comfortable in the atmosphere. Harry enjoyed this.

It was a seat yourself type of place so Harry waited for Louis before he just motioned to the left, Harry easily going ahead. He chose a window booth section and sat down on one side while Louis went to occupy the other side.

"This place is really cute." Harry commented.

"Yeah. I adore it here. Normally the smaller joints are the ones with the best food and drinks." Louis explained before he glanced over and saw a waitress walking over with a cheery smile and setting their menus down.

"Here you go. Do you know what you want to drink or you can have time to look over the menu and decide and I can come back." The girl spoke, voice lit with a bit of an Australian tone to it. She couldn't be older then seventeen.

"I'll have the Yorkshire, milk and honey but no sugar, please." Louis said easily and Harry hummed.

"That sounds good. I'll have the same. But also with a milkshake. Not sure what kind I want though." Harry commented as he looked over the drink section of the menu. He did notice the way she suddenly stood straight as a sign of excitement so he looked over with a small smile. "What do you recommend?"

"They're all so good here. I have one every day for lunch." The girl spoke before leaning over and pointing to one. "The cookies and cream shake is delicious. But so is the mocha shake. But my favorite is the Shamrock shake. Its a green colour but thats just food dye. It tastes like birthday cake. And it comes with a green straw with a shamrock on it."

Harry listened intently and then just nodded. "Well. I guess I'll just have to get all three of those." He stated and looked at Louis. "You up for a test taste of three shakes?" He asked with a small grin.

Louis just rolled his eyes and cracked his knuckles. "Please. I was born for this."

That made Harry laugh a bit before he looked back at the girl. "Thats it for now. Thank you, darling." He said and she just nodded, scribbling down on the notepad before she eventually moved to leave the table and go get their drink orders.

"Well. I better prepare for a stomach ache." Louis stated, looking over the menu as he spoke.

"Yeah. Because when we get them, we'll pick our favorite and then see who can drink all of it first. And them we'll share the third one when we get our food." Harry stated with a small nod and looked over the menu as well. "My goal is to get sick."

Louis barked out a laugh at that. "You're insane. But I'm totally going to kick your bum at this." He said, looking up from his menu to see Harry already smirking at him.

"Bring it on, Tomlinson."

"Count on it, Styles."