On & Off Again || l.s

chapter four

Try not to start dumb arguments that will never end

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"Can you... get off your phone for, like, five minutes?" Harry asked a bit annoyed as he pushed himself away from Louis gently and then looked at him, wanting Louis to listen to him for once in his life. "Please, Louis?"

Harry's parents were at some dinner party with some old friends apparently and left Harry home alone for most of the night. But because Harry hated being alone, especially at night, he invited Louis over. They decided on watching a movie together, and Louis hadn't tried to get into Harry's pants once, so he figured that Louis had actually listened to him. But now Louis was just scrolling through his phone instead of paying attention to Harry or the movie.

This seemed to happen more often than not and that annoyed Harry more than anything. Louis seemed to always be on his phone if Louis didn't have his hands preoccupied on Harry's body.

"No." Louis said seriously and continued scrolling through what Harry assumed was Instagram. "Why should I? This movie fucking blows, babe. I told you that when you put it on." Louis chuckled as if it were some sort of joke, but Harry didn't find it very funny.

"Then pick a movie like I asked you to before. Instead of telling me that you don't care what we watch, maybe put a little more effort into your answer so we can put on something we both want to watch." Harry said, scooting away from Louis and then shook his head, not even wanting to finish the movie now, too focused on being annoyed with his boyfriend.

"God, please don't start another fucking argument, Harry. Seriously, please don't fucking do this shit right now." Louis sighed dramatically and then looked at Harry once he scooted away and then shrugged his shoulders. "All I said was that I didn't like the movie. Why are you getting so defensive? This is stupid to get angry over." Louis added and then continued scrolling through Instagram without a care in the world.

"Whatever." Harry said and then grabbed the remote off of the dark brown coffee table in front of them, pressing the red button at the top of the remote to turn the movie off. He placed the remote back down gently and then sat back, crossing his arms over his stomach and chest, not bothering to look at Louis at all. He just focused his eyes on the wall in front of him, knowing he was acting childish, but he wasn't feeling well today and didn't want to put up with Louis being rude to him.

"Why did you turn it off?" Louis asked as he looked over at Harry, watching him for a few moments before he rolled his eyes and then locked his phone, dropping it down onto the couch on the other side of him. "Harry, answer me." Louis demanded in a soft tone of voice, trying to keep things light so that he wasn't the one who started a useless argument, but Harry was ignoring him.

"Because you didn't like it." Harry answered after a few more silent moments, finally taking a look over at Louis, still annoyed with the boy. "And now I don't want to watch the stupid movie." Harry said, turning his head back so he was staring at the plain wall again.

"Har–"

"No, seriously. It's fine. Its cool. It's whatever. It's okay. Everything is all right." Harry rambled quickly, trying not to start another argument about something as small as Louis being on his phone and not liking the movie that Harry had picked out, but it was kind of hard whenever Louis was being so ignorant towards him.

"Okay..." Louis paused and then continued to stare at Harry, trying his hardest to find the right thing to say without upsetting Harry. "I'm sorry for upsetting you." Louis said in a soft tone of voice again, deciding that even though he thought that he had done nothing wrong, clearly he did and he should probably apologize before the small argument turned into a way larger one that ended how most of their arguments ended.