Larry Stylinson One-Shots

#10

*Written by louissass on ao3*

Title: Love You More Than Him

Summary:

Louis woke up tired and sort of pissed off. He had been out the night before at some movie with his 'girlfriend', who he really didn't like and was fucking tired of seeing quite frankly - even though it had only been a few weeks. But he didn't have a choice, because Eleanor was his 'girlfriend', only there to make Louis look good in the media, because too many people were suspecting things about his sexuality (which Louis didn't really get, let them speculate, it's not as if they're wrong).

Or

Louis is tired of pretending to be someone he's not and just really wants to be with Harry.

Word Count: 8,327

Louis woke up tired and sort of pissed off. He had been out the night before at some movie with his 'girlfriend', who he really didn't like and was fucking tired of seeing quite frankly - even though it had only been a few weeks. But he didn't have a choice, because Eleanor was his 'girlfriend', only there to make Louis look good in the media, because too many people were suspecting things about his sexuality (which Louis didn't really get, let them speculate, it's not as if they're wrong).

Yeah, so Louis was gay, but who wasn't these days? He wasn't even ashamed of his sexuality, he had embraced it long before the band, but a certain board of people in charge of his fucking life still thought their only appeal was that girls fancy them and they're pretty, not at all the fact they can actually sing, no. which is why he had Eleanor, recently given to him by her father after a - "if you come out you are out of the band" - chat, and yeah, she was pretty, Louis wasn't even into the whole girl thing but even he knew that, but god she was so boring. Next to no personality, doesn't fucking talk to Louis, they just sit there in silence and eat dinner or shop or whatever fucking stupid date they're meant to be going on this time. At least, Louis thought, they could've given him someone he got along with, someone like Harry, for instance.

It would probably be fair to say Louis was absolutely infatuated with the boy since he first laid eyes on him, and even though it was incredibly difficult for him to pretend to just be his best friend, Louis was glad he did. Harry had opened up to him he wouldn't with anyone else, when he figured out he was bisexual, Harry ran to Louis straight away, told him before his own mother. When Harry had an angry email from his one and only ex, he asked Louis what he should do, and they both sat up for hours coming up with a decent reply. When Harry got home sick, he curled into Louis' side and the two shared things they missed about their old neighbourhood, and so on. It would be fair to say the two of them were really close, practically inseparable.

However lately, ever since it got released about Louis' 'girlfriend' to the media, Harry has been acting strange, going out late, not coming home til dawn, missing dinner, almost as if he was avoiding Louis, which is frankly ridiculous. Which is why Louis wasn't surprised to find the flat empty as he wandered to the kitchen with half closed eyes, glasses skewed on his face. Louis went about his normal breakfast routine - flicking on the kettle, putting the toast in the toaster, getting some jam and milk out the fridge, before pouring out his tea and spreading a thick layer of marmalade on his three slices of toast - without even really acknowledging what he was doing, before slumping down on the kitchen table and gobbling up his food in a sort of daze.

Louis heard his phone ringing throughout the quite flat and sighed, screeching back his chair and making his way to the lounge, where the noise was coming from. After about two seconds of searching, Louis located his phone under an empty beer can, pressing the answer button with a tired, "hello?"