Mind Games | L.S

4 ; four

When Harry was done shopping for snacks he paid and him and Louis drove back to Niall and his house in silence. Louis every now and then glanced at Harry which drove him crazy because he so badly wanted to look at Louis' beautiful side profile, his bright blue eyes, his cute little nose... but of course he resisted with every fiber in his being until they got to the house.
Harry got out and started gathering all the bags of food and drinks and walking inside. Louis walked in front of him and instead of holding the door for the other boy with his hands full, he slammed it in his face.

"Rude!" Harry said with an angry expression.

He struggled to open the door, causing him to drop a couple bags. He finally got in and set the food by the couch and tv they were going to be watching all the movies. Louis was nowhere to be found so Harry assumed he went back to his room to ignore him. He quickly used the bathroom because he had drank too much and was holding his pee in the whole time they were shopping.

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It was now later in the day when it was starting to get dark out so they thought it was the perfect time to start their movie marathon. Harry had changed into

"What do you want to watch first?" Niall asked.

"Uhh. I haven't watched Alice in Wonderland in forever." Harry suggested seeing it pop up on the screen.

Niall nodded and turned it on and quickly shut off the lights, sitting back on the floor and turning up the volume a bit before digging into some snack that Harry guessed was chips by sounds.
It was almost the end of the movie and Harry had already finished a bag of popcorn and almost a whole box of cheese itz. He laughed to himself as he thought of something funny to do to Niall.
Harry looked over at Niall and tapped his shoulder, his hand motioning for Niall to scoot closer. He then leaned in close to his ear, as if he was telling him a secret, and burped. Niall jumped up with a loud gasp.

"Ew, Harry!" he laughed, touching his ear as if it was now infected from Harry's burp.

There was faint laughter from behind them, he turned around to see who was laughing and ir was Louis standing a few feet away from the couch, still unable to control his laughter.

"You wanna join?" Harry asked nervously.

Louis just rolled his eyes and shook his head, his face going serious before walking back to his room.
Harry just turned around and shook his head. Louis is so confusing, sometimes it seems like he might like him back, as much as Harry likes him but other times he acts like he wants nothing to do with him. He let out a small sigh as he saw that the movie ended.

"You can pick the next one." he said to his friend before watching Niall pick a war movie he didn't know of.

About 40 minutes into the movie Harry had almost fallen asleep because it was boring... if you couldn't tell he wasn't very into action movies. He heard light snoring and looked over at Niall who was now passed out.
He then heard light footsteps behind him which made him jump, turning behind him quickly with a small gasp.

"It's just me, calm down. Don't wake Niall up but come here." Louis whispered, appearing in adidas pants that hugged his thighs a little tight but were baggy by his ankles and a baggy t shirt, it honestly made Harry blush just looking at him.

He nodded and quietly got off the sofa to follow Louis to his room. They both walked in and he closed the door behind him and looked around.

"You confuse me." Harry said, looking over at Louis.

"How so?" He asked, pretending like he had no idea what Harry was talking about.

"One minute your hand is on my cheek or in my hair, and you're really close to me, and the next you're pretending like you don't know me or that you hate me." Harry admitted, looking at the other boy looking for answers on why he acts like that.

Louis all of the sudden got very close to him, his hand on Harry's waist tightly.

"It's because you are so f*cking amazing and I don't want to scare you away. And I don't want to believe that I like you, my younger step brothers best friend." He sighed, letting his hand drop from his waist. He turned around and sat in a chair. (I never mentioned but Louis is one year older that Niall and Harry. He's a junior and they are sophmores)

Harry stood there unable to breathe at the words that came out of Louis' mouth.
Louis liked him? him of all people? impossible.

"What?" he asked, his eyes wide.

"You heard me. Now want to play mario?" he asked casually, like he hadn't just confessed his feelings.

Harry nodded, his face red. Hs sat in the chait next to him as the boy handed him a controller. He tried to act as if it didn't bother him. Like the boy he's practically in love with didn't just confess that he too likes him.
He just continued to play the game, his heart slowing down after a little while.

After they had played for a couple hours, laughing and joking with each other, they were both noticably tired.
Louis got up and stretched and Harry followed his actions, yawning in the process.

"I'm gonna go to sleep." the older boy said and walked over to his door.

Harry nodded and opened the bedroom door about to walk out.

"Is that why you got jealous when I hugged Liam earlier?" he asked quietly, aware that the door was open.

Louis gave him a confused, almost dirtly look. "I wasn't jealous."

Harry nodded, getting slightly annoyed. "Yea. Okay." he said sarcastically and walked out and into Niall's room, seeing he was still asleep on the couch.