Awkward

Part Fourteen.

*unedited*

Louis sighs and closes his eyes. He leans his head back against his closed front door and drops his bag down on the floor. 

"I'm so stupid." Louis whispers to himself. 

"You're not stupid, love." Louis' head snaps towards the voice so quick, his neck cracks. His eyes water and he takes two big steps before falling into a warm familiar hug. He wraps his arms tight around her and cries softly into her shoulder. "Well, I missed you too lovey." She laughs, hugging her son back and pressing kisses to his hair.

"Mom, what are you doing here?" Louis asks, his lips brushing against her shoulder. 

"I missed you and didn't want you spending money to come visit so I made the trip. The twins are asleep in your bed, I hope you don't mind."

"Of course I don't. I'm so glad you're here." Louis sighs. 

-

Louis' mother glances at him as she helps package the flower crowns. Louis' twin siblings playing next to them with soft blocks. They're mostly chewing on them. 

"Are we going to keep pretending you're alright or are you going to talk to me about it?" She asks, pushing the small box of crowns aside and staring at her son. Louis shrugs and keeps packaging his crowns. 

"It's stupid. I'm stupid." Louis whispers. 

"No you're not. Love, tell me what happened." She says softly, covering Louis' hands with her own. Louis sighs and tells her about him and Harry, their arrangement to their last conversation. "If you like him, why would you agree to just casual sex?" 

"Because he doesn't want to date. He wants casual sex and I thought it would be okay but then he mentioned wanting to have sex with Zayn and this girl says he's still having sex with Niall which is probably true." 

"Louis, maybe you should break it off with Harry, completely. No photo-shoots. No sex. Nothing. If he doesn't want to be with you then you need to give yourself some time for those feelings to go away." 

"I don't think I can mom."

-

Louis spends the next two days with his mom and siblings before She has to go back to Doncaster. When she finally leaves, Louis lays on his couch and lets out a heavy breath. His phone had been buzzing every couple of hours since his mom arrived but he had been pointedly been ignoring his phone. 

Louis stares at his phone and bites his lip as he clicks the home button and sees three names. Louis grabs his phone and walks to the frozen yogurt shop a few blocks from his home. After a few steps, his phone begins to buzz again. He ignores it as it keeps going. Louis orders, pays and goes to sit in a seat by the front window. He hums as he scoops up some yogurt and puts it in his mouth. 

Louis sighs slightly and unlocks his phone. He scrolls through Liam and Zayn texts and rolls his eyes and most of them. 

Liam

Are you okay? It's been two days. Zayn & I are thinking about calling the police so answer your phone dude. 

received 15:00

Zayn

Dude, if you're going on a sexcapade with Harry, at least send us a quick text so we can leave you alone

received 15:05

Louis

I'm alive and well. My mom came to visit with the twins so I ignored my phone and spent time with them. Don't call the police. 

sent 10:00

Louis takes a deep breath before he clicks on Harry's thread. There's only two messages and Louis isn't sure how to feel about either of them. 

Harry

Message me when you're no longer upset about what I said.

received 20:00

Woke up this morning and thought of you, played with myself, where were you?

received 9:00

Louis bites his lip at the second text and tries not to imagine Harry touching himself , he shoves another spoonful of yogurt into his mouth and clicks the message box to reply. 

Louis

Hi, I'm sorry I overreacted. Can I come over? 

sent 10:05 

Louis finishes his frozen yogurt before his phone buzzes with a new text.

Harry

Sure. Niall might still be here though. What time do you want to stop by?

received 10:10

Louis

When is he leaving?

sent 10:11

Harry

I can kick him out now, he'll be gone by the time you get here.

received 10:11

Louis

Okay. See you in 15

sent 10:11

Louis sighs and slouches back in his chair. So Harry is still fucking Niall. Cool. That's fine. We're not exclusive. Louis thinks to himself before standing up and throwing his cup and spoon away.

-

Louis knocks on Harry's front door twice and then takes a small step back. His palms are clammy and he kind of feels like he's having a heart attack but he has to do this.

The entire way over here Louis was thinking about what to say to Harry. Louis knows he wants more. He knows he wants to date Harry, he's just not so sure Harry feels the same way. So, he's going to have Harry one more time before he ask to be more.

Harry opens the door and smiles at Louis. His eyes are practically glowing.

"Hi."

So this took way longer than it should have. I'm sorry I haven't updated in about a month. I'm going to try to update regularly again. I work early in the morning so I'm usually really tired by the time I get home but I'm going to try to write during the week then proof read and post during the weekends. Leave your thoughts below and help me improve. Thank you for reading, voting and commenting.