The Fake Relationship | LARRY

seven

"This is it. The moment we have been waiting for," Harry took a deep breathe. Louis rolled his eyes as they walked up the driveway of Louis' house. Harry was pretty much sweating, he had met Jay before but this time he was posing as Louis' boyfriend, not as his partner for English.

"You know you can back out now.. I can just lie and say that we broke up or something," Louis said. Harry shook his head and entwined his fingers with Louis.

"Not a chance," Harry replied, "I'm helping you out. I won't ever back out."

"You're going to do great. You can do this," Louis reassured soothingly. Harry nodded, he can do this. Louis opened up the door and the pair both entered the house.

"Louis, is that you?" Jays voice carried over into the living room where Louis and Harry were now standing. When she entered the room and spotted Harry, she almost squealed, "Oh, Harry, darling, it's lovely to see you again."

"Hi, Jay, thank you for having me over for dinner," Harry informed formally. Jay smiled at himself sweetly.

"It's so funny, for a moment I didn't believe that you were Louis' boyfriend."

Louis and Harry both let out a laugh and shared a smile. How ironic of her to say that.

"Anyhow, let's introduce you to the family so we can begin to eat," Jay smiled, "Mark! Girls, our guest is here."

Harry listened as small footsteps were heard coming down the staircase. He knew that Louis had sisters but he had never met them.

"Look at his hair, it's so curly."

Two girls were in front of Harry now watching him with a smile as they commented on his appearance.

"This is Phoebe and Daisy, girls, this is Harry," Louis informed. The identical twins waved at Harry before they ran to sit down at the table.

"What's going on in here?"

"And this is Lottie, she's having an attitude problem lately," Louis whispered to Harry.

"I heard that, you little shit," Lottie narrowed her eyes as she sat down at the table with her sisters. Louis shrugged before he was hugged from behind.

"And this is Felicite but we just call her, Fizzy," Louis stated. Fizzy smiled sweetly at Harry, "This is Harry."

"Nice to meet you," Fizzy smiled warmly.

"Nice to meet you, too," Harry told her before Fizzy sat down with all her sisters. It was a lot to take in, Louis had a big family.

"This must be the man you keep talking about, Louis," His stepfather walked into the room with a grin, he made his way over to Harry and shook his hand, "Nice to finally meet you, Harry. I'm Mark. Louis' stepfather."

"Nice to meet you as well," Harry smiled warmly. He really wanted Louis' family to like him. He knew the relationship was fake but his feelings for Louis wasn't.

"Okay everyone, let's all sit down and enjoy this meal," Jay commanded softly when she walked in with a platter of food. Louis and Harry went to sit down when Jay did. Everyone began to pile their plates with food.

"So, Harry, you go to the same school as Louis?" Mark questioned.

"Yeah, we have a few classes together as well," Harry replied. He was so so nervous. Louis could tell and so he placed a hand on Harry's thigh and rubbed soothingly. Harry almost jumped at the contact but soon relaxed. He loved Louis' hands on him.

"And so how did the two of you finally get your senses together and become a couple?" Jay smiled, "I'm sorry. Ever since you came over for that project with Lou, I've been secretly wanting the two of you to get together."

"The truth is, I had been kind of obsessed with him for years. But he never probably took noticed of me,  I literally tried everything," Harry laughed, "I even joined gym class so I can see him. The thing is I never ever even just walked up and spoken to him because I was always so so afraid. But one day, I just snapped. I walked right up to him and just asked him out."

"Well he kind of yelled it at me, I had noticed him too but I was too nervous to do anything. So when he came up and pretty much scream asked me to go out with him. I couldn't resist."

Jay happily giggled at the pair, she couldn't contain her happiness. She was so happy to see Louis happy and in love.

"You two are just adorable. I'm so happy for you both," Jay informed. She could practically see the love heart in Harry's eyes as he stared at Louis. 

"Thank you, Mum. I really am lucky to have someone like Harry in my life," Louis replied. It was so true. Louis wasn't even just saying that. It was actually how he truly felt. He had no idea what he would have done if Harry hadn't agreed to do this deal with him. As much as he cared for Tyler, he was glad that Harry was there tonight.

It wasn't long until dinner was over. It felt as if the whole night that Harry and Louis had been planning for went past so quickly. Louis wanted to feel like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders but he knew there was still so much stuff that needed to be done to ensure his family truly believed him.

"Would you need any help with the dishes?" Harry questioned politely. Jay smiled at the sweet boy and nodded as she grabbed some more of the dirty dishes from the table.

"That would be lovely," Jay stated. Harry grabbed some dirty plates and followed Jay into the kitchen where they both began to wash the dishes. She was washing while Harry's job was to dry.

"Thank you for having me tonight," Harry told her, "Dinner was delicious."

Jay smiled at the sweet boy in front of her. He was everything she had always hoped for her son to be with. She was so happy when Louis had told her that it was Harry. Jay knew she could see something when Harry came over for the school joint project with Louis.

"I'm not going to ask you this because I'm worried, I'm asking because I'm curious. How do you feel about my son?" Jay questioned handing Harry a plate for him to dry.

"How much time do we have?" Harry joked, Jay smiled fondly, "Your son makes me extremely happy. He's sassy and hard to handle sometimes but that's what make him, him. I wouldn't change him for the world. I'm so unbelievably happy that he's mine."

Jay remained quiet for a moment before Harry is wrapped up in arms and she's sobbing into his shoulder. Harry rubbed soothing circles into her shoulder as she cried. Jay was just so happy.

"I'm so happy you boys found each other, I can see how happy you make him," Jay replied.

"I'll do anything to make him happy, I love your son to pieces" Harry said truthfully. It was so easy to talk about how he felt about Louis. He knew he wasn't acting anymore.   But what he didn't know was that Louis had been hiding behind the wall and listening that entire time.