How To Save A Life

Chapter 4

Harry was walking silently next to Dr. Tomlinson approaching the front door of the hospital. He realized that having this drink was a really bad idea and that he would probably regret it a lot the next day, but he couldn't care any less.

"Hey, Tomlinson!" someone suddenly shouted and they stopped. Dr. Tomlinson turned around.
"What do you want, Grimshaw? Need help taking out a chest tube again?" he replied as Harry turned as well and faced an average heighted guy with dark hair and a lab coat. He was wearing dark blue scrubs which signalized that he was an attending. Harry looked down.
"Dude, that was like... four years ago! Shut up about it already." He replied.
"I'll shut up when you stop talking like a frat boy." Dr. Tomlinson said and tilted his head. Harry wasn't sure, but these two seemed to have some unresolved power struggle going on.
"Anyway, I was gonna ask you to wait up so we could get a drink, but I see that you're babysitting instead." Dr. Grimshaw said nodding at Harry.
"Why don't you ask Zayn? At least he doesn't despise you like I do. Goodnight, Nicholas." Dr. Tomlinson concluded and walk out of the door. Harry smiled quickly at Nicholas or what's his face and followed.

"What was that about?" he asked as he reached Dr. Tomlinson.
"He stole my girlfriend once, the love of my life." He replied.
"Really?" Harry said. Well, then the whole power struggle thing would make sense at least.
"No, he's just an arsehole." He replied rolling his eyes.
"Well, the asshole seemed to think you would have a drink with him? So are you friends with him?" Harry continued trying to make a conversation. Dr. Tomlinson stopped walking and turned towards him. His face was unreadable as usual.
"I don't think that's any of your business." He said and raised an eyebrow. Harry sighed. What was up with this hot and cold thing? Was it considering flirting in England or something? Because he sure as hell wasn't getting it.
"I wasn't tryna intrude or anything, just..." he mumbled looking away.
"Forget it, let's get that drink." Dr. Tomlinson said and resumed walking.

As they entered the bar Harry spotted his new friends by a table in the other end of the room. He tried to walk up to the bar without being noticed as he remembered that this was the bar he had been in last night, this was the bar he had ended up meeting Dr. Tomlinson in. He swallowed.
"I'll have a gin & tonic." Dr. Tomlinson said to the bartender walking up next to him.
"I'll have a beer." Harry said and turned towards him. His face was still unreadable as he took a sip of his drink and looked back at him.

"So, how'd you like your first day, Harry?" he said. Harry took a deep breath, tried to not freak as he looked into those very blue eyes.
"It was fine, ehm, Dr. Tom..." he was interrupted by that angelic laughter he had got to hear that morning.
"You don't remember my first name, do you?" he said giggling. Harry had to catch his breath not to fall to the floor, not to scream on top of his lungs. This man was gorgeous, so beautiful, and he was embarrassed as fuck not to remember his name. But he was bad with names, he hardly remembered them. He had written the names of his fellow interns down on his hand so he wouldn't forget them, and he had still managed to call Leigh-Anne Linda twice.
"No, I don't..." he replied lowering his voice hoping, praying, that his face wasn't turning red like usual.

"It's Louis, and outside of the hospital you'll get to call me that." He said still a bit giggly.
"Louis." He repeated. "Not Lewis, or Lou. Louis."
Harry nodded. Louis, OK, he was going to try to remember that. Louis dragged his fingers through the fringe hanging down in his eyes and Harry spotted the wedding ring. A cold chunky sensation occurred in his stomach. Fuck. He had forgot that for just a few moments, just thought that he actually was allowed to look as at this guy longingly, to think his laugh was angelic, to think he was stunning.

"Harry! I thought you were going home?" Harry turned facing Jade standing next to him at the bar.
"Oh, yeah... I just changed my mind, didn't see you guys so I thought you had gone home. I was just grabbing a quick beer, I..." Jade smiled at him and received a tequila shot from the bar.
"You're a bad liar. It's cool though, see you tomorrow." She said, winked and walked back to the table. He turned back just to catch Louis shaking his head at him.
"Is that your girlfriend?" he asked taking a sip from his drink.
"NO!" Harry exclaimed not realizing the volume of his voice.
"Wow, Jesus, chill out." Louis replied putting his glass down.
"I'm gay... and I wouldn't cheat anyway." He replied eyeing the wedding ring.
"Me too." Louis said sarcastically. Harry blinked a few times and looked away.
"You wanna get out of here?" Louis said taking the last sip of his drink. Harry took a breath. This was too complicated for him. It wasn't too long since he had been in a very toxic relationship, and if this continued it wasn't going to be any better than that.
"I don't know. Nothing personal, but I just wanna go home and sleep if that's OK, sorry." He replied and smiled tiredly. It was nice to see that he still had some sort of self-control left.
"That's fine, I'll give you a ride." Louis said and handed the bartender a fifty.
"Keep the change." He said and started walking towards the door. Harry followed silently looking quickly over at his friends. He could see Jade and Leigh-Anne's jaws drop when they spotted who he was leaving with. He tried to ignore it and exited the bar.