Teach Me (Larry Stylinson)

28

This is officially my longest story ever woo! Also 28 ayyyee ;)

Louis is sitting in his office, pretending to work when his office phone rings. He answers the phone and he's told to go meet in the conference room with the other employees.

He leaves his office, mug in hand and he catches up to Zayn who is also going to the conference room. "Do you know what's going on?" Louis asks, taking a sip of his coffee.

"You've got to pay better attention." Zayn laughs and Louis rolls his eyes and bumps Zayn with his hip. "I didn't ask for an attitude." Louis replies.

"It's for the contest, the people from that company... ugh, Anderson? They're here to tell us who the winner is." Zayn says and Louis nods in understanding. "I think everyone who submitted something, got called in." Zayn adds and he holds open the door to the conference room for Louis.

"Hello, guys, just take a seat." Rob greets Zayn and Louis as they enter the room, there's about thirty other people sitting around the big table and there's a man and a woman standing at the front of the room.

Zayn and Louis sit beside each other and a few minutes pass as some other people trickle in. Once everyone is settled in the room, the group falls silent, all of the attention on the two well dressed people in the front of the room. There is an older, blonde lady who is tall and confident and a shorter man with dark hair.

"Hi, everyone." The blonde lady smiles and the group let's out a small greeting. "I am Kelly Anderson and this is Mark Ramirez and we're here from Anderson Publishing. We have locations in America and we wanted to go overseas and find talented authors from around the world." She smiles and everyone nods as they listen.

"So, today we're here to announce the winner of the little writing contest we held." Mark smiles charmingly at the group and Louis feels himself get nervous because although he doesn't think he'll win, it would be amazing if he did.

"There was a lot of amazing stories turned in, we were very impressed with this group." Kelly begins, Mark nodding along as she speaks. "One story in particular stood out and after speaking with the head of this office, Rob, we feel as though this person not only has an amazing style of writing, but is extremely marketable and can really connect with the public." Kelly adds and everyone is on the edge of their seats as they listen.

Louis nervously takes sips of his coffee and he keeps glancing at Zayn as he feels fidgety and anxious. "With all of that being said, the winner of our friendly competition is..." Everyone takes in a breath and Louis takes in a gulp of coffee.

"Louis Tomlinson." Kelly smiles at Louis and Louis practically spits coffee all over the person in front of him. Zayn laughs and some other join in as Louis stares at Kelly and Mark, in shock.

"Sorry, w-what?" He coughs, wiping his chin. "You're the winner, get on up here." Mark says, waving Louis forward.

Louis stands, gives his mug to Zayn with shaky hands and makes his way to the front of the room. The employees in the conference room clap for him as he goes and stands beside Kelly and Mark.

"We at Anderson, really feel that you have a lot of potential and you know how to tell a story." Kelly says, smiling brightly at Louis and he thinks he might faint, he can't believe this is happening.

"T-thank you, so much." Louis says, his hands are shaking and he keeps looking at Zayn who is smiling proudly at him.

"Congratulations, Louis." Mark says, shaking Louis' hand. Everyone claps again and Rob clears the room so it's just him, Louis and the two representatives from Anderson.