He's Not Afraid || L.S AU

Chapter 4

Harry's POV

"Hi Lucy" I crouch down to the grass until I'm exactly eye level with her.

"Hi Haz" she says, ruffling my hair. "Watch the hair Luc!" I try to tame the wild nest I call my hair. "Watcha' wanna do?" I ask sitting next to her. Not a second a later she takes off her socks and shoes then skips to the swimming pool that's bubbling with warmth. I watch her dip her feet in the clear water and lean back using both her palms behind her. Shrugging, I take off my shirt and socks leaving me in my shorts that stops to my knees.

"CANONBALL!!!" I run up to the pool and dive right in. Coming from the water I spot Lucy laughing with her hand behind her small hand.

"You're like a 5 year old Haz!" Lucy giggles "You're 5!" I laugh back at her.

Me and Lucy are alone with the house once again. Mum is almost never here so I've kind of been raising Lucy on my own. I sigh as her hazel, green eyes brighten underneath the moonlight. I wish she could be happy with a mother and father in her life. She needs that. I stand on the ground in the pool and watch her take her feet out the water and into the house. I sigh and press my back onto the wall of the pool. Floating and closing my eyes I hear a splash a few minutes later.

"Hazza!" Lucy swims up to me in her swimsuit. "Well hello Lucy. What can I do for you?" I open my eyes catching her under her armpits. "No! Stop! That tickles" she wiggles in my grasp.
"Ready?" and she nods in reply. I let her go watching her swim under the water. I walk to the basket full of the water toys with resistant from the water. I pick out 5 stand up toys to throw in the water so it will stay underneath for Lucy to swim under to get.

"Lucy!" I catch her attention and throw all five in the dark sky then drop down in the water making a plop! sound. She dives under water.

I hear the doorbell off. Wait, why's it said going off when actually it went on? Never mind, either way I get out the pool. Lucy comes out giving me a questioning glance.

"Wait here, someone's at the door" I tell her sternly. She takes a while getting the toys out the water and she won't come out of there unless she gets them all out so I'm not too worried about her going anywhere.

I run until I reach the sliding door that leads to the kitchen. Dripping wet, I groan at the water trailing behind me. I hear the door bell ring again.

"Coming!" I wonder who would be ringing at 7:00PM since we never have anyone cone over unless it's my mates. I reach the front door and open it. And who I wasn't expecting at the front door.

Louis.

"L-Louis, err hi" I stutter out. Why am I so nervous? Keep your cool Harry. "What are you doing here?" I notice I'm shirtless by the fact of his flushed face. I speed to the couch that has one of my old shirts with the top cut low and put it on myself.

"Sorry, erm I didn't know you lived here" Louis says " Well? Why're you here?" I ask nastily. Wow I hate this.

"Erm, we are looking for our dog, Buster and we took him out in the garden for a while and when we went to take him inside since it's getting dark, he wasn't there anymore so now we're looking around the neighbourhood. I'm supposed to meet them at home at 9:00PM." he explains. I've never heard him talk so much in one go without stuttering.

"We?" I tilt my head to the side. "Yeah my sisters and mum" "Well he isn't here so you can kindly fuck off" I grip the front door and in the middle of shutting the door I hear Lucy.

"Haz, is that one of your friends?" she skips to my side with a towel around her shoulders. "Did you get all the toys?" I pick her up so she's sat on my hip, letting go of the door, momentarily forgetting about Louis standing in the doorway. "Yep" she shows me both her hands. Her left with 2 and her right with 3. I silently curse under my breath. Why did Lucy have to be quick at getting them out the water for once? And right now.