Infinity //1D AU ✓

Chapter 23

~I never counted all of mine,

If I tried, I know it would feel like infinity,

Infinity, infinity, yeah~

Anne took over helping the guests collect their things, after she drove them back to the wedding location. Not even Zayn's family knew where he was, but the group figured that they would help clean up the mess.

"So much has happened today. I can't even process it." Liam said. "One thing that I always thought I would have was Niall." He grabbed some of the food that the caterers had still brought, now that it was too late to cancel the order. It was, as expected, a chocolate chip cookie. "I just want to go back home."

Harry nodded silently, looking over at Louis, who was talking to Harry's mum. He thought about what Liam had said - just like he'd thought Niall would be there forever, Harry thought that Louis would always be his constant. But there was too many things that could happen to him.

"I've got a flight in two hours." Liam announced suddenly.

"Your stuff is still at my flat." Louis reminded him. "Can't leave without it."

"Can you just mail it to me? I just need to get out of this country."

Louis nodded solemnly, and then he went about helping to clean up. "Anne, you think you could drive Liam to the airport?" He asked her.

She nodded, and motioned to Liam. "Come on, kid."

Liam hugged Harry tightly, and lifted Louis off of the ground for an even tighter hug. "I love you guys." He said softly. "Don't be strangers!"

Anne walked out of the building with Liam then, and he was gone from their lives too.

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Harry and Louis waited on the front steps for Anne to come back. Louis was very silent, and Harry was humming. "My brain is very messed up." Louis finally said.

"Why?" Harry questioned, running a hand through Louis' hair.

"I want to settle down in a small cottage, but I also want to travel the world."

"How about we travel the world, and then settle down?" Harry asked him, pulling his jacket closer around himself, since it was cold.

Louis lit a cigarette to keep himself warm. "I want to take the baby around the world."

"Let's do it, then. What's stopping us?"

"I don't want to uproot you." Louis said, turning away from Harry. "You're opening your bakery soon, and you'll need to be working there, running the business for a few months."

"Why does this sound like a breakup conversation?" Harry said, on guard. He pushed himself a little ways away from Louis so that he could see him better.

"It's not. No no no no no." Louis backtracked. "But, I can't travel the world with you, Harry. I'm not doing that to your career. Your life."

"We can work it out." Harry said bluntly. "It'll be fine. Besides, we have another month before she's born, and maybe another month before she'll be able to travel, right? That's a lot of time to work things out."

"I know." Louis said, resting his head on Harry's shoulder, forcing him to scoot back. "I don't want to break up, thought. I love you, Hazza."

Harry nodded, thinking about Niall. He didn't deserve to be locked up in a jail cell, even for his wrong actions. It wasn't right, but there was nothing that he could do about it. "What do we do now? I have no idea, Louis."

Louis hugged him tighter. "We'll figure it out, okay? Eleanor's baby shower is this weekend? Hmm? That's something to look forward to, yeah?" Harry nodded, and the feeling of panic began to subside.

Louis was always good at that kind of thing.

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On the plane, Liam didn't meet a handsome stranger like Zayn did. Instead, he tuned out the world. In the note he implied that he wouldn't continue to pine for Zayn, but that's what he knew that he was going to do, despite that. But Zayn didn't have to know. And he was never going to know, because the two of them would most likely never meet again.

A tragedy, yes, with no bittersweet ending. Liam was, yes, going back to school in the fall, but there was a lot of time between then and now.

Summer was open - with a ton of possibilities. Liam just didn't know what they were - life was confusing and he wasn't sure what his purpose was yet.

He didn't know if he was ready to find out yet, either.

Liam did really just want to become Marie Antoinette and eat cake all day to deal with his heartbreak. He laughed to himself - maybe he would do exactly that.

Maybe this ending would be sweet after all.