CamBoy (Larry Stylinson)

Chapter 12

It had been a couple weeks and Harry was very overwhelmed. He was trying to balance his live streams, tutoring Louis, his own school work and keeping some kind of relationship with Louis as Jack. Let's just say Harry was exhausted.

Plus let's not forget the fact that Harry was falling for Louis and he really didn't know how to feel about it. On one hand, Louis was actually a good person. On the other hand, he was still a liar, a coward and literally abused Harry for years. Oh and that Louis has no clue who Harry actually was and would probably kill him if he knew.

"Ugh." Harry groaned as he flopped down on the couch next to his mother who was watching some movie with his sister.

"Everything alright, Hazza?" Gemma asked with a quirked brow.

"No, everything is not alright. Nothing is alright." Harry muttered.

"Is it about that Louis boy?" Anne asked. After Liam had explained the situation to her, she and Harry had a long conversation which mostly was Anne scolding Harry about lying and how this was going to bite him in the bum.

"Yes, I mean he's hurt me, like really bad. Why do I feel like I care about him?" Harry asked as he sunk further into the couch.

"Because you know he's not actually a dick. That everything he did was just because he was afraid of the world knowing who he was. Telling the world who you are is fucking terrifying you can't blame him from trying to hide himself from the world." Gemma defended.

"What? You're on his side?" Harry snorted.

Gemma rolled her eyes, "There's no sides, Harry, I just happen to know things about Louis that you don't."

Harry perked up at this, his curiosity coming over, "What do you know?"

Gemma folded her arms, "Yeah, cause that's your business."

"Gemma, I like this guy, I really do and I can't bring myself to push forward and try to make a relationship with him work because of what I've seen him do and how I've seen him act. If you can tell me something that's going to ease my apprehensiveness, I'd be very grateful."

Gemma's expression softened and she rolled her eyes, "Fine, fine. Well, when you guys were freshmen and I was a senior, I was hanging around after school to tutor someone. I had gone into the library and no one was in there or so I thought. I heard a noise so I went toward it and found Louis and some guy, his friend Zack I think, making ou—"

"His name is Zayn." Harry corrected.

"Do you want me to tell you or not?" Gemma snapped.

Harry simply raised his arms in defense, "Sorry, go on."

"That was a bit rude, Harry." Anne scolded.

Harry simply muttered incoherent words under his breath as Gemma rolled her eyes and kept going, "So him and Zayn were making out so I awkwardly excused myself and went to sit down and wait for the kid I was supposed to tutor. After I finished and went to leave I found Louis waiting by my car. He was practically hysterical. He was crying so much I could hardly understand what he was saying.

"By the time I calmed him down enough that he he wasn't just talking gibberish, he begged me not to tell anyone what I saw. This was before he had the 'big man on campus' reputation. He was just a scared little boy who didn't want anyone to know he liked boys. After seeing him like that, I can't believe anything else. I think that even though he's a bit different now he's still the scared little boy who didn't want anyone to know he likes boys."

"So you're telling me, that Louis broke down crying because he didn't want anyone to know he was gay?" Harry quirked his brow.

Gemma nodded, "Yeah, he talked to me a couple times after that. He told me that he started bullying a kid because he was gay and he felt terrible about it and didn't know how to stop it. Obviously that kid was you but I didn't know that at the time."