I Remember You Laughing [Larry Stylinson]

Chapter 34- Back To The Ranch

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Harry?"

"Louis?"

"I'm sitting here alone on the plane, and I can't do it. I can't go to Australia." said the boy on the phone. The plane had barely taken off before he was calling the boy he left in the airport, crying. "I'm just going to Wales and it hurts like hell. I can't go even further away from you! I need you, Harry. Let's just fuck it and tell everyone..."

Harry heard the sobs on the other end in between his own as he sat in the airport. He looked around and saw Gemma trying to get a soda out from the vending machine. She had come in after all, just in time to hold Harry when his own tears burst the minute Louis had boarded the aircraft. He was much calmer now- he had to be- and was now trying to sooth the boy on the other end.

"How do you know you won't feel the same way when you get there. You said you have an opportunity to spend more time with Fizzy and Lottie that you never got to before. What if you get to Wales and you can't say no to your Dad. What if Phoebe needs you." Harry laid the list of reasons Louis would forget him the minute he landed.

"I won't change my mind!"

"I'm trying to be realistic here."

"Don't start now! Listen to me, I'm making you a promise. I promise you I will come back as soon as I land!" Louis cried. Harry imagined him shaking his head as he said it, and he wanted to stretch his hand out and pull the plane down from the sky.

Instead, he laughed through his tears. "No, you can't do that, Babe. How bout you promise me this instead; Promise me you'll be the brother they need right now. Do what's in that big beautiful heart of yours."

Louis objected. "But you take up so much of it."

Louis sounded so despondent, and it made Harry crouch over in his seat. "You've only known me a few weeks. I don't want you to choose me when you all are going through this terrible ordeal. You need to be there."

"I'm telling my Dad I'm staying. I have to do it before I get cold feet!"

Louis was serious, and it scared him. He wanted it all. He wanted all the things Harry wanted. It seemed that Louis had grown so attached to Harry not only for love but in general. Thinking back to the previous day when he had found his granddad's picture and almost cleared Louis' front teeth, he pondered; What on earth was Louis doing that close to him in the first place!? He was only leaving his side for a minute to open a window. Come to think of it; Louis was acting with Harry how Phoebe was acting with him the whole time she was in Champton. Leaning on him for support, running back to him when she found she roamed to far- like an anchor... Harry was Louis' anchor. And for the first time in weeks Louis was now all alone without him.

Knowing this made Harry's stomach churn for two reasons; Louis was without him now, but so was Phoebe without Louis for a whole week and a half since Louis took it to stay back with him. Deep down Harry hoped she had transferred her attachment to Fizzie and Lottie to make it easier on Louis and him, because even though Harry needed Louis too and was so afraid of him moving to Australia forever that his first instinct was to run the other way, he promised him he wouldn't pull away and give up on them. At his great-aunt's house, Harry had time enough to comfort him with gentle touches and warm embraces, but at this point all he could do is stand by and support whatever happens next.