The Tree 》l.s *boyxboy* ✅

Chapter 16 ~ Returned

It's been a few weeks since Niall left. Liam hasn't been himself since either. He came back from his walk and when we told him Niall left he broke down. After that day he hasn't spoken to us, barely eaten and only leaves to go to work, other than that he sits in his room being depressed. He's tried to get in contact with Niall, I know this because every now and then Harry and I here a groan and a few curses being thrown in Niall's direction. We of course have kept Niall up to date with his well being but he still hasn't spoken to Liam.

Now though, I was off from work for a week break. I was glad, school's been a nightmare for me since me being gay got spread around, but towards the end of term they calmed down. 

"Lou! We're out of food" Harry called from the kitchen. He walked back into the living room where I sat watching the movie we had playing. "Wanna order in?" he asked me and sat next to me. 

"What do you want? I doubt you can have pizza or whatever" Harry sighed. It was hard to keep him on a healthy diet with all the food we used to have that he couldn't. We've cut down on all that, but on the odd occasion I, and possibly, Liam would have something that's classed as bad. 

"Gah. I don't know, I guess I can just go get something healthy like a salad. I heard the new place down the road is good" he forced a smile on his face. I frowned, there was no way I was going to have something that Harry couldn't have.

"If you want that, I'll have that too" Harry smiled widely at me. He always liked it when I had something that he had to have, because I knew it hurt him having to be always healthy.

"Well, do you want to go now? I'm quite hungry" I nodded and stood up. 

"Sure" Harry stood up and snaked his arms around my waist and pulled me into his body. He pecked my lips and smiled cutely. 

"There's one thing I don't like about you anymore" I told him, being almost serious when I said it.

"Oh yeah. And what would that be?" he questioned curiously. 

"That you're taller and have more muscle than me" 

"That's two" he stated with a smirk. "I happen to like those things" we both shared a laugh as he continued to hold me in his embrace while I rested my hands on his chest.

After a few more minutes of just holding each other we let go and walked to the car. Even though it was an okay day out and it wasn't that far away we thought it would be better if we just drive there. 

We climbed in to the car, me in the drivers seat, and started on our way to the deli around the corner. We chatted about the week I had off and even though we pretty much planned the whole week I had one more thing I wanted to do, something we haven't done since we met again.

At the deli Harry and I walked in hand in hand and stood at the counter waiting to be served. We looked up at the menu list and looked at the variety of meals, Harry spotted a chicken salad and I went with a chicken hot pack. 

The lady behind the counter seemed bored to be there, her hair was greying, a sign of old age, as well as the wrinkles that started to appear by her eyes. We ordered our meals and she scribbled them down and gave us a number in an annoyed way. Harry and I tried to stay polite to her actions but it was kind of hard when she was being so rude herself.

"Well she was rude" I mumbled into Harry's ear so no one else would hear us.

"Mm" he hummed and rubbed my back. "I would like to head back, I'm starving" I chuckled. 

"Shouldn't be too long baby, we didn't get anything too big" Harry smirked and I knew what he was thinking, some remark, and rude knowing him.

"I know something big" he discretly pulled me in front of him and put my hand over his crotch.