Blessed (a larry stylinson fanfiction)

chapter 20

Wednesday, October 24th

Harry’s POV

“Louis…what are you doing here?” I said, unable to believe that he was really standing there in the doorway to my room.

I took in Louis’ appearance. Something was clearly wrong. His eyes were vacant and red rimmed, his hair was disheveled and his suspenders were dangling around his waist.

“I…uh…I wanted to talk to you…about earlier.” Louis said quietly, not meeting my gaze.

“Sure. Come in.” I said stepping aside to let him into my room.

“Cher. I didn’t realize you were here. I can come back…” Louis said awkwardly as he turned back to the door.

“Nonsense. I was just leaving.” Cher said jumping up and walking over to me. “Call me later. Remember, be honest, you just have to be upfront with him and it will all be okay.” Cher whispered in my ear as she hugged me tightly.

I nodded as Cher pulled away and she pecked me on the cheek. She nodded at Louis and then once she passed him, she turned around to face me again, and gave me a double thumbs up, mouthing, ‘you got this’.

“So, um, where do you want to start?” I asked as I sat down on my bed.

Louis stayed standing and what I saw on his face worried me. I didn’t see the same things I used to see and it scared the hell out of me.

His natural carefree vibe was gone.

His eyes were missing their spark.

It was clear we couldn’t go back to the old relationship we had. It was now or never to take my chance and see if I could be happy with Louis.

It was my only shot because I had a feeling that today was either going to end in us being together, or not at all.

Not even as friends.

“Harry…I need to know…are you and Cher… actually together?” Louis asked, still not looking me in the eye.

I took a deep breath and ran my fingers through my curls, flipping them to the side. “No.”

Louis finally met my eyes. “Is what Toby said true?”

I felt the words lump in my throat. I tried to spit them out, but I couldn’t.

“Harry, is it true?” Louis said firmly, his eyes cold.

All I could see was their vacantness and it made my stomach churn.

“Yes.” I finally managed to choke out.

Louis nodded once. “Okay.”

Okay? That’s all he had to say about this? I had basically just told him I was into dudes, and all he said was okay?

Louis turned to look out the window and ran his fingers through his hair. His face was turned away from me, but I imagined that he was deep in thought.

“Lou…” I started to say before I could think of where I wanted to go with this.

Louis turned around and looked at me, fresh tears in his eyes.

“Harry, I have to tell you something.” Louis said as the tears rolled down his perfect cheeks.

“What is it?” I said, my heart racing, not sure where he was going with this.

“I slept with someone.” Louis said, his voice breaking and he fell down on the futon.

“Okay…” I said, feeling my heart breaking a little.