Ours One Shots (Zianourry family/Lilo)

Not Much of a Secret

Yeah, I wrote another one shot in the span of like two hours. This one is super cute and kinda cliche but I love it. Thank you to @Bonniieh for the prompt! Harry is 15 in this, btw.

Not Much of a Secret

Harry stood at his fathers’ bedroom door, playing with the bottom of his shirt nervously. He needed to talk to Louis, really needed to talk to him, but he was so nervous. He really didn’t have a reason to be, he wasn’t in trouble at school, wasn’t addicted to meth, he didn’t get a girl pregnant… it wasn’t like it was anything bad. Louis was definitely not going to have a problem with it, so what was the big deal?

With a deep breath, Harry raised his fist and knocked on the door gently. He instantly took his bottom lip between his teeth, chewing on it until it hurt. Lip biting was a bad habit he picked up when he was nervous, it always left his mouth sore. A few moments later the bedroom door swung open and Louis grinned at his eldest. (Current living in the house, that is.)

“Hi, love! What’s up?” Louis asked. Harry didn’t say anything, just looked up at Louis through his eyelashes. Louis’ mouth formed into an ‘o’ shape and he nodded his head.

“You need to talk about something?” Louis guessed. Harry nodded and Louis patted him on the shoulder.

“Alright then, come in.” The two of them walked into the room, going to sit on the bed. They sat across from each other and faced each other.

“What’s going on then?” Louis wondered, giving Harry an encouraging smile. Harry took a deep breath before looking his father in the eyes.

“I’m gay.” Harry breathed out. He instantly adverted his gaze to his hands that he was twisting nervously. He was so scared of his dad’s reaction.

“Oh. Yeah, I know.” Louis said with a shrug. Harry snapped his head up and looked at Louis with wide eyes.

“You know?” Harry asked, completely shocked. Louis nodded slowly as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

“Well it’s not much of a secret. Do you know how flaming you were as a child? You called yourself a princess, Harry.” Louis giggled. Harry frowned slightly.

“But I acted less gay as I grew up! I’m quite manly!” Harry exclaimed. He was slightly offended. Sure, he did not act gay anymore. In fact, the only person who guessed that he was gay was Zayn.

“I’m your dad, H, I know these things.” Louis said gently.

“So then what’s Niall? Or Lily?” Harry wondered, raising his eyebrow at Louis.

“Oh Niall is as straight as they come. And Lily? I don’t know, she doesn’t really favor a gender. See you always talked about dating boys and you said that boys had nice hair or eyes. Niall talks about girls all the time, even since he was young. Lily, however, is kind of neutral. But who knows, I could be wrong. So, did you know you were gay for a while or is there a boy?” Louis asked, leaning in like a gossiping teenager. He had a grin on his face and his blue eyes sparkled mischievously. Harry blushed, making Louis bark out a loud laugh.

“There is a boy!” Louis exclaimed, “Tell me all about him!” Harry’s cheeks reddened even more.

“Well, erm, his name is Ian.” Harry started off. Louis nodded encouragingly.

“And?” Louis asked.

“And he’s tall and muscular and has freckles and gorgeous blue eyes and red hair and he’s just… wow. He’s super nice and funny, and well, he’s gay as well.” Harry explained.