Confused Love

The Café Performance

2016

Louis sat patiently at the local café in the small town of Holmes Chapel, he was waiting for his best friend Zayn while taking sips of his tea. Zayn was late to everything, it was a very bad habit of his. Louis started getting really impatient, he pulled out his phone from his pocket and dialled Zayn's number - it went straight to voicemail.

"Hey man, where are you? I've been sitting at this damn café for nearly an hour." He scoffed, annoyed at his best friend.

As Louis sent through the voice mail, the sound of live music whistled through his ears. Louis turned around to see a young man singing on the café stage. The man was very tall, he had long gorgeous curls that reached to his shoulders, and his style was very odd and colourful, but he rocked it and Louis admired that. He had the most beautiful green coloured eyes that represented that same joy you would get if you saw your favourite celebrity. His lips were perfectly plump and pink and he had a slight stubble across his jaw, but it complimented his baby face.

The man finished singing and Louis - along with a bunch of people - started to applaud him. The man saw Louis smiling and clapping at him, that was convincing enough for him to walk over and introduce himself.

"Hello there, I see you enjoyed my performance." The man said in a deep husky toned voice which caused Louis to stutter his words.

"Y-Yeah, it was r-really good, you should audition for one of those competitions." Louis replied pointing to a flyer on the wall.

"Thanks, I'm Harry, Styles by the way, what's your name?" The man said while looking straight into Louis' eyes.

"I'm Louis Tomlinson, you can call be Tommo for short if you like." Louis giggled, he felt like he was talking to a high school crush.

"Hey Louis, I'm sorry I'm late." Zayn apologised as he ran into the Café. He took a seat opposite Louis and looked up to see who Louis was initially talking to.

"Hey Zayn, finally you're here, I almost had to cancel our session." Louis replied with slight anger.

"What session?" Harry interrupted.

"Oh Zayn and I go to a recoding studio we are working on an album together." Louis said as he pushed the other coffee towards Zayn and began to stand up. Zayn thanked Louis for the coffee and began to drink it as he noticed the awkward tension he has caused between the three of them. Zayn whispered something to Louis and then left the café to head to his car. Louis stood up and gave Harry a quick hug as well as a small tip for his performance.

"Okay, have fun you two." Harry replied smiling.

Harry liked that hug, he admired Louis' warm body hugging him. Harry stopped smiling as he realised that could have been the only time he will see Louis, he didn't get his number.

"That guy seemed nice, what was his name?" Zayn inquired as Louis sat in the passenger seat of Zayn's car.

Louis paused before answering, "Harry."

Louis enjoyed that hug he gave Harry, he wanted to see him again. Louis sat on the couch as he watched Zayn sing, he pulled out his phone and dialled the café.

"Hi, I'm calling to look for someone." He whispered into the phone, making sure he wouldn't disturb Zayn in the process.

"Is this Louis, Tomlinson?" A lady answered.

"Yes, how did you know?" Louis responded quickly.

"Our performance guy, Harry, is looking for you."

"Do you know where I can find him?" Louis replied concerned.

"He is still at the café, you better hurry we're closing soon."

Louis hung up the phone and interrupted Zayn's singing.

"Zayn, I'm sorry, but I have to go, I'll talk to you later."

Without letting Zayn have a chance to speak, Louis ran straight out the door and drove to the café where he saw Harry sitting inside drinking a cup of tea.

Harry saw Louis through the corner of his eye and stood up.

"Hey you came back." Harry said reaching for a hug.

"Yeah, I had to, I want to know more about you." Louis smiled and hugged back.