Human

Detention

"Where are we going?" Harry asked for what felt like the 300th time.

"I told you, I'm not telling you until we get there".

"Louis", Harry whined.

"We're seeing Zayn and Liam, isn't that enough?"

Harry just sighed.

"Chin up, baby, we're almost there", Louis said, placing his hand on Harry's thigh.

"The rogue?" Harry asked as soon as they arrived.

"It's a bar", Louis shrugged.

"That's the surprise?"

Louis bit back a smirk and walked inside.

"Hi Haz", Zayn smiled as he kissed his cheek, Liam just reached out his hand. They all got seated and Harry started letting his eyes wander.

The bar was cozy, kind of grung-y looking, but not in a bad way, the lights were dimmed, making it look even more intimate. His eyes fell on the acoustic guitar and the microphone in the corner, he smiled excitedly, "oh, live performances, fun, do we know who's singing tonight?"

Louis grinned and looked at him, "uhm, you".

"Funny joke, Lou".

Louis just kept smiling at him and nodding, when Harry's eyes fell on Zayn and Liam, who were both shaking their heads, his smile started faltering and he turned white.

"Louis, what the fuck".

"What?" Louis asked, "you're good, you'll be amazing at this".

"Louis, I don't know if you've noticed, but I don't necessarily like being the center of attention".

"It's just 3 songs".

"Three?!"

"You're up next".

"I don't want to".

"Harry..."

"I swear to god Louis I'm going to skin you".

"Next up, we have Harry who's going to perform some fun ones", a voice from behind the bar said.

"I hate you", Harry mouthed at him before shakily  standing up.

"Hello", he said nervously, getting up on the little stage, "I'm Harry and uhm, I didn't know I was going to do this, so don't judge me too much", he coughed, "please".

"You're a dumbass, Tommo", Zayn whispered.

"Shh", Louis shushed them, not taking his eyes off of Harry.

"Gonna sing one of my favourite songs I suppose", he grabbed the guitar and sat down on the barstool before strumming the intro to 'the chain' by Fleetwood Mac.

When Harry sang his last 'running in the shadow', he got a big round of applause. He had loosened up a bit somewhere in the middle of the song and Louis was looking at him with nothing but pride in his eyes.

"He's actually good", Liam said.

"Duh", Louis rolled his eyes.

"He kept that a secret for what reason exactly?" Zayn asked.

Louis shrugged, "he doesn't believe me when I give him compliments".

"The next one is called big yellow taxi, written by one of the most talented women, miss Joni Mitchell".

Someone wolf-whistled and Louis' eyes fell on the girls whose table was right in front of Harry. They were dressed in black dresses with big cleavages. He laughed as one of them tried flirting with him, clearly not noticing that Harry was very much gay, and even if he weren't, he was the most oblivious guy in the world.