He Noticed || Larry au

3.6

freshman year of college

harry is obsessed.

which doesn't happen often. he likes stuff, he likes good quality clothing, yoga, reading a good book. but he doesn't obsess over things.

until now. he was scrolling through his instagram when he found a video of a puppy that had been dumped in a garbage can and then rescued. he followed the puppy's journey as it recovered from having heart worm, a skin condition and a few other health issues. he also kept louis updated as he obsessed over it.

and when the puppy was put into a foster home to recover, he got the name squish, because he was a mastiff and his face was so squishy.

and this is really when louis started to notice how much harry loved the puppy.

"louis squish is doing so good today"

"squish ate a whole bowl of food by himself!"

and so on and so on. to louis, it was a no brainer. christmas was coming up, and he was most definitely going to be adopting squish for harry.

but he had to be discreet.

so a few days before christmas, he signed the adoption papers and took the puppy over to his moms house, where him and harry's family would be spending christmas together.

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"open up lou." harry says and slides the wrapped box over to his fiancé with an excited look on his face. louis grins, beginning to open the box.

"oh babe." louis says and pulls out the wooden slab. it was a picture of them burned into the wooden slab.

"it's gorgeous." louis says, harry lights up.

"keep going..." harry says to louis. louis carefully sets it down before looking back inside the box.

"oh my god." he mumbles in disbelief, pulling out the socks.

harry got him socks with harry's face printed all over them.

harry laughs, the rest of their family giggling along.

"this is actually really cute." louis says with a chuckle. he leans over and presses his lips against harry's.

"i love all of it baby, thank you." he tells harry. harry grins at that, a flash of desire in his eyes when louis pulls away. louis grins at that.

"i have your present right here." louis says and reaches into his back pocket. he had folded the adoption papers in half and tied a red bow around them. he hands them over to harry, who looks confused as ever.

he undoes the bow, reading the letters printed at the top of the paper before gasping.

"you got me a puppy?!" harry says loudly as he clutched the papers. louis laughs, biting his bottom lip.

"keep reading." louis says. harry looks back to the paper and louis sees the exact moment harry realizes louis adopted squish.

"oh my god! you got me squish!" harry says with tears in his eyes.

"oh baby." louis says and wiped under the man's eyes. harry kisses him hard, eyes going back to the paper just as his mom brings squish out into the living room, setting him right in harry's lap.

"oh my god." harry says as he pets the little brown puppy. squish sniffs harry's hand before licking it as harry stared at it in awe.

"lou i love him. i love you. thank you." harry says gives the puppy a kiss. louis grins, watching harry.

"anything for you." louis says more to himself. harry hears him, giving louis a private smile.

later that night they're up in louis' childhood bedroom where they had spent countless nights together before, the puppy sleeping soundly in his kennel as louis and harry talked quietly.

"i can't believe you got me squish." harry mumbles against louis' bare shoulder. louis smiles softly, scratching harry's scalp gently.

"i didn't think i would. a bunch of people wanted to adopt him, the couple fostering him were two women who have been married for like three years so when i mentioned i wanted to get him for my future husband they lit up like a christmas tree." harry giggles at that, kissing louis' neck.

"sometimes it pays to be gay." louis laughs at that, kissing harry's forehead.

"i don't know how this genius brain comes up with silly stuff like that." louis chuckles. harry grins, kissing louis' mouth nice and slow before tucking himself against louis' side again.

"goodnight babe. thank you again. i love you."

"i love you too."

a/n: i just double updated woooahhhh

i've been so fucking stressed and so much shit has been happening in my life i just need to escape so here i am 🥺