As sweet as Sugar

Chapter 9

It didn't take long for Zayn to carry a crying baby on sofa as soon as he had started to wipe Louis' cuts with anti-septic lotion. Zayn tried to remember all the soothing things him mom used to whisper to him whenever he got hurt in his childhood.

Zayn continued whispering sweet nothings to Louis while he cleaned the cuts and put on the bandage. As soon as the bandage was properly wrapped on Louis' fingers, he magically stopped crying and gave a sweet smile to Zayn. He couldn't help but smile back at the younger boy, while he wiped Louis' face with spare cotton balls. But when Zayn asked him if he wanted to go in his room and rest for a while, Louis' stomach answered for him and made a loud noise, telling Zayn that he was hungry.

Zayn offered to make him something to eat only if Louis stays sitting in the chair at kitchen table and touches nothing; to which Louis agreed in a moment. And so on they spent the afternoon talking with each other. Making up for all the time they lost on not talking with each other.

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Harry hopped out of the car and went to open the door with his keys, Liam following him. But when he opened the main door, he turned into a statue and just stared at the scene in front of him. Liam balanced his backpack on his left shoulder and inspecting his own shoes while he walked into Harry's back, making Harry come out of his trance. But soon Liam got turned into a statue and stared at the living room.

They couldn't believe what they were seeing. Louis was sitting in the far corner of the sofa, half of his back resting against the arm of it and half against back of the sofa. Both his legs propped on Zayn's lap while Zayn was leaning towards Louis, holding both his own hands in front of Louis.

Apparently they were playing some game where Zayn had scrunched up his fingers in the fist of his other hand so that only the tips of his fingers were visible and Louis had to guess which fingertip belongs to Zayn's middle finger.

It was Louis who noticed their presence and waved his uninjured left hand at them, "Hi Harry. Hi Liam. Had a good day, you two?"

It was the scene they wanted to see for a very long time. Zayn and Louis getting along well. So they tried to play it cool and walked into the room and said their greetings. Harry went up to sit on a chair beside Louis and Liam took the seat next to Zayn on the sofa.

When they didn't say anything further, Zayn spoke up, "Liam, aren't you forgetting something?" While Liam just looked confused, Zayn grabbed back of his neck and pulled him into a kiss. Liam couldn't help but kiss Zayn back.

Harry stared at them horrifically and then looked at Louis who was looking at Liam and Zayn kissing with nothing but fondness in his eyes. Then Louis looked at Harry, still smiling and wiggling his eye brows. Harry didn't notice that Liam and Zayn had got done with the kissing until he heard Zayn calling his name and gesturing him to come forward with his hand. Harry couldn't do anything but get up and walk up to Zayn and lean down to kiss Zayn on lips but Zayn surprised him by pulling him in his lap and giving kitten licks to Harry's bottom lip before capturing it for a proper kiss. When Zayn got done with kissing Harry; he, not so delicately, deposited Harry in Liam's lap. He shifted until Louis was in his lap. Harry and Louis facing each other. Liam nudged Harry to make him look at him but he saw that Harry had as many questions in his eyes as his own. So they both looked at Zayn and Harry spoke up, "What is all this, Zayn?"

But Zayn just ignored what Harry asked and turned his attention to the smaller boy in his laps. Zayn threaded his fingers in Louis' hair, scratched his scalp, making Louis close his eyes and lean in to the touch. Liam could feel himself getting hard in his pant. Holy hotness. Just when Harry thought that his couldn't get any hotter, Zayn grabbed back of Louis head, making him lean in until their lips were an inch apart. Harry could see Zayn's red tongue snaking out of his mouth and licking all of Louis' lips, tracing the borders of Louis' lips with the hardened tip of his tongue like he was drawing some lines with a pencil.

Liam was about to buck his hips up to get some friction but he didn't want to come out of the trance. It was like he was watching some magic. The way Louis got all soft under Zayn's simple touch, was magical. The little moaning sounds Louis made when Zayn traced his tongue on Louis' lips, was magical. Just when he thought this was all too much, in a quick movement Zayn slotted his lips with Louis' and kissed him harder.

Harry and Liam couldn't move their eyes away. They felt nothing but sad when the kiss ended. Before any of them could ask or say anything, Zayn looked at them with a mischievous smile playing on his lips, rubbing his hand on Louis' arm and said, "So I heard that you kissed my little bird here without my permission?"