Mindreader (L.S.)

11.

Then comes Monday and Louis' an absolute wreck to say the least. He spent the rest of his Sunday, depressed, in his bed, crying his eyes out and yelling at everyone who came into his room even though they had done nothing bad.

Just the thought of having to get out of his bed and go to school made him actually want to drop out and stay at home forever. What he dreads most though, is that Harry had told someone about Louis' power. If that were to happen, Louis' life would be over; he would have to somehow convince his whole family to move to the other end of the country and never talk to anyone from here ever again.

So, for that reason, and of course genuinely wanting to speak with the boy, Louis has to find Harry today and ask him if he has told anyone.

His heart's pumping wildly in his chest as his mother drives him to school, oblivious to what Louis' going through. She can clearly see there's something on his mind and out of the corner of her eye she sees Louis' hands shaking with nerves. She knows she has to ask the question eventually, so she decides to get it overwith.

"Honey, what's wrong? You've been acting different ever since you came home on sunday. Did something happen at Harry's?" She glances at the boy who's looking more nervous by the second.

"No." Is all Louis answers, to which Johannah just frowns but doesn't investigate further into it.

Five minutes of silence later, they find themselves in front of Louis' school and he shakily hops out, grabbing his backpack and mumbling a 'Goodbye' to his mother.

When he walks in, he spots Niall, Liam and Zayn chatting happily in front of the lockers and heads immediately in their direction. "Hey, guys," He announces himself and they all answer with alternations of 'Hey, Lou.", "What's up, man." and "Hi, bro."

"Have any of you seen Harry today?" He can't help himself but ask.

"Nope, he's usually pretty early, but I haven't seen him yet." Liam shrugs, not thinking much of it.

"Oh, okay." You can't miss the disappointed look on Louis' face.

"Why? What's up?" Zayn asks, nudging the deflated boy.

"Nothing. Just need to talk to him." Louis tries making it seem casual and the other boys just nod in respons.

The rest of the day goes by quick, but Louis never finds Harry, so he waits outside of the last class he knows Harry has, because he stalked him, oops. But when the door opens and students hastily walk out, to get out of school, Harry isn't in the group, which means he isn't in school.

The same ordeal goes on the next three days and Louis is starting to get frustrated, just wanting to talk to Harry about everything.

Not only the fact that Harry, as the only person except from Louis, knows about Louis' inhuman power, but also the elephant in the room; they literally kissed on sunday, and Louis isn't forgetting about that all that soon.

When Louis gets home on thursday, his mom asks him to take his siblings, except the youngest two, to the park because Phoebe and Daisy want Louis to teach them how to play football. Louis loves football, so of course he agrees and soon enough they're on their way on all of their bikes.

Louis' showing the girls how to dribble the ball when he looks up and spots Harry in the other side of the park, walking around in his own world with headphones in, head hanging down.

Louis' eyes widen upon realizing that this is the boy he's been looking for and that he now has the chance to finally talk to him.

"Lottie!" He calls out to his oldest sister, who's talking to Felicite about God knows what. "Come play with the twins for a bit? I just have to do something."