The Bucket List || Larry

3: Planning

A mere day later and Louis already finds himself phoning Harry.

It's Saturday, the best day of them all, the one where he can sit around and do absolutely nothing, as it should be everyday. This one, however, he decides to plan things out with Harry. Yeah. That's why he's texting him: hey curly, wanna come over and make plans for the list?

Before he presses send, he almost doesn't add an x to the end, but ends up doing so anyway because he's feeling rather spontaneous today. And like, he might die, so there's that too.

His reply comes in a mere thirty seconds later, before Louis can even lock his phone and set it down.

Sure. Address? xx

Oh, two x's. Louis sees how it is.

He texts him his address and flat number, adding three x's to the end. They go on like that, with even more x's than the last, until: Did we just make out?

A cheeky shit, is what Harry is, Louis concludes.

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"So I was thinking we could start with breaking into a zoo, right? And maybe that way we'll be arrested, possibly even put on the news if we do something insane."

"Nah, we should start with something simpler. Easier, that is," Harry says, tapping the pencil against his chin in thought.

The process is harder than it looks, coming up with ideas and organizing them and planning out when exactly they will take place. Louis wishes he could just hire someone to do this for him, but he's rather broke and doesn't think there are people whose jobs are to plan bucket lists. What a shame.

Louis shifts on his spot on the couch, turning to face Harry and criss-crossing his legs. Harry mirrors him with a smile.

"Do you think we could actually do this?" Louis asks after a moment of silence, a long time of just staring and blinking lazily. "Like, the whole thing."

Harry thinks for a second, bringing his eyebrows down into a furrow and biting his cheek. Then, "Yeah. I think we could. I mean, some of these are pretty easy, like public sex. We could-"

"Woah woah, who says I planned on doing that with you?" Louis jokes, scoffing a bit at how confident Harry is.

Harry just laughs, sending him a look that says 'we'll talk about it later,' and then starts being serious again. "But. I really do believe you can do this. If you wanna go to Machu Pichu, you go to Machu Pichu!" He smiles brightly, and Louis can only look at him with admiration because who even is Harry Styles.

"You remember all the weird shit I did in high school, don't you?" Louis nods. "That, my friend, is a perfect example of not thinking and just doing, just living and having fun while doing it. You just gotta take a chance and hope that it works out in the end because if you don't, you'll never know what happened and I promise you, it will eat you alive until you can't take it anymore. So just live a little, alright? It's kind of amazing, actually. Seizing opportunities and having no regrets. It's kind of my thing," Harry finishes, exhaling slowly and relaxing his shoulders.

Louis considers what he's saying and thinks, yeah, he can do this. They can do this. It'll be alright, he'll complete the list and maybe his cancer won't spread and maybe he can manage to keep breathing for a few more years, and maybe he and Harry will laugh later on about how much fun they had and all the crazy things they did. And maybe, just maybe, Louis will be completely happy about it all.

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super short oh my god

i think the next chapter will be something from the list, not sure which one.

QOTC: which thing from the list would you like to read first?