Louis heard a knock at the door, he opened it immediately knowing who it was and then went in for an embrace before Harry backed away with disinfectant spray in hand.
"What the hell are you doing?" He asked
"It's for your own good, stay right there don't touch me!" Harry yelled back
"This is fucking stupid i dont have the fucking virus Haz" he said getting impatient.
"It takes a fortnight for symptoms to actually appear and I just came from L.A. so im gonna have to stay downstairs" Harry explained.
Louis sighed very annoyed and grabbed some of Harry's luggage "You can leave Clifford with me though i think he misses me" smiled Harry as the dog wagged his tail and ran into his lap "Dogs can't get the virus" he added, louis just continued down the stairs muttering "whatever".
Louis took a selfie wearing an annoyed expression, Harry in the background 6 feet apart from him with the text "social distancing is bullshit" and sent it to the group chat the two of them and Liam and Niall shared.
A while later Harry got a call to do an audio interview in 5 days so he informed Louis to "shut up" The day that it happened. Little did he know that him shutting up wouldn't be a problem...
He woke up and got the call, Louis made his way upstairs as quickly as a man with a full piping hot tea cup can. Harry answered very tiredly, explaining that he's in Los Angeles so as to not raise suspicion. everything is going normal then someone walks by the door and Clifford barks. "Oh what's that?" Asked the interviewer. "it's a dog" he says, his brain not processing what to say "it's a dog" he repeats "i don't know where it came from" he said struggling not to laugh. Louis was quietly trying to get Clifford to shut up. "It doesn't live here," he added. The interviewer kept laughing knowingly saying "sure" in between laughs. After the interview ended he looked to see Louis holding Cliffords mouth. "Its ok management will shrug it off, isn't its outside a good reason??" He pondered.. Louis looked at him with a blank stare "Yeah it would have been if your delivery wasnt off, 'erm its a uhhh dog it's a dog ermm i dunno where it came from...... its outside" he impersonated him. "By the way the interviewer knows about us" Louis said taking a sip of tea "what do you mean?" Harry asked. Louis got up to show him on his phone but before he could get any closer Harry put his arms out and said "social distancing, send it to me instead" he obeyed and sent a picture of the interviewer with sticky notes on her forehead that read "larry is real" and "milk makes me itchy". "It's from a while back".
The day after the video was published they were both on twitter scrolling Harry was looking at his mentions and saw a picture of what looked like him next to Kendall, well i guess that's also a good reason I said I was in L.A.? He thought. "Totally photoshopped" someone with the display name Clifford said woof bitch replied and got tons of likes and retweets, someone even added a clifford 'fancam'. Meanwhile others were saying that he's in quarantine with Kendall and it was her dog that was barking but larries were quick to debunk responding with the argument 'that's not the bark of a doberman!' and rather the 'bark of labradoodle'.
Harry traveled mid stair and sat there "they've already figured out its Clifford" He laughed. Clifford heard his name paired with an exclamation and ran to Harry excitedly licking his face. "Our little detectives aren't they?" Added Louis smiling knowing that some people actually know and believe.
The next day: Louis started laughing and harry asked what was up "the interview is titled i don't know where it came from *long pause* it's outside". They both got a notification from the group chat "..........it's outside" Niall sent. Harry left it on read having enough of being made fun of for saying that and laid down to go to sleep. He woke up with a certain labradoodle on his side and Louis wearing a facemask with a cross eyed smiley face on it sitting at his side "what are you doing here" he said groggily. "I cant fucking stand this social distancing!!" He said running his hands through Harry's hair. "Just 6 more days" Harry updated. The day went by with Harry ordering take out and playing guitar. Later he got a video call from Stevie "Hey Harry babe I just wanted to see how you're quarantining!" "I'm doing pretty good! How are you?" Louis came up the stairs "who are you talking to?" He asked like the wife in the Jake from State Farm commercials. Louis walked behind the couch to see Stevie Nicks. He smiled. "Oh hey this must be the man i hear so much about! Lewis right?" Stevie asked. Louis upturned lips changed into a thin line. "Im just kidding!" She said "He told me to call you that if I ever meet you!" Her and Harry continued laughing.
2 days after the morning started with Harry waking up to see Louis and Clifford asleep on the floor next to the bed. "Wake Louis up!" He whispered to Clifford. Clifford did a small bark and licked his face walking in circles to wake him up. He finally got up and complained that his back was hurting a lot. "It's your own fault for sleeping there" Harry huffed. "I miss Anne and Gemma, can we call them later?" Asked Louis. "Yeah but they'll be mad if they see you too close.."
Later on they facetimed Gemma and Anne and they were so excited to see Louis most of their attention was on him and he couldn't stop smiling. Harry was just looking at him admirably. "We miss you both so much! Promise to visit once this is all over?" Asked Anne "Of course of course haha" Louis said scratching his neck and then they ended the call. The day went on with them planning with Niall and Liam over text.
Louis brought some couch pillows into the room so he could sleep more comfortably in the room. "So extra," Harry said under his breath. The next morning Louis was already awake on his phone in the balcony smoking. Clifford stayed by the closed door watching him confused. He barked at him to tell him that Harry was awake. He put out his cigarette and opened the door and went back inside putting his mask on "3 more days" Harry told him. "Finally, I'm getting tired of not being with you and Cliff" he said, breathing out. "Yeah i noticed. You hardly smoke when you're with me". "I'm surprised that's not something the sherlocks haven't noticed, I'm always smoking around 'Eleanor''' he said her name as if she's just an actor with a name attached to her. "It's probably because we haven't been seen with each other in 5 or more years let alone seen near each other..'' Harry said the last part with his head bowed. Louis walked over to him with his hand on his cheek "hey its not like that anymore" he said softly. "No. No it's not because unlike back then we had an explanation, we cant even go outside together now.." he said getting a bit teary eyed. Louis carried a pained expression although he had a mask on it was very clear by the look in his eyes,"i know i shouldn't do this but-" he sighed, bringing harry into a tight embrace. "I'm so sorry we have to go through this, I know how much it means for you to be able to express and be your 100% authentic self-" "No Louis i'm sorry about this.. you changed so much from how you used to be. because of everyone's standards, you went from being super open to having everyone tell you to be a certain way by this time they were both silently tucked into each other's shoulders. Clifford jumped on the bed and started whining, very concerned. After their crying session they seperated "I love you" Louis said "and from now on I vow to be as authentic as I can without management on my arse" he said squeezing Harry's hand. "And I couldn't love you any other way," said Harry. "ok ok too sappy" Louis said Clifford came in between them "and I love you" he said booping his nose. Louis moved his 'bed' closer that night. He woke up the next morning with the bottom half of his body on the floor with Clifford taking up most of the makeshift bed.
"2 more days finally" he said unlocking his phone. He opened the closet and put on a pair of Gucci track pants and a white shirt with a logo of some brit rock band. It was well into the afternoon, he must have slept in a ton after staying up looking at his phone. He heard a faint sound of a guitar and singing so he ventured out to the living room to find Harry "Staring at the ceiling, two weeks and I'll be home carry the feeling through Paris, all through Rome and I'm still thinking back to a time under the canyon moon" he sang Louis kept admiring him from the doorway until Clifford slipped past him and sat in front of Harry thumping his tail on the floor "Clifford you've ruined the moment!" Louis said plopping down onto the couch
Part two soon hopefully;))
Remember TPWK UNLESS that person is a discriminatory asshole !
- J🧚♀️💕👽
