Kiss Of Fame | Larry Stylinson

23. Price Arrangement

When Harry and Louis get back his manager speaks right away. "He, of course, asked me if I knew what happened. To which I said no and asked why. He replied with 'keep mister Styles away from Louis. He is making him misbehave towards me'. I just said I will talk with you about it and then brought it in it was possible if Louis would join me. He first got defensive but after I said I can possibly buy him he opened up more. So he said a price which he wants or he won't do it."
"So... He's selling me?" Louis asks confused.
"It happens sometimes. We place a bit to buy someone and then talk to the manager and artist about it."
"So you will buy him?"
"I need to meet up with everyone and talk about that."

Both boys nod. "And if they don't want it, Louis stays there?" Harry asks.
"Yes, then I can't help him."
"But you said you would help him."
"I will. I just need to talk about it."
"You're unsure. You just admitted that."
"I am sure they will agree it's just that I can say that yet."
"But you would help him."
"Harry, it's fine," Louis says. "I'm sure he will try his best for me."
His manager nods. "I will. I can ask for a meeting right now. If you guys want to wait, you can just pick a room to stay at."
"Sure," Harry says.
And so his manager calls for a meeting and Louis and Harry go back to the room they were before.

Both boys are nervous. But they start to watch 'Friends' in a way to distract themselves. Harry sometimes quotes them, which Louis finds adorable.
"Lou," Harry says after a while.
"Yeah?" He looks at him.
"What do you think the first thing you will do is when you can come out?"
He shrugs. "I don't know. It's not like I would look for a boyfriend or something. Going to a gay bar maybe, I've always wanted to go there but I just couldn't."
"I'll take you to a gay bar then," Harry says and he smiles at him.
Louis smiles too. "That sounds good. But let's not get too drunk so we won't have another trending moment."
"Oh, didn't you like that?"
"I absolutely loved it. Especially my manager."
"But if you have mine you can pretty much do whatever you want."
"I know. I hope that will work out."
"Me too."

Harry snuggles up to Louis because they're laying on the grass. Louis chuckles. "Why do you do that?"
"Why not?"
"I don't know."
They both look at the TV and Harry screams a quote again.
Louis his phone started buzzing so he picks up and sits up straight. He is asking him where he is because Harry his manager asked him to get him to sign his management.
So Louis says he is out right now and how it happened.
His manager explains to him that without naming the money part and then he asks him if he wants to change it.
Louis panics and then says 'not sincerely but maybe it would be better for me and how I want to live my life'.
His manager didn't like that and just replies with an 'okay' before hanging up.

"Was that your manager?" Harry asks.
"Yeah. About changing to your manager."
"I figured."
Louis chuckles. "At least he asked. He didn't like the answer, though."
"Of course not. They will lose talent."
"The biggest one."
"That's you."
Louis smiles and lays back down. This time he snuggles up with Harry. He knows he caught feelings for Harry. Yet he was too scared to make a move because he didn't know if he feels the same. And he doesn't want to ruin the friendship.
And Harry thought about in the same way...

An hour of watching Friends later they can finally meet up again and this time more people are in the room. They sit down and wait for them to talk.
"So we spoke about the offer we got and if we should do it or not," Harry his manager says. "It is pretty impulse thing to do. Since we haven't really considered doing it. We then thought about 'what is in it for us' and it was a whole thing, you don't want to know."
"This feels like a game show when someone gets illuminated," Harry says.
Louis chuckles. "But this is more serious than that, Haz."
"I know. But those can be intense too."
Louis laughs and their hands find each other. They hold hands as they wait for the manager to move on.

"And we decided to do it," his manager just says.
Louis smiles widely and Harry gets all excited.
"Your manager is on his way actually. We told him to go in half an hour and we will talk to you first about it. So he doesn't know we know everything that's going on."
"Can I tell what happened between us to the world? So others won't fall for it?" Louis asks.
"No. You can't do that. You can be yourself when you sign us. And no, we won't say you can't hang out with Harry or any guys."
"Fair enough."
"No more threats towards me and you," Harry says happily.
"How long will it all take?" Louis asks, ignoring Harry.
"Depends on your manager."
"Okay."
"We need to celebrate this though. Do we have champagne?" Harry comes in again.
Louis laughs. "You're such an idiot."