1. INT. LOUIS' LIVING ROOM - DAY
It's almost noon. Harry is on the sofa watching tv, he's watching an episode of RuPaul's Dragrace. He's all cuddled up in a blanket. Louis walks in slowly, yawning, and stretching.
HARRY: (pipes up, smiles) "Good morning, Lou!" (shuffles up, moves up a bit to make room for Louis) "Did you sleep well?"
LOUIS: (stares blankly, blinks twice) "What are you? The morning welcome committee?" (yawns, rubs eyes, sits down next to him) "Morning to you too." (before Harry can speak) "Just."
HARRY: "Huh?"
LOUIS: "As in, just morning. Not good." (Harry looks at him confused) "As in I don't like mornings and you just said good morning, to which I said, just morning." (Harry nods slowly, clearly still confused) "Jesus Harold, what do you want me to say? Bad morning?"
HARRY: (small smile) "Not a morning person then?"
LOUIS: "Not in the slightest." (short pause) "You seem to be?"
HARRY: (shrugs) "You could say that." (shakes head, smiles cutely) "You know it's almost 12, right?"
LOUIS: "It's too early, that's what it is." (yawns, notices how quiet the house is) "Where is everyone anyway?"
HARRY: "Your mum said they were going to visit someone, I don't know who. Why?"
LOUIS: (frowns) "Visit someone?"
HARRY: "Uh...yeah. She said you didn't wanna go, or well, that you usually don't want to."
LOUIS: "Ah, okay." (awkward silence, Harry looks away, Louis notices the tv) "What's that?"
HARRY: "What's what?"
LOUIS: "The tv. What kind of odd-looking women are they?"
HARRY: (giggles, Louis fights to hide his smile) "They're dragqueens. Men dressed up as women and they compete to see who's the best dragqueen of them all. It's fun."
LOUIS: "Oh."
HARRY: (points at the tv excitedly, smiles big) "She's my favorite! Alyssa Edwards, she's such a good queen. She didn't win though... oh well, she won in my eyes." (looks over at Louis who's fonding, Harry blushes) "What?"
LOUIS: (clears throat, snaps out of it) "Hah. Drag queens. Isn't that a little...you know."
HARRY: "A little what?"
LOUIS: "You know what I mean, a little...you know."
HARRY: (suddenly getting it) "Gay?" (Louis flushes and looks down at his hands, nods his head) "I mean it's mostly queer people partaking in it, but then again it doesn't have to be. I mean, technically you could be straight and do drag, there's nothing wrong with it."
LOUIS: "No, no. It's not wrong. Just... wanted to know."
HARRY: (smiles) "Feel free to ask, you can't know if you don't ask, right?"
LOUIS: "Right." (silent for a few minutes where Harry continues to watch the tv, Louis bites his lip nervously, carefully) "Are um...are you?"
HARRY: "Hm?"
LOUIS: (small) "Are you...you know."
HARRY: (amused, shy smile) "Gay?"
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The Do's And Don'ts Of Falling In Love - Larry Stylinson
Fanfic"You see, this isn't usually how people would go about this." "Huh?" "Well, first and foremost, we're best friends. That in itself should stop us from doing this." "But?" "That doesn't mean I'm not dying to kiss you all the time."
