Waking Up Alone (L.S)

They Don't Know About Us

"Are you sure you are ready to do this Haz? We can wait and do it another time. We can sit and think this through. What if it ruins your career? You've been doing so well. You're selling out tours on your own. This might ruin that for you and I'd hate to be the reason why you throw your career away." Louis was concerned, knowing how hard Harry has worked on his brand since the band went on a hiatus.

"Louis, I'd give up everything for you, I'm not losing you again" Harry repeated for the fifth time that evening, "I don't care about the consequences. I'd give up the fame, the money, everything to keep you. I want the world to know how happy I am with you. I want them to know you have my heart."

"I love you so much, but I just want you to be 100% sure about this. Once we do this, we can't take it back. It will be out there for the whole world to know." Louis explained. "That's exactly what I want to happen, I want to scream it from the roof for everyone to know." Harry was being persistent, not wanting Louis to talk him out of this.

Louis felt anxious, more so than ever before. "Are you sure you want to do this? Are you ready for what could come about because of this?".

"We could have nothing, all I want is you. I'm ready." he smiled widely at the blue-eyed man, "I'm more ready than ever. And hey, it'll be like the good old days, I promise.".

"If they're really your fans, they'll support you no matter what" Eleanor piped up from behind their makeshift camera setup.

"I guess we're ready to do this" Louis breathed out in an attempt to calm his nerves, "the whole story, we're going to tell everything." he nodded to himself.

Harry placed a calming hand on Louis' knee to stop the bouncing, "it's going to be okay. No matter what happens, no one will tear us apart. We have the support from our family and friends, we've got this.".

"Yeah, yeah we've got this. Okay." Louis adjusted himself before hitting the button for the live feed. 'Just like the good old days' Louis says to himself.

It only took a couple moments for their viewer count to hit the thousands, causing Louis to take in a deep breath.

Harry was the one to break the silence. "Hey guys, Louis and I need to have a talk with you. No bullshit, just the truth for once.".

"We should have done this years ago, but it's better late than never." Louis added with a smile.

"As many of you know, Louis has been on and off with Eleanor for almost 10 years... Well that was never a real relationship." Harry explained, "But don't hate on her. She was just doing her job to 'protect' us or however management tried to frame it.".

"Harry and I's story goes further back than our time on the X Factor. It started back when we were both in our little bands back in school. We met at the battle of the bands. At this time I was starting to question my sexuality, but I wasn't out. I thought maybe I was just confused." Louis said, grabbing Harry's hand and squeezing it, "I guess you could say Harry was my reason to believe I wasn't completely straight." he chuckled out.

"We ended up making out that day" Harry laughed, "so I'm pretty sure he was sure about not being completely straight. Neither one of us feel like we need to label ourselves though and that's fine. Love is love, right?"

"Right" Louis nodded before continuing, "we hit it off right away. I ended up asking him for his number and I was very lucky to get it. We kinda texted back and forth but nothing really came of it because I wasn't ready to come out yet.".

"Then we met for a second time. We were both actually on a family holiday, and ended up being in the same place at the same time. We didn't actually notice each other until a few years ago when we saw online that I was in the back of some of his photos from that trip" Harry added.