The Parlour {LS//AU}

Chapter 3

It was dark when I finally left my flat for the tattoo shop, zayn had wanted to go but I had told him I was a big boy.

The train ride over wasn't so bad it was just crowded as everyone was leaving work. After I get off the train the walk from there isn't far.

I walk in smelling some sort of berries or fruit and I walk to the desk ," Louis Tomlinson."

"Harry is still with a client, but you can have a seat and he'll be right with you." I nodded and sat in one of the black chairs that lined the wall.

Maybe twenty minutes passed and I seen Harry leaning over the counter talking to woman that sat there. He was smiling, "is he here yet?" I heard him say and then he scanned the room and found my eyes. He smiled and motions for me to follow him. Getting from the chair I follow him watching as his shirt clings to his body with every move. He had a beanie on covering a majority of his curls. I sat in the chair and he sat on his stool. "So what are we getting?"

"Quotation marks."

"Where?"

"On my wrist."

"And what will be in these quotes?"

"Nothing. Just empty quote marks." He looks at me and grabs a purple marker from his cup on the table and some alcohol and a rag. Then he slips on his gloves and starts to wipe down my wrist.

"Is there a reason for them being empty?" He said fanning my wrist.

"I just find myself not knowing what to say these days."

"I find that hard to believe Louis Tomlinson." As he spoke my name I felt a cold chill go up my spine causing me to squirm. He popped the top off the marker and sketched out a set of quotation marks. "Alright is that good?" I raised my wrist and looked at them.

"You're the tattooist." He chuckles.

"Alright I'm gonna start if it hurts too much I can stop and let you hold my hand." He chuckles and I scoff.

"Please, pain doesn't faze me." He laughs and starts the gun. I hear the buzzing and then I feel the needle break through my skin. He drags dark lines of ink across my wrist. I grit my teeth trying not to flinch for the first couple of minutes but after a while it's just a numbing feeling.

"It's not that bad?" I said as he was finishing up the last quote mark.

"Yeah once you get home it'll be like you need another and then another."

"We have a tattoo junkie, I see."

"Noo." He drags out smiling and then he turns serious. "It's a way to speak without actually talking."

I walked from the shop and was almost round the corner, "Louis!" I turned to see Harry sprinting toward me. "Hey uhm- this is kinda weird but some of my mates are having a little party and you could come if you want, bring your mate zayn."

"Yeah, uhm where's it at?"

There was a little house sat on the corner of a street and there were toys sitting in the yard. Zayn and I walked up the steps and knocked on the door. A woman about my age maybe a little older came to the door, her hair was silver. "Uhm Harry invited us." She smiles and open the door all the way.

"C'mon in he's play with Lux." Zayn and I walk in and she shuts the door there is music playing and a few people standing in the living room.

Sat in the floor with a little girl was Harry tickling her feet. She was giggling and trying to tickle him back. I walked toward them and he looks up,"I see you made it."

"I did." He looked beside me and waved at zayn, I had forgotten he was there. The little girl pulled at his arm.

"Who's that?"

"That's Louis." I knelt down and smiled at her.

"Hey cutie." She waved and smiled, "I'm Louis but you can call me Lou."

"Hi Louis." I smiled at her and sat down next to Harry.

"Want to see a trick?"I dug in my pocket for a piece of bubble gum. She shook her head yes, I showed her my hands and that nothing was in them then I clasp them together. "Say the magic words and a prize will appear."

"Pleasee" I couldn't help but laugh.

"Maybe try abracadabra."Harry suggests.

"Abracadabra."I opened my hand and there lay the piece of gum. Her mouth fell open and she grabbed it from my hand. "I'm going to show mommy!"

Was that harry's daughter?

"She's adorable." Something in my stomach tied in knots with the thought of him being married or something.

"Yeah, she's a great kid." He sat up straighter. "Lou, her mom is one of the best people I know she's really helped me." Maybe he was in a bad place before and she came along and they fell in love.

"That's great that you have someone like that."

"Yeah, get to hang around this kid all day." He said as lux came running back to him.

"Daddy's here!" She sang, daddy?

"Is he?"

"Yeah I showed him the trick Louis did and he said that Louis was magic!" She looked at me, "are you magic?" Her eyes were wide and she was looking at me for an answer.

"I am." She smiled and clapped her hands.

"That's so cool!" She ran back through the house.

"Is Lou your sister?"

"No we're just great mates."

"At first I thought she was your girlfriend." I tried to laugh off what I had just said knowing it sounded creepy.

"She's not my type." He chuckles.

"Oh." If she wasn't his type then what was, because she was stunning but I couldn't take my eyes off the green eyed boy that sat next to me.