reading between the lines

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matty's POV

After about 10 minutes i heard a gentle knocking at my door which opened after a few seconds when i failed to respond. Louis' demeanor was gentle and calm as he made his way over to me and sat on the bed next to me, his hand landing softly on my shoulder.  "I heard the rumours about you wearing makeup to school yesterday, is it true? is that why you didn't want to answer the question downstairs?" louis asked calmly, pulling me into a hug when i  nodded and tried to look away so he couldn't see how close i was to tears. "Matty mate, if you don't want to answer a question you can just say so, you don't need to come and hide up here and beat yourself up about it ok. And you do not, and should not, need be ashamed of wearing makeup. you do whatever the fuck you want. do what makes you happy and I'll forever be here supporting you" 

I stayed pretty silent, unsure what to say, right here right now seemed like a good place to tell louis everything about AJ and how i wished i was different and more confident but somehow i couldn't find the words that i wanted and all that came out was "ok". Relieve rushed through my body when louis' stomach gave an almighty growl, making us both laugh and reminding us that it was past lunch time. 

"how is your stomach feeling now?" louis asked even though i was pretty sure he knew it had been pretty much fine all day and that i just needed an excuse to stay home. 

"Its ok now" i replied, my respect for louis had grown so much today that i didn't want to to lie to him more than i had to. 

"Good, put some proper clothes on and meet me downstairs in 10 minutes" Louis said before retreating to his own room to put some 'proper clothes' on i suspect. 

I put some music on through my alexa and made my way over to my wardrobe so i could begin to examine my options of outfits. I decided on a pair of black jeans with slight rips at the knees, a plain white t-shirt, my favourite grey sweater and a pair of classic white converse boots. Whenever Eva comes round to see Adam she calls me a walking aesthetic which I'm quite proud of cos aesthetics are cool right? Anyway, seeing as though the 10 minutes louis gave me to get ready are almost up i decide that i can't be bothered to do my hair so grab my blue and white NY snapback of the edge on my bed and add that to my outfit as i make my way downstairs where louis is already stood with car key in one hand and wallet in the other.  

"where are you taking me?" i asked curiously 

"For lunch" Louis responded "get in the car, I'll let you chose the music and we'll have a proper little carpool karaoke" 

I made my way over to louis sparkling metallic silver Aston Martin DB9 and climbed into the passenger seat gently examining the front interior carefully, tracing my finger delicatley along the shiny part of the dashboard. I've been in awe of this car ever since louis purchased it 6 months ago. It's the first really expensive car he's bought despite the fact he's been in one of the world's biggest boybands for the past 7 years and he cherishes it with everything he has within him. He cleans it every sunday afternoon, polishes the inside twice a week and gives everyone a very painful slap, kick or punch if they park too close to it. It's like his power machine really. 

Louis eventually comes out the house, locking the door behind him, and gets in the car "Sorry i lost my phone, can't leave the house without it can i, harry might call me.But anyways, do you wanna bluetooth your phone to the car and you can chose some music. Make sure its a fun upbeat songs tho. Something we can vibe to"

It took my whole inner body strength to not laugh when louis said 'something we can vibe to' because I'm sorry but it just did not sound right coming from louis, maybe if liam or zayn said it i could deal with it, but not louis. Would louis wanna sing one of his own songs or should i chose a different one i wondered as i scrolled through my spotify playlist, finally hitting play on a song, champagne supernova. "Okay so its not really upbeat but you can deffo vibe to it so we're sticking with this as our warm up song then I'll put something more upbeat on" I explained before louis had the chance to complain that it wasn't upbeat. 

So there we were, me and louis in an aston martin, singing our hearts out along the quiet roads of our small town, feeling as though nothing in the world could stop us. It stayed like that until we stopped in the carpark of nandos and i looked at Louis in disbelief "we're going nandos without niall?? Louis tomlinson that is disgraceful behaviour!" I exclaimed, unable to keep the laughter from escaping me. 

"Well if niall was home he could've come with us, but he wasn't home so it's his own fault" Louis said innocently as we both got out of his car and made our way into the restaurant, got a table and ordered. Louis ordered 'the louis' (OFC) which consisted of a 1/2 chicken covered in medium peri peri sauce and chunky garlic buttered red skinned mash potatoes with perinaise. I decide to honour Niall's absence and order 'the niall', a wrap with double chicken breast toasted in medium peri peri sauce with peppery sweet chilli jam and tangy yoghurt sauce, plus 5 medium wings, perinaise and spicy rice. Both Louis and I got a diet coke with our meals and sat talking waiting for the food to arrive. 

"so are you gonno go to school tomorrow or pull another sicky" I asked, still not completely sure why he pulled a sicky today. 

"I'll probably go into school" he smiled "can't pretend to be ill again incase i worry haz, you should come in too" he said raising his eyebrow at me "if your well enough to eat nandos then your got darn well enough to come into school" 

I sighed and looked down a little "but what if the rumours are still travelling around school, I'll be a laughing stock" 

"you could stay in mine and harry's classroom for the day, get amy or alfie to bring your work down to you. But honestly it won't be as bad as your expecting, espescially since it is just a rumour and no one can prove it" 

I hate it when Louis says something sensible that i cant argue with. I just nodded and waited for louis to start a new conversation which sure enough he did and we spent the next 10 minutes discussing how mad niall will be if he finds out we went to nandos without him. We settled on niall probably shouting at us for at least 10 minutes before driving to nandos himslef to get a take away and coming home to eat it right infront of us. The thought of this seemed so realistic that me and louis became hysteric with laughter. So much so that the waiter who served us actually asked us if we were alright when she brought our food. Somehow we calmed down enough to respond to here and eat our lunch, putting both of our meals in the middle of the table and just sharing because it seemed better and more character building. Well thats what Louis said, I have no idea how sharing food is character building but i was enjoying it too much to care.