Across the Ocean - Larry Stylinson

Prolouge

Louis' pov July 18th 2012

"Hiii I want to tell you about how I met my soulmate and it all started with me being alone in my room talking to strangers through the internet;

I was laying in bed, with my phone in my hand. I was talking to my friend Taylor who actually lives in California. We were dating at the time and she was becoming jealous over my talk of an ex girlfriend, i didn't really have. A lot of people lie on the internet, and I was one of them.

I randomly got a new kik chat, and it was from a guy that I didn't know. The username was jseckzy10. The message read, "hi, is this Taylor's boyfriend, Daniel?" I also lied about my name, but I was a little confused but answered, "yeah, why?"

The unknown person replied with, "I'm her friend, I hear you're being an asshole to her? What'd she do? You're talking about your ex way too much, girls don't appreciate that." I read and reread the message, I started to feel bad for Taylor, I didn't realize what I was doing. I was only 16 at the time.

I quickly typed back to the person, "I'll go apologize, thanks for telling me. I didn't realize." I then went to Taylor's kik chat, and typed a long message to her. Apologizing and explaining how I didn't realize what I was doing.

I then went back to the 'jseckzy10' username and saw that they read the message but didn't reply yet. I typed out, "what's your name, by the way?"

He typed back "jake. And you're Daniel?" I kinda had a feeling that he was lying because the type of people that I talk to lie about everything. I even knew Taylor was lying about something, she has changed her name twice so far, and her age too.

I replied to Jake, "yeah I'm Daniel." And then sent, "how old are you?" And he sent back with "14 years young !! You?" And I laughed, typing back with "16, as well."

Jake typed back, "where do you live?" I typed, "Denmark, but I was born in England. I moved to Denmark when I was 8. Where do you live?" He quickly typed back, "United States of America, babaaaay!!"

I laughed at his excitement and asked what state he was from, hoping I wouldn't sound like a creep. He typed back, "Massachusetts, you weirdo." I blushed and quickly went to maps to look up where that was, because I didn't know the states well at all, okay?

I went back to kik and realized I didn't answer Taylor's messages. I opened them seeing that she accepted my apology and read the second message saying she was going to sleep. I felt kind of bad, replying and apologizing again for not being able to say goodnight. Man, I'm a shitty boyfriend.

I went to Jakes messages, and asked what time it was over where he lives. He replied, that it was 1 am. I replied that it was 7am for me and that I was going to finally go to bed.

"Holy cow Daniel!! That's early in the morning. We're six hours apart?? You still haven't slept and it's 7am?? Okay sorry, go to bed, night!"

I saw the message, but didn't reply. I then got ready for bed and laid down, shutting my eyes and falling asleep almost immediately.

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july 19th 2012

I opened my eyes and scanned the room, feeling a bit disoriented for a moment. The first thing I did was check my phone. I saw tons of messages but two caught my eye immediately. Jake and then Taylor. I opened Taylor's first and saw she again accepted my apology for being a twat and not being there to say goodnight, I replied to her saying 'good morning love' even though it was 4am for her.

I then checked Jakes, his goodnight message was the last thing in the chat and I replied saying "good morning!" I knew it was 7am for him so him and Taylor wouldn't reply for a while.

I replied to others then messaged my friend Zayn, asking him if he could come over. I got a quick message back saying "vas happening! You just got up?? I'll come over, leaving now!"

I stayed in bed until he came over, just relaxing, 5 minutes later he made a big entrance by smashing my door open. We hung out for a couple hours when I got a kik message from Jake saying, "Good afternoon Daniel". I replied to Jake while Zayn kept talking about his "big" problems that I've heard tons of times before. I'm not trying to be rude, but he keep talking about the same goddam things.

Jake and I chatted for a long time and Zayn finally stopped talking and asked me who I was talking to all the time, I just replied with, "A new friend. His name is apparently Jake and he is from Massachusetts. " Zayn just looked at me like he didn't care, he always do that.

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After dinner time I was home alone sitting on the couch watching TV and I was talking to Jake, he messaged me saying "I have to tell you something."

I was kind of nervous but I had a feeling the truth was coming."