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Chapter 5

Dear You,

I swear on our entire friendship that if this living room isn’t clean when I walk out there, I will end you.

And have no remorse for it.

Yours Truly,

-Me

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I held my breath and expected the absolute worst to meet my gaze, but instead, the living room was clean. No cups on the table, no bits of food laying around, no disheveled furniture. Everything was right where it belongs.

“Peculiar.” I say aloud as I scan the rest of the house. Everything else is this way also. I glance over to the clock to check the time. It’s nearly eleven in the morning and I haven’t seen any sign of Louis. He’s usually awake and making a racket by now.

I look over and see that his bedroom door is shut. That can only mean one of two things.

Eleanor stayed over Louis did  something awful

Well this can’t possibly go over well. I thought to myself as I headed for the door.

I knocked softly before reaching for the handle. No response and the door was locked. This was not like him at all.

“Louis are you in there?” I called to him followed by a louder knock.

“Uh, yeah. I’m here.” His voice sounded off.

“Open the door.” I encouraged.

“No thanks, Haz. Why don’t you go out and get a bite to eat. My treat. Card’s on the counter.” His voice cracked twice through that. If I knew Louis as well as I thought I did, I knew he wouldn’t be opening up this door until I left the house.

“Is Eleanor in there?” I questioned.

There wasn’t a reply.

“Lou?” I called as I heard some sort of muffled breathing from behind the door. Taking matters into my own hands, I grabbed the key from above my door that Louis could never reach and brought it down to open his door.

“Louis? What are you doing?” I asked as I walked into his bedroom. He was laying on his bed still dressed in his clothes from the night before, and his back to me.

His shoulders were shaking slightly and as I approached, he pulled his duvet over him tighter.

I walked around to stand in front of him and knelt down to be at eye level. “Louis, look at me.”

A broken sigh echoed from his body as he pulled the covers away from his face. His eyes were swollen and red and his face was splotchy and dotted with tear stains.

“What the hell has you a wreck like this, Lou? How long have you been crying?” A million different things started to run through my head, and all I wanted to do was to fix this problem as soon as possible.

“El and I…we broke up. She dumped me at the party last night. I don’t know what to do. She won’t listen to me. I tried to apologize, honest.” He speech escalated quickly and ended with a terribly guttural sob that made my eyes bug out of my head. I hadn’t ever seen him like this. She did this…Just another reason to dislike her I thought.

I reached a hand out and gently smoothed his hair down in an attempt to calm him down. He really was a wreck.

“Okay, tell me what happened.” I sat cross-legged on the floor and continued to graze his head while he began to talk.

“I did something terrible. It was an accident. You know how I get when I am drunk, Harry. I just don’t think straight.” Well, whatever he did, he really was feeling terrible about it.