X & Y

Chapter I

Louis stares out the window, watching the other cars drive by slowly. It is a college town after all.

"Niall", Louis nudges Niall's arm.

"What?" Niall asks with the excitement of a damn 6 year old. How Niall is so hyper all the time will always go unknown.

"Ok, first calm your ass down" Louis speaks in a stern voice, like a teacher would her students. Which is ironic because Louis would be anything but a teacher. He hates kids.

He has Niall though.

Which is close enough.

"Second, how far away is our apartment?" Louis asks.

They're staying in an apartment Niall insisted on paying for. It was just going to be Niall, but of course he didn't want to be alone, so he asked Louis to stay with him.

Louis absolutely refused to stay without paying half the rent, but Niall knows about Louis's lack of money.

He would have money if he asked his dad, but he would never ever do that. His father and him aren't even on speaking terms let alone asking for thousands of dollars to pay for an apartment they don't need.

Niall did finally get Louis to stay with him for free, which he still argues about every five seconds.

He can't help it though, even if he knows Niall can afford it. Taking advantage of Niall is the one thing he never wants to do.

"It's about five minutes away." Niall smirked at Louis's tone, "We should find a club to go to tonight."

Louis looks at Niall. They literally just came from a long ass flight and Niall wants to go clubbing? Seriously?

Louis hates this town already.

All Louis wants to do is get in his bed, stuff his face, and watch Netflix, and maybe play Fifa.

That's it.

He doesn't want to interact with all the snobs in the area, at least not yet.

He can barely handle Niall as it is.

"Please? Just tonight. We'll take tomorrow off and play Fifa and eat and do whatever the hell else you do with your free time."

Louis feels guilty. Niall is the one paying for everything. Like it or not Louis feels horrible. The deep feeling eating him up alive.

"Fine." Louis takes a deep breath and sinks into his leather seat while Niall grins his big fucking grin beside him. Fuck.

Fuckfuckfuck. Louis hates clubbing.

Louis stares straight ahead. Fear crawling all over him.

"We're here boys." Mark smiles a sympathetic smile at Louis.

Yay for the snobby life.

They step out of the car and walk around to the front of the building. It looks like a castle. Huge and impressive.

Louis strides forward first, not one to relish in the nicer things.

The big wooden door is decorated with carvings all around and looks heavy. Louis grabs the steel handle and turns it carefully while swinging it open.

Once the door is open Louis looks around.

Wow.

Even as oblivious Louis tries to be with nice things there is no denying the fancy apartment.

At the front the living room is grand with several sofas and a flat screen TV hung up on the wall above the brick fireplace. To the right is the dining room and through the window you can see the modern kitchen behind it.

Louis walks forward looking around at all of the nice paintings and wooden carvings embellished into the wall.

The rooms seem all carpeted except the kitchen. To top all of this off though is a grand piano set in the living room.

Niall better not try and play that thing.

Louis leaves himself to wander to the back rooms and finds three bedrooms all with separate connected bathrooms.

Well it's official.

Niall bought a fucking house not an apartment.

Louis leaves no comments though and puts his dirty duffel bag on the bed of the room farthest back.

The farther away from the piano, the better.

Louis flops himself down on his bed and takes a deep breath. Right after though he feels the bed dip and someone hug him from behind.

The boy puts his head on top of Louis's shoulder and cuddles closer.

"Hi." Niall says sheepishly and puts his mouth right next to Louis ear. He can feel the boy's hot breath.

There was a pause.

"CLUBBING LET'S GO!" Niall yells suddenly making Louis jump in surprise.

That fucking prick! Louis swears he's going to strangle him with the hanger from his fucking designer closet. Then burn him alive with all the alcohol of the stupid fucking club he wants to go to.

"Niall fucking Horan" Louis seethes.

The Irish lad had already sprinted away knowing not to stick around when Louis gets this pissed.

Serves him right.

Louis springs up and runs down the short hallway searching frantically for the boy. When he turns up sadly blank Louis stalks back to his room, but not before yelling at Niall that they better go to dinner first.

Niall yells back from whatever abyss he's in and Louis deems it satisfactory.

Time to get dressed then.

Louis grabs his duffel and pulls out a pair of black skinny jeans and a maroon shirt. Throwing it on Louis then fishes out a pair of short white socks and sits down to tie up his pair of black vans.

While sitting Louis checks his bag for his jacket since it's a bit chilly outside. The rest of his clothes Mark brought in with Niall's stuff, but it's by the door, which is way to far for Louis.

"You ready to go eat?" Niall shuffles in wearing something similar to Louis except different colored jacket and shirt and shoes. Pretty much the only similarity was the jeans.

"Let us depart oh young Irish lad!" Louis cheers and grabs Niall's arm.

"For adventure!" Niall yells and they walk forward together heading to the car.

A/N: I'm thinking that my update schedule will be every sunday, and when feeling inspired Saturday's. Thanks for reading and voting and commenting!