ouch. ➵ larry stylinson

Chapter 2

Louis' POV:

Finally. Uni has finally ended for the summer. 

As I'm packing up all of my stuff, Trevor walks into my room. 

"Really Louis? Why do you have to leave?" He says in a whiney voice. I love Trevor to death but god he's so whiney. He's my friend but I wouldn't call him my best mate.

"Trevor, I've told you this 4 times, I got a scholarship for another university." I say rolling my eyes. 

"Ughhhhhh. Whyyyyy?" He says. God this kid gets on my nerves. I ignore him and continue packing. 10 minutes later, my phone starts to ring. 

My mum. I press the accept button and end up having an hour long conversation with her. 

...

I drive up to my new apartment that I'm sharing with two others. I wanted to get my own place but who knew it would be so expensive. 

I knock at the door to my new apartment, door 946, nervous to see who my roommates are. 

A boy with raven black hair and lots of tattoos answers the door with a brown haired boy following behind. 

"Hey, I'm uh, Louis." I say, sticking out my hand. The boy with the black hair takes it.

"I'm Zayn, nice to meet you mate." He says, he sounds nice so that was a good outcome. "I'm Liam." The boy with the brown hair says, going and leading me into the house. 

My room here is bigger than my other one so that's a plus. 

"I'm going to go make brunch." Liam says to me and turns to Zayn. Their lips meet in a simple kiss, making my jaw drop. 

Liam skips out of the room as Zayn, now with a huge smile on his face, turns to me. When he sees my face, his smile drops. 

"Oh Liam and I are dating i-is that a p-problem?" He says stuttering. He must have read my expression wrong. 

"No! It's totally fine! I'm gay, you're good." I say a little flustered. His smile comes back onto his face. 

"Oh good, our last roommate was a little homophobic that's why he moved out." Zayn says with a sad smile. 

After Zayn helped me unpack, Liam called us for dinner. He made us pancakes and eggs. Zayn kisses him and takes his plate while I say a simple thank you and take mine. 

After we finish brunch, Liam puts the cake into a box. 

"Can you go next door and give this to the person next door? He's always asking for food. He's the blond lad and he lives alone." Liam says.

"Sure!" I say, grabbing the box. I need to meet our neighbors anyway. I grab my key and head out the door. I lock the door behind me and look around. Shit. Liam didn't tell me the room number.

945?

947?

Great. Now I have to take a guess. I decide to go with 945. I hope it's the blonde lad. I knock on the door with the cake box in my hands, secretly praying that I got the number right. 

A tall lanky boy answers the door and stares at me with stunning green eyes. He has beautiful long curls that go around his chin. He looks terrified. 

"Hi." He mumbles to me in a slow, deep voice. He still looks extremely scared and keeps looking around me for something. He's very attractive I'm not going to lie.

"Oops." I say looking down at the cake. I was at the wrong door damn it.

"Sorry, I'm Louis. I think I have the wrong apartment." I say nervously. I can sense that I'm blushing, why the hell am I blushing? I'm usually very sassy and outgoing. Something about him throws me off though.

"Oh okay." The tall guy says, glancing around once more before closing his door. 

Then he opens it.

And closes it.

Open.

Close.

Open.

He takes a deep breath and mumbles a curse word under his breath. I turn around and start slowly back to door 947. I glance back and see him closing the door. I keep staring but he doesn't open it again. 

When I reach the other door, I knock to see a blonde bloke answer the door. "Hey! I'm Louis, Liam told me to give this to you." I say, holding out the box. The blue-eyed boy looks at it and lights up.

"Thanks mate! I'm Niall by the way." He says, in a strong Irish accent, while taking the box. I turn around and Niall closes the door. I head back to my room.

...

Later that night, I was talking to Liam and Zayn in the living room. 

"Hey lads, who's that one guy in room 945?" I ask, a little nervous to talk about it.

"Oh that's Derrick, he's a massive dick." Zayn says. The person I met was quite nice though.

"Does he have a roommate?" I ask.

"Yeah, he lives with his boyfriend Harry." Liam says. My stomach twists at the word boyfriend. Damn it. 

"Wait, how did you know?" Zayn says.

"A boy with curly hair and green eyes answered. He didn't seem so mean." I said, almost including that he was attractive.

"Woah strange, I've lived here for 3 years ever since they moved here, I think Harry's only answered the door 4 times." Liam says with questioning eyes. I wonder why only Derrick answers the door. 

"He closed the door like 5 times too." I accidentally say. 

Zayn chuckles. "Yeah, we think he has ocd but no one asks. Derrick will kill you if he finds you ask Harry." 

Oh. That does make sense. I'm not sure why, but I feel so drawn to him. Maybe because I have a crush on him, god I sound like a school girl, or maybe I just want to learn more. 

Both. Definitely both. 

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welcome ot5! 

i have so much planned for this book.

fun reading! 

-Lillian xx