AU where Harry truly believes in Destiny and Louis just happens to cross his path at the right moment. Featuring a world with the size of a stamp, Liam as the best friend ever, Niall as a social butterfly who knows everyone and Zayn who always knows...
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Stupid article and stupid deadline and stupid inspiration and stupid staying-up-all-night-to-write and stupid tiredness and stupid everything, really.
Louis can't help but curse all the events that led him to miss Ed's first gig, a couple of weeks back, because it really was a shame. Now that he's finally seeing him performing, Louis really regrets he couldn't attend the first time. Ed's voice is like velvet and his songs are romantic and nice without being cheesy. Harry is sitting next to him and he has been lip-synching all the songs since the beginning of the gig. Louis thinks it's respectful actually listening to him, instead of madly screaming like people do at concerts.
"He's really good," Louis says. Harry turns towards him but he has a quizzical expression, he probably didn't catch Louis' words. Understandable, since they're close to the speakers. Louis leans towards him and repeats the sentence right into Harry's ear, his curls tickling the tip of his nose.
"He is, right?" Harry answers, a broad smile on his face. "He's going to make it big! I know it!"
Louis smiles, nodding. Harry turns again towards the stage, eager not to miss a single second of Ed's show. Being his friend and studying with him, he probably heard him singing tons and tons of times, but he still wants to be there. It's so nice of him, Louis considers, but it's not a surprise; if he thinks about it, it's kind of an obvious behaviour for Harry. It's just who he is, a friend always there for you. He squeezes his thigh under the table, just because he wants and he doesn't feel like he tells Harry enough how much he's grateful for having him in his life. With a glimpse, Louis catches Harry turning towards him, again with a questioning look. He smiles a little bit, something he's sure Harry will catch but the others won't, and he's rewarded with a similar smile on Harry's face.
"Hey, I'm going to the loo, be back in a few," Zayn announces and Harry chuckles. Louis gives him a curious look, but he turns to Zayn immediately.
"Thank you for sharing this information," he says. Zayn just shrugs.
"Sharing is caring, Lou."
At those words, Liam laughs. Really , Louis thinks. His best friend is so gone for Zayn that he actually laughs at lame jokes, because that was really bad. But Liam doesn't seem to be bothered, because he still has a smile on his face and little hearts in his eyes. Louis resists the urge to snort, but he elbows him anyway, just to make his friend stop staring at Zayn's back.
"Don't look at him while he goes to the bathroom," Louis says. "There are places where a man doesn't want to be followed, Payno. I don't think you're already at that point in your relationship."
Liam blushes and, wow, this is going to be so good. Louis missed in-love-Liam, with all the shyness and the blushing and everything. It's quite a show and it's his duty, as a perfect best friend, to mock him until the end of days. It kind of comes with the job, right?
