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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All his life, Louis has always known he has the best quality ever: patience. After spending the last four years with Eleanor, it would be foolish to think that he's not patient. Not that she's a pain in the ass, he would never think that, otherwise they couldn't function together, but... Well, she's the living proof of Louis' patience.
That's not the point, anyway. The thing is that Louis and Liam are queuing at the supermarket and his best quality is about to abandon him.
First of all, his arms are full of bottles and boxes because, hey, they didn't need to get anything but a bottle of Jack Daniels, so they didn't bother to take a shopping cart. But Liam insisted to buy every fucking brand of alcohol he fancies, so here they are, arms almost broken by the huge quantity of goods. And second, he secretly hates old ladies while they're shopping. Really, there's something about them that just makes him so, so nervous.
Louis yawns and a bottle of whisky almost falls on the ground. He glances at Liam, just because it's all his fault, but he just shrugs in return. In front of them, an old woman is slowly – very, very slowly – counting her freaking coins one by one. Louis wants to scream: he's tired, his arms are about to abandon him as well and all he wants is to pay for the groceries and go home.
"I have a question, anyway." Louis tries to turn around to face Liam.
Liam seems as tired and annoyed as Louis when he answers. "Oh my gosh."
"Why the fuck do we have to buy all this stuff for Niall's party? It's Niall's, after all. And, now it even turns out that the fucking clover has a girlfriend, so why doesn't she cook? He said she can cook."
"You're such a selfish grumpy boy, Tommo. And ungrateful, too. You know Niall would do everything for your ugly face and you don't even want to buy him some beer for his birthday."
If Louis were selfish and grumpy and ungrateful, he surely wouldn't be there in the first place. He stood Harry up to be there: they were supposed to meet in the afternoon, Louis promised to pick him up to go somewhere he wasn't sure of yet to do some stuff for uni, but Harry wasn't sure about the time, so he told Louis not to worry if other plans happened to come up. So, when Liam asked him to go shopping with him for Niall's party, he couldn't say no. Of course his decision to change his original plans has nothing to do with how he promised himself to talk to Harry about the wedding, that very afternoon. No, it really has nothing to do with that.
If Louis is just a tiny bit honest with himself, he would say deep down he's acting like a coward.
"If I were selfish," he starts, finally putting the bottles on the tape, "you can be sure that in this right moment I'd be with Harry, watching him doing uni stuff instead of being in this shitty supermarket waiting for some dead woman to come back to life."
