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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The first thing Louis acknowledges is Niall's laughter. After that, it's a matter of seconds before Harry freezes with his mouth still on Louis' neck and Liam comes patting his shoulder. Zayn is right behind him and he has this smug smile on his face as if the scene he's witnessing is just what he expected to see from the moment they opened the door. Damn him.
"What–?"
Louis blindly reaches Harry's hand, since he no longer feels his plump and wet lips on his skin, and focuses on what surrounds them; Niall is bent in two, busy laughing his lungs out and not crouching on the floor only because he's clinging to a coat rack. Right, a coat rack, where some balloons are hung.
Balloons. Seriously.
Louis almost chokes on air when he sees what kind of balloons they are. He can read several 'congratulations!' and even one with a 'it's a boy!' on it, but what almost kills him is one with some words obviously written by Niall: ' it was about time, twats' . He looks at Harry, who's staring at the balloons as well and he's biting his upper lip to suppress a smile.
"Do you lads realise that nothing is going to stop them now?" Zayn says, almost laughing but trying his best to sound annoyed. "Look at the face Lou's pulling! It's like hearts are flying out of his eyes!"
"Oh, shut up you, they're cute," Liam answers and Louis can spot the affection, but he can't comment on that because a moment later his friend is hugging him so tightly that he has to let Harry's hand go to pat Liam's back.
"I'm fine, Li, more than that, even," he jokes, but Liam just holds him tighter. They stay like that for a moment, Louis looking at Harry from Liam's shoulder and receiving a soft smile in return, before Liam finally speaks in his ear.
"I'm so happy for you, Lou. You deserve this."
Louis nods, fighting to suppress a sigh. He's happier than he's ever been, but the idea of getting to this point at Eleanor's expense makes his heart ache. He doesn't think he will get over this sense of guilt soon, nor that he will ever find a way to make her forgive him. And he will have to go up to Doncaster at some point, talk to his parents, tell them the wedding is cancelled. God, they will be so surprised, they thought everything was going so well between him and Eleanor. He has no idea how to explain them that not only the wedding is off, but it has been cancelled because Louis is in love with another person, and this person is a male, and...
"Stop thinking. Harry, now," Liam whispers in his ear, making him smile.
Louis rolls his eyes, untangling himself from Liam's arms. He looks at him, then at Zayn, who's still smirking like he had some kind of role in the whole situation. Maybe he had, Louis supposes, since he never complained about Louis' pining and sticked with him from the first difficulties to the scene he made at the pub to the shitty attitude he had towards the world in the recent days. Considering he's a great friend of Harry's, his contribution to Louis' cause may have been a little bit more consistent than what Louis originally thought. Damn Zayn, he knew everything since the beginning and he knew Louis enough to think that in the end he would surrender to the fact that he was lying to himself. Louis smiles at him, before turning towards Liam again.
