Your Addictive Heart || l.s

Unfinished Business

Harry had a new appreciation for Olivia this morning. He decided to be the one to buy their morning drinks considering her low spirits and the crazy night they had had. The line had been incredibly long and they had still messed up his order. He almost missed his friend entirely on his way into school as their first classes started.

"Who's Henry?" Olivia asked as she took her drink gratefully.

"Huh?" Harry tried to rub away the fatigue from his eyes.

Olivia turned the plastic cup around for Harry to see for himself. The cup had the name 'Henry' scrawled across in terrible hand-writing.

"Hey, I tried." Harry sighed and slumped against the nearest locker as she grabbed the last of her things.

"Thanks. Thank you for everything last night. I couldn't do this without you." She slammed her locker shut. "You better get going or you'll be late for Algebra." She ruffled his hair playfully to lift his tired spirit.

Harry put on a giant fake smile. "Wouldn't want that." He joked.

"See you." She smiled and set off.

Harry walked a few feet over to his own locker. He held his drink close and dug through his books with his free hand. The first bell sounded telling him he should already be on his way to class.

As he grabbed the last of his things, he noticed a folded over piece of notebook paper.

Here's a riddle to start your day off:

What has four nipples and should be my boyfriend?

See you later babycakes. <3

Harry couldn't help but smile ear to ear. He shoved the note into his back pocket and blushed all the way to algebra.

***

"I think the entire cafeteria is staring at us," Anna stated as she dug through her lunch.

"Yeah, I bet they all expected me to have transferred schools and changed my name by now." Olivia used humor to deflect how uncomfortable she felt with the attention.

"Ladies, please." Louis finished chewing the food in his mouth before continuing. "They're clearly all staring at Liam rocking his new pair of jeans. It was about time, Payno." Louis made fun of Liam making an effort to get some positive attention. Harry had noticed the new jeans as well and he agreed they were quite flattering.

"Hey, Louis?" Zayn poked his head towards their end of the table.

"Hmm?" He answered.

"Fuck off," Zayn told him. "You do look good though." Zayn smiled at the brown-eyed boy next to him before kissing him on the cheek.

Harry almost choked on his sandwich.

"Woah! When did that happen?" Anna beat him to asking the question.

"We've sort of been seeing each other on and off the past couple of weeks," Liam explained.

"Right, everyone with eyes knew that bit, when did you two decide you were on again? It had to be sometime after you left my car." Louis pressed him for more information.

"We talked on the phone last night." Liam shrugged as he fought back a smile.

"Not that it's any of your business Louis." Zayn reached over Harry to poke Louis in the arm.

"It is absolutely my business if my two best friends are shagging again. Sorry! Don't make the rules." Louis swayed his head as he taunted them in a sing-song manner. Harry was trying not to find it cute but was desperately failing.

"Did you get my note?" Louis whispered as their friends talked amongst themselves. His question had the hair on his skin standing.

"Yup." Harry tried to keep his cool as he opened his yogurt cup. 

"Still trying to work it out then, huh?" Louis teased as he studied him.

He raised his gaze to meet Louis and suddenly they were in their own little world. "I don't know." He played dumb. "What sort of messed up creature has four nipples?"

He giggled sweetly. "Hmm, some sort of freak of nature." He teased.

He shouldn't be allowed to look at Harry with those eyes. It screamed danger to him but he couldn't look away.

Louis took hold of his hand under the table. It was unexpected and made his heart skip a beat or two. He massaged circles into his hands as he got back to his lunch. It was like it was no big deal to him. Harry couldn't focus on anything but the sensation.

"So, I've got like an announcement..or whatever..." Zayn suddenly raised his voice.

It broke the contact between the two boys and Harry was free to breathe again.

"I think I'm going to go out for this art school Liam showed me." He kept his eyes on Liam like he was keeping him grounded.

"Really?" Liam whispered back with joy in his eyes.

"Congratulations." Everyone gave him support and kind words.

"Yeah but like the only problem is I've got like no experience or credits to show the school. I mean my chances are like slim to none." He shook his head.

"We could take pictures of all the stuff you've made for us! You could make a portfolio." Harry suggested eagerly. He loved the idea of helping his friend showcase his work.

"Yeah?" Zayn asked with a small smile.

"Yeah, that's a great idea! You could probably still help with the set work for the musical too. Lord knows I don't trust Jordan with it." Olivia encouraged him.

"Yeah, that'd be great." Zayn accepted.

"Better not forget us when you're famous, Malik." Niall encouraged him as well.

"Thanks, mate." His face flushed from all the positive feedback.

"Oh, hey Harry! There's Reese." Olivia pointed out the boy walking towards Luke's lunch table. "Did you want to invite him over?"

"Wait, that's still a thing?" Anna asked harshly.

Harry felt the pressure as Louis waited for his answer. He didn't know how to approach this with their friends. He and Louis were in a confusing sort of dating sort of not dating relationship they decided was best to keep quiet but he never really ended things with Reese. He didn't even really know if there was anything to end.

"He's uh.. he wasn't feeling well yesterday. I'm sure he just wants to catch up with his friends. We'll talk later." Harry shook his head affirmatively so she wouldn't push him for more.

Harry was satisfied with his answer...until he noticed the extra space Louis created between them.

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