*NOT MY STORY* all credit goes to cherrystreet on ao3!!! An AU in which The Bachelor is gay, Louis is a contestant, Harry is the bachelor, everyone drinks a lot of champagne, the entire world gets to watch them fall in love, and no one plays by the rules. *cover is AI generated

NOT MY STORY!! All credit goes to crinkle-eyed-boo (KimmieRocks) on ao3!! Louis blinks his eyes open, his eyelids fluttering as the room swims around him. He takes several gulps of beer once he confirms that he's definitely not hallucinating, that the very first portrait Harry Styles ever painted of him is hanging on that wall. Louis stares at the wall, his heart jackrabbiting in his chest as he realizes that there's not just one painting of him, there's five, the portraits lined up like they're some sort of storyboard depicting the rise and fall of his deepest love. His greatest heartache. A pain that cut him so deep that he left the fucking country, severing all ties with his life in New York, now suddenly surrounding him as if he'd never left. Fucking shit motherfucker fuck. -- Louis returns to New York City five years after he left it - and the love of his life - behind. He didn't intend to see Harry again, but fate has a funny way of pulling them together, whether they like it or not. After making a begrudging truce, they both start to wonder: Would it be so bad if history repeated itself?

Louis finds himself out of place in LA, unable to get at an itch that’s been bothering him for years. He supposes back in the early days, home hadn’t been a place. It’d been a person. He’d etched it permanently into his skin for fucks sake. It was always him and Harry. Stuck to each other like super glue. Pulled together by some magnetic force, existing in their own bubble. Everyone could see it, but that was half the problem, wasn’t it? It's not like Louis can pinpoint the exact moment in time when him and Harry fell out of sync. There wasn't really one at all. It had been a gradual slip, like the tide wearing away at a sandstone cliff. Chipping the solid foundations until there was nothing left to stop the structure falling to the waves below. It's not like he spends all of his time sitting around moping over a lost friendship, he's good at distractions. ------------------------------------ It's a story from Archive of our own! All credit goes to suicxne! :) Hope you enjoy!  

"Get your head out of your ass for once" Louis shouted angrily his cheeks red with anger. "i'd rather have it near yours" Louis choked at Harry's words, his own caught in his throat thinking of something to say back. But when Harry walks closer to him cornering him against the locker placing both of his hands on each side of his head he knew that he won't be able to talk for the next hour and he'd rather not knowing that what will come out of his mouth won't be words.

Louis inherits a house from a family member he never knew existed. Harry takes care of the garden. Niall is one step from calling Lorraine Warren and sure to see Louis in an episode of The X Files soon. __ A story of soul-deep connection, relentless haunting and the quiet strength it takes to remember. My Heart Is a Haunted House asks: what if you could find your way back, over and over again?

Against his wishes, Omega Prince Harry Styles is arranged to mate with someone he doesn't love, much less knows. Though he pleaded to his parents incessantly, they not only refuse to comply but force him to depart on a ship days later. Harry prays for fate to step in, to change what's to come, however, the answer he is given is not exactly in the form he had hoped. Enter Will Tommo - deadliest pirate captain of all seven seas.

Summary: "I do not care if she banishes me to my chambers for a month or the rest of the year, you two must see reason," Louis protests, feeling a minor fit coming on. "He is nothing but an insufferable, cocky, cloddish, pitiful excuse for an Alpha, and he deserves to live the rest of his days in solitary, not me." "My, my, what an array of abuse. I surely would loath to be this inadequate excuse of an Alpha you speak of, but alas I cannot relate to possessing such deficiency," a honey-glazed voice drips out from behind Louis, and the omega can feel the steam pouring over, ready to burst out of his already flushed ears. Or, the one where Omega Prince Louis is thrown a Courting Ceremony. A weekend full of competition ensues for his hand in marriage. As if he's not already stressed about choosing his future Mate in three days, it's just his luck that his enemy, Alpha Prince Harry has decided to partake as well. - Prompt #105: Omega Prince Louis is the sweetheart of the kingdom and pampered to bits. Naturally, when he reaches the marriageable age, an over the top ceremony is held with all his potential suitors being invited to participate in a bunch of tests, with the winner winning Louis' hand in marriage. Louis is horrified when his arch nemesis Alpha Prince Harry Styles also participates in the ceremony.

"Harry, the whole world is in front of you." The younger boy nodded, then let his forehead lean to Louis'. "Yeah, you're right," he whispered. "It is in front of me." ••• Before Harry started university, he created a pretty simple list in his mind: the list of things which could help him survive his first year. Focus on your art studies. Avoid parties. Try to stay out of every drama. At first the plan went quite smooth, but as soon as the first wave of relief sweeped over him, a footballer had to show up and not just cross everything on his list, but also rip it all to shreds and burn up his entire world. Ignoring him wasn't an option; the boy with the cheeky smile looked too familiar to forget. Harry knew one thing for sure: there wasn't a rule he wouldn't break to get the answers for the questions of the past. Even if that meant he had to face with a beautiful mess, called Louis Tomlinson. ••• • completed story • (And the chapters are long af) (It's starting to get quite good from chapter 5, okay) (Please give it a chance lol) (Thank you, love you) WARNING: the story contains swearing, detailed (!!) smut and mentions of homophobia and self-harm, BUT I can reassure you, ((kinda spoiler I guess)) the story will have a happy ending for sure! 2021: #1 toplinson, out of 108 stories #53 larryfluff, out of 718 stories 2022: #1 larrysmut, out of 1,12K stories (crying tf is this achievement, help) #1 toplinson (again, help this is supposed to be a cute story) 2024: #2 louistomlinson, out of 77,9K stories <3333

"You know," He whispered. "The pirate way is to take your pretty finger with the ring. If you want to keep your lovely hand you have to give me something else of value." Louis swallowed again, harder this time. "I don't have anything else." He mumbled worriedly. Averting his eyes. The pirate grinned. "Oh, but I think you do." --- COMPLETED STORY.

Harry Styles is an Omega used to city lights, designer clothes and not having to touch actual dirt. So when he's suddenly relocated to the middle of the Tuscan countryside with only his old family villa and far too much fresh air for company, he's not exactly thrilled. He's ready to be miserable about it, too... until he meets Louis, the annoyingly handsome gardener with dirt under his nails and a way of looking at Harry that makes him forget why he ever liked city life to begin with. But Louis hides something big and Harry has to decide if he goes back to the safe, polished life he ran from... or stay and risk everything for love in the middle of nowhere.