~Looking over his eighth-floor balcony at the labyrinth of the London city slipping deep and far below, Louis Tomlinson couldn't help but think about jumping off.~
Louis Tomlinson shouldn't have found a troubled stranger so alluring. Tatooed with deep rooted trauma, Harry Styles was frustratingly cryptic and reserved, with a concrete intention to only address his past once parts flaked away like peeling paint.
Louis should have found Harry a burden he didn't deserve to involve himself with. Yet, through sleepwalking episodes and haunted honesty, there really was something just so enticing about him and Louis couldn't turn away.
But Harry knew it all along. Louis was forced to discover it himself. The bound truth was: they were simply two star-crossed lovers, destined to fail.
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Content Warnings:
- Mentions of / Suicide
- Self-injury
- Mentions of abuse
- Graphic scenes
Louis and Harry have been best friends since childhood and lovers since they were 15. They can't imagine their lives without each other and yet that's exactly what they both have to cope with when Harry is allowed to do a year's internship abroad. Both initially believe they can manage it but everything suddenly crumbles and neither of them knows how to hold on to the other.
While Harry suddenly has a rising career ahead of him, Louis slips into an abusive relationship after their break up without realising it.
But what happens when Harry comes back and stands in front of Louis again after years of separation? And how do you deal with it when you still love the other person as much as you did from the beginning?