Message Received

Twenty-one-year-old Harry Styles is lonely.

Painfully shy, painfully awkward, and painfully aware that he doesn't seem to know how to talk to people in real life, Harry's days have become an endless routine of waking up, going to work, coming home, and doing it all over again.

Online, though? Harry is someone else entirely.

He's loud. Funny. Unfiltered. He has friends scattered across the world who know a version of him that no one in his real life ever gets to see.

And every night, before he goes to sleep, Harry sends a message to Louis Tomlinson.

The Louis Tomlinson.

His favorite member of his favorite band. The person Harry has adored for years. The person with millions of followers who couldn't possibly notice one awkward twenty-one-year-old buried somewhere in his messages.

Which is exactly why Harry tells him everything.

His terrible days. His good ones. The customers who annoy him at work. The things that make him laugh. The things that make him lonely. Sometimes it's a paragraph. Sometimes it's practically an essay.

He never expects a response.

Honestly, he isn't even sure Louis reads them.

Until one day, Harry gets a message.

Not from Louis, of course. That would be impossible.

Right?