Harry Styles is a clumsy, flower crown-wearing, openly gay junior with only two true friends, Niall and Zayn. Louis Tomlinson is the school's attractive, straight football captain, with a small body and a big personality. As fate will have it, Harry has a huge, unrequited, utterly hopeless crush on Louis.
Fate is thrown out the window the day that Harry and Louis find themselves partnered up for a history project. Harry starts to receive notes from a secret admirer, Louis starts to get jealous of Harry's budding friendship with senior Nick GrimShaw, Zayn and Liam develop a thing for each other, and Niall is the best mate anyone could have asked for. And suddenly, Harry's crush on Louis doesn't seem so utterly hopeless anymore.
open hands and closed fists but nothing fills the silence ⌲ l.s.
22 parts Complete Mature
22 parts
Complete
Mature
actions and reactions.
(or: harry hasn't spoken for a year and his boyfriend, louis, has yet to figure out why. harry is a sophomore in college and louis is a senior, and they navigate a world of noise.)
[June 2021]
word count: 50,000 words
trigger warnings: attempted suicide, trauma/ptsd, severe physical violence, smut