15 Chapter fifteen:)

Harry felt his heart beat faster and faster as closer Nialls steps got. He tried to breathe as quietly as possible, he had tried to hide behind the couch. It wasn't a pretty good place to hide but Niall still didn't find him. "Only Zayn and Harry left." He heard Liam say not far from him. Harry had a pretty good chance to win this time.

And he may if his nose wouldn't tingle, he tried so hard not to sneeze. "Well, well, well," Louis said blinking behind the couch "Looks like we need to clean up here. A lot of dust behind here isn't it Harry." Louis smiled and helped him get up. "Oh, it is" Harry pounded the dust off his clothes. "Well, you still have to find Niall." Liam smirked.

"I already checked all rooms out, he isn't anywhere."

"Actually I am" Harry turned around to the boxes in the corner of the room, one popped open and Niall stuck his head out, "Hi guys," he said with his Irish accent. After Louis had found Zayn as well it was Liam's turn to count.

Harry tried to find the perfect place to hide, he ended up in Louis' room "nine, eight..." Liam yelled that was Harry's sign to hurry so he decided to just hide in the closet, which was probably the worst place because Liam would look in there first. But he runs out of ideas and Liam was already on his way so Harry roughly ripped the doors open and saw Louis looking at him.

"Oh god Harry you scared me, I thought you are Liam,"

"I didn't-"

"Shhhhh" Louis pressed his pinger against his lips to show Harry to be quiet "I hope you got a save hiding place." Harry turned his head to the direction Liam's voice came from. As Louis pulled him into the closet and gently closed the doors.

"Be quiet he's right in the room." Harry held in his breath. Louis tried to sneak a look through the gap between the doors. It was so quiet that Harry could hear the pattern of their heartbeats. Liam's footsteps got closer "Cover your legs and face with those." Louis whispered and threw some hoodies over to Harry.

It was a pretty good idea because the closet was stuffed with clothes anyway so maybe they wouldn't be noticed. Harry pulled out the clothes underneath him and covered himself in them just like Louis. Suddenly the door swung open, Harry froze. "Ha got ya!" he heard Liams voice. At that moment Louis squeezed his hand to signalize him not to move.

They just sat there covered in tons of clothes holding their breath in and hoping Liam wouldn't see them. And it seemed to work, Liam closed the doors again and left the room. "Is he gone?" Louis pulled a hoodie off of his head his hair looked like a mess, the closet was lit up through the gap between the doors.

"What are you laughing at?" Harry pulled his phone out of his pocket and took a photo of Louis and showed it to him. "You look hilarious."

"Delete it I look stupid" tried to snap the phone out of Harry's hand but he pulled it up before Louis could reach it. "Nope, no chance," he said with a growing smile on his face "It looks too funny."

Louis suddenly jumped on Harry and started tingling him, which turned out to be very effective because Harry immediately grabbed Louis' wrists to stop him "Okay, okay, okay" Harry burst out trying to catch his breath. But he wanted to keep this picture so badly that took a screenshot of it before he looked back at Louis and showed him his phone.

"I didn't know that you are such a tingly person." He sassed around. "Oh, I am tingly?" Harry raised his eyebrows "I will show you-" Liam ripped the doors open Harry flinched frightened "Ha! I knew I've heard someone" he laughed as he saw the two boys between all those clothes. "Did we win?" Louis asked smiling hopefully.

"Yes, which is really disappointing because you guys chose the most basic place to hide as possible."

"But it worked," Harry smiled confidently as he climbed out of the closet brushing his hand through his hair to fix it at least a little bit. "Zayn suggested playing Singstar next since we have no new places to hide anymore."

Harry didn't know what to think about that idea. He really loved to sing but not in front of others it felt so awkward every time, the only exception was with Louis in the car on their way to the ice rink but with three other boys? He was afraid that he would embarrass himself. Harry noticed Louis' eyes light up "Yess finally I love Singstar."

"Then you should hurry because Niall is already choosing a song." Louis' face suddenly got very serious just as he ran over to the living room "Don't you dare to choose an Irish cult song again Nialler!" Liam and Harry looked at each other and started laughing. "You will get used to them after a while," Liam said between his laughs.

Niall and Zayn were already singing when Liam and Harry entered the living room they jumped around like they were famous singers on stage Niall even pretended to play the guitar. Harry had to smile as he saw the Irish boy have the time of his life on that karaoke machine, he wished he could be that open around others. Louis sat on the couch with his phone in his hand.

"What song is this?" Harry wondered he sat down next to Louis. He turned his phone off "It's American Idiot by Greenday don't tell me you don't know them." He pretended to be shocked. "No actually I just know the one where they sing something about a street with broken dreams and 21 guns." Louis frowned at Harry wide eyed. "You definitely need education in things good music Haz."

Harry turned to Liam to hear his opinion. "Just don't answer him he is very problematic when it goes about music," Liam suggested throwing a sassy smile over to Louis. "What song is next?"  Niall and Zayn stopped dancing, their faces were red and they had trouble breathing evenly. "So, Zayn wished for "With or without you" by U2 and I chose "Mr. Brightside" by The killers. Which songs do you guys want to sing?"

"I would love to sing "Yesterday" by the beetles together with Zayn." Liam smiled over to Zayn who held a thumbs up and smiled back. "What about you Harry?" He shook his head "I don't wanna sing."

"Yeah right. I know you love singing so choose a song for god sake Harry." Louis' accent sounded so adorable when he tried to sound strict.

"Okay I can choose a song but I'm not sure if I will sing Lad." Harry imitated Louis sassily. "Oh we will see," Louis answered in a slow dark voice. It didn't really sound like Harry but the attempt was kinda cute. "I thought about thinking out loud by Ed Sheeran" Did he really say that? "I -I mean we can take another song if you don't like it." Harry corrected himself as he saw Louis look.

"No, no It's a good one." Zayn and Niall started singing the song Zayn had chosen. Harry just sat awkwardly on the couch thinking about Louis' hand in his back in the closet. Why couldn't he just stop thinking about him that way, they were friends, just friends and that was all. Louis' knee touched Harrys, he could feel the goosebumps spread all over his knee. He quickly moved it and created a gap between their legs.

"Now it's your turn Louis, who do you wanna sing with?" Niall walked over to him and handed him The microphone. "I think Harry would do a great job." Zayn smiled and gave Harry the microphone. "No I- I" Harry tried to figure out a good excuse "I don't know the lyrics." That was the first thing that came into his mind. Louis got up "No excuses Haz." Harry rolled his eyes and got up. Ugh.

The song started Louis sang along with his whole heart, Harry felt uncomfortable but sang along quietly, the fact the other boys may watch them freaked him out and made it just more awkward. "Just close your eyes and imagine we're alone in my car." Harry took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Time to face some fears.

The evening ended up to be quite funny, all of the boys decided to join Louis and Harry in singing thinking out loud. "Do you guys think there is any school tomorrow?"

"Liam you have seen the amount of snow out there. There will be no school for the next few days." Niall sad crossing Singstar and hide and seek from the list next to the TV.

"Well, it depends it could be melted by tomorrow," Harry answered he kinda liked that they were stuck but he also needed some space from Louis. Not because he didn't like him, it was the whole opposite reason he was afraid of being that close to him. Louis was so nice to him and he didn't want to lose him because of this stupid butterflies.

"I will go to my room already," Louis said yawning. "What it's only 10.28 pm I thought we will play some Monopoly."  Liam held up the box. "I still have to read a book for school. But you can play without me." That was a lie, He wanted to read the book Harry had borrowed him. Louis loved to read it and take notes next to Harry's, it was the only place where he could tell him his true feelings without destroying everything.

The book was already halfway through, some notes that Harry had taken were so poetic so beautiful but then some nearly erased ones worried him. Like one back on page 33 next to the quote "We have a chance together" stuck an orange post-it with the words "Will I ever have the chance to feel like that for someone?" written on it or on page 106 there was something marked in green.

"Now something so sad had hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."  Louis  flinched at the sound of a ringing phone "God!" The sound came from underneath Harry's pillow Louis crawled over to the other boys' side to take the phone the screen showed a picture of a long-haired brunette woman and the word mommy above it. Chuckling as he saw the name he used to call his mom that too.

"Harry!" Louis screamed. "What's wrong?!" Harry stormed into the room, he looked worried. "You-You got a call." Louis handed over the still ringing phone. "I can leave if you want." Louis offered ready to go "No, I- I want you to stay- please." Harry almost whispered. Harry wanted him to stay and that made Louis happier than he thought.

"Hello?" Louis noticed how Harry's voice started shaking, "I told you I'm fine. No, I don't want to talk with you why can you just accept that....." It broke Louis' heart as he saw that Harry clenched his hand in a fist to stop it from shaking. Louis took it and intertwined their fingers. He didn't care what Harry would think about it he felt the need to hold his hand so badly. Their eyes locked for a few seconds.

Harry's look changed Louis had no idea what it meant. Harry squeezed the older boy's hand, closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. "You know what? Okay."

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I have absolutely no idea if that Chapter makes any sense because I'm really tired right now but I wanted to update so I would keep my goal to update twice a week :)

Also, I won't be updating tomorrow bc it's my birthday and I don't think I have time to write then.