10 Chapter ten :)

"Are you feeling a little better?" Harry asked setting the books and post-its on the table. "Much better. You really don't have to do that."

"Yes, I do you are too tired to even stand on your feet." He was right Louis didn't even notice until now. He crawled under the sheets snuggling into his pillows.

"I'm sorry for yelling at you." He muttered in a raspy voice, eyes half-lidded.

"Thank you for being there for me." Harry's cheeks started burning. "Good night Lou," Harry said pulling Louis blanked up to the almost sleeping boy's shoulders. Harry almost closed the door as he heard Louis say "Goodnight Haz." His heart jumped. Did Louis just call him Haz? Harry closed the door silently, a big smile on his face.

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Louis woke up to the loud sound of his alarm clock, his head was pounding and eyes burning from crying. He still had goosebumps everywhere Harry had touched him. Louis moved out of the bed and walked straight up to the table, opened the book on page 26 and wrote something on the Pink post-it. He smiled at it, closed the book and placed it under his pillow.

He couldn't stop thinking about what Harry told him. Would his mom be proud of him? Louis lifted his hand and placed it above his heart like Harry did yesterday smiling at himself through the mirror. He felt stronger.

As he entered the kitchen Niall sat on the counter drinking his coffee. "Why are you already up? Don't you have only third period?"

"Yes but Liam asked me if I could help him with the groceries before school." Louis just yawned and stretched his arms above his head.

"I can give you a ride when Harry, Zayn, and I drive to school."

"Liam said it's okay to drive it's not that much snow outside. Oh and Harry already left." Niall said opening the cabinet door behind him to take out a can of sugar.

"What? When?"

"Like twenty-five minutes ago, he told me he didn't want to wake you up." Niall dumped the sugar in his coffee and looked up. "Did anything happen between you two?"

"No. I mean I- I told him about mom."

Niall looked up surprised "You did?" Louis just nodded, he felt a cold pain in his chest but it wasn't as bad as yesterday. Niall jumped off of the counter and pulled Louis into a hug without another word.

"I'm proud of you," Niall whispered in Louis' shoulder and squeezed him tight. "Thank you Nialler." Niall let go of him "And now go to school!" He tried to sound strict.

"Sure dad," Louis joked. Niall took a sip of his coffee and grimaced his face in disgust "Ew, that was way too much sugar." Louis laughed as he left the house.

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"You don't have to take me home after school. I will go over to Gigi and pick up my car." Zayn shut the car door. "What is this between you and her?"

Zayn smiled at the ground trying to cover it with his hand. "Nothing."

He said trying to act natural. "Your smile betrays you."

"See you."

"Have fun." Louis sang amused.

He heard Zayn laughing before he disappeared in the crowd of the hallway. Louis stepped into the washroom to take a look in the mirror. He wore a white jumper, his winter Jeans jacket on top black skinnies, and his vans. Pretty basic but Louis liked it, he was never the kind of guy who dressed extravagantly.

His hair looked good today as well it wasn't as thin as usual. He brushed his hand through it and left the washroom. He spotted Harry at his locker and walked straight through the hallway towards him.

"Harry." He felt his heart skip when the younger boy turned and looked at him with his green eyes, his dimples appeared as he smiled. "Hi Lou"

"Why didn't you wake me? You don't have to walk to school when I'm around. You know that."

"Yes I know but you seemed so tired last night and I thought you should sleep as long as possible. Here I got breakfast at the bakery." He handed Louis a bag, who smiled gratefully. "But next time you wake me if you decide to leave earlier for school."

"Sure" Harry smiled. The bell rang and both boys went to their classes.

Louis didn't pay much attention to what the Teaches said, he spent all the time in class reading the yellow book and taking notes in it. He knew it was a risk to read it in class after what happened yesterday,  but he thought he could handle it now after he had finally talked about it. "What are you reading?" A girl next to his table asked.

"It's a poem I borrowed from a friend." Louis looked over to her. "He must be very nice and intelligent if he reads stuff like that." Louis smiled wide "Yes, yes he is." He thought about the way Harry's curls fell into his forehead the way his dimples appeared when he smiled and those Eyes. Louis cleared his throat as he saw the look on the black-haired girl. "Yes, he is cool." Did that sound convincing?

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The last lesson was over, Harry put all his books in his locker as someone shut the Locker door harshly, Harry winced. The guy tugged him against the lockers "Did I scare you fag?" The guy was really close to his face Harry could feel his breath brush his skin. The guy was taller than Harry, his grip strong around Harry's wrist. Harry shut his eyes so the boy wouldn't see that they were glossy.

"Look at me!" He grabbed Harry's face roughly. "You disgust me." The guy spat. Harry felt the tears burning in his eyes and his wrists starting to hurt, he didn't even try to free himself because he knew it would only make the situation worse.

He opened his eyes and look at the boy hoping he would leave him alone then, he had a smirk on his face. Harry shivered and felt the sudden need to throw up. As the bell rang and other students came out of their classrooms the boy let go of Harry and disappeared.

Harry's legs were shaking and his wrists red, he felt his lips tremble and eyes tearing up even more. Harry kind of got used to being treated like crap at school but sometimes like today it was worse. Usually, they just talked or laughed about him. He only got attacked just once until now. It happened a few weeks ago but he thought the guy had just a bad day.

Harry bit his lip to hold back his tears as he spotted Louis making his way up to him. "Are you ready to go?" Harry nodded and they left the school. "Hey uhm could you bring me to my mom's house, I-I need some new clothes." Ugh. Harry hated when his voice broke.

Louis seemed to notice "I have a better idea." Louis turned the car. "We're going to the mall." He said smiling as he saw Harry's questioning look. "I don't have any money with me."

"But I do. I can borrow you something."Louis smiled even wider. He didn't let Harry reject that offer no matter how often he had told him that it wasn't necessary at all.

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"Wow, this mall is huge!" Harry said amazed. "I know" Louis smiled as he locked his car and walked over to the entrance. "Let's go shopping" He sang happily holding the door open for Harry.

"So where do you wanna go first?"

"Uhm I don't know" Harry looked around, the mall had four floors each with more than twenty shops there was no way Harry could choose a specific one. "It's only 1.28 so we have enough time to go through all stores lets start at the first one." Harry wondered how long it would take them to get through literally every store.

"Sure" they walked into the first store which happened to be really cool. Louis walked through the corridors followed by Harry until he stopped next to a brown button-up with different patterns. "Take it if you like it, we'll sort it at the fitting rooms later." Harry eyed the button up, he really liked it but it was expensive and it probably wouldn't look good at him anyways.

"For god's sake Harry, just take it, don't worry about the money." Louis took the piece of clothing and turned over to the hoodies "I like this one and this one" He took out two hoodies, they couldn't be more opposite. One was pink with Spongebob and Patric on it and the other one was black with white lettering that Harry couldn't read.

They both laughed at the face Harry made as he saw them. Louis decided to take both with him. "Let's go to the fitting rooms." The fitting rooms turned out to be quite full so they had to share a stall. Harry wasn't sure if that was such a good idea, he didn't know why he just had a weird feeling about being together with Louis in a small room, shirtless.

Louis closed the curtain behind them and hang the clothes on the hook taking off his Jacket. Harry felt uncomfortable and didn't know how to help it so he just stayed there awkwardly, which made the situation even worse. The older boy seemed to notice "I can turn around if you want." Louis changed places with Harry so he faced the curtain and Harry the mirror.

Harry unzipped his jacket and hung it on one of the other hooks. He saw Louis taking of his shirt through the mirror. Louis had perfect tan skin and his back looked like he did a lot of sport, no one gets muscles like those just for free.

Harry caught himself starring, he shook his head and pulled his own shirt above his head. As Harry grabbed his button up his arm brushed Louis' shoulder his skin tingled and he noticed how Louis stopped moving for a second.

"Can I turn around?"

"One second." Harry hurried to close the buttons. "Yes," Harry looked at himself in the mirror. "I don't know" he tried to pull it right, he wasn't sure if he liked it or not. "It looks perfect on you," Louis said from behind him, he wore the pink hoodie. Harry burst into laugher as he looked at Louis "I love that hoodie."

"Me too" Louis laughed.

"How is it possible that you guys can buy all that stuff?" Harry asked as Louis put his jacket back on and walked out of the store. "What stuff?" 

"The house with all the stuff in it, the snacks for over 70 Pounds, your apartment, and so on."

"Well, as you may notice Liam is rich, as well as Zayn and I have a job."

"Really? Where?" Harry was surprised he had never noticed Louis leaving for work.

"Yes but I only go if they need me." 

"And where?" Louis scratched the back of his head "I only tell you if you promise me you won't laugh." Harry rolled his eyes amused "Yes I promise."

"At the kindergarten," He said shy.

"At the kindergarten?!"

"I know it's ridiculous but I was always good with kids." Harry smiled "I wasn't about to say that. I like children." The thought of Louis playing with children made Harry smile wider.

"Actually, I think it's good for you to hang out with people your height sometimes." Louis smashed his fist against Harry's shoulder, which made him laugh  "Firstly I'm 5'9 and a half, and secondly you promised me not to laugh." 

"How can you be 5'9 and a half when I'm 6'0 and a lot taller than you. And I promised not to laugh at your job I never talked about your height." Louis crossed his arms and tried hard to keep his face looking mad.

Harry burst into laugher what made Louis break out to "Don't laugh at me  when I'm trying to be mad at you" Harry could barely catch his breath "Sorry but it looked more like an upset puppy." They laughed so hard Harry's eyes teared up. He even forgot about what happened back at school when he was around Louis.  

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The drama is coming soon. I'm kind of excited about writing it...

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