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Harry sighed as he laid in bed it was Saturday morning and all he wanted to do was sleep the rest of the day away.
He grabs his phone off of his nightstand and checks the time. It was already noon but he still felt so tired. He also saw a text message from Daniel reminding them about the date they planned for today at four.
It still stung when he thought about the way Daniel rejected him yesterday. He really liked the way the lipstick and lipgloss looked on him, but maybe it was weird for him to wear it.
He knew that this was the wrong mindset to have because boys wearing makeup was definitely not weird. It was still hard to believe it was okay when someone who's supposed to like him tells him it's weird.
He gets out of bed and eats breakfast with his mom before showering and getting ready for his date.
He wasn't really in the mood to be with Daniel today, but he felt bad about being so close to Louis yesterday. Daniel was his boyfriend, after all, he shouldn't have been so close to kissing someone else.
He just couldn't stop thinking about Louis. He couldn't believe Louis was going to be a dad soon. He couldn't believe he was the first person Louis had told.
He wondered if Jay and Lottie knew. He was also beginning to wonder if it was actually true, maybe he's just watched enough soap operas to think that Eleanor would lie about something like that.
He just wanted to kiss Louis and do anything to make him feel happy again. That was his first time seeing Louis so vulnerable with tears on his cheeks and his blue eyes full of sadness. It honestly broke his heart to think about it.
He pulled his blue hoodie over his head, it was the one that smelled like Louis. Louis must've worn it sometime at the lake house when Harry wasn't aware. He was unpacking when the smell hit him and he almost angrily threw it in the washer, but he's kept it away from the washer the whole entire month since the lake house.
He grabbed the collar and pulled it up to his nose before inhaling deeply. He hates that he can't suppress the way his insides come alive at the smell of Louis. It was like every organ inside of him was just as infatuated with Louis.
He pulls up his black sweatpants to ignore his thoughts and laces up his shoes. Daniel is waiting outside a couple of minutes after.
Harry hurries to get inside his car and Daniel smiles over at him.
"Hey, babe." He says and then his smile falls as he looks at what Harry is wearing.
"Are you really wearing that for our date?" He asks cringing his green eyes narrowed. Harry looks down at his clothes confused about why Daniel was upset.
He notices then that Daniel is a little more dressed up then him with a collared white shirt and tan khakis on.
"Could you have at least tried to look decent? It literally looks like I'm going out with a homeless man." He says next angrily as he pulls out of the driveway quickly.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know this outfit would offend you so much. Besides you never told me where we were going." Harry snaps back and Daniel rolls his eyes at him.
"So that gives you the right to dress like that? I guess I'll cancel our dinner plans and we can go straight to mine." Daniel says and Harry feels angry.
"Why are you mad?" He asks and Daniel sighs before speaking.
"I'm sorry, it just feels like you don't care about this relationship like I'm putting in way more effort than you. I really like you, Harry, I want this to work." He looks over at Harry as he speaks and puts his hand on his thigh.
"No I'm sorry, you're right I should've dressed up I knew it was a date. I'll dress up way prettier next time, I'm sorry I ruined our plans." Harry says because now he does feel bad because maybe Daniel had the right to be upset. Harry did just throw on comfortable clothes without thinking about where they would be going.
"It's okay babe, we can still have fun at my house." Daniel smiles at him and moves his hand further up Harry's thigh and Harry smiles over at him.
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Harry has never been so bored in his life before. Daniel insisted they watch the wrestling match together and Harry really tried to stay interested but he just couldn't stay entertained.
He knew it was all fake and some of the wrestling characters made him cringe. They sat on the couch in the living room, since Daniel's parents were never really ever home because they were always away on business trips.
"Damn, it's over." Daniel sighed as he laid back into the couch. Harry tried not to show how relieved he was it was over.
"Hey." Daniel whispered over to him with a smirk and Harry smiled at him. Daniel then pulled Harry on top of him and grinned as he pulled him down to kiss.
Harry didn't feel the same fire running through his body that he felt with Louis.
He knew it was terrible to keep comparing his boyfriend with Louis so he shook that thought away and kissed Daniel back.
The kissing was okay Harry just tried to enjoy it as much as he could. Daniel's hands made their way down Harry's back till they were on his ass.
Harry gasped but only because he was surprised. Daniel had been really touchy lately; since they started dating this week.
Harry doesn't think he's ready to do anything with Daniel yet, so he's been avoiding touching each other. It was working but now Daniel was digging his fingers into the meat of Harry's ass.
Harry digs his fingers into his hair and tries to just enjoy their kiss. He usually enjoys kissing and he figured he should actually try to enjoy kissing his boyfriend.
Daniel's hand moves back up Harry's back but only to slip into Harry's sweatpants. He gets a better grip on Harry's ass now through his boxers.
Harry tries to subtle hint that he wasn't into by grabbing Daniel's arms and dragging them out and up over his head.
He pushes Daniel down onto the couch to keep his hands over his head.
"A little rough play, I like it." He says with a smirk and his green eyes look up at Harry. He reaches up to connect their lips again.
Harry likes it better this way: innocent kissing. He lets go of Daniel's hands and they land on his hips.
Harry thinks Daniel finally got the hint and they continue to kiss. Daniel tightens his grip on Harry's hips before thrusting his own hips forward.
Harry groans and Daniel mistakes it as pleasure because he smirks into the kiss, and bites down hard on Harry's bottom lip. Harry winces in pain and Daniel slips his hands back into the back of Harry's pants.
"You're so pretty." Daniel says before a loud moan leaves his mouth as he dry humps Harry more.
Harry licks his bottom lip and tastes blood on his tongue. He cringes as he notices he isn't even hard either. He has to admit Daniel is one of the worst kissers he's ever kissed.
"I can't believe I'm going to finally fuck you." Daniel says as he tries to pull down Harry's pants. Harry thinks he's let it go far enough and gets off of him quickly.
"I'm not ready for any of that Daniel." He says and Daniel sits up quickly and Harry can see the anger in his now dark green eyes.
"You're such a fucking prude! You're so lucky I even want to be around your virgin ass, anyone would be lucky enough to have me! You're an ungrateful dumb bitch." He shouts and Harry stares at him in fear.
He stands up and gets closer to Harry's face and kisses Harry harshly holding him tightly against him.
He pulls away and glares down at Harry, "You're so ugly and weird, the only thing I wanted to do was fuck you, I never liked you at all. Do yourself a favor and never wear makeup again, it makes you look like a freak. You're not a girl so stop acting like one. I saw the way you looked at the girl clothes in the store like you wanted to go and wear it and that's so fucking disgusting. No one is ever going to want you again, you lost your chance, ungrateful bitch. Now get the fuck out of my house." Daniel says and spits in Harry's face.
Harry feels tears well in his eyes and his blood is boiling. The spit lands on his face and Harry doesn't even think before stepping back and kicking Daniel straight in the fucking balls.
Daniel groans loudly and cups his balls before landing on the ground.
"You dumb bitch, I will beat the living shit out of you!" Daniel shouts and Harry runs out of his house as fast as he can. He knows Daniel will recover soon and Harry doesn't doubt that he would actually come to beat him up.
His phone as in his hand and it's like his fingers are on autopilot because he doesn't even have time to think before he's calling someone.
It rings twice before the person on the other line picks up.
"Harry?" Louis asks and Harry sobs into the phone as he runs down the street.
"Is everything okay?" Louis asks and Harry can hear just how worried Louis is.
Harry stops running as he reaches a stop sign and pants against it.
"I- Could you come to get me please, I'm sorry I didn't know who else to call and I'm so scared Louis." Harry barely manages to get out between his panting and crying. He feels like he can't breathe.
"Breathe for me okay? Tell me where you are and I'll be right there. I'm getting into my car right now but I need you to breathe." He can hear Louis moving around and he takes a deep breath.
He tells Louis where he is and Louis promises to be here soon before they hang up. Harry feels on edge as he keeps looking down the street expecting Daniel to be there.
Knowing Louis is coming for him soon is what finally lets him breathe again and he sits on the curb.
A few minutes go by and then Louis is pulling up next to Harry. Before Harry can even get inside the car Louis is jumping out and running over to him.
He looks at him like he was making sure Harry wasn't injured. He then pulls him into a tight hug and Harry starts crying into his neck.
"Shh it's okay baby, I'm here now." Louis says while rubbing his back soothingly.
"C'mon, let's go somewhere else to talk about it," Louis says after a few seconds and Harry nods. Louis reaches up and wipes his tears away with his hand.
Harry gives him a weak smile and Louis smiles back. Harry then wants to cry again but for different reasons.
They drive down to a small park and Louis parks in a parking space that overlooks the playground. Louis turns off the car before turning around in his seat to look at Harry.
"What happen?" Louis asks softly and reaches his hand out to lace his fingers with Harry's. Harry thinks that might be their thing to hold each other's hands when they talk about things like this, things that hurt them. He thinks it signifies that they've always got each other no matter what happens.
Harry squeezes his hand and stares down at their laced hands before speaking.
He tells Louis everything from the way Daniel treated him about wearing makeup at the party, to everything that happened today. He even tells him about small moments that happened before the party.
The second day they started dating Daniel had taken him out to the store to help him pick out shoes. Harry kept looking at the cute women's clothes he saw, and Daniel pulled him by his wrist harshly into the men's section. Harry remembers running his finger over the red mark that was temporarily there. It didn't bruise and Daniel kissed him and apologized, so he let it go. He feels so stupid now.
He can see Louis visibly get angrier as he tells him about everything. He stays quiet and listens until Harry stops talking.
"I hope you know I'm going to kill him." Louis says and he looks so angry as his leg bounces. His fist was clenched and the vein in his arm was visble. Harry thinks it's kind of hot, but of course, he doesn't want anyone getting hurt even people who deserve it.
He knows he kicked Daniel in the balls and that's so unlike him. Daniel was just pushing every single one of Harry's buttons. That didn't mean he wanted Louis to hurt him, because he knows his kick would be nothing compared to Louis. Louis constantly worked out and he was definitely strong. Harry has drooled over the size of his biceps many times.
"Louis, you can't. Besides I forgot to tell you I kicked him in the balls." Harry says shyly and Louis gasps before bursting out in laughter.
"Yes! That's my boy! I hope you kicked his tiny dick off." Louis cheers and Harry blushes at the praises and his stomach backflips at Louis calling him his boy.
"Me too. I'm serious though, I know he deserves it, but you'll just get into trouble with the school and your coach and he's not worth it." He says sincerely while meeting Louis's blue eyes. They soften under Harry's look and sighs.
"Fine, but only because you asked me to he's lucky you're such a good person." Louis says and Harry giggles. Louis smiles stupidly because he loves when Harry giggles.
He notices then the little mark on Harry's bottom lip and he reaches up to run his finger over it. Harry winces and he remembers the terrible kissing that caused that to happen.
"Does it hurt?" He asks his eyes trained solely on Harry's lips. It makes Harry squirm in his seat because he knows he can't kiss Louis.
"Not a lot." He mumbles out as Louis still stares at his lips so Harry licks his lips and he's not trying to be seductive but Louis looks away quickly and groans.
"The things you do to me, Harry." He says slowly with his face on the steering wheel. Harry can't help but feel smug although he knows he shouldn't because Eleanor won, she's having his baby and she has him.
"How's Eleanor?" Harry decides it's better to ruin the moment then to let things get too far. Louis looks caught off guard and his face falls as if he had almost forgotten there was a world outside of just the two of them.
"She's good, she told me she has a doctor's appointment next week but for some reason, I can't come. We had an argument about it and she said it was because she was still insecure about her stomach. She's been trying so hard to hide it, I haven't even seen it." Louis sighs and Harry finds it a little suspicious but he thinks it's maybe jealousy getting in the way.
"Does your mom know?" He asks and Louis shakes his head immediately.
"No, I haven't told anyone apart from you." Harry's heart races but he doesn't get to speak because Louis keeps talking, "Are you hungry? I could really use a cheeseburger right about now."
"Yes." Harry agrees and Louis smiles before they're buckling up and driving to Mcdonald's. It feels like when they first hung out, everything is just so easy between them.
The conversation flows and Harry's stomach hurts from laughing. He thinks Louis could be his soulmate maybe in another world where he wasn't with someone else. In another world, where he would've just gotten to Louis before Eleanor.
Although Harry didn't know Louis's head was always full of Harry too. He loved watching the way Harry tried to cover up the loud laugh only Louis could pull out of him.
The way he talked slowly and usually he gets bored of slow talkers, but Harry always got his full attention. He could listen to him for hours and hours. He knows he's fucked it all up and now Harry's going to be with someone who deserves him.
He knows it but he can't stop his heart from beating faster whenever he's around Harry.
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Harry gets home soon after and he waves Louis off. It was a friendly goodbye and although he wanted to do nothing more than having Louis kiss him until he couldn't breathe.
He watches tv with his mom, his head in her lap until it's late and they're both tired. He kisses her goodnight before going into his room and getting into bed.
He pulls his phone out and sees Louis has tagged him in some funny cat video on Instagram. He remembers he had just told Louis today, that he was one of those people who really enjoyed cat videos. Louis teased him about it but he obviously didn't mean it.
His stomach swarms with butterflies because Louis really does listen to him. He likes his comment and replies with "I knew it you also love cat videos ;)"
He smiles happily and despite Daniel trying to ruin Harry, it was a really nice night. He falls asleep with a smile on his face and he wakes up feeling bubbly.
Expect his heart drops when he wakes up to a ton of notifications. People have been tagging in him in things but Lottie's messages catch his eye.
Lottie: Harry??
Lottie: Harry have you seen this??
Lottie: Are you okay? Do you know about this??
Lottie: Call me soon!!
There's something attached but Harry can't see it unless he clicks on the message. He opens it quickly and he can't believe this is happening.