Save You Tonight

Windsor Road wasn't exactly the part of town Louis had expected someone like Harry to live in, the houses were privately owned, but they were small and bad quality. Louis walked along the road, hands in the pockets of his chinos, looking for number 23. It didn't take long to find the little house with the red door and a beaten up honda in the drive. Louis had walked Harry half the way home after school the day before as he didn't really know the route all that well, it was then that he asked Harry if he wanted to go to Zayn's party with him as a 'mate.'

Louis pressed down his striped blue, white and pink tee and ruffled up his hair before shakily banging on the door. He heard a womans voice shout and moments later the door opened to reveal harry in a pink jack wills shirt and some black jeans, he blushed and stepped aside to let Louis in.

"I just need to brush my teeth...you can wait in the livingroom" he pointed to a wooden door that was shut over then disappeared up the pale blue staircase.

Louis watched Harry go with a small smile then stepped into the quaint lilac livingroom, pushing past all the cardboard boxes marked 'livi' til he got to the leather sofa. He took a seat and started to fiddle with his lip -a nervous habit that he picked up as a young child. Louis text Zayn quickly to inform him that they would be at the party in around 15-20 minutes. The livingroom door opened just as Louis slid his phone back into his pocket and a slim, pretty, middle aged woman came in with an eleven month baby girl on her hip.

"Oh hello! You must be Lewis? The boy who has been showing my Harry around school?" She gave Louis a warm smile.

"It's Louis, but yeah I am" Louis smiled.

There was a distant buzz from the kitchen just as Harry's mum opened her mouth to reply to Louis, she swore under her breath and placed the baby on the sofa next to Louis.

"Sorry I really need to get that! Could you just make sure she doesn't go anywhere?"

Louis nodded and watched Harry's mum leave the room in a dash to catch the oven. He felt a small hand grab at his top and he laughed turning to the little one.

"Hi there cutie!" He laughed.

Harry walked into the room a few minutes later to see Louis sat on the floor in front of the sofa playing 'peek-a-boo' to a cackling baby. Harry laughed and picked up the little girl.

"Hey sweetie! He cooed before leaving the room again.

Louis sat playing with his lip once more until Harry returned with a plastic bag. They both walked into the hallway, shouted a goodbye to everyone in the house -Louis wasn't exactly sure how many people Harry lived with- then walked out into the night. For a while they walked in an awkward silence before Louis turned to Harry.

"Who lives with you?"

"Just my mum...my father...left. Mum's from Doncaster originally so all the family are here. She moved to Redditch for dad when she was a teenager."

Louis gave a nod. He felt like he had already over stepped boundaries just by asking such a simple, small question.

"Who is the baby?"

"Oh...that's my daughter," Louis didn't see Harry's lips curl up into a little smirk.

Louis' eyes went wide and his legs stopped dead in their tracks. His daughter? So he was definately straight then...Louis had no chance.

"I'm kidding! She's my cousin, Lux!" Harry grinned, he hadn't stopped walking so was now ahead of Louis.

Louis half laughed and informed Harry that he was a cruel shit before catching up with him. Harry seemed to really be relaxing near Louis, it was nice to see him smile. The rest of the walk to Zayn's was short, Harry had gone queit again, clearly from the nerves of having to meet all these new people and to try remember the names of the ones he had already been introduced to. As they approached the black front door Louis grabbed Harry's shoulder and gave it a reassuring squeeze before pulling down the handle and stepping inside.

The two boys were met with the sounds of Nicki Minaj blasting throughout the entire house with people shouting and screaming over the top. Harry moved closer to Louis as they made their way into the kitchen and spotted Zayn, Niall and Liam all talking and laughing at a counter top.

"LouLou is here!!" Niall shouted, running over and jumping on Louis.

Louis wasn't expecting the sudden weight around his neck and fell foward, face planting the groud and squashing Niall. Everyone in the room burst out in laughter as Harry helped Louis to his feet.

"Hey guys. Glasses are over there if you need any" Zayn smiled before being dragged off to dance with Perrie.

Louis grabbed two glasses and handed one to Niall. He pulled a bottle of premixed pina colada out of his bag and poured it into his glass. Harry pulled his own alcohol out and poured it into the glass Louis had given him.
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By 10.30pm the most of the party guests were drunk or tipsy and causing havok all around the house. Louis was dancing badly with Niall to LMFAO while Harry sat on the sofa laughing away. Zayn came bounding into the room and switched off the music.

"Everyone needs to leave right now! My parents are coming home early."

Nobody moved at first, Zayn shouted while Max and Nathan started dragging people individually to their feet and demanding they get their coats. Harry scrammbled to his feet and Louis made his way over quickly.

"C'mon we'll go find our jackets and get out of here!" he offered Harry a hand so that they didn't loose eachother in the sea of drunk teenagers.

Once their coats had been located the two sped out the front door and started walking back in the direction of Harry's house. Harry stayed quiet for a few moments before turning to Louis with a smile.

"Thank you."

"For what?"

"You showed me around, introduced me to your friends, took me to a party which turned out to be pretty good for the most part. It was really nice of you."

Louis smiled and shrugged his shoulders. He just wanted Harry to fit in and get on with his mates, he was a nice lad. They walked on, chatting about everything from favourite musicans to Louis pet dog and eventually got to Harry's door.

"Do you want to come in? Lux will be home by now, mum in bed..plus we still have drink."

"Yeah, sure!"

They snuck inside, locking the door behind them and walked into the kitchen. It was basic but Harry's mum had been trying to brighten it up with some of her old kitchen appliances and exsessories.

Harry poured the last of his alcohol into a big round glass then handed an empty one to Louis for his own drink. They walked into the livingroom where a little more had been unpacked.

"We don't have our satellite in yet, so its dvd or...dvd"

Harry shoved a big box of movies towards Louis before disapearing back into the kitchen. When Harry returned with snacks Louis was too busy laughing at the movies to notice. After a few moments he spoke up.

"Harry, all these films are chick flicks...like all of them...Love Actually, The Notebook, Beaches, Ghost, Remember me, Dirty dancing..!"

Harry laughed awkwardly "Love actually is my favourite movie.."

"S'alright. Not exactly Grease though, is it ?!"

Harry grabbed his mums old Grease dvd and stuffed it into the dvd player. Louis grinned and took a sip of his drink as Harry grabbed a large chocolate cookie from one of the plates on the coffee table.

"Cookie?"

Louis shifted uncomfortably in his seat and shook his head. Harry gave him an odd look and waved it infront of his face.

"You know you want to!" He grinned.

Louis took the cookie with a shaky hand and took a large bite. Harry pressed the play option on the movie then started to nibble at a bowl of crisps.