Chapter 14

Chapter 14

It had been a couple weeks and Louis and I had become just as close as we were before, if not even closer. We’d spend almost every night together, and we both admitted to each other that we are gay. At first It was a unsure maybe but after a while we just ended up talking about it while watching films, we’d just ask questions like ‘do you think he’s hot?’ and we would just laugh about the silliest things and we just felt so comfortable with each other.

I lay there in bed, staring the ceiling just thinking about Louis. I really wanted to make a move, but I was too scared of being rejected and losing our brilliant friendship. I couldn’t live with myself if I lost him now.

I shifted in bed, feeling the warm covers snuggle around my body. Thank god it’s Saturday, otherwise I would not be able to get out of bed. The past couple weeks at school, I’d been doing loads of exams and the stress was getting to me.

“Niall!” I heard my brother, Greg call from down stairs.

“Yeah?” I called back.

“There’s a letter here for you, I think it’s from the school!” he said. My results. Our school posted them home. I immediately jumped out of my warm bed and rushed down stairs.

“Nice boxers,” Greg laughed from the bottom of the stairs, as he passed me the letter; drawing my attention to the pair of superman boxers I was wearing. I rolled my eyes at him, taking the letter from his hand and sitting down on one of the steps.

My fingers twitched as I held it in my hands, my palms getting sweaty and my heart racing like mad. I took a couple deep breaths before opening the letter slowly.

(Louis’ POV)

I sat on the couch, my whole family sitting around me waiting for me to open the letter, my results. I palms sweating madly. I swallowed visibly, as I opened the letter. I read over the page and a smile grew on my face. I’d passed everything. There was a couple ‘C’s but I didn’t mind because that still counted as a pass. I let out a big sigh, and I could feel tears coming to my eyes.

After everything I’d done this year, it had all paid off, and now I could go out into the world with the results that I was happy with. It felt amazing to know that I’d done it all by myself, I’d achieved this standard by myself.

“So?” my family said impatiently, as if I wasn’t already clear on my face. I passed the letter to my mum, feeling speechless. The girls crowed around her trying the peak at the paper. My mum smiled widely, tears coming to her eyes.

“Oh Louis,” she said, her voice full of pride. She got up and gave me a big hug, putting the paper down on the coffee table, and I got up to meet her hug.

“How did he do? I don’t understand all these letters?” Fizzy said; I looked over to where she was looking at the paper confused.

“He did very well, fizz, extremely well,” she said turning to her smiling. Then looking back at me, a small amount of happy tears trickling down her face, she wiped them away quickly sniffing. “I’m s proud of you Boobear!” she said.

“Thanks mum,” I said, “but will you please not call me that in front of my friends? Harry’s started calling me it!” I laughed.

“Never!” she chuckled. I heard a knock at the door and mum excused herself so she could go and answer the door. I looked over at the girls and they were all smiling at me and I opened my arms as they rushed to give me a hug.

“Well done Lou,” Lottie said smiling. At me as she retreated from the crowded hug.

“Thanks,” I said.

“Boobear, Niall’s here for you!” Mum said smiling from the door way. I exchanged a quick glance with Lottie who was trying to hide a smile; as I made my way to the front door, and sure enough there was Niall, standing there in grey sweatpants with a red polo shirt, and sporting a very messy bed head. If only he knew what that did to me.

(Niall’s POV)

As our eyes met, my felt suddenly self-conscious, I’d barely put any work into my look, to be honest I quite literally shoved on some old grey sweats and ran to Louis. My hair was probably a mess and I just generally looked like a scruff. But I didn’t care that much, I wanted to share my results with Louis, and that was the main point.

I ran my fingers through my hair quickly, in an attempt to tame it; but it was no use, my hair was being stubborn.

“Niall?” Louis questioned confused as he got to the door.  There wasn’t a plan on how or what to do in my head, to be honest; I just wanted him to know about my maths result. So I just passed him the results letter. As it all came together in my head, I suddenly felt so awkward, why the hell had I just come to his door to show him my results? Why would he care?

He opened the letter checking over the results with a massive smile on his face.

“You did so well Ni!” he said pulling me into a big hug, and I grasped on to him tightly, I don’t know why it felt so good to have him in my arms; but it did. I could feel the smile on my face widen at the use of the new nickname him and fizzy had taken to calling me, along with ‘Nialler’ and ‘leprechaun’, all of which made me smile.

“Thanks,” I muttered into his shoulder before he drew back.

“Why aren’t you with your family celebrating?” he asked.

“Mum’s at work, and I’ve already celebrated with Greg,” I shrugged.

“Oh,” Louis smiled, as if he was thinking between the lines of the situation.

“What did you get?” I asked, changing the subject from the awkward thought that I’d run out of the house just to see Louis.

“I passed everything,” he said in utter joy.

“That’s great Lou!” I said giving him a high five.

“Hey, wanna celebrate together?” he asked.

“In what way?” I questioned confused.

“Breakfast pizza!” he shrugged chuckling.

“I don’t even think the pizza parlour is open at this time in the morning Lou,” I laughed.

“Maybe so, but we can make pizza whenever we want!” he said, the pure excitement and joy radiating from his body, making me also quite excited.

“Sounds like fun, but do you even have the ingredients?” I asked.

“Probably not, but we can go shopping for them in the co-op down the street!” he said, literally bouncing up and down.

“Okay, but I look terrible! I don’t want to go looking like this!” I laughed.

“You look gorgeous, now let me just grab my coat and my wallet and we will be off,” he said bounding off up the stairs. I could feel a deep blush shading my cheeks, he thought I looked gorgeous?

I felt my belly flutter at the thought, I was nothing compared to how gorgeous he was looking today. I ran my fingers through my hair again, trying to sort it out for a second time. After a couple minutes, I gave up; it was useless fighting with it.

“Back!” Louis said, jogging towards me smiling. “Mum, I’m just going out with Niall for a bit, I’ll be back soon!” he called behind him as he closed the door joining me on his porch.

“Let’s go!” he said excitedly grabbing my hand pulling me to a faster pace towards the store. My hand felt all tingly in his, and it made me want to shiver. Until his hot hand met mine, I’d not realised how cold I was.

“Louis, I just want to thank you,” I said, catching up to his pace so I fell into step with him.

“Thank me?” he asked confused, I blushed; it was time the secret was revealed.

“For helping me in maths, you helped me so much more than josh ever did,” I said, blushing slightly at the confession, “to be honest, josh was a terrible tutor!” I laughed.  Louis smiled at me warmly.

“I’m sure he wasn’t that bad!” he chuckled.

“You should have seen the way he tutored me, he didn’t understand my way of learning Lou, not like you,” I grinned. Louis blushed brightly.

“How did you revise so well for the test? We hadn’t covered half of what we learned in math class, together.” He asked. I blushed brightly not wanting to admit that I would think of how Louis would of taught me something when the teacher would try and explain it. It made sense to me, but I doubt anyone else would understand.

“I just tried hard I guess...” I muttered.

A couple minutes later we arrived at the shop. As we entered I realised people were looking at Louis and I strangely, and as I followed a women’s gaze, I realised she was looking at our entwined hands. I blushed furiously and instinctively dropped his hand. I guess Louis noticed too, but he didn’t seem to care because as soon as my hand left his grasp he reached down and clasped my hand again, in his; Making me blush deeply. He picked up a basket from the stack and pulled me down one of the isles as we searched for the ingredients.

“How do we know what to get? I’ve never made pizza before!” I said. He just chuckled and passed me the basket as he picked up a bag of ‘pizza base mix’ and showed it to me making me ‘ohh’ in sudden realisation. He read out the instructions on the back which also advice you on topping ingredients.

“Do you think we should get some for my sisters?” Louis asked me as he picked up two from the shelf, and put them in the basket I was holding.

“Do you have enough money? It’s up to you really,” I said. He nodded and picked up three more.

“Daisy and Phoebe won’t eat a whole one by themselves,” he explained, even though I’d not asked.  He dropped the packets into the basket and pulled me along the isle in search for the next ingredient.

“What’s next?” I asked, trailing behind him like a lost puppy.

“Tomato puree then we got get the cheese!” he smiled pulling me faster in excitement. I couldn’t help the giggle that escaped when he grabbed the tomato puree off the shelf and chucked it into the basket without a care, pulling me once again to go find the cheese.

Memories of the paintballing trip involuntarily conjured up in my mind; making me remember the feeling of the air passing through my hair as I pulled Louis in an escape, the heat of his body pressed against mine when we fell on top of each other, and the close range of his breath on my lips as the intensity of the moment grew more and more unbearable.

“Niall? Are you okay?” I heard Louis ask. It snapped me out of the intenseness that made this whole moment feel almost déjà vu in a way.

“Yeah, I’m fine,” I smiled.

“Good! Now come on! We need to get home and make some PIZZA!” he said enthusiastically. Jogging off towards the cashier, towing me behind him, so we could pay.

30 minutes was all it took to have the whole family in the kitchen and making pizza’s together. Lottie was in charge of helping Daisy and Phoebe make their pizza, while Louis and Fizzy and I were making our Pizza’s together on the other counter opposite to theirs.

“You know what we should do?” Fizzy said bursting with excitement as we knead the dough to make our pizza base.

“What?” I asked, smiling.

“Make them look like us! Like you could put cheese on yours as the hair and bacon as the mouth and stuff like that!” she said, almost bouncing with the excitement of the idea she’d came up with.

I looked over at Louis who was chuckling looking down at his dough, clearly not wanting to get involved.  As if on cue, there was a knock at the door, and Louis took this opportunity to make his escape. Damn. To be honest, I didn’t want to make my pizza look like myself, I just wanted a normal pizza, but as I looked at fizzy, she had this glint of a pleading look in her eyes, and I gave in.

“yeah, sure!” I said, faking as much enthusiasm as possible.

As I began to put the toppings onto my pizza Louis returned with a smiling Harry Styles. For god sake! Why does he always have to get involved?

I topped my pizza completely in grated cheese, then sliced some cheese strips for the hair, and a couple more to make the eyes and the mouth. Worked out pretty well, if you ask me!

“Niall!” Fizzy laughed, “You’re so boring you’ve just covered yours with cheese!”

“Hey!” I laughed, “I love cheese! Except from feta, hate that stuff!” I informed her. She let out a loud laugh as Louis joined us; without Harry. I wondered where he’d gone so I looked around in search for him, and noticed he was over with Lottie helping her with her pizza dough, laughing between each other. The scene made me raise an eye brow; but I brushed it off and returned my eyes to Louis who was chuckling as he looked at my pizza.

“You’re...” he started, “very artistic?” he chucked as he left to go and decorate his own pizza.

“What can I say? I’m a pale person!” I said.

Everyone finished off their pizzas and they went into the oven. And while we waited Louis and I cleaned up the kitchen. I heard Louis start to hum a tune and I recognised the song... I could almost hear the lyrics playing in my mind to fit along with the tune

Cause maybe you’re loveable,

Maybe you’re my snowflake,

And your eyes turn from green to grey,

In the winter I’ll hold you in a cold place.

‘Wake Me Up’ by Ed Sheeran. It’s a brilliant song, and it had me humming along with him. Soon though, the words started to fall from our lips as we cleaned.

“And you will never know just how beautiful you are to me, but maybe I’m just in love when you wake me up” Louis sang, his words resonating with in the room making me stop and stare at him. His voice was so beautiful; it had me so weak in the knees.  Louis eyes snapped in my direction when he heard I wasn’t singing along with him any longer. As our eyes locked, Louis’ cheeks darkened as he realised that I’d heard him singing. Why is he so embarrassed? His voice is amazing!

“That was beautiful!” I said, smiling widely.

“What was?” he asked, avoiding eye contact with me, and continuing to wipe down the counters with a wet cloth.

“Your voice!” I exclaimed, all giddy and excited, “it’s amazing!”

“It’s not,” he blushed, “yours is so much better!”

“My singing voice is nothing compared to yours!” I smiled. Louis face got a deeper red, even though it didn’t seem possible.

(Lottie’s POV)

“Shhhh, Harry,” I whispered, as he stumbled to peak at Niall and Louis too. We both peaked round the corner of the door into the kitchen. We watched them for a couple minutes noticing little touches they would give each other, seemingly unconscious and uncontrollable.

“Phase three is going to happen so soon, I just know it,” Harry whispered in my ear, sending shivers down my spine. Wha?

I nodded in reply and grabbed his hand leading him back to the living room, to give Niall and Louis some space, the last thing I wanted to do was accidently disturb them.

(Louis’ POV)

Niall ate his pizza quickly, seeming as though he wasn’t even tasting it. I could help but watch him smiling. Could this boy get any cuter?

“Hungry were we?” I asked as he finished off the last slice with ease.

“Very!” he sighed, laying back on the couch with a dreamy smirk. I let out a chuckle as I took another bite out of my pizza.

“I’d better be heading home,” Niall said. I looked over to catch him looking at the clock on the wall.

“I’ll walk you home?” I said, sounding more like a question than a statement. Niall smiled at me a nodded, getting up from the couch, as I followed him towards the door.

“Just walking Niall home!” I called, to those who hadn’t already gathered what I was doing.

We walked in silence for a couple minutes.

“So, I saw Demi and Sterling together the other day,” I said. Niall nodded. “You know, I’m kind of confused, if you’re gay, why were you dating her?”

“I’m bisexual,” he laughed.

“Ahh,” I said in understanding, “same here.” I chucked, “does it bother you, you know, seeing them together? After everything that has happened?”

“Not really,” he said, “I don’t think I ever actually had feelings for her, I just thought I did.” He concluded. “I’ve actually got feelings for someone else”

My heart almost leapt out my throat. He has feelings for someone?

“Hmm?” I said.

“Yeah, I have for a while now,” he said, looking at the ground.

“May I ask who?” I said. There was a long silence; we didn’t say anything for a long while.

I was left with my thoughts. Why is he being so quite?

“Sorry,” I said, “I shouldn’t have asked.”

“No, it’s fine” he muttered, sounding uncomfortable. Oh god, I can’t believe I’ve made him feel uncomfortable; me and my big mouth. I internally sighed.

I looked over at the now quiet Niall, to find him not there; I looked behind me to see him standing there with a conflicted look on his face.

“You really want to know who I have feelings for?” he asked, almost hesitantly. In all honesty I didn’t; I didn’t want to know who’d taken the heart of the boy who held my own, But curiosity had got the better of me.

“Yeah,” I said, feeling slightly awkward, but not letting it show in my voice. Niall started to walk towards me and I stood there frozen to the spot as I watched him. He came really close to me, so close I could almost feel the heat of his body against mine. He leaned his face close to my ear as he breathed the one word confirmation that made my heart explode with fireworks.

“You.”

And with that word his lips were on my own in a synchronised mess of passion and love. My whole world came together and everything made sense. Time seemed to stop and everything around me was frozen and all that mattered was these few moments when my mind was filled with Niall. I snaked my hands around his neck pulling his face closer to mine as I played with the hair at the back of his neck; he held my elbows drawing me closer than ever. I made sure the kiss let him know that I felt the exact same. My lips tingled and my heart pumped at an almost audible rate.

He pulled away and smiled at me widely.

“It’s always been you,” he whispered.

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