Chapter eighteen :)

"Looks closed." Zayn who sat in the passenger seat said. It had been four days since the talk with Louis. The snow was almost completely melted, but school still closed. The five boys got a mail from the director which said that the school wouldn't open until next Monday, because they wanted to be a hundred percent sure that there would be no ice on the streets anymore.

So they had four more days off, finally able to leave the house again. Harry got tired of watching movies and playing games all day. Niall decided to go to the 014 which was a laser tag bar close to the mall. But as they arrived it seemed to be closed "Oh no." Niall cried. Harry tried to read the sign at the entry. "Today is Thursday right?"

He turned over to Liam who sat at his left, he nodded. "It's closed." He confirmed.

"What now?" Zayn shrugged."I don't know. Any ideas?" He turned around to the three boys sitting in the back. Louis suddenly jumped up and leaned over to the front seats "Here start this playlist."

Harry tried hard to look everywhere else but at Louis' bum which was hard because it was right in front of his face. Liam seemed to notice he gave Harry a little push from the side, giggling. Harry cleared his throat "I- I wasn't about to uhm-" He tried to clear the situation. Liam just smiled and shook his head. "Don't even try." He whispered amused.

"What are you guys whispering about?" Louis asked as he got back to his usual seat. Harry felt his cheeks blush. "Nothing." Liam smiled wide at Louis. "What are we gonna do now?" Niall started the Playlist and drove out of the parking lot "Well, we're going to take a little road trip and see if we can find something."

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"Look at the stars, look how they shine for you, and everything you do, yeah they were all yellow." Niall started singing with a wide smile on his face turning over to Zayn who continued. "I came along I wrote a song for you." Liam at Harry's left started singing along "And all the things you do, and it was called yellow."

Zayn and Louis started clapping along with the bass. It was almost like a little concert, Harry thought joining them clapping and singing the next line. "So then I took my turn, Oh all the things I've done," Louis smiled at him finishing the line "And it was all yellow."

Harry smiled back and all the five boys sang the chorus to the top of their lungs "Your skin, Oh yeah your skin and bones turn into something beautiful Do you know you know I love you so." Louis turned over to see Harry's smile, he looked straight ahead and sang along whit his whole Heart, he looked so gorgeous and happy.

"You know I love you so." Louis didn't listen to the rest of the song as Harry turned his head, their eyes locked. His mom was right, someday he would find someone with who he could picture his whole life. Louis' smile got wider looking into Harry's green eyes that shined so bright they showed a little spark.

Since Louis was a little boy his mom had told him bedtime story's about knights, huge castles and kingdoms or astronauts but the story Louis away wanted to hear a certain one called 'your Hazza' It was about Louis' future, with that one special person that she called Hazza.

It was the person who would stay by Louis' side for the rest of his life. The person who he would laugh with cry or even fight with, but most importantly that felt like home. The one person everybody wants to find.

It was always a different story, sometimes they were realistic and other times they were so exaggerated that it was funny. But they always ended up the same, happily. Married and living in their own house with children and a dog, nice neighbours.

After singing every song from the playlist Niall stopped the car in the huge parking space of the Winter wonderland. "What is this place?" Liam asked opening his door, looking around. "Well I thought because it is Christmas in like a week, we should get a Christmas tree for Louis' apartment." Niall walked over to the entrance followed by the other boys.

"And we can eat something" Niall added. "Sounds good I'm starving," Zayn said zipping his leather jacket "They even have a rollercoaster!" Liam jumped excitedly. Harry hated rollercoasters, as he was a child he once went on a one and nearly vomited. Since then he never went on one again. It was kind of traumatizing for him as a child.

"But I don't have any ornaments." Louis who walked to Harry's left said "There is also a store for that." Niall pulled a wallet out of his pocket and got each of the boys a ticket. "Let's go," Liam yelled running through the huge doors.

The wonderland turned out to be pretty huge it had a few side buildings and something like a park in the middle. In the centre of the park was a huge ice rink which reminded Harry of the day he and Louis went ice skating together. The whole place looked like a fairy tale. Christmas decoration spread all over the place and it smelled like roasted almonds and eggnog.

A happy feeling bloomed in Harry's chest as he saw all of the children running around, laughing and throwing snowballs at each other, one even hit Niall right in the face. "How I like those children." Zayn laughed. Niall gave him a dead look just before took some snow and threw it at the black-haired boy. "Huge mistake Nialler," Zayn warned bending down to pick up some more snow.

Harry laughed at their fight, Niall and Zayn looked just like the children around them. Liam joined their fight and within seconds the three boys landed on the ground smashing snow in each other's faces. Suddenly something cold slide down his back, he jumped away and turned to Louis who grinned wide at him.

"Oh, you gonna pay for this." Harry tried to shake the snow out of his hoodie as he took some snow off the ground walking grinning towards Louis. "You wouldn't dare." Louis just continued grinning so wide his eyes crinkled up the way Harry loved. He raised his eyebrows as he got closer "You think?" Harry smirked sassily just before smashing the snow right into Louis' face.

"You didn't" Louis jaw dropped. Harry laughed so hard, his belly hurt "Oh yes I did." Louis grabbed some new snow and ran towards him "beware Haz" Harry stumbled backwards trying to cover his face with his arms as he tripped over Liam's leg, and they both landed on the ground next to the others.

Louis landed roughly on top of him. "ow." Harry coughed, looking into Louis' blue eyes. Everything around them stoped. It was a moment like in all of those movies. Just that in reality, it was definitely more awkward. Lately, those awkward situations between him and Louis happened more often than before.

"I- I'm sorry," Louis whispered breathlessly without looking away from Harry's eyes. Harry just nodded unable to say anything he was paralyzed by those blue eyes starring into his. His skin tingled under the touch of Louis' body. Something in Louis' eyes changed like he was thinking hard.

The snow underneath Harry cursed goosebumps all over his back, and his hands started getting numb. "I don't want to disturb you guys but you should get up," Liam said scratching the back of his head smiling awkwardly, while Niall and Zayn were already on their way to the food area.

Harry didn't even notice that they had gotten up. Louis got on his feet and offered him his hand, he still had that look on his face that Harry couldn't read. "Whoa, your hands are freezing. We should go inside quickly." Louis said pulling Harry up on his feet.

"Well Niall and Zayn are getting some food but you two can already go and buy some ornaments." Liam suggested pointing at a store behind him."I will go and tell Niall and Zayn to come there." "Sounds good." Harry smiled before Liam turned around and walked through the crowd of people.

Harry's skin burned, wanting to touch Louis again. He tried to push the thought out of his head. They were just friends, even tho they have had some moments. Harry noticed how he pressed his eyes shut for a few seconds to stop his thoughts as they walked inside the store. But they kept coming back to his mind.

"Whoa, this is-" Harry looked around with wide eyes. "That is- wow." Louis sounded as impressed as Harry himself. The whole store was covered by sparkling ornaments in all thinkable colours and sizes. Tons of glowing fairy lights hanging from the ceiling. Louis watched Harry's eyes lit up and a smile appear on his face, so wide it showed his cute dimples.

"Com on" Louis gave Harry a huge smile dragging him through the first corridor over until he suddenly stopped in front of a huge shelf filled with glittery ornaments. He looked all the way up. "I want this one." He pointed at a green one on the very top of the shelf.

"The green one?" Harry asked a questioning look on his face as Louis looked at him and nodded. "Could you please help me get it?" A sassy grin grew on Harry's face "Oh aren't you tall enough?" He teased. "Ha. Ha," Louis rolled his eyes trying hard to suppress his smile.

Harry reached out for it and accidentally kicked a blue one off the shelf. "Watch out Sun!" Harry screeched watching it fall. Louis caught it at the last second. "That was close." Harry exhaled in relief.

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"We have to choose a tree now it's already getting dark," Zayn said annoyed as they stood between hundreds of trees. They already spent one hour looking for the perfect one. "Let's just take this one." Harry heard Niall say but he didn't pay attention he was banned by the lights that suddenly lit up all over the place.

Every store was covered in Christmas decorations, little reindeers, snowmen and fairy lights that lit up all at the same time. The Christmas trees which were already decorated with stars candles and little glowing ornaments started shining.

Harry felt like he was right in the middle of a million stars. The other boys stopped talking and looked around as they noticed the lights too. "Wow" Niall breathed out. "That's insane." It was the most beautiful thing Harry had ever seen. Well... He turned over to look at Louis who was already looking at him with a huge white smile.

Harry quickly looked down at the ground so that Louis wouldn't see his cheeks blush. It was probably one of the best days Harry had. The whole ride home he couldn't stop thinking about everything that happened between Louis and him. He just couldn't stop even if he wanted it so badly.

After they brought the tree up to Louis' apartment and gave Niall a lift back to his parent's home Liam, Zayn, and he drove back to Liam's house.

It was kinda lonely sleeping alone again. Even tho Harry felt uncomfortable sleeping next to Louis at first, he was getting so used to having the boy next to him that it felt weird to sleep alone now. If he would sleep at all, his thoughts were running. There was something he figured out in the last few days at Louis'. The way Louis made him feel wasn't about friendship anymore, and that scared him.

He couldn't focus on anything else when Louis was around, his breath stopped when they touched, his skin felt like it was on fire hoping to touch his. But what really bothered him was the fact that he thought about kissing Louis, the whole day.