Whatever It Takes ~ larry mpreg au

33. Don't make promises you can't keep

HARRY

"Now if you excuse me, I have to go, I have some lives to ruin, you know how I am, I like to hurt people to get what I want" Louis said in an annoying tone "Have a nice life Harry, I hope you find someone less pathetic than me, and you live happily ever after".

Harry opened his mouth to say something, but Louis turned around and walked away, and he decided not to follow him again, he just watched him until he couldn't see him anymore.

"Here" Luke's voice said.

Harry turned around and saw his assistant offering him a bunch of napkins from the shop, so he took them from him and he tried to clean his shirt the best he could, but it was probably ruined for good.

"So that was Louis" Luke commented.

"Mhmm" Harry nodded as he kept cleaning his shirt.

"He's shorter than I imagined" Luke said.

When Matty had to go to the PICU, and Harry decided not to leave Louis' side until Matty was better, he had to explain to some people from his office what was going on, because he needed them to take charge of the business in his absence. He had told them a restricted version, just enough for them to understand why he wasn't going to be available, but he had told Luke the extended version, so he knew pretty much everything.

"I'm sorry for what he said to you inside the shop" Harry apologized.

"It's all good" Luke said dismissively "But what was all that about anyway? Are you going to Bristol? Because last time I checked the store there was doing okay".

"No, I'm not" Harry denied "I was just... never mind, it's not important now".

"Aren't you going to go after him?" Luke questioned.

"I don't think it's a good idea, I'll probably make things worse".

"Or maybe you could make them better" Luke suggested "Aren't you in love with him?".

"I never said I was in love with him" Harry refused.

"You didn't have to say it" Luke smirked.

"Keep your mouth shut blondie" Harry joked, he was imitating what Louis said earlier.

Luke rolled his eyes at him, and then Harry picked up the empty coffee cups from the floor, as well as the paper bag, and he went to throw them away along with the napkins.

"Do you think everyone saw that?" Harry asked worried.

He hated the idea of all his employees knowing about his personal life, it was completely wrong and unprofessional.

"Definitely" Luke nodded.

"Great" Harry muttered as he closed his jacket, to try to cover his coffee covered shirt.

"Should we go back to the shop or...?" Luke wondered.

Harry wasn't sure what he wanted to do. He looked across the street at the building where Louis' office was, he had seen him crossing the street and walking inside of it.

What the hell had just happened?

He regretted some of the things he said, but he was so angry at Louis, that the words had just blurted out without him giving them a second thought.

"Harry?" Luke asked.

"Can you talk to Greg instead of me?" Harry asked "You know what I wanted to talk about".

They had come to the shop to talk to the store manager, about... well that's not really relevant now, is it?

"Sure" Luke nodded "Are you gonna go talk to Louis?".