I'm not weak - Larry

Chapter 9

Louis POV

Walking through the familiar streets is still so weird for me. I've been here yesterday with Niall and to walk them now again feels amazing. I hadn't been here for 10 years but now I can again. Harry's come back is the best thing that happened in ten years time, though he brought a lot of questions with him.

For example: Where do He and Liam know each other from? Where had he been? What happened to him? Why did he come back now? And one question I maybe have the answer for myself: Why do I feel so weird around him?

According to Liam I like Harry. But how can I? I haven't seen him in 10 years... But every time I touch him, I feel some kind of shock! Argh, This is so confusing!

I now reached his house and knock on the door. Not even 20 seconds later the door swings open and I am in the arms of Anne. A sobbing Anne.

I start to hug back awkwardly when she start to talk between sobs 'He talks again! He started speaking again after you left! I don't know what you did but thank you, Louis, Thank you so much!!'

I start to smile, so Harry listened to me and started speaking again. 'Nothing much, you know I am not a wizard.'

Anne releases me from the hug 'Whatever you did it helped!' She says with a big smile. 'Come in' She holds the door open wider so I can go in first.

'Harry is in the living room but I think he's asleep, you can wake him up if you want to though.'

I nod and walk over to the living room. In ten years this house didn't change much, I still know where every room is. When I reach the Living room I see Harry laying on the couch fast asleep. It looks so cute and he looks peaceful when he's asleep, much better than that worried look he wears on his face when he's awake. At least I think it's worry cause I say it again I'm not good at reading peoples faces.

I slowly walk over to him before I kneel down at his head. I start to whisper in his ear 'Hello sleeping beauty, It's time to wake up.'

And shit did I really just call him sleeping beauty? Well I hope Anne didn't hear that.

Harry just groans and turns around mumbling something I can't understand. He Is now facing his back towards me and I start to shake him lightly 'Harry, I really think you should wake up.'

Not risking it again calling him a sleeping beauty, but he truly is. You didn't hear that from me.

'Mum, just wake me up when Louis is here.' He groans. He really doesn't want to wake up.

'Well thank you! Didn't know I sounded like a girl!' As soon as I say that Harry sits up straight with his eyes wide open.

'O shit Sorry! Sorry, I only heard someone speaking I'm really sorry. Why do I mess up everything? Sorry, Louis, I really didn't meant to So-' I put my hand in front of his mouth to shut him up.

'You. Don't. Need. To. Apologize.' I say 'I was the one waking you up anyway, It doesn't matter Harry, Stop saying sorry so much.'

Harry only nods I response because I still have my hand in front of his mouth. I move my hand away from his mouth and he speaks up again 'Shall we go now?' 

'Sure' I smile at him as he stands up from the couch and goes to put on a coat and his shoes. When he is finished he says goodbye to his mum and we both step out of the house.

We start walking as soon as the door falls closed after us.

'Where exactly do we need to go?' Harry asks looking a bit frightened.

I smile reassuring at him 'Not too far, we need to go to Niall and Liam's home, which is only 10 minutes walking from here.' I know every single way there is in this city. No matter where I am, I will always find my way back. Maybe you would call it a village, cause it isn't really that big.

The reaction I got from Harry at the mention of Liam's name is not one I expected, he shuddered. 'O-okay.' He completely tensed up while he said that, So I stopped walking and out my hand on his shoulder

'They're not home the next few hours and beside that It's behind their house. You aren't scared of Liam, are you?'

Harry didn't answer my question but just began walking again. I sighed but followed him anyways. I will come back to that question.

After an indeed ten minutes walk we were at the backyard of Liam and Niall's house. We walked through a little gate towards the edge of the woods, where I stopped in front of the first tree and started looking over the ground for a stick, which I could use to get the stepladder out of the tree house cause none of us is tall enough to reach it.

When I found a good one, I got the stepladder out and let Harry walk up first, he hesitated though, 'Is this really save?'

I look him in the eyes 'Have I ever hurt you?' He immediately shakes his head 'Why would you think I would do that now than?' He just shrugs and starts to carefully climb the stepladder. When he is inside I follow him up a bit faster, mainly because I have done this so many times.

'This is bigger than I expected' Harry says as I climbed into the tree house.

The tree house isn't that small. I can almost stand in it, if I bow my head I can stand. Harry is a bit smaller than me and he can stand in the middle but his head hits the roof. The tree house is around 3 meter by 3 meter, so that is pretty big. It's completely made of wood, even the roof, Me, Niall and Zayn build it when we were kids. You can say we were smart kids, that we were able to build this all on our own. Inside the tree house we have 5 beanbags and a little self made wooden table. Also in one angle there is standing 2 acoustic guitars. Niall is the one that brought them up here but we all play on it sometimes. I got to say though, I am probably the worst out of all of us.

'Yeah, I know it looks smaller from the outside.' I say while I take a seat in one of the beanbags. I motion for harry to take a seat as well.

'It's really cool!' he says with a little smile as he sits in another beanbag next to me. 'Can you play?' he asks shyly while he points at the guitars.

'A little, not really. Niall is the one that plays guitar the best.'

Harry lets out a sigh 'You want to know, don't you?'

'Know what?' I ask though I think I know the answer.

'What happened, In those ten years.' he says before locking eyes with me 'I don't know about you but.. I still see you as my best friend and I know you probably don't but I know best friends don't have secrets for each other. So I will tell you, If you want to tell me what happened here when I was... away.'

I can hear In the way he says it that he thought really hard about it. 'You're still my best friend, you have never stopped being my best friend, Harry. Even though I got new friends, I haven't stopped thinking about you being my best friend. You still are and that is never going to change.' I start.

'I will tell you everything, I promise' I say

'I promise that I will tell you everything as well.' He say before taking a deep breathe and he begins on telling a story, I had never thought would happen to someone so close to me.