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III

Harry's POV

I'm listening to The Garden by Mirah, and walking to school. I just threw on some clothes today, I didn't put so much effort so I'm wearing black jeans, a beanie and a gray shirt which has a heart and a 'lover' text in it. Today was a pretty warm day, which was pretty unusual, but I had to take advantage of it.

Just as I arrived to the school's yard, I saw Louis climbing out of a black car, and then a blonde girl walked to his side, giving him a hug. I put my earphones and my phone into my pocket and saw the girl giving a kiss to his cheek and then she got back to the car. The car drove away, leaving Louis to stand on the yard, looking so lost. This is my chance, I thought to myself.

I walked up to him and tapped his shoulder. He jumped a little and spun around. "Oh, you." he said and looked down. How did he recognize me?

"How- wha-" I was about to ask him but he cut me off. "Your cologne. I remember it." he says and plays with his fingers nervously. He is kinda cute, I thought.

"Look, I want to apologize about yesterday, I was really rude. I- I just didn't know. I'm sorry." I stutter and see him turning his head a bit towards to me.

"It's fine." he sighs. "I have to get to class now." he continues and is about to start walking towards the school but I stop him.

"Let me walk with you." I smiled to him, even though he couldn't see it. "Thanks, but I don't need help. I'm fine on my own." he declines.

"It's not about that." I say quickly. "I just want to walk with you." I continue and he raises an eyebrow at me. I choose to ignore it and ask what class he has now.

"Health class." he answers and stops in front of the school's big stairs. "Can you wal-" I was about to ask him but then he starts to walk up the stairs. I follow him and watch in awe, how he walks up the stairs without any problems. It must be hard without seeing where you step.

When we get to the top of the stairs I ask "How do you know where to walk?" and then he grips my arm, turning his head to me. "Sorry, I just don't want to bump on anyone, again." he says as we walk past of the other students. "I've counted the steps from the car to the stairs, so I don't trip on them. A little bit of practice and you'll get used to it." he continues. I nod but then I realize he can't see me so I just hum in response.

"Well, I should let you go to your class." he says and lets my arm go, but I grab his hand and put it back. He looks confusedly at me and I tell him that I have health class too. "O-oh, okay." he stutters, as I lead him to the right room.

"Where do you want to sit?" I ask him and look around the class for free seats.

"Next to you." he answers and I smile at that. I lead him to the back of the class and take the chair out for him. He just blushes at that.

"Who is your partner? Tomlinson?" the teacher asks me at the end of the class. Mr. Cullen is standing in front of us with a list on his hands.

"Uh- yeah that's fine by me." I say and I turn to Louis and he nods.

"Okay, your subject is sexual orientations." Mr. Cullen says and gives me a paper which contains all the things that is supposed to be in the project. I just nod and read through the paper.

"What does it say?" Louis whispers and turns to me. He is so close that I smell his cologne.

"Um- all different sexual orientations, how they differ from each other, like you know when there is pansexuality and bisexuality and some people still think it's the same thing, so we need to explain that and stuff like that." I tell him and he nods.