No Fear// l.s

13 ~ In Your Imagination

There was a panther.

It was behind a tree staring at Louis like he was its prey. The animals fur was black as night and had long, wiry whiskers.
Huge red eyes stood out from its face, they glowed.

"Shit!" Louis screamed running with his bike and jumping on, peddling for his life. He didn't look back but he didn't hear anything running after him. As he found road again and less trees surrounded him, Louis dared to look back and it was gone. He gulped and got off of his bike, still shaking. It had disappeared, it was no where to been seen, 'Did I just imagine that? I probably just imagined that, it was just my head, I'm tired that's all,' Louis thought, repeating it to himself until he got to school.

That never happened.

He tried to wipe it from his memory. Louis carefully put his bike on the stand and chained it up, thankfully he was only about 20 minutes late so he could just say there was traffic even though that might not be that convincing. He went to his first class and watched a dozen pairs of eyes on him including Ariel and the twins'. "S-Sorry I'm late sir." The teacher pulled down his glasses and nodded, "it's ok just hurry and take a seat." Louis did so next to his friends, "Hey, why are you so late?" He gulped, his mouth dry. "Traffic." He lied feeling guilty, he wasn't prepared to tell anyone what had happened that morning.

Louis turned to not find Mr Styles in his place,

I wonder if the animal got him? Is he hurt? He could be hurt.

Louis thought. He couldn't control it. He knew what he had seen, didn't he?

Lunch soon came for the boy and he didn't engage in his groups conversation because 4 sets of brown eyes were all glaring at him intensely. Why? He hadn't done anything, just given Harry his homework is that really that bad? He didn't understand. Louis couldn't think of anything else for the rest of the day, a panther... in England? It's probably escaped from a zoo or something and Louis should ring 999 but something was stopping him and he didn't know what.

After school Louis started to walk home with Ariel because her dads house was on Louis' estate, he pushed his bike so he could stroll alongside her slowly "Hey Lou? Are you ok? You've seemed a little off today," Ariels calm voice soothed Louis and he wanted to tell her everything but yet that feeling stopped him over and over again.

"Y-Yeh I'm fine, just a bit tired that's all," he smiled, pretending to yawn. "Ok, if you need me just give me a shout and I'll come," she sighed, hugging him before walking off down the road to one of the cottages Louis looked at coming back from the first day of school, they lived close so Louis noted in his head for them to meet up some time.

Louis could see someone stood at the gates of the Styles mansion and he came jogging after he noticed who he was, "Harry?" He looked out of breath, panting like a dog and was really sweaty, he had his head down and was clinging to the fence, his tshirt was ripped intensely and had a dark red patch on his ribs, had that leopard got him?

"Harry? A-Are you bleeding?" Louis was about to touch him but he got swatted away, Harry was stood there... crying? "A-Are you ok? Why are you cryin-" Harry stepped a few feet away and shook his head, "P-Please leave me alone,"

"But Harry you're hurt, who-what did this to yo-"
"FUCKING LEAVE ME ALONE LOUIS!" He screamed almost falling to the floor, Louis nodded, "A-Are you sure you don't want any help?" Harry nodded still out of breath, bowing his head and bending his knees weakly. "I-I don't w-want to hurt you," Harry looked up and now Louis was 100% sure that his eyes were red, Harry's back arched and heaved like he did the other day in the hallway during science.

"Y-Your eyes-" Harry gasped and closed them quickly, "leave Louis please, I-I'm ok.." he nodded and slowly moved his feet away, he really didn't want to look back as he was about to go around the corner to his road but he couldn't help it, he looked and Harry was running off in the opposite direction, Louis' eyebrows furrowed as he stopped pushing his bike and got on and followed him again.

Only God knows what Louis Tomlinson has just gotten himself into.