Gone

19

"Should we wake them?" Drew asks

"They look too cute to wake" Edward says as he snaps another photo.

"It's been hours I think we should wake them" Scott chuckles.

Dan arrived 20 minutes ago and the boys went to look for Harry and Louis, finding them asleep at the bay window still. Louis layed back against Harry's chest, between his legs as Harry holds him tightly. Dan watches on, seeing Louis in Harry's arms makes his jealousy swirl.

"You boys go downstairs, i'll wake them" Sammy says as she enters the room.

"Thanks Sammy" Scott says kissing her on the lips. She smiles in response and the boys leave Sammy to wake them up.

Five minutes later Sammy and Harry walk into the kitchen. Harry greets Dan and gets a beer from the fridge,

"Louis didn't wake?" Edward asks concerned,

"We thought we'd let him sleep a little longer, he's tired" Harry says smiling.

The boys nod and the joking begins, Sammy fits in well and they all reminisce on the past and funny stories they all shared together. They are serving up dinner in the dining room when Louis walks in looking adorable, he's got sweater paws and bed hair and Harry smiles widely at him. Dan doesn't miss it.

"Hey baby" Harry says as Louis walks over and curls up on Harry's lap.

"Hi" Louis smiles shyly.

"Okay kiddo?" Scott asks.

"Tired" Louis yawns.

"Let's get some food into you okay" Drew says.

Louis nods, he won't make a scene in front of Dan.

Louis get up and sits next to Harry, which ends up being opposite Dan, he listens as the boys all continue to joke around and laugh, he doesn't feel like joking around with Dan. Dan seems to bring up a lot of stories about Harry, which Louis thinks is on purpose. He doesn't care though, not after what Harry and he talked about before.

"So Louis, you're in your final school year?" Dan asks when the chatter has died down a little.

"Um yeah" Louis says quietly,

"Cool, what are your plans for next year?" Dan asks.

"Um, I'm not sure, was planning to study architecture at Oxford but I'm not sure I'll get in now" Louis says.

"That's cool, how come you wouldn't get in?" Dan asks and Louis knows it's all for show, acting interested in his life.

"I've just missed a lot of school lately, with um everything that's happened" Louis says quietly.

"Oh you mean The Jax Burrows murder? I forgot you were involved in that, I read about that. Tough case, terrible accident" Dan says,

"Yeah" Louis says,

The boys watch him carefully, knowing Louis hasn't talked about anything in a while,

"Pretty cool what you did though Drew! All through the paper for saving Louis life on the field" Dan says.

The boys go silent, they haven't told Louis any of this.

"What?" Louis asks.

"You didn't know? Yeah, when Drew cut you open at the ravine to stop the pressure in your lung and he saved your life, was in the news for ages. And that Edward managed to get George's sentence down from 14 years in jail to 2 years in Juvy, awesome defence lawyer Ed!" Dan says smiling.