IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD

[07:25 pm, 2nd August]

It's been nearly an hour since Louis has gotten back home from the witch shop. He just finished eating the Chinese takeout that he had ordered and is now sitting at his computer desk. While eating his dinner, he has been on a video call with his sisters- Phoebe and Daisy, chatting with them as they paint their nails and he fills his tummy. Both the fourteen years old girls are a set of twins and they are the second youngest after Earnest and Doris who are four years old and also a set of twins, followed by Felicite who's eighteen, and then Lottie who's turning twenty, Louis being the oldest.

He tells his sisters how much he misses them and how he's going to see them soon on Lottie's birthday. He also tells them that he's bringing someone with him for them to meet and both the girls squeal in excitement. They fire him with questions about who it is, if Louis is dating them, if they're a boy or a girl, if Louis loves them, if they are nice enough to play dress up with both of them and so on. Louis only laughs at their enthusiasm and tells them to wait for two days, the time left for Lottie's birthday, and see it for themselves, to which the girls agree. They trade 'goodnight's and 'I love you's before Louis hangs up, a big smile plastered on his face.

He leans back in his chair and sighs. He hasn't told anyone else that he's bringing Emma with him, but he knows they won't mind, they'll be ecstatic to meet his girlfriend. He hasn't even told anyone that he's dating someone, except for his mother, he honestly can't hide a thing from her. But his sisters, he's not sure how they'll react or how Emma might act around them. He's aware that his girlfriend isn't very fond of kids- which also annoys Louis since he loves them and would love to have a lot of them in the future. Another problem is that Emma doesn't get along with many girls, except the ones who'd compliment her all the time, wag their tails around her, and follow her like she's some kind of queen. while Lottie and Fizzy are the kind of girls who are sassy- after all Louis babysat them the most- and are only nice to people they like and the ones who are genuine, humble, and not fishing for compliments all day. He doubts Emma would get along with the two of them. The teenage twins are loud, chatty, and filled with enthusiasm all the time, also the kind of people Emma doesn't like. He just hopes Emma wouldn't say anything rude or hurtful to his baby sisters out of annoyance because honestly, he wouldn't mind kissing her ass goodbye for it. And the youngest ones, Louis is sure Emma would just avoid them.

He sighs again and pulls out the book that he brought home from the witch shop today. Just looking at it and the calming color of the cover gets him to cool down and relax. He honestly can't get over how beautiful the cover of the book is. It's the most beautiful shade of green he has ever seen. For some reason, it gives him an image of a boy with eyes of that color and he won't say it out loud, but he's absolutely in love with that image.

He opens the first page and gets the urge to start writing, so he does. He pulls a pen out from the desk drawer and starts pouring the image of the boy in his head, letting the pen smoothly glide over the page.

Loverboy: He's one of the most beautiful boys anyone could ever lay their eyes on. His hypnotizing green eyes can have anyone captivated by them, have anyone be ready to do anything for him. He can just look into your eyes and make you fall in love with him. He has the most lusciously brown, curly hair that can steal a heart just by a flip. His smile is the most precious thing that the universe can ever witness and his gorgeous dimples just add up to his beauty. But all his looks are absolutely nothing compared to his kind heart and pure soul. He is good to everyone and loves making new friends and simply the idea of getting to know people. He is a very sensitive person and his emotions can get hurt very easily. All he's waiting for is to finally get a chance to confess his feelings to the one he's in love with, which he does the moment he's given a chance.

Louis groans in irritation and puts his pen down when he hears his phone buzzing, indicating an incoming call. It already rang three times while Louis was busy writing, so for obvious reasons, he ignored it till now. But seems like someone's dying or more like Louis really hopes that's the reason for someone disturbing him this impatiently. Without checking the caller ID, he answers his phone, immediately regretting it the very next second.

"Hello?" He says sharply, clearly annoyed by the disturbance.

"Hey, baby!" Comes Emma's voice and Louis wants to groan. He feels like slapping himself for answering the call without checking the caller ID. What the fuck was he thinking?!

"Wait a second." He says into the phone and shutting his eyes to keep calm, he takes the phone away and mutes it before groaning out loud and banging a fist on the table. "You better take a lesson from this and check the caller ID next time, you dumb ass bitch!" He scolds himself before taking a deep breath and unmuting the call. "Hi, love." He sweetly greets his girlfriend on the other line.

"What are you doing?" Emma asks and by the heavy breaths after each step, Louis figures she's walking somewhere.

"Um, working." He says and the girl sighs.

"You work too much, babe. Anyway, I wanted to ask if I could come over for a while. My parents aren't home and when I got out of the house to take out the trash, I forgot to take the keys and now I'm locked out of the house." Emma explains and Louis lets out a laugh. "Don't laugh at me, Louis." She whines and Louis just laughs more at that.

"I'm sorry, babe, but I can't not laugh at this. It's so fucking funny, you're so silly, Emma, oh my god!" Louis laughs harder at his girlfriend.

"Are you quite done?" The girl asks and Louis tries to control himself. He wants to joke about how the goal was to get the trash out of the house and now it's done, but he bites his tongue because he knows Emma will take it as a hardcore insult and give him a load of shit for it.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm done. And you can come over by the way." He informs her and hears her sigh in relief.

"Okay, I'll be there in five." Emma says before hanging up.

Louis goes back to writing but groans in exasperation when he can't seem to remember what he wanted to write about this boy, so he decides that whatever he has written so far is enough and pulls out his sketchbook from the drawer along with a few pencils.

He plans on drawing jade first since he wrote the description for her first. He is about to start drawing when the doorbell rings. He furrows his eyebrows because if it's Emma, then that is very fast since it isn't five minutes yet. He puts the pencil down and gets downstairs before opening the door for his girlfriend. The girl immediately hugs him and leans up to peck his lips.

"Were you already outside my house when you called?" Louis questions and the girl giggles.

"I was already on my way." She confirms and Louis rolls his eyes. Of course it wasn't his decision to make if he wanted her to come over or not, she was going to come over anyway. She only called out of formality because Louis had once argued with her about how he doesn't like when she turns up at his place without calling and ends up distracting him from his work.

Louis closes the door and locks it as he follows his girlfriend who seems to have invited herself upstairs, in his bedroom. He walks in and sees Emma lying on his bed, on her stomach with her face towards Louis' computer desk.

"Can we go shopping when we get back from Doncaster?" Emma asks out of nowhere and Louis nods at her, making her smile before she shuts her eyes.

Louis takes that as a sign that she's tired and would want to take a nap, so he gets back to drawing. Thanking the gods above that he could finally work in peace.

He draws Jade's face a little round as he wants to give her the 'cute girl' features. He only outlines her face shape and starts off with her hair, he always starts off with the hair. He draws long ringlets, giving his character long, curly hair, like most of his characters.

Yes, most of his characters have curly hair, The boy is insanely obsessed with curls and he's not ashamed to admit that. He loves playing with those ringlets but none of the females in his house have curly hair. He knows some boys who do, but they all chop them off and keep them short. One of the main reasons Louis had started talking to Emma was because she used to have amazingly curly hair back then, but the girl had to go and straighten it, leaving no curls for her boyfriend to play with.

Louis sighs as he fills in the details of Jade's hair and gives them a rich red color. When he's done with the hair, he leans back and examines it before nodding to himself in satisfaction and starting with her face. He tries to concentrate on jade, but he can't seem to do so as a boyish face keeps flashing in his mind. He shuts his eyes and shakes his head a little, but that only makes the boy's face clear behind his closed eyelids. He groans and opens his eyes before flipping the page of his sketchbook to a new, fresh one, leaving Jade's drawing incomplete.

He bites his lips and furrows his eyebrows in concentration as he tries to print out the exact image of the boy in his head. The pencils glide over the paper and Louis sketches the boy's face as if he had practiced every curve and angle a couple of hundred times before.

Nearly forty-five minutes later, Louis is almost done with the sketch, but he's kind of gotten stuck on the eyes. He has actually done a pretty good job at drawing the eyes, but being the artist, he isn't satisfied. He feels like something is missing, which doesn't make the sketch as perfect as the image in his head.

He internally groans again when he feels Emma getting out of bed. He was so engrossed in trying to figure out what was missing in his Lover boy's eyes, that he didn't even notice that his girlfriend was awake.

"You're still working?" Emma asks in a sleepy voice and within a few seconds she's on Louis' lap. "Wow.. he's so gorgeous. What's his name?" She asks looking down at the sketch.

"Don't know yet, I'm just calling him 'Lover boy' for now." Louis shrugs, looking at the eyes again and he realizes that the tiny twinkle and a curve of smile is what he's missing in the drawing. He makes a mental note of that and decides to get done with it as soon as possible.

"Lover boy.. fits him really. Gosh, is it bad that I want him to come to life so I can cheat on you with him?" Emma jokes and Louis rolls his eyes. He wants to joke about how he'd do her the same if the beautiful character was real, but once again, he stops himself.

"Ha. Ha. How funny of you Miss Lee." He says sarcastically before chuckling as Emma bursts into laughter. She shakes her head fondly before leaning down to kiss Louis who holds onto her hips.

The girl rolls her eyes when her phone rings before their lips can even meet. However, she steals two pecks from her boyfriend's lips before jumping off of his lap to answer her phone.

"Hey, Dad... Yeah, I know... I just wanted to take the trash out... Are you seriously calling me trash now?... Geez Dad, now I know why those lame ones are called 'dad jokes'... Ha, ha very funny... Yeah, alright... Okay, Dad, be there in ten, bye."

Louis tries his best to hold back a laugh as he listens to the playful chat of his girlfriend with her dad. He's pretty sure that the man had cracked the joke about 'taking out trash' that he had hesitated with.

"What are you laughing at, huh?" Emma asks and Louis' laughter booms into the room.

"He called you trash!" He laughs and Emma crosses her arms over her chest, looking at Louis with an unimpressed face. "And you were like 'Are you seriously calling me trash?!'" He mocks her girly, higher-pitched voice. "And I sat here like, 'Yes, girl, he is!'" He bangs the desk as he laughs.

Emma waits until he's finally calmed down before she speaks.

"Dad said I have to get back home, so I'm going for now. Can I take your car, by the way?" She asks and Louis nods.

"Yeah, sure." He says and she leans down to kiss him goodnight.

When she leaves, Louis closes the sketchbook and decides to go to bed since he can't get the Lover boy's eyes right even after adding the twinkle and the smile curve to them.

He does his nightly routine and dresses in comfortable pajamas before coming back to the desk to see the sketchbook open.

He shakes his head for forgetting to close it and does it now, unknowingly, the second time.

He puts the sketchbook, the new journal, pen, and pencils in the drawer and skips downstairs to check if the front door is locked. When he walks back into the bedroom after confirming that the doors and windows are firmly locked, he furrows his eyebrows at the journal that sits open on the desk.

Didn't he put it in the drawer before going downstairs?

He lets out a frustrated sigh, thinking he might've forgotten to put the journal in. He rubs his eye tiredly and decides to leave the book where it is and gets to bed because he's feeling extremely exhausted.

He yawns as he climbs into the bed and pulls the covers over himself before shutting his eyes and drifting off peacefully, oblivious to the golden glow coming from the words he had written in the new journal.

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WC: 2,557 words
DOP: 16/12/21

FOTC: There was originally a mild sex scene in this chapter. In the part where they're kissing, I sort of wrote it a lot further before they get interrupted by the phone. But then I read it and cringed enough to delete it because honestly I'm not used to heterosexuals doing stuff.

WOTC 📗: I hope I don't fail the course exam (I had to attend it when I was sick so couldn't concentrate at all)

Author's note: ^Im not heterophobic, I swear! I just don't like when they shove it in my face. I mean I have a friend who's straight! XD Aah I can't wait to update the next chapter >.<

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Louis being worried about Emma mistreating his sisters

Us: *being ready if she does*

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Louis when Emma starts talking about cheating on him

with his potential boyfriend

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Emma stealing kisses from Louis

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Emma's dad being aware of what he's created

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Last edited: 09/05/2023