"Today is gonna be the day that they're gonna throw it back to you," Louis sang along quietly to the music playing on his laptop as he graded each drawing. "And by now, you should've somehow realised what you gotta do."

When he was finished, he stood up and stacked the artwork on top of each other in one of the empty paper storage baskets. He stretched his back, yawning. It was four in the afternoon, and Louis had been at his art school since it closed at two.

He turned off the music and put his laptop in its bag, before heading for the door, trying to avoid any of his colleagues.

One of them called out to him, but he ignored him and dashed out the doors, straight to his car.

He didn't dislike his colleagues—they were all lovely—but he accepted this job because it paid more, and he just wanted to do it and go home. It was also because he was surprisingly brilliant at art, which he didn't realise until he began searching for jobs, and bribed them by doing a simple painting that he expected to look bad, but turned out to be perfect to them.

The early work hours exhausted him though. Typical school hours, but it irritated him.

As he approached his car, his phone rang.

"Hello?" He responded, hopping into the car and turning on the radio after starting it.

"I know you heard me calling your name, you little shit!"

He rolled his eyes and shifted into drive. "I love you, Oliver, but we're not doing this again today. I didn't want to talk to anyone because I was tired and wanted to go home."

"A simple 'hello' would have sufficed." Oliver grumbled.

Why is he always like this? Louis thought.

"Listen, shithead, I work six hours a day just like you. Give me a break!" He scolded him, grinding his teeth.

How does he get through the day and still want to socialise?

"Whatever, you prick. Bye."

"Bye—" He cut the call before Louis could finish.

"Unbelievable." He muttered, shaking his head. He threw the phone to the seat beside him and paid attention to the road.

When he finally arrived home, he jumped into bed and immediately fell asleep.

____

Louis entered the bakery, his nose immediately being hit by sweet aromas of pastries and bread.

He approached the order station and looked around, but not for pastries.

"He went to the toilet." His  roommate and close friend, Isla, told him.

"Would you like to order anything before he gets back?" She asked.

"I'm already here." Louis heard his best friend since kindergarten chime in.

His face lit up once he saw Harry walking up to him behind the station with a friendly smile on his face.

"I would ask what I can get you, but I already know the answer." He said, smirking knowingly.

"You know me too well," Louis replied, returning the expression.

Harry chuckled lightly and removed the cup of apple crumble from the dessert section of the glass full of pastries and other sweets.

"Here you go my dearest friend." He said in a jokingly formal tone.

"Thank you, mate." He replied, and quickly grabbed a fork and dug into the delicious dessert.

"Earlier this morning, the London Police Department discovered a body in Hyde Park's lake" The news reporter on the Telly stated. "The victim has not yet been identified by police, but we suspect he or she is connected to the recent murders, which whom their DNA can't be identified due to the belief that they were wearing gloves."

"Wait, isn't this the 7th murder this year? Whoever is doing this is a loony!" Isla exclaimed in disgust as she handed her customer a bag of pastries.

"Try the hundredth. This has been going on for years by the same person, and from what I've heard, they've all been murdered with the same weapon." Louis responded, his mouth a little full of apple crumble.

"I'm not going to lie, this is some crazy shit." Harry joined in, but was distracted by a customer who snapped her finger in his face to get his attention.

"Yeah....hey, I almost forgot, but you're leaving on Saturday for that two-week trip to Greece, right?" Louis recalled, and Harry nodded in response.

"How many? 4? Okay," he asked the customer, and began typing the order onto the screen. "On Saturday, yeah. I literally had to beg the manager to let me go."

"I can't believe you have the chance to go on holiday, and I don't. I need a holiday too!" Louis jealously exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air.

"How did you even hear about this trip?" Isla questioned, typing an order onto the screen as well.

"Online ad. I clicked on it and booked a flight immediately." He answered.

"Ugh! I always miss those. They are always promoted during the summer, and for some reason, I'm never aware of them when they come up as an ad on Instagram. My sister got the chance to go 2 years ago and I was jealous." Isla complained.

"Probably because your finger is always scrolling so fast on the screen, that I'm surprised you haven't had a finger cramp yet." Louis retorted, finishing up his crumble and handing it to Harry who offered to throw it away for him.

Isla scoffed. "I—" She stopped and sighed in defeat. "Okay, fine you're right. I do put my finger through torture when scrolling on Instagram."

Louis laughed. "The one time you admit something, is that?" He continued to laugh, but then suddenly began to cough, his mouth dry.

"Ha! Karma, bitch!" She stuck her tongue out at him and mocked.

Louis flipped her the bird and walked quickly to the fridge to get a drink, not wasting any time in opening and drinking the bottle of water.

"You know you have to pay for that!?" Harry yelled.

"And also for the apple crumble!" Isla added.

"I know, you little shits!"

New story!!!

I hope you guys will like this, especially since I challenged myself and did the "just write" method without planning. Only thing I had was the plot idea.

I did cheat tho and asked some friends to help with how 2 or 3 chapters should go, just so it doesn't feel rushed or cliche.

But I can't believe how it turned out in general tho. I finished the story in like, two weeks, just had to wait for the cover😂

Thank you chaotic_naturx and very_not_inspired for editing! Hopefully they did a great job to you guys🤗

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