"I can't believe you're not going to prom."

"I told you, Ni, I don't want to go without a date."

Niall rolls his eyes, his books under his arm as they walk out of the school. "It's not about having a date, there's gonna be food and shit. Alcohol! You have to go!"

Louis sighs, opening the door with his hip as Niall walks out without a thank you. Dickhead. "It's just not my scene, you know?" Louis tries again. Niall just scoffs.

"Ask Harry Styles," Niall suggests, and now it's Louis' turn to scoff.

"He just found out his ex-boyfriend was cheating on him," He points out. "It'd be a pretty dick move to ask him to prom, like, a few weeks later."

"He's fine," Niall waves him off. "Grimmy has already moved on!"

"Grimmy moved on before they even broke up!" Louis argues. "That's the point! He cheated! And it's gotta be pretty hard to get over something like that."

Niall rolls his eyes again. "Whatever, man. Skate park?"

Louis sighs. "Yeah, sure."

♛

"Louis, mate," Niall nudges Louis as he lands off of the ramp, pretty proud of himself for not tripping up. Louis looks over to Niall, who nods to Louis' right. Louis looks over to see Harry standing there, looking very out of place and very nervous as he smiles shyly and waves at Louis.

"I-I should go talk to him, right?" Louis asks, frowning his eyebrows. "Like, who else would he be looking for?"

"Go, you dumbarse," Niall laughs as Louis picks up his skateboard and walks over to where Harry is standing.

"Hey," He greets a little confusedly. "Little surprised to see you here, this doesn't really seem like your scene."

"It's not," Harry giggles, hands behind his back as he looks up at Louis. "I scoped you out to talk to you about something. It's not creepy."

"'S a little creepy," Louis teases, and Harry rolls his eyes with a huff of laughter.

"I was wondering if you'd take me to prom?" Harry gets straight to the point, digging the toe of his grey Keds sneaker in the dirt. "Unless you like, have a date or something. But I was planning on going with Nick, which obviously isn't happening anymore, and I know it's not about having a date or anything, but I really don't want to go alone."

Louis is stunned. He stands there for a few seconds, mouth open slightly. "Um, no, I don't have a date," He chokes out. "Y-Yeah, of course I'll take you."

"Sick," Harry smiles. He's been spending a bit of time with Louis. "Uh, I have, like, a dress picked out, so if that weirds you out..."

"Only if it doesn't match my tie," Louis grins. Harry giggles again.

"Awesome, well, I'll see you around," Harry says, and Louis thinks they're done, but Harry reaches over and wraps his arms around Louis' waist. Harry Styles is hugging him. Like, in front of people. What? "Thank you, Lou."

It takes Louis a few seconds to hug him back. "Yeah, no problem, H," He replies, and Harry kisses Louis' cheek before waving goodbye to him and walking off to his super nice car.

Louis stands there for a few moments, replaying the events that just panned out in his head before walking back to Niall, who's smirking at him.

"So when're y'all gonna smash?" Niall asks. Louis punches his upper arm before walking over to a different ramp.