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"That's so cool, Aiden." Louis smiled at the boy perched up in his lap. The little boy grinned back at Louis showing him that for his homework of drawing his favourite person in this world, he had drew his version of Louis with irregular body shape, curved calves, one limb shorter than the other and eyes big dots of blue, messy strokes of light brown colour as the hair.

It's the most beautiful painting Louis's ever seen and it melts his whole heart, "Thank you so much, Aiden." He kissed Aiden's forehead. "Let's go and buy a photo frame so I can place this masterpiece on my bed side table." He picked up Aiden and placed the boy on his hips. Yes, he pampered Aiden a lot. But, who could resist those big doe brown eyes and dimples! And dimples are kinda Louis's weakness.

As they were about to leave, Liam came inside, "Hey, Louis. Hello, Aiden." He smiled looking at how Aiden hid his face from Liam by burying it in Louis's neck.

"Show uncle Liam what you and me drew together." Louis says nudging the boy in his arms. He hurriedly bend down to take the drawing book and showed it off to Liam like some overly-encouraging parent.

Even though, Aiden's frequent visits at the Malik residence made Liam and Zayn not strangers, he was still a bit shy around them.

"Why is he drawn Pepe with curly hair?" Liam raised his eyebrow.

"That's Harry." Louis said snorting. "Oh and the person next to him is Gemma, which you have to agree is drawn way too better for a six year old." It really wasn't, just the body didn't seem to slant in some weird direction unlike others. "The next one's Nick. I decided to add the fangs while Aiden did all the other work of adding horns and tail."

Liam shook his head at Louis, who giggled along with Aiden.

"The best figure on the other side of Harry is me." Louis said like a proud mom boasting about her child.

"Sure it is." Liam rolled his eyes playfully, "But, seriously Aiden, that's some great drawings." He smiled fondly at Louis looking down with a crinkly eyed smile towards Aiden who snuggled further into Louis after muttering a thanks. "We're going out tonight, wanna join?" He asked Louis.

"Sure." With that he left, whispering something along the lines of how uncle Liam is actually a live human Lima bean, who changes into a green spandex in the nights to distribute Lima beans all around the world making Aiden burst into a fit of giggles.

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"Thank you again for doing this, Louis." Gemma took Aiden's sleeping form from Louis's arm.

After going for the photo frame shopping, which actually ended up being a candy, ice cream and a Spider-Man figure shopping, Louis returned back to drop Aiden off at the Harry's place. Gemma shook her head fondly seeing the amount of increased bags of Aiden held by Louis, she tells him not to buy Aiden so much stuff, but Louis loves the kid. Reminds him of his sisters back in Doncaster, "You know he's growing attached to you."

Harry, who was standing next to Gemma also flashed Louis his famous dimpled smile, making Louis's heart clench a little.

"At least this isn't one sided." Louis says looking at Harry. They both tried to pretend as if the meaning was unknown to them.

"Well, I need to get going. It's getting late." She left with Aiden after bidding goodbye.

Watching in silence as Gemma pulled out of Harry's driveway, the man asks, "Would you like to come inside?"

Louis wants to ask is Nick there, but he knows if Nick was, Harry wouldn't even be looking at him right now, "Yeah. Actually, I forgot to take the house keys while leaving and now no one will be there till an hour or so."

"You're always invited in, Lou." He smiled. The pet name made Louis's breath hitch slightly so he just pushed passed him and went inside not wishing to show what effect Harry had on him.

Sitting on the couch, Louis's heart sinked a little seeing Harry sitting adjacent to him on the arm chair and he couldn't help but remember the last time he was here with Harry hovering above him, whispering sweet nothings while he came inside him. Now, there's an actual space between them.

"So, you've got any plans tonight?" Harry asked suppressing the urge to pull Louis on top of his lap.

He did with Liam and Zayn, but Louis knows how Harry hated being alone. "Nope."

Deciding on just ordering pizza and watching Game Of Thrones cause Harry's obsessed with it and Louis's obsessed how cute he looks while concentrating on his favourite show.

When Harry comes back with popcorn, Louis wants to ask him where Nick is so bad! But, it's not really his business, "So, where's Nick?"

"Working."

Louis bites his bottom lip, pondering whether he should say the next thing or not, he sighs, what's he gotta loose, "Harry, Liam works in the same company and he's the boss." Harry raised his eyebrow at Louis, "There's not this much work..." The man opens his mouth to say something, "Even Eleanor, Luke, Cara and Bruce work there, nobody works as much as Nick." Harry just stares at him blankly, "I think... I think Nick's cheating on you."

No words were said for a minute or two and the boy just watched a bit nervously how Harry's jaw clenched and his nose flared, he was clearly angry, "Thanks for your extraneous concern, but I've known my husband for eight years now, he wouldn't do something like this. He clearly works harder than your friends to reach where he is today." His voice came off calm, not giving away his inner turmoil.

'If eight fucking years were so precious, then why the fuck would you ask me instead of your husband to suck you off on this couch.' "I know that, Harry, but don't yo-"

"Just drop it, Louis." Harry snapped harshly, "Stop interfering in my personal life!"

Louis was taken by surprise since Harry has never talked to him like that to him, "Liam just texted me that he's back and we've made a plan to go somewhere, which I had totally forgotten about. Bye." Louis gets up ignoring the way Harry drops his head down on his palms and try to apologise. But, Louis was long gone by then.

The boy had to wait at the curb, shivering in the cold with his hands trembling for a joint or a fag or drink, anything to get himself high and forget this foreign feeling of guilt, disappointment and knowing who's causing such things.

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"Why am I such an arsehole!" Harry grumbled, pulling his hair in frustration. He was pacing around in his living room, the image of how small Louis's face had gotten when he raised his voice at him burning at the back of his mind.

Nick is not cheating on him, Harry's sure about that cause it's not like he hadn't not thought about it, but he trusts his husband to not do that. Louis hates Nick so his judgement is definitely biased and he doesn't know Nick like Harry does.

Maybe he was just wishing good for Harry. His heartbeat picked up a little thinking how Louis cares about him.

He misses the happy Louis, the one which besides feeling so cold roams around half naked in the house and just randomly touch Harry with his almost freezing toes and hands, making the man squeak in surprise. Or the way he always gives him a wet willie just to see how Harry's disgruntled face looks like claiming it to adorable. Or giggle at something stupid said by Harry then calling him a dork.

Letting this perfect angel be mad at him is not at all acceptable. He should really be wondering where and how Nick is since he's not at home yet, but no, Harry styles is panicking over the fact that his neighbour is pissed at him.

Not bothering with Nick's text, since he knows it will be saying that he won't be home tonight, he decides to unleash his sappiest cheesiest inner self and write a long ass apology to the boy, who's blue eyes seem like Harry's place to get lost in.

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"You're awfully loose today, babe." Zayn mummers in Liam's shoulder, while they dance.

"That a bad thing?" Liam smirked down at his fiancé, who shakes his head and just leans in for a kiss. "Is something going on with Lou?" Normally, when they're in a club, Liam's always on high alert, watching over Louis like an hawk to make sure he doesn't end up with some pervert.

"Why are you asking this?" Zayn scrunched his eyebrows and turned his head in Liam's direction, "Wow, never seen Louis sitting all alone in a booth before."

"That's the thing. Louis has declined all the men who approached him tonight. He's just stuck on his phone." The couple looks over at Louis who was smiling so wide at his phone's screen.

They both look with wide eyes and jaw open as Louis decline a very hot, tan and Louis-type guy down and just continue typing away in his phone with a huge smile plastered on his face.

Zayn looks at Liam and says, "We need to talk to Louis." Liam agrees, "He likes someone." And it's a big deal since the last person who Louis genuinely liked was 2-3 years ago. The person must be really special for Louis to forget about alcohol and sex just for texting.

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Kind of boring, I know. Just a filler chapter, I guess, get to know more about their feelings and stuff..? I don't know.

Hopefully, it wasn't too bad. X