Louis spent Friday night ‘till Tuesday morning in his bed. He was used to this, not having anything to help him but his hands and his toys. The omega was beginning to realise how much he actually wanted an alpha. He always pushed his thoughts away, scarred by the past, too afraid to fully embrace his omega traits. He told himself he didn't need an alpha, he was fine on his own. But some things change with time, and Louis was changing.

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At school on Wednesday, Louis was early and didn't expect to be hounded by the group first thing. He sat at their table, all three boys were already sat at, and Niall practically leapt across the table to Louis. “What. The. Fuck.” He screeched at his friend. Louis had his eyes wide at his friend, “Niall, get off me, you twat, and give me some fucking context!” Louis laughed at the beta, “All anyone is talking about is you and Harry at the party on friday!” Liam added. “Oh…” Louis uttered, he didn’t think that many people saw them. Then again, he was so caught up, it felt like they were the only two in the room.

“Are you sure? Because I don't think anyone noticed.” The omega tried to persuade them, “Louis. Look around you.” Zayn scoffed, and Louis turned in his seat, to see that, in fact, most of the seniors were staring and whispering. It was unmistakably at the omega, and his cheeks tinted as he turned back around in his seat. “Louis, you two were… Really going at it…” Liam added, almost sounding embarrassed himself. Louis wanted to crawl under a rock. “I didn’t even know you liked him.” Niall added, sounding hurt, and louis couldn’t understand why, but at this moment in time, he didn’t have the brain capacity to overthink it.

“I-I don’t! Well, I do-, b-but not like that. Or, I didn’t… I don’t know!” He sighed in frustration, he really didn’t know. And he hadn’t had a lot of time to think about it over the weekend. “Well, Louis, I’m not trying to be rude here, but why would you go to the party if you knew your heat was coming up?” Zayn asked cautiously. Louis scoffed, “Really Zayn!? What kind of person do you think I am?!” Louis was a little annoyed, but he knew Zayn didn’t mean for the question to come out the way it did. The omega sighed, rubbing his temples and letting his eyes squeeze closed.

“Sorry. I’m just overwhelmed right now.” He spoke softly this time, “My heat wasn’t due for two weeks. I was with harry, when I approached by an alpha, and Harry told him to back off, they were letting off pheromones and it triggered my heat.” He explained, not mentioning that it was only Harry that was letting off the scent, he knew the boys wouldn’t drop it. “I’m sorry Lou.” Liam reached over and rubbed his arm sympathetically. Louis just stared down at his lap. What was going on between him and Harry?

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By Thursday, he was used to the staring, he thought for sure it’d be old news by now, since its almost been a week since the whole ordeal, but he’s only been at school for two days now, so people are thinking about it all over again. He hopes it’s done with by the time Harry gets back, next week. Louis was almost glad the alpha wasn’t here to witness all the drama, it’d only make it a thousand times more humiliating. Louis had made out with many alpha’ at parties in the past, and it was never gossiped about to this extent.

But he supposes if it were him on the other side, he’d be shocked too. That the ‘big bad alpha, harry styles’ actually showed some sort of affection for someone in the school. Harry was only ever seen around town with men that no one recognised. If that. He was rarely seen with anyone. He was always by himself, or with Liam and Zayn.

Louis shook it off, and walked into ‘Alpha/Omega Dynamics’ class. It seemed that at each two seater desk, there was an alpha and an omega, there was one desk up the back which was empty. “Ah, Mr Tomlinson.” The principal/teacher walked up to him. “You were absent for our first lesson on tuesday. You’ll have to sit up the back.”

Everyone was seated and the teacher began. “Now, class. Last lesson I told you a little bit about what this course entails, and we paired you up.” He was walking back and forth up the front of the room, and he suddenly stopped, pointing to Louis. “Oh, and Mr Tomlinson, you weren’t here, neither was Mr Styles. You two will have to be paired together.” wolf whistles and “oh's” could be heard throughout the class, Louis blushed furiously, he wanted to slide off his chair and hide under the table.

“That's enough of that!” the teacher rolled his eyes at the juvenile behaviour. Louis looked at the the row of seats next to his, two seats up, Zayn was smirking at him, Louis flipped him off and laid his head on the table. He was going to sleep until the class was over.

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Then it was Friday, and Louis was so over it by now, he just ignored the stares and whispers. He and the boys were doing just fine and he didn't need to worry about what other people thought. He knew the truth and that's all that mattered… Except, he really wasn't sure what 'the truth’ is. He didn't understand what happened between him and Harry. He's not sure what it meant, why it happened, and what's going to happen now.

He'd just have to wait it out, and one thing that Louis Tomlinson wasn't; was patient.

PUBLISHED~10/DEC/2018