"What are we seeing?" Gemma asks Louis.

It's Thursday night and they have been on the phone for about three
hours talking about random things such as what they wanted to be when they grew up and what their dream job was.

They both had talked so smoothy and there were no awkward pauses during their conversation, Louis felt like he had a new best friend.

"Uh, Woman in Black 2?" Louis says in a questioning tone, "I think, I really left it up to Liam and Niall."

"Yeah, I don't really care either." Gemma says, sighing, "I'm just glad to have made some friends,"

"I'm surprised you haven't got thousands of people begging to be your friend if I'm honest." Louis laughs softly, "You are really cool, Gem."

"Thanks." Gemma smiles through the phone, "Harry's really been my only friend, you know?"

"What about your mum?" Louis asks, hoping to drive the subject from Harry, he doesn't like the lad at all.

"-He is really a great brother." Gemma says, not wanting to talk about her mum, "I know he's a dick but he's a really good person behind all that."

"Yeah." Louis sighs, "I've never really talked to him, so I don't have an opinion on him." He lies, "I'm glad he's good to you though."

"Yeah, so what's your sisters like?" She asks, wanting to speak more about her friend rather than herself. She rarely had opportunities to learn about other people.

"They are annoying for the most part." He laughs, "But I guess they are somewhat tolerable."

-

James: hey baby, how are you doing?

Louis: im ok. im trying to pick out an outfit to wear out to the movies tonight with my feiends

Louis: friemds*

Louis: friends** geez lol

James: you'll look beautiful in anything, love. who are these friends

Louis: liam, which is my friend nialls 'boyfriend' or whatever, they are talking i think. then gemma, which is actually that guy's sister i told you about, harry

James: oh, is she anything like him?

Louis: idk harry that well to know, i guess. they look alot alike though, its crazy. id say gemma is nicer though.

Louis: me and Harry talked the other day and he kinda pissed me off

James: Do you have a picture of Harry? and how?

Louis: um let me ask gemma for one

James: ok baby

Louis:

Louis: he's the one the necklace on

James: she could've choosen a better picture. like im sure he has millions of decent ones and she just had to choose that one..honestly

Louis: chill. its a good picture. lol

James: what? so you do think he's attractive

Louis: duh but you can be attractive and have a bad attitude. like taylor swift. shes pretty but her shady  personality kinda ruins it

James: true

James: anyways what happened when he pissed you off

Louis: well he tried to tell me that i was ashamed of being gay because i didnt want anyone to know about it

James: if you aren't ashamed then why wouldn't you want people to know? dont get upset i just wonder

Louis: i want to be open about it im just scared

James: of what? what has happened to you? did someone hurt you

Louis: i was bullied at my old school by some jerk named daniel. his brother chris had a crush on me. so when he kissed me for the first time, daniel walked in on it and like flipped out. chris blamed it on me and said it was my fault. so then i thought maybe it would just go away. this was 7th grade btw. things were ok but i didnt have any friends, people whispered and stuff like that, but i just ignored it because what else is there to do, ya know?

Louis: then 8th grade came and i started dressing all preppy the way i do. i feel cute in it so idk, i just do. then daniel, who was in 11th grade, started to really get serious about harassing me. he hit me, etc. it went on for awhile until i finally broke down to my mom. so she took pity switched my school district, so thats why i go to a different school than my sisters.

James: wow Lou...im so sorry. you don't deserve that at all. Daniel doesn't still do anything, does he?

Louis: no.

James: if he does let me know and ill beat him to a pulp.

Louis: don't say something if you cant do it. but that means alot that you care. thanks james, it means alot. i like having someone to talk to. its comfortable with you because i dont have to fake anything. but i feel like if you knew me irl you would hate me

James: probably

Louis: asshole lol

-

"So," Harry hums, eyes raking over Louis's body, "What are you guys going to see?"

Louis looks at him from where he's standing against the wall, waiting for Gemma to come out of her room. Harry was watching him with dark green eyes from his place on the couch. Also, a little detail, he was shirtless.

"Woman in black 2." Louis answers, pursing his lips as he darts his eyes to the lamp on the end table.

"That's a good one." Harry hums, nodding his head, taking a drag from his cigarette, Louis winced.

"You've seen it?"

"I watched it on my laptop with Zayn a few days ago." Harry answers with a shrug.

"How?" Louis furrows his eyebrows, "Isn't that illegal?"

Harry chuckles, shrugging, "You'd be surprised at how many things I do are illegal." He says, a smirk on his lips as his eyes noticeably roam Louis's body for a second time. "But there is one thing I haven't done."

"What's that?" Louis asks nervously, eyes boring into Harry's green ones, his posture curious.

"Never fucked a minor." Harry hums and Louis's breath hitches, his knees going weak. He hated how easily it was for Harry to get this sort of reaction from Louis. Hated it so much.

"Oh." Louis says, swallowing as he lets out a breath, "That's good."

"Is it?"

As soon as Louis goes to respond, Gemma sudden bursts out of her room from the hallway, looking rather nice.

"Hey, Lou." She grins, waving at him as she pulled her black sun dress down a bit and adjusted her long sleeve jean jacket. Louis also took note of her studded black collar, her fishnet leggings and her combat boots.

Harry eyes her then laughs, "You know only lesbians wear those type of boots?"

Gemma rolls her eyes and shakes her head, "I haven't the time to hear your nonsense." She laughs, "I'll be home at 11."

"Okay, have fun." Harry waves her off, catching eye contact with Louis and winking at him unashamedly.

Gemma misses the blush Louis has when they walk out of the door, but Harry definitely doesn't miss it.

-

"Where do you guys wanna eat?" Louis asks, looking over at Liam and Niall, who were in the front seat of the car, Liam's hand placed on Niall's thin thighs.

"Nandos, It's cheap." Liam says, then glances at Niall, "Plus I know a special lad that favors that place quite a lot."

"Wonder who." Niall smiles bashfully, tilting his head at Liam.

"Just a certain cute irish fake blond I know." Liam grins and Niall rolls his eyes.

"Leave my hair alone, I think it looks nice."

Louis loved them both but he eventually tuned out of the conversation and turns his attention to Gemma who was looking down at her lap in shame.

"What's wrong?" Louis asks, a frown on his face.

"I only brought money for my ticket." She says, "I don't have anymore money left for food or anything."

Louis shakes his head, "I've got it, It's okay." He promises, "And you don't need to say no or that you will pay me back." He says before Gemma can deny his offer.

"Thank you." She smiles, she has a bit of a guilty feeling inside of her gut though because she secretly hoped that Louis or one of the other two would offer; She was just so hungry.

Moments later, the four were pulling into Nando's and pooling out of the car, all eager to get their hands on some food.

"Why'd you get no sauce?" Gemma asks after they were seated and done ordering at the counter.

Louis shrugged and sighed; he'd already had this conversation with so many people before, then proceeded to be picked on. Not that it hurt his feelings, it was just an old re-run.

"I don't like the texture." He answers finally, "Won't eat soup or soft carrots, anything like that either."

"Oh." Gemma nods her head, "So you just eat your chicken and fries dry?"

"Yep."

"Strange."

Louis takes a sip of his rootbeer and looks around the restaurant, waiting for Niall's rude remark to come next.

"One time when I was sleeping at Louis's, he had a dream about it." Niall says, earning confused looks from Liam and Gemma, but a glare from Louis.

"He was in a pool of ketchup and woke up screaming and crying." Niall shakes his head, "I thought it would be something scary, like murder or r-"

"Shut up." Louis interrupts, shaking his head, Niall didn't have a filter so Louis had to be one for him.

"Leave the guy alone." Liam chuckles, "We all have our phobias, don't we?"

"I suppose." Gemma laughs along, "Mine is heights, I know its a cliche answer, but they are pretty scary."

"Mine's dying." Liam says, tapping a finger on the table, a awkward silence filling the air between all of them when he said it.

"Mines never being able to eat again."

Louis listens to the three ramble about Niall's phobia and just sighs to himself.

Yeah, sauce was one of his phobias, but it definitely wasn't his number one phobia. He's just glad they assumed it was. He didn't like opening up to people, it made him feel weak.