When Harry returned Louis looked over and smiled widely.

"Trying to wine and dine me?" Louis smirked.

Harry chuckled and shook his head, happy to see that Louis was well enough to make jokes. He set the tray of breakfast on the bed in front of Louis and sat down next to him. They started digging in to the food.

"Lou?" 

Louis hummed in reply with food in his mouth. 

"Will you tell me what happened?" Harry asked quietly. 

Louis smile dropped and he visibly stiffened. He started remembering some of the awful things those boys did to him and his eyes began to water.

"Um..." He trailed off, not sure where to start.

Harry took Louis' hand into his own, running his thumb along the knuckles as a way to reassure him. 

Louis took a deep breath and started again.

"Uh.. At first, when I started walking with you it was okay you know? Sure I would get the occasional sneer or glare. I could handle that." Louis said quietly. "Then those looks turned into words." He continued. "Even then, yes it hurt, but I could still handle it, I was called names at my old school, non big deal." Louis waved his hand. He took a deep breath getting back to the story. "Then the hitting started..." Louis said, barely a whisper. Harry was already becoming angry. "They were light at first. Shoves and some punches every so often... But they got worse. More often. The punches turned into kicks and the kicks turned into full on beatings." Louis was crying now, his voice shaking with sobs. 

Harry moved the tray to the side and gathered Louis into his arms. 

"They happened almost everyday. I figured I could take it because it was all worth it if I got to see you later for our walks." Louis sniffled. 

"Why were they hurting you? Why didn't you tell me?" Harry asked after a small silence.

"They did it because you were talking to me I guess. Well you weren't really talking, but... They kept saying that I didn't deserve to be able to talk to you, and that a 'fag' didn't deserve your attention." Louis explained. "I didn't tell you because I didn't want you to stop walking with me. I thought I could stand it if I got to see you everyday." He cried. 

Harry tightened his grip around Louis and let him cry. He felt insanely guilty that he didn't realize what was going on.

"I would never leave you Louis." Harry whispered. "And you don't need to worry about anything anymore.  Those boys were expelled for what they did to you." 

"Really?" Louis asked in disbelief, lifting his head to look at Harry.

Harry smiled and nodded.

Just then there was a knock at the door. Harry's wings immediately expanded and wrapped around Louis protectively. The door opened and Niall and Zayn walked in. 

Louis peaked over Harry's wings with his hand helping to push them down out of his line of sight.  When he saw who was at the door his face lit up with a grin.

"Niall! Zayn!" He yelled in happiness.

"Louis!" They yelled in unison. 

 Niall rushed over to the bed and jumped to hug Louis, but before he could, Harry held out his hand stopping Niall and giving him a stern look. 

"Right. Sorry." Niall said sheepishly slowing his pace to hug Louis gently after Harry moved his wings. "I'm so glad you're awake! How do you feel? Oh my god I'm so sorry!" He rambled.

Louis laughed lightly returning the hug and then giving Zayn a hug as he took a seat next to Niall. 

"I'm okay. I feel much better than before that's for sure." He chuckled. "What are you guys doing here? Not to sound rude or anything." 

"We've come to visit you everyday to see if you woke up and to apologize for not looking after you properly." Zayn explained.

"Everyday?" Louis asked, he looked to Harry who only gave a small smile and a nod. "You guys don't need to apologize for a thing, it was definitely not your fault." 

They both shrugged. The three of them continued talking about utter nonsense until the topic of school was brought up to their attention. 

"You're coming back to school yeah?" Niall asked.

Louis' heart skipped a beat at the question. He hesitated, but decided to answer with a small shrug.

"You will be going back in a couple days and I will be joining you." Harry's deep voice said.

Niall and Zayn's eyes widened in surprise as they had never heard Harry speak -- as far as they knew, Harry was a mute. Louis looked back at Harry with a questioning look.

"You're coming with me?" Louis asked.

Harry nodded. "I can help you with your studies too if you like?" 

"Okay then." Louis replied suddenly feeling a lot better returning to school.

And that was that.

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