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Louis rounded the corner of the art building, humming softly to himself. Theatre class always put him into a good mood. He loved to ramble to Harry about what they did and how he felt and he loved even more that his best friend seemed genuinely interested.

"Who do we have here?" Louis was abruptly pulled out of his cheerful cloud.

"If this isn't the fag in person." Logan said, the whole basketball team behind him. It seemed that they also were finished with training and heading to the changing rooms. Louis had met them often on this way, but never had they seemed so hostile before.

"What puts the fairy into such a good mood?" Nick smirked. Apparently he was much braver with the whole basketball team backing him up. Brave enough to forget about Mr Styles' warnings. "Sucked a dick?"

Louis flinched. He would not label himself a coward, but having the whole team of mostly unknown boys threatening him made his heart beat faster in fright. "I don't do that. I'm not..."

"Gay?" A boy whose name Louis did not know came up to the front. The whole team seemed to come closer so Louis took a few steps back. "We've seen you standing up for your little boyfriend. There's no denying it, fag." He emphasized the last word with a punch into Louis' gut.

"He's not my boyfriend." Louis said, trying to be brave. "I stood up for my best friend."

"Best friend whose dick you suck?" Nick laughed, pushing Louis back. Falling onto the ground, he began to panic. He was sitting on the ground while the whole basketball team was hovering above him. Louis searched for Zayn and found him, but as soon as he caught his eyes the raven haired boy looked to the ground. So Zayn was not going to help him, Louis thought bitterly.

"I don't... do that." Louis tried to stand up, but was pushed down again. Tears of panic threatened to spill when he fell onto his back and lay there helplessly. He remembered that Luke was on the basketball team too but he could not see him anywhere. Did he run away? Or did he even know?

The boys were laughing as Nick held him down by his hands. Louis wanted to scream, but he felt like his throat was closed up. It was just his luck that he met the boys on the corner where no normal person was passing except if they wanted to go to the art building or to the changing rooms. And somehow, nobody wanted to go to either at this moment.

"You can't even say it?" An unknown boy asked. "Well, no wonder. Sucking dicks as a boy is sinful."

"I'm not-" Louis struggled against the hold. "I like girls." He tried to convince them.

"Oh yeah?" Nick laughed. "Last time I checked the only person you let close to you was your little boy toy."

"No- aahh." He groaned when he felt a kick at his side. Then more. Louis was crying freely now.

"No, what?" Logan asked.

"Hopefully this will kick the gay out of you." The unnamed guy said.

"No, no. I- I have a girlfriend."

To Louis' great surprise, Nick yelled, "Hold on!" The basketball team stopped kicking Louis' sore sides. He was sure he was bleeding on the cheek and he would have blue spots all over his torso. "You have a girlfriend?"

Louis nodded.

"Who?" Logan demanded.

"Umm... Eleanor." Louis said, because she was the first girl that came to his mind.

The boys looked at him thoughtfully. Louis, still being held to the ground, was tense in anticipation, fully expecting them to not believe him and start kicking him again until he passed out. Louis tried to blink the tears out of his blurry vision.

"Proof it." Logan said. Nick took that as a signal to let go of Louis and stand up. Louis, although his face was twisted in pain, hurried to stand up too. Laying on the ground was making him feel unbelievably helpless.

"How?" Louis inquired.

The boys exchanged looks. "Take us to her." The unnamed guy said. "We'll ask her."

Louis bit his lip. "I don't know where she is."

"You don't know which extracurricular activity your girlfriend takes?" Nick asked tauntingly.

"Of course I know." Louis said hurriedly, turning around and starting to walk aimlessly. His heart was beating rapidly in his chest but it occurred to him that, as soon as they were with people they could not beat him up again. With that thought in mind he started walking faster, ignoring the burning pain scattered all over his body. He brought his hand up to his cheek and looked at his fingers. He was in fact bleeding.

"Louis, mate." Addressed boy smiled in relief. Niall came walking towards him. He was also in Drama class with Louis but he had to go to the toilet and somehow did not come back. Louis would have to ask him about it later. The fake blonde looked at the following basketball team weirdly, then gasped when he saw Louis' face. "Oh my gosh, what happened?"

"I'm fine." Louis said, pushing Niall's hand away from his face. He did not want to seem weak. Weak meant gay.

He whispered so the boys behind him would not hear. "You know where Eleanor is?"

"Of couse." Niall said loudly, lowering his voice when Louis shushed him. "All the girls do Aerobic. Didn't you listen to their long discussion?"

Louis vaguely remembered the girls discussing their sports class but he was too busy exchanging small, funny notes with Harry to properly listen.

"Thanks." he whispered, turning to get to the big lawn behind the football field. At good weather conditions they always danced/exercised outside. This much Louis had gotten from the girl's discussion because Harry had told them how jealous he was that his creative writing class was never working outside. "You get much more creative input when you are under the sky." Harry had said.

However, when they reached the lawn, the Aerobic class was nowhere to be seen. Louis looked over his shoulder nervously, seeing the basketball team still following him. He looked at Zayn pleadingly, but the boy just looked onto the ground. Louis bit his lip in disappointment. He somehow had thought him and Zayn were friends now, not just room mates. But apparently Zayn hated him now because he was rumoured to be gay.

He looked back at the empty lawn.

"Maybe they're in the changing rooms?" A blonde guy who had not said anything until now, suggested.

Turned out he was right. Not even ten seconds later Louis spotted two girls exiting the changing rooms and heading towards the dorm rooms. Louis walked closer to where more girls came strolling out in small groups. He had to catch Eleanor before the other boys did or else the lie was outed.

When he caught a glimpse of Leigh-Anne's impressively voluminous hair he ran towards her because he knew that she, Jesy and Eleanor were always sticking together like some power trio.

He caught Eleanor by surprise by hugging her close and whispering urgently into her ear. "Please act like you are my girlfriend. Everyone hates me because they think I'm gay."

She hugged back and Louis heard the smile in her voice, "Of course I'll be your girlfriend. On one condition." Louis pulled back and looked at her inquiringly. "Oh, what happened?" She gasped, cupping his cheek softly.

"Doesn't matter." Louis said quietly so the boys behind him would not hear. "What's the condition?"

"Give me a chance." She smiled sweetly.

Louis frowned in confusion. "Chance? What chance?"

"Let me be your real girlfriend." Eleanor said, hope shimmering in her eyes. "And you'll be my boyfriend."

Louis looked at her thoughtfully. He had to admit that she was pretty. And he also had to admit that he had thought about her being his girlfriend once or twice since she had shown obvious interest, but Louis never thought of making it a real thing. And he was always distracted by his Hazza.

Maybe it was time that he focused on girls, like every normal boy did. And she could help strangling the strange speculation about him being gay. It could also help Harry since everyone assumed they were together.

So Louis let his features relax into a small smile and gave her a subtle nod. Eleanor beamed excitedly, leaning in to give him a short kiss on the lips. It was nice. Not what Louis had expected his first kiss to be like, but who believed in butterflies and fireworks anyway.

"Woah, Tomlinson." Nick ripped Louis from his thoughts. "Didn't think you had it in you."

With that, the crowd scattered and everyone started to mind their own business.

In the evening, Louis caught Zayn sending him strange looks as he was cuddling with his Hazza again. Harry was coddling him since he had found out about the basketball team beating him up. Louis had not told him how he got out of it. He just said a teacher came and broke the fight up. He did not want to tell Harry about Eleanor yet.

Harry had almost beat Zayn up when he found out that the boy had done nothing to prevent the basketball team from hurting his Boobear, but Louis just held him back. "He's not worth it." Louis had said with a glare at the dark haired boy. "Now we know where his loyalties are."

The thought crossed Louis' mind how much better it felt to hold him compared to Eleanor. He also thought about telling Harry that he had a girlfriend now, but honestly, Louis did not how to cope with this new relationship.

He had no idea how to feel or how to act. With Harry, it had always been natural. But he felt like Eleanor would complicate something between them, although Louis was not sure what. Eleanor was his girlfriend, but Harry would always be his best friend and the most important person in his life. With his sisters of course.

So he did not talk about it to anyone.