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TW: Idk what to call this, but some kind of abuse? And, mention of headaches and passing out.

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"But Louis you have to! I mean, football practice is important for you, your career and your future! You can't miss Uni because you are afraid of seeing him again." Harry reasoned.

"Haz, you don't understand. He's animal, you don't know what he can do to me and you. I suggest you don't go today either." Louis argued and sat back down on the chair.

They were all dressed and ready to leave for Uni, when Louis suddenly said he wouldn't go today.

Harry refused, "Come on Lou, you are strong. You can face it baby. If you see him, just ignore him baby. Think of him as any other human being in this world."

Louis looked thoughtful. He then said, "Alright, I'll go. But you won't." Harry asked, "What? Why? He doesn't even know me."

"But Ha-" Louis began but Harry cut him off saying, "No buts. Let's go. I can take care of myself hun, don't worry."

Louis huffed but agreed and they left for Uni.

***

"Harry I'm right here in the football ground alright? If anything happ-" Louis started but Harry said, "Don't worry about me Lou, please. Nothing is gonna happen. I'll be fine, you'll be fine, we'll be fine. We'll be alright."

Louis kissed his forehead and the tip of his nose. Harry hugged Louis and said, "Have a little faith in me babe."

Louis pulled back and said, "I have all my faith on you babe, but no faith in him..."

Harry nodded while Liam interjected, "Dearest lovebirds, would you mind going to your respective classes?"

Both Harry and Louis rolled their eyes but walked away to their classes and grounds respectively.

***

Harry had no classes till noon. He went to the cafeteria and asked for a fruit juice.

While he waited, he tried finishing the song he had been writing.

Sweet creature

Had another talk about where it's going wrong

But we're still young

We don't know where we're going

But we know where we belong

And oh we started

Two hearts in one home

While he thought of what else he could write, he felt someone tap his shoulder. He turned around and a pair of brown eyes met his emerald orbs.

Harry stood frozen, while Nick smiled and said, "Hello Harry."

Harry didn't know what he should do. He just nodded his head while Nick said, "I was wondering if we could be friends?"

Before Harry could say anything, the cafeteria lady handed him his fruit juice and he took it gratefully.

He decided walking away from there was the best option, which he did.

But Nick held his hand from behind and said, "Oh. That was really rude of you."

Harry turned around slowly and stuttered, "W-What do y-you want?" "Just want to be your friend Harry, I'm new here." Nick said, sweetly.

"No, we c-can't be fr-friends. Sorry." Harry stammered. Nick looked at him innocently and said, "Why so Harry?" He held Harry's wrist firmer, while Harry tried to break free from his hold. "J-Just leave me N-Nick."

"Oh so you know my name now." Nick said, no longer smiling sweetly, but dragging Harry to a nearby wall.

He slammed Harry against the wall, gripped both his wrists tightly and said, "Even if we don't know each other, we do know each other, don't we Harry?"

Harry gulped and squirmed, trying to break away from Nick's firm grasp. Nick looked at him and said, "So, let me know what I want to know. You are Lewis's whore, aren't you? Tell me? Aren't you a fag as well?"

Harry closed his eyes to avoid the tears brimming in his eyes to flow out. "Answer me." Nick growled.

Why is nobody around?? Should I shout for help?  Harry wondered.

Nick let go of one of Harry's wrists and brought them to his curls. He pulled them harshly and said, "Tell me. Who are you? Are you Tommo's new whore? Are you?"

Harry screamed in pain. "This won't be our last meeting." Nick said.

Nick let go of Harry and was out of sight even before Harry could open his eyes.

The cafeteria lady came running to were Harry stood and said, "Oh dear was that you? Screaming...?" Harry bent to pick his bottle of juice fallen down and said, "Yes. It was just this bottle which fell down and I screamed. Sorry."

With that, Harry walked away and decided to forget everything that had happened.

***

"Hello Lou?"

"Haz. What happened? Are you okay?"

"No, no, don't worry. I'm doing good, just listen. I won't be joining you guys for lunch because I've been invited to have lunch with my music teacher. Sorry."

"Oh...don't worry love, it's all good. See you in the evening then."

"Yeah, bye..." Harry hung up and flopped down on the closed toilet seat. That incident had been too much for him. After what happened with Nick, he couldn't think of anything else. He tried writing his song, but his mind wasn't working.

But one thing which he was sure about was that he wouldn't tell Louis, Liam or Zayn about what had happened. He just couldn't worry them about such silly things. He mentally kicked himself for having acted like a kid who had lost his parents in front of Nick.

For the past one hour, he had been sitting locked in this toilet, trying to stop crying or worrying, but in vain.

He was worried. Why was Nick doing all this? How did he know who Harry was? How did he know Louis and Harry were together?

Harry was mad with worry.

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"Okay Tommo. See you later in the evening then." Zayn said, as they all finished their lunch and began to leave for their respective classes.

"Oh yeah by the ways, I forgot to ask. Why didn't Harry join us for lunch?" Niall asked.

Louis said, "He had lunch with his music teacher" at the same time as Liam said, "He's serving detention with his English teacher."

All four of them looked at each other with wide eyes.

While Niall tried not to look guilty, the other three made a silent decision with their eyes.

Together, Louis, Liam and Zayn sprinted towards the music teacher's office. Niall had no option but to run behind them, and pretend that he had no clue what was going on.

Louis knocked on the music teacher's room.

"Come in!" A voice sounded from inside.

All four of them barged into the room. They looked around and saw that the music teacher was all alone. "Professor? Have you seen Harry?" Liam asked.

"No Mr. Payne, he told me that he was going home early today as he had a headache." The professor said.

"Okay, thank you so much Sir." Louis said and ran towards the dean's office, the other three running behind him.

Louis knocked on the office door. "Come in!"

The four of them rushed in hurriedly and Zayn spoke, "Sir? Has Harry gone to the dorm? Did he ask you for permission?"

"Yes Mr. Malik, Mr. Styles has left. He told me he had a headache and he left." The dean responded.

Zayn took a deep breath and said, "Sir, is it alright if I-we leave too please? Harry has been lying all day and we're actually worried about him."

The dean looked at the four of them, searching their faces for any lies they might have told. He then said, "Alright. Go."

"Thank you so much, Sir." And the four of them left the office.

Zayn spoke, "Okay, listen to what I say. Niall and I, Liam and Louis, will drive over to Louis' dorm now, got it?"

Liam and Niall nodded, while Louis remained quiet. "Tommo? What is it?" Zayn asked. Louis shook his head and managed a small, "Nothing."

The rest of them nodded and said, "Come on Louis, we gotta get to your boyfriend immediately."

Louis nodded and walked behind the others, trying really hard not to pass out.

***

"Yeah I saw that curly today. He is like a delicate petal, would fall apart if you be a bit harsh with him. We met, yes. I even forced him to speak but that idiot screamed out, which is why I had to flee. Don't worry, I'll talk to him again, soon."

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Zayn pulled over outside Louis' dorm, while Niall, and Louis and Liam rushed out of Zayn's and Louis' cars respectively.

Louis handed his key to Liam, too weak to open the door, and Liam opened the door.

"Harry?" Liam shouted inside the dorm.

No response.

"Hazza? Haz? Baby where are you?" Louis asked, weakly.

No response.

Zayn and Niall began looking around the dorm, searching for Harry.

"Harry!" Niall said, in relief.

The other three rushed to where Niall stood in Louis and Harry's bedroom.

Harry was curled up on the bed, sleeping soundly. Louis kneeled down and touched his forehead. He said, "He...doesn't have a temperature."

The others nodded and Liam said, "Okay Louis, we'll have to either wake Harry up, or wait."

"No, we'll wait. I will. You guys can go back if you want, but I will wait." Louis said.

Zayn nodded and said, "I think we'll wait outside and give you some time alone with him, Louis. Come on guys."

Once Louis was all alone in the closed room with Harry, he sat down on the floor next to his bed.

He moved away the short-but-long curls away from his face, and kissed his forehead.

He then took his left hand in his own and rubbed both the rings Harry was wearing with his thumb. He kissed both the rings and mumbled, "What is bothering you Haz? What is it?"

Harry stirred in his sleep, Louis looked at him. As Harry settled down in a comfortable position, Louis relaxed too, only to be startled when Harry suddenly said, "Hey Lou."

"Oh Haz. What's wrong baby? Are you feeling okay?"

"Hmm...what are you doing here?" Harry spoke, sleepily, eyes still closed. "Well, we were worried about you baby. So we looked around for you in Uni, and we got to know you came to the dorm. How's your headache?" Louis asked. Harry remembering not to frown and he opened his eyes.

Green met blue.

"It's gone now Lou. No headache." Harry said, smiling.

"Good to know baby. Why didn't you tell us the real reason you didn't eat lunch with us?"

"Uhm...because I didn't want to uhm, worry you guys." Harry said, sheepishly.

Louis kissed his forehead and said, "Don't hide anything from us, yeah? Please."

Harry hated lying, especially to Louis, but said, "Of course, Louis. Never."

Louis got up to go get Zayn, Liam and Niall. After they all spoke and the three boys left for their respective dorms, Louis jumped into the covers next to Harry.

They spoke about random things and cuddled for a while, then Harry asked, "Lou?"

"Haz."

"Did you see him today? Nick."

"Fortunately, I didn't."

Harry sighed happily. At least Louis didn't have to see that nightmare of a man.

But it still worried him that his perfect life with Louis, was no longer perfect.

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1870 words.

So...thoughts? Is Harry doing the right thing by not telling anyone about what happened? 

What do you think Nick is up to? 

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