Louis is still in Niall's house and Niall doesn't know what to do. It's is not completely unusual for Louis to be in his house, but the difference is that Niall isn't there. Niall's on the other side of the world and Louis is in his house texting him about being out a toilet paper. Niall should be having the time of his life, he is having the time of his life, so why did it bother him so much that Louis was at his house in his bed like a bloody board housewife waiting for him to come home.

It's icing on the cake of a crazy situation when the next text Louis sends after the toilet paper request is a picture of his dick. Because of course he does. Niall doesn't know how he ended up here but he begs off an after show party so he can go back to his hotel room and call Louis.

"Hey," he says trying to sound sultry but he's not sure it's working. He's lying on the bed in with his pants round his ankles, holding the phone above his head for Facetime thinking about angling the camera down to show Louis what he's missing.

But Louis is not in bed. Louis is somewhere with fluorescent lighting and loudspeaker announcements and walls of detergent.

"Where the fuck?" asks Niall pulling his pants up quickly like someone walked in uninvited.

"I'm getting toilet paper," says Louis. "Someone didn't leave me any. You're a shit host by the way."

Niall doesn't say that he wasn't expecting anyone to be there while he was away because he's still a little confused about how this conversation went from potential phone sex to some kind of shopping list.

"For fuck sake why did you send me a dick pic from the supermarket?" asks Niall

"You wouldn't answer my toilet paper question."

Niall rubs his hand over his head in frustration. He cannot believe this is his life.

"Get that environmental stuff," he says.

Louis doesn't. He buys something with some gaudy pattern on it that Niall doesn't want anywhere near his ass. He wants to be mad, wants to tell Louis to get himself that awful toilet paper out of his house. But it's nice isn't it? Talking to Louis, listening to him complain about some fight he had with the label people, hearing him gush about a song he'd been working on. It's nice and by the end of the conversation Niall's starting to think maybe it wouldn't be so bad to have someone to come home to.