Harry never felt more afraid in his whole life before except now. When he stared at the other students running around screaming about a fire and the fire alarm blaring through the hallways. He wasn't scared of the fire, he could easily run or jump out of a window. The thing that scares him is the Louis Tomlinson missing from his side and the Louis that he left in classroom because he was immature and they were in a middle of an argument.

Louis was still inside the school, his Louis might get trapped in the fire. Harry felt like having a heart attack but he can't die now, he has to save Louis and probably die later.

"Louis!!" He started shouting.

Students were running to and pushing each other to get outside of school, Harry suddenly wondered where the lesson they had on earthquake drills went because they were just panicking and screaming.

Not quite good for situations like this.

Harry suddenly saw a girl who was pushed to the floor and was crying while holding her foot. Other students were almost stepping on her so Harry quickly went to help her. He saw a giant bruise on the girls leg, which might be the reason why she was on the floor.

Harry was on a mission to find Louis but he can't just leave the poor girl.

"Hey, let me help you out." He quickly carried her bridal style and ran outside to ask for help.

"Thank you so much." the girl was sobbing on Harry's shoulder.

When they got out, Harry saw the school nurse so he quickly asked for help. Some students also helped the girl and he made sure he was okay before running back and starting his search for Louis.

It happened several more times, Harry didn't know what kind of luck he has but he kept helping injured students get outside, his gut was saying to leave them but a voice strangely resembling Louis was telling him to help out.

When he helped the last one out, that's when Harry saw him, running out of the hallway with other students.

"Harry!" Louis shouted as he saw Harry.

Harry never felt so happy seeing Louis, unscathed and unhurt.

He quickly ran to him and hugged him, his heart beating a mile a minute and his eyes closing in relief because God, Louis was safe. Harry couldn't stop thanking whoever was listening to him.

After a few minutes, fire fighters came and inspected what really happened, they didn't stay long enough to know what the cause of the fire because Louis' parents came and fetch him as well as other parents.

Harry also headed home, heart still recovering from the intense fear he had earlier, he needed a good long hours worth of sleep.

~*~

The following week...

Students were gathered around the school gym, the principal had cancelled all classes and asked everyone to attend. He said he has something important to say.

Almost everyone knew that this has something to do with the false fire incident and Louis was sweating buckets. After the initial investigation, they found out that there was no actual fire but students reported seeing huge amount of smokes which triggered the fire alarms.

It was the talk of the town and school was cancelled for three days because of the incident.

Louis knew too well who was to blame.

Next to him stands Harry who was eying him suspiciously but with worry and Zayn who had a bored sleepy look on his face. Liam and Niall were in front of him, talking about something that Louis didn't quite understand clearly because he was too busy fidgeting with his nails and avoiding any eye contact with anybody.

"Thank you all for coming in today, first I would like to thank everyone who showed kindness and helped others while we were in a terrible state." the principal started.

Everyone clapped and they were all looking at Harry, the news broke along with the fake fire on how the bad boy that everyone was scared of had helped a lot of student who were trampled during the commotion. Some even went as far as calling him a hero and Louis never felt more proud.

But that wasn't the issue right now, no, it was something else.

"Someone is responsible for last weeks incident." The principal started with a serious look on his face.

The chattering of the student continues and Louis heard some girls talking behind him loudly.

"I heard that some students set up smoke bombs at the chemistry lab." One girl says.

Louis unconsciously gulped because he didn't really mean for that to happen. Honestly, it was created as a diversion for those mean kids to stop beating him up but it turns out his magnificent escape had caused quite a problem to his school.

"Really? That's horrible." Another girl gasped.

"Yeah, it was chaos, Mary almost broke her foot because some students panicked that she instantly fell to the floor." The other replied.

Louis wanted the ground to open up and swallow him whole.

"Man, whoever did that will surely be in trouble."

How many are his odds that he's able to hold in the vomit that he wanted to puke all over the gym floor. It feels like he's turning green and a little bit nauseous. Years of trying to do the right and good thing did not ready him from facing any trouble or conflict especially in school.

"I don't want to go to the extreme but I am left with no choice but to cancel our formal unless anyone will tell me who did it or better yet admit it." The principal continues after shushing the crowd.

There were collective gasp from the students and the whole gym exploded into complaints and outcry of the principal being unfair to everyone.

Louis would have rolled his eyes because seriously, they're over reacting quite bit.

But he knew the preparation that was spent to make the upcoming formal; he can even see Liam and Niall looking terrified. They were both on the committee and have worked their ass off and Louis could understand how cancelling it would be a waste of time and effort for them.

He should do something right?

Surely with his good performance and record in school, their principal wouldn't do anything harsh like put this in his transcript and would probably ruin his chance for any future college scholarship.

"Hey Louis, are you ok? You look a little bit sick. Should I take you to the nurse?" Harry worriedly asked as he stood in front of Louis, placing his hand all over his face to try and check if he's a bit under the weather.

Louis' guilt cannot handle Harry's constant mothering him especially while it's eating him up to not confess what he did.

If he did it now, the angry mob of students might kill him with their piercing looks and deathly stares.

This will be it then, this will be the end of Louis' Tomlinson life or maybe his career which hasn't even started yet.

"I will be giving until this afternoon to whomever it is that is guilty. You can all go back to your class, good day to you all again." The principal finishes as he left the podium and the gym followed by the other teachers.

The whole gym exploded into chatters and Louis could vaguely hear some popular kids threatening to break the leg whoever it is that is responsible. They were all girls though so Louis is losing his mind of how this formal and this accident will cause him a leg, his school is a bit fucked up if you asked him.

Everyone started leaving and Louis was still stuck on where he was standing, he could here other students making weird guesses on who was to blame for the incident.

No one suspected it was him though, and surprisingly, no one suspected Harry either. Some students have talked to him and thanked him and it was obvious in Harry's face how awkward he is.

Louis was happy because if Harry was suspected, he would get kicked out and he didn't want that to happen.

Louis was pulled out of his own thoughts when a hand appeared in front of his face.

"Hey Louis, are you sure you're ok?"

It was Harry, Louis didn't even notice him moving from his side.

"I'm fine Harry." he lied.

They also walked out of the school gym and went on their way to their next class. Next to them where Zayn, Liam and Niall. Zayn was trying to cheer Liam up because Liam was too bummed that spring formal might get cancelled when he worked his ass off to prepare.

Louis felt ten times guilty seeing his friends sorrowfull look.

"Oh come on Liam, don't be depressed, it's just a stupid dance." Harry said.

Louis almost hit him on the back of his head but Zayn beat him to it.

"Shut up idiot." he muttered angrily.

"Aw! That hurt asshole." Harry groaned while rubbing his head.

Liam smiled and bit and let out a deep sigh.

"I'm sorry guys, I know I should be glad because we're all safe but I can't help but wonder who caused all of this, I would like to kick them in the face." Liam sighed.

Louis felt like fainting.

~*~

The other three went on their way to their next class leaving Louis and Harry to go a seperate class.

Harry knew something was wrong so when he saw a door leading to the janitors closet, he quickly pulled Louis inside and locking them both inside.

Louis looked startled as he stared at Harry dumbfounded.

"What are you doing Harry?" he questioned his friend.

Harry leaned to the door and glared at Louis. He was still recovering from the fright of his life but he needed some answers, something was wrong with Louis and he needed to get it out from him or he'll have to force it out of him if badly needed.

"You've been acting strange, I know.something is wrong so you're going to tell me right here right now." Harry demanded, eyeing Louis seriously.

Louis knew he had nowhere to go, he felt trapped but he knew Harry wouldn't do anything that would hurt him and he trust Harry with everyrhing in his might and if there's anyone he should tell about his problems, it should be him right.

He took a deep breath and readied himself. He stared straight at Harry's eyes and admitted everything. Everything that was weighing on his shoulder, the lies and the truth.

"I was responsible for last weeks incident."

Harry listened carefully, cursing when he heard that Louis almost got beaten up by Blake and blamed himself for leaving him alone in the first place. This was all his fault.

When Louis was done speaking, Harry knew that Louis couldn't admit or tell anyone what happened because he could get in serious trouble.

"I will tell the principal what happened." Louis suddenly spoke.

Harry stared at him, cursing Louis in his mind because of course he would admit his mistakes without a doubt.

"Louis, you can't. You might get suspended." Harry reasoned out.

Louis is anything if not determined.

"I couldn't let the formal be canceled because of me, Liam and Niall worked so hard."

"It's just a stupid dance Louis." Harry angrily said.

Louis grew upset with Harry, he knew he wouldn't like it but he though he would understand.

"It's final Harry, I will tell them what happened and then I'll accept whatever punishment they give." Louis finally said before pushing Harry to te side and leaving him alone in the janitor's closet.

Harry knew that there was only one thing he could do to stop this from getting worse.

~*~

Louis managed to make it to his class and he sat through it, full of jitters and looking at the clock, waiting for the class to be over so that he could go to the principal's office and tell everything.

Harry decided to skip class but the teacher wasn't that mad about him doing it, maybe because of the heroic act that he did last week.

Louis knew Harry was upset with him but his guilt couldn't handle lying to everyone.

He should do the right thing.

When the bell rang signaling that class was over, Louis was quickly putting his things on his bag when the school intercom suddenly came alive and the voice of the principal could be heard speaking.

"Good afternoon students, I am glad to announce that the school formal is back on track and that the culprit from last week incident has come forward. Thank you for everyones cooperation and good day."

The line went dead and everyone cheered, excited that the formal was back.

While Louis turned pale as a ghost because he couldn't believe what he heard, there was no way it could happen.

And then he remembered the only one he knew could have done such a thing.

"Harry!"

~*~

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