It took a few weeks for Harry and Louis to get completely settled in the apartment. They purchased all the furniture, having various humorous arguments about the silliest of things like what colour the curtains should be-
"It's not pink Louis! It's salmon! Learn the difference for heavens sake"

"Well it looks pink to me Harry!" -

What paintings to hang on the walls-

"Louis that's a portrait of a naked lady. That is absolutely disgusting. I know you are 'infact straight' but that doesn't mean we're having that put up in our living room and that's final"

"Nobody appreciates true art these days ugh."

A few weeks into moving in, Harry decided he hated the boring white colour of the apartment.

He walked up to the dining room where Louis was eating some cereal...

"Louis we should paint the apartment and new colour"

"Huh?What the fuck? Why?"

"The white is monotonous and bland, it curbs my creativity."

"Oh to hell with your creativity Hazza."

Louis grumbled but grudgingly agreed to go along with Harry to buy cans of paint of the colour Harry labelled as 'soft fern' but which looked like mucus according to Louis but he just shrugged and went along with it, seeing how happy it made Harry.

They carried the cans home,  Louis struggling especially hard to keep up with Harry's long strides while simultaneously holding two cans of paint.

They began painting the house together, having purchased two huge paint rollers.

Louis dipped the roller in the paint and splotches of paint flew everywhere as he attempted to move it towards the wall.

"Loueh you idiot!"Harry screeched as he ran off to find a washcloth.

After about three hours of painting, with Harry doing two walls while Louis stood on a step ladder and painted the ceiling and the other wall, the two decided to take a well deserved break.

Louis took the roller and mischievously walked upto Harry who lay there on the floor with his eyes shut.

"LOUIS WHATTHEFUCK" Harry yelled as Louis rolled the paint over Harry's face, and yelled even louder when the paint got into his mouth.

He took the roller and splashed paint onto Louis' face and soon the two were engaged in a very entertaining paint battle, their clothes completely ruined and paint splattering all over the walls and the floors. They tumbled around on the ground, laughing stupidly and dipping their fingers in paint and streaking into the other one's hair.

Sometime later, they stood up together and surveyed the damage. The walls had dried completely, and they had already covered the furniture up before starting to paint but the floor was a huge mess and they decided that was a problem for another day.

"Dibs I get to take a shower first!!!" Harry shouted,smirking.

"Oi no way, I'm getting there first."

But Louis was too late because Harry sprinted into the bathroom and slammed the door shut, leaving Louis standing  outside helplessly.

Louis decided to take off his paint-destroyed shirt and relax for the sofa until Harry came out but his plans were soon disrupted.

"LOUIS MY FUCKING EYE IS BURNING LOUEHHHH"

In an instant, Louis jumped to his feet and rushed outside the bathroom..

"Harry!? Is everything alright? Are you okay? Do you need anything?" He asked anxiously.

"This is a disaster Louis, I can't get the paint off and there's fucking shampoo in my eye"

"Okay cover up, I'm coming in to help you"

After waiting for a few seconds, Louis pushed open the door, and saw that Harry had pulled on a fresh pair of boxers.

Trying to ignore the sight of Harry standing there, wet under the shower, with droplets glistening all over his beautiful body, Louis walked towards  the shower in only his sweatpants.

Harry had squeezed his eyes shut, and tears were flowing from one of his eyes. Louis gently splashed water onto his eye, getting rid of any traces of shampoo. When he noticed that Harry's eye was still red, he blew into it softly,  hoping that his cool breath would help reduce the burning and Harry sighed gratefully, resting his arms on Louis' shoulders.

"Thank you so much Lou, it's much better now"

"Umm...yeah. no problem or whatever. Uh I'll just wait outside yeah? Okay. I'll do that. I'll wait out. Okay?" Louis rambled hastily, stubbing his toe on the door as he hurriedly walked out.

He went to his room and closed the door and looked in dismay at his hard dick.

He had an erection. A massive one at that.

No, it wasn't because of Harry. It must be because of the warm water touching his body or something. Yeah. That must be it. Seeing Harry half naked had not turned him on one bit. Nope Nope Nope. He was straight.

***

The weeks flew by, the two becoming closer and closer each day.
Their lives began to slowly revolve around each other even though they didn't realise it as of yet...

Mornings in the apartment began with Harry making Louis a cup of coffee while Louis showered. They'd sit together on the sofa and talk about the most stupid of stuff like which emojis were sexual,  or which of them would survive if there was an apocalypse.

That was the thing about Harry, Louis thought to himself, conversation just flew freely with him. He never had to pretend to be someone he wasn't.  With Harry,  he never had to try, it all came naturally.

After lazing around every morning, they'd walk down to the end of the street together, bidding each other goodbye at the cross-section.

Louis would be the first one to get back home and as soon as Harry got home, Louis would jump up off the sofa and run to greet him, a sunshine smile on his face and eyes crinkling with joy.

At night, they'd head to Harry's bedroom after watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S and Harry and Louis would lie side by side, Harry reading a book and Louis browsing through his phone.

When it was time to sleep,  Louis would tuck Harry under his small body, and they'd smile at each other before finally drifting off to sleep and nightmares hadn't bothered to trouble Harry even once in the three months that they had been living together.

Author's Note
Hi my lovelies!! I hope you'll enjoyed this chapter :)  Also, this book has been peaceful for quite a few chapters hasn't it? Drama approaching..? *evil laugh*
If you haven't read the previous chapter yet, please do so because it has fewer reads as compared to the others.
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