Denying It {l.s}

Meaningless Conversations and Reconnecting

A/N: Hi, lovelies. Welcome to Denying It!

This is my first non AU Larry story, and I don't have a fucking clue what to do with it. It's set in 2025 because that's the current year and because I fucking can. All the boys are in this because in my head they all still are here and I don't want to think of the reality.

There's smut. It's not good, I'm not an expert in gay sex, so, my bad folks. Ummm, what else? Oh, if you're wondering who tops, they kinda share that, really. I think I wrote more Harry topping, but I don't know what happened, I just kinda fell into a sub!Louis trap. What the fuck did I just write?

As with all my fics that I write, I base them off of a song, so yeah, there's some direct lyrics to the song I chose, but I don't think it's too obvious.

I hope you enjoy, vote and comment or I will haunt your dreams with Louis' X Factor Audition of Hey There Delilah. I'm not kidding.

20/03/2026 UPDATE: I made a playlist inspired by this fic on Spotify, check it out: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7uqNBXfaJwMBoA8hnal7Th?si=UfrtDX-BTnqGMVcG8uq9tQ&pi=8W95cGv6RBmvg

Love you lots,
-nat 🦆

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"I think that should be in the second verse, rather than as the build up." Louis noted as he worked with his producer, Joseph.

"We could round it off going back to E flat, or we could go here." Joseph suggested playing a chord on the keyboard.

Louis thought for a moment, humming the bitter tune as he tried with different chords. "Or bring it to the minor. C minor, here."

"That works, wanna try it from the top?" Joseph asked as he scribbled something down and played the intro to the new song they were working on.

They worked it for a while until Joseph saw the time and realized he should go home, if it were up to Louis he would never leave the studio. It was calming there, he was in charge here, everything was music, and he understood music.

After Joseph left Louis stayed there, sitting on the couch by the drum set and opening his phone to make some innocuous posts on Twitter about upcoming music. He was a ways away from that happening, but teasing the fans was his favourite pass time.

@louist91 are there any love songs? if so who are they abt?

You'll have to wait and see :)

@louist91 can you wish me a happy birthday tomorrow????

No. Just kidding, love, happy birthday

@louist91 how many tracks on the new album

369

He had fun, but he knew he shouldn't tease too much, he had work to do, his album was only a couple songs so far, and he wasn't even sure if all of them were good. He sent one to Niall and two to Liam, Niall gave him great advice and Liam always had constructive criticism that Niall was too polite to give. He debated giving Zayn a ring, they hadn't spoken much lately, but last month he went to his concert and they hung out afterwards, it was nice seeing him again. God knows where Harry was, probably off in Berlin growing an ugly moustache.

Him and Harry were once the closest in the band, until fans thought there was something there that totally wasn't, obviously. But every time they denied it, they would twist their words into a way that worked for them. Louis didn't understand how they could do that, he was happy with Eleanor and the fans ruined that a bunch, death threats, bearding comments, it was fucking foul. The worst was the threats about Freddie, that was his pride and joy, his mini me, he wanted to be able to protect Freddie from this cruel and threatening world.