• louis partridge imagines •

Secret Santa

"You happy with yours?" She asks you and you shrug in response.

"It's not that bad. What about you?" You ask her back.

"I hate mine. I hate mine so much. I'm pretty sure we've spent at least twelve hours straight shit talking about the bitch." She says rolling her eyes and immediately you gather an idea of who it could be which makes you laugh.

"Wanna go shopping for it together at the weekend then?" You ask her after you stop laughing.

She nods immediately before the teacher calls for your attention back at the front again.

-

Saturday arrives and you get dressed quickly before walking out the door and to your friends house which is only a short walk from yours.

"You ready?" She says as she meets you by her car parked in her driveway.

You nod as she begins to drive to the town centre where you can do your shopping.

You spend hours searching around for something that would be perfect for Louis before eventually coming across a necklace.

You recall hearing Louis talk about how important the tree of life and family trees are to him and his family so finding the necklace had to be one of three options:

- luck
- good karma
- fate

You would prefer to think it would be the second.

You stop at your local supermarket on your way home for some sweets and chocolate for him as well before heading home and adding it all to a box ready for Monday, gift giving day.

-

You walk into school on the Monday with the box of Louis' gifts in your hands, as you walk in your class you see a table filled with other wrapped gifts and so you go over there and place louis' gift with the others before taking your seat.

The bell rings shortly after you sit down just as your teacher runs in slightly out of breath.

"Okay I'm going to take the register so can someone please hand the secret Santa gifts out while I do so" your professor says as he hurriedly pulls out his laptop and charger from his portable mini suitcase.

Soon enough, a small box is placed on your desk with your name scribed gently and carefully onto the shiny gold wrapping.

You untie the ribbon before carefully removing the wrapping paper and finally the lid of the box.

Inside is a set of the most beautiful gold rings you have ever seen.

However, these are rings you had seen before.

Specifically when last summer when you were sat next to Louis in maths and used to go on about this particular set for the whole lesson.

Immediately, you turn around to find Louis already looking at you with a bright smile and the necklace you bought him dangling in between his fingers.

You get up from your seat and head over to Louis, settling yourself in the empty space beside him.

"I remembered you talking about the tree of life a lot and I saw this and it made me think of you and I thought you would like it so I bought it for you and if you don't like it that's fine I can always return it and get you something else and" you say before you are interrupted by laughter from the boy infront of you.

"Return it? Are you joking? This is possibly one of the most thoughtful and kind gifts I've ever received and I couldn't be more grateful for it" He says politely looking at you with a smile.

"thank you so much for the rings, I love them so much" you say, holding up the box the rings came in and staring at him with admiration.

"It's okay. I know you wouldn't have bought them for yourself so I did it for you" He says and you both look into each other's eyes.

The relentlessness of his gaze making butterflies erupt in your stomach.

Maybe your feelings never actually went away...

-

Awh how sweet.

Just to clarify, they both only talked about those things with each other.

And back at it again with the incredible sketches.

I love you.