𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝟐𝟓𝟖 [𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧]

𝟎𝟗. 𝐌𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐞 𝐈 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐥𝐲

I opened my eyes and a voice greeted me.

"Good morning Hazza."

I pulled myself up on my elbows and through still sleepy eyes I saw Louis sitting in the armchair, while he was turning some keys on his forefinger. It was quite disturbing as a scene, but I tried not to notice.

"Good morning Lou, what are you doing?"

"Nothing much and you?" The question confused me a little.

"Um... Nothing, I just woke up."

"And what are you going to do today?" His tone was still weird and then he still hadn't looked at me, he kept staring at the keys he was turning on his finger.

"Oh... Um.. Umm... I think I... I think I'll go to breakfast then class, then lunch, more class, I'll be with Niall or Zayn or Liam or maybe all three of them in the afternoon, I still have to see, and then..."

"Come with me to the city," he interrupted me.

"What?" For the first time that morning, he looked me in the eyes and stopped the keys in his hand.

"Come with me to the city," he repeated confidently.

"But Lou, we can't go out without the principal's permission and he will never give it to us!"

"Oh, but we have the principal's permission! Do you remember that time we had a little fling in his office? Well I got some signed permission slips." Saying this he took a pack out of his pocket and waved them for me to see.

"But they'll notice we're missing! Besides, it's not suspicious to go out in two?"

"Oh the security guys only watch if you have signed permission, they don't ask questions. The professors couldn't care less where we are and the principal will never notice two absent students. So, are you with Styles?"

"Why don't you ask Josh?"

"Because he's a good student and would never skip school on that way, I've already tried to convince him, but nothing! But you..." he paused, looking me up and down. It'll seem absurd but it had even more effect since I was still lying down.

"But maybe I misjudged you curly."

"I'm coming."

"What?"

"I said I'm coming. Do you think I want to stay stuck here?" Said this, I jumped out of bed to prove to him the veracity of my words.

"Perfect Styles, then we leave in an hour. We will have a couple of days just for the two of us. Who knows what will happen, maybe we could... Get to know each other better." Having said that, he went to the bathroom. As soon as he closed the door I felt a shiver run down my spine. He had said those words in a tone that gave me the creeps yet at that moment the thing that prevailed was a sense of excitement. Maybe that's why I smiled before starting to prepare my things.

For the whole trip, Louis and I didn't say a word. The security, as he had expected, hadn't given us any problems. I was terribly embarrassed by that silence, but I was probably the only one who felt this way since Louis seemed perfectly calm. Thank goodness we had arrived, in fact Lou was parking near the hostel. I don't know how much longer I would have held that silence without speaking bullshit.

"I'm going inside to book the room, wait for me here."

He didn't even wait for my answer and rushed inside. He came back after ten minutes, in the meantime I had gotten out of the car and was waiting looking at my phone.

"There were no more rooms with separate beds and I had to take one with the double bed, hope you don't mind."

"No, of course not!" I replied perhaps a little too quickly, in fact Louis looked at me weirdly before shaking his head and telling me:

"Come, I'll take you to a place."

I walked beside him and we both still didn't speak, exactly like in the car.

I wondered why my haste in responding to the older and if I should have insisted that he could take two single rooms. But I really didn't see why I would, it was true I didn't mind it. More than anything maybe I had seemed a bit too enthusiastic and probably now Louis thought I was dying to sleep with him or something and that wasn't true at all! Because it wasn't, right?

I saw him go over a fence in a large field and after some hesitation I followed him. I saw him start picking apples from trees planted in what looked like an apple orchard.

"Hey Lou, what are you doing?"

"I'll get us breakfast, right? Indeed you could help me!"

"But isn't it illegal to steal apples?"

He turned and gave me a sly smile.

"It's not illegal if you don't take them off the property! Come on, go get some apples and follow me."

I did as he told me and he took me to a nearby barn. He put my apples and his into a bag he had brought and started climbing up the hay bales to the top. I followed him hesitantly. Once I got up I realised that it was really a great place. We were high enough, we could check if anyone was coming but no one could see us because we were hidden by a layer of hay. We also had a splendid view of the apple orchard and the surrounding countryside. I noticed Lou had laid down in the straw so I followed his example.

"It's beautiful here," I said.

"Yeah, right? I always pop in here when I'm in town." He did pause before adding, "You're the first person I've taken."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"I'm honoured then." And I really was, I couldn't believe that I was the only person he had brought to that place. The only one. Me.

"Come on, take an apple curly" he said, perhaps not to make his previous sentence weigh too much. I did as he told me and for a while we were silent eating the apples, but then I couldn't resist and had to ask him.

"Lou?"

"Yes Harry?"

"Are we friends?"

"Pffff... friends..." He grinned between exasperation and amusement. "I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say we're friends."

"Mmm... okay." I tried not to look too disappointed but I'm not sure I managed well. He probably noticed it, got up on one elbow and looked down on me. Our faces were two inches apart; that closeness took my breath away and I felt my heart beat faster.

"Why do you want to be my friend so much, Harry Styles?" I was not able to give him an answer because first of all I didn't know it myself and then because I couldn't think clearly. It was probably the closeness, but was it normal to want to kiss him? Yes yes, it must certainly be an effect of the short distance. I stood motionless, losing myself in his eyes, unable to answer him. After a while, even if it seemed like an eternity to me, I saw him smile, shake his head and calmly lie down next to me again biting into another apple. I managed to recover for a moment, to regulate my breathing and to stabilise my heart beats. More or less...

"You know Lou, I was thinking... I know practically nothing about you." I saw him roll his eyes.

"And what would you like to know?"

"Dunno, something... Your family?"

"I hate my family and my family hates me, is that enough?"

"Oh... and why?" Maybe I should've been more delicate, but the curiosity was eating me up.

"My business."

"Lou, look you can tell me about it..."

"I could, but I don't want to, simple as that." I was sad, I thought that by now he was letting down his defences with me, but apparently I was wrong.

"Do you like cupcakes?"

"What?" My question had obviously confused him.

"I asked you if you like cupcakes! At least to this question you can answer me, right?" I smiled at him encouragingly.

"Y-Yeah, I like cupcakes."

"Perfect!" I sat up and gave him a toothy grin. "Last time Niall showed me a place where they make really good ones and then it's time for lunch and apples are not enough to satisfy my hunger!"

"Do you want to have cupcakes for lunch?"

"Why not? Nobody's stopping me!" He burst out laughing and I followed him.

"Well, then what are we waiting for? Let's go have our lunch of cupcakes! And tonight let's go have some fun!"

At that moment I received a message:

'Hey Harry, where are you? You weren't at breakfast today, you're not at

lunch and Tom said you weren't even in class! -L'

Tom? Who the hell is Tom now?

'Don't worry Liam, I went to the city for a couple of days with Louis. -H'

'Oh understood. I'll try to tell Zayn without freaking him out. Have fun! -L'

Wow, I'm surprised! I wasn't expecting a 'have fun' from Liam, I was expecting more of a 'What do you have on your mind, skipping school to go to town?!' That boy always surprises me.

"Um... Harry?" called me back to the present Louis, who had just come down from our hiding place.

"Yes?"

"You'd better run because the farmer is coming and he has a pitchfork in his hand!"

"WHAT?"

We started running wildly escaping from the farmer who was yelling not very nice words at us. Luckily we managed to lose him and stopped on a street corner to catch our breath.

Then we started laughing like crazy, literally rolling on the ground.

"Ok Cupcake, now we better go if we want to have lunch!"

"Cupcake?"

"Yes, Cupcake! I like it as a name and then with all those curls you look like one!"

"If you say so!"

Still laughing, we headed over to the cake shop where Niall had taken me last time to eat.

In the evening we were at The Sun, the same place I went to the other time with the boys. Incredible to say, but I was bored out of my mind. I was sitting at the bar drinking beer watching Louis dance and having fun with some girls. Usually when it came to having fun and girls I was first in line but this time I just wasn't in the mood, all I could do was keep asking the bartender for another glass.

"Hey, what are you doing there?" Lou's voice reached my ears. He had come towards me and was yelling over the music. "I thought you were some sort of womaniser who sleeps with all the girls, or so you told me. Are you losing it?"

I rolled my eyes in a huff.

"Lou, I'm not in the mood today."

"Oh, don't be boring! Come!"

He grabbed me by the wrist and dragged me into the middle of the floor, starting to dance close to me.

"Come on, melt!" To encourage me, he grabbed me by the hips, still dancing.

I was surprised by that move, I swallowed and after a bit of indecision I put my arms on his shoulders around his neck and started to dance with him. To say I was nervous was an understatement, I kept sweating and I was shaking. Plus that situation didn't make sense, I was dancing with a boy! It was... Wrong, here. But the worst thing is that I was starting to have fun too, unbelievable but true! It all got worse when, while we were dancing, Lou pulled me a little closer and accidentally my crotch collided with his. I felt a principle of erection start in my pants. I walked away from him trying to be as natural as possible, but the truth is, it was extremely embarrassing. We continued to dance and for a while the situation seemed to settle down, although my little friend over there showed no signs of relaxing. In the heat of dancing I had a second encounter with Louis's crotch and I was terrified that he would notice. Panicked, I looked for an excuse to get out of that uncomfortable situation.

"Lou, I have a bit of a headache, I think I'm going to the hotel." I was already trying to slip away, but unfortunately he followed me.

"Wait, I'm coming with you. I don't want to stay here alone!"

Damn! And now? Well, at least I wouldn't have been tacked on to him in a confined space with music confusing me.

Once we got to the hostel we went to our room and took turns showering. Once out, ready to go to sleep, a small detail came back to me. We would sleep together. Oh well, in the end we just had to sleep, we probably wouldn't even touch each other. When I slipped under the covers, where Lou was already there, I was already much calmer. That's why I was dumbfounded when, after laying on my side as always, I felt Lou's arms around me from behind. He had practically squashed himself on top of me and I could feel almost every part of his body against mine.

"Goodnight Cuppy" he whispered, giving me a light kiss on the cheek.

"Goodnight Lou" I whispered back. I felt my cheeks blush after the kiss.

Lou's position should have bothered me, but really all I felt was a pleasant warmth that was spreading throughout my body. And as if it wasn't enough the erection, which with the fresh air and the shower had gone away, was returning even greater than before.

What was happening to me?