“You’re too noisy” Louis whispered as we walked downstairs, he was using his phone as a flashlight, still he continuously stepped on my foot.
“Well maybe if you stopped stabbing my feet…”
Finally we were out the house, closing the door as quietly as I could I chased after Louis who was standing besides the car holding the passenger door like an idiot, an obnoxious cute idiot.
“So? Where are you taking me?” I asked him after he drove away from the house.
“You’ll see”
“You’re not going to try to pull off a “mysterious dark personality” to seduce me, are you? I don’t think you could pull that off” I teased him.
“Why? I don’t need to pull anything off, Alex dear you’re driving to god knows where in the middle of the night, I think we’re past the seducing part already” He half joked in that kind of jerky way only he could pull off without making me want to smack him.
“Oh, shut up before I make you”
“Should I pull aside to let you?” He replied arching a brow, I blushed but couldn’t hold it and we both ended up laughing
“Stop it! Why the hell am I laughing? You’re corrupting me!”
“Oh, like you were so innocent to begin with it” He replied voice filled with sarcasm.
“What is that supposed to mean?”
“You know, what the boys call you” He paused for a moment taunting me “Oh that’s right you wouldn’t know since they do it when you’re not around”
“What do they call me?” He was trying to annoy me but it wasn’t working, I was curious more than anything.
“La diabla” The devil? Mmm it has a nice ring to it I’ll give them that.
“Niall really needs to stop watching soap operas” I replied rolling my eyes.
After a while of driving around we finally were at a small park, even from the parking lot I could see a trail that lead to the woods, A group of guys going through that angsty teen phase were smoking by the swings, and two girls were sitting in a bench.
“We used to come here all the time, me, mom dad and Lottie” Louis explains as he holds the door open for me.
“And then?”
“They divorced and mom began to work extra hours, I took Lottie to the park close to the house thought it’s not nearly as cool as this one” I look around, there’s nothing that made this park that special, the swings looked too old and the grass was more of a brownish shade than a green one.
“Not for this silly” Louis says following my gaze, he takes my hand and guides me to the woods.
“Umm Lou, this usually doesn’t end good for the couple… you know in those murder movies”
“There hasn’t been a murder in like decades, bear attacks on the other side… ” I freeze.
“Be-bears?” He laughs and cages me between his arms.
“I’m just messing with you”
“I knew that” he looks at me with the “sure you did” look but doesn’t say anything. I’m too afraid to be able to enjoy the walk, I don’t like the dark and I sure as hell don’t like walking in the dark through the woods, the flashlight I keep pointing at everything only makes it creepier.
“I want to go back” I finally say, I don’t even care if he will tease me anymore.
“Alex…”
“No, Louis I mean…” I stop talking and look ahead; there’s a small house like bench, it looks antique but well kept, there is some wild roses surrounding the little building and a place to hang the lamp in the roof.
“What is this place?” I ask walking to read the plaque.
“This whole place, the park and woods included belonged to the St. Lourdes family, this was their backyard, and legend says the owner built this place for his mistress to wait for him” He explains. “The house collapsed a long time ago but this place somehow still stands”
I hesitate and finally step inside, the walls and wooden floor are both white, on the middle there’s a lonely iron bench and a small table, not the real ones I assume.
“Okay I’ll admit it, this is kind of cool” I finally say sitting down, Louis sits next to me.
“There’s an urban legend about this place” He admits, and it’s that a blush I see on his cheeks? It’s too dark to tell but the way he avoids my eyes makes me think it is, what’s gotten him so shy all of a sudden?
“Tell me”
“Not that I believe in it or anything but people say that if a couple sits here after midnight they will get married one day…damn I don’t know why I told you” He curses, I take his hands between mines, I love this side of him, the shy more vulnerable one.
“Hey Lou” I say softly making him face me.
“I really like you” before he can answer I’m kissing him, it’s a slow kiss at first almost timid since it’s me who starts it, all my vacillation gets lost thought as soon as he responds me and we are both fighting for control as we kiss each other, he pulls away for breath and begins to trace my neck with his lips, and it’s there with my hands in his hair, my legs around his waist and his lips over my neck that a flash captures the moment.
We both pull away surprised, Louis quickly stands in front of me protectively covering me from the camera, I can’t see who’s the paparazzi but I hear giggles.
“What is wrong with you” Louis says annoyed, he’s holding himself back from cursing; I guess they are now recording.
“Louis, where’s Eleanor?” A girl asks I pull aside from Louis and recognize the girl; she was at the park when we arrived.
“Don’t you have anything better to do than to spy on people?” I say trying to stay calm, I don’t care if she gets my face on camera I’m freaking done with this kind of people.
“Don’t you have anything better to do than to screw relationships?” She retorts, I laugh at her.
“Stop acting like you know Louis or what happens on his life just because you read “seventeen” I mock her and take his hand as we walk away, she yells at us, but we both ignore her.
He is quiet, almost too quiet. Maybe he is mad at me, he obviously didn’t want her to get a look at my face, I bit my lip as I wait for him to bash at me.
“I’m sorry” I say after I can’t take his silence.
“Are you serious? Babe, I’m the one who’s sorry I wanted you to have fun and a good memory of our first night together”
“I had fun! Between who cares if we got caught on video?! That’s kind of hot” I joke and he laughs.
“You really are something” He says staring at me and smiling, he turns to the left and I recognize the way to his house.
“Where do you think you’re going? We’re not done yet” I complain.
“And what exactly do you plan on doing at two in the morning?”
“Breakfast of course, everyone knows that breakfast after one o cloak it’s the best kind” He shakes his head.
“You just made that up”
“Like you did with that “urban legend” back there?”
“I did not!” He say blushing, his accents gets stronger when he’s embarrassed.
“Then breakfast it is” I order with a smile.
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I had so much fun reading your opinions, and I honestly was fangirling over their ship name “Alouis” like you guys are awesome, I never even thought about a couple name.
Reading about why some people don’t like them together its also so interesting, there’s room for so much to happen still, and nothing is set on stone… so just keep that in mind ;)
It was hard to pick the dedication but laughter11 wins this round, like I couldn’t have explained their relationship better “they’re both so perfectly messed up and different that they’re the same” yep. Sounds weird but they are.
So for the next dedication since my book is soo cheesy how about everyone comments their cheesiest line, it can be made up or something you once read!