Hello! can you rec fics similar to unbelievers? I loved the hate to love and football aspect of it, and just in general their personalities
Hello, let’s see what I found for you :)
⚽ Galileo by 13ways (63k)
“Dangerous? Not haute?” Harry mused. “Why not haute?”
“‘Course you’re haute, babe,” Louis smiled. He reached out to fix a stray curl that had dropped down onto Harry’s forehead. Harry stared at him with a dimpled smile, and Louis reared his head back to laugh. Harry craned his head back in parallel with Louis’s, watching him. He couldn’t peel his eyes away. Louis Tomlinson laughing was the most beautiful thing in the world.
“You’re a whole other level of charming, you know that?” Louis said. Harry leaned forward to kiss Louis. They both closed their eyes, savoring the moment. It was a kiss that should have happened ages ago.
Louis was captain of the state championship high school soccer team. Harry was that gorgeous, scarf-wearing, long-limbed British kid in his art class. They weren’t supposed to be friends.
But somewhere along the line, Louis Tomlinson opened the locked mystery that was Harry Styles.
⚽Turning Page by purpledaisy (67k)
“Harry.” He draws the word out slowly, hesitantly - like he’s not sure about it. The guy knots his hands behind his back. “Harry Twist.”
“Right,” Niall says, eyes lingering suspiciously on Harry before looking back to Louis. “You wanna buy Harry a drink?”
Louis lets his eyes drip back to Harry, to his wide eyes and the way his shoulders curve down. He really is pretty – Louis will be the first one to admit it and the last one to ever say it out loud. Louis almost smirks and his lips twitch as he tilts his head, “Not particularly, no.”
AU: Harry Styles tries to get lost in a place he’s never been. Louis Tomlinson has been perfecting the art of being lost for years. What they don’t expect to find is each other.
⚽ Worth a Thousand Words by TheIfInLife (7k)
“Look, I’m learning some new stuff!”
My name is Louis. My favorite color is green. I like movies. Do you know sign language?
Harry huffed grumpily. Why are you learning sign language?
“Because, I want to be able to talk to you.” Louis looked small, gripping tightly at the steering wheel.
You’re my friend. Louis signed shakily, having to try it a few times before getting it right. And well, Harry just snapped.
We’re not friends. I don’t know what makes you think that we’re okay but we’re not. You stopped being my friend once you found out that I went deaf. I don’t know if this is your way of ‘making up for it’ or if you think that hanging out with the deaf guy and learning a bit of sign language is your ‘kind deed’ to the world but I don’t want to be your charity case and I don’t want to be your friend.
Or Harry went deaf at 5 years old and Louis just wants the chance be heard.
⚽Put Your Flowers Down, It’s Too Cold by beariot (5k)
AU. Louis and Harry think they don’t like each other, but really, they do. All it takes is Zayn being away on bootycall, a snowstorm and a bad Titanic reference to bring them together.
⚽ Far away for far too long by alwaysinmy (46k)
“What are you on?” Harry asks starting to chuckle.
“You must be on crack to think that I would do this!” Harry says almost laughing now.
“Harry, I’m serious,” Louis pleads.
“What in the world makes you think I would do this?!” Harry exclaims.
“200 pounds isn’t gonna make m-,”
“And I’ll tutor you in Calculus!” Louis blurts out.
“What?” Harry is very confused.
“I said,” he pauses. “I’ll tutor you. I know you’re almost failing. I’ll help you, if you help me,” Louis says seriously. Harry stops laughing.
“What would being your fake boyfriend require?” Harry asks suddenly interested.
or the one where Louis needs to prove to the Gay-Straight Alliance Club that he isn’t the homophobic guy they think he is and the only way to do that is to get his ex-best mate, Harry Styles, to be his fake boyfriend.
⚽The boys of fall by godgavemelou (21k)
“And everyone, this is Harry Styles. He’s going to be our starting quarterback this year.”
Louis looks at him, the tall and lanky Harry Styles, and takes it all in. He’s got hair to his shoulders that curls at the ends, tattoos all down his arms, and a bright smile on his face as the team cheers him on. He’s lean and fit, and absolutely beautiful, and Louis hates him to the core.
OR an american football au where the boys play for the university of tennessee, and harry and louis quite hate each other.
⚽Soft Hands, Fast Feet, Can’t Lose by dolce_piccante (112k)
American Uni AU. Harry Styles is a frat boy football star from the wealthy Styles Family athletic dynasty. A celebrity among football fans, he knows how to play, he knows how to party, and he knows how to fuck (all of which is well known among his legion of admirers).
Louis Tomlinson is a student and an athlete, but his similarities to Harry end there. Intelligent, focused, independent, and completely uninterested in Harry’s charms, Louis is an anomaly in a world ruled by football.
A bet about the pair, who might be more similar than they originally thought, brings them together. Shakespeare, ballet, Disney, football, library chats, running, accidental spooning, Daredevil and Domino’s Pizza all blend into one big friendship Frappucino, but who will win in the end?
⚽Lips speak louder by bravefortheboys (29k)
Pool water dyed blue, a deep hatred for R.E.M., shorts catching on fire, a karaoke night that somehow changes everything, an angering lack of proper communication—oh, and what’s camp without a bit of rivalry?
(AU in which Louis is a summer camp counselor along with a few other less-than-qualified people just trying to make it through the next four weeks in one piece. The curly-headed bloke from the camp sharing the campsite with them surely won’t let that happen).
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