”Due to unforeseen circumstances, help is needed here at the orchard for the impending apple season. Looking for someone able to start within the next week or two at the most, is willing to do whatever miscellaneous tasks are needed, such as picking & packing apples, running the cash register, and other handywork that may need to be done. Must be good with customers, and able to lift up to 50lbs. Help will be needed until at the least the end of October. Please contact the number found on this page, or come out to the orchard and ask for Harry. All the love xx”
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Louis is staying at his Aunt’s farm in a small town in Minnesota for four months. To deal with the boredom that sets in a week into his stay, he starts working at the local apple orchard, owned by twenty six year old Harry Styles.
Louis quickly finds himself falling in love with the orchard, and he finds a family in Harry’s friends Niall, Liam, and Zayn.
He also starts to fall in love with Harry.
Falling in love with him turns out to be the easy part.
The first thing Jay does when she sees Harry, is hug him. It takes about five seconds for Harry’s face to flash from shocked, to pleased, and then smug. Louis sighs as he watches, because as much as it pains him to admit it, Harry was absolutely, one hundred percent correct when he’d said he’d win her over without saying a single damn word.
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Sequel to Apples Always Fall (As I Do For You), and Part 2 of the We’ll Make This Feel Like Home series!
Christmas On Stylish Apples Orchard, A Slice/Bite of Life:
Harry giggles, and pulls Louis closer to him. “I love you.” He brings his hands up, one pulling Louis’ hands gently away from his face, and the other pressing gently at Louis’ cheek to turn his face towards his own.
Louis lets him, and they sit there, just smiling at each other like idiots for a moment. Louis can literally feel his red cheeks, but he can’t bring himself to give a shit because Harry looks so so beautiful at this moment, his heart hurts. God he fucking loves this man. “I love you too.”
OH BOI WHAT A QUESTION um id say like any and all convos i had with @the-ghost-ofme or @sits-with-cats during the process, but tbh i just enjoyed the whole process of writing it like…….it was fun to write and i actually miss writing it just because of that hahaha
also. making my friends all think that zayn/harry were engaged was a blast
POV - something that’s already happened, retold from another character’s perspective:
Apples Always Fall : Chapter 4 (Louis’ POV aka the original POV)
About an hour and a half into the drive, they’ve both fallen into a comfortable silence, the moon shining into the vehicle beautifully as Harry turns the music up slightly to hear the end of an Arctic Monkeys song.
The next song to play is Leather and Lace by Stevie Nicks, and without really thinking about it, Louis starts quietly singing along. He gets a little lost in it, halfway to being lulled asleep, and is startled when the song reaches the chorus, and Harry joins in on give to me your leather, his harmonies mixing beautifully with Louis’, and leaves take from me, my lace to Louis.
When he pulls his gaze from the window to look at Harry -like he’d been strongly avoiding-, Harry’s got a soft smile on his face, and jumps right into Don Henley’s verse without hesitation.
He’s got a beautiful voice, deep and slightly raspy, and with every word he sings, it sounds genuine, like he means every word with every fiber of his being. Louis could drown in it.
They finish out the song together, and when it ends, the playlist moving on to November Rain by Guns ‘N Roses, neither of them says anything. A few seconds later though, Harry’s hand moves over to where Louis’ is resting on the console, and he gently takes ahold of it.
Louis lets him, wraps his smaller fingers around Harry’s larger ones, and wonders if this slow, melancholy, feeling; where he feels like he’s in a dream, and the only person worth waking up for is right next to him. He wonders if this is what being on the edge of falling feels like.
Can’t Help Falling…..Like Apples in The Fall (Harry’s POV)
On the drive back home, Harry hears Louis sing for the first time.
Like, actually sing. Not belting out the lyrics to Africa in a goofy voice, or at the top of his lungs singing along with ABBA in his best show tune voice.
He’s singing along to an Arctic Monkeys song first, and his singing voice is just as beautiful and delicate as his speaking voice is, and he sings with so much emotion that Harry’s heart feels like it’s beating along to the rhythm of Louis’ entire being. Harry turns the song up towards the end of it, just so Louis will sing a little louder.
The next song to start up is Leather and Lace, one of Harry’s favorite songs.
When Louis starts singing along, his voice naturally raspy and beautiful to match Stevie’s, Harry’s breath hitches. He doesn’t want to do anything that might stop Louis from singing, so he’s careful to just peek out of the corner of his eye at him as he drives.
He’s breathtaking.
His face is partially shadowed, but the rest is bathed in moonlight. He’s got a small smile on his face as he sings, and Harry can tell he’s completely lost in the lyrics, in the atmosphere in the vehicle, and Harry loves him so much his heart aches.
It’s easy, when Don Henley starts singing, to sing every word like he means it. Because looking at Louis, his tired looking eyes shining in the moonlight, Harry wants so badly for Louis to love him.
Harry’s full of faults though, he’s the first to admit it, so, as he sings the words could you ever love a man like me? It’s a real question that he feels almost frantic to hear an answer to.
When he can no longer help himself, and he rests his hand on Louis’, his heart jumps a bit when Louis squeezes his hand back.
He thinks he could stay like this forever, with Louis’ fingers intertwined with his.
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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 10/10
Fandom: One Direction
Rating: Mature
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson
Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, Original Characters
Additional Tags: Background Relationships, Fluff, Angst, Miscommunication, Falling In Love, Slow Burn, Nick Grimshaw - Freeform, He gets used as a plot device, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Orchard, Orchard AU, apple orchard, Daddy Kink, Just slightly, That's slow burn too, Roadtrips, Family, Finding home, References to Drugs, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Pet Names, Harry calls Louis princess a lot but like, theres no like feminization or anything, Oh also there is no cheating, It might seem like there would be, Bc of Harry/Zayn, But there is 0 cheating nope nope nope
Series: Part 1 of We’ll Make This Feel Like Home
Summary:
”Due to unforeseen circumstances, help is needed here at the orchard for the impending apple season. Looking for someone able to start within the next week or two at the most, is willing to do whatever miscellaneous tasks are needed, such as picking & packing apples, running the cash register, and other handywork that may need to be done. Must be good with customers, and able to lift up to 50lbs. Help will be needed until at the least the end of October. Please contact the number found on this page, or come out to the orchard and ask for Harry. All the love xx”
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Louis is staying at his Aunt's farm in a small town in Minnesota for four months. To deal with the boredom that sets in a week into his stay, he starts working at the local apple orchard, owned by twenty six year old Harry Styles.
Louis quickly finds himself falling in love with the orchard, and he finds a family in Harry's friends Niall, Liam, and Zayn.
He also starts to fall in love with Harry.
Falling in love with him turns out to be the easy part.
