Going into the fourteenth race, Harry qualifies with a stellar time, beating the previous track record by three seconds. Unfortunately, Louis does too, and on the last segment of the track he pulls out a startling lap time, beating Harry by almost eight tenths of a second.
The only positive about starting behind Louis is at least he’ll get to stare at Louis’ ass.
2.
“However many,” Louis faked direction again, “goals we each score, that’s how many times we each get off tonight.”
Harry hated when Louis was a tease. “Yeah, you up for getting me off three times tonight? Think you can handle it?”
3.
“Why?” Harry shook his head. “Why are you here? You’re gorgeous. I can’t imagine you’re hard up for… um…”
“Oh,” that time Louis’ whole face blushed. He put his cup down on the counter and turned around. He put both hands on his sizeable, seemingly-firm, arse. “Because of this,” he squeezed, “everyone wants me to bottom.
4.
Before he realised it, he was just as drunk as Louis and hadn’t even attempted to find his friends. Or his fiance, who, once Nick thought of it, hadn’t made any attempt to find him either. Which was fine, really.
- answers below -
1. Counterbalance
Harry Styles loves two things: teaching ballet and racing motorcycles. Those two worlds collide when his greatest rival on the track, Louis “Tommo” Tomlinson brings his tiny siblings to Harry’s class.
2. Swallow My Words
Senior year is stressful. On top of balancing school work, family, and friends, Harry's lacrosse team is vying to win the state championship, he's not sure where he's going to college yet, and he has a secret boyfriend that no one can know about.
3. Big Dicked Bottoms Make the Rockin’ World Go Round
Harry was tired of the assumptions made about his sexual preferences and he wasn't afraid to (drunkenly) post on Tumblr about it. The last thing he expected was to find his perfect partner.
4. Tell Me It’s The Strongest Shape
Nick and Elgar have it all. They’re famous, successful, and engaged to be married—and sometimes they play with others.
When uni student Louis gets street cast by Elgar for a GQ photoshoot, he's drawn into Nick and Elgar’s complicated relationship.
They've always invited mates into their bed. It doesn’t ever mean anything. Until… it does.
Escapade by dolce_piccante
{mature, 146k, 5 chapters, fake relationship AU, slow build, side ziall, ot5 friendship + involvement, enemies to lovers, smut, sharing a bed}
In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremony and accompanying festivities becomes more of an adventure than he ever could have planned for.
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Iconic Fics
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Enemies to lovers
Fake Relationship
Sharing a bed
Playlist of the songs mentioned can be found here!
It’s about time I finally rec’d this fic. I really enjoyed this! I see why it’s such an iconic fic in the fandom.
The story showed great character development, for both Harry and Louis. Louis was a pretentious, stuck up corporate bozo at the start, but grew into a wonderful character.
“Because I would rather go alone to every event for the rest of my life than pay the ghost of Mick Jagger’s youth to pretend to tolerate me”
“Do you like golf?” “I f*ck old men for a living. Of course I love golf”
“What’s with the all white trend?” “Babe, it’s not like you’re going to get your period”
“Invisible, inexplicable heat, like the shock of an electrical fire o the remnants of a lightning storm in humidity”
Although it says in the beginning it’s incomplete, it’s actually fully finished with an epilogue and everything, so don’t let that stop you!
This was an amazing book, I definitely recommend it and understand why it’s so famous! Go read it!
“Sure you can,” Liam argues. “I’m obviously ‘the jock’. You’re the nerd. Louis’ the delinquent. And Zayn, here, is the spoiled little princess.”
Louis is the only one not offended by Liam’s assessment, smiling widely at being called a delinquent. Liam’s not wrong there.
Harry, however, sinks even further into himself as Zayn leans over and slaps Liam hard on the back of the head.
2.
Harry tries to hide his new monstrosities from Louis when he gets home the following day but he’s too slow.
They’re red and he spies them right away, stealing them from Harry and slipping them onto his hands where he stares at them dubiously. “These are strange-looking mittens.”
Harry bites his lip and refrains from groaning. “That’s because they’re socks."
3.
“I mean, it would probably help to know that you actually want everything that goes along with being with a guy. If you can’t handle the machinery, it’s probably not for you, you know?”
Harry nods and appears to be steeling himself. Louis tenses, afraid that he knows what’s coming.
“Would you do it?”
“Do what?” Louis plays dumb.
Harry has to take another deep breath before he can say it.
“Will you help me figure out if I like it? Being with a boy?”
4.
He takes a step towards the door and they all see it coming but can’t do a thing as the bike decides it doesn’t like the angle it’s sitting at and crashes to the ground behind Harry. Harry winces at the sound as, on the other side of the parlor window, Niall snorts loudly, tears of laughter rolling down his cheeks.
Louis takes pity on Harry and goes outside to help him right his bike. Harry doesn’t say a word as they work and Louis figures he’s probably embarrassed. Louis would be.
Finally, they get the bike to stay and Harry looks grateful for a moment before he turns it into a leer.
- answers below -
1. Saturday Detention
Five boys with nothing in common end up together in Saturday detention. Maybe if they can get past their first impressions, they’ll realize they're not as different as they thought.
Or
The Breakfast Club Au that was dying to be written.
2. Gonna Dress You Up In My Love
Harry decides to take up knitting. He's horrible at it.
Louis wears everything anyway.
3. Pillow Talk
When Harry starts having confusing feelings for a male classmate, his sister's best friend, Louis, helps him figure himself out. Cue lots of kissing, sex, and falling in love.
4. I Want Something that I Want
Louis Tomlinson hates bad boys.
Except he doesn't. And he really doesn't hate the one standing outside his new favorite tattoo parlor, giving him the once-over.
But he'll soon find out that his bad boy makes for a laughably poor specimen.
you're just too good to be true,
can't take my eyes off you.
the one where louis doesn't eat, harry doesn't function and all they need is each other.
or: two lonely boys trying to heal each other is love.
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Fav Fics
Iconic Fics
October 2020 Fic Rec (to be written)
Hurt/Comfort
Longer Fics (2)
Small Town AU
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I am very easily in love with this story.
I wrote down my thoughts as I was reading, this is what I came up with:
“this is a f**king masterpiece
**an hour later**: “just a f**king perfect masterpiece”
Clearly, I was so overwhelmed by this novel. It is so much more than just a simple fic, it is so incredibly delicately and powerfully written. There is a perfect characterization of Harry and Louis, and the emotions they develop. I can’t put into words how much I love this, so here are some amazing quotes from the talented author.
“They don’t say anything, only stare at each other’s eyes, the precious place where all the universe’s answers have been hiding all along.”
“Your love doesn’t take me to heaven, it brings me back to myself, keeping me sane, and I’ll never be able to thank you enough for it. I’ll spend my forever trying to.”
!!!! “She may trick herself into believing that she’s safe from reality, but she is just stuck with her own mind, locked in an unescapable cell with her own memories. She lives in her personal purgatory, both the victim and the punisher, paying alive for her sins.” !!!!!
“For now, Harry’s eyes are fixated on Louis with so much attention and wonder that Louis feels warm everywhere. When he looks like this, all apprehensive and golden, he puts the sun to shame.”
!!!! “I suffocate on memory petals knowing there’s more flowers in my lungs now than it will ever be on my grave” !!!!
I believe it deserves the same recognition that Young & Beautiful and Tired Tired Sea receive. Truly, go give this a read. Although it is slower paced it builds up perfectly, so keep reading, the ending will have you distraught but amazed.
I’m yet to find a fic that I love as much as this.
AU. As part of a team of fixers hired to handle a gay scandal in Buckingham Palace, Louis expects Prince Harry to be a lot of things—most notably a royally spoilt brat. Never mind that the very same Prince Harry used to star in quite a number of Louis' teenage fantasies.
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Royalty AU
Famous/Non Famous
Iconic Fics
Fav Fics
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This fic was great! I loved it so much, the plot development was really well done and the smut was amazing. The author did a wonderful job and I can’t wait to read more of their writing!
“Since it was a moral obligation to stop him from spouting bullshit, Louis covered Harry’s mouth with his own. It was a sacrifice, of course, but Louis had always believed in doing right by the people -- and now that he’d begun to reclaim his birth name, he had better live up to the noble responsibility that came with it”
{mature, 227k, 34 chapters, uni AU, enemies to lovers, slow burn, angst, fluff, hurt/comfort, side ziam, OT5 friendship}
Louis, to his horror, attends an elitist university in which the name Zayn Malik means something, Niall Horan doesn't stop talking, there are pianos everywhere, and Harry Styles, only son of a drug-addled, clinically insane ex-rocker, has a perfect smile and empty eyes.
{explicit, 149k, 10 chapters, slow burn, angst, fluff, smut, strangers to enemies to friends to lovers, narry + nouis friendship, road trip AU}
Harry stares at him, the line of his jaw standing out scarily. “I wanted to get the most out of this trip so I planned it carefully.” His voice is low and steady and somehow that’s worse than when he was yelling. “So far, you’ve put your sticky fingers on everything I’ve tried to do.”
“Sticky fingers?” Louis repeats, offended. “Are you saying it’s my fault you got stung by a bee? Had you been alone you would have gotten halfway to the Dotty Diner and ran the car off the road because of an allergic reaction, so don’t go blaming me.”
“Polk-A-Dot Drive In,” Harry spits before getting out of the car. He slams the door shut with a deafening reverb and Louis rolls his eyes.
A Route 66 AU where falling in love was never part of the plan.
