HL Fic of the Month
✧ M a y ✧
(but maybe all along) i'm afraid
by localopa / @voulezloux
Romantic love couldn’t be real, he concluded at 14 when a girl in his year asked him to the Sadie Hawkins dance, blush sitting high on her cheeks as she stumbled through her prepared speech. He had seen the look she gave him many times from others in their year. The infatuation, the giggling, the coy shyness. Year 10 love always faded into nothing, and soon two partners were as good as strangers in a matter of weeks. The girl, for what it’s worth, took the rejection in stride, though he could see the prickles of tears welling in her eyes as she turned away from him. The cycle would continue with her, as it does with everyone. Her feelings for Louis will fade until she feels nothing for him, and he becomes another faceless boy in her journey to find her love, even if he didn’t think that love truly existed. Romantic love is a myth, Louis asserts to himself in the mirror every morning. Romantic love is a myth, and he is not in love with Harry Styles. or the five stages of realizing you’ve been in love with your best friend, who definitely doesn’t feel the same, this whole time.
friends to lovers | 39k | teen & up
