Young & Beautiful

XII
Chapter Summary
Louis needs help. A lot of help.
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes
Wednesday begins as a mess.
It’s already rubbish because Louis is utterly exhausted since he had gone to bed too late once
again. He’d grilled Niall as soon as he’d returned, casually demanding if Des was at the studio—
he wasn’t—and gathering whatever other information he could on the situation—which was
nothing—then proceeded to smoke too much, watch too much tellie with blank eyes as his mind
wandered and heart beat angrily, and stuffed whatever food Niall had piled around them into his
mouth.
All the while resolutely not thinking about a certain light in a certain window as a certain shadow
flickered on the walls.
Thus today, through the exhaustion that mercilessly pulls on his eyelids and sinks his limbs to the
floor, he has found himself late for every single course of the day. And not once has he retained
an ounce of information throughout said courses, pen always uncapped but never connecting with
the blank notebook page before him, because his minds keeps flicking to either one of two places:
1. His bed with its plush sheets and lonely pillows.
And
2. That certain window.
And it’s a big fucking mess.
Which only worsens when he runs into Cindy, the only person in his “The Study of Prose in
Victorian Era Playwrights” course that doesn’t make him want to pour sulfuric acid into the
sprinklers and set the world on fire, as he’s heading to that very course.
“Louis,” she greets with a smile, bedecked in what appears to be Hogwarts robes. Or some shit.
Louis tries not to judge her choice in attire (he likes Harry Potter, so who is he to judge?) but
instincts take the wheel and he finds himself sliding disapproving eyes over her ensemble.
“Cindy,” he nods happily, but his eyes are still caught on her sleeves which are as large as church
bells.
Luckily she doesn’t notice, instead grinning and asking a curious, “Where’s your gown?” while
tilting her head in confusion.
Which now confuses Louis. Gown?