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*I am using the American high school system for this book, but they still live in the UK. I don't know any other high school systems so that's why I'm using the American high school system. To clarify, they are not playing American football*MondayHarry despised Louis Tomlinson. He was arrogant, brutish, and annoying. Or at least that's what Harry thought of him. Harry was a junior and Louis was a senior. Which, for Louis, meant that he could potentially be the new senior captain of the football team. Every year Coach Corden chose a senior and a junior team captain. Harry was up for the role of junior captain. Their high school, Manchester High School, was one of the few high schools in the UK that allowed Alphas and Omegas to play on the same team for sports.Harry has been working his ass off all summer long to earn the spot as the junior team captain despite Coach Corden hardly ever giving the spot to an Omega. As much as he wanted to be junior team captain, Harry was dreading the possibility that Louis could be senior team captain because that would mean they would have to work together. And Harry and Louis working together would mean that neither of them would make it to prom because they would strangle each other before then.Before Harry could even worry about the possibility of being co-captains with Louis Tomlinson, Harry had to get to school. He quickly took a shower, got dressed, and grabbed a banana for breakfast as he walked out the door. He got into his car (a Jeep that his parent bought him for his birthday last year), plugged in his aux cord, and played a new band that he found over the summer called 5 Seconds Of Summer, or 5SOS as many people call them. Harry drove down the road to school and when he arrived he searched for a parking spot up front when he found one a silver Mercedes-Benz cut right in front of him and took the spot. Harry honked his horn and cursed loudly. The driver of the car was of course none other than Louis Tomlinson. Harry laughed to himself. The bell hadn't even rang yet and Louis Tomlinson was already being a monumental pain in his ass.Harry found a spot at the back of the parking lot, hopped out of his car, and grabbed his backpack and football bag. Harry was about to walk through the doors of the school when he heard a very annoying voice. "Oi Harry! Was that your spot that I parked in?" he said. Harry could hear the humor in his voice. "Yes, actually. Did you know that its wrong to cut people off like that? You could have cause an accident." Harry replied. Louis just rolled his eyes. "Well, I kinda needed this spot because Liam sprained his ankle this summer and there were no other spots that were close enough to the door." Louis says. "Well, Liam could have been hurt even worse if you had caused us to get in a accident. You do know that you could have just dropped Liam off at the door while you found another spot, right?" Harry says slightly annoyed. At that, Louis just storms off.Harry goes inside and puts his things in his locker. He takes out his schedule and head to his first class: Physics. Harry hated math and because most of physics was math, he knew that this would be a very painful school year. After his first two classes, Harry has lunch. Harry quickly locates his best friend Niall, an Beta, already in line to get his food. And walks over to him. "No 'Hello, Harry. How was your summer?' Everything with you is always about food." Harry says. "Food is crucial to our bodies. Who am I to deny my body that." Niall says. Niall loves food. Harry thinks Niall might love food more than him.After getting their food, Harry and Niall head over to the only empty table in the entire lunch room and sit down. The two a blissfully enjoying their lunch until Harry hears that annoying voice again. "Hello Everyone! Sorry to interrupt your lunch but I just wanted to let you all know that Zayn here is hosting back to school party this weekend and all of you are invited." Louis says. Great, now Harry has to go to a party. No because he wants to but because he knows Niall will drag him with him. Insisting that he is his driver when Niall gets wasted. After lunch, Harry goes to the rest of his classes and then goes to football practice.After football practice, Harry goes home, takes a shower, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, knowing that he would have a long week of school and football practice.*Comment what you guys think of it so far*
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*I'm skipping to Friday because otherwise the next part would be very boring.*FridayFinally, it was Friday. Harry couldn't happier about that. Not only because the first week of school back from summer break always felt excruciatingly long, but also because today at football practice he would find out if he was the junior captain. Which he supposed meant that he would also find out if he was Co-captains with Louis Tomlinson, but he was trying not to focus on that.By the time practice came around Harry was incredibly nervous and felt a little bit weird. Little did he know the reason why he felt so strange and nervous was because he heat was quickly approaching. They were just finishing practice when Coach Corden told them all to gather around so that he could announce the senior and junior captains "The senior and junior teams captains for this are Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles." he says. There was cheers all around. Even Harry cheered forgetting that he was co-captain with Louis Tomlinson. Louis, however was not happy and stalked off to the locker rooms. While everyone else was celebrating, Harry decided to follow Louis into the locker room. When he did Louis yelled "GO AWAY!". "What is your problem?" Harry asked. "Surely, being co-captains with me isn't the worst thing in the world." He said. Even though Harry thought it was the worst thing in the world."It's not about that." Louis said. "Then what is it about" Harry asked. "How do you not know? You stink." Louis replied. "I mean we did just get done with practice, asshole. Of course I stink a little bit." Harry said. "Not that. Your scent. You smell like you're about to go into heat. And it's making me go into a rut." Louis said. Harry thought about how he hadn't checked his heat tracking app in a while and then he realized his heat is supposed to start any minutes now. Harry wasn't sweatier than normal because it was a hard practice, but because he was about to go into heat. "Shit" Harry said. "Why hasn't anyone else noticed?" Harry asked. Majority of their team were Alphas. Harry was one of two Omegas. "I don't know." Louis said.Harry felt himself start to extremely horny. Fuck, that means he didn't have much time to get home. And before Harry could think to much about how he was supposed to get home, Since Omegas weren't known for their self-control during a heat, his brain started to get a little foggy and all he wanted was an alpha. Louis and Harry looked at each other and then suddenly they launched at each other. Kissing desperately. They might have despised each other, but their alphas and omegas certainly did not. "Wait" Louis said. Harry groaned. "Harry, we can't do this" Louis said. "What if we do something that we regret later" he continues. "Alpha, Please I need you" Harry said. Louis seemed to forgotten about what he said previously and they were right back at it.Somehow the two found themselves in a storage closet that neither of them knew about for the rest of the weekend.
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MondayHarry woke up to a buzzing sound in his ear and weight on his chest. Before his could investigate further into what the sound was he heard a groan coming from the brick on his chest. Harry opened his eyes and discovered that the weight on his chest wasn't a brick or any kind of heavy object, it was a person. That person also just happened to be Louis Tomlinson.Harry was confused why him and Louis were sleeping in a storage closet. Really, Harry was confused why they were together at all and why Louis wanted to cuddle him, but then he remembered. Harry went into heat, which caused Louis to go into rut. Both of those thing meant that the buzzing sound from earlier was probably their phones with calls and texts from their worried friends and family.Quietly, Harry tried to sit up and with a lot of effort on his part his was able to reach for his phone. Seriously, has Louis been eating bricks? When Harry checked his phone he saw over 200 notifications that came from his mom, his dad, his step-dad, his sister, Niall, and various teammates wondering where the hell he was.Hary checked the what day it was and what time it was. It was the following Monday and it was 7pm, which means that him and Louis have been in heat and rut for exactly 3 days. Thank god it wasn't longer than that or his parent would have surely sent out a search party. Gently, Harry tried to wake up Louis. "Louis," Harry whispered "Wake up". Slowly, Louis opened his eyes and looked at Harry. "What the hell are you doing in my room!!!" he yelled. "We are not in your room, Louis. My heat started right after practice and it triggered your rut. We've been in this storage closet for 3 days." Harry said. "What do you mean 3 days? I was supposed to go to Zayn party." Louis yelled. "Yeah, well so was I but I guess our wolves had different plans for us." Harry said annoyed that Louis was blaming him when it was both of their faults. "Whatever. Let's just both go home before our families freak out too much." Louis said while grabbing his clothes from where they were scattered across the closet. "We should talk about this, Louis." Harry said. "No offence but I don't know where you've been and who you've been sleeping with." Harry said. "Are you asking me if I have any STD's?" Louis asked while pulling on his shirt. "Yes, I am. Don't you think that would be important for me to know." Harry said. "Well it's a little too late to ask about that now isn't it." Louis said while walking out of the closet.Strangely, Harry felt rejected by the way the alpha walked out of the closet without a word. Harry didn't know why he felt rejected it's not like he like Louis that way. Harry quickly put on his clothes, walked to his car and drove home. When he got home his mom and sister gave a big hug before asking him a million like "Where have you been?" and "Why do you smell like an alpha?". His sister was particularly interested in the second question. "Gemma. Mom. Please, I've been in heat since practice on friday and I haven't showered in 3 days. Can we please talk about this after I go take a shower?" Harry said. "Fine. But be quick. Dinner is almost ready." Harry's mom said.By the time Harry took a shower, ate dinner and answered every single one of his sister's and mother's questions, Harry figured he should probably text Niall and ask what he missed from school today and explain his absence over the weekend. Niall said he wasn't upset with Harry, but he did want to know if his heat in the school's storage closet was spent with an alpha. Harry simply replied with "No comment". Afterward, Harry went to sleep.TuesdayHarry woke up feeling strange. Like he was missing something. Harry quickly dismissed it and got ready for school. He made sure he got to school early enough to go around to all of his teachers and ask for anything he missed, explaining that he had been in heat yesterday. He didn't really miss that much. Mostly, because school has only been in session for a week. Really, all he had to do was get a couple of papers signed by his parents and turn them in by the end of the week.Finally, 5 minutes before classes started he went to his locker and put his things away. When he closed his locker door, there was Louis standing right behind it. Harry was about to say something when Louis grabbed him and pulled him into a tight hug. Harry also noticed that Louis had stuck his nose right into the spot where his mating gland was and inhaled his desperately. Harry had the urge to do the same and he did just that. Suddenly, the warning bell rang and the two sprung apart not knowing what had come over them. Harry ran to his class trying not to be late since he did not go to school yesterday, leaving Louis standing in the hallway alone.LunchWhen lunch finally came around Harry was starved. He saw Niall already sitting at their usual table and decided to put his things down before going to get his food. When he was about to go and get his lunch Louis sat down at the table with two trays in hand and sat one tray in front of Harry. "No offence but what are you doing here" Harry asked. "What does it look like? I'm sitting with you." Louis replied. "Why? and Why did you bring me food?" Harry asked. "Because I would like to sit with you and you are starving." Louis said. "How did you know that I was starving?" Harry asked. "Wow. You have a lot of questions today. When you get done eating we can go some private and I'll answer all your questions." Louis said.Quickly, Harry shoveled the food into his mouth wanting an explanation for the hallway and for Louis knowing he was hungry. When he was done he pulled Louis down the hallway and into an empty classroom. "Answer me. Now!" Harry said. Louis looked at Harry before talking. "There's no easy way for me to say this, Harry, but we're mates. I mated you while we were in heat and rut." Louis said. Harry looked at him shocked. "So, what does that make us?" He asked. "I don't know what we are." Louis replied.
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Harry was in shock. How could he be mated to Louis Tomlinson? I mean he knew how, but the only time that happens is when you are soulmates. How could Louis be his soulmate? Unless...Nope, definitely not. "So, what are we supposed to do now?" Harry asked Louis. "What do you mean?" Louis replied. "I mean, how are we supposed to be with other people? What if we fall in love with someone and then we can't mate with them? What if..." Louis cuts Harry off "I think we should just take things one step at a time." Louis said. Then Louis walked out of the bathroom leaving Harry alone. Harry spent the rest of the school day thinking about Louis and how they were mates. He wondered how Louis would treat him at football practice today. Would he treat him the same he always does or would he be different since they were mates? Before he could think too much on the topic the bell rang dismissing everyone for the day. Harry made his way to the locker room for football practice. When he walked in the only person there was Louis. For some reason, Harry felt shy and awkward about changing in front of Louis. Like they had seen each other naked why was this so awkward? Maybe it's because they were mates now and this was the football practice that they had since becoming mates. Maybe Harry's inner omega had always made him feel slightly shy about changing in front of the extremely good-looking alpha. Good looking? Where did that come from? Eventually, the other boys came into the locker room and they made their way to the field to practice. After warming up they decided to play a game. During the game, Harry may have been hit in the head with the ball when Zayn was trying to kick the ball. This caused Louis to become possessive of Harry and growl at Zayn. Harry thought Louis might start a fight if it weren't for his concern over Harry. "Lou, stop. It was just an accident" Harry says trying to calm the alpha so that a fight did not happen. "HE HURT YOU!" Louis says. "I'm fine," Harry says. Their teammates look between the two very confused because they usually hated each other. "Alright, Louis, why don't you take Harry to the nurse to make sure he doesn't have a concussion." Coach Corden said. Louis took Harry to the nurse and the nurse said that Harry did not have a concussion. "Lou, we need to talk about us. I know we agreed we would take things one step at a time, but after what just happened on the field I don't think we can afford to. " Harry says. "What do you mean?" Louis asked, "I mean, Did you really mate with me on accident?" Harry asked. "Because I don't think a mating bond would make you go berserk on Zayn if you didn't already have those feelings towards me." he continued. Louis looked at Harry as if he was crazy. "Of course I didn't have a crush on you before we mated." Louis said. Harry thought he was lying. "Okay, Yes Harry I've had a crush on you for years, but I was too scared to tell you." Louis said. "How long?" Harry asked, "Since you were a freshman." Louis said. "So instead of telling me you decided to be a asshole to me all the time." Harry said, "Yes, I was a stupid boy." Louis said, "You were being an asshole up until we mated on Friday." Harry said "Okay, I'm still a stupid boy. But i'm a stupid boy who loves you so that has to count for something, right?" Louis says. "I guess. So, what do we do now?" Harry asks. "I take you, Harold Styles, on a date." Louis says.
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Harry was excited. Today was the day that Louis would be taking him on a date. Harry doesn't know what they are doing on this date. All he knows is that Louis told him to dress nice. So, for Harry that meant dress shoes, pants, button up and tie. After he was done getting ready he heard a knock at the front door. Harry quickly ran to the door. Eager to make sure that his mother wasn't able to answer it. Apparently he wasn't quick enough because his mother was already greeting Louis. "Harry, you didn't tell me that you were going on a date with such a lovely young man." his mother said. "Sorry, Mom. We have to go. Don't want to be late to whatever date we're going on." Harry said. Harry pulled Louis out the door and towards his car. "We didn't need to leave so quickly, Harry. I should probably try to get to know your mom a little considering that we're mates now." Louis said. "Yeah, well we should probably hold off on telling my mom that for a little bit considering that we mated by accident." Harry said.Harry was just about to open the passenger door when Louis ran out in front of him to open it. "And they said chivalry is dead." Harry said "This is our first date, Love. I want to be a proper gentlemen." Louis said. Louis walked around the car and hopped into the driver's seat. "Where are we going?" Harry asked once Louis started the car. "It's a surprise." Louis said with a smirk on his face. Harry watched the world go by not wanting to interrupt the silence because of how nervous he was. Eventually, they pulled into a parking lot of a restaurant called Luigi's. It seems to be a Italian restaurant. Harry and Louis got of the car and started walking towards the door. At one point, Louis reached over and grabbed Harry's hand to hold. That was new.Once inside the restaurant they were taken to a table. They ordered their food. Harry got spaghetti and meatballs and Louis got chicken spiedini. After a while their food came and they chatted while they ate. "We need to talk about our future." Louis said. That wasn't vague at all Harry thought to himself. "What about it?" Harry asked. "Well, I'm a senior so I will be graduating soon." Louis said. "That is what senior do." Harry said. "No, I mean I am going to go to college and I was just wanting to know if you wanted to get an apartment together." Louis said. "oh". oh. Harry hadn't thought that far into the future. He hadn't thought about moving in with Louis. He hadn't thought about getting married and having kids with Louis. He hasn't even said I love you to Louis. "You don't have to give me an answer right away." Louis said "I don't graduate for a while and I don't go to college til longer than that."And Harry was grateful for that time. He was only 17 after all. He wasn't sure that moving in with Louis after only recently truly getting to know him was a smart idea. Especially, Since not that long ago they hated each other. Or at least thought they hated each other. For now, Harry would enjoy their first date and save the huge life-altering decision for later.