#when least expected

by Rearviewdreamer

Drowning in a sea of emails and Zoom meetings in the living room, his lonely son falling more and more behind in his kitchen classroom, and crushing weight of the world being on house arrest for the foreseeable future, one fateful online interaction suddenly has everything looking up.

Words: 1955, Chapters: 1/8, Language: English

Fandoms: One Direction (Band)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Original Characters

Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson

Additional Tags: pandemic fic, Online Relationship, online music teacher Harry, Kid Fic, Louis' a dad, surprise surprise, WIP

I feel like we forget that, that we curse the night as we praise the fires of the stars

That glint and glisten and shine

And burn in the corridors of the mind

And dance in the fields of night.

We ignore the shadows, the darkness, the patches of pitch

And celebrate those ephemeral twinkles

Glorify the pale and somber moon

Until she is considered as bright shining as the arrogant Sun.

We forget, in our times of joy, of love, of laughter

That it’s not the stars that make the night beautiful

That it’s not the light that brings us joy

But the darkness. 

Those patches of nothing

The celestial shade between those glorious points of light

That pointillistic perfection which etches into nocturnal skies

All the glory and grandeur of the firmament...

We forget

We ignore

We refuse

To celebrate the sorrows and pains and struggles that forge that night

That craft that darkness dot by dot

And instead stare at the searing ball of flame which, were it not for that sheltering umbra,

Would burn our eyes to cinder and make us pray for death.

We so often focus so hard on seeing that light

And cherishing that glory

That we scorn the very velvet blackness which makes it possible.

I stand for the night

I praise the darkness

I bathe in the thick, cloaking inky depths

Which keep my eyes able to see and celebrate

Those fickle and easily faded balls of joy

Those moments of laughter 

Those stolen kisses and hesitant caresses

Those ever fading memories

Which endure only as long

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Omfg do the scream mask and take a video while you do et plEASE