“Birthdays are ways to focus on someone as an individual. Because you need them, you know? It’s the day that they entered this world and it’s also sorta like you’re celebrating your thanks that they’re here at all because, without them, maybe you wouldn’t fully be here, either.”
“You’d have to see it. It’s ridiculous. They’re always like, ‘is it ‘blank’, or is it obsession?’ And it’s funny.”
“Yeah, it’s so funny, I’m laughing so hard right now.”
“Hush!”
“I can’t—not when I’m laughing so hard.”
“You’re so awful!”
“Am I awful? Or am I obsession?”
Everybody loves this Harry Styles because he’s smart and new and cute and polite. Nothing radical or different or wild or controversial. Just a bunch of teeth and eyes and soft jumpers.
So, then.
Why doesn’t he smile at Louis?
“I’d rather just wait for you.”
“But you didn’t know if I was going to come today,”
“No, I didn’t. So that’s why I wait every day.”
“You wait for me every day?” ”
“Yeah, Yeah, of course I do.”