I was abruptly woken up by being shoved onto the ground and when I opened my eyes I instantly shut them again as the light gave me a pounding headache.

“Harry, get up,” I heard Abby sternly say and I was suddenly confused. I slowly opened my eyes and noticed I was in Abby’s room.

“How did I get here?” I asked out in the open.

“You got a cab from the club,” she spoke with irritation in her voice. Then it dawned on me…I crashed her night.

“Abby I’m so sorry! I drank too much I didn’t mean to ruin your night,” I pleaded to her but she just walked away from me and into her kitchen. “Are the girls still here? I can go apologize to them.”

“No they left ten minutes ago,” she flatly said as she fixed up her coffee and tossed me a bottle of water and Advil.

“Are you mad?” I hesitantly asked.

“Little bit,” she said as she sauntered past me and back into her room. I followed her and she began picking out her clothes for the day and setting them out.

“Love, I’m sorry, I got carried away,” I said to her but she continued to ignore me and I began to get mad. “Abby stop!” I yelled and she stopped in her track and looked at me.

“Don’t yell in my apartment,” she calmly said.

“I hate being ignored when I’ve done something wrong,” I said to her and closed the space between us. “I’m sorry for ruining your night when I said I wouldn’t come over. When I get drunk I just do whatever comes to mind and apparently I wanted to snuggle,” I said to her while taking her hand in mine.

“Apology accepted, but to make up for it you are sleeping alone tonight,” she said with a faint smile on her face. “You’re really childish when your drunk by the way, it was really annoying.”

“So I’ve been told, sorry you had to put up with me,” I told her as I pushed a piece of hair out of her face and brought my lips on top of hers.

“It’s okay, you’re lucky you’re cute though. Otherwise your ass would have been on the street,” Abby joked as she went into her bathroom to get ready for her day.

“You have a shoot to do today right?” I asked her as I sat on her counter.

“Yeah.”

“When does it let out?” I asked her as I watched her apply her make up.

“At five,” she said after thinking about it.

“So I’ll pick you up at seven then for our date?”

“You got it,” she said as she finished up and walked back into her bedroom to change out of her pajamas. As she pulled her shoes on I pulled on my clothes from last night since all I had here were sweatpants and dirty shirts, in plus I know Abby likes wearing them so I didn’t want to take them. We both finished getting dressed and walked out of her flat hand in hand. Once we got to her work building I pulled her into a hug and inhaled her minty scent.

“I’ll see you later love,” I said to her and pressed my lips against hers in a quick peck.

“Bye Harold,” she said as she skipped into the building. I decided I would walk to my place instead of getting a cab to take me seeing as it was a nice day out today and I wanted to soak in all the glory. After walking for a bit I pulled my phone out and checked Twitter, I noticed Abby tweeted about a minute ago.

@AbbyEGrimes: Don’t particularly like taking care of drunk people but it’s a plus when they’re sweet like sugar.

I laughed at her tweet, knowing she was talking about me, and decided to do a tweet that wouldn’t give anything away.

@Harry_Styles: Put a little extra sugar in my coffee this morning, xx

After I posted the tweet my phone buzzed signaling a text.

From: Abby
Hats off to you on that one Styles, very clever.

I shook my head at her text and put my phone away before entering my flat.

“There ya are mate!” Lou said as he walked out of his bedroom.

“Hey Lou,” I said as I made my way to my room.

“Heard you crashed a party and Abby wasn’t too happy ‘bout it!” He said while slapping me on my back.

“She forgave me, so it’s all peaches and rainbows,” I told him as I peeled my shirt off and tossed it in the laundry hamper.

“So you must be the sugary sweetness she tweeted about then yeah?” He asked as he sat on my bed.

“You don’t say,” I sarcastically said.

“Mate when are you gonna snatch her up?” Lou said as he made himself comfortable on my bed as I changed into some sweats and a clean shirt.

“Well, I was planning on doing it tonight when she and I go to dinner,” I said as I brushed my teeth.

“About bloody time!” Louis exclaimed as he started to rapidly clap his hands.

“Lou, I’m hungover can you please settle down?” I asked him as I lay on my bed underneath the duvet.

“’Course, pal. What time you two going to dinner?”

“I’m picking her up at 7,” I told him as I closed my eyes.

“I hope you shower before then because you smell like dog poo.”

“Go away Lou, I wanna get some rest,” I groaned to him and I felt the extra weight leave my bed, assuming Louis got up.

“Alright, I’ll let you get your beauty sleep, god knows you need a lot of it.”

I quickly fell asleep after Louis left my room, only to be woken up after, what felt like, 2 minutes but in actuality was a few hours. When I looked at my watch it read 5:30pm, I stretched out my arms and legs then climbed out of bed and went to get in the shower. When I got out of the shower it was six o’ clock and I quickly went over to my closet and slipped on a pair of jeans, a white dress shirt, a belt, my black blazer and my black boots. I slipped on my watch and shoved my wallet and cell phone into my pockets. I walked out into the living area to find all the lads lounged across the couches.

“Hello fellas,” I greeted them as I sat down on the couch.

“Lookin’ good Hazza,” Liam said from beside me and the rest of the boys agreed with him.

“Thanks boys, I try to clean up the best I can,” I joked with them.

“So Lou says you plan on making her your bird tonight?” Zayn asked me as he took his attention away from the video game Niall and Louis were playing and focused it on me, I simply nodded my head.

“How you gonna do it?” He asked.

“I don’t know, I figured I’d do it after we ate so if she says no she doesn’t get up and leave before eating.”

“She’d be mad if you did that, the girl can eat!” Niall exclaimed as he continued playing Halo.

“You nervous?” Zayn continued to ask.

“No, should I be?” I asked him and he shook his head. “I mean we practically already are dating, now we would just be established.” By the time I finished my sentence Louis and Niall finished up their game and were now listening to me talk.

“Mate, listen up,” Louis started and I knew I was about to be lectured. “Make sure you’re doing the right move,” He said and I was confused as to what he meant by that.

“Excuse me?” I said.

“What Lou is trying to say is, don’t screw this up. You’ve got yourself a keeper, I mean we all approve of her, she’s funny, takes our jokes, gets on with the girls, isn’t a cougar and we can tell she makes you happy. We don’t want to see this relationship go to shit,” Liam told me and I just nodded my head, agreeing with him.

“I don’t plan on screwing this up, mates. I really do fancy the girl,” I told them and they all nodded their heads like they knew I did, that’s because they did.

“She’s made you a changed man, but in a good way,” Louis said while proudly slapping my back. I looked down at my watch and noticed it was 6:45pm, I stood up and straightened my things out and walked towards the door.

“Well boys I’ll see you tonight at Embassy,” I told them and they all wished me luck. Once I got outside I climbed into my black range rover and drove over to Abby’s. I parked my car on the side of the road and took the lift to her flat. I knocked on her door twice and after a minute or two I heard her on the other side unlocking the door. She swung the door open and my mouth dropped,

“You look…absolutely stunning,” I told her as I looked at her head to toe. She was dressed in a black lacy dress that hugged her torso, she had on heels that made her level with me since she is 3 inches shorter, and my favorite part was that she had on light make up.

“Thanks,” she said as a blush crept its way onto her face. “You clean up nice too.”

“Oh you know, I try,” I told her as I pulled my blazer down and did a weird little dance. “You ready to go?” I asked her and she nodded her head as she walked out and locked the door to her flat. I took her hand in mine and led her downstairs to my car and helped her in and made sure she didn’t flash anyone. We pulled up to a fancy restaurant and I handed my car over to the valet, I rounded my car and laced my fingers with Abby’s again leading her into the restaurant.

“Reservation for Styles,” I told the woman at the front of the restaurant.

“Of course, follow me,” she said and led us all the way to a less crowded section of the restaurant. “Enjoy your meal.”

I nodded my head at the woman and pulled out Abby’s chair and pushed it in as she sat down then went and took my seat.

“This place is nice,” Abby said as she looked around.

“I’ve never been here,” I randomly told her and she laughed at me.

“What made you want to come here then?” She curiously asked as she brought her water glass up to her lips.

“I don’t know, I called Simon and asked him where I should take you and he told me this place.”

“That’s cute, you called your old X-Factor mentor for dating advice,” She said as she held my gaze with hers.

“Well I don’t normally wine and dine girls, I normally just dive right in if you know what I mean,” I told her as I winked at her and she smiled at me.

“Yeah, then why are not diving right in with me?” She asked.

“Because you’re different, I actually like you for you,” I told her as I grabbed her hand that was resting on top of the table. Our waiter came over to our table and took our drink orders and as he walked away I saw an all too familiar face walk in to the restaurant, Caroline Flack. If I wasn’t nervous before I was nervous now. I quickly shook it off, it’s dark in here and she won’t be able to recognize me, at least I hope she doesn’t recognize me. Abby and I chatted aimlessly about our day until our waiter came back with our drinks and went back to the kitchen with our food orders.

“I need to go to the bathroom,” Abby said as she stood up and made her way to the toilet. I quickly pulled my phone out and sent Louis a text.

To: Lou
I’m screwed Lou! Caroline is at the same restaurant as Abby and I! What do I do?

I sent the text message and when I looked up a smiling Caroline was standing in front of my table.

“Harry? I thought that was you!” Caroline said as she bent down and gave me a hug.

“Yep. Here I am, there you are, look at that,” I told her and mentally slapped myself for being so awkward.

“Who are you here with?” She asked while looking around, probably for one of the boys or my mom or sister, but that would just be really weird. Oh hey, here I am at a nice candle lit dinner with one of my mates or better yet my sister or mom!

“Just a friend of mine,” I told her, trying to be as vague as possible.

“Who? Do you mind if I sit?” Caroline asked pointing to Abby’s seat.

“Kind of,” I said and she sat down, “Oh look at that you sat down,” I whispered. In case you’re wondering I’ve killed myself in my mind about 6 times now.

“So who are you here with Harry?” She asked, bringing up the same question.

“Like I said, a friend, you don’t know her,” I said as I looked to see if Abby was on her way back and saw no sign of her.

“Is it that one lass that you were bringing food to when she was sick a while back?” Caroline asked, generally interested in who I was here with.

“Uh, yes that’s who I’m here with,” I said while nodding my head. How did she remember?

“Wow, I’m impressed. First you visit her when she’s sick and now you are taking her out? Has she made you a changed man?” Caroline joked, but I didn’t find it funny.

“She certainly has,” I said with a forced smile on my face. Just an update, I’ve killed myself mentally about 20 times now. I felt my phone vibrate and I pulled it out to look at it.

From: Louis
AVOID HER AT ALL COST HAR! You know she’s mental!

I quickly responded:

To: Lou
Too late. Abs went to the bathroom and Caroline spotted me. Help…me..

I sent the text and looked back up at Caroline who was shaking her head at me.

“Shame Harry, don’t text on a date!” She said with a fake smile on her face, just then I saw Abby walking around the corner messing with one of her necklaces, not even paying attention to what was going on around her. I breathed a sigh of relief when she approached the table.

“Hey Harry, can you help me with my necklace? It fell off—oh,” Abby said once she looked up and saw Caroline sitting in her spot.

“Hello dear, I’m Caroline Flack,” Caroline introduced herself to Abby.

“Hi, I’m Abby,” Abby said as she looked at me with a look that asked who she was and what she was doing.

“This is an old friend of mine,” I explained to Abby who nodded her head up and down. As I stood up to help Abby a light bulb suddenly went off in her head.

“Oh, an old friend. It’s lovely to meet you,” Abby said putting on a fake smile. “I’ve heard so much about you.” She was faking her politeness, what a lady. I took the necklace out of her hand and Abby held her hair up so I could put it back on.

“He has, has he?” Caroline suspiciously asked and Abby nodded her head, making it difficult to clasp her necklace.

“Yeah, it’s nice to finally put a face to the name!” Abby said and I couldn’t help but smile at how she was being.

“Lovely of Harry to do that. In your case it’s nice to put a name to the face, I’ve seen you two plastered on all these magazines,” Caroline said and I could see that struck a nerve with Abby by how her shoulders tensed up. I kept struggling with her necklace due to the sweat on my hands.

“Yeah, surprised I could keep my name a secret for so long!” Abby joked, she turned around to face me, a real smile taking place of her fake one. “Can you get it?” She asked.

“Yeah, my thumbs are just really big and I’m having trouble clasping it,” I told her and she nodded her head. She turned back around and I tried clasping it again, this time succeeding. “Got it,” I told her and she turned around to face me again.

“Thank you,” she said and pecked me on the lips and winked at me afterwards. I smiled at her, I really do have a keeper. She acts polite when she meets an ‘old friend’ of mine, and doesn’t rub our relationship in her face. She’s killing her with kindness. I noticed Abby rub her hands up and down her arms to try and warm herself up so I quickly shrugged my blazer off and placed it on her shoulders and she mumbled a thank you.

“Well, I’ll let you two get back to dinner, sorry for interrupting. Abby it was a pleasure to meet you and Harry it’s always good seeing you,” Caroline said as she stood up and walked off to her respected table. Abby went and sat down in her seat that was now vacant.

“Alright Styles, explain,” Abby said as she took a sip of her wine. I quickly went into the history of Caroline and I, not leaving a single thing out because I wanted to be open and honest with Abby. It took a while to explain the whole story but Abby never once drifted off or lost interest.

“So that’s the history between her and I, it was a simple fling for a few months, she got in too deep and I wasn’t feeling it,” I said to her finishing up my story and Abby started laughing.

“Did you really call her Tic Tac Flack because she had stinky breath?!” Abby asked and I nodded my head.

“Never to her face though love! I knew better than that!” I told her, joining in on the laughter.

“That’s so rude but so funny at the same time,” Abby said as she settled down from laughing. As we both settled down we chatted amongst ourselves for a bit until our waiter brought us our food, that’s when we started eating so it was a little bit harder to communicate. Out of habit I wanted to take a bite of Abby’s food.

“Can I try yours?” I asked her and she looked up at me with a confused look on her face. “What?”

“You don’t have to ask Harry, just take a bite,” she said as she took a bite of her food.

“I just wanted to make sure you aren’t like Niall, and when I take a bite you try to saw my hand off,” I told her and she shook her head at me as I grabbed a bite of hers using my fork.

“Do I need to ask or can I go for it?” She mocked while pointing to my plate.

“You just asked but go right ahead,” I said with a smug grin on my face. She grabbed a bite of mine and placed it in her mouth.

“Wanna switch dishes?” She asked and I looked at her with a weird look.

“Excuse me?” I asked and she gave me a look that asked if I was dumb or something.

“I asked if you wanted to trade food.” She said again, only slower this time. I decided this is where I would ask her.

“On one condition,” I said.

“If it’s something dirty then just forget I asked,” she quickly responded and I couldn’t help but laugh at her response. She knew me all too well.

“It’s not dirty,” I said and she signaled for me to go on. “Okay, be my girlfriend,” I said, I kept looking at Abby and I couldn’t read the expression on her face.

“I don’t want your food that bad…” Abby said trailing off at the end. I immediately felt rejected and terrible. She didn’t want to be my girlfriend.

“Oh,” was all I said in response and I fixed my gaze onto my plate of food.

“Harry! I’m kidding! Yes I’ll be your girlfriend!” Abby said with an amused look on her face.

“Really?” I asked, shock evident in my face.

“Yeah, why not,” she nonchalantly said.

“Why would you joke around like that!” I said to her and she laughed. I stood up and leaned over the table and gently placed my lips on hers.

“Because your reaction was funny.”

“You are so cruel!” I told her and switched plates with her.

“I know!” We continued eating our food, stealing bites from one another’s plates every so often and chatting quietly to one another. We quickly finished our food and deciding we were both too full for desert I asked for the check and when the waiter gave it to me I quickly handed him my credit card.

“I almost forgot!” Abby said as she grabbed her clutch from her lap and opened it.

“What? Abby I picked up the check, don’t be absurd,” I told her but she waved me off.

“I got you something at a shop yesterday!” She said and pulled out a little orange box and slid it across the table to me. I picked it up and slowly opened the box, inside was a necklace with a silver paper airplane pendant on it.

“What made you buy me this?” I asked her as I set the box down on the table and examined the necklace more.

“I don’t know. It made me think of you, you always travel but you always come back to the same place you came from. That’s how I see paper airplanes, you make one, you throw it, you retrieve, and then you throw it again and repeat the whole process until you get bored, and that’s how you are. You leave, you come back, and repeat that until you have a break in between everything,” Abby explained and I smiled at her.

“Well thank you, it’s lovely,” I said to her as I unclasped it.

“Oh, here let me help you,” Abby said as she stood and walked over to me and took the necklace out of my hand. She brought it around my neck and as a joke I pretended to hold my hair out of her way and she only laughed at me after clasping it.

“Thank you,” I said to her and brought her face down to mine and gave her a passionate kiss that was probably too passionate in public. The waiter brought me back the check and I signed it then placed my card back in my wallet. Abby and I stood up and intertwined hands and walked out of the restaurant and retrieved my car. Once we got into my car we made our way over to Embassy after letting the lads know we were on our way.

“Oh yeah, we have a show here in London in a few days, would you like to go?” I asked her as I kept my eyes on the road.

“That depends, can I stand in the crowd and dance with all your fans?” She asked, being completely serious.

“Of course, we can work that out. I half expected that you would want to stand in the crowd and dance like a fool,” I said as I quickly shot her a smile which she returned.

“Then I will go!” She said as we pulled up to the night club. We walked into the VIP section hand in hand and the boys, Eleanor and Danielle all started clapping.

“Did you ask Haz?” Zayn asked and I nodded my head. “Well?” He asked and I simply just held up Abby and I’s interlocked hands and pointed to them.

“Did you all know?” Abby asked everyone and all the lads nodded their heads.

“Eleanor and I just found out when we arrived here,” Danielle said as she pulled Abby into a hug.

Abby drank a little but I stuck to water since I was driving, and of course Abby pulled me out onto the dance floor to dance and it was almost impossible to get her to leave and she wasn’t even tipsy! As we went back to the VIP section to collect her bag I suddenly remembered the deal we made earlier this morning.

“Are you really making me sleep alone tonight?” I said into her ear over the loud music. She thought over the question before turning around and speaking into my ear.

“No, are you stupid? You redeemed yourself by making me your girlfriend,” she said and pulled away with a grin on her face.

“Good, you know I get lonely,” I said.

“If I didn’t before last night I definitely know now,” she joked, I pulled her back so she was facing me and kissed her on the lips.

“Face it love, you were lonely too. Otherwise you would have told me to get lost,” I said into the kiss.

“You’re right. I needed some Harry cuddles,” she said against my lips.

We grabbed her clutch and bid everyone goodbye before going to get back into my car. I tipped the valet and helped Abby into the passenger seat before letting myself into the driver’s seat.

“Your place or mine?” I asked her as I intertwined our hands across the center console.

“Yours,” she said and I nodded my head and made our way to my flat. Once we arrived at my place she walked straight to my room and got clothes for her to sleep in out of my dresser and changed, by the time I reached my room she already had herself in bed waiting on me to join her.

“You change fast,” I said as I yanked my shoes off and went to slide my pants off.

“Or you just walk slow,” she said with a playful smile on her face. I unbuttoned my shirt and took it off and then climbed into bed with her. Instead of lying down beside her I hovered over her with a playful grin that matched her own.

“Somebody’s sassy tonight!” I said to her and she shrugged her shoulders. I shook my head at her and then began tickling her and held her down so she couldn’t flail her body around.

“HARRY STOP IT!” She yelled in between her fits of laughter, but it only made me continue. “PLEASE HARRY STOP!” She pleaded.

“Take back calling me slow!” I said to her as my fingers continued to dance all over her body.

“Okay! You aren’t slow,” she said and I stopped tickling her and she began panting to catch her breath. Instead of rolling off of her I laid down on top of her and kissed her.

“Are you trying to kill me?” She said once we broke apart and flipped us over so she was lying on top of me.

“Did you just call me fat?” I asked, faking hurt.

“Nope, I called you masculine!” She said and I could tell she used that as a cover up. She pressed her lips against mine and we moved them against one another for a few minutes before breaking apart for air. She rolled off of me and rested her head on my shoulder and after a minute or two I felt her breathing even out, signaling she had fallen asleep, I too ended up falling asleep not long after the sleeping beauty beside me.

Notes

Feeling generous...and unfair because I updated Mibba tonight so I figured I'd update this one AGAIN for the third time!
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Comments please and if you're lucky I'll post Chapter 13 tomorrow! :)

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Jade