You Couldn't Understand

Jamie's POV

I don't know why I'm kissing Harry. It makes no sense. I don't want to be with him. But here I am, straddling him on my bed with his tongue trying to gain entrance to my mouth. He knows what he's doing, which makes it about a million times harder for me to pull away. But I do it.

"Wha-huh?" he murmurs as I roll back to my side of the bed, "I don't think that was enough to really prove it to Alexis, love."

"So damn cheeky," I mutter.

"Mmmm, cheeky. Speaking my language, are we?" he smirks.

"I sure am. Trousers. Tea. Snog," I recite.

"If you say so!" He says before slamming his mouth onto mine.

This kiss isn't hesitant like the last one. It's hungry and sloppy but also perfect. He sits up and pulls me into his lap as his hands find their way to my waist and he starts tugging at my shirt.

"No, no, no. Time for you to go to your room," I push him away.

"Such a fucking tease..."

But he cooperates and rolls off the bed. He leans over and kisses me one last time before strolling out of the room and down the hallway to one of the many guest rooms. After a couple of minutes, we seem to simultaneously realize that it's only six o'clock and emerge from our rooms.

"Dinner?" he asks.

"There's a drawer of takeout menus downstairs, let's go."

We make our way down the stairs, with difficulty because we keep shoving each other into the walls, and I walk over to the drawer next to my fridge to pull out the menus. Harry's eyes widen at the selection and he instantly starts flipping through.

"How do you have so many?" he asks in awe.

"I guess when you're home alone as much as I am you just gather them."

"So, are you an only child, then?" he asks while browsing a pizza menu for specials.

"Nah, two sisters. They're both older than me though. Left for college when I was in eighth grade. They're twins. Katie is super smart and Krista does the whole acting and singing thing. They're basically the closest thing my Mother has to Jesus in her life," I don't resent my sisters for being successful, but I do resent the fact that I'm the screwed up baby.

"Katie and Krista? Two K's?"

"Yeah, they're all K's. Even my mom and dad. I guess I wasn't invited into their secret circle."

"Your dad... Where's he?"

"He um... He died... When I was in sixth grade..." I feel the tears begin to pool in my eyes, but I wipe them away.

"Chinese."

"What?" I ask in confusion.

"If you're hungry, you order pizza. Broke, you order pizza. But if you need to perk up or you're feeling fancy, you order chinese," he explains before pulling out his phone and ordering us some food, "I'm really sorry, Jamie. Is there anything the world hasn't thrown at you?"

"Umm... I don't do drugs?"

"Well that's the first step, isn't it? Now we work from there."

Harry promptly scoops me up in his arms and carries me down to the basement, where he plops me down on my favorite movie chair. It's so weird to think that I met him just this last weekend.

"I was just thinking that," he grins at me.

Okay, mind reader, much?

"Nope, you just speak your thoughts way more often then you realize," and there's that smirk.

"Shut up and put a movie on, that's my thought," I snap at him. He just chuckles and puts on Lion King.

"More Disney?" I ask.

"Disney and chinese food. That's like... A girl's dream date, right?"

"Oh, so this is a date now?" I raise my eyebrows.

"It has been since you kissed me. Now, let's cuddle. Because cuddling will lead to more... Snogging," he chuckles. But just as I get situated and the movie's playing and he's leaning down to kiss me, the doorbell rings.

"Food's here."

We both race up the stairs to answer the door. When we make it there, we're both panting and have huge grins on our faces. But it's not the food. It's Alexis... and she's sobbing. Violently sobbing.

"Harry," she wails, "I just... I didn't know who else to go to..."

She stumbles through the door and falls into his arms. My face is surely a mixture of confusion and terror as he tries to get an explanation out of the weeping girl.

"I'm just so sorry!" she eventually screams.

Wow... That was unexpected.

Notes

So, who thinks she means it?