Falling for Harry Styles

I heaved a sigh of relief as I sunk into my car, quickly turning on the heat before I leaned against the steering wheel. My last final was today and my first semester of Uni was finished, and, honestly, I just wanted to go home and sleep forever. I pulled out of the parking lot and made the drive home in silence. I felt the bags under my eyes and my eye lids drooping further with every step closer to the front door. I unlocked it and pushed inside, making my way to the kitchen. “Haz, I’m home,” I called out, getting a bottle of water from the fridge. “I think I’m going to go sleep for three years.”
He came into the kitchen from the lounge, “Don’t think you’ll want to do that Love.”
I looked at him with a look of disbelief, “And why’s that?” He just smiled and jerked his head back toward the lounge. My brow piqued in interest and I hesitantly made my way to the swinging door connecting the rooms. I pushed it open slowly and gasped, “You guys weren’t supposed to be here until Sunday.” I rushed to embrace my sister.
She giggled as she wrapped her arms around me, “We wanted to surprise you.”
“Well ya did!” I said releasing her and hugging Tanya.
“Well good. So how was school?”
“Good, good. Finally, over for a few weeks at least, thank God.” I sighed as I sat on the smaller sofa, and they sat on the bigger one.
“When will you know your final grades?”
“Sometime next week.”
“Mmm… how do you think you did?”
“Uh… good,” I nodded. “But enough about me, I wanna hear about you guys. How’ve you been since the summer? Did you get to travel like you wanted?”
“Not quite as much as we wanted, but we did go a couple places.” I bid her to continue with the look on my face. “We went to Las Vegas for about a week and we rode that roller coaster on top of that hotel, the Stratosphere I believe.”
“Oooh how was that?”
“Scary!” Tanya interjected. “She forced me to ride it.”
“Oh you loved it!” Tanya shrugged with a smile on her face and she curled into Jen’s side more. I smiled at them, happy that, after all the jerks my sister has dated, she’s finally found someone that really cares for her.
“Anyway, after that we went to New York for a while. And, oh my gosh Lee, it’s the most beautiful city I’ve ever seen.” The smile on her face was ear to ear and her eyes were bright.
Harry wandered in at that moment and sat with me on the smaller couch, slinging his arm around me. I caught Jen smile as I curled into his side. “So tell me more?”
“Well the views are just amazing.”
“Especially from the top of the Empire State Building. You can see the whole city.”
“Oh, you guys are talking about New York?” Jen nodded at Harry as I raised my head to look at him with scrunched brows. “Oh yeah. Incredible. Especially walking through Central Park. Gorgeous.”
“You’ve been to New York?” I queried.
He looked down at me and our lips were inches apart. “Only on tour. But we had some down time when we were there last.” I pouted. He smiled at me, “Hey, don’t do that.” He prodded my lips with his index finger. I wouldn’t let up so he poked at my sides causing me to jump and laugh. “That’s better,” he smiled at me again before I resumed my position against his side.
“Well that’s all the traveling we did before we went back home. Was nice to just spend time with each other and relax without having much responsibility.”
“We’ve still had to work but it’s nice to not be committed to so much that we don’t get to see each other.” Tanya said as she intertwined their fingers.
I smiled at them as there was a pause in the conversation. “So are we all going to hit the club tonight?” Jen said with a huge smile on her face.
Harry looked down at me again, “You up for it?”
“Yeah of course. I don’t know how long I’ll last but I’m up for it.”
“Good because it’s been awhile and I’m ready for a good party.” We all laughed.
“I’ll go call the lads,” Harry said as he disentangled himself from me and left the room.
“And we are going to go rest a bit.”
“Yeah I think I will too, I’m beat.”

The base vibrated the booth as we all sat around talking and laughing. My smiled fell as I spotted red hair coming towards the table. I took another sip of my drink as she sat down next to Harry and kissed him on the cheek. He put an arm around her and leaned into her, whispering something that caused her to giggle.
I must have had a sour look on my face because Jen put a hand on my shoulder and gave it a little push, saying, “We should go dance.”
I blinked and tore my gaze off of the couple across the table. “Yeah, okay.” I replied as I slid out of the booth and Jen and Tanya followed me.
Once we found a cleared spot, perfectly out of the view of our table, I turned to face them, lazily moving my hips to the beat. “So who’s that girl with Harry?” Jen asked.
“Christina, his new fling,” I said bitterly.
“Really?” I nodded. “I’m sorry, Lee.”
“Whatever.”
“It’s just the way you guys acted today, I thought you…”
“Nope.” She just shrugged as we continued to dance.
When our legs felt like jelly, we made our way back to the table. I saw Harry glance at me s I slid into my seat and he leaned in to whisper something in her ear. She giggled and made her way out towards the dance floor with him following in tow, his hand grasped in hers. My eyes trailed their figures as they stopped right at the edge of the dance floor in perfect view of our table. She pressed her ass to his front and started grinding on him. My head snapped down as I took my drink in hand and quickly downed the rest.
I ignored the looks from my friends as I smiled and they kept on with their conversations. I chanced a look at Harry on the dance floor an regretted the decision as small tears stung the back of my eyes and I saw him with his hand on her hips and grinding his hips into hers. I leaned over to Jen, “Hey, I’m exhausted, I’m gonna head back.”
“Alright, are you good to head back alone?”
“Yeah, yeah, I’m fine,” I said, putting my coat on and standing.
I said my goodbyes and made my way to the exit and out into the cool London air. I walked in silence with my thoughts for a while until I heard the shuffling of another set of feet behind me. My heart rate sped up as did my pace. I heard the other set of feet speed up to match me pace. My heart was beating a mile a minute as I chanced a look behind me. I gasped, “My God Niall! You scared me half to death.”
He chuckled, “Sorry Nat. Just makin’ sure you’re okay.” He caught up to me and drapped an arm over my shoulders. I sunk into his side, happy to have a human presence to confide in. “You alright?” I felt his chest vibrate with the words, as his hand rubbed at my shoulder.
“Yea,” I chuckled uneasily. “Why wouldn’t I be?” I swallowed hard, trying to rid my throat of the lump that had formed there.
“Oh, I don’t know… maybe because your best friend that you’re in love with is all over another girl.”
I just shrugged as a dismissal of his assumption, too tired to argue with him. “Thanks for walking me home Ni.” I squeezed him in a hug before I turned and unlocked the door, “Night.”
I closed the door behind me and walked up the stairs. I changed into my pajamas and walked into Harry’s room about to lay down before thinking better of it and grabbing a pillow. I grabbed another blanket from the linen closet and made myself a bed on the couch, dozingoff quickly.

“Nat, Nat.” I was being gently shook awake by a whispering Harry. “Nat c’mon, come to bed.”
My eyes opened slightly and I grumbled something incoherent. I was then lifted off the couch and carried, bridal style, up the stairs. The jostling of the stairs caused me to wake slightly, “Harry,” I mumbled. “What are you doing?”
“Bring you to bed Love. There’s no reason for you to sleep on the couch.”
He laid me on the bed and I was too tired to fight him about it right now as I dozed off again, feeling him curl himself around my back before I fell into a deep sleep.

Notes

sorry its a little late guys! I start school next week so updates might be fewer between.