Little Things

Today was me and Harry’s one month anniversary. I decided to have him and Rylan and Niall over for a movie day. It was towards the end of February vacation and I had had rehearsal so me and Harry were just hanging around until Niall picked us up. I got the brilliant idea to climb the tree next to the school but once up there I was like a cat, too afraid to climb down. So Harry hoisted himself up to keep me company. The wind though was cutting right through my sweatshirt and I was shivering.

“You cold?” he said from a branch higher.

“No Haz I’m on vibrate mode.” I said through a giggle and chattering teeth.

“Here take my jacket.” He said shrugging off his soccer jacket.

“Harry I can’t take you jacket then you’ll be cold.” I said even though I was already reaching for it.

“Yes you can. I can’t wear it anywhere but school anyway you might as well get some use out of it.” He smiled and handed it to me. I put it on as fast as I can then sat comfortable against the trunk of the tree.

We both leaned back and looked up at the sky holding hands limply through the trees branches.

“That cloud looks like a turtle.” I said pointing straight up.

“No it looks like a duck.” He said matter-of-factly. He slid down to a branch closer to me then leaned into me and pointed at another cloud “What about that one?”

“That one looks like a dog. You know that dog with the little beard. It’s not a Yorkie ugh what is it. Um that dog in Lady and the Tramp not the blood hound the one that got injured at the end. What’s it called?”

“I don’t know but I know what you’re talking about ha-ha.” He said pulling me as close as he could get without us falling out of the tree. Both our heads snapped up when we heard Niall beeping at us. He effortlessly climbed out of the tree while I clung to the trunk refusing to budge.

“Come one jazz you got to come down.” He said laughing at how afraid I was.

“I'm going to fall!” I proclaimed holding the tree tighter.

“No you won’t come on just climb to the lowest branch and I’ll catch you.” He said

“You promise?” I said loosening my grip.

“I promise.” So with that I climbed to the lowest possible branch. It was pretty low to the ground but still too high to jump off of if you didn’t know what you were doing. Harry stretched out his arms and waited for me. I closed my eyes and let go of the branch free falling for a half a second then falling into Harry's arms. I waited a second before opening my eyes to ensure I was in fact safely in his arms. He looked down at me and smiled and said “I told you I would catch you.”

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“Jazz we’re out of popcorn!” Niall whined as he shook his bowl to prove his point.

“Niall the movie hasn’t even started!” I said taking the bowl from him.

“I know” he snickered. I glared at him and made my way to the kitchen.

“Ryder we’re starting the movie soon if you wanna watch so hurry up!” I yelled upstairs to him. It was usually just me and my little brother most of the time. My mom was either working or forever out with her newest boyfriend. She never takes them home though which is a relief but I barely ever see her. And my dad was never in the picture. Just another guy in my mom’s black book. I don’t mind though me and Ryder got it all figured out. We don’t even mind that we virtually have no parents.

I got to the kitchen and threw another bag of popcorn in the microwave and waited for it to be done. I grabbed myself a ginger ale and was just about to open it when I felt hands snake around my waist.

“Can I help you?” I turned around in time for him to pull me into a kiss. We had a good 30 second make out session before the microwave beeped and scared us half to death. I poured the popcorn into the bowl. He grabbed the bowl from me eating a handful before leading us into the living room to start the movie.

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I woke up the next morning at like 1 in the afternoon. I don’t know what possessed me to sleep in that late. What had woken me up was my phone consistently vibrating. Harry and Rylan and Alex had been texting me all morning… opps. First sent a text to Harry saying I’d call him after I called the girls back. Then I three way called them to see what was up.

“HEY!!” they both screamed into the phone.

“Hi what up?”

“Nothing we were planning on going bowling tonight with the guys and wanted to see if you could come.” Alex said like she hadn’t been texting me all morning

“Um sure I don’t see why not I’ll ask Harry if he can go.”

“Okay see you at 5 BYEEE” they said hanging up the phone. I quickly dialed Harry.

“Hey sleepy head.”

“Hi. Hey everyone is going bowling later wanna come with us?”

“Nah I'm not really up for it but hey I gotta go I have to go have a meeting with management I’ll text you later.” And then he hung up. He was acting really strange.

I went through the rest of my day lounging around checking my phone ever ten minutes to see if Harry had texted me. Soon enough the girls were here and Alex was straightening my hair.

“Wait so he just said he doesn’t want to come and hung up.” Rylan said fixing her hat in the mirror.

“Basically, he’s been acting so weird lately.” I said

“That’s unacceptable.” She whipped out her phone and texted him:

Wow you don’t wanna go bowling and see you girlfriend HOW RUDE!

And almost instantly he texted back.

Leave me alone Rylan.

“What is going on with him UGH?” I said

“I don’t know but try not to think about it. Just think how fun bowling will be with your friends. And we promise no mushy gushy stuff.” Alex said straightening the last of my hair.

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So bowling was absolutely amazing. We all decided we each had a lucky ball and if anyone touched it or used it we would spazz out. Liam got the most out of all of us and did this silly dance when the scores got tallied. And after we all went and played in the arcade. Before we left we all tried to squeeze into the tiny photo booth and took a ton of pictures. Then everyone picked their fave from the lot. After the boys dropped me and Rylan off at her house we got settled in for a nice girls night we have been craving. All those days of avoiding her made me really miss her.

So Rylan was trying this new hair style on me when I decided to text Harry to see how he was. It took a while for him to answer but when he did it was like a five paragraph essay. I slowly read and felt my heart being ripped out of my chest. He wanted to break up. I texted him back trying to understand what was going on asking him why he was doing this. His reply was he simply was dealing with something and needed to do it on his own. After going back and forth for some time me demanding for a reason claiming everybody went through things and it’s not a good enough reason to break off our whole relationship. He told me to have Rylan show me the messages he sent her a few days ago.

“I deleted them. I barely remember what they were about.” She said quickly. I told him that and he went me the messages in screen shots. It was him proclaiming he still loved her, how he didn’t want to hurt me but couldn’t get her out of his head. How he still wanted her. So I texted him;

So that’s that then. We’re done here. You can have your stuff back on Monday.

Then I stood up enraged at Rylan for not telling me.

“How could you not tell me MY boyfriend was still in love with you?! How could you keep something like this from me?! I thought we we’re friends!” I said grabbing my bag and taking off all of Harry's items (the bracelet the necklaces and his jacket) and shoving them in them deep inside out of sight.

“Jazz wait-”

“I don’t want to hear it.” I grabbed all my stuff and stormed out of her house and up the street. I got to the top of the street and realized I had nowhere to go. It was midnight I had no car and would rather freeze to death then put on Harry’s jacket. I pulled out my phone and dialed the only person I could think of who could come and get me.

“Hello?” Zayn answered groggily.

“Hi.”

“Jazz what’s up?”

“Harry and I-” and that’s when I lost it. I started crying uncontrollably. I was shaking and sobbing I could barely get a breath in let alone a word out.

“Hey, hey, hey why are you crying?” he said sounding concerned I finally managed to calm down for a second to say “can you come pick me up?”