So over the two months Harry and the boys were gone, me and Harry talked all the time. Whenever he was free he would call, text, of even, Face Time me, day or night.

At one point we were messaging and he said he missed seeing my beautiful face every day. I told him he was obviously was good looking if I had had a crush on him because I have high standards. Then he asked me how that crush was doing and I said “Well I will always have feelings for you no matter what I do but I know you want to stay friends so I’ll respect that.” And his response was “well I think I might want to try something but we’ll figure it out when I get back.”

But now it’s the day. It’s the day we all came back from the break, he first time seeing the boys since my party, the first time seeing the him.

I walked into the school and made my way to the cafeteria. Like I do every morning and wait for the boys to arrive. We would have breakfast in the cafeteria every morning religiously. I got my little carton of orange juice and my granola bar and sat patiently waiting. After what seemed like an eternity the boys finally walked in.

“Jazz!!!” They all ran up and hugged me.

“Hey guys!” I said receiving as many hugs as I could. Harry was the last of the bunch and he hugged me the longest.

So we all bombarded each other with questions ‘How was touring?’ ‘How were classes’ ‘How was Christmas?’ the usual bullshit banter we went through when they went away. I had honestly missed them so much. The only thing that was strange is Harry wasn’t acting any different towards me. Maybe he just needs time to adjust to being back home. I’ve waited this long for him I can wait a week or two.

LINE BREAK

“Jazz… Jazz! Wait up!” Rylan called from down the hall. When she reached me she pulled me off to the side.

“Look I know I should have told you a long time ago but I couldn’t bring myself to do it but now with the boys back and all I couldn’t let you hear it from them.”

“Well what is it?”

“I slept with one of the boys after your birthday party.” she blurted out. My heart completely stopped. My whole body went numb while my mind raced.

“W-who?” I asked trying to find my breath, straining to keep from exploding.

“Niall…” I let out a sigh I didn’t realize I was holding in.

“God dammit you scared the shit out of me Rylan! I thought you were going to say
you slept with Harry.”

“What God no. that ship has sailed for good.” She scrunched up her face.

“So how did it happen? You and Niall I mean.”

“Well after the party I need a ride home so I caught one with Niall. As we pulled up he said he was going to stop by Nados for a midnight snack and asked if I wanted to join him and I said I would take a rain check cuz my parents were probably mad I was out so late. And sure enough as soon as I got in the door they were up my ass about everything under the sun whether it mattered of not. So we got into the big fight over nothing actually and as usual I stormed off. I walked to the end of my street and realized I was in a dress and it was freezing outside and I had nowhere to go. So I whipped out my phone and dialed the only person I knew who would be out at this time of night, Niall. He finished up eating and came and picked me up and said I could crash at his place. When we got there he offered me a beer and after a couple he asked me what happened. So I rambled on about how we always fight and it’s the same every time and out of nowhere I started crying. He came over on the bed where I was sitting put my beer on the table and hugged me. Then I looked up at him and we kissed. Well one thing led to another and soon enough we were getting naked.”

“Oh well umm good luck with all that…”

“What? No, no, no just a onetime thing, one night stand, no more no less.”

“Sure whatever you say Ry.”

“You don’t believe me do you?”

“Well I dunno Niall can be quite the charmer. I can see you two falling for each
other.”

“As if.” She scoffed and rolled her eyes. Just then Zayn Louis and Niall walked up to us. “I gotta run to my locker. Bye guys.”

“Do you want someone to come with you?” Niall asked seeming desperate to talk to Rylan.

“No thanks but thanks anyway.” She turned and walked off quickly.

“Ugh is she going to avoid me forever?” Niall whined giving me puppy dog eyes.

“Hey don’t be giving me those puppy dog eyes. I'm not the one avoiding you.
Besides is just her post-one-night-stand ritual she’ll get over it.” Zayn and Louis raised their eyebrows at each other and practically shouted “YOU SLEPT WITH RYLAN?!?!”

“Shhh guys I’d rather the whole school not know.” Niall looked around turning bright red.

“Yah or your best mates.” Louis said pouting.

“Guys I couldnt say anything it’s disrespectful to her and I didn’t know how harry would take it. You guys can’t tell him until I do you got it.”

“Umm Niall...” Zayn made a weird face and a gesture that Niall didn’t pick up on.

“I mean I can understand it if he hates me. I slept with his ex for God sake.” Both Zayn and Louis were motioning Niall to shut up “How am I going to tell him?”

“You just did.” Harry says from behind us. Niall’s face turns into pure guilt as he slowly turns towards Harry. Before Niall could say a thing Harry says “Don’t.” and walks away.

“Aw Harry wait I-” Niall starts after him.

“Don’t. I’ll talk to him to him.” I said following Harry out of the building. I followed him all the way to my smoking spot.

“How could he?! He’s my best mate. And he stabbed me in the back!”

“You had to know she would move on.”

“Yah but not like this not with my best mate!”

“You were moving on with me. And I'm one of her best mates.”

“That’s different and not the point the point is-“

“The point is you're getting all worked up because she moved on but she’s not worked up about you moving on with me. Why is that Harry?”

“I don’t know Jazz just leave me alone. I have some stuff to figure out.”

“What kind of stuff do you possible have to figure out?”

“Personal stuff Jazz.” He said waving me off.

“Have fun with that.” I grabbed my bag and turned to leave.

“What's that supposed to me-”

“It means you don’t know what you want do you.”

“What are you ta-”

“I’m talking about how while you were away you couldn’t wait to get back so you
could see me and we could figure out what we were. What happened to that?”

“I don’t know Jazz. I just need some time to figure all this stuff out.” He said leaning on the wall.

“Yah you do that.”

“Jazz wait-”

“No. I'm done waiting for you.”