Harrys´ POV:

“Hey, little fool”, my sister greeted me and I stuck out my tongue at her.

“Nice to see you two”, I said and she pulled me in a tight hug and I hugged her right back.

“I´m so glad you managed to come and you brought your girlfriend”, she let me know and pointed into Aimee´s direction, who stood over the meadow, talking to Connor and looking hot in a short white dress, somehow like a summer breeze.

“Yeah, she´s my...”, I started , but refused to finish the sentence.

“Never really introduced her to me”, Gemma stated and I shrugged my shoulders.

“I think there has just never really been the right occasion”, I said and she forced me to get over to her.

“Like right now?”, she asked meanwhile.

“Okay, Gemma stop. I need you to listen to me”, I said as I stopped her and made her look at me.

“Huh?”, she seemed confused.

“There´s something I have to do tonight and I still don´t know how, so I really need your sisterly advice.” How did I told my sister, a girl, what I was about to do?

Clary´s POV:

Taylor and Connor had been shocked. About what happened and the way my face looked like as they came back.

Sobbingly Taylor said she would blame herself since she should have insisted on me coming over to Simon´s, but I tried to convince her that she was wrong and it was just bad timing.

They also dragged me to go to the police station and register that case and I tried my best to describe the three guys and their looks, but I just had to notice again, that the night had been really dark and there was not much I could tell surely.

The whole situation was more than just frustrating and I knew that the worst part was still to come. Diane told me that she really needed my help and I refused and gave in, overthinking my decision badly as Harry drove me to the bakery.

He seemed to see what I thought about and said: “You don´t have to, if you feel uncomfortable doing it, Clary.”

Our fingers laid interlocked in the gap between our two front seats and his thumb carefully moved over my skin. For some seconds I considered only getting away from everyone.

All I wanted to do was crawling into Harry´s skin and sleep, but I knew reality wouldn´t let me, so I only sighed and opened the door. As is wanted to get out, Harry pulled me back in and I fell back on my seat.

“Hey...”, I complained.

“Wait, you wanna go without a goodbye kiss?”, his voice was sarcastically shocked and I had to laugh as I got closer to him and still smiled as I kissed him. The goodbye kiss was long and intense and I really had to force myself to let go of him and finally get out of the car.

“I tell her tomorrow”, Harry promised as I was about to close the door.

My movement froze for a moment, but I was happy he didn´t said her name out loud. That would had only made the whole situation worse and I already felt really bad.

“I know”, I replied and gave him a faint smile before I turned to head into the bakery.

Instead of using the main entrance I took the back one, which only was for staff and I tried to avoid any people, who could let out a comment about my face. Zayn was already there, but he was busy and the only thing I could see of him was his back.

“Good morning”, I greeted him and started to wash my hands.

“Hey”, his voice sounded delighted and I wondered what he was doing the whole morning since I really cared for him and I hoped he hadn´t worked the whole night at his Mum´s restaurant as well.

“Have you got my text yesterday evening?”, he asked and I knew I had forget about something. The text right, he said he would always be my listener, if need some.

“Oh, yeah! I got, it´s just...”, I stumbled and was ashamed to turn around. This guys decided to punch me, but did I felt so guilty and ashamed about it?

“You really don´t have to answer, if you don´t want to...”, he said frustrated and I instantly felt bad.

“No, Zayn it´s really not like that! I just got distracted...”, I started to explain, but he interrupted me.

“Jesus!”, he breathed out shocked and I realized I turned to make him understand me and he just took the first look at my face today.

“Clary...what happened?”, he stepped closer and I only shrugged my shoulders.

“Guess, I was used as a punching bag last night”, I tried to be funny, but I knew I wasn´t.

Zayn stepped so close until he stood right in front of me and I had to look up to see his face and the impression on it.

Slowly he raised his hand and carefully touched my cheek, tracing his finger along my bones under my skin. Swallowing was suddenly hard and I didn´t knew, if I liked him that close to me or not.

“Who was that?”, he suddenly asked and removed his hand from my face and I was finally allowed to breath in again.

“I couldn´t identify them”, I whispered and I saw him clenching his jaw.

“These bastards!”, he groaned angry and I saw that his hands were forming fists.

“Hey Zayn, it´s okay. I´m fine”, I tried to calm him down since I really got frightened of him.

“Fine? Did you had a look in the mirror today, Clary? Your face looks like someone shattered it with baseball bat! There´s no way you could be FINE!”, he shouted furious.

Despite the fact that he was right since my face really looked horrible right now, covered in bruises and green, purple swellings, but now he was the one, who frightened me.

“Zayn, please just calm down”, I begged him. Slowly he forced himself to take a lot deep breaths and I saw the main anger finally disappear.

“Things happened now and however angry we´re about this, nothing will change, so can we just pretend like nothing would be wrong and my face would look like always?”, I tried to convince him, but he still seemed caught in his emotions, so I decided to step closer and hug him.

My arms were wrapped somewhere around his waist and after some seconds I felt his around me as well. That was the way we stood there and he calmed back down.

“I´m sorry, Clary. It´s just seeing your face likes this...”, he mumbled over my head.

"It´s a little bit shocking, I know”, I admitted.

“You´re my best friend here and if there´s one thing I really can´t do is seeing my friends being hurt”, he tried to explain his action and I gave him an understandingly smile.

“You´re my friend too, Zayn”, I said and softly punched his shoulder like mates would do.

“I hope they find these assholes and they get what they deserve”, he mumbled and I felt the same.

“C´mon, let´s go to work and talk about something else”, I suggested and he gave in.

“Sure, let´s go to work”, he sighed, but I could tell the whole thing was one his mind for the rest of the shift.

....

Taylor, Connor, Rosy and me, we all had dinner as Harry came in. Beside his wet appearance since it poured outside he looked fine. Better than I thought he would be, even though his face was a little bit to pale in my opinion.

“Hey”, we all greeted him and he came closer and pulled a chair over to the table, where we sat.

“Still a sinking world out there?”, Connor asked and Harry nodded.

“You can say that”, with that he took a plate and overloaded it with food. Good, at least he was still hungry.

“I guess the barbecue had been a big blow up then?”, Taylor asked as she tried to convince Rosy to eat another spoon of her sticky baby food, but she only responded in that way, that she tried to smash it down to the ground.

“You can call it a blow up. Definitely”, Harry mumbled with a filled mouth and I narrowed my eyes at him.

Did he only acted to be happy, so nobody could see the real emotions or did everything actually went that well? He must have noticed my worried eyes on him, so he cheerfully squeezed my hand under the table. The warm touch of his finger on mine calmed me down immediately and I was finally able to breathe out again.

The chat at the table was mainly about topics I couldn´t really had much to add to, so I mainly tried to get Rosy to eat something, but we ended up putting that baby food away and Rosy only nibbled at some dry bread.

“I got that”, Harry let out as Taylor stood up to bring the plates into the kitchen. Therefore I hurried to get after him to finally have the chance to talk to him alone. The only thing I could see was his back as I stepped in the kitchen, while he already had started to do the dishes.

“How did it went?”, I said quietly as I stepped closer and handed him the last plates. He gave me a small smile and took them before he answered.

“Harder than I expected”, he mumbled and I heard regret in his voice.

“You think you made the wrong decision”, I diagnosed and felt myself being hurt at the exact same time. What had I done to her?

“No, oh God, Clary no!”, he nearly dropped the plates as he turned to me.

“I´m just...this wasn´t easy. Things were fine...”, he tried to explain.

“Before I came back and messed everything up”, I finished his sentence.

“Yeah, but Clary: That doesn´t mean that I was completely happy that way before”, he reached out for my wrist and pulled me closer.

His hands were still wet from the sewage in the sink and now the water was all over my sleeves and sweater as he opened my hand and placed something in there. Curious I opened my palm and realized what he just gave back to me. My necklace.

The little heart glanced at me and I gently touched over the shape, I knew too well.

“This...you and me...us. This is what I want and I know that breaking up with Aimee was hard and not fair to her, but I think the heart wants what the heart wants and that´s...you.” His voice shook in the end and I heard the certainty behind his words.

“You don´t know what you´re doing to me with these words”, I whispered with tears in my voice. This had been the best scenario I had ever came up in my head, ever since I had left Holmes Chapel seven months ago and now it turned into reality.

“My heart wants you as well”, I breathed out and got on my toes to be able to connect my lips with his. But before we could fully enjoy the kiss we were interrupted by one of Rosy´s bubbles. Our heads turned to the door, where Connor and Taylor were standing, holding Rosy on their arm.

“Wow, man”, was everything Connor stated, while Taylor screamed: “Finally!”

Notes

Hey you all. I´ve been busy with everything else lately and I´m sorry.
Why is my time always over so quickly? Ugh.

Whatever this is an extra long chapter. Hope you all like it and please give me any kind of feedback: vote, subscribe, leave a comment or share. Thank you so much! :) xx