Harry's POV.

I drove back to mine and Niall's flat. I needed some guy time, meaning I needed to talk to Niall about my girlfriend troubles. I pulled up to the flat and got my bag out from the back. I walked in to see Niall on the couch cuddled up with Jayci.

"Harry, you're home!" Jayci yelled at me excitingly. " Wait..where's Ash?" she askd realizing her best friend wasn't with me.

"I took her home. Can I talk to you guys?" I asked them as I sat down on the ottoman in front of them. "I think I did something to piss Ash off...I made a joke earlier and ever since she's been real standoffish towards me." I told them feeling guilty.

"What was the joke?" Niall asked.

"instead of saying I wanted to 'lay with her in bed' I may or may not have said I wanted to 'play with her in bed'." I told them causing Jayci to spit her drink out.

"You said that? Are you stupid?" she said. Yes..I am stupid. " Did you realize you sounded like a dick after you said it?" she asked me.

"I didn't realize it till just now." I told them hanging my head low.

"Harry, you have to remember what kind of relationship Ashlynn was in prior before yours. As her best friend let me tell you that it's a huge fuckin deal that she is even with you. Do you even know her sexual history?" she asked me making me think in silence. "Of course you don't cause if you did you would think before you speak. Joke or not..that's not cool" she told me signalling there was very much I needed to know but still didn't because I never thought to bring it up.

Was my girlfriend a virgin? She's 21..of course she isn't, that would be silly.


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Ashlynn's POV.

It was getting late and I was exhausted and sun burnt from this past weekend. It was 10 PM and I decided to go to bed early. I put on Harry's sweater and took off my pants and crawled into bed.

It was weird not having Harry in bed with me..it felt empty. I couldn't sleep. Not without him. And if I didn't have to..I wasn't going to. I got up and threw on my jeans with my converse and grabbed my purse with a change of clothes for my meeting tomorrow. I grabbed my keys and made my way out the door to his flat.

I walked out of my door from my building and all I saw was flashes and heard voices. The paps.

"Ashlynn..where's Harry?"
"Are you going on tour with him next year?"
"How do you feel about Kendall Jenner?"
"Nice sweater!"

I never understood why they had to get picture after picture. Why couldn't they just get one and be done with it? A few fans stopped me on the way to Harry's flat asking for photos and surprisingly I stopped. I finally walked up to Harry's flat after endless paparazzi and at least 20 fans. relieved to finally be here I grabbed the spare key and let myself in.

I walked in to see Niall and Jayci passed out on the living room couch watching a movie. I smiled at how happy she seemed. That's all I wanted for her was to be with a genuinely good person, and that was Niall.

I walked up the stairs to Harry's bedroom to see him sitting up on his bed against the head board shirtless writing in his little book he never let me look inside of. He finally realized I was there when he shot his head up and smile showed on his face.

"What are you doing here?" he asked me as I walked towards the bed to sit on the edge next to him.

"I couldn't sleep. I missed you too much. So I walked over here. By the way paps know where I live now.." I told him.

"You should have called me silly..I would have came and got you." he told me as he pushed back my lose hair behind my ear.

"It's ohkay. The walk felt good." I told him as he grabbed my hand. "Whatcha writing?" I asked him hoping he would tell me.

"Just some lyrics I'm working on. I'm kind of stuck right now." he told me as he began to close my book when I put my hand in it stopping him.

"Maybe I can help?" I said to him suggesting my idea. I grabbed the brown book from his hand and began reading what he had written.

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My hands, your hands
tied up like two ships

Drifting, weightless
waves try to break it
I'd do anything to save it
Why is it so hard to say it?

My heart, your heart
Sit tight like book ends

Pages between us
Written with no end
So many words were not saying
Don't wanna wait 'til it's gone.
You make me strong.

Chorus:
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"Babe...these are really good" I told him seriously impressed as I sat in front of him on the bed.

"Thanks..there's no chorus though..I'm stuck." he told me as he pouted.

"What about..'I'm sorry if I say, "I need you". But I don't care, I'm not scared of love...'cause when I'm not with you, I'm weaker." I began

"Is that so wrong? Is it so wrong that you make me strong?" he finished it. We were a very good team. " Anything else I should know about you?" He asked me equally impressed with my skills.

"There's a lot actually" I said as I shut his little brown book. "I have a tattoo on my right rib. I want to meet your family. I love writing..like a lot. I'm afraid you're going to break up with me because I'm a virgin and not nearly as experienced as you. I crave chocolate cake almost every day. I'm dyslexic. I have a birth mark on my thigh. I'm afraid of the dark. And I want to live at Disney World." I said all these things to him in hyper speed hoping he wouldn't say anything back and not understand much of what I was saying..boy was I wrong.

"I saw your tattoo..What's it mean?" he asked me.

"It says 'Strong'. The first time Brendan beat me he cracked that rib...as soon as it healed and we broke up I got the tattoo reminding myself of how strong I was to get through all of it." I told him proud of my tatt.

"You are strong baby. That's when I got the 'strong' lyric from because I saw it a couple nights ago and I just couldn't seem to get it out of my thick head!. And you will meet my family... very very soon I promise. They want to meet you, especially Gemma and my mom; they won't stop talking about you! It's just a matter of finding time that we both can go." he told me causing me to smile. He made me feel so special without him even realizing it.

" I will make you chocolate cake every day if it that's what it takes to keep you happy. I don't care if you can't spell or read to save your life..you're the smartest girl I know. I saw your birth mark when I was helping you change the other night..I think it might be my favorite thing ever." he told me bringing the memory back of him pulling my pants off and kissing it.

"I'm not afraid of the dark..so I'll be there to protect you through it; and can we please please please move to Disney World?" he asked me. He had covered every thing I had said to him except the virgin thing which I know he purposely skipped to save for last.

"I love you. Like so much." I told him as a tear rolled down my eye as I realized how lucky I was to be with someone like Harry.

"I love you too..and just know that I have no intention or plans on pressuring you into anything. I'm sorry if my comment made you uncomfortable earlier..I wasn't exactly thinking. I have no plans to ever break up with you. I love that you want to wait and have respected yourself enough to keep your virginity. I think knowing that makes me love you more..it proves to me that I made the right choice when I talked to you that day at the store. I'm not going anywhere..just know that." he told me reassuring me that I had nothing to worry about.

"Thank you for being so understanding, it means so much to me." I told him as I crawled under the covers with him.

"You're welcome love" he said as he pulled me into his chest and kissed my forehead.

With that much needed conversation we fell asleep.

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