New Life, New Love

I woke up entangled in muscular arms. They were soothing, but I couldn't stay like this for long.

No matter how sweet he was last night, he was equally horrible. I pushed out of the embrace and stood on my floor, my back facing Harry.

"Bella?" Harry's groggy voice was quiet.

"You should go Harry." I looked down at my feet.

I heard the bed shuffle a bit and quickly, yet quietly, Harry had managed to walk up behind me. I turned to face him.

"Why?" His chin pulled my face up to meet his confused one.

"I appreciate you staying with me last night, but you should go. We can't do this."

"And what is this?" He said slightly offended as he dropped his hand from my chin.

"This." My hand gestured between the two of us. "You constantly hurt me, I fight back and then somehow we end up being nice to each other, until we fight again."

"I'm really sorry about last night. When you asked that question....I was a complete arse." I looked down when he referred to me asking him whether he had feelings for me or not. I didn't want him mentioning that again, it was so embarrassing for me.

"Let's not talk about that..." I looked up and saw Harry raise a questioning eyebrow.

"Okay, but Bella, let's try again. I really do want to be your friend, okay?"

I kept my eyes trained on my feet. "I don't know, Harry..."

"Please, Bella. I want to be friends, let me show you that I can be better to you...as a friend." He said the last part quietly.
I considered his offer.

"You'll hurt me again." I stared up at him slowly but had to look away, his green eyes were too intense to stare at.

"Yes, I will." His voice was so raspy, especially since he had just woken up. It took everything in me not to jump onto him and tug on his hair as my lips found his.

Wait, what?


I let out a sigh as I gathered courage to look up at him again.

He continued, "I'll hurt you again, and you'll hurt me. We aren't perfect but it doesn't mean we can't be friends. And Bella, I really want to get to know you better. I think....I think we could be good for each other.....as friends." Again, he said the last part quietly. "Let me prove it to you. I'll take you out today, and I promise I won't hurt you, not intentionally. We'll see where it goes from there."

I let out another sigh. "Okay, where are we going?" His grin grew wide and his shoulder simply shrugged.

"I dunno, but we'll think of something. Now, go get ready. I'm gonna go home and take a shower, but I'll be back soon." I nodded as he walked out.

I walked over to my closet and pulled out my clothes for the day. I looked at the corner of my closet and noticed a brown package, Andrew's package. I hadn't opened it yet. I couldn't bring myself to do it, so I just left it in my closet, untouched. I found myself reaching for it, but I stopped myself.

No, now is not the time. I needed to finish getting ready, so I hopped into the shower and began my washing routine. After I was done, I blow dried my hair until it was only slightly damp and put on my clothes. There was a knock on my bathroom door. I almost considered a little makeup but I didn't have time.

I walked out to a smiling Harry.

"Shall we?" He gestured toward the door with a dorky smirk.

"We shall." I winked at him as he followed me out.


Weeks passed and Harry and I became incredibly close. Soon, him and Jon also became friends. It was strange seeing Harry growing on Jon. Jon used to hate Harry ever since he pulled that stunt in the lunchroom on the first day. But Harry would often sleepover (in Jon's room) after they played video games or went to a party or listened to music or watched tv. I would sometimes join them, but Harry every now and then snuck into my room and we would chat until Harry snuck back into Jon's room quietly to go to sleep. Harry walked me to all my classes and often would sit by me at lunch. We went out a little, for ice cream or to go bowling, or even just on little walks through the park. We were nearly inseparable......as friends.

Melody wasn't around as much, we still hung out and we still were close, but she spent a lot of her time with Liam, and I, with Harry. So, Harry easily became my best friend, and I think I (along with Jon) was his.

The only time I became worried was when Niall or Louis would nudge each other as Harry and I would walk by in the halls.

This one time I overheard Zayn and Niall talking to Harry.

"Mate, we're giving you so much more time to do this! C'mon, get in, Styles!" Niall said with urgency.

"Yeah, you had a month, but you pussied out. You gotta do this by the end of the school year or Niall's cutting your supply off!"

"Don't tell me your pussying out again.." Niall said.

"I'm not! You guys gave me until the fucking end of the school year, it's not over yet."

"It is soon." Zayn said.


When I questioned him about this conversation, he wouldn't answer me. He actually avoided me for a few days after that. Not being able to talk to him was a bit excruciating so I didn't push him further on it.

I was always there for him, despite his increasing rebellious behavior. It was disturbing how much he was sleeping around, and always after we hung out. It hurt me, because the closer I grew to him, the more my feelings for him increased. And pretty soon, I found myself in love with the curly haired rude boy across the street. Him sleeping around tore me up on the inside, but I didn't let him know that. I even helped him get some girls when he asked. I guess I became his "wingwoman" though he didn't really need one. And I hated it, but I never said anything. My friendship with Harry was too valuable to risk.

Once he had an STD scare, and I was with him the whole way through. I noticed he became a lot more dependent on me after that. He always found himself in my room after he had a fight with one of his friends, and I was always there to pick his spirits up. I helped him with his homework as well. Somehow, together, we managed to make studying fun.



It was now springtime, and I was finishing up some homework when my text alert went off.


Harry:
'Let's go somewhere tonight? I'll pick up at 9.'


Bella:
'Okay. See ya then.'

I looked at the time and saw that it was 7:30. I got up and walked upstairs to get ready.

After a short drive through a quaint forest, we arrived at a little lake. There wasn't anyone around and it was surrounded by the little forest. I looked around and noticed that there were little flashes of light everywhere.

"Fireflies!" I gasped and looked over at Harry with a wide smile, which he returned. He opened my door as I thanked him.

We walked over to the lake, it was beautiful. The whole place was beautiful. The sky was dark and the air was warm. The lake reflected the shadowed trees and the stars and moon and the random flashes of light from the little bugs.

"Harry, how'd you find this place?"

"I dunno, I was driving around and here we are." He looked at me with a smile.

"I love it."

"Me too."

From that day on, Harry and I would go to the lake once or twice a week. It was a magical place, it was our secret place. We never told anyone about it.
Sometimes when Harry was sad, I would find him at the lake.
Sometimes when I was sad, Harry would find me there.

It was our place, where everything seemed to be okay. It was our place, where everything made sense. It was our place, where we were all that mattered.


I loved our place.

Notes

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