Young Minds, Young Love

Avery's P.O.V

"So what does this make us now?" We are lying in Harry's bed, his arm around me, playing with my fingers and my head on his chest listening to the relaxing beat of his heart.

"This means that I'm your man and you're my girl." He tightens his grip around my shoulder and places a kiss to the top of my head; I look up and give him a kiss to the cheek. Before I can lay my head back on his chest, Harry hooks his index finger under my chin and tilts it up. Slowly he leans in flicking his eyes from my lips to my eyes, then I feel his lips on my own moving gently against mine. The bed shifts slightly as he fully lays down on the bed, bringing me on top of him with our lips still connected. A deep throaty moan is released from his mouth as his hands travel down my back constricting his arms around my body, holing me even closer.

I feel a weird buzzing feeling that I shouldn't be feeling now, I remember that I have my phone in the pocket of my school skirt. I painfully pull apart from Harry and watch as his head falls back into the pillows, I reach into my pocket and grab my phone surprised at the contact name that is flashing on the screen. I swipe across the screen answering the call.

"Dan?"

"Avery! I'm so glad that you answered, listen I called up because I wanted to know if you'd; well if you would, did you want to come over to the house tonight for dinner?" No, no, no. I am not ready to go over to his house and I don't even want to go. Not with his new family being there.

"Ummm, I really don't think that-"

"Oh come on Avery, I would love it if you would come over to the house." Argh, how do I get myself out of this?

"Well I would have to ask Mum-"

"I actually called your Mother and she said that it's up to you whether you want to come over or not." I thought she would have said no for sure, she is supposed to act all angry and say "no you can't go out on a school night".

"Well, I'm actually at my boyfriend’s house at the moment so I don't think I could come over." A smile is brought to my face as those words part from my lips "my boyfriend",I notice Harry's grin present as well.

"Nonsense! You can bring him over if you'd like, I wouldn't mind getting to know the young man that is dating my daughter. I would just love it if you would come over." Should I go? I look down at Harry hoping I might find the answer but am only greeted with more questioning thoughts. If I go to dinner tonight, I would meet the woman who broke my family and my half-sister...for the first time. I take a deep breath with all the new thoughts racing through my mind; Harry can sense that something is wrong. His face is scrunched up in confusion and he sits up, with me still on top of him making me straddle him; his hands start to rub up and down the sides of my arms comforting me. This could possibly be a good thing, maybe it's time I start to face all of this.

"Ok, what time would you like us to be over there by?"

"How does six sound?" Well that's relatively soon.

"Dan I have to get home and get ready as well-"

"When I called your Mother she said that she was already getting clothes out for you to wear, so when you got home you could change and come straight over here." How does he organise this all so well?

"I guess I will see you at six then." We say our goodbyes and end the conversation, I look up and Harry's gaze is still focusing on me.

"Who was that?" He asks, his hands still rubbing up and down my arms.

"That was Dan. He invited me to go over to his house for dinner tonight; you're welcome to come with me if you'd like." His hands stop their actions for a moment before continuing.

"It would be my pleasure to take you. I wouldn't let you go there and do this by yourself." I can't help but smile at his caring statement; he leans in again for what I can presume would turn out to be a heated moment. I draw back but he leans in further leaving little space between us.

"You should get ready." I state, he flashes me a toothy grin and leaves a lingering kiss to my forehead before carefully placing me next to him on the bed.

"I'm just going to jump in the shower for a minute; do you want to come with?" My eyes widen a little at the normality of what he had just said.

"N-no." He walks out of the room smiling and lightly chuckling to himself, whilst I flop down on the bed and think about what is going to happen tonight.

I wonder what they are like. Sienna and Charlie I think were their names; will they be nice or anything but that, would Dan be so blind to the fact of their actions that he does nothing about it? I can't believe I'am going to meet them tonight, eight years of wondering what this woman that tore my family apart would be like all comes down to one dinner. I wonder if she is going to be the horrible bitch that I have her pictured in my mind as, I wonder if the child will look like me...will I look like her?

I no longer hear the water running from the bathroom signalling that Harry is finished, soon he enters the room in nothing but a white towel wrapped around his lower half. All of his black ink displayed proudly; my eye's rake up his body and see him comb his fingers through his wet hair only to shake it around a few seconds later. I watch as he takes long strides towards his wardrobe, opening the double doors. He drops the towel to the ground and I quickly roll over on the bed realising that he was completely naked, he wasn’t even wearing boxers. A few moments later the bed dips and I turn to see a fully dressed Harry.

Harry's outfit

His curls are still wet and little droplets of water are falling on my face, making me cringe up my nose.

"Harry go dry your hair we have to leave soon." I try pushing him off of me but he doesn't go my way, he pins my wrists down on the bed next to my head and leans in, not once breaking eye contact.

"Are you sure that we have to leave?" He questions.

"Y-yes." I say a little shaky.

"Now are you 100% positive that we have to go? I mean we could always do something more interesting." Could he make it any more obvious? He needs to learn control.

"And what would that be?" He brings his evil smirk to life and then shakes his full head of dripping we curls in my face, he shakes his head from side to side letting the water droplets fly free and splat all over my face.

"Harry! Harry, stop! I'm getting all wet! Stop!" I laugh out trying to convince him to stop his assault and he completely does stop! Leaning up a little from me with only inches of spaces between us.

"Babe, you would know if I was getting you all wet." I furrow in confession but realise what he meant after I think about it. I laugh at his little dirty joke and push him off of me, getting up from the bed and collecting my things. We walk out of his room and down the hallway to the front door; Harry collects his keys and put his phone in his back pocket before we leave.

"Are you sure that you want to do this?" He asks me.

"Well...I don't really know. I guess I should do this, maybe it will stop all of my questions about wondering what they are like."

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*Dan's house*

We drive down the seemingly endless driveway up to the house and it is gigantic! Most of the lights seem to be turned on and everything looks picture perfect. There are a number of cars parked along the sides of the house, all of them looking to be extremely expensive.

Dan's house

I seriously hope that Dan is just making big bucks now and that is the explanation as to why all of these cars are here, I don't think having a reunion right now would be the best thing.

A sudden thought occurs to me and I start to panic.

"Shit." I mumble to myself.

"What's wrong?" Harry asks, he takes my hand in his and presses a delicate kiss to it. I smile at his gesture but then remember the problem.

"Harry please tell me you remember the first time you met Dan?" His eyes divert away from mine and return to them moments later with the memory of their first introduction.

"Fuck." He slouches down in his seat remember just as well as i can the events that took place at their first introduction.

Flashback

"GET AWAY FROM ME!" I thrash around in his hold before I'm ripped away from him. I look up through my teary eyes, with a blurry vision. Harry? I sniffle away the tears and look to the ground to see Dan, Harry is standing over the top of him, he rolls over on the ground and slowly lifts his body from the cold concreted sidewalk. He stands tall and in front of Harry's face which I have learned is never a good position to be in when having a physical fight with him.

"JUST STAY OUT OF THIS, THERE'S NO NEED FOR YOU TO MEDDLE WITH THINGS THAT YOU DON'T UNDSERTAND!" Dan pushes against Harry's chest in hopes he will back off, but I know that would never happen. "STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM HER!" Even though I don't like Dan, I approach Harry placing my hand on his shoulder making him turn around to face me. "Don't do this." I whisper, my eye's pleading with his as he contemplates his next move. He shrugs off my hold and stands further in front of me blocking my view. "WATCH YOUR MOUTH BOY! I DON'T WANT TO DO SOMETHING I'LL REGRET!" "WHAT THE FUCK MAN, YOUR THE ONE GRABBING HER!" "Harry, stop this!" I plead. "YOU KNOW THIS BOY AVERY?!" I look over Harry's shoulder at Dan's fiery face. Harry looks down at me from over his shoulder than back to the unknown man to him. "I'm supposed to be going over to his house so we can do our English assignment." Dan looks from Harry to myself and back again before speaking once more. "Well I'm taking you home; I've discussed this with your Mother and you'll have to organise another time that you can do this." He's discussed this with Mum? "What do you mean you're taking me home?! I'm not going anywhere with you, and you don't just get to decide what I get to do! You can't just disappear and come back expecting everything to be ok!" I feel more tears travel down my cheeks as I continue talking. Harry turns around to me with confusion flooding his eyes. "Is that your-" "Yeah." I confirm to him all of his thoughts.

End of flashback

”Let’s just forget about it ok? He has to understand what he did was wrong, and you were only doing what you thought was right." This time I take his hand in mine and place a delicate kiss to it. He smiles and in return leans over to me planting a sweet kiss to my lips. We both get out of the car and meet at the bonnet.

"Are you sure that I look ok?"

Avery's outfit

"Babe you look perfect." Harry takes my hand entangling our fingers together as we approach the door.

He rings the door bell and a few seconds later Dan is standing at the door with a smile on his face, that same smile disappears when his eyes drift to Harry, then down to our entangles hands. His posture straightens and jaw clenches with the memory of his first encounter of Harry, I pray to god that this greeting will be significantly different from the last. I look up at Harry and his posture is the same as Dan's, he isn't slouching; standing tall and his jaw also clenched.

"Dan this is Harry...my boyfriend." He snaps his head in my direction and those hard eyes that were on Harry are now on me, his eyes go back to Harry as he takes a step towards him but I quickly snake my way in between the two men not wanting anything to happen tonight. I wish everything would go smoothly tonight, a speed hump or two would be ok but I fear that anything more would just have everything crumbling to the ground.

"This must be a silly little joke you're playing on me Avery. I know I haven't been around, but you can't be all rebellious with me by bringing home a boy like, this." Harry's ego gets the better of him, as he takes a step towards Dan. I gently push back on him feeling how fully tensed his body really is.

"Dan we came here tonight because you invited us over here for dinner; now if you don't want to grow some balls and move on, then we may as well just leave." The sternness behind my voice must be clouded to him by the presence of the male behind me, with my words making no difference I turn to Harry and give him a look that say

"Let's just go."

He takes my hand as we start to walk away from the gigantic house before I hear the sound of running feet hitting the pebbled driveway.

"Wait! Why don't we just start over?" Dan extends his hand out to Harry, hoping for a shake. I watch as Harry looks at the hand before extending his own and shaking it.

"Now come inside, everyone is dying to see you again!"

"Everyone? I thought you said it was going to be just us, you know you, me, Harry, Sienna and Charlie..."

"Well I invited a few extra people over; they haven't seen you in a very long time Avery! They just wanted a catch up." This is going to be one long night, he should have told me in the beginning about everyone that was coming. I mean I never really wanted to come here in the first place, and the thought of having to spent an entire night with Sienna, Charlie and Dan just seems to be not such a good idea for me. But now that it's more than just them and family, it’s going to be an even longer night than expected.

Once inside the house I realise just how many people are here, some faces I remember and some I don't know.

"Dan, who are all of these people, I don't even remember half of them." Harry's hand leaves mine but comfort is replaced when his arm wraps around my waist, pulling me into him.

"Oh well some of them are family and the rest of them are Sienna's family, we both agreed that it would be a good idea to get the whole family together." People in this family really need to start tell me things that are happening around here.

"Now come and say hello to everyone!" He walks into the crowd of people, with Harry and I following. Dan leads us over to a group of people, he taps on the man’s shoulder and he turns around and I instantly recognise him.

"Uncle Ben!" His face has shock plastered onto it.

"Avery? My, my, my. You have certainly grown up from that little girl! And who might this be?"

"This is Harry. He's my boyfriend." His eyebrows rise as I don't think he expected me to say boyfriend. He puts his hand forward to Harry.

"Good too meet you Harry." Harry shakes his hand and they exchange a few words before I see Dan walking towards me with someone behind him.

"Avery this is Sienna." She steps to the side of him and I am now face to face with her. So this is her, the woman who tore apart my family, standing in front of me. She looks to be in her late 20's, her long black hair curled perfectly hanging down a few inches below her shoulders, I feel significantly underdressed standing next to her.

Sienna's outfit

"You must be Avery!" She opens her arms and embraces me in a hug, it's a little awkward for me but I wrap my arms around her returning the hug. She pulls back with both her hands on my arms still looking at me.

"It's so good to finally meet my step daughter! I've been wanting to meet you since the first time your father told me about you." Since the first time he told her about me? So she knew the whole time when she was fucking with Dan, that he was married, that he had a child and she still went through with it?! I hope that she doesn't go around using the term 'step daughter' too loosely. She lets go of my arms and takes a step back to Dan.

"And this must be u-um-umm your boyfriend; am I correct?" She must not be able to conceal her emotions terribly well as the look of horror on her face towards Harry, is clearly evident. I look to Harry and he seems to be completely fine, he puts out his hand to her.

"Nice to meet you, I'm Harry." He says with a genuine smile.

"Si-sienna." She responds slightly stuttering. A man dressed in a white suit comes into the room and whispers something into Dan’s ear. The man then raises a glass and clinks the back of a knife to it, creating silence in the room.

"Dinner is ready, if you would all please follow me to the room." Harry takes my hand as we follow the man behind Sienna and Dan.

"You are doing great." Harry whispers in my ear.

"MUMMY, MUMMY, MUMMY!" A gush of wind passes by me, I look down and see a little girl pulling at Sienna's dress. Sienna reaches down and picks her up, sitting the child on her hip.

"What is it princess?"

"Why are all of these people here?"

"Remember how Mummy and Daddy told you that we have a very special guest coming over tonight?" She tilts her head up to the roof, thinking about the question then looks back at Sienna nodding her head rapidly.

"Well these people have come to meet her. Would you like to meet her?" She rapidly nods her head again. Sienna slows her pace and starts walking with Harry and I.

"Charlie this is Avery, Avery this is Charlie...say hi Charlie."

"Hi." She giggles, and then buries her head in her Mother's neck.

Wow, Charlie is cute; her blond hair is out with a single clip pulling back a strand from the front of her face. Her eyes were the same colour as mine and a few other features of her were similar to mine.

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*After Dinner*

"Thanks for coming, we'll be sure to have you over some other time."

Dan walks back into the room after saying goodbye to the last of the guests; he loosens his tie and sits on the couch opposite to Harry and I.

"Where did Sienna go to?"

"She said she just had to put some things away from dinner." I respond.

"DADDY!”Charlie yells whilst running into the room, she jumps on the couch next to Dan with her legs dangling off the sides.

"Hi baby girl. Now it's getting pretty late ok; it's almost time for your bed time. Why don't you and Avery go and play Barbie for a little bit, I'll be there in a few minutes to tell you when it's time for bed." She jumps off the couch running over to me, grabbing my hand and pulling me from the couch ushering me out of the room, leaving Harry and Dan alone. She leads me down to her room and it is decorated in all things pink.

A pink bed sheet, pink walls, pink photo frames, a pink desk and chair, a pink dollhouse and a pink fairy carpet on top of the wooden floors in her room.

"Avery, come help me dress Barbie!"

"I'm coming, I'm coming." She opens up her dollhouse and it has everything! I didn't even have a dollhouse like this, hell I didn't even have a room like this! A nock at the door brings my attention away from the dollhouse and to Dan who is standing at the door.

"Bed in 5 minutes Charlie."

"10 minutes." She argues, he crosses his arms, and tilts his head up squinting his eyes at her with a mischievous grin.

"6 minutes." He tells her.

"7 minutes." She argues against him again, her smile radiating to Dan.

"Fine 7 minutes it is, but then its bed time young lady." He walks out of the room closing the door slightly.

"My Daddy's great! What's you Daddy like?"

Notes

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