Young Minds, Young Love

Harry's P.O.V

"So, I believe you are dating my daughter Harry?" This whole night defiantly didn't plan out how I thought it would have; Avery has been dragged off by Charlie so now it is just myself and Dan in the room, with Sienna in some mysterious room of this place. My opinion of this guy hasn't changed much since I arrived here tonight, I still don't get why he had to invite all of these people here; that was the worst part of the night for Avery. A nice quiet dinner is all she needed, instead of a fancy "reunion", with people she hasn't even seen in eight years and the fact that this fucker invited Siennas family? I wish that he could have a taste of his own medicine, see how it feels to have something like this sprung on you, no warning, nothing at all and pretend that it's still ok.

"Yes, I am." He straightens up in his seat, crossing over his left leg to his right, loosening his arms along the back of the sofa and lifting his head higher.

"Well I certainly wasn't expecting you here. Mary, sorry Avery's Mother. Told me Avery's boyfriend was, well, what she described to me on the phone isn't exactly what I'm seeing now."

"What are you talking about?" I spit out. His facial expression turns cold hearted as he tries to disguise his smirk with a yawn. He puts both his hands down on each side of him on the couch and pushes himself up, standing straight.

"I'm just going to check on the girls, I'll be back in a minute." He walks off in the direction that Charlie and Avery left, leaving me here alone. What did Mary say to him? I lean forward on my seat, my forearms on my thighs, head down and hands scrunching my hair. Trying to understand Dan's words, what did Mary say?

"Right where were we?" My head shoots up as when Dan enters the room again, shuffling his feet along the cream carpeted floor, taking his seat once more on the couch.

"What did Mary say?" I question.

"Oh nothing, she just said that Avery would probably bring over her boyfriend. She said that he was very polite when she meet him. She said that he had blonde hair and I think her exact words were; "He is a charming young man"." I've never met Mary, why would she be saying these things if she hasn't even met me, I don't even have blonde hair!

"She said his name was Luke, so when you arrived with my daughter after our previous...encounter; I think you understand why I reacted the way that I did." LUKE?! She's not fucking dating Luke she is with me!

"She has never been with that fu- with him and she's never going to be with him!"

"Are you sure about that? She might be doing what I did; you might need to keep an eye on her because if she doesn't take after me then she will defiantly turn into her Mother. God knows we don't need another bitch like her roaming this earth." Both my fists are bawled, my knuckles white and my efforts to keep calm are becoming less and less bearable. I stand from my seat not able to comprehend what Dan is saying about his family.

"Oh sit down Harry-"

"No! And you wonder why she's so reluctant to see you, why she didn't answer any of your texts! The day you said you would pick her up, do you remember that day?! I sure remember it because I was the one who drove her home instead of leaving her to walk alone in the pouring rain, getting soaked through and probably ending up having a cold!" His face falls in disappointment remembering that day. The image of her face still clear as day in my mind, she had water droplets falling from her shivering body, her blue lips chattering away. Her hair was drenched and sticking to the sides of her face and down the exposed skin of her neck; her shirt had gone completely see-through allowing me great access to the sight of her blue bra. Her face was the worst though, it was all in her eyes. The disappointment; there was no smile on her face.

"You expect her forgiveness yet you're coying her with all your lies!"

"You don't think I fucking know what you're telling me?!" He stands from his seat coming closer to me, how can he say these things?! This fucker has the balls to say these things and cower back when faced with the consequences of his actions!

"THEN WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING THIS TO HER?!" I yell at him, his burning eye's I can imagine wanting to punch me.

"You are just an ignorant kid; you have no idea how hard it was for me-"

"How hard it was for you?! You should really talk to your daughter and see who had it worse! Do you even take notice to how she doesn't even call you "Dad"?!" I clench my fists even tighter with the tension arising.

"Yes, thanks for pointing out the obvious but I have realised that my own daughter calls me by my first name and doesn't call me Dad!" He walks past, knocking me out of the way with his shoulder, walking over to a bench top with an assortment of drinks in a cabinet just behind it. He slightly bends, picking up a glass and placing it on top of the counter. He grabs a bottle of scotch pouring a decent amount, bringing the cup up to his mouth taking a swig before placing it back down to the bench.

"It was just as hard for me as it was for her." I scoff at his remark knowing that, that was not at all the case. She told me the stories, the memories that she has; I may not have heard them all but with the amount that I have heard, it's enough for me to loath this man now.

"Yeah it was such a tough life for you wasn't it, being able to come home to a happy family. Leaving behind all of your troubles and trading in your wife for some fucking slut!" A loud smash echo’s throughout the silent house as Dan's glass collides with the wall, a brown patch forming on the wall; streaks of brown liquid trailing down the light grey of the wall. The sound of heals running across the marble floor become more present now, until she is standing in the doorway of the room, looking at the brown patch of the wall next to her.

"What happened here?" Sienna asks, all of her attention being focused on Dan. When she receives no reaction from him, her head turns to me seeking the answers.

"Wh-what hap-happened?" She shakily asks me.

"Nothing, I'm going to get Avery so we can leave." I turn around and walk to the other end of the room and round the corner, smashing straight into the one person I needed.

"We're leaving." I tell her.

"Ok." I expect her to argue with me or something but she doesn't, I take her hand leading us both to the front door when I hear once again heals hitting against the marble flooring of this house.

"Wait! Wait, you don't really have to leave do you?" Sienna questions.

"Umm, yeah we sort of do. I mean, we both have school tomorrow so..."

"We have to go." I say finishing off her sentence in the straight forward way; I know Avery would have said it another way but this is not a place that I would like to stick around, for that much longer.

"Oh, well I hope to see you both very soon." She opens up her arms embracing Avery in a bone crushing hug, when she legs go, she looks up at me and hesitates for a few seconds before awkwardly walking up to me with her arms out. I grab Avery's hand again opening the door and pulling her out before that woman could get her hands on me.

"B-bye, Harry." She yells from the door, I turn around saying goodbye whilst pulling along Avery to the car. I open the door for her and help her get in, closing the door with more force than I usually would. Walking around the front of the car, the thought pops back into my mind. Why would Mary say that Luke was Avery's boyfriend? I open my door slamming it shut, making Avery jump in her seat; I start up the engine. Once we are on the road I see her body slump down into the chair, resting her head against the window.

"So what did you and Dan talk about?" She mumbles from her seat.

"To be honest I thought he was going to give me the whole "Don't you hurt my daughter" talk but; it turns out that he had something else to tell me, something you might've forgotten to tell me. Your Mum told Dan on the phone, that Luke is your boyfriend." I say with hatred laced in my voice. Out of the corner of my eye, I see her head snap up in my direction whilst I keep my eyes on the road.

"So, is there something that you need to tell me or..."

"Harry, I honestly don't even know what she is talking about. You are my boyfriend, not Luke." Her face is scrunched up in confusion, as she tries to figure out why Mary would say something like that. I hear her whisper something under her breath, I turn my head in her direction and see the worried expression come to her face.

"What did you say?" I ask her.

"When I; when I went to the movies. Mum opened the door and she had a chat with Luke; that’s why she said he was my boyfriend because we were going on a-"

"Don't say it, I know what you are going to say. You still haven't told me what happened that night." I tell her in a stern voice, her body crumbles down into the seat hoping to avoid the question.

"He did some things that I didn't like and the first time that I told him to stop, he didn't. So when it happened a second time I left." She left? That's my girl. I take hold of her hand, twining our fingers together giving her hand a soft kiss. I don't let go of her hand the rest of the way back to her house. As I pull up I see another car in the driveway, Avery groans in her seat as she takes notice of the car.

"What's wrong?" I ask, delicately rubbing my thumb over her knuckles.

"John's here."

"John..."

"Mum's boyfriend. Well she hasn't actually told me that they are dating but he is always here; he sleeps here, comes back from work with Mum, it's like he practically lives here now. I mean he's nice but I just don't really like him." She explains, laughing a little at the end. She draws in a deep breath, looking into my eyes. The street light shining down to through the glass and reflecting a shimmer of light tothe side of her face. I lean in to the her, just close enough so when I lick my lips I feel hers. I angel my head up and her lips are on mine, fuck her lips are soft. I feel her fingers making their way up my arm, to my shoulder and the nape of my neck. Then tugging at my curls, she pulls back from me.

"I should probably go inside." She pants, I smile against her lips as they are touching.

"Just one more." I beg, she leans in a gives me a small peck. I catch her lip between my teeth and give her another kiss, last kiss.

"Goodnight." She breaths out. I watch her as she gets out of my car, walking up to the front door of the house; she turns around giving me a wave goodbye. Once she is inside the house I pull off, back onto the road.

Avery's P.O.V

As I enter the house the two people I knew I would see, I see. Mum and John are both in the kitchen, sitting round the island having a glass of wine.

"Avery! How was your Fathers?" John asks, I take a seat opposite of them on the island bench and take off my shoes, stretching my feet out and letting them relax as they dangle down alongside the legs of the tall stool.

"Horrible." I reply, Mum puts down her wine glass and uses the facial expression I have come to know as the "what did he do" look.

"What did he do?" PHYSCIC! I guess all the years of her saying the same phrases to me means that I can now, know what she is going to say before she says it!

"So he told me that it was going to be "just us" but when we get there, there are all of these cars parked in the driveway; so I figured that it would be all of his cars, you know with all of the money he is making now."

"Did he-"

"Yeah, he invited all of the family because they "hadn't seen me in so long" but to top the night off; Sienna's family was there." The anger radiating from her body could be felt a mile away she takes another sip from her glass and I continue talking.

"So after dinner, when everyone had left. Charlie and I were talking and, it turns out that Dan hasn't even told Charlie that we are step sisters! Just, the whole night annoyed me." I exasperated.

"Oh and why did you tell Dan that Luke is my boyfriend?!" She pushes her glass away and looks up at me, giving me her full attention.

"He is your boyfriend isn't he? I mean you two did go to the movies?" She says raising her eyebrows at me, the tone in her voice rising as she tries to make it any more obvious.

"Mum, no. Luke is not my boyfriend, Harry is!" Her mouth forms an "o" shape, now realising the rumours she created.

"Oh I'm so sorry." She shyly smiles to herself. John looks at her, giving an obvious cough, cough signal, once again the glass now only full a quarter of the way is bought back up to her lips taking a small sip.

"Avery...we have something to tell you."

Notes

Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in a while but I just happened to catch a little disease called "feelings". Needless to say that it didn't go well...as always. But onto more good news, hopefully more updates are coming up because my school holidays start very soon!:D I cannot promise that the updates will be regular because I have a photography assignment I have to do, I can't wait for it because it will be super awesome! (at least I'm hoping that it will be awesome)
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