Collision

“How was it?” Anna asks me as I sit down next to her in Biology.

“How was what?” I play dumb.

“Your date. With Harry.” She explains, raising her eyebrows. I am about to ask her how she knows that I went on a date with Harry but I forgot I confided in her about it Sunday morning.

“Oh,” I bite my lip. “It was fine.” I open my notebook and begin copying down the assignment from the board, hoping that Anna will drop it.

“Fine? Just fine?” She scoffs, pushing my shoulder. “That’s all you have to say about your date?”

I roll my eyes. “Okay, it was great.” I begin telling her about the wildlife preserve and the picnic. Her face brightens throughout the explanation and by the time I’m finished, she’s beaming.

“I knew Harry was a softie!” She laughs.

“Please don’t tell him,” I say suddenly. I’m not sure if I want to tell everyone about our date yesterday just yet.

“I won’t.” She promises and I relax.


I’m almost giddy to see Harry when I sit down beside him in French. He looks the same as he did yesterday, just wearing a black shirt instead of a white one.

“Good morning,” he smiles at me and my insides flutter.

“I had a great time last night,” I smile. He opens his mouth to respond but we’re shushed by the teacher.

Lunch rolls around and Harry and I walk hand in hand to the cafeteria. Despite the looks by various people, it feels great to finally show everyone that we’re together.

Harry’s hand falls out of mine as we enter the cafeteria and make our way to the lunch line. I’m a little hurt but what should I expect from Harry?

I get a slice of pizza with a bottle of water and follow him back to his seat. Louis, Niall, Zayn, and Eleanor all greet me as I sit down beside Harry.

“Are you guys going to the Halloween party this weekend?” Niall asks the two of us.

Harry answers no the same time I say yes. He glances at me out of the corner of his eye but I ignore his look and focus back on Niall.

“What time does it start?” I ask him. As he tells me the details, I feel Harry’s wrist wrap around my forearm and begin pulling me out of my seat. He takes me all the way to the room with the vending machines before finally letting go.

“What?” I snap, annoyed at him for pulling me away from the conversation.

“I didn’t know you wanted to go to that party,” Harry answers, confused.

“I thought that you wanted to go?” I raise my brow.

“I did, but we could just stay home. Those parties are lame, anyway.” He shrugs.

“Please,” I pout, crossing my arms.

“Fine, but we’re not staying long,” he decides and walks out of the room with me on his heels.

“I thought you liked going to parties,” I say.

“I do, but everyone is going to be there.” The way he implies everyone I know he’s talking about Cameron.

“Nothing’s going to happen,” I stop, causing him to turn around.

“I know he’ll be there.”

“It doesn’t matter if he’s there or not. We can’t stop him from going,”

“I’ll just beat his ass if he does anything,” he jokes. The image of Harry and Cameron fighting brings a frown to my face.

“Fine, I’ll behave myself.” He rolls his eyes.

I look over his shoulder at the table behind him and see Anna waving me over.

“I’m going to go sit with Anna,” I lean upwards and leave a simple kiss on his lips. He smiles but doesn’t saying anything else, instead turning to go back to his friends.

“You two are so cute,” Anna pokes my side with her finger. I hope no one heard her but by the looks on everyone else's faces, I know they did.

“What? You and Harry are dating?” Cameron is the first one to ask.

“No, we aren’t dating.” I tell all of them quickly. Harry would kill me if I said anything.

“Oh, good.” Cameron says.

I scowl. “What’s wrong with Harry?”

“He’s just rude and a complete asshole. You’re too good for him,” Cameron says.

There must be steam coming out of my ears because Anna quickly works to explain.

“Stop talking about him,” she snaps at him and Cameron and Luke exchange looks.

“Thank you,” I mouth to Anna when they aren’t looking. It doesn’t seem like Cameron to say anything but I’ve been wrong about most of the guys at this school.

Notes

I may be doing a double update tonight so stay tuned for the second chapter! I just want to say thank you guys for being so supportive on this story! This story would not be the way it is if it weren't for you guys!!