Saving Addison White (A famous Harry Styles fanfiction)

“The trouble really started last year,” I started once Harry and I were sitting on a bed inside his bedroom underneath the covers, the door locked – in a way it was like us locking out the evils of the world – and the both of us drinking tea. Something I’d grown to like since my visit to London.


“Last year I made a deal with the devil, at the time I didn’t know I was. I thought I was saving myself, I thought I was helping the one guy I really liked…” fresh tears started filling my eyes but I blinked them away, I hadn’t been that emotional when I’d told the story to Louis and Demi but then again they didn’t look at me the way Harry did. He didn’t just look into my eyes but my soul. “I don’t have a very good relationship with my parents, it had been strained for a long time,” I told, the Ed Sheeran song playing in the background soothing me.


If I wasn’t mistaken, it was ‘Wake Me Up’. My mind drifted to two years back, it was the end of the year when the attention seeking started. I’d been neglected by my parents for so long that I was willing to do anything and everything to get their attention so I started acting up.


I would call the gossip rags myself every night I went out, wanting the paparazzi to photograph me. I would go out almost every night, drink a little but act so drunk when I left the club. I became good friends with stars like Lindsay Lohan because I knew my mother wanted me nowhere near them. I’d flirt with all the hotties of Hollywood and they’d returned the favour.


I started making rumours about myself, scheming like the time I was photographed leaving a convenience store with a box of cigarettes in my hands, the suspicious bottle wrapped in a brown paper bag not long after when I was out with friends and when I ‘tripped’ and my baggie of coke flew out of my hands. All of it was thought out and planned to get the attention of my mom and dad.


“I wasn’t acting anymore, somehow I got used to the reckless life and my relationship on the side was suffering,” I closed my eyes, overwhelmed with various emotions ranging from hate to sadness. I inhaled deeply before exhaling, I repeated it three times before reopening my eyes. “I was losing myself, I lost my integrity and I discarded everything I believed in all in the name of being noticed by my mom and dad,” I chuckled at how ridiculous that sounded. “And it worked but by then it was too late…”


There was an intervention, I still remembered the day like it had happened a day ago. My parents called me to their office, inside there was our family shrink, Naomi, there were two people from a rehabilitation facility in Arizona and both my mother and father…


“Addison,” my dad spoke, it didn’t sound like he was talking to his daughter but just one of his many clients. “You’ve been uncontrollable over the last few months and we can’t have you running around being reckless…” he looked down at a piece of paper in front of him. “So we have an ultimatum for you,” he gave me a curt and chilled smile. “You can give acting up, you’re young and very bright you can still go back to school to finish you’re A-Levels. You can carry on to university, whichever one you want and study whatever you want as long as it won’t put you under the limelight again…”


I couldn’t believe the words coming out of own dad’s voice. The man who’d been my best friend and hero not so long ago.


“Or, you can carry on doing what you love best and you’re good it – acting – but you give Joe and these crazy shenanigans up. This bad girl thing is getting old. Just know that if you choose the second option you’ll be required to do a three month stint in rehab where we’ll make sure that you’re stable and ready to face the world…”


“You chose the second option?” Harry asked. “You chose the fame and fortune?” he almost sounded appalled. He thought I was selfish.


“No, of course not!” I defended. “I only chose that when I found out that Joe never did love me.” I felt sick in my stomach and a lump formed in my throat. “It was all a set-up. We were just another one of those IT couples. My parents had hired Joe and had promised him the world, he was young… Of course he took the offer. I fell in love with someone who didn’t love me…” a tear rolled down my cheek. “When the news came out he was painted as the victim and I was the bad person. My parents destroyed all because I wouldn’t do as they told and I’d embarrassed them…”


Harry’s grip tightened around me and he pulled me closer to him but I didn’t wince, he was only tense.


“My mom isn’t a good person Harry which is why you shouldn’t let her into your life. I don’t know what she said about me but it isn’t true. I was her puppet for so long that when I didn’t want to do it anymore she got upset, it wasn’t me anymore. I know what I want in life and I’m going to do it my way,” I ran my fingers through my hair.


“She’s been threatening to expose me for months now. She’s sent emails, texts, she’d tried to come over to my house… She doesn’t want me to be happy and that what you’re doing, you make me happy,” I smiled at the memories I’d made with Harry in the short time I’d known him. “Harry, I can’t be with you but it’s not because I don’t want to but because I’m scared for you…”


She had obviously orchestrated the whole Joe coming out with details about our relationship thing, it had her written all over it. It was like a warning from her, she was going to do something worse if I didn’t leave Harry soon. She never had any interest in One Direction in the past so why the interest in Harry all of a sudden? I had to removed myself from him before it wasn’t too late not for me but for him.


“I’ve got to leave England, me staying will only cause issues in the band and in everything else,” I spoke softly. “I’ll only stay another four days. We can stage a fake fight or go out looking very miserable so people can start suspecting trouble in paradise, I’ll go back home and you’ll go on tour. We’ll release a statement saying we’re over for whatever reason. I’m more than willing to be the one accountable for the split. We’ll part and act like we never did get together…” it pained me to speak those words. “It’ll be a big thing at first but it’ll son blow over and we can carry on with our lives.”


I didn’t give Harry the chance to speak or to give his thoughts on the whole thing not because I was like my mother but because I knew he would find a way to talk me out of saying what I was saying. I rested my head on his chest and forced my eyes shut as I let Ed’s calm voice crooned ‘This’ softly.


Soon I was drifting off to sleep, Harry said something. I just didn’t know what it was because I was in that in between state. Maybe I was imagining things but I swear I heard Harry tell me that he loved me before placing a kiss on my forehead. He was stubborn, messing Molly and Seth White was only going to get you burnt. I’d learnt that the hard way…

Notes

Tear, tear. The last two chapters were so sad. But good news they’re going to go back to London, even though Addie isn’t going to stay long. Or maybe she will, we don’t know…


What about her shocking revelation about her wicked mother and father? I don’t know about you guys but to me this chapter made me understand Addie more. I know what I’m saying probably makes no sense but to me it does. She’s not a bad person, she’s done bad things and he parents have made her want to isolate herself from the rest of the world.


Why was Mrs White calling Harry anyway? And did they kinda, indirectly admit that they dig each other or am I reading into things too much?


Anyway, thanks to everyone for reading. I love you guys so much! What to expect in the next few chapters? More betrayals, a fight again, more secrets are revealed and some laughter… I hope.


Sorry for the long end note, I just felt that there’s a lot to talk about when it comes to this chapter. One of my favourites. What’s been yours so far? Please share


Any fanfictions for me to ready? (: