Saving Addison White (A famous Harry Styles fanfiction)

Addison's POV


The boys were on break, a much deserved break after touring the UK and Europe over the past few months. I couldn’t fly to London -- I was planning on doing so -- because my schedule was just so packed. After the break-up, I'd accepted a role in a little romantic comedy which was going to be shot in Georgia (well half the movie was) and I needed to fly over to that side. I wanted to back out of the film but according to Naomi, I didn’t have a valid reason to so I was forced to do so.


Dating Harry secretly was proving to be a real challenge, for starters I had to act like I didn’t care every time there was a stupid online article about him seeing models and other actresses. We always had to be careful when talking so we called each other at awkward times. I also had to act not bothered in interviews when his name was brought up and don’t get me started on the fans who were still going on and on about it on twitter.


I was sitting in the backseat of an SUV, making my way to LAX for my late night flight to Georgia. I usually flew late at night to avoid fans, I didn’t find any pleasure in being mobbed by screaming teenage girls. Since I was bored out of my mind -- Demi was on the phone with her boyfriend -- I decided to call someone... Louis. I didn’t feel like being on twitter, I couldn’t call Harry because Demi was in the car and Louis was the next person I was missing a lot.


The phone rang a few times before he picked up: "Hello," he greeted, his tone a mixture of tiredness and annoyance and his voice was all groggy from sleep. "This better be good..."


"You sleeping?" I asked, feigning shock. "I didn’t know you were," I tried to not laugh. "I'm so sorry Lou, I don’t know what..."


"Addison?" he questioned, yawned and that was followed by the shuffling of bed sheets. "Is everything okay?"


"I guess they are," I sighed. "I'm not dying, I’m currently on my way to the airport to catch my flight." I'd told Louis about the movie and he'd been very helpful with practicing my lines. I'd sent him the script via email on the condition he didn’t tell a soul about it.


"Addison, love," he groaned. "You're not dying? Then why on earth have you called me?" even though he wasn’t going to admit it, he was a little annoyed. "At six in the morning?"


I covered my eyes, of course the time difference thing was a bitch. I'd forgotten all about that. "I'm really sorry Lou but... I thought you were an early riser."


"Well if you must know, Harry spoke me into going with him last night. We partied pretty hard and we got to back about two hours ago..." he yawned, really loudly into my ear causing me to laugh. "When was the last time you two spoke anyway?"


I stayed silent not knowing what to tell Louis. He and the boys didn’t know that Harry and I were trying to fix things, it was better that way because there was less chance of it coming out to the public. Not only was it going to get my mom upset (and she was on my case a lot) but I wasn’t in the mood for the scrutiny I was going to receive from the public. It just wasn’t good for my esteem.


"My mistake, shouldn’t have asked," he chuckled softly. "Have you been doing okay love?" he changed the subject.


"Yeah, been really busy with work but it's not nearly as hectic as you guys of course. How does it feel being on break?"


"I don’t know movie star," he teased, he was so tired. It was honestly a sin making him continue with the conversation but I was so bored. "But yeah, it's been okay... It's only been a couple of days..." he was interrupted by something or someone. "Harry, what uh..." he said nervously. "What are you doing up so late mate?"


I froze and my breath hitched, what was Harry doing in Louis' room? He was always a heavy sleeper and Louis wasn’t being too loud... I was certain of that.


"I can't sleep," I heard him speak. "Who are you on the phone with anyway? You're being awfully loud... No offence."


"Speaking to Liam," Louis spoke quickly and I scowled, of all people he had to pick Liam. "Needed to tell me something, now leave Harry..." There was a long silence, I really should've just hung up but I was a nosey bitch and I wanted to know why Harry wasn’t sleeping. "Mate, no offence to you but you look like crap. Maybe you should rest..."


"I can't," he answered simply. "I miss her too much." His speech was a little drawled and he sounded exhausted. "I tried calling a few minutes ago but she didn’t pick up. I can't sleep Lou, I keep thinking about her and how she's pissed off at me..." he trailed off as if realising who he was speaking to. "I don’t know what to do."


"Why would Addie be mad at you mate?" Louis sounded confused. "Look, maybe she's sleeping..." Louis was a bad liar.


"No, she's pissed off at me. She doesn’t sleep early," he spoke softly, I was surprised I could hear a single thing he said. "She must’ve read the article about me and Taylor. Everything was going perfectly and the media has somehow managed to fuck it all up."


"What was going perfectly?" Lou only sounded more confused. "Mate, what are you going on about? Addie doesn’t care about the rumours. You two are ancient history..."


I rolled my eyes at Louis' answer and Harry didn’t say anything.


"Haz, is there something you're not telling me? Tonight at the club I thought you said that..." he sighed.


What had Harry said at the club? And why hadn’t Louis mentioned it earlier? There were hundreds more questions going through my head but they were stopped by Harry speaking:


"I didn’t mean anything I said tonight!" he snapped. "Don’t you see that? I don’t know what to do Louis and then I fucked everything up when..." I heard a banging sound on the other end of the line.


"Louis," I spoke softly, hoping the phone was in his ear. "Lou, what's going on there? Is he okay?" I didn’t dare mention the 'H' name because it was going to earn me strange looks from Demi. "Lou..."


It was pointless because again there wasn’t an answer, I turned to look out the window, and we were fast approaching the airport. I tear tumbled my cheek and quickly I wiped it away but it wasn’t quick enough, Demi had seen me and was looking at me with concern. I tried to smile but even I wasn’t buying it.


"Addison," I turned to Demi. "We're here..." I looked out the window, there was paparazzi waiting outside. "I'll go get your stuff," she spoke and got out of the car.


"Louis, I’ve got to go," I spoke, not bothering to wait for a response. "I'll uhm i'll call you when I get there. I hope everything's alright," I hung up and put my phone in my bag then went out of the car into the sea of paparazzi.


I tried to smile but I couldn’t, Harry was the only thing on my mind and I was so frustrated.


"Is everything okay?" Ryan, my co-star (yes, as in Ryan Gosling) asked when he saw me approaching him.


"Paparazzi," I forced a smile and rolled my eyes. "So are you ready?”

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