The Misfits

Harry and I were lying in my bed, his arms wrapped around me while my chin rested on his chest. After dropping us off last night he had decided to just stay the night. Maeve had slept downstairs on the couch so Harry and I could finish what we started in the hallway. Bless that girl, I would have to remember to thank her.

"I missed you." Harry said, his voice pulling me from my thoughts.

"I missed you." I began lightly tracing my fingers around the tattoos on his chest.

"Too bad you can't come on tour with us."

"Hmm, I don't think my dad would approve."

"Pauley? Nah he'd be fine." Harry said, the corner of his mouth tugging into a half smile. "Although, he was a little suspicious as to my texting you all the time."

"Fudge nuggets," I whispered under my breath. Harry let out a laugh. "Do all the boys know as well? Ni was not so subtle about it last night."

"You think I can keep secrets from them?"

I laughed and pinched his cheeks. "No. I swear you lot have some sort of telepathic communication going on. Ha! Five guys, one mind. Thinking in...one direction."

Harry let out a groan as I broke into a fit of giggles laughing at my own joke. He pulled me tighter and nuzzled his face into mine. "You are horrible."

"It was kind of funny."

"Nope."

"Then why are you smiling?" I challenged.

He stared at me for a moment before asking, “What time do you have work again?”

“Five.”

He made a face causing me to giggle.

“Don’t worry, I only work until eleven,” I smiled. He let out a groan and hugged me tighter before pulling me into a kiss.

“I’ll pick you up when you get off.”

“Think you can stay awake that long?” I smirked, knowing he was still fighting jet-leg.

“I’m sure I’ll manage.”

“Good. Now, what shall we do in the meantime?”

“I happen to have an idea,” he whispered, pulling me closer and pinching my ass. I let out a gasp at his actions and he took the opportunity to kiss me, his tongue finding it’s way into my mouth. After a minute I broke the kiss and decided to make things a little more interesting.

“I like the way you think,” I said, rolling my hips against his. He let out a moan, which I silenced with a kiss. I could feel him hardening beneath me and I moved so I was straddling him.

Thankfully all of our clothes had disappeared the night before, giving me easy access to his gorgeous body.

“Jesus Thalia,” he groaned as I lowered myself onto him.

“We have to stay quiet.” I leaned down and kissed him once more before moving my hips. His hands began caressing my body, feeling like electricity on my skin. His hands gripped my hips tightly, I could tell he wasn’t used to a girl being on top. Seeing him unraveling underneath me was beautiful. I felt the familiar build up in my core and quickened my pace. He let out another moan and I knew that he was close as well.

His hand moved down to my clit, rubbing it mercilessly. I let out a moan as I was sent over the edge. He came shortly after and together we rode our high before I collapsed on top of him, both of us panting.

“You are a fucking angel,” he breathed. I let out a laugh and gave him a kiss.

“An angel?” I smirked. “I could get used to that title.”

He kissed me again before saying, “Did I mention how much I missed you?”

“Only a few thousand times.”

“I missed you so much.”

I let out a giggle and nuzzled down into the crook of his neck, letting out a muffled, “I missed you too Harry.”

We lay there for a while, Harry lightly running his hand across my skin. It was so soothing I felt myself begin to drift off to sleep again.

“Tootles. Wake up.”

“Sorry.” I rested my head on his chest, staring into those beautiful green eyes. “Are you hungry?”

“Yes.”

“What would you like to eat?”

“You.”

“Muffins? Great choice.”

“Cheeky little devil,” he growled. I gave him a quick kiss before jumping up and throwing on clothes before climbing down the latter. Elaine was sitting on the floor, her laptop on the coffee table along with a large cup of tea. I prayed she hadn’t heard us.

“Morning,” She whispered. Maeve was passed out on the couch next to her. “How did you sleep?”

“Good,” I replied. Elaine had no idea that Harry was upstairs in my bedroom, her and Mackenzie had gone to bed when he decided to stay the night. Now I just had to get them out of the house before he was trapped here. “Where’s Kenz?”

“Dance.”

“It’s noon already?” I gaped. Elaine nodded and came to join me in the kitchen so we could talk normally without disturbing Maeve.

“Did she not make it upstairs last night?”

“Nope.”

“Hmm. I didn’t think she was that drunk,” Elaine said, more to herself. I grabbed a miffun and banana as she added, “I think I’m going to head to the library, I can’t get the Internet to connect here.”

“Okay. I have work at five tonight so I probably won’t see you.”

“Probably not,” she agreed. “Oh! I was supposed to tell you, Perrie and Eleanor want to have a girl’s night sometime this week. I don’t know what your schedule is like but I promised them we would.”

“Oh yeah I remember them mentioning it!” I said. “I should be fine any night after Sunday.”

“Sweet! Okay…well I’m gonna go before Maeve wakes up and makes me cook food for her.”
I let out a laugh as she left the kitchen then, grabbing another banana and muffin, clambered back up the stairs. Harry was sitting on my bed scrolling through his phone. I dropped down next to him and handed him the food.

“Planning on sneaking me out?” He asked, a smirk on his lips. Crap. He had heard us talking.

“Yep. Although we really don’t have to do much sneaking seeing as Kenzie and El aren’t home.”

Harry frowned. “Where are they?”

“Kenz has dance, El wants to study.”

“Oh,” he nodded. He was looking down at his food, playing with it in his hands.

“What is it?”

“Why do we have to sneak?” He asked after a moment.

I considered my next words carefully, “Because telling them means it’s real.”

“And that’s a bad thing?”

“No, that’s a dangerous thing.”

“Why?”

“Because what if it doesn’t work out?”

“Then it doesn’t work out,” he shrugged. “Them knowing wouldn’t make a difference Thalia. You didn’t want the lads to know because they could accentually let it slip to your dad…but Mack and El have met your dad, what? Once? They’re not going to say anything. So what’s the real reason?”

“I’m not sure I won’t get hurt.”

“And not committing will protect you?”

“Yes.”

He frowned, trying to understand. I knew what I was asking wasn’t fair, or what he wanted. But the truth was I was scared, and I didn’t know if I could take that leap of faith…even with him.

“Come on,” I said, standing up. “I want to show you a secret.”

His eyebrows shot up as she watched me walk over to the window and pull it open. I grabbed his hand and pulled him up.

“Come on,” I giggled. “Grab your food.”

He did as he was told before following me to the window. I stepped out onto the small landing before crossing over onto the roof and sitting down on the singles. I then waited patiently for Harry to follow. He looked very uncertain and it was pretty amusing to watch. Once he sat down next to me I pointed to the view in front of us.

The city of London was laid out at our feet. From up here you could see The London Eye, St. Paul’s, and even Big Ben. It was my favorite view in the city and it was all mine.

“I like to come out here and look out at all the buildings. Buildings…flats… homes…full of people all living their own lives. It reminds me how small I really am, and how small and insignificant my all my problems are in the scheme of things,” I said, looking out on to the city. “It also makes me feel like Mary Poppins.”

“Marry Poppins?” He laughed, turning to me with a spot on impression of Dick Van Dyke.

“Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-ee!” I sang.

“A sweep is as lucky as lucky can be!”

“Chim chiminey, chim chiminey, chim chim cher-oo! Good luck will rub off when I shake hands with you…”

“Or blow me a kiss! And that’s lucky too!”

We collapsed into a fit of giggles. He then wrapped his arm round my shoulders, pulling me close and giving me a kiss on the temple. We stayed up there for what seemed like forever just talking, laughing, and sharing secrets. He was so quirky and I loved the way his mind worked, always keeping me on my toes.

“You work at five?” Harry asked after a while.

“Yeah.”

“We should probably head inside then. It’s four o’clock now.”

“What!” I cried.

He let out a laugh and followed me as I slid down the roof and back through the window. I ran over to my closet, which was really just a pipe in the ceiling I had hung my clothes on, and started pulling out my work clothes.

But within seconds my phone buzzing distracted me. I picked it up and answered without looking at the ID. “Hello?”

“Lia! Where the hell have ya been?” My dad’s voice rang through the speaker. I turned to Harry with wide eyes as he continued, “I’ve been trying te reach ya all mornin’!”

“I’m sorry. Is everything alright?”

“No. It’s not.”

“Why what happened?”

“Did ya go the boys last night Lia?”

“…yes?” I shot Harry a frown, which he mimicked. “How did you—”

“There’s photos online.”

I froze. Fuck.

“They know yer name. They know where yer from. They know where ya go te school—”

I began to grow dizzy and felt Harry quickly grab me and pull me down onto the bed. He was on his phone and texting furiously within a minute, one hand rubbing my back soothingly

“Do they know that I’m your daughter?”

“No.”

I breathed a sigh of relief, knowing it would have put my father in an awkward position.

“But they’re pretty curious as te why you an’ Harry “stood arm in arm all night” and he “couldn’t take his eyes off of ya” even “though his little bird was flittering around with other men the entire night.”

“Dad—”

“I thought ya were raised better than this Thalia.”

My blood boiled.

“Excuse me? You weren’t even around to raise me. Maybe if you had been I wouldn’t have turned out to be such a disappointment.”

I hung up the phone and felt the angry sting of tears behind my eyes. I felt Harry’s hand on my back and I took a deep to calm myself before turning to him. He handed me his phone and as I mentally tried to prepare myself.

The first thing I saw were large pictures from the party followed by text:


Harry Styles and Niall Horan are Smitten Kittens! 1D’s Mystery Girl Unmasked!

Last night our five hotties attended a homecoming surprise at drummer Josh Devine’s pad. They spent the night mingling with old pals, famous friends, and even a few new faces. And get this ladies…Harry Styles was seen arm in arm all night with the infamous ‘1D Mystery girl’.

That’s right - after a month of secrecy, Thalia Kalfis has finally been unmasked! Last month the twenty-one year old Brimmer had been spotted clubbing with the boys and even attending Niall’s football Charity Match with 1D girlfriends Eleanor Calder and Sophia Smith!

At the party a source close to the boys revealed – “[Harry] couldn’t take his eyes off of her the entire night.”

And we agree, she certainly looked stunning! Though Harry’s little bird might be hard to catch. Thalia was seen flittering around with other men the entire night, chatting it up with Nick Grimshaw, Josh Devine, and even the lads of 5SOS! Looks like Harry likes a chase!

Although we haven’t heard anything official from the heartthrob himself, the pair seemed to have grown pretty close.

And now Thalia seems to have set our favorite Irishman up with her friend as well! Thalia and BFF Mackenzie Smith had both received a personal tour of London from the boys last month, but looks like things are heating up as well between the blonde duo.

“They’re just friends,” reassured another source. “They’re really sweet girls and hilariously funny - but they’re all just good friends.”

Check out “1Ds Mystery Girls Unmasked” for more on Thalia and Mackenzie.

I immediately clicked on the link at the bottom of the page to find pictures of Mackenzie and I. It made my stomach churn. The largest were two portraits Maeve had taken last year for a class, followed by photos off of Mackenzie’s Instagram and mine. I only had pictures of my artwork, which was now being critiqued on a global scale. But Kenzie had posted pictures of the two of us goofing off back home, making funny faces with our siblings, and even Mack’s old boyfriend was shown. The article also included the photos of Eleanor and Sophia, as well as the video with my father.

“How the hell did they find all of this?” I asked. Harry took the phone from my hands and pulled me close to him. “Our accounts are all private and—”

“It could have been someone you knew back home who gave them to the media, that would explain how they knew you were from Birmingham too.”

“That makes me sick.”

“I know,” he replied, rubbing my back gently. “The lads are trying to figure out who at the party could have talked. Josh is livid…are you going to be okay?”

“Me? I’ll be fine. I’m just pissed that my dad actually believed the paparazzi over me. It’s ridiculous. Does he actually think I’m a slut?”

“Of course not! He’ll come around Thalia, just let him cool off a bit.” We sat in silence for a moment before Harry held up his phone. “I think this one’s my favorite though.”

“Fuck you!” I laughed. He had pulled up one of the pictures from the article. It was from two years ago; Mackenzie had taken a picture of me two minutes after I had rolled out of bed. Disheveled hair…mouth hanging open…hot stuff.

He burst into a fit of laughter before falling quiet once more. "Are you sure you're alright Thalia?"

"Yes Harry, I'm fine." When he didn't looked convinced I leaned over and gave him a kiss for reassurance.

"Promise you'll tell me if it gets too much." His brow was knit in a frown and he looked genuinely concerned. I'm sure he had dealt with this before, and had no doubt this has ruined relationships in the past.

"I promise." I held out my pinkie to him, effectively earning a smile. “Oh shit! Harry! I have work!”

Notes

Ha look at this!
I figured out how to add pictures!
So exciting.
I hope you're as pumped about this as I am.
whoop whoop!
k bye.