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Beth's POV:

We pull up to a little house at about 5:30. The trees in the front yard are beginning to change colours with the weather. Harry is already ahead of me going to the door. He called Liam's family on the way to let them know we were coming. I am pretty nervous to meet all these people, especially Tess, and I don't even know why. I consider Harry my friend and I guess I want to make a good impression on the people he loves.

Harry rings the doorbell and looks at me. "Are you ready?" He asks.

"Hopefully." I say as the door opens and a middle aged woman appears.

"Harry!" She says excitedly.

"Hi Karen, how are you?" He says and hugs her.

"I'm well. Oh! And you must be Beth!" She says and hugs me too.

"Yes, hi!" I say and hug her back.

"Beth, this is Liam's mum, Karen. She is practically the second mother to Tess, and to us." Harry says.

"Please come in, I will go get her." Karen smiles and leaves the room.

"She is so nice," I tell Harry as we move into what looks like the living room. "why do they live here and not Holmes Chapel?"

"It was too dangerous there." Harry replies.

"Oh." Is all I say before I see a little girl run into the room.

"Haweeee!" The little girls screams and runs to Harry. I see Harry's face light up as he picks her up in his arms.

"Hi little girl, my goodness you're getting big!" Harry says and spins her around.

I see Tess whisper into Harry's ear and I smile, I didn't know that this boy had such a close relationship with this little girl.

Harry looks at me, Tess still whispering in his ear. "Tess that's only Beth, she's my friend." Tess turns away from Harry and towards me. "Hello my name is Tess. I am this many." She says and holds up three fingers.

"No Tess, you're this many," Harry says and changes her fingers to four.

"Well Tess, it is very nice to meet you, I'm Beth." I say.

"Tessa! It is time for dinner!" I hear Karen say from the other room.

"No! I'm not hungwy!" She says and runs behind the couch to hide.

"Hmm where did Tess go?" Harry says and Tess giggles from behind the couch.

"I'm not here, Hawee!" She says and giggles some more.

Harry sneaks up behind her and she screams. "How did you find me!"

I laugh and Harry carries her to the kitchen and puts her into her highchair. Tess glares at him. "Don't glare at me little girl or I'll have to tickle you." Harry says and she immediately stops.

"Where is everyone else?" I ask Harry.

"Some are out of town, some at work, but right now it's just us." Harry says. I feel a bit relieved. I wasn't really ready to meet all these people yet. With everything going on I knew it would be hard to make a good impression on all of them so I'm glad it's just Karen.

We all sit down at the square table, all four of us on a different side. Karen serves the food which is pasta with bread and salad, but Tess had only plain pasta.

We have a nice conversation at dinner pretty much consisting of how Harry and I know each other and if I'm friends with the rest of them. Tess liked to add in her own opinion to almost everything someone said. I was really liking her and Karen. It breaks my heart to know that she will never really know her parents but at the same time I can see she has an amazing family here.

After dinner Harry and Tess chase each other around the living room while Karen and I watch and chat. We laugh at the things they say to each other.

"I'm going to catch you!" Harry says to Tess almost catching her. Harry can easily catch her if he wanted to, but he of course wants her to feel like she can outrun him.

Harry finally gets her and picks her up. "Got you!" He says and she throws up all over his shirt. And we gasp.

"Hmm, I think that's enough playing for tonight," Karen says taking the now crying Tess from his arms. "I'm going to clean her up and put her to bed.

I can't help but laugh as I look at Harry. The front of the upper part of his body is covered with puke.

"Yeah, yeah laugh all you want I can easily get you puked on, too." He says coming closer to me.

"Oh no Harry, please stop." I say laughing and backing away from him.

He stops. "Only because you said please," He laughs. "I better go get cleaned up. Will you help, this is kinda my favorite shirt."

I laugh again and follow him to the bathroom. We enter the bathroom and it is bigger than I thought it would be. Actually, the whole house is bigger than I thought it would be. It has one of those appeals where it looks small from the outside but is big on the inside.

I look at Harry and he is trying to get the vomit off with a wet tissue.

"Harry give me your shirt." He looks at me.

"What?" He says confused.

"Give me your shirt. If you do it that way you'll ruin it, and if we just put it in the wash it will ruin her machine, so we have to do it this way, now give me your shirt." I say and he takes off his shirt. I stare. His arms were nothing compared to his chest. I could see where he got shot and all his others wounds and scars, some looked more recent than others.

I snap myself out of it and begin scrubbing his shirt under the water while he watches. "How do you know all this stuff?" He asked me.

"I taught myself. My mum was always away so I had to learn to do things on my own. This though, isn't that big of a deal." I say.

"I know how that feels. So how did you like Tess?" Harry asks.

"She's so sweet Harry, and the way y-- OW shit!" I scream and I realized I cut myself at the end of the faucet. Blood comes rushing out of my hand.

"Here," Harry says and gestures for me to sit on the counter while he grabs the first aid kit from the cabinet.

Harry, still shirtless, begins to clean my cut. "I've had to clean a lot of wounds before Bethy, but I think this is the worst one I have ever seen." He jokes, cleaning my small cut.

"Ha, funny." I say as he puts the band aid on.

"There all better." He says and pats his hands on my thighs.

"Harry?" He looks at me. "Why did you bring me here?"

He looks away for a moment before answering. "I wanted you to meet Tess." He says.

"But why? We have only been friends for like a week." I say.

"You know, I would never bring Sky here. She's a bitch and I don't want her anywhere near my Tess. But I feel different with you. I wanted you to meet Tess, I have never wanted someone to meet Tess before. Like, at the party the other night, when you walked in and all those guys were staring at you, I wanted to punch each of them in the mouth. Something about you Beth, even the way you ignored me most of the week because you didn't want to get your mum fired, I respected that. Don't think I haven't noticed you before this year Beth because I have. I admired how you didn't take anyone's shit and how all you wanted was to leave. Beth, when I told you my story you didn't judge me, I have only told a few people that story before and you were the only one who I felt understood it. I brought you here Beth, because I feel different with you, like all my problems go away. I feel like I know you, and I feel like you know me." He says. What am I supposed to say to that?

Before I can say anything my heart says something else. I grab his face and kiss him. I think it takes him by surprise because he takes a while to kiss me back, but when he does, oh my gosh.

I pull away from his face breathless. "We should leave now if we want to make it to school tomorrow." I say and get down from the counter.

"Yeah, yeah okay." He says putting his shirt on and following me out of the bathroom. "I'm going to say goodnight to Tess and Karen, I'll be right back."

I sit on the couch and wait for his return. What the hell just happened.

"Ready?" He asks.

"Yeah." I get up and follow him to the car.

Harry's POV:

I can't believe I said all that stuff to Beth, good thing we have a long ride home because I need to think about what just happened.

She kissed me. Beth, kissed me. Out of all people I can't believe. I meant what I said when I said it. I'm glad she kissed me. I really like Beth, but I'm not really sure if I want to date her. I'm not saying that I don't want to be with her I do, but I don't really want to be in a relationship right now. When I look over at Beth she's asleep. It's almost midnight, we will probably be home by one.

She is really beautiful when she sleeps. I don't know what to do. Tess really seemed to like her so that's good.

I finally pull up to her house and I think it's her mum's car in the driveway. I pick her up, careful not to wake her, and take her inside. I used the key that I found in the outside pocket of her purse and took her upstairs. I am very good at being quiet. It was part of our training. I put her on her bed and put her things on the floor. What am I going to do with this beautiful girl laying in front of me. I shut the door behind me and go home.

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