Summer Love
Once in a lifetime
Aubrey’s point of view
We had already been in Malibu for a week. Time went by way too fast. I had been hanging out with Harry quite a lot, actually. We were mostly in the rented house since nobody knew about it. The paparazzi’s would go crazy if a girl ever went into Harry’s hotel with him so we stayed far away from his hotel. He was still a very down to earth guy and he continued to amaze me with his kindness. I was laying in bed all alone an evening. I was thinking about Harry and how I was starting to feel something for him. I had always been a person who falls in love very quickly and I ended up being hurt in the end. I really tried to fight these feelings because I knew where I was headed. I was completely unable to sleep and it was 2 am. I went down in the kitchen to grab a glass of milk and Sarah was already there to my big surprise.
“I thought you were asleep,” I said to her as I opened the fridge. She looked rather tired but I guess that’s normal when it’s 2 am in the morning.
“I couldn’t sleep so I went down here to drink a glass of milk. Like mum always advise us to when we can’t sleep.” Our mum had always told us that if you are unable to sleep you should drink a glass of milk. I had done that countless times and it always worked. I smiled at the thought of my mum. I felt the nee to call her and talk to her, but I knew that I couldn’t.
“I think your phone buzzed” Sarah said to me. I looked at my phone and it was buzzing.
“What an odd time of the day to text someone” Sarah said and looked suspicious. I guess it was a weird time of the day to text someone. It was Harry who had texted me.
Harry: “Are you awake? xx” How could he know that I was awake at that time?
Me: “Yeah, can’t sleep.” I guessed that he had a point with his question so I didn’t change the subject on purpose.
Harry: “Go to your balcony that’s facing the beach.”
Me: “Why?” I was rather confused.
Harry: “Just do it.” I did, as he wanted me to. It was completely dark outside so it was hard to see anything. I tried my best to spot something unusual. It took me a while, but I finally spotted what he wanted me to spot. It was him. He was standing on the beach completely alone. His arms were open and he looked at me. I could sense the smirk on his face. He started to dance and he looked very silly and it made me laugh.
Harry: “Come down to me” he sent me another text. I was in my sleeping shorts and top but I didn’t care. I really just wanted to spend time with him so I practically ran downstairs right past Sarah and then out to the pool area. I didn’t get further before Sarah ran after me.
“Stop, what are you doing?” she sounded very concerned. She and Louise had both met Harry very briefly when he was at the house one day. They understood that we kind of wanted to be alone. Not because we were like romantically involved because we were not, but we were just at the stage where we were getting to know each other.
“I’m just going to the beach. Harry is there. I’m sorry I just ran past you, I’m just eager to see him.” Sarah just laughed and looked at me.
“What are you waiting for? Go go go!” She said as she still laughed. I smiled at her and I continued to run towards the beach.
“Finally” he said and laughed as I appeared in front of him. It was really chilly and I could actually have used a blanket. I underestimated the weather.
“Don’t be cheeky. Karma is a bitch,” I said and it caused him to laugh. He hugged me as he was still smiling. I liked being held by him and I felt very warm. I started to get chilly again the second he let go of me.
“What are you doing here?” I asked him.
“I had to see you. I couldn’t stop thinking about you.” I didn’t know exactly what to respond to him. He was hard to read. In which way was he thinking about me? I decided to be straightforward with him.
“In which way were you thinking about me?” I looked him in the eyes but I got shy and my eyes quickly moved to look at the ground. I regretted what I said the second the words left my lips. What was I doing? He obviously wasn’t interested in being more than my friend. We had just met each other. There was no way that he thought of me than anything else but a friend of his. I could see that he was thinking. All I wanted to do was to yell that he should think out loud.
“I was just thinking about you. And how beautiful you are inside and out.” He confused me even more. It was only when the smirk appeared on his face that I understood in which way he meant it. Our eyes met each other and I couldn’t help but smile.
“That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.” I was blushing so I was grateful that it was dark so Harry couldn’t see the color of my cheeks.
“Just speaking the truth.” Our eyes still hadn’t moved. I didn’t answer him due to the fact that he had let me speechless. It was completely quiet besides the soothing sound of the waves crashing onto the shore.
“Aren’t you freezing?” He asked me all of a sudden. I had become so tired that I didn’t pay attention to the fact that I was actually freezing my ass off.
“I actually am. I thought it was warmer.”
“Come, let me warm you.” He opened his arms and I feared that it would be awkward. I moved very close to him and rested my face on his chest as he closed his arms around me. I think I stayed there for a solid five minutes and it felt so right. It wasn’t even weird. I tried to pull away from him because I felt so tired that I had to go back to the house and sleep but he didn’t let me go completely. He held his hands on my waist and looked me in the eyes.
“Tell me if I’m wrong, but I feel something here. Something I haven’t felt for at long time. Hell something I have never felt before.” I didn’t say anything or stop him because I had the same thoughts and I knew that he could tell.
“I really want to kiss you right now. Is that stupid?” He looked very serious and it almost looked like he was nervous.
“It’s not stupid. Kiss me.” He smiled for a second before he pressed his lips against mine. He pulled me even closer and I held him around his neck. The kisses started off as soft and tender but quickly developed to a steamy make out session. His tongue was eager to enter my mouth and I let it in. Out tongues wrestled with each other and I have never experienced kisses like this. I don’t know how long we kissed. Nothing else but this moment mattered. He was still holding me after we had ‘finished’.
“I’m going back inside, I’m so tired” I stated as I looked at the ocean.
“Good idea, I would hate it if you become sick.”
“Do you want to come with me? It’s a long drive to your hotel; you should stay here for the night. We have an extra room.” I didn’t want him to go far away from me. A part of me wanted him to stay close all the time. I don’t know how I had gotten that attached to him within a week. The worst part of it was that I knew that I was leaving in three weeks and I didn’t want to leave him behind.
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“What the hell Aubrey” Louise stormed in my room and closed the door behind her. She woke me up and I was a bit confused by everything.
“What?”
“Harry Styles is sitting in our living room. Why is he sitting in our living room?” She was freaking out and I couldn’t tell if she was mad or if she was ecstatic that he was there.
“Is Sarah awake yet?” I didn’t have the strength to explain the story about last night, but Sarah knew where I had been so I figured it would be easier if she explained it.
“Don’t change he subject, Missy.” There was no possible way out of this so explained everything that had happened and I also told her about the kiss. Sarah didn’t know about the kiss yet.
“And then I asked him if he would like to stay for the night since it was late and he wanted to and that’s the end of the story.”
“Oh my god, I’m trying so hard not to freak out. First of all – you kissed Harry Styles. Second of all – Harry Styles is in our living room.” I hated that she didn’t see him as a person but she saw him as Harry Styles. A famous person with nothing else to him. Harry had explained to me that he hated to be described as famous as it labeled him and it took away the human part of him and I agreed with that.
“He’s a person. He’s not just Harry Styles from One Direction, you know.” I was a bit annoyed by Louise’s comment and I wasn’t gonna let it slip. Not when it was about Harry. God, I was already protecting him. I asked Louise to leave so I could change into something a bit more appropriate. I put on a cute top and some loose shorts.
“Hey” I said as I walked down the stairs and saw Harry. He was watching TV. He looked so chill and relaxed. I wanted to giggle but I held it in, as I was afraid it would have been too much.
“Hey, thanks for letting me stay.”
“No problem, it’s my pleasure.” I sat beside him on the sofa. I wanted to be as close to him as possible. I was completely drawn to him. He couldn’t stay for a long time since he had to go to the studio. Louise and Sarah had joined us in the living room and I could tell that they were freaking out on the inside and I was really proud of them for hiding it so well. They talked to him a lot and I was really happy that they got along so well since I figured that Harry would spend a lot of time in this house the next three weeks.
“Follow me out?” He asked me after he had hugged Louise and Sarah and said goodbye to them. I followed him out to the front yard and closed the front door behind me. He took my hand and ran to the other side of the house and I of course followed him as he held my hand. He gently pushed against the wall and kissed me passionately. He completely took my breath away. His hands were on the wall on each side of my head and I pulled him closer as my hands were around his neck. I had fallen hard for him in some way I had never experienced before. He pulled away after some time realizing that he had to go.
“I’ll miss you. See you VERY soon.” He really made the word ‘very’ clear and put pressure on it. The well-known smirk on his face appeared as he turned around to pick up his car that he had parked near the beach.
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Louise, Sarah and I were going out for dinner the very same night. We had driven all the way to L.A because we had read about this amazing restaurant we wanted to go to. It was such a fun night and we laughed all the time. Even though Harry wasn’t physically there, he was there in my mind. The food was amazing, the drinks were exquisite and I couldn’t complain about the company either. Louise decided to post a photo of Sarah and I to Instagram:
@LouFawn: “My favorite pair of sisters in the whole world @ItsSarahHunter @AubreyHunter. I love it here in the States. Take care back in England, my friends. xx”
I really liked that picture of Sarah and I. It captured this evening perfectly. We were laughing and having the time of our lives. My hair was up in a tight bun and I wore a patterned dress that I really liked. It was a gift from my grandmother so it meant a lot to me. The night continued and we were having so much fun out and about in L.A.
“What the heck, I have like a thousand likes on the post of you two and 500 comments. This makes no sense,” Louise said as she looked at her phone.
“Let me see” Sarah said and took the phone from Louise. Sarah started to laugh hysterically and Louise and I looked very confused and suspicious at her and we were clearly making signs that she had to tell us what was going on.
“It’s crazy One Direction fans commenting that Harry had liked this picture.” I was very confused. How did he know our social media profiles? I guess he was good at finding profiles.
I read some of the comments and every comment besides two were fans commenting that Harry had liked that photo and discussing why and how he knew us and if he even knew us. Louise and Sarah gained so many followers that night but my profile was private and I was grateful about that because IF I wanted to post anything with Harry I had the opportunity to do that. I only had a little more than 70 followers and they were all either my friends or my family and I knew they wouldn’t expose my posts. It was quite funny to read all of the fans theories. But I knew at all costs that nothing about Harry and I should be exposed to the fans or anyone but our close friends because deep down I knew that it was only a summer fling that couldn’t become more. Our lives were way to different. I decided to let my hair loose as I was starting to get a headache from my bun. Sarah and I really looked alike when we had our hair down. We tried to get in to a couple of clubs but they all wanted to see our ID and we were too young to drink in America so we just told them that we had forgotten and then moved out of the line. We were just about to give up when I heard a very familiar voice coming from behind.
“Aubrey?” It was Harry. I didn’t expect to see him that night. I felt very happy when I turned around and looked at him. He was there with Niall and a bodyguard. It was a very exclusive club so I didn’t even know what we were doing trying to get in there.
“What are you doing here?” He asked me.
“We wanted to party, but we’re too young.” I was a little tipsy from the drinks at the restaurant where they didn’t ask about our age.
“I can get you in, just follow me.” We all followed Harry and Niall into the VIP area. We entered from the back so no one would see us. Harry and I stayed apart because we didn’t want anyone to think there was anything between us. It seemed like he flirted with me all night but no one noticed beside Sarah and Louise but I guessed they only noticed it because they already knew about Harry and I.
“Let me just take a picture of you, pleaseeeee. I want memories from this trip,” Sarah said to Harry and me as we were sitting beside each other. She borrowed my phone and took photo from us. I really loved the photo she took of us:
I didn’t share it anywhere though. Harry looked so good in that picture and I kept looking at it. He looked so adorable and happy and I just looked drunk and goofy, but I loved it anyways.
“Okay, you need to go home now. You are extremely drunk,” Louise said to me after we had been in the club for a couple of hours. She didn’t drink anything, as she was the one who was driving the car. Harry laughed when he spotted me on the dance floor. He was sitting in the sofa with Niall. Niall was by the way very kind but I didn’t talk to him much. He was chatting to Sarah all night. They were much alike; both goof balls that joked all the time. Louise dragged we out to the car. I was mad at her because I didn’t want to go home. I knew that I was going to feel very hungover the next day. I didn’t get to say goodbye to Harry so I was very sad.
“You didn’t let me say goodbye,” I said as I pouted in the car. She didn’t answer me. I guess I was very annoying when I was drunk. I wanted to text Harry but my phone was dead and that was probably also for the best.
I threw myself at the bed as we were finally back in Malibu and I fell asleep faster than ever. I was excited to see what the next day would bring me.
We had already been in Malibu for a week. Time went by way too fast. I had been hanging out with Harry quite a lot, actually. We were mostly in the rented house since nobody knew about it. The paparazzi’s would go crazy if a girl ever went into Harry’s hotel with him so we stayed far away from his hotel. He was still a very down to earth guy and he continued to amaze me with his kindness. I was laying in bed all alone an evening. I was thinking about Harry and how I was starting to feel something for him. I had always been a person who falls in love very quickly and I ended up being hurt in the end. I really tried to fight these feelings because I knew where I was headed. I was completely unable to sleep and it was 2 am. I went down in the kitchen to grab a glass of milk and Sarah was already there to my big surprise.
“I thought you were asleep,” I said to her as I opened the fridge. She looked rather tired but I guess that’s normal when it’s 2 am in the morning.
“I couldn’t sleep so I went down here to drink a glass of milk. Like mum always advise us to when we can’t sleep.” Our mum had always told us that if you are unable to sleep you should drink a glass of milk. I had done that countless times and it always worked. I smiled at the thought of my mum. I felt the nee to call her and talk to her, but I knew that I couldn’t.
“I think your phone buzzed” Sarah said to me. I looked at my phone and it was buzzing.
“What an odd time of the day to text someone” Sarah said and looked suspicious. I guess it was a weird time of the day to text someone. It was Harry who had texted me.
Harry: “Are you awake? xx” How could he know that I was awake at that time?
Me: “Yeah, can’t sleep.” I guessed that he had a point with his question so I didn’t change the subject on purpose.
Harry: “Go to your balcony that’s facing the beach.”
Me: “Why?” I was rather confused.
Harry: “Just do it.” I did, as he wanted me to. It was completely dark outside so it was hard to see anything. I tried my best to spot something unusual. It took me a while, but I finally spotted what he wanted me to spot. It was him. He was standing on the beach completely alone. His arms were open and he looked at me. I could sense the smirk on his face. He started to dance and he looked very silly and it made me laugh.
Harry: “Come down to me” he sent me another text. I was in my sleeping shorts and top but I didn’t care. I really just wanted to spend time with him so I practically ran downstairs right past Sarah and then out to the pool area. I didn’t get further before Sarah ran after me.
“Stop, what are you doing?” she sounded very concerned. She and Louise had both met Harry very briefly when he was at the house one day. They understood that we kind of wanted to be alone. Not because we were like romantically involved because we were not, but we were just at the stage where we were getting to know each other.
“I’m just going to the beach. Harry is there. I’m sorry I just ran past you, I’m just eager to see him.” Sarah just laughed and looked at me.
“What are you waiting for? Go go go!” She said as she still laughed. I smiled at her and I continued to run towards the beach.
“Finally” he said and laughed as I appeared in front of him. It was really chilly and I could actually have used a blanket. I underestimated the weather.
“Don’t be cheeky. Karma is a bitch,” I said and it caused him to laugh. He hugged me as he was still smiling. I liked being held by him and I felt very warm. I started to get chilly again the second he let go of me.
“What are you doing here?” I asked him.
“I had to see you. I couldn’t stop thinking about you.” I didn’t know exactly what to respond to him. He was hard to read. In which way was he thinking about me? I decided to be straightforward with him.
“In which way were you thinking about me?” I looked him in the eyes but I got shy and my eyes quickly moved to look at the ground. I regretted what I said the second the words left my lips. What was I doing? He obviously wasn’t interested in being more than my friend. We had just met each other. There was no way that he thought of me than anything else but a friend of his. I could see that he was thinking. All I wanted to do was to yell that he should think out loud.
“I was just thinking about you. And how beautiful you are inside and out.” He confused me even more. It was only when the smirk appeared on his face that I understood in which way he meant it. Our eyes met each other and I couldn’t help but smile.
“That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.” I was blushing so I was grateful that it was dark so Harry couldn’t see the color of my cheeks.
“Just speaking the truth.” Our eyes still hadn’t moved. I didn’t answer him due to the fact that he had let me speechless. It was completely quiet besides the soothing sound of the waves crashing onto the shore.
“Aren’t you freezing?” He asked me all of a sudden. I had become so tired that I didn’t pay attention to the fact that I was actually freezing my ass off.
“I actually am. I thought it was warmer.”
“Come, let me warm you.” He opened his arms and I feared that it would be awkward. I moved very close to him and rested my face on his chest as he closed his arms around me. I think I stayed there for a solid five minutes and it felt so right. It wasn’t even weird. I tried to pull away from him because I felt so tired that I had to go back to the house and sleep but he didn’t let me go completely. He held his hands on my waist and looked me in the eyes.
“Tell me if I’m wrong, but I feel something here. Something I haven’t felt for at long time. Hell something I have never felt before.” I didn’t say anything or stop him because I had the same thoughts and I knew that he could tell.
“I really want to kiss you right now. Is that stupid?” He looked very serious and it almost looked like he was nervous.
“It’s not stupid. Kiss me.” He smiled for a second before he pressed his lips against mine. He pulled me even closer and I held him around his neck. The kisses started off as soft and tender but quickly developed to a steamy make out session. His tongue was eager to enter my mouth and I let it in. Out tongues wrestled with each other and I have never experienced kisses like this. I don’t know how long we kissed. Nothing else but this moment mattered. He was still holding me after we had ‘finished’.
“I’m going back inside, I’m so tired” I stated as I looked at the ocean.
“Good idea, I would hate it if you become sick.”
“Do you want to come with me? It’s a long drive to your hotel; you should stay here for the night. We have an extra room.” I didn’t want him to go far away from me. A part of me wanted him to stay close all the time. I don’t know how I had gotten that attached to him within a week. The worst part of it was that I knew that I was leaving in three weeks and I didn’t want to leave him behind.
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“What the hell Aubrey” Louise stormed in my room and closed the door behind her. She woke me up and I was a bit confused by everything.
“What?”
“Harry Styles is sitting in our living room. Why is he sitting in our living room?” She was freaking out and I couldn’t tell if she was mad or if she was ecstatic that he was there.
“Is Sarah awake yet?” I didn’t have the strength to explain the story about last night, but Sarah knew where I had been so I figured it would be easier if she explained it.
“Don’t change he subject, Missy.” There was no possible way out of this so explained everything that had happened and I also told her about the kiss. Sarah didn’t know about the kiss yet.
“And then I asked him if he would like to stay for the night since it was late and he wanted to and that’s the end of the story.”
“Oh my god, I’m trying so hard not to freak out. First of all – you kissed Harry Styles. Second of all – Harry Styles is in our living room.” I hated that she didn’t see him as a person but she saw him as Harry Styles. A famous person with nothing else to him. Harry had explained to me that he hated to be described as famous as it labeled him and it took away the human part of him and I agreed with that.
“He’s a person. He’s not just Harry Styles from One Direction, you know.” I was a bit annoyed by Louise’s comment and I wasn’t gonna let it slip. Not when it was about Harry. God, I was already protecting him. I asked Louise to leave so I could change into something a bit more appropriate. I put on a cute top and some loose shorts.
“Hey” I said as I walked down the stairs and saw Harry. He was watching TV. He looked so chill and relaxed. I wanted to giggle but I held it in, as I was afraid it would have been too much.
“Hey, thanks for letting me stay.”
“No problem, it’s my pleasure.” I sat beside him on the sofa. I wanted to be as close to him as possible. I was completely drawn to him. He couldn’t stay for a long time since he had to go to the studio. Louise and Sarah had joined us in the living room and I could tell that they were freaking out on the inside and I was really proud of them for hiding it so well. They talked to him a lot and I was really happy that they got along so well since I figured that Harry would spend a lot of time in this house the next three weeks.
“Follow me out?” He asked me after he had hugged Louise and Sarah and said goodbye to them. I followed him out to the front yard and closed the front door behind me. He took my hand and ran to the other side of the house and I of course followed him as he held my hand. He gently pushed against the wall and kissed me passionately. He completely took my breath away. His hands were on the wall on each side of my head and I pulled him closer as my hands were around his neck. I had fallen hard for him in some way I had never experienced before. He pulled away after some time realizing that he had to go.
“I’ll miss you. See you VERY soon.” He really made the word ‘very’ clear and put pressure on it. The well-known smirk on his face appeared as he turned around to pick up his car that he had parked near the beach.
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Louise, Sarah and I were going out for dinner the very same night. We had driven all the way to L.A because we had read about this amazing restaurant we wanted to go to. It was such a fun night and we laughed all the time. Even though Harry wasn’t physically there, he was there in my mind. The food was amazing, the drinks were exquisite and I couldn’t complain about the company either. Louise decided to post a photo of Sarah and I to Instagram:
@LouFawn: “My favorite pair of sisters in the whole world @ItsSarahHunter @AubreyHunter. I love it here in the States. Take care back in England, my friends. xx”
I really liked that picture of Sarah and I. It captured this evening perfectly. We were laughing and having the time of our lives. My hair was up in a tight bun and I wore a patterned dress that I really liked. It was a gift from my grandmother so it meant a lot to me. The night continued and we were having so much fun out and about in L.A.
“What the heck, I have like a thousand likes on the post of you two and 500 comments. This makes no sense,” Louise said as she looked at her phone.
“Let me see” Sarah said and took the phone from Louise. Sarah started to laugh hysterically and Louise and I looked very confused and suspicious at her and we were clearly making signs that she had to tell us what was going on.
“It’s crazy One Direction fans commenting that Harry had liked this picture.” I was very confused. How did he know our social media profiles? I guess he was good at finding profiles.
I read some of the comments and every comment besides two were fans commenting that Harry had liked that photo and discussing why and how he knew us and if he even knew us. Louise and Sarah gained so many followers that night but my profile was private and I was grateful about that because IF I wanted to post anything with Harry I had the opportunity to do that. I only had a little more than 70 followers and they were all either my friends or my family and I knew they wouldn’t expose my posts. It was quite funny to read all of the fans theories. But I knew at all costs that nothing about Harry and I should be exposed to the fans or anyone but our close friends because deep down I knew that it was only a summer fling that couldn’t become more. Our lives were way to different. I decided to let my hair loose as I was starting to get a headache from my bun. Sarah and I really looked alike when we had our hair down. We tried to get in to a couple of clubs but they all wanted to see our ID and we were too young to drink in America so we just told them that we had forgotten and then moved out of the line. We were just about to give up when I heard a very familiar voice coming from behind.
“Aubrey?” It was Harry. I didn’t expect to see him that night. I felt very happy when I turned around and looked at him. He was there with Niall and a bodyguard. It was a very exclusive club so I didn’t even know what we were doing trying to get in there.
“What are you doing here?” He asked me.
“We wanted to party, but we’re too young.” I was a little tipsy from the drinks at the restaurant where they didn’t ask about our age.
“I can get you in, just follow me.” We all followed Harry and Niall into the VIP area. We entered from the back so no one would see us. Harry and I stayed apart because we didn’t want anyone to think there was anything between us. It seemed like he flirted with me all night but no one noticed beside Sarah and Louise but I guessed they only noticed it because they already knew about Harry and I.
“Let me just take a picture of you, pleaseeeee. I want memories from this trip,” Sarah said to Harry and me as we were sitting beside each other. She borrowed my phone and took photo from us. I really loved the photo she took of us:
I didn’t share it anywhere though. Harry looked so good in that picture and I kept looking at it. He looked so adorable and happy and I just looked drunk and goofy, but I loved it anyways.
“Okay, you need to go home now. You are extremely drunk,” Louise said to me after we had been in the club for a couple of hours. She didn’t drink anything, as she was the one who was driving the car. Harry laughed when he spotted me on the dance floor. He was sitting in the sofa with Niall. Niall was by the way very kind but I didn’t talk to him much. He was chatting to Sarah all night. They were much alike; both goof balls that joked all the time. Louise dragged we out to the car. I was mad at her because I didn’t want to go home. I knew that I was going to feel very hungover the next day. I didn’t get to say goodbye to Harry so I was very sad.
“You didn’t let me say goodbye,” I said as I pouted in the car. She didn’t answer me. I guess I was very annoying when I was drunk. I wanted to text Harry but my phone was dead and that was probably also for the best.
I threw myself at the bed as we were finally back in Malibu and I fell asleep faster than ever. I was excited to see what the next day would bring me.
Notes
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