Juliet tip toed through the foyer, her feet hardly touching the floor as she pulled one of the doors on a set of double doors. The doors let to the living room, the ceiling high and the chandelier hanging perfectly in the middle of the room.
She got a whiff of fresh brewed coffee as she closed the door behind her. She saw another sat of double doors, identical to the first ones she went through. She makes her way over to them and stops as she hears noises on the other side of the wooden doors.
She listens closely. The faucet was running for a few moments before being cut off. She heard the sound a metal utensil scrapping against a piece of dishware.
At first she was still going against the item of barging through the doors, but she eventually came to her senses and realized she had to go see Harry, she needed to.. she even wanted to.
She found herself slowly pushing the door open. She saw Harry, standing with his back to her, slaving over the stove as he hummed loudly to himself. Juliet’s lips parted as she saw the muscles on Harry’s back flex, the ink of his tattoos covered in a light layer of sweat, his skin glistening and shining.
Just when she thought she’d pass out at the site, Harry turned around and smiled brightly as he saw her standing there.
‘’Did you think you could sneak up on me, love?’’ Harry laughs a little as he wipes his hands off on a dish towel and sits it back on the counter.
Juliet blushes, only shrugs as Harry walks over to her. She heart skipped a beat as his hand touched her cheek.
‘’Good afternoon.’’ He chuckles lightly as he leans in and presses his lips against her forehead.
He holds them there for nearly half a minute before leaning up and rubbing the pad of his thumb over her cheek, over the redness.
‘’Did you sleep well?’’ Harry asks softly, concerned deeply for her.
She nods, smiling a little as she looks up to see Harry staring down at her.
‘’Good, I’m glad. Now, are you hungry?’’ He asks.
‘’A little.’’ She mumbles.
‘’Alright, then come over here with me.. I’ll fix you up a plate.’’ Harry says as he moves his hand from her and instead grabs her hand, palm to palm as he leads her over to the island stools.
‘’Have a seat.’’ Harry insists as he lets go of her hand.
Juliet climbs on top of the leather stool and leans her elbows on the counter top of the island. She watches Harry was he goes to the sink and grabs a clean cup from the dish rack.
‘’Coffee?’’ He questions without turning around.
‘’Um.. can I have water instead?’’ Juliet says softly, still trying to adapt to the situation, trying to get used to all of these feelings and vibes Harry gives her.
‘’Sure darling, no problem.’’ Harry says as he goes over to the refrigerator.
Harry puts the cup under the ice depositor and pushed the button. Once there were a few pieces of ice in the glass, he changed the setting to water and fixed Juliet a nice glass of purified, cold water.
He sat it in front of her and continued on serving her.
“I got a fire for a heart.. I’m not scared of the dark.’’ Harry’s voice began to sing loud, echoing in the kitchen’s high ceilings.
‘’All my life.. you stood by me, when no one else was ever behind me.’’ Harry sings aloud after saying a verses in his head.
He found himself doing this quite often, so it wasn’t anything new to him.
‘’Nobody, nobody. Nobody can drag me down..’’
He sighed loudly when he switched the stove top off and turned around with an empty pan in his hand.
‘’I hope you like eggs, I cooked a dozen.’’ He grins before stepping towards the sink to wash the last of the dirty dishes from his mid-day breakfast make.
‘’I do.’’ Juliet says with a smile.
Harry looks over his broad shoulder at her and smiles, chuckling to himself only because he was amazed, completely awed by this girl.
‘’Good.’’
Juliet waited patiently, sipping her glass of water here and there, as Harry finished with the few dishes and grabbed a plate from the cabinet.
‘’I’ve already ate some, so you can as much as you want.’’ Harry tells her as he begins to prepare her plate for her.
He piles on the eggs following three pancakes and not forgetting the bowl of fruits he done just for her, but he himself can’t deny a grape at any time so he’s been snacking out of it all morning.
‘’One by one.. tryin’ to take them down. Ooh, oooh.’’ Harry sings randomly, skipping around more in his head, trying to decide what he wanted to sing and think in his hand.
Juliet giggled to herself as Harry spun around on his heel and reached across the wide island, sitting the plate in front of her.
‘’Here’s the honey and syrup, which ever you prefer love, and salt and pepper.’’ Harry says, motioning to the items in the middle of the island.
Juliet stares down at the hefty amount of food on her plate, she knew there was no way she could eat it all but she surely did appreciate Harry thinking of her and wanting to do this for her, he was seriously the best person in the world, at least in her eyes, and in her heart.
Harry sat down on the stool beside Juliet, but allowing her some space to eat. He sighed as he tapped his fingers against the cold counter top.
‘’I um.. I forgot.. that.. I had invited.. some friends over.. tonight, and I um, I was just.. I’ve been nervous.. about it.. I don’t want you to be, uh, pressured.. or.. um.. I don’t.. want your first day here to be.. crazy, you know? I.. I wanted to.. to do things right, and.. everything. I’m sorry, I.. I don’t know..’’ Harry rolls his eyes to himself, shaking his head in shame as he realized how completely stupid he sounds right now.
‘’It’s your house..’’ Juliet says softly, ‘’You can have whoever you want over.. don’t.. don’t let me get in the way of that.’’
Harry looks over at her, biting his lip lightly as he sees her just sitting there, staring at the food, not even touching it with the fork.
He tries not to think too much on it, maybe he hasn’t just seen her take a bite yet. He carried on his thoughts and remembered the moment in time.
‘’Juliet, it’s not.. that. I just.. I’m afraid that they’ll take our, um, your situation.. differently than what it is. Let’s just say.. they don’t have the cleanest minds in the world.. and.. I just don’t want you around their banter and such, I just.. I don’t know. I’m just.. worried, freaking out really.’’ Harry sighs, running a hand through his messy hair, sighing deeply.
‘’You’re overacting, just calm down.’’ Juliet says with a sigh, understanding the feeling pretty well.
‘’I’m sorry. I just want everything to be perfect. You deserve the absolute best, and I want to give that to you..’’ Harry says, resting his forehead against his hand, his elbow digging into the hard counter top, but he couldn’t care any less about the pain right now.
‘’Harry.’’ Juliet laughs out of shock.
He looks over at her to catch her gaze. She turned to face him and sat her hand on his knee as if he was a close friend about to get a lecture. Her nerves got ahead of her, well more like her heart. She hesitated to leave it there at first, but she thought it would just be okay anyways.
‘’You have done so much for me, I know you think it’s not that much.. but to me.. it’s a lot. And I highly appreciate it and I could never thank you enough or repay you for what you’ve done for me. No one’s ever wanted me.. that’s why I came here. And.. when I met you.. I knew I had finally found a friend, and that’s all I’ve wanted for years, Harry. You’re letting a stranger stay with you in your million dollar mansion.. you’re feeding me and making sure I have clothes, expensive clothes at that. You are.. amazing, Harry, and you don’t have to worry about making my life perfect because right now.. I’m feeling pretty good.’’ Juliet stops herself, knowing that if she carried on any further she’d get caught up in her feelings and end up saying something that was stupid and uncalled for.
Harry sat there for a second, staring down at her hand on his knee. He was in shock that she had said so much to him, and it being that intense was even more shocking. He believed every word though, every single one.
Harry sat his hand on top of Juliet’s as he sighed to himself, knowing that she was happy right now and that had been everything he had been trying to do since he met her.
‘’Juliet.. I need to tell you something.’’ Harry mumbles, taking a deep breath.
Juliet doesn’t say anything, but he looks up to see her nodding, staring into his emerald orbs. Harry nods back slightly, knowing that she approved of it and wanted to know.
‘’This is going to sound weird.. but.. when I got those guys away from you last night.. I thought the only thing I would do is get you a warm drink and get a taxi to take you home. But when you told me.. you didn’t have anywhere to stay.. something in my mind, in my heart.. in my soul.. clicked and.. I.. I had this desire, this drive.. to, to protect you and make sure you were safe. My intentions were to make you happy and to make sure you were in good hands.. Something about.. you.. makes me want to.. smile and I.. the feelings I get when I.. when I do something for you, like this morning.. when I put all of the things up in the bedroom.. all I could do was smile because I knew they were for you. It’s hard to explain without.. sounding weird about it, I just, I just..’’ Harry stops himself, knowing that he already sounded like an idiot.
‘’I told you.. you hardly knew me, Harry.. so let me tell you. Maybe after I tell you.. you’ll be able to see how much.. this all means to me.’’ Juliet says softly as Harry laced their fingers together, still looking into her eyes deeply.
‘’I was six years old when my parents were killed in a car accident.. I didn’t really understand then why they were never at home, and never came home from work.. and why I didn’t live with them anymore, but I knew they were gone. I just couldn’t.. understand it as one thing, rather than just pieces of a puzzle. My grandmother was very sick when all of this happened, and she was my only family that had connections with me. So I was placed in a foster home without chance of being adopted because of my grandmother, but if she died then things would have changed. I went seven years not having a mother.. or a father.. or anyone to teach me things and show me how to do something. I had to depend on someone that didn’t know me, that didn’t understand me.. and didn’t care for me, only had me for the money they could make off of me. When I was thirteen, a couple of months before I returned home, I thought of.. suicide.’’ Juliet stops herself, biting the inside of her cheek, remembering the past in her mind, thoughts speeding by about everything that ever went wrong in her life.
Harry listened closely, watching Juliet’s eyes as her expression soften once she began to talk again, ‘’I believed in God, and I still do, and I came from a very religious family.. and after all of the bad things that happened to me… and all of the worse things that were still going on at that time.. I thought that God had given up on me.. and that no one was watching over me anymore. I thought killing myself would be the best option.. The day they called and said my grandmother was free of her cancer and would take care of me.. was the day I was planning on killing myself. But once I got home.. and I knew I was with someone who cared about me.. I began to change and get better.’’ Juliet smiled lightly at the thought.
‘’The point.. I’m trying to make, Harry, is that I never had much growing up.. and after my parents died.. I didn’t have anything at all. But when I drank and ate the things you bought for me.. and I put on your coat that you offered me.. and I laid in the bed that you claimed as mine.. and I came down here to see the breakfast you made for me.. I.. felt more things than I’ve ever felt before. I never thought.. that I would be able to smile again.. but you give me that warmth in my heart that’s been gone for so long.. It’s so hard not to.. cry sometimes.. But last night.. was the first night I haven’t had a nightmare. This is going to be so stupid to say, but Harry.. you make me happy.. in the inside, you’re my friend.. I’ve never had a friend, Harry.. and I..’’ She stops once again, her blue eyes tearing up as she looks away from Harry’s eyes.
‘’Juliet.’’ Harry whispers, letting go of her hand and getting off his stool.
He steps over to her and puts his hand on her cheek. He wipes away a few loose tears from her skin and brings his face a half an inch from hers.
‘’I’m never letting you leave, I hope you know that, not after what you just told me. Love, you make me so happy.. you’re not my friend.. you’re my best friend.’’ Harry smiles as he leans his lips to Juliet’s forehead, pressing a kiss against her soft skin.
She blushes a little as he leans back and grabs both of her hands, ‘’How about I show you around the house? Hm? Get our minds off things.. and just relax.’’ Harry insists with a smile as Juliet hops down from the stool, her height extremely dropping as she stands in front of Harry.
‘’Okay.’’

Notes

•wasnt going to update tonight but I can't sleep so I decided to ♥ hope you like! == B•