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People change people.

Sudden Realisation.

~Maya Hart~

After what seemed like never ending hours in a car listening to my parents go on and on and on about so much pointless shit, we finally reached the house. I stepped outside of the car and stood on the sidewalk to look up the house. It was perfect. It was completely stone surrounded by a large wall that had ivy growing all along the sides. It was a little bigger than I expected but hey, no complaints here. After all, I've lived in an apartment all my life. Against the sky it looks perfect. I would have to paint it. I took out my phone to text all my friends and let them know I had made it safe and sound.

To: Riles, Luke, Farkle and Zay B

Home:)

I clicked send and moved towards the car to grab my suitcases. I had a hell a lot of unpacking to do. I grabbed two of my suitcases out of the trunk. When a hand touched my shoulder, startling me.

"Shit!" I yelled while dropping the suitcases.

"Sorry about that. I'll get those." Shawn said as he picked them up, "you should show her." He smiled at my mom.

"Show me what?" I asked. He had already turned away with my suitcases and started walking into the house. My mom turned to me with a nervous smile.

"Your room." She said shakily. While turning towards the house. I followed inside the old wood front doors. It was spacious inside with only a few bits of furniture here and there. I still appreciated it, a kitchen with a table for us to eat, a large living room, a study and another completely empty room downstairs. I'd have to ask what that was going to be. As we traveled up the creaky stairs more rooms presented themselves. Another smaller, living room, a room that might have been set to be a game room considering the table tennis that had been set up, and a small room with a washing mashing and a sink.

"No dryer?" I asked my mom as we passed that room. She shook her head.

"Not popular here." She said and pointed outside of the small window in the room to the backyard, where I could see drying lines strung out.

"Ugh. Stone Age." I remarked and she laughed softly. She continued to lead me up one final flight of stairs with three bedrooms. One larger, obviously my parents. And with a bath, shower, toilet, and sink all en suite. There was only a mattress with a comforter and a few pillows on the floor next to all their suitcases but I could tell they were gonna have fun nesting. The next room was a lot smaller but it was spacious nonetheless. It wasn't en suite.

"In case Riley ever comes to visit. There's also some space in the basement." She said with a smile.

"Basement?" I replied with a look of shock. It was bigger then I had anticipated. She just shook her head and laughed. We entered the final room that was just just smaller than my parents. It was en suite completed with a shower toilet and sink. The sink and shower were marble. And I dropped my mouth in awe. That would be amazing. I turned to face the almost curved room. It has a bricked up fireplace and was completely empty. But there, at the end of the room were three windows right next to each other. I had this excited feeling in my heart when suddenly Shawn entered with my suitcases and he and my mom both approached me. The each put a hand on my shoulder as we all stared at the window.

"So we were thinking," Shawn started off,

"We could get like a chest or some sort of couch and put it there," my mom continued.

"And you could sort of have an almost-" Shawn was speaking

"My own bay window." I interrupted with a smile. They both smiled down at me.

"Yeah kiddo." Shawn smiled before walking towards the door. "Well we'll leave you too it. I have to set up the wifi cause of you teens and your internet." He said before leaving. I laughed at him and yelled out a thank you. My mom started to leave to.

"I have to figure out what we're gonna eat tonight." She smiled in the doorway. "If you need anything just holler."

I took out my phone to take a photo of the bay window.

To: Group: Riles, Luke, Farkle and Zay B

My very own. Jealous :p

After sending the text I decide to start unpacking.

After about an 3 hours of trying to get a mattress up three flights of stairs for what seemed like forever and trying to figure out the wifi (which, thank god we finally did.) and then finally just deciding on take out Chinese for dinner my phone finally buzzed as I was checking out local art stores online.

From: Riles to: group

Omg!! It looks so beautiful Peaches! It's so you!

Luke: ya Maya it looks real great over there.

Farkle: Skype us ASAP.

Zay: yeah I need to know if there are any hot British chicks ;)

I laughed and rolled my eyes before closing the tab on my laptop and opening up Skype. After signing in I called Riley. While it was connecting I called Farkle, Zay and Lucas. They all answered with a loud "Hey!" I laughed a little.

"Maya! Peaches! I miss you so much it's just not the same why'd you leave me?" Riley whined,

"Aww I miss you too honey. I miss all of you guys." I replied

"She's right Maya. It's not the same over here. We miss having you to cause a little trouble." Farkle spoke while everyone agreed with a little "yeah."

"Well, now I'm Holmes Chapel's problem." I joked.

"I want you to be my problem!" Riley continued to whine.

"Anyway. Maya! Are there any hot chicks?" Zay asked with a smirk.

"Ew. I've been here like a day, Zay." I said with fake disgust and he laughed.

"So what? You can still look around for me!" He teased.

"Pervy." Riley said while painting her nails.

"So what about you Maya? Any cute guys?" Lucas finally asked.

"Nope." I said popping the p, "not really. Like I said, only been here a day."

"But you said "not really" which means something, no matter how small, happened." Farkle said with curiousness.

"Yeah! Spill your guts, Hart." Zay cheered.

"Well I don't know. I bumped into this guy at the airport." I started,

"Oooooh." Lucas said in a high pitched tone.

"Shut up, Huckleberry." I mocked. "Anyway, he was really tall, dark hair, green eyes, tattoos." I finished simply.

"Wait Holmes Chapel, tattoos, green eyes. Maya! Did the guy you bumped into look like this?" Riley said with urgency while showing the group a photo of the guy at the airport.

"Yeah, yeah. That's him. How do you know him?" I asked,

"Maya! That's Harry Styles!" She yelled. I swallowed a thick lump in my throat.

"A-as in?" I said dryly.

"Yes as in One Direction!" She finished my thought. Shit. I bumped into Harry Styles. Harry fucking Styles. And I walked away without a second thought.