Bella’s POV

“You all ready to go?”, Louis pops his head into my room.

“Yup, can we go in like 10 minutes?”, I ask. He agrees and leaves me alone in my temporary room. I texted Harry after dinner last night asking if it’d be okay for me to go back home with him. He replied less than a minute later saying (and yes, this is a direct quote), “yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes of course!!!!” with eight “yes”es and four exclamation marks. I counted, don’t judge me. So I guess I’m going back to Harry’s home and we’re gonna have a talk. Which Louis already told me, Harry hates having long talks. So I think one nice, long talk will be the perfect punishment for the memory I had last week of him cheating.

“Bell-Bell, can we go now?!”, Eleanor calls up to me.

“Yeah, let’s go”, I laugh. I think El and Louis are excited for me to leave so they can go back to doing coupley-things, if ya know what I mean…

Louis takes my bag to his car as Eleanor and I follow him. I sit in the back with Lou and El in the front. I feel like I’m their little kid and their my parents. They’ve been taking care of me, driving me around places, buying my clothes. It’s been really nice, just to have some time feeling good with my two best friends with no worries.

My thoughts are interrupted when I hear El whispering to Louis and giggling up front. I break my gaze from the window and look at them. El looks at me and then back at Louis and whispers something I can’t hear before giggling again.

I giggle, “Secrets, secrets, are no fun unless you share with everyone!” I sing like a nine-year-old who’s left out of the joke in primary school. This just makes El giggle more now Louis starts giggling too.

“It’s nothing”, Louis’ giggles grow even more now. What is wrong with these people? I choose to ignore their child-like behavior and look back out the window to see that we’re pulling into Harry’s driveway.

Louis parks the car and rushes into the house first. He lets himself into Harry’s home without knocking. El and I laugh as we take my bag out of the trunk. “What were you two giggling about up there?”, I ask as we giggle.

“Just about how cute you are”, she says very nonchalant.

“Wait what?!” I laugh, “You were whispering and giggling to your BOYFRIEND about how cute I am? I will never understand your relationship with him.” We just laugh for awhile in Harry’s driveway.

“But seriously El, thank you so much for letting me stay with you this past week! I’m so happy I got the chance to re-meet you”, I smile.

“Awwwh, you’re so cute! I’m so happy I got to see you again. You know you’re always welcome at mine and Louis’ home. We’re so close to here”, she hugs me, “And I know you already said you made up your mind about what you’ll say to Harry, so it’s kinda useless for me to say this but…. I really think you should give Harry a chance. You guys have so much together, it’d be terrible if that all just went to waste.

I smile again as I feel my cheeks heat up, “Well then, I think you’ll like what I’m about to tell him.” I wink again.

“Bella! What the hell are you doing still out there?!” Louis pokes his head out the front door as he yells out to us.

“I’m coming!”, I yell back to him laughing. Eleanor and I make our way into Harry’s house. Louis and Harry are in the kitchen talking, but they stop as soon as El and I walk into the room. I immediately lock eyes with Harry. I have to admit, I’ve missed those green eyes and dimples this past week.

“Hey”, he says to me showing off his little smirk.

“Hi”, I say quietly. I can’t stop smiling when I’m around him. I think after this past month I deserve to be happy and I want to be happy. I’m listening to my heart today and even if my head will regret my decision later, I like it today. No regrets, Bella, no regrets. “Um Harry, can we talk for a but?” I’m trying to hint El and Louis that it’s time for them to leave now. When they don’t move I turn around and say, “Thanks again for everything guys!” and give them a hug so they get the not-so-subtle hint.

“Oh you’re welcome!”, they say as I hug each of them. When they don’t move I just keep looking at them waiting for them to realize they’re no longer needed.

“Oh! Okay, well we’re gonna go now!” Louis says after an awkward minute of just staring at each other. He takes Eleanor’s hand and leads her out.

I turn to Harry with a smile, “So… how’s your week been?”

“Honestly, quite boring. I’ve been resisting the urge to call you every minute of every day this past week. So, I’m very happy your back.”, he flashes those deep dimples that get me. Every. Single. Time.

“Well, I’m back! So you shall be lonely no more!” we share a laugh and it feels good. It feels natural, “But I think we still need to talk though.” Way to kill the mood, Bella!His smile drops a little, “Yeah, yeah I know. But listen, I’m so sorry I did what I did and I’m so sorry you had to remember that. I’m so so so so sor-”

“Harry, it’s okay!”, I interrupt him before he’s just apologizing over and over again, “I’ve forgiven you once before for this in the past and so I figure I can forgive you again. I’ve been thinking a lot in this past week and I think,” I’m really about to say this. Deep breaths, Bella, “I think we should give us a try. I know I said before that I would, but I really, really mean it now. I just, I don’t know. I just don’t think I should throw away everything we had before. You deserve this second chance, we deserve this second chance to happiness.” I take a deep breath and look up to him to see his dimple-y, crooked smile which of course makes me smile. I was definitely more nervous than I thought I was originally.

“So, you actually want to be a thing again?”, he seems just as nervous as I am, which in a weird way comforts me a little more. I nod in response to him, “And so if I asked you to be my girlfriend, what would you say?” There’s that smirk again.

“I mean, IF you were to ask, I’d PROBABLY say yes. But you haven’t asked me yet”, I smirk right back to him. And he laughs awkwardly.

“Well then Bella”, he pauses still smiling, “Will you do me the honor of being my girlfriend?” I laugh at how nervous he actually is. As if I’d say no now!

“Of course, Harold!”

“So then as my girlfriend, would you like to go out for dinner tomorrow night?”, he asks. He’s still wearing that cheeky smile.

“Mmm, nah.” I shrug.

“Wait, what?”, he asks genuinely concerned. I finally managed to wipe that cheeky smile off his face.

“I’m kidding of course Haz! Of course I’ll go out to dinner with you tomorrow night”, I laugh. He laughs nervously.

“Bella Marie, don’t do that to me. You nearly gave me a heart attack”, we laugh together.
“What’s your middle name?”, curiosity comes over me and I just want to know more about Harry. He seems to already know everything about me.

“Edward.”

“Harold Edward Styles.”, I smirk.

“Harry. Harold is too stiff and old.”

“I’ll only call you Harold when I’m annoyed with you then”, I wink and walk to the fridge to get a bottle of water.

“That’s actually what you used to do”, he laughs.

“Of course I did!” I laugh for a bit, “So what do we do now?”“Movie and takeout?”

“That sounds perfect. I’ll go change into my signature sweats just for you”, I wink and we both smile. It feels good around Harry, everything just simply feels good.

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