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Follow Your Heart

S E V E N T E E N

“You are cute, do you know that?”

“Shut up, Harold.”

Nichole was watching out the window of the truck she insisted on renting when they landed in Texas because she was “getting much too used to tinted windows” and “needed to feel like Texas again.” As they were approaching the ranch and she was already undoing her seat belt, getting ready to jump out.She was like a little girl at Christmas and Harry loved how excited she was. It had been the longest she’d been away from home in a while, so when the UK album promo was finished, they caught the first flight to back to the States to spend Thanksgiving with her family.

Harry had barely parked before she had the door opened and running towards her parents, who had been waiting for them to arrive. Harry looked over his shoulder at Mike, both men laughing as she almost knocked her dad over.

Harry helped Mike get their bags, hanging back a bit to let Nichole reunite with her family before he joined them.Dylan stood on the porch, his arm draped over the shoulders of a pretty blonde Harry assumed was his wife, Hannah.

“Harry!” Carolyn greeted him as he approached the house. She wrapped him in a hug, “So good to see you. Thank you for bringing my girl home.”

“As soon as that last interview was finished, she had tickets booked and bags packed. There was no way she wasn’t coming home. With or without me.”

Jimmy laughed and said, “Strong willed, that girl of mine, Harry. I’m sure you are finding that out.”

“Daddy, stop.” She whined. Then she took a moment to introduce Mike to everyone.

“Mike looks after Harry, and me. Keeps us out of trouble.”

“Well Mike, “Jimmy laughed, “I apologize now for Nicky Marie. Her momma really tried.”

“She’s a good girl, doesn’t cause me any worries, and she’s better at keeping him out of trouble than I am.” It was Harry’s turn to blush and shake his head as everyone laughed.

“Well, come on in.” Carolyn said as she guided us all into the house. “Let’s get ya’ll settled before supper. Your Nanna will be here shortly, Nicky Marie. She’s quite anxious to meet Harry.”

Dylan watched as Harry reached for Nichole, his arm draped around her shoulder. Nichole’s face lit up when he leaned down to whisper something in her ear. She placed a kiss on his cheek before they started up the steps. She looked happy and Dylan wasn’t sure how he felt about that.

~*~*~*~

Nichole watched Harry as he walked around her childhood bedroom, looking at pictures, picking up little pieces of teenage Nicky and examining them, getting a glimpse of her life before they met.

“I’m surprised Momma hasn’t changed this room into a sewing room by now. She always said she was going to once I left home for good.”

He turned to her and smiled, “She doesn’t have the heart to do it, like my Mum. My room is pretty much the same as it was when I was sixteen.” He wrapped her in a hug. “We’ll always be their babies.”

Nichole giggled into his chest, “Probably.”

“Though, I am surprised I am staying in here with you and not in the guest room with Mike.”

Nichole couldn’t help but laugh. “Hannah lived here for two years before she and Dylan got married. It’s not like we are teenagers, baby.”

Harry grinned and pulled her into his chest again, “I love the way you say ‘baby.’”

“Oh, shut up.”

They stood there a moment, holding onto each other quietly, just being wrapped up in each other. Nichole always felt so safe and protected, and Harry loved the calm she brought to his chaotic life. Nichole looked up at him, then stood up on her tiptoes and kissed him.

“Thank you for coming with me. I’m sure you have a million and one things you could be doing back in LA.”

“There is no where I would rather be.”

“Are you prepared for a Davies family holiday? It gets pretty intense. The house will be packed in a couple days.”

“It will be fine. I love the thought of getting to meet more of your family, Nichole.”

“You say that now…”

He rolled his eyes at her, teasing her and said, “Shut up and kiss me, you spoon.”

Nichole giggled as he leaned down and touched his lips to hers. Her heart still dropped to her stomach whenever he kissed her. She tried not to think too much about it, but they both knew they were in deep. She had her life planned out and then Harry came crashing into it and she saw her life going in a different direction entirely now. She shuddered to think what would happen if this ended as fast as it started.

Nichole felt his lips on her ear, “Stop thinking so much, beautiful.”

She grinned and let her hands slip down his sides until she reached the hem of his shirt, gliding her hands under it.Harry sighed softly as her hands grazed over his skin.

“Distract me then, baby.” she whispered against his neck. He grabbed her hands, pulling away and said,

“Oh no, love…not here, not with your family downstairs, your grandmother about to arrive. Not in your mother’s house…” Throwing her own words back at her and she stood there staring at him.

“Harry…you are kidding right?” she said, almost stomping her feet. He grinned at her, his eyes twinkling. He was obviously pleased with himself for turning the tables on her.

“Not even a little bit, Miss Davies. I will not disrespect your mother or your father and I certainly am not going to give Dylan more of a reason to dislike me.” Nichole rolled her eyes at him, crossing her arms in front of herself.

“You are a mean, spiteful person, Harry Styles.” He laughed out loud and leaned over and kissed her quickly, taking her hand,

“Come on, your mum said something about tea and I think we both could use a cup.” Then he led her out the door and downstairs.
~*~*~*~

Dylan sighed as Hannah wrapped her arms around his neck placing a kiss on his shoulder. She pulled him down on their bed, propping herself up on his chest so she could look at him.
“You are gonna have a permanent wrinkle between your eyes if you keep scowling like that, baby.”

Dylan just snorted and turned his face towards the wall. Hannah wasn’t having any of that though. She turned his face back towards her and said, “Talk to me, babe. I know what’s bothering you. So come on, get it out.”

He just sighed and sat up, rubbing his hands over his face, growling in frustration. He felt her hand rubbing his back, soothing him as only she could.

“I want to hate him, Hannah…I really do. I’m still mad as hell at him, but I can’t hate him when I see how happy Nicky is.”

“She is very happy, we can all see it.”

“I know I’m being irrational, but I want her to stay here. Why can’t she be happy here?”

“Would you rather she was still with Tommy?”

“No, of course not. He’s a piece of shit and she is definitely better off without him. Look, Harry is everything I don’t want for her. Tattooed, long hair, rockstar…I just look at him and I hate him.”

“I didn’t realize you were so narrow minded, Dylan Michael.”

“I wasn’t finished….” He said turning around, looking at her. “On the surface, yeah he’s all the things I don’t want for her. But damn him, he treats her right. She’s so fucking happy it makes me sick. He stood up to me for her. I know I was being an asshole and deserved it, but who does that?”

“Someone who loves her.”

Hannah sat up, wrapping her arms around his waist, resting her cheek on his shoulder.
“Baby, I need you to listen to me, ok?”Dylan nodded, waiting for her to make him see what a jackass he was being, something she had a talent for.

“In a perfect world, we’d all live on this ranch until we were old and grey. But, as much as she loves this family and loves this ranch…this will always be her home, you know that…Nicky’s life is different, her goals are different, and she wants a different life.Not a better life, just different and she’s found that with Harry. You can’t force her into a life she doesn’t want. She loves him…and he loves her. We all can see it. He doesn’t want to take her from us. If anything, he wants to be part of this…included in this part of her life. Family is important to her and if he didn’t want to be part of that, she wouldn’t be with him. You have to know that.”

Dylan sighed. He knew she was right. Nichole was happy. The light in her eyes when she smiled lit her up from the inside. He hadn’t seen that smile in a long time and it was a beautiful thing.

“I know it seems fast, sometimes though, baby…you just know. Not everyone has the benefit of marrying the boy they fell in love with in the sixth grade.” He turned his face around, smiling as he pushed her down on the bed,

“Why are you so smart?”

“One of us has to be.”

~*~*~*~

Nichole stood at the stove, helping Nanna with the cooking, while Harry filled everyone in on her trying to learn to drive on the “proper” side of the road and still trying to get in the passenger side when she wanted to drive. She rolled her eyes as Hannah and Nanna laughed at his rather “embellished” story.

“Hey, I was driving the farm truck at fourteen; I can handle driving on the wrong side of the road.” Harry just looked over at her and said,

“Ooooh kay” She squinted her eyes at him and he just leaned over and kissed her. “Whatever you say, beautiful.”

“Jerk.”

About then Dylan came in from outside, carrying food from the grill. Nichole grinned at him.
“Daddy still won’t let you handle the grill, huh?”

“Shut up.”

“Well there’s my answer,” she giggled. Dylan looked around for Carolyn and then quickly gave her the finger.

“Dylan Michael! I’m telling! And right in front of Nanna!” Hannah and Harry were laughing at the two of them as Carolyn came down the stairs.

“What are you telling, Nicky?” She smirked at Dylan.

“Dylan just flipped me off. Right in front of Nanna.” Carolyn rolled her eyes at the two of them and then opened the back door and called Jimmy.

“Jimmy get in here and do something with your children.” Dylan and Nichole both panicked and Hannah and Harry both lost it and couldn’t stop laughing. About that time Jimmy came to the door and said,

“If you two can’t get along I can find something for you both to do. Stalls need deep cleaning…keep it up.” Then he looked over at Harry and Hannah, “and you two egging them on…I got plenty of chores that need doing around here.” Then he turned and walked back out to the grill.
Nichole looked over at Harry. He was sitting there eyes wide open and almost ghost white. She couldn’t stop herself from giggling when Carolyn patted him on the shoulder and said,

“Welcome to the family, Harry.”

~*~*~*~

“Where are you going?” Harry asked as he rolled over and seeing Nichole was getting dressed. He grabbed his phone, “its 3:30, come back to bed.”

“Gotta go help Daddy and Dylan, baby…I won’t be gone long. Fence came down and we have some cattle on the loose.” She leaned over the bed and kissed him quickly, “Go back to sleep.”
He pulled her back for another kiss, whispering, “My sexy cowgirl,” against her lips. Nichole couldn’t help but giggle at him.Kissing him once more,

“Go back to sleep, baby. I love you.”She grabbed her jacket and disappeared out the door as Harry drifted back to sleep.

~*~*~*~

After moving the herd that didn’t get out to a secured pasture, Nichole and Dylan left their dad and one of the guys to repair the downed fence while they took the truck and trailer to round up the escaped cattle. Nichole was driving while Dylan kept a look out.Quickly they spotted three standing on the side of the road about a mile down. Dylan got them in the trailer and hopped back in the truck and Nichole started to head down the road again, keeping their eyes out for the last two runaways
.
They were quiet and the tension between them was thick. Finally Dylan spoke.

“I don’t hate him, Nicky.”

“Could’ve fooled me,” she replied, not taking her eyes off the road.

“Look, I know I was an asshole…and I’m sorry. Harry is a good guy.”

Nichole pulled the truck over as they spotted another one. She jumped out, Dylan following her. She didn’t know what to say to him so she said nothing while she checked the brand, nodding to Dylan as he looped a rope around the animal’s neck loosely and led it into the trailer after Nichole lowered the gate.Before they could get back in the truck, the final runaway came out of a group of trees. After they got it into the trailer and the gate closed again. Nichole looked at her brother and sighed.

“Dylan…look, I get it…I know why you reacted the way you did. And I love you for it. I was really drunk, so was he and we should’ve known better. I was already getting so much hate from everywhere, so having you come down on me like that; I couldn’t take it from you, too.”She leaned against the back of the trailer, continuing. “Remember the day you showed me the pictures of him and Kendall Jenner?”

“Yeah, you got pretty pissed off and Hannah wanted to beat the fire out of me.” Nichole chuckled sadly, remembering how she felt that day.

“Right. I was mad…and sad. I felt like he and I were going somewhere and those pictures threw me. But here’s the thing, they were just friends hanging out but the pictures made it look like a lot more. I almost gave up this job and my chance with him because of some stupid pictures.”

“Wow…what changed your mind?”

“He did.He showed up at my door randomly, snuck away from his tour to convince me not to blow him off. Didn’t tell anyone but Gemma where he was going. After that day, he made me promise something, and I am gonna make you promise me the same thing.”

“What’s that?”

“If you see or read anything…anything that doesn’t seem right…call me, call him…ask us. Harry is very private so things that pop up are generally not true or definitely exaggerated.”

“I can do that.”

As Nichole started to walk around the trailer, she turned around and said, “And stop reading gossip sites, they are garbage…seriously.”

“You mean you aren’t a gold-digging, country girl that is using his fame to make yourself relevant?”

She turned around and hit him in the shoulder. “Lord have mercy, get off Twitter, too!”
Nichole got the truck turned around and headed back towards the pasture.

“Sis, I got one more question.”

“What’s that?”

“Who the fuck is Larry?”

“Oh Hells Bells…”

Notes

Got another one in before I leave on vacation...hope you enjoy it.

Let me know what you think - feedback is love <3

Comments

@Kammy.
I just think it’s hilarious that like everyone rips on him.

morrison_hotel morrison_hotel
12/30/18

@morrison_hotel
I’m sure he’s really a nice guy...I heard an interview where he said he was honored to represent H and that he took it very seriously and that H was an amazing human being... but someone has to be the bad guy

Kammy. Kammy.
12/30/18

@Kammy.
I do!
I’m sorry but I honestly love the digs at Jeff. Idk why I’m such a cunt about it. They make me laugh.

morrison_hotel morrison_hotel
12/29/18

@morrison_hotel
You like?

Kammy. Kammy.
12/29/18

❤️

morrison_hotel morrison_hotel
12/29/18