The Reinvention of Harry Styles

Harry woke up from a nap on his long flight to Singapore. He looked around the plane at his sleeping bandmates and sighed, yet again feeling alone. He opened his phone to watch a movie or something to keep him distracted, but he got an even better idea.

‘I never finished reading Molly’s fanfiction….’ Last time he’d read it, he somehow felt oddly connected to Molly, and it helped him miss her less. Harry smiled to himself and looked up the 1D fanfiction site again. He found her story, and settled into his seat as he clicked on the next chapter.

~Chapter 2: In which Holly has a secret admirer

They day after seeing One Direction in concert, and getting ice cream with them afterwards, Holly sat in class tapping her pencil and day-dreaming about a certain boybander.

“Holly?” Her teacher asked, and she snapped her head forward, thinking he had called on her.

“Yes?” Holly asked, not having a clue what they had been discussing.

“You have a delivery, some flowers…” He read the note. “A secret admirer it seems…” He smiled, and her class ‘awwed’.

Holly blushed and came to the front of the class to accept the flowers, ignoring her classmates comments. “Who’re they from?” Her friend asked as she returned to her seat, and Holly shrugged.

“No idea,” she shrugged. Yet, Holly did in fact have some idea. Five ideas. Or, just one, really.~

Harry stopped reading as his assistant, Karen, approached him to discuss the itinerary. As much as he was dying to see who Holly’s flowers were from (he hoped they were from himself, but Holly seemed quite taken with Niall), he also didn’t want anyone to catch him reading fanfiction - especially fanfiction about himself, written by his girlfriend.

“We’re going to be quite busy in the week leading up to your show. We have a few things to shoot, and then of course we have to film the Victoria Secret fashion show…” Karen continued, and Harry nodded absently as he listened.


***

Back in New York - or Connecticut rather, since she was staying with her father - Molly tried to keep herself busy. She had been trying to keep her mind occupied since she left London nearly a week ago, but there was only so much she could do in suburban Connecticut. She went into the city a few time to meet up with Alexa and Lily, and to see her mom, but she still had too much free time to wallow about being away from Harry while he was on tour. She had her advice column with Gemma, and that helped, but while Harry was on a short break between shows, she missed being able to see him nearly every other night through the live streams of his concerts.

One afternoon while her father was out for work, Molly invited Lily and Alexa over to hang out and do girly things like drink and paint their nails. Lily talk non-stop about her new boyfriend Jeff, and Molly internally laughed every time Lily said his name.

“What's so funny?” Lily asked when Molly slipped and accidentally snickered out loud.

“Nothing, I just picture Harry's old manager Jeff Azoff every time you say his name, and that smug look he always had on his face, and the way he kind of smelled like money…”

“Why do you know what he smelled like?” Alexa asked.

Molly shrugged and blushed. “Just guessing.”

“I forgot he wasn't Harry's manager anymore. What's his new manager’s name? Joe or something?” Alexa asked and cocked her head.

“Yeah, something like that…” Lily nodded disinterestedly, eager to bring the conversation topic back to her and her new boyfriend.

“It's Jocelyn…” Molly added quietly.

“Right, she's the woman that was seen going into his dressing room with him after the girlfriend rumor came out!” Alexa exclaimed.

“How do you know her name?” Lily laughed and teasingly hit Molly's arm.

“I don't know, I pay attention,” she shrugged and brushed it off.

“So, you must have seen the latest pictures of him out and about in Singapore?” Alexa raised her eyebrow suggestively, and Molly froze.

“What pictures?” She had been trying to avoid tumblr and twitter, because it only made her miss Harry more.

“He’s been seen with a baby carriage!” Alexa laughed and pulled out her phone to look up the pictures.

“A baby carriage?” Molly racked her brain for any explanation. She knew he was filming the Victoria Secret fashion show sometime this week, but it didn’t seem likely this was part of that. She thought Harry had mentioned a few other things he had to shoot, but he was vague and didn’t say what they were.

“Yeah, look at this:” Alexa shoved her phone at Molly, and she quickly glanced through the pictures of Harry pushing a baby carriage with some (very pretty) girl. Alexa scrolled further and nearly shrieked in excitement when she found new picture. “Who is this?” She held up her phone for Lily to see and the two girls hyperventilated at the newly posted paparazzi pictures of Harry with a (very) pregnant woman.

“Oh my God he's trying to kill us!” Lily howled,and Alexa appeared to be shaking.

Molly, shaking for a different reason, grabbed her phone and texted Harry while they were distracted. With the time difference he was probably asleep, but she knew there must be some kind of reasonable explanation behind this. Yet right now, her brain was going crazy with the 'secret baby’ theories Alexa and Lily were spouting off (mainly, 'maybe Daisy wasn't the only one!’)

Molly poured herself another drink and tried to calm down -since she had no idea what was going on and shouldn't jump to conclusions- but the logical part of her brain was rather dormant this evening. She set her drink down harder than she meant to, catching the attention of her friends.

“Are you okay?” Alexa asked when she saw the concerned expression on Molly's face.

“You look kind of pale, are you feeling alright?” Lily added and moved closer to her.

“I'm fine, sorry, the glass just slipped.” Molly tried to laugh it off, but her friends were not convinced.

“That's like your fourth drink since we got here, are you sure everything's okay?” Alexa asked.

“Is it your parents? I know how hard divorce can be, and if you need to talk we’re here.” Lily offered, but Molly shook her head.

“No, it's nothing like that, but thanks.” She smiled politely and looked up at her two closest friends. Something in their expressions wore away Molly's already weakening outer facade,and she did something she had never done in front of her friends, or hardly anyone, really: she cried.

“Oh, Molly's come here,” they drew her into a group hug. “Whatever it is I'm sure we can talk it through and fix it.” Lily cooed sympathetically.

“And if we can't fix it, we’ll bury it with ice cream,” Alexa added.

“It's…” Molly managed to choke out between sobs. “It's my boyfriend.”

“What has that bastard done?” Alexa asked, ready to fight.

“Alexa,” Lily whispered and shook her head. “What's wrong, Molly?”

“I don't know, and I think I might be overthinking this and making assumptions, but I haven't gotten to see him a lot recently because...of work things...but, I’m worried he might have cheated, or something.” Molly rambled, and felt herself spiraling near the end.

“And why’s that, hon?” Lily asked and wrapped her arm supportively around her shoulders.

“He's been kind of secretive and vague recently, and that's not too unusual for him, but usually I'm there with him, and I can see what he's really trying to say. Communication is not his strongest point,” Molly added with a hint of a smile.

“Well that's something you two have in common,” Alexa joked, but Molly couldn't help but agree.

“Yeah, and that might be a part of the problem. I can't bring myself to tell him how I really feel about him, because I'm worried he doesn't feel the same way.” Molly explained with a sigh. “And now, I’m not even sure how I feel.”

“I get why you’re worried; if I'd been cheated on before, I'd second-guess anything a future boyfriend did after that.” Lily said.

“Ugh, I'd forgotten about chlamydia-boy.” Alexa scoffed at the memory of Molly's cheating ex-boyfriend. “He was such a douche and didn't deserve you.”

“Thanks.” Molly smiled politely, and Lily looked like a lightbulb had flickered on over her head.

“Wait, is he the reason you didn't date anyone in college?” Lily asked with suspicion, though she was sure she knew the answer.

“You haven't dated anyone since freshman year of college??” Alexa asked in disbelief.

“No, I tried to set her up with so many guys, but she always found something wrong with them after one date.” Lily explained in mock annoyance.

“I'm just a good judge of character, I guess,” Molly shrugged with a smirk. “Or, I was, until...” She couldn't bring herself to say his name.

“Harry,” Alexa finished her sentence for her, and Molly froze.

She racked her brain, but couldn't remember if she'd told them his name (or maybe even drunkenly told them which Harry she was dating).

Sensing her confusion, Lily explained that they'd accidentally answered her phone once when they were at a bar, and spoke with him. Molly vaguely remembered this, and relaxed a bit.

“I think you might just be a little paranoid, but talk to him if you're worried.” Alexa advised, and Molly nodded. Eager to change the subject, she grabbed the TV remote and suggested they watch a movie. Lily and Alexa chatted throughout the movie, but Molly's head was far away.

Was she just being paranoid because she'd been cheated on before? Or was her suspicion justified?


***


Harry found a moment to himself backstage while recording the Victoria Secret fashion show, and pulled out his phone to finish reading that chapter of Molly’s fanfiction. Holly had just gotten a bouquet of flowers from her ‘secret admirer’, and Harry couldn’t wait to find out who it was.

~Holly carried her flowers home from school with a smile on her face. She couldn’t believe he would send her flowers! Holly was surprised he had even been listening when she said her favorite flowers were tulips, yet here she was holding a bouquet of pink tulips - her favorite color! Still glowing with happiness, Holly put the flowers in a vase when she got home and pulled out her phone to text her suspected secret admirer:

“Thank you for the flowers, my classmates were jealous

Notes

Sorry for the wait between updates! I’m very excited about the next chapter, so hopefully it won’t take me as long to write it! : )

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