small world

chapter 18

CHARLIE

My mood shifted completely when I realized that my two days without Harry had suddenly turned into two days of just me and Harry. Our last time there together was cut short, and it was going to bring back so many memories just being together in Holmes Chapel like when we were kids. I couldn’t wait to finally spend time just the two of us; we could finally spend time together as a couple and there was nothing I would rather do then spend all day on the sofa, go to Starbucks, cuddle up and rent a movie and just be together. I daydreamed as we sat snuggled up in the back of the train, with Harry’s arm protectively over my shoulder.

“Harry?” I said coming back to reality, looking up at his crystal green eyes as they smiled down at me. I studied his face, admiring his pink lips and the way his smile slightly tilted upward on one side, the way his deep dimples framed his perfect teeth and his tossled hair cascaded perfectly atop his head. He looked at me looking at him before responding.

“Yes Charlotte?” he said in his deep voice and my heart sped up every time he said my name – it sounded so good; so right escaping his lips.

“Tell me everything about you.” I said simply mid yawn.

“What?” he said whilst smirking, his head tilting in confusion in the same direction of his charming crooked smile.

“I want to know every little thing about you, catch me up on the last eleven years.”

A wide smile broke over his face, “what do you want to know?” 

“Every stupid little thing. Like who your best friend was when I left and what your favorite cartoon was, what high school was like for you, if you ever thought about me, what your first job was like, what your first kiss was like –“ 

“You already know about my first kiss Charlie” he said half smiling at me and my eyes widened “How could I forget?” I laughed remembering the simpler times, when he kissed me under the slide. It was so long ago but felt like it was just yesterday.

“Wow Char, I’m gutted you forgot! That was the best kiss of my life, I have you know!” he said fake-hurt and I elbowed him in the arm. 

“Oh stop it! It slipped my mind! Wow,” I let out a breath in realization “It’s so weird to think that that Harry who was my best friend and my first kiss is you Harry, my best friend my boyfriend and one of five of the biggest boy band in the UK. I can’t believe we’re in the position we’re in now… its just fate” I said shaking my head in awe at the chances “But back to the point – I do really want to know everything, I just love you so much but feel like there’s so much left to learn.” I said nervously, afraid of sounding stupid. 

“Charlie Parker you’re the first girl to ever give a damn about any of those things” he said genuinely, a small tear forming in his green eyes and I smiled back at him kissing his cheek “I guess all this time you’ve been with the wrong girls.”

HARRY

And she was right. Every girl before Charlie was the wrong girl, and any girl after her – though I prayed there never would be another girl – would just be another wrong girl. Nobody could even come close to comparing to her; there was something about her – everything about her. She was so simple, yet so complex. She was naturally the most beautiful girl I had ever seen, her eyes had me captivated each time they met mine. She made me laugh without even trying to be funny; she fit into my group of friends like she was supposed to be the 6th piece to our little One Direction family puzzle. She cared about me, all of me, when past girls just cared about the famous Harry Styles of One Direction. She was different, and above everything, she was mine.