Any Other Way // h.s

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"Excuse me?" I say, in the nicest way possible but it sounded a bit abrupt when I repeat it over and over again in my mind. "Uh come in." she says, smiling a bit. Her attitude suddenly changing, I don't know what it was. But it was suspicious.

"I know." I mumble as I walk in, seeing my mom on the couch and my dad giving me a small wave. I give them a lifeless smile back and I stand by the couch. There's something very secretive about her, I could feel it. I don't like it.

"Well.. Mom. Dad. Do you want to tell me who this is?" "This is your manager, Claire Humphrey." My mom answers as the lady smiles to me then my dad and mom. She holds her hands together, placing them on her lap.

"What? Manager? For what?" I ask questioningly as my phone goes off on it's text tone.

"Since you've been getting more engaged in your work, and you need someone to handle all your work.. We hired Claire here, who will do all the paperwork when you go traveling-" started my mom. "Well I could handle it all myself. Can't I?" I don't like change. It's something I'm not good with. Every time something life changing happens, it'll take me a while to get along with it.

I'm just not used to this. A manager? I'm not famous famous. I'm just a beauty guru.

My mom shakes her head. "Your manager will take care of everything." "Not everything." I mumble quiet enough so no one would hear. I think. A manager can't really take care of all the problems. She'll be able to know about everything and anything, as if I already am good at that.

Claire Humphrey will just add on problems that I don't want. I'm pretty sure she knows about the Harry thing now. And she won't be able to fix that, can she?

"Well, she will be your manager for now on starting next month, which is in about a week." My mom says, looking at my dad who is nodding. "I'm going to get going now, it's pretty late." Claire says uneasy, standing up. Interesting.

"It was delightful meeting all of you, and it'll be a pleasure working for you Kathryn." She waves to all of us, shaking all our hands before leaving.

I roll my eyes. Working for you. Really? She's way older than me and she's going to work for me? That's really weird.

I sigh and turn back around to my parents. "You could've at least asked if I wanted a manager or not."

"Then, you already would say no. We had to start the action here and that problem with Harry Styles has got to stop and go." Mom says, dad looks at me agreeing.

I stand there, thinking about it. Then I walk towards the couch and sit down, getting myself comfy.

"Fine.. Okay. I guess. I'll try. But if I don't want a manager.. Can you please just fire her?" I say, asking my question quietly; like I know Claire can hear us. I would've been fine with someone else.

"We'll think about it, but for now.. you'll have Claire as your manager. She actually manage-"

I look at my dad, and he stops talking. Knowing that I wasn't interested in what my new manager did before managing me.

"You know, we didn't pick Claire because we were looking for her.. Right? She found us." My mom says.

I glance at my mom conspicuously. Claire found my parents? Okay. Things are slightly getting even more fishy.

Harry's POV

I glance at my phone, checking if Kathryn answered back to my text yet. It's been about a week and she hasn't answered.

Damn.

I feel stupid for texting. What did I do wrong? I'm still wondering. I've been asking Liam about this and all he said was

"She doesn't like you, move on."

But I don't like Kathryn.. Do I? What about Kendall? She just came back from New York. It's on her Instagram. I don't know what happened between us, it's like nothing happened.

I unlock my phone, rushing my password in and going through my notes. They were different song ideas.

I shake my head, moving my hand to my face; receiving looks from people in the room.

What's so wrong about doing that?

I can't start liking Kathryn.. No. Harry, don't even think about it..

But it's hard to not think about it.. She's always on my mind.

But we've only known each other for a while.

It's not like I'm in love.. I really need to stop talking to myself sometimes.

Shit. Fuck. No. No. I can't be feeling feelings for Kathryn.

I look over to Louis, who raises his eyebrow at me. I know that look.. The You're Fucking Crazy look.

I shrug at him, then I receive a new message. I look at my new message, thinking it was from Kathryn.

It's not.

Message:

Just made it in, I will give you news in no time.

I bite the inside of my cheek and look up from my phone, quickly closing it.

Author's Note:

Who do you think the message was from? What did you think of Harry having a point of view? I will do Harry's point of view more often now, haha. Please comment and vote and share! I love you all and have an amazing daaaay! Xoxo