The Strings Attached

Part 24

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He always thought about her.
He never even meant to hurt her in the past.
But now they were happy, and in love.
And that's all that mattered.

"TOM! HARRISON!" I scream from the hotel room in Miami. I start jumping up and down as they come scrambling in like I've died or something.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Tom asks concerned for my well being but looks confused when he sees me dancing around.

"I finished the book!" I cheer.

"You what!" Harrison looks completely shocked right now but also quite happy.

"It's finished. It's done. I got a second book being published." I say and continue dancing in the spot.

"Okay, that's awesome." Tom says and he smiles like an idiot.

"I just have to send the remainder of it to my editor...." I lean over and click send it. "And done."

Harrison and Tom start shouting and jumping up and down with me. "We finished a book!" Tom yells.

"We finished a book!" I say and jump. This was probably the first time in a long time that Harrison, Tom and I have had this much fun while getting along.

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It was really late at night and everyone was sleeping. Well, I was sleeping too but I kept coming in and out of a daze. Tom was sound asleep on the other bed and Harrison was sleeping soundly beside me. I finally close my eyes and start drifting off to sleep.

"Alexa?" I here a quiet, raspy voice say next to me.

My eyes slowly flutter open and I turn around on the bed so I'm now facing Harrison. "Yes?" I ask quietly.

"What relationship did you base your book off of?" Harrison asks, looking at me directly in the eyes. "Because I know you did. I read it before we started dating and it sounded awfully like our flirtatious relationship."

I sigh and smile at him, putting my hand on the side of his head and gently rub my thumb on his cheek. "Yes, the basis Of the story was based off of us."

"Then how did it end? Like the first one?" Harrison asks, looking at me with cute puppy eyes.

"No no." I say. "Not like the first one. Even better. They lived a happy life and were in love forever."

I bite my lip and Harrison smiles at me softly. He slowly leans in and softly presses his lips against mine, sending warmth throughout my body.

"Fuck, I love you Alexa." He says as soon as he pulls away. This is the first time he's really said it to me, and I think he's been holding it in.

The world goes blank and I think back to every single memory I have. I'm not an easy person to love and everyone knows that. I'm also not an easy person to love someone after what happened. But I think of Harrison, and I think to right now. I think of the day I met Harrison, I think to every time we hung out as kids, I think to when he held me as I would cry when Tom wasn't there. I think to when he was always there those times Tom wasn't. I think to when I graduated how we both cried because I was moving to the States and he was back here. I remember seeing him for the first time on the set of Civil War and awkwardly sharing a hotel room with him. I think to when I saw him after I graduated university and how a spark was lit. I think back to all that, and I quietly look him in the eye and say,

"I love you too."

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"This place is beautiful." I say as I look at he vast beach in Miami.

"You guys brought your bathing suits, right?" Tom says, eyeing both Harrison and I.

I smirk and raise an eyebrow. "You don't have any more interviews today, right?"

We all run back to the hotel that was a block away like children running to a sandbox. We quickly take turns changing in the bathroom then head back down to the beach. My hair is longer now and flowing freely in the wind. My sunglasses block the sun and I look out to the water.

"This is beautiful." I say and walk through the sand, follow Tom to were Zendaya, Laura and Jacob said they would be.

"I hope you have your camera." Harrison smirks and looks at me.

I point to the bag that was around my other shoulder. "Where don't I go with my camera." I laugh and we lay out towels down next to Tom's.

"Well finally that shell got cracked." Zendaya laughs and we both sit down on our towels.

"Yeah yeah whatever." I roll my eyes and take my top off so I'm in my swim shorts and bikini top.

My swim shorts were black since I hate wearing bottoms. And my bikini top wasn't a spaghettis strap, it was a clip on and it was black as well. I push my sunglasses up my hair as I start applying sunscreen to my very pale skin.

"Hurry up Alexa!" Tom dances like a little kid. "Can't you do that later?"

"Sorry that I'm a ghost Tom. I don't want to burn." I laugh and close the bottle. "Harrison can you put it on my back?" I ask and hand him the bottle of sunscreen.

He nods and rubs it down my back. When he's done he puts it back in my bag and I lay on the towel. "I'll stay here for a bit. You two go have fun."

Tom rolls his eyes but him, Jacob and Harrison go running into the water. I pull out my phone, see that the time shouldn't be too late in London so I face time Sam.

"Hey Alexa-" he answers and looks shocked. "Where are you?"

"The beach." I smirk and flip the camera so he can see.

His jaw drops as he calls Harry over, who's shocked as well. "It's winter!" They both scream.

"It's Florida." Zendaya says from beside me and I start laughing.

"Did you get me something!" Sam says and pushes Harry out of the way.

"Yes now shut up Sam this isn't about you." I hiss and he rolls his eyes and sits down.

"Let me guess. Tom, Harrison and Jacob are all swimming." Sam says and I nod.

"Yeah. Put the Holy Trinity on the beach and you get five year olds at a swimming pool."

A/N: so I wasn't really following the press tour that much at the beginning so I'll probably get a bunch of stuff wrong. So I'm sorry if that's the case. But I hope you like it!