Lyrical Souls [h.s]

9.3 - Joy - The Group

We were driving to the pub, I look at Harry who was playing with his lower lip, something he does when he's nervous. I grab his hand and with a gentle squeeze, I reassured him.

'No need to be nervous. They're gonna love you. If it makes you feel better I could tell you about each one of them so you'd know their interest and you could bond with them easily.'

He nodded then I started explaining, 'First we have Noah, he's the athlete of the group, favourite topics of discussion, football and gym training stuff. Then we have Tom who's also my partner in the blog, he's a total movie and sci-fi geek like me, so you got that covered. Then we have Sam, a fashion designer, you love fashion so you got that covered. And You already met Katie and that's everyone.'

'Huh. It doesn't seem that hard. But what I'm also nervous about is them judging me. Or, I don't know, since they care about you and are probably overprotective they might not accept me.'

'Oh, well they are overprotective, but they can see the difference between when I'm with you and when I wasn't. I don't think they'll be too harsh.'

He parked his car and we went into the pub where my friends were waiting in a large booth.

'Cassie!' Katie and Sam cheered as they pulled me into a group hug.

'Hey, girls! I miss you!' I sighed.

'We miss you too!'

'Hey, guys!' I greeted trading high fives.

'I want you to meet someone. Harry, that's everyone. Everyone, that's Harry.'

'Hello everyone! It's so nice to finally meet you.'

'It's nice to meet you too!' They all said at the same time.

'Did you order yet? I'm starving I haven't eaten anything in the last 24h!'

'What? Cassie! That is so unhealthy why are you doing this?' Noah scolded me.

'I keep telling her to eat when we're on set but she says she doesn't like the food there. It's been going on for a while. She only eats once a day around now. Cas' you can't keep this up it's not healthy!'

'Okay, less objection and more ordering.' I urged.

The conversation flew naturally and all of my friends seemed to like Harry. Sam suggested to design some of his suits for his next tour, Noah gave him an all new and improved training schedule, Katie is getting an exclusive interview with him for her blog and when we wrap up the movie, we're all meeting up at my flat for a movie marathon since we hadn't done those in a while. He didn't have to accept doing all these things, but he seemed happy too, he really wanted them to like him since they're basically my second family.

'So how are you guys dealing with the paparazzi and the fans? I mean Niall and I are out so we don't care. But you two are still a secret, how are you avoiding them?' Katie asked.

'Well, they know we're working on a movie together so that mostly explain why we hang out together, and we try our best to act as if we're just friends when there are people around and for now most people are buying that.' I explained.

'Well there are speculations and rumours but they don't have any proof and we're not denying or confirming anything. So, for now, all is good.' Harry continued.

'And what about the fans? Are they sending you hate?' Sam asked.

'Not more than last time. But there was that incident the other day. Remember when we were having dinner two days ago?'