Synopsis: Y/N has ADHD
Y/N had always had difficulty with concentrating and found even the most simple tasks extremely overwhelming.
It probably didn't help that she was an assistant to Jeffrey Azoff at Full Stop Management which meant she was given a list of tasks each day to complete. Whether they were completed or not really depended on whether her ADHD would act up on that particular day.
A lot of people at Full Stop Management knew of Y/N's ADHD. She was secretive about it at first but when confronted by Jeffrey, she didn't really have much of a choice but to tell him that ADHD was a big aspect in her life.
Y/N was a much loved member of the team and was thoroughly loved by one person in particular.
Harry met Y/N before a meeting. He was running slightly late and was making his way into the building when he saw Y/N sniffling on a bench outside.
As much as he needed to get to his very important meeting, he couldn't avoid the crying girl so he went up to her to see if she was okay. "Hey, you okay love?" He asked, sunglasses hiding his eyes.
Y/N sniffled and looked up at him, her nose red from crying, "I lost Jeff's car keys to his new car." She speaks.
Jeffrey had recently bought himself a new range rover and allowed Y/N to go and buy coffee for the meeting. The coffee had probably gone cold by now and rested in cardboard crate by her feet.
"Well I'm sure they couldn't have gone far," Harry looks up at the car in Jeffrey's parking space, "I mean you got here so they must just be on the floor somewhere. C'mon love, don't cry, let's look for them." He reaches for her hand and offers a soft smile.
She puts her small hand in his and they walk the path she walked when she left the car. They looked all over the place before Harry tried to check the car itself. He peered through the window and saw the keys still in the ignition.
"Hey I found them!" He opens the car door and pulls out the keys.
Y/N turns and immediately turns red when she realizes where they had been the entire time. She looks down and fumbles over her own words, "O-Oh my goodness, that's s-so silly of me." She stutters and cringes at herself and the high pitch tone in her voice.
Harry inwardly coos at her awkwardness and finds it endearing. "It's okay, I've done tha' plenty of times m'self." He lies, hoping it will put her at ease somehow.
"Really?" She looks up at him.
"Oh yeah," He nods, "It's an easy mistake. One minute I'll be walking to my apartment and the next I'll be walking all the way back because I've forgotten m' keys in the ignition. One time I even had to call someone up to break the door open, locked m'self out and everything!" He widens his eyes and Y/N giggles at the story.
Harry feels the edges of his lips turn upwards at the sound of sweet giggles but clears his throat and ignores the pulling of his heart strings when he remembers the meeting he's very late for, "I should probably be going to that meeting now." He motions towards the entrance of the building.
"Oh the meeting! I was suppose to bring the coffee up and hour ago. It's probably all cold now." Y/N huffs.
Harry shakes his head, "Don't worry about it I'm sure everyone can go one meeting without having a cup of coffee." He assured her again.
Y/N follows Harry up to the meeting room and waves him goodbye watching as he walked into the room with a lingering feeling in her chest.
"Aren't you suppose to be taking notes for Jeff's meeting?" Michelle asks Y/N who's eyes widen as she grabs a notebook and pen.
She walks into the meeting room and catches the attention of everyone inside. Harry turns in his chair and smiles at a flustered looking Y/N who squirms in her place as she awkwardly goes to sit down. Jeff smiles at her too and carries on talking.
As the meeting continues, the notebook and pen were untouched as Y/N struggled to concentrate on anything that was being said. She couldn't sit still in her seat as she wiggled around and tried to get comfy.
It wasn't until the meeting was over where she realised she'd messed up again. She had completely zoned out and didn't take any notes on the meeting.
"Oh no," Y/N mumbles, looking at the empty pages.
"Here." The voice from earlier spoke and Y/N looked up to see Harry. "I took a few notes, might not be the best." She looked at his scribbled notes on the notebook and took the notebook from his hands.
"Oh my goodness, thank you!" She sighed, feeling a little embarrassed at her antics throughout the day. It wasn't the best impression to make on a global superstar.
Y/N handed the notes to Jeff and sat down at her desk in the office, releasing a long sigh and hiding her face in her hands. She began to type up some emails and continued to do so for the rest of the day.
By the time the sun was setting, Y/N had finished up the very last of her emails and felt the presence of someone coming up behind her. "I think this was intended for you." Jeffrey spoke, his voice startling her slightly.
Y/N stated down at the slip of paper recognising the handwriting from the notebook Harry had given her earlier. She read the digits on the page and furrowed her eyebrows, "A-are you sure?" She looked back to Jeff who had already left her alone to contemplate whether to message the phone number on the page or not.
Since that day, Harry and Y/N were inseparable.
Harry had grown use to Y/N's inability to concentrate or sit still and her forgetfulness every now and then. Y/N had told Harry all about her ADHD and he was unsurprisingly very accepting of it.
"Did you hear what I was saying baby?" Harry spoke as they held hands in the car on the way to the venue for the launch of his new Gucci perfume.
"Honestly Harry, I wasn't listening to anything you just said." She answered truthfully, her knee hopping up and down as she bit her lip in nervousness.
"What's got you so on edge baby? Are you having an episode?" Harry gives her a soft look and places his hand over her knee.
Y/N nods her head shamefully, "I sent a request to my brain to make sure this exact thing didn't happen tonight and it didn't listen." She frowns.
Harry chuckles at her words, "There's no need for tha' my love, it just happens hm? Can't help tha" He tells her but she still felt let down by herself.
"It's a dinner party Harry, you know how much I hate having to do dinner parties." Harry nods in understanding because he really did understand that dinner parties were her worst nightmare. She hated anything to do with having to stay in one place for more than five minutes.
"Would it help if I drive you home? You know you don't have to stay peaches. I can tell everyone you weren't feeling too good." Harry says.
Y/N releases a sigh, "No, this is your night and I'm not going to let anything ruin it."
Harry feels a great sense of appreciation. He loved that about her, that no matter what she was always there for him and always cheering him through everything he did.
"I bought you something." Harry says, reaching over once they had stopped at a traffic light and pulling open the glove compartment.
Y/N giggles when she notices a fidget cube still in its plastic wrap. She pulled it out and noticed it was customised and covered in pink hearts with TPWK written on some of the buttons.
"Maybe it'll get you through some of the evening." He smiles taking in her reaction to the silly gift.
"I love it H, thank you." She smiles and kisses him on the cheek.
Y/N couldn't stop fiddling with the buttons on the fidget cube by the time they had arrived. She was overthinking things and was worried that her thoughts would become her reality.
They walked the floral carpet to the venue where they saw their allocated seats at the table. Y/N let out a small sigh of relief when she saw Harry's name next to hers at the table, it bought her a great sense of comfort knowing he'd be there for her if she really needed it.
"Calm down peaches." Harry murmured in her ear and pressed a kiss to her temple.
"Ugh my stupid brain." She mutters as she focuses on the fork and the polished silver instead of her actual meal that was being served.
"I think your brain is rather beautiful my love." Harry bites on a piece of broccoli. "Eat up baby, I don't want you to get hungry."
Y/N snaps out of her daze and looks at the food on her plate. People are making conversation across the table but Y/N pulls out her phone at the sound of a buzz instead of engaging with the conversation.
To some it might seem rude to have her constantly checking her phone but Harry didn't mind it at all, he wanted her to do whatever she needed to do to calm herself and her mental state.
"Wouldn't you agree Y/N?" Emilia speaks to her from across the table and Y/N snaps from the screen to her face.
"A-agree?" Y/N blushes.
Emilia rolls her eyes, "It's a little rude to be on your phone at the dinner table don't you think?"
Y/N feels herself shrink in her seat as she places her phone back in her side purse, "Sorry."
"Hey, you have nothing to apologise for." Harry whispers in her ear, trying to avoid opening his mouth and snapping at Emilia for not being more understanding to his girl.
"I-I think I might take a walk." Y/N decides and Harry nods, knowing she needs to take a walk in order to focus again.
"Okay baby, do you want me to come with you?" Harry pulls on her hand.
"It's okay." She smiles and walks outside.
"She's going on a walk in the middle of dinner?" Emilia snickers, shaking her head.
Harry clears his throat, "So?"
"Well first she was on her phone during our conversation and now she's left to go on a walk instead of enjoying this meal that's been prepared for us. God Harry, you need to teach that girl some decent manners." Emilia rolls her eyes.
Harry's feels a bubble of anger burst inside of him, "She's a grown woman, she can look after herself. I don't know why you're so concerned with what she does, I don't blame her for wanting to escape this boring ass conversation. If you don't mind," Harry releases a small burp, "Sorry about that, I forgot to learn some decent manners." He smirks before standing and leaving the room.
He wasn't going to sit there and let some random woman talk bad about his favourite girl so he left the room and went to go find her.
He eventually made out her silhouette in the darkness and saw her pacing back and forth. His fave softened as he walked over and noticed her panicking, "I feel so stupid Harry. I don't understand why my brain just can't be normal! Why is it so hard for me to just sit down for five minutes?"
"Baby, please calm down." He tries to grab her hand to pull her in but she wasn't having it.
"It's so frustrating and embarrassing not being able to have people understand me. I just want to be understood." She lets out her frustration, "If I tell anyone I have ADHD do you know what they do? They roll their eyes and tell me it's just an excuse to be loud and annoying when it's not that at all. It's so frustrating not being able to concentrate on small things that I just want to get done and it's not fair that no one listens."
Harry feels nothing but sympathy for her as he listens to her rant about how she was feeling. He couldn't understand ADHD in the same way she does since he didn't know what it felt like but he could support her through it and right now she needed his support.
"I understand my love," he pulls her in and kisses her forehead, "I wish people understood more about what you go through but I hope you know I'm always here through any episode or wobble that you have. I know it's frustrating and I know how hard you try to work around it and I'm so so proud of you. Every time I wake up next to you all I think about is how lucky I am to have such a pretty, smart, determined girl to wake up to."
Y/N blushes and rests her chin on his chest as she looks up at him with her arms around his torso. They were stood under the streetlight at they spoke in the dark of the night and all she could think was how lucky she was to have him by her side whenever she was feeling low or down about her mental state.
Harry never wanted to admit it but whenever Y/N was asleep he was always researching ways of helping people with ADHD and watching advice videos on everything to do with the matter. He just wanted to be there for his baby.
"You don't think I'm rude do you?" She mumbles, feeling her embarrassment from earlier return.
"Baby, you were not rude at all. If it helps, I burped before I left the table." Harry reveals to her, a giggle escaping her lips.
"You did?" She asks and he nods.
"Wanted to show her what real manners were." He says, sarcastically as he laughs along with her.
"What would I do without you?" Y/N whispers, feeling a warmth spread over her as she remembered how in love she was with this man.
"Think I could say the same about you my love." He kisses her on the lips, "I love you for everything that you are, whether you forget, lose focus or lock your keys in your car."
Y/N smiles and hugs him tightly before her eye widen, "You took the keys out of the car right?"