Well, great then. Let's fly!"
"Sapphie?"
"Yeah."
"Are you planning to push me off a cliff?"
I looked at him and smirked mischievously.
"Maybe."
"And here I was, thinking I was forgiven." He said, sighing dramatically.
I snorted and stuck my tongue out at him.
Harry's POV
I smiled at her. I could bet she has no idea how beautiful she is and how happy she makes me.
"Okay, so how are we going to fly? Do you need me to call Tinker Bell? We could use some fairy dust," I mocked.
She rolled her eyes at me.
If she thinks she can offend me every times she tries so hard to, she's so so wrong because every time I look at her, I think not loving her would be an offence.
"We don't need pixie dust, Styles. We need imagination. I hope you can at least imagine. And it isn't exactly flying, yeah. But something of the sort," she smirked.
Oh, if you only knew what I've been imagining, my love. I've been imagining you in my arms. I've been imagining your lips on my own. To imagine myself in the sky can't be that hard.
"Fine, fine."
"Okay, do as I say."
"Your wish is my command, milady."
I got punched in my arm for that. But, I also got to hear her laugh.
She gave me a serious look.
"Enough with the jokes, Haz. You need to focus. This is a very tricky task."
"Right," I bit the insides of my cheeks to keep myself from laughing.
"Okay, now put your hands at the sides of your face so that you can't see anything but the sky."
While she was busy giving me the instructions, I was busy staring at her. How can a person be so perfect?
"Harry! Are you even listening?"
"Yeah, yeah. Sorry."
I did as she told me. The sky was all I could see. The vast infinity of blue with whites sprinkled in it, here and there.
The scene before my eyes was so calming, amazing.
"Beautiful," I gasped.
"Told ya! It almost feels like you're in the sky which is kind of but not exactly, like flying. It doesn't really make sense but I don't really care." She said.
She grinned at me and I smiled.
I sat up after a little more 'flying'.
I looked at my watch, we were supposed to leave about twenty minutes ago.
I stood up quickly.
"Sapphie, I hate to cut our flying lessons short but we need to leave. We're late."
"Oh." She widened her eyes and was on her feet in an instant.
"Let's go then!" She said.
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We reached the studio and I lead Sapphira to the room, we usually hung out in before or after the recording sessions.
The boys were all waiting for me. Julian looking extra angry at my late arrival. The boys knew I was bringing Sapphira along.
"Hey lads, I'm sorry for keeping you all waiting." I said, apologetically.
"Hello everyone!" Sapphira said politely, a small smile resting on her lips.
"Hello Sapphira! How are you?" Liam said and hugged her.
"I'm very well, Liam. Thank you. How are you all?"
"Great," Liam said.
"Why'd you get so late, Harry?" Louis asked with a smirk. God, don't Louis! Just don't say anything wrong!
Before I could say anything, Sapphira answered for me, clearly not getting the mischief in Louis' voice.
"Harry was busy flying, he lost trail of time." She said.
Louis cracked up. Considering it some kind of a joke.
"Alright, alright. We'll let you off the hook because honestly, we didn't miss you too much. We had a great time without you, Harry." He grinned.
Niall was busy watching golf on the television so he didn't bother speaking except the greetings. This lad.
"If you're all done, can we go and record? Lads, you've already wasted plenty of time." Julian said.
"C'mon Julian! The time that you enjoy wasting isn't wasted." Louis said.
"Alright. Whatever, let's go."
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Sapphira's POV
I saw the guys recording their parts in the recording studio. I was sitting on the other side of the glass partition between us. After they recorded their individual parts, they recorded the parts that they were supposed to sing together. The whole song was put up and ready.
It all seemed interesting, different but interesting. Most importantly, I could see that Harry was happy. It was nice to see his dimples carved into his cheeks, I was pretty sure his smile could light up the darkest nights. He was so, into everything they did. He furrowed his eyebrows when he was listening to someone talk, all his attention trained on that person.I adored how he was so passionate about music. He deserves all he has and more.
I spent listening to them and watching how they worked. Everything seemed to be going well. Except all this time, my thoughts would wander to Cassandra in one way or the other. I was desperate to find out the truth. The fact that I knew it was a murder, made me restless. Why would someone kill her?
I wanted to find out how the investigation had progressed but my aunt and uncle would never let me. They were already behaving weirdly after Cassandra's death. Being extra protective, I understand why they'd want to do that. But, Cassandra's already dead if that's what the murderer wanted to do. What could someone possibly want from me?
I heard my name being called. Finally, I got to listen to the song they had put together that day.
"Isn't no one supposed to hear this before it's officially released?" I questioned.
"That's right," Louis answered.
"But, since you're our special guest. We think it's okay for you to hear this song. It's not like you're gunna leak it. Right?" Louis continued.
"It's an honour. And about the last part, I'll think about it," I stuck my tongue out at them.
I heard the song and I loved it. The lyrics were beautiful and I loved the melody.
"I love it!," I told them excitedly. They all had proud looks on their faces.
"Thank you," they said.
"No, thank you. Thank you for this lovely day. I loved to be here. I know why you did this, Harry. I really appreciate it."
I gave him a small smile and the smile I got in return was something that couldn't be compared to all the wealth in the world.
On our way back, I saw the room with musical instruments and suddenly I felt excited. I went inside and looked at them. I saw a piano. I could play a piano, very well. I had almost practiced it all my life and they still wouldn't stop the lessons. But it wasn't bad, that was one of the things I loved doing. I used to play a tune that my mother used to hum to me. I didn't remember the words anymore but I remembered the tune perfectly.
I ran my fingers over the black and white keys, a smile making its way to my lips as I could hear my mother's voice in my head. Without realising, I started playing it.
When I finished it, I heard shuffling of feet and then clapping. Oh.
I turned around.
Harry stood behind me, smiling at me. I blushed when I realised he was there all along, watching me. I looked down at my lap.
"That was beautiful, Sapphie. I didn't know you could play the piano!"
I chuckled.
"Thanks, Harry. But, I think there's still a lot of things you don't know I can do. I'm versatile!" I grinned at him.
"Sure, sure." He stuck out his tongue at me.
I didn't want Harry to feel like he failed to cheer me up, partly because he didn't and partly because I'd hate to see sadness in those beautiful orbs. So, I
smiled at him all along, praying he wouldn't sense that I was bothered.
All this time, for a few moments, I forgot about those questions. When I heard their song, the song that he was so into, the song that he was so excited to make me listen to. When I was thinking about my mother. Even for a few moments, I was at peace.
Harry glanced at his watch and said,
"Let's go out to get lunch? Only, if that okay with you."
Every time he asked me for something, I don't know why. I couldn't say no. I lost all ability to think. I became the most selfless person in the world and his happiness seemed like the most important thing in the world.
It's weird. I never felt that way with Cassandra or Zara. I frowned when I thought about them.
I didn't know I was lost in my thoughts until Harry was waving his hand in front of my face. "Earth to Sapphira."he said.
"Oh....yeah. That would be perfect." I gave him a small smile that was nowhere near real.
"You okay?", he questioned.
"Yeah, yeah. M'fine." I grabbed his arms and dragged him out of the room before he had a chance to say anything else. "I'm hungry so you should hurry." I groaned.
He chuckled.
"Alright! Alright! Let's say a quick goodbye to the boys and then we'll go?" He asked.
"Of course!" I said.
I heaved a sigh of relief when he wasn't looking. Thank God he didn't catch me. The thing is, I don't really wanna explain to him what's going on with me because in all honestly, I don't completely understand it myself.
We were going to the same room that we went to, when we got here. I was following Harry.
Just as I entered the room a little girl came running to me and gasped loudly.
She was staring at me.
I smiled at her and said Hi, confused at the little child's behaviour.
" Are you uncle Harry's princess?" She questioned me excitedly.
I could feel my stomach twisting and turning. My blood warming and freezing all in an instant. It made me weirdly happy but more than that, it made me upset. I felt uncomfortable and for a few moments I didn't know what to do.
I composed myself and crouched down so I was at her level and smiled.
"I'm sorry! She thought you were Princess Amelia." A woman who resembled the little girl, spoke.
I smiled at the woman and nodded at her.
"No love, I'm not a princess."
"Oh, that's alright. I thought you were a princess. You're very pretty, just like all the Disney princesses. And mommy said, not all princesses wear crowns so I didn't know." She gave a smile.
I couldn't help but feel weird at her words. She complimented me and I couldn't help but chuckle. While I talked to her, I avoided eye contact with Harry at all costs. That would've been extremely awkward.
" Thank you, darling. You're a wonderful little missy yourself." I told the girl, honestly.
"What's your name?" She asked me.
"I'm Sapphira. What's your name, darling?"
"I'm Lux," she grinned at me.
"That's a beautiful name, indeed."
"Can you come and play with me?" She asked.
I looked up at Harry, I was sure I looked helpless because I didn't want to say no but I really was starving and I just told Harry to hurry.
He looked at me, amused. I mouthed 'help' and he chuckled.
He enjoyed my misery for a while and then decided to help.
"Lux, darling. I'm so sorry she has to go now. I'll bring her to see you again so you can play with her."
She frowned a little and then looked at me.
"You'll come and see me? And you'll stay for long?"
"I will." I said with a genuine smile.
"Yayyyy!" She cheered and ran off to play.
I stood up and mumbled a quick thanks to Harry.
"I really wanna go and play. But I really wanna go and eat as well. Decisions. Ugh."
Harry laughed.
"So we meet, Sapphira," Lux's mum said.
"I'm Lou, the boys' stylist." She extended an arm to shake my hand and I shook it. "It's a coincidence I'm here. I wouldn't have been here if I didn't leave some of my stuff here. In that case I couldn't have met you, again." She smiled.
I returned her smile.
"It's nice to meet you. You know me?"
I asked, surprised.
"Yeah, the boys and Sophia kept telling me how nice you were after Harry's party. I couldn't make it."
"Oh, I see." That party. I sighed internally.
We said our goodbyes to everyone and left the studio.
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Author's note:
I hope you still remember me because I've been MIA for like a month. I'm so sorry but college is tough and I need to keep up with the demands of it.
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