"You better start the car and be ready on time. Don't leave me out there freezing my ass off." I tell Harry through the land line phone. I know, a land line phone. I can't believe we still have one. Last week my iPhone went down the toilet thanks to Harry. He came over one day to take me to iHop and he knocked my phone into the toilet while I was doing my makeup. Now I have to go iPhoneless for the rest of the month and October just started.
"I won't Rosemary. I'm starting the car now. Be ready in 10 minutes." Of course I'm already ready. So I go into the kitchen to make Harry and I tea for this morning. We have this weird obsession with tea and bagels. Every morning I make tea and Harry make bagels. It's our breakfast everyday during the school year. 10 minutes later, I hear Harry's car pull up and I grab my backpack and our tea. Once inside the vehicle, we exchange our teas and bagels and we head for school. While eating my bagel with one hand, I reach down and grab my book and I start to read.
"Why are you reading this early? It's so dark out." With the bagel in my mouth, I grab my mini flashlight that I keep with keys and I shine it on the book. "Happy now?" I say with my mouth full of bagel. "Yes, yes I am Rosie. Don't wan't to mess up your vision, now don't we?" I roll my eyes and I go back to reading.
"They're getting married!" I screech at the top of my lungs, I'm so emotional about the proposal that I start balling. "They're finally getting married! I can't believe Daemon did that!" I clutch the book to my chest as I cry over the proposal over Daemon Black and Katy Swartz. Harry looks at me and rolls his eyes. "Is it necessary for you to scream and cry while I'm driving?" I raise my eyebrow in disbelief. Did he really ask that question? He knows I'm a bookworm and loves to read books. "Be quiet and let me read my book." I curse under my breath and give him the middle finger, causing him to laugh for the rest of the car ride.
Before Harry gets our running gear out of the trunk, I explain the book I was reading in the car. He thinks it's stupid and it's about a cheesy romance. But it's not. That's what I'm trying to convince him that it's not some sappy romance. But in reality it is. Oh well, I'm a hopeless romantic. As we walk towards my locker, Harry sees his girlfriend and he hugs me goodbye. "Give me the book in Biology, I want to see how badly written it is." Harry whispers in my ear which causes me to laugh out loud. I playfully hit him in the chest and continue the walk towards my locker. Only to be stopped by Claire, a friend I've known since seventh grade."Hey girl, got any leftover bagels?" She says as she looks in my backpack. "I have some leftover tea but no bagels." Claire makes a disgusted look and she shakes her head. "I don't know how you have time to make tea everyday. And how can you drink it? Tea's disgusting." She wrinkles her nose to motion her disgust for tea. "Harry makes it everyday for us, and I bring the bagels everyday. I love tea by the way. Only the good kind, the kind Harry gets from his grandma in England." I look around me and most of the people in the hallway had already gone to homeroom. I start walking to my homeroom along with Claire. "So how's Harry? Did he break up with that bitch yet?" I stop in the middle of our walk and I stared at Claire incredulously. "What? That girl Harry's dating is a bitch." Claire defends herself. "No he hasn't and I don't think he will. Alice is not a bitch, we talk and she seems pretty nice." Claire snorts and starts laughing. "Nice? Have you seen the way she acts when she sees you and Harry? She looks like she wants to kill you. She comes up and talks to me about you. Man she's jealous. Open your eyes Rosemary, she loathes you. Everyone knows that except you. Look I gotta go. See you at lunch."
Alice jealous? I'm not even close to Harry. Except for the fact that we've been best friends since he moved to Virginia in eighth grade. He moved into the house next to mine's and at first I avoided him. But our moms became close friends and forced us to know each other. My mom bribed me to have a decent conversation with Harry when Ms. Anne came over for coffee. After that we talked on and off, but slowly we became close friends. We're so close that we get mistaken for siblings or boyfriend and girlfriend. But we all know that he has a girlfriend. I would never think Alice would get jealous over Harry and I. At the beginning of Harry's relationship with Alice, Alice didn't know about my relationship with Harry. So one day I was at Harry's house watching cartoons and eating breakfast on the couch, then Alice came through the door. I wasn't phased by her presence cause Harry told me that Alice was coming to his house later that day, but apparently she was. Alice was shocked to find me sprawled out on Harry on the couch watching TV. I wasn't totally on Harry, we were fighting over the control before Alice came in. I was standing on the couch gripping the control and he wrapped his arms around my knees, causing me to fall on top of him. That morning, I slept in a pair of red spandex and an XL gray muscle shirt with a neon green sports bra. So when Alice saw me, it looked like I was wearing a shirt with only red underwear on. Plus my shirt was three sizes too big so you could see through the holes and it was practically falling off me, making it look like i was only in a bra and underwear. To add the to awkwardness, she found me straddling Harry. But it was the position I fell on top of him when I lost my balance. So it looked like we were having sex on the couch. Lovely isn't it?
Poor girl, she looked like she was about to cry. The minute I said hello, she ran out the door. All I said was hello. I might've sounded bitchy but it was just a hello. I didn't say, "It's not what it looks like", cause I knew I wasn't doing anything wrong, so it would've been useless to say that. But the minute she busted out the door, Harry and I went after her. Alice looked terrified when she saw us coming after her. She was trying to start her car by the time Harry was at the driver's door. Harry got Alice to come out of her car, somehow got her to calm down and got her inside the house again. There all three of us sat down and explained what happened to us. She cried and cried saying how she doesn't trust me being around Harry, how she thought he was cheating on her and how she wants Harry to herself. Girl, that's not happening. I spend 70% of my life in that house. Yeah, no can do.
Well now that I remember that day, I guess you could say Alice is jealous. As long as I don't talk to her and create drama, I'm good. I slug through 90 minutes of English before it's time to go to Biology. Just the thought of sitting next to Harry makes me smile like an idiot. Our biology teacher hates Harry and I. He calls us Thing One and Thing Two. Once I walk into class, I see Harry sitting there looking bored as hell. Once he saw me enter, his whole face lit up. "Give me your 'special' book Rose." I hand him the book and he starts to read the book the same way I read books. Then Harry starts reading Origin by Jennifer L. Armentrout out loud, mocking me at the same time.
"I want to marry you because I'm in love with you, Kat. I will always be in love with you. That's not going to change today or two weeks from now. I will be just as in love with you in twenty years as I am today." He let go of my hand and rose slightly, cupping my cheek. "That's why I want to marry you."
"Really marriage? You told me that they were in high school." Harry said as he was closing and handing the book to me. "Yeah but they just turned 19, and the government's tracking them down. So it's do or die mode." I laugh as our biology teacher, Mr. Shaw walks in beginning class. "Good morning class. Would you please pass your essay to the end of the table so I can collect them." I look in my binder and my essay isn't there. I cursed under my breath and nudge my elbow into Harry's side. "I don't have my essay with me. I think I forgot it at your house Harry." Then he takes out a folder and a my paper. "Oh my gosh thank you so much!" Harry just smiles and whispers, "You owe me." He winks and turns his attention to Mr. Shaw.
Halfway through the class, Harry sticks a sticky note on my leg. Secretly I look down at the note, only to see one of Harry's corny jokes. Of course. I look up to him and he doens't pay attention to me. I put the sticky note in my binder, along with the many sticky notes that have his corny jokes. 10 minutes later, I receive another note. This time his joke was decently funny. I couldn't contain myself as I end up laughing along with Harry. Mr. Shaw turns around from the chalkboard and he gives Harry and I the death glare.
"Do I need to separate you two Ms. Chapman and Mr. Styles?" We shook our heads and in the background, I could hear the snickers and giggles from the class. I turn towards Harry and when Mr. Shaw goes back to writing on the blackboard once more, Harry gives the middle finger to Mr. Shaw and I cover my mouth to stifle my laughter. For the remaining twenty minutes of class, we have a continuous thumb war underneath the table.
The bell rang and the whole class starts to pack up. "You know I kept all of your jokes in my binder. It's in a folder and the folder's full."
"Good, keep 'em. You might want another folder, just saying. I'll see you at lunch Rose."
I nod and I head to Calculus. Stupid math. I literally have no friends in the class what so ever. I'm such a loner in that class. The people in that class are the people I don't associate with. But the only good thing about that class is that my Track coach is the teacher. So I'm one of his favorites. We have a special bond.
After 90 more minutes of endless, boring math, the class is dismissed to lunch. As I go to my locker, I see Claire and Ben at my locker waiting for me. "Hey Rosemary! How's your day?" Ben asks me. "It's doing well I guess. Okay I'm ready, let's go." We head towards the stairs leading down to the cafeteria. As I approach the table we usually sit at, I see Alice and Harry kissing. Wow, what a shock. Not. As we sit down, Alice and Harry keep kissing. At some point Harry pulls away and leaves a disappointed Alice. "I'm getting food, I'll be right back babe." Harry gets up and heads toward the lunch line.
"Looks like you two were enjoying yourselves." Ben says timidly.
Alice shoots him a glare. "It's our three month anniversary. Three amazing months of our lives being together." The whole time she was talking to me, trying to make me jealous. Oh yeah, I can see her insecurities quite clearly now. As I was about to say a comeback, Harry came back with a tray full of food. Three slices of pizza, two ice cream bars, chocolate milks, fruit, broccoli and celery with ranch and a salad. Harry hands me a slice of pizza, an ice cream bar, a chocolate milk and the broccoli with ranch. He gives the salad to Alice and the rest of the food is his. "What?! You give all that food to her? You two have pizza, ice cream and juice? And I only get a salad? What's up with that Harry? Huh?" Alice says sharply. Anyone at that table could tell she was mad.
"Um..I don't know?" Harry looks at me for reassurance. He looks for permission to tell Alice and the table about my finacial problems. I shake my head and I gave him a frightened look. Harry got my gesture and he changes the subject quickly. "Well because you can't eat any of that stuff. You told me that you're lactose intolerant and you don't like celery or broccoli; the only thing they had was a salad. At least I got you food Alice." Thankfully Alice gets too distracted to even notice Harry's subterfuge.
Recently, my dad lost his job and he's desperately finding a job. My mom is the only one in my family working. She's a nurse at the local hospital but it isn't enough to provide for us. Plus, my older sister is at university and my parents were already paying for her education. I work at a daycare facility in town, but due to the recession, they had to cut pay checks for a couple weeks. I still had to work but I would get no pay. Since my mom is the only one paying, she can't afford my lunches. The Styles family are the only people other than my family who knows about our problems. So Harry has been buying me lunch for the past week. If Harry tells the Alice, then she would just humiliate in front of the whole school. Knowing Harry, he wouldn't allow that.
"Oh man Coach Jones would kill us if he finds out what we're eating." I laugh. Harry nods in agreement with a mouth full of pizza. Harry and I are on the cross country team and our coaches told the team specifically not to eat junk food. Oops, oh well.
The rest of lunch Harry, Ben, Claire and I all talk about going to Fright Night at an amusement park this weekend since it was Halloween. I invited Alice too, since it was the polite thing to do. But you could see the dread in Ben and Claire's faces. It was a tradition for the four of us to go on Halloween. It's been that since eighth grade. Now that Harry is dating Alice, we have to tag her along or else she'll acuse us of leaving her out intentionally.
Before the bell rings, I went to the bathroom and Alice also claimed that she needed to use the bathroom too. We enter the bathroom and I ask her about the Fright Night trip, but she suddenly interrupts me by pushing me against the wall. "I don't care if you and Harry are best friends and claim to be only friends. I just want to let you know that I will do anything in my power to stop you from ruining my relationship with Harry. And I will do anything and everything to stop you."
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Dun dun dunnnn! Cliff hanger guys. I originally wrote this for fun, but then I realized that it was kind if cliché so in decided, why not. It's one direction too, so it works out. Enjoy
Oh and I might write this into a full length book, if you guys like this. Or I might write My Savior too.