Harry Styles x Reader One-Shots

I Should Probably Go To Bed

Pairing: Harry Styles x Reader (exes)

Word Count: 1.2k

Summary: Harry tries to go out with his friends, but when he hears that you're back in town, he knows that he needs to head home early.

Warning(s): it's exes, so it's sad lol (but not really i don't think)

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The last thing on Harry's mind was wasting his night away in a bar with random people hanging all around him. He would much rather stay at home and bask in the loneliness that he had been forced to get used to over the past few months.

He hadn't been in the partying mood since you left. He hadn't been out of his house for more than trips to the grocery store and last minute studio sessions and meetings. As of late, he couldn't seem to find a reason to go out and about. You weren't there to drag him to all the functions that you so desperately wanted to go to. You weren't there to tell him to go out into the world, to live a little.

You hadn't been there for almost six months. You left less than a week after you got the call about the promotion. You had gotten the job that you had been aiming for. The only problem with that was the fact that to accept the job meant traveling around the world all the time. It wasn't like you were going to be on tours for a few months and then come back home for a while. You'd be continuously moving, maybe staying in the same city for a month or so, but there was absolutely no 'home' anymore.

Harry couldn't do that. He couldn't be in a relationship where he'd neer see you, and there's nothing that he could do about that. He tried his best to find a compromise, to figure out how the two of you could get through the distance, but there seemed to be no solution. Everything that the two of you discussed was impossible. There was no way that your relationship could survive that distance all the time, so it ended before anyone could get even more hurt.

He was heartbroken, to say the least. He had been completely destroyed when the both of you came to the conclusion that the relationship just wouldn't work.

He hasn't been in the mood to go out and be bombarded with questions about why he's been distant for the better part of the last half of the year. But somehow, Mitch had convinced him that everything would be fine, that it was time for him to go out again and have some fun.

Reluctantly, Harry had agreed. He really just wanted Mitch to stop worrying about him. He had tried his best to tell Mitch that he was fine, but he knows Harry better than just about anyone, which means that he's always been able to see right through his fake smile.

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They're on their way to the bar. Mitch is cracking jokes and Harry's laughing for the first time in forever. His dimples are popping and his eyes are lit up in a way that most thought they'd never see on him again.

All of that stops the minute that Harry gets the notification, though. If there was anything that could ruin tonight, it was the title that had just showed up on his screen.

Y/N, Harry Styles' Ex, Back In Town?

His throat runs dry and all the joy that he had been feeling completely disappears. Are you really back in town? Are you just visiting? Are you staying?

He doesn't tell Mitch about the article, deciding that it's a better idea to just play it off like he got a headache. There's no harm in fabricating a story. He doesn't want Mitch to worry, and he knows for a fact that Mitch will ditch the entire night if there's even a chance of him spiraling again.

"Mitch, I'm gonna have to head out." He says, raising his voice slightly so Mitch can hear him over the music in the car.

"Harry, we're literally not even there yet." He can hear the disappointment in Mitch's reply, but he knows that his friend will be even more disappointed if he's in the same room with you tonight. He doesn't know how he'll be able to go the night without breaking down if he has to be near you, so it's best for him to go home before the night even starts.

"I know, I just don't feel good. I'll get an Uber from the bar." Mitch gives him a disapproving look but ultimately just sighs and nods.

Once they pull up to the bar, they hop out and Mitch wishes Harry a good night. He offers to let him take his car, but Harry politely declines, knowing that Mitch won't want to ride in the back of a cab when he doesn't have to. Chances are, Mitch will call some of their other friends to hang out so he won't be alone. There's no chance of him drinking, though. It's just not something that Mitch does.

As he's standing on the sidewalk waiting for his ride to pull up, he overhears the conversation from behind him.

"Dude, did you hear that Y/N's back in town?" A bittersweet smile forms on Harry's face. All you had ever wanted was for people to know your name, and now they do.

"Yeah! I heard a rumor that she's supposed to be here tonight!" With that, Harry's stomach turns.

The possibility of seeing you again is tempting, but he knows that if he sees you, everything's going to reset. He'll go back to being the guy who's at home moping about a relationship that he mutually agreed to end. He'll go back to wondering if it hurts you as much as it does him. What he needs right now is for his Uber to drive up so that he can get home, turn off his phone, and forget that tonight ever happened. He doesn't need to text you in the dead of night trying to apologize for the millionth time only to receive no response.

He'd stopped texting you almost a month ago, and tonight wasn't going to be the night that he began again. He lets out a relieved sigh as the car pulls up in front of him and he slides in, ready to go home.

Once he's safely at his house, he turns off his phone and sets it down in the kitchen before making his way to his room. He wasn't going to backtrack, and if this is what it took to ensure it, then so be it. The only thing that he needs right now is to go to bed.

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