A Thousand Miles Away

Chapter 18

***Harry's P.O.V.***

*Ring ring*

I woke up to the sound of my phone. I got up and checked the time before answering. 9 o'clock in the morning. It was one of our few days off, and I was just trying to sleep.

"What?" I answered annoyed.

"Well hello to you too" it was Uncle Simon. I knew this wasn't going to end well since you could practically hear the anger in his voice.

"Uh sorry. What can I do for you?" I looked around the room at everyone scattered around the room. Why did he want to talk to me?

"We have to talk" he said sternly, and I groaned.

"Can't it wait? I would like to sleep before someone else wakes me up asking for breakfast"

"Meet me at the office. Now"

"Someone's not a morning person" I hung up before he could get even more mad. He's only ever this mad when I do something wrong. I sighed, and got changed, not daring to take a minute longer than I needed. I walked back to the living area, and woke Lou.

"Why are you up?" he rubbed his eyes.

"Can you take me Simon, he wants to talk to me, and I don't want to go alone" he nodded, and walked out the door with his keys, and PJ's. I followed behind him.

"So do you know what he wants to talk about?" Louis asked breaking the silence.

"No clue. He seemed mad though. I'm afraid it's going to be about Emma" he turned his head towards me.

"Don't worry. Simon's a pretty reasonable guy" I nodded. The car fell silent, and we arrived within minutes.

"I'll stay here. Walk out if you need my help" I nodded, and walked inside. I just didn't want to loose Emma.

"Nice to see you showed up" I nodded, and took a seat in front of Simon, and two other familiar faces. They were the two guys who were in for Simon that one meeting between them and me and Louis. I hated them.

"We need to talk about Em--" I cut Simon off.

"I'm not giving her up" I said firmly.

"Just listen. She's a bad influence, and your loosing fans every second. You have already lost nearly 5,000 followers on twitter since you two met"

"So what it's just some stupid twitter followers. I'm not going to loose her because everyone else in the world doesn't like her" he shook his head.

"Do not talk that way about your fans, they made you who you are, and if you loose them, you will be nothing, with or without my help"

"Exactly they're taking over my life. I've given up a lot just to make them happy. I rarely see my best mates outside of one direction. I have no privacy anymore. And now I have to give up every girlfriend I have because the fans don't like me being taken. It's hell on earth. I don't mean to yell at you but I'm just sick of this. I have to go" I got up, and walked out.

"How'd it go?" Louis got out of the car.

"The same as last time, but now they think she's a bad influence on me, and they're saying that fans don't like her. You know I thought it would be fun working with Simon, and it was, but now he's just being a--" I saw Louis' gaze move to someone behind me, and I heard foot steps.

"Go on finish, I'm interested in what you have to say about me" I turned around to see Simon. Great.

"I don't want to talk to you" he smirked.

"Okay then I guess you don't want to hear the good news. So good bye"

"Wait! What good news?" he stopped walking.

"I've decided not to listen to what everyone else was saying, and let you stay with Emma, on one condition"

"What is it?"

"If either of you slip up, and say or do something that upsets me or your fans, she goes" I nodded, and hugged him. He quickly pushed me off, and I heard Louis laughing in the background.

"Nice PJ's Lou" Simon laughed, and Louis just winked at him.

 Simon sent us on our way, and both Louis, and I quietly snuck in the house, waking Emma, and Liam. So much for trying to be quiet.

"Where were you two?" Liam whispered getting up.

"Harry was in trouble with Simon" Louis said.

"No I wasn't, well maybe a little but it's fine now, no need to worry" Emma gave me a suspicious look, but shook it off. I heard a loud yawn, and Niall's voice.

"Harrehhh can you make us breakfast?" i shook my head.

"I'm going to sleep sorry Nialler" he frowned, and I laughed. I walked to my bedroom, and plopped down on my bed. I heard a faint knock on my open door.

"Hey what's up?" Emma closed the door behind her, and laid down next to me.

"I'm sorry"

"Why?" I looked at her concerned. She ignored me.

"That meeting was about me right?" I nodded slowly.

"What happened?" she asked nervously.

"They wanted me to break up with you but Simon made me a deal, and said that if we screw up then we are done for real" I frowned when I saw her sad face.

"It's my fault I shouldn't have tweeted that girl. I was so mean. I don't know what's happening to me. I used to never ever curse, but now I'm cursing at an innocent girl that I don't even know" she put her head in her hands.

"Hey, she wasn't innocent she started it, it isn't your fault. No one blames you, and you shouldn't blame yourself either" she sighed.

"Is there something else that's bothering you?" I turned to face her.

"I talked to Abby. She hates me. And she really didn't mind me knowing it"

"Wait when was this?"

"A while ago, Liam helped me or at least tried to. He was the only one that knew about it" I felt anger take over me.

"Liam helped you? You told me that I couldn't help you because you needed to do it on your own. What the bloody hell? I'm your boyfriend, and you can't even come to me for help" I got off the bed, and paced around the room.

"Sorry for keeping secrets. But you have your secrets too ya know" I stopped pacing.

"What secrets?"

"Oh come on. I know why you broke up with me the first time. You know you could've just told me that management didn't want us together rather than making me feel worthless having to hear it from Liam" her voice was cold.

"You think I wanted to make you feel that way? You only know half the story, the part I told you. They wanted Louis to date you, I couldn't bring myself to tell you because I didn't want you to be with him. Besides why are you bringing this up now?" I was utterly shocked.

"I'm bringing it up because you obviously weren't going to tell me about it so I had to tell you"

"You never asked!" I shouted, not caring that everyone could hear me.

"Oh so now I have to ask for my boyfriend to tell me the truth?!"

"What about you? How many other secrets have you kept from me?"

"None! I've told you everything from my dad to Abby"

"I find that quite hard to believe"

"Fine don't believe me. I'm fucking done talking to you!" she stormed out of the room, and I just watched.