The boy next door - h.s.

T W E N T Y S E V E N

two days.

Elle

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Harry sighs deeply as he lays on my bed throwing the last shirt on the floor along with the others, "Dude we need to go shopping, your closet has nothing nice."

I groan in annoyance and say, "Will you shut up about my closet already? We can't go shopping. We aren't gonna have enough time to go to the mall, look for clothes, wait in a long ass line, and the drive back home in traffic. I only have 2 hours to finish packing."

" Well then I'll pack for you, just tell me what you want me to pack, where to put it, and then you can go shop on your own." He says as if its simple.

"No. Absolutely not. The last time I left you to pack my stuff I opened my bag to there being all of my clothes." I say as he shrugs, "So what? All of your clothes were there, I dont see why your complaining or see much of a problem here."

"All of my clothes were wet."

He scratches the back of his neck nervously and embarrassed, "Yeah you see the thing is.. I dropped your clothes in the toilet." A disgusted look covers my entire face, "How the hell do you drop clothes in the toilet. That has to have happened on purpose. What were you even doing with my clothes in the bathroom?"

He stands up, "Hey! I was doing manly things with your clothes!" he exclaims, "What type of manly stuff were you doing exactly?"

I laugh when I hear"I was trying them on, duh." he responds as if it was obvious the entire time. I ended up laughing "This is why people think you're gay."

"Let them think. I've learned to not give a shit what other say or think about me.

"Thats right, I have taught you very well."

"You've taught me the best things."

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"Harry go of my fucking leg I have to go!" Harry has clung onto my like a damn koala. "No! Please don't leave! I'll be bored all week!" He says as he clings on tighter.

"Your holding onto me as if your life depends on it!" I shout as I try and shake him off my leg, "That because my life does depend on it. I don't wanna lose you again. What if wherever you are going you end up wanting to stay there?" His eyes get glossy from wanting to cry, "Awh..that's cute.."

I try to shake him off my leg again "Now get off my leg." He finally let's go, "For fucks sakes you were like gum on the bottom of my shoe that wouldn't come off."

He pouts his lip as I go over to give him a a hug. He hugs me tightly as he whispers in my ear, "Please don't leave me while you are on this trip. Please call me, text me, and FaceTime me." He says as he hesitates to pull away from our hug.

He's crying.

"Why're you crying? I'm only gonna be gone for three days. I promise it'll go by fast and when I come back we can get more tattoos." I say as his eyes widened, "Get out of here." He points in the other direction as I laugh.

Harry asked, "One more hug?"

"Of course. Come over here." He walks over to me and hugs me again. But this time I felt something. I felt something in my stomach. It was a weird feeling. But i just decided to ignore it. I felt safe here. Being in Harrys arms, was my safe place.

As we pull away from the hug I feel a bit upset, the feeling goes away, "Okay i'll let you go now. I'll stop losing you back. Go, go have fun. I'd say use condoms but yeah, you get it." I smile at him as he places his head on the back of my head and brings my forehead close to his lips to kiss it.