Many Kisses, Someone (One Direction fanfiction) *Abandoned*

chapter 6

“Are you going to just sit there or are you going to let me help you up?” Harry asked me amusedly. I guess that he thought that I was just another speechless fan. I’m not sure whether to be thankful or upset that he doesn’t seem to remember me.

“Well?” he asked again, reminding me that he was still waiting for an answer.

“Maybe I like sitting on the ground,” I told him with a glare.

“Whoa, what’s with the hostility, I don’t even know you,” he exclaims, obviously confused by the raging dislike in my eyes. Or it might be because I’m not freaking out and fangirling like most other girls would.

“That’s what you think,” I mumbled.

“What was that?” he says; damn it, I thought he didn’t hear.

I get up off the ground, ignoring his hand, and say, “Nothing, now if you’ll excuse me I’d like to get back to my house, since you’ve ruined a perfectly good walk.”

I grab my umbrella out of a growing puddle and head home without as much as a look back at Harry.

“Wait! Why aren’t you using you’re umbrella?” he yells out catching up to me.

“You know, I used to have a friend who liked to walk in the rain,” he eventually says into the silence.

I try to get the message across that I want nothing to do with him by ignoring him, but he still wouldn’t go away.

We continue walking in silence until I remember that we are staying next door and he might figure out who I am, so I take the next turn and hope that he doesn’t follow. He doesn’t. Guess he doesn’t care after all.

After walking for about ten more minutes, I turn around and head home. Harry should be home by now. When I finally get there I am so soaked that my shoes squelch when I walk. I enter my house and am immediately shrieked at by my mother for being so irresponsible.

“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know mom, calm down, I’ll be fine,” I finally manage to assure her as I go to take a hot shower.

I stand in the shower, feeling the hot water running down my back, heating my skin, and washing away my worries.

Harry’s face pops into my mind and all of the soothing that the hot water did is gone. He didn’t recognize me. At all. I thought I would be happy about this but I wasn’t, I was actually really upset. Did I mean so little to him that he would actually forget about me all together? I can feel the stinging behind my eyes and the pinching feeling in my nose as my eyes start welling up with tears. I quickly wipe them away and get out of the shower, banishing all thoughts of Harry out of my mind completely. Or as completely as I can.

I change into some skinny jeans and my favorite forest green shirt with a tiger on it. I curl my hair and put on some eyeliner. I head out of the bathroom and to my room, where Lila is reading a Twilight book. She looks up as soon as I enter the room.

“So I’m guessing that you ran into Harry,” she says matter of factly. Guess I wasn’t that good at hiding it after all.

“Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.” I say as I fall on my back onto the bed.

“Oh Ronnie, do you want to talk about it?” she says trying to sooth me.

“He didn’t even recognize me. Like I was a complete stranger,” I tell her quietly, on the verge of tears for the millionth time today.

“Ok girl, listen here, you are not having any more pity parties for yourself, what you need is a spa day,” she tells me.

You know what? She’s right. I really shouldn’t feel upset over this. It’s a thing of the past. HE’s a thing of the past. It’s time to build a bridge and get over it.

And just like that we were off to the spa.

~Time Lapse~

By the time we get home it was dark outside and we were laughing so hard that we stumbled into the room. We saw a squirrel today sitting on a fence and flipping its tale in a way that someone would flip their hair back and forth. It was the funniest thing ever. (AN: I swear I did not make that up, I actually saw a squirrel do that while I was at school, I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants. Anyways back to the story.) We couldn’t stop laughing ‘cause it was so funny.

“What are you two girls laughing about,” I hear a male voice say.

I immediately stop laughing and snap my head up, elbowing Lila to do the same.

WHY IN THE BLOODY HELL IS HE HERE? I shrieked in my head, thankfully I didn’t say that out loud. What I did say was,

“What are you doing here?”

“I could ask you the same thing, I live next door and I’ve never seen you here before,” he says, and then adds,” It’s nice to see you dry by the way, this is a much better look for you.”

“For your information, I’m staying here until after New Year’s Day. Why am I even telling you this? Come on Lila, let’s go,” I say finally remembering about her.

I hear her squeak and realize that she’s about to have a major fangirling moment.

I sigh and say, “Harry this is Lila, Lila this is Harry,” and head upstairs on my own.

Why did he have to be here? I was in such a good mood after our girl’s day at the spa, and now that’s all wasted. God, why does he have to ruin everything?

HARRY POV

(AN: So I spent a lot of time with myself debating about whether or not to have multiple POVs or even Harry’s POV in this. I really didn’t want to, but I’ve decided that I will have them since sometimes I think that it is important to the storyline.)

I watch her stomp up the stairs angrily. Who is she? And why does she seem to hate me so much? I am definitely not used to this kind of treatment from girls.

I turn to the pretty red head to my side and smile at her. I can see her holding in a scream. Now this kind of treatment I am used to.

“Hey, I’m Harry, but I think you already knew that before your friend told you,” I chuckled.

“Oh my god! I can’t believe I’m talking to Harry Styles-“She continues rambling and I tune her out.

“Ok, I think I’m calm now,” she says eventually, “But it really is great meeting you Harry, I’m a big fan. Sorry for freaking out on you, I’ll try not to do that again.”

“It’s fine,” I tell her laughing. “So, how do you know the Reed’s?”

She suddenly grows uncomfortable and squirms, before finally mumbling, “Oh I’m a close friend of their daughter’s.”

I instantly stiffen. She knows Rose? God I miss her. I know how much I hurt her when I started ignoring her. Simon said back at the judges’ house that I need to distance myself from her since it wouldn’t look good for me to be so attached to a girl. He wanted all of us guys to be single and more marketable, which makes no sense considering we weren’t dating. I didn’t want to but the whole band would have been affected if I didn’t. None of the other boys ever knew about it, I never had the guts to tell them.

“You know Veronica? Why are you here without her?” I finally tell Lila after a long pause.

“Umm, she kind of is here,” She slowly tells me, her hazel eyes wide.

“Then why haven’t I seen her?” I feel like I’m missing something here.

Lila is clearly starting to get irritated that I’m not getting what she is hinting at. She sighs and pulls her strawberry blonde hair behind her ear.

“You have seen her Harry, in fact you’ve seen her more than once. She just went up the stairs.” And there it is, she’s finally dropped the bombshell on me.

My Rose is here. In this very house. And she obviously hates me for what I did to her. Satisfied that I finally got it, Lila says goodbye, brushing past me after Rose, leaving me frozen. I head back to my house, ignoring the other boys, not quite over the fact that I couldn’t even recognize my best friend. The girl who I abandoned.

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Many Kisses, Leena :)