stars in your eyes

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Claire threw open her bedroom door feeling nothing but annoyance toward her brother who had his music so loud she could barely think, let alone study for the test she needed to take tomorrow in bio.

"jasper! Turn it down!" Claire grumbled from her doorway.

She waited a moment before she stalked down the hallway toward the stairway where she knew she'd find her mother, Esther. She knew it would be futile to go straight to Jasper and tell him to turn it down without having her mother backing her up.

"Mom! Can you tell Jasper to turn down his music?" Claire

whined from the top of the stairs.

"Have you asked him to turn it down?" She called up to her from the kitchen.

"I tried, but his music is so loud he didn't hear me," Claire told her.

"Well, then knock on his door and ask him to turn it down," she said, sending Claire an exasperated look before she made a shooting gesture with her hands.

"What if he won't listen to me? I have a test—"Claire said with a huff.

"sinclaire, if you can't do this one simple thing without whining..." her mother grumbled and Claire knew she was getting on her nerves.

"Fine!" Claire snapped, turning down the hallway to knock on her brother's door.

Claire knocked as loudly as she could, hurting her knuckles in the process.

"Stupid jerk," she grumbled under her breath, rubbing at her sore fingers.

"WHAT!" She heard Jasper yell through the closed door, the music turning down momentarily. Claire rolled her eyes as she turned the knob to open the door.

"Mom says—" she started to say until her words dried up when she saw the boy sitting on the floor, leaning against jasper' bed.

Harry Styles.

He was a senior, like her brother. He had also been jasper' best friend since they were little kids. They all grew up together, including Harry's older sister Gemma and his younger siblings Damien and Jaqueline. But lately... Claire couldn't really put her finger on it. Harry just... he wasn't as annoying as he used to be and well, he got super hot.

"What, claire?" Jasper snapped impatiently. Claire looked up at her brother as her face heated up.

"Uh, turn it down. I have to study," she stammered, trying not to sound like a bitch in front of Harry.

"Fine," Jasper grumbled, turning back toward his computer. Claire was mildly surprised that her request didn't turn into an argument.

"Thanks," Claire said, taking a step back.

"Hi, Claire," Harry said, smiling at her.

"Uh, hi," she said awkwardly, turning her attention back to the curly-haired boy as she grabbed onto the door handle to close it.

"Bye, Claire," he said, smirking wildly at her.

"Bye, Harry," she said, closing the door.

As she walked back to her room, her heart beat hard in her chest as her face burned with blush. She bit her lip as a smile turned up her mouth. Yeah, Harry Styles was a babe.

"How hard was that?" Claire heard her mom's voice, which startled the visions of Harry's smile out of her brain.

"Huh, what?" Claire asked, looking up to see her mom walking down the hallway toward her.

"Jeez, claire. Where's your head?" She laughed, shaking her head at her.

"Uh, I've gotta go study," Claire stammered as she moved through the doorway into her bedroom.