stars in your eyes

novem

"claire... pssst, claire," she heard as she stood by her locker on the last day of school before winter break.

She looked around, but didn't see anyone trying to get her attention, so she went back to loading her books into her bag.

"sinclaire," she heard someone whine her name and her head snapped in their direction, but still didn't see anyone.

"What?" She called out to whoever it was.

"Shit, claire. I'm over here," she heard them say louder and she realized it was Harry. Her vision followed the direction of his voice and saw him peeking his head around the corner at her.

"What are you doing?" She asked, smirking widely at him.

"I don't know. Sneaking up on you," he laughed, shrugging his shoulders passively.

"You're being stupid. Just come over and talk to me,"Claire laughed, shaking her head as she went back to packing her bag. He immediately abandoned his stealth routine and walked over to her with a smirk on his face.

"What's up?" She asked him nonchalantly.

"I just... I didn't want Jasper to see me over here talking to you... or for anyone else to see, I guess," Harry shrugged.

"Well, I figure people know we know each other. It's not that big of a deal if we're like... talking, right?" She said, talking in a hushed tone as she eyed him.

"Yeah, I guess," he said, shrugging again.

"Are you excited to be flying out to California for Christmas?" Claire asked, even though she knew he wasn't.

They were both pretty bummed about being away from each other for four days. She didn't like it. He didn't like it. Stupid Holidays.

"That's what I came over here to talk to you about," he said with a smile.

"What?" She asked, furrowing her eyebrows in question.

"I'm not going," he said happily.

"What? Why not?" She asked him, confused.

"There's a Penn State college rep that's going to be in New York. Jasper and I are going to see him the day before Christmas Eve. My parents weren't very happy about it, but I'm going to be with you guys for Christmas," he said, smiling widely.

"What?" She asked again, feeling the excitement bubbling up inside her.

"Yeah. We already worked it out with your parents," Harry said, smiling proudly.

"Why didn't you tell me? Like, sooner?" She asked, smiling just as wide as he was.

"I didn't want to get your hopes up. I didn't want to get my hopes up," he told her.

"Oh my god. I want to hug you right now," she told him and he smirked slyly at her.

"Later," he chuckled.

"I'll be doing more than hugging you later," Claire laughed out loud.

"Ooh. I can't wait," Harry cooed.

...

"So what was that about doing more than hugging me later?" Harry breathed against Claire's ear as he pushed her inside of her bedroom and shut the door behind them after school that day.

Claire giggled as his mouth immediately attached to the skin on her neck.

"Harry..." She giggled.

"Mm, sinclaire..." He moaned against her skin.

"You know, I am so grateful that Jasper and Danielle started dating. God, these days after school... mmm..." claire hummed as Harry coaxed her toward her bed.