Please don't leave me (Harry Styles)

Chapter 4

Within a few minutes I was already at Harry and Louis’ apartment. Turning my phone off, so my mum wouldn’t be able to contact me, I knocked on the front door - tears still falling down my face.  The door was quickly opened, facing me with a worried Harry. He said nothing but pulled me in to a hug, letting me know he was there for me. I embraced the welcome from my best friend. Louis was sat in the front room, watching me. “Melissa, what’s wrong?!” he asked. Harry just shook his head, telling Lou not to worry. Louis kindly gave us some space and wondered off in to his bedroom.

“Sit down” Harry said softly, still holding on to my shaky body. “What’s happened, Mill? Please tell me?” Worry took over his face and I hated seeing him like that, so I composed myself and got ready to tell him everything. Wiping my teary eyes and sniffling a few times, I began to explain to him what had happened.

“We’re moving Harry. To Oxfordshire. Mum told me this morning and said she’s already got a house...” I watched his expression as I told him the news that broke me. 

“What? What do yo- you can’t go, Mill? You can’t!” his eyes started to tear up to. mirroring mine. 

“I have to Harry. We move in 2 weeks” I started biting my finger nails. An action I do whenever I’m nervous or worried. 

“But it’s all so sudden? Why didn’t you tell me before?” he looked so hurt. He thought that I had already known but kept it from him. 

“Harry. I didn’t find out myself until this morning. She hasn’t told anyone. I don’t know what to do Harry. I don’t want to leave. I couldn’t bear losing you!” Tears were full on dripping down my face, and so were Harrys.

“She can’t just expect you to move like that. She can’t just pick your life up and place it goodness knows where expecting you to start over? You’re 19 Melissa, you don’t have to go!” He was getting angry now. Angry at the fact he might lose me. 

“I have no where else to go Harry! My dad’s back in Holmes Chapel with his new family and my mum wants to move!” Didn’t he get that I didn’t want to leave? I’d do anything to stay. But I wasn’t exactly going to become homeless. 

Harry froze for a few seconds. I could tell he was thinking of something. A way to put a stop to all this. A way to make me and Harry still be together. A way that wouldn’t ruin our friendship.

“Come live with me and Lou”

“What?” I asked with a startled expression.

“Come live with me and Louis?”

Was he crazy? I couldn’t live with him and Louis!

“I can’t live with you and Louis, Harry!”

“Why not?” he protested, shocked at my reaction.

“Well you haven’t even asked Louis? And it wouldn’t be fair on you two”

“You spend most of your time here or with us anyway, Melissa. And Louis won’t mind. He’s always saying we should get a new room mate”

“Yeah, but he wouldn’t want me. He’d want a boy? One of the lads, Harry”

“Look, it’s worth a shot” he sighed.

“I don’t know, Harry…”

“Well, if you don’t want to?”

Why was he being like this? Of course I did. But moving in with him and Louis was kind of a big deal you know. I’d never lived anywhere other than with my mum, and to move straight in with 2 messy, crazy teenage boys?