𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘦 // T.H.

Chapter 3: "New girl"

Hey, half of this chapter got deleted and I had to rewrite it. I'm not very satisfied as this is not nearly as good as the deleted thing and is not what I had planned. I'm really sad that this part was deleted and that this is now a rushed chapter, which I'm not happy with it, but I hope you'll enjoy it anyways :)

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I had been waiting for Harry for at least 10 minutes in front of this skating rink we always go to. He's always late, yet I had never in the 17 years of knowing each other grown accustomed to it. It's kind of our thing. At least four times a month we skated across the shiny wooden floor in the small gymnasium the rink is located in. While I was waiting for "Mr Always Late", a couple walked past me and approached the door. They looked like they're newly in love. I had never really been in love (only with food). They opened the door and the familiar scent of rubber and popcorn hit me. I took a deep breath in through my nose and smiled when all the memories of Harry and I in the gym popped up - although it had only been 4 days since we were there last. Not many people used the rink as it's a small and not very liked place in our town. Harry and I loved it though.

"Boo!" Harry yelled, ripping me out of my thoughts. I jumped and then turned around to hit him, but as always he was faster and caught my wrist before it hit. His big, smug smile annoyed me.

"Let go of my wrist already." I said annoyed and shook my hand. He slowly let go of it while his self-satisfied smile turned to a laugh. "You know you can't just scare me like that! I'm gonna end up having a real real heart attack." I added. Harry then started to laugh even more in a contagious way, I started to laugh a little as well. "Remember when-" He started without finishing his sentence as we both started to laugh even more, well-knowing what he was gonna say.

We had been standing there for a couple of minutes saying single words and just dying from laughter over and over again. People walking by must've think we were crazy, but we didn't care about what other people thought of us. We were living in the moment. Also.. we were kinda crazy.

"Shall we go in?" Harry said stuttering as he's still laughing a little. I took his hand and pulled him into the gym with me.

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I knocked on the Holland's front door. Usually, I just walk in, but I knew how lazy Harry can be and I knew how much he hated to walk all the way down stairs to open the door.

Harry and I are laughing hysterically as someone unexpectedly starts to knock at the door. Harry and I sit up straight away and look each other in the eyes, wondering who it may be. It's almost 8 pm, we're eating pizza and watching our favorite movie "Ace Venture: When nature calls" and we aren't expecting anyone.

"Tom go open." Harry yells. The movie is still playing and as Ace Ventura starts escaping the rhino through its arsehole we laugh and lean backwards to continue enjoying the movie. The person outside the door wouldn't let us though and knocks again.