Unanchored (H.S.)

Chapter 2

 December 29th,  2012

Amara James Katz, my craziest friend in London that I have known since I was 12. She has beautiful, wavy dirty blonde hair, light blue eyes, tanned skin and she's 5'5.

I told her to come up to my room and i already told the guards to let her in, 10 minutes later she was at my door. I rushed to the door, extremely excited to see her after a year.

I swung the door open and ran to her, and hugged her. I think we were there for almost a minute just taking in the moment. "Lynnnnnnnnn!" she exclaimed, "I can't believe it's been a year, how are you?" She asked, walking into the room and plopping onto the bed, I told her I was amazing and we had a quick chat before I realised that we were supposed to go out.

I stopped her and said that she should tell me the plan so I can get my stuff and we can leave, she gave me a cheeky look. "It's a surprise Lynn" she said, making me look at her with a wide grin. "Should I be scared?" I questioned, she chuckled and said "I promise you won't end up face down in a ditch, or at least I hope so"

I slapped her arm lightly, she clutched her hand to her heart, giving me the most ridiculous shocked expression, and I just laughed. I've missed this. "We should get going" she said, I agreed and we got off the bed to get our belongings before leaving the room.

After exiting my house, Mara grabbed my hand and led me to this black C250 AMG Mercedes, she then told me that her driver had come to get us.

We hopped into the car, she pulled out two water bottles, and handed me one. She was smirking and me, I was wondering why till I took a sip from the bottle.

I snapped my head in her direction, shaking my head a smirk creeped onto my face too as I realised that she had put vodka in the bottles.

I leaned into her side and whispered into her ear "Tonight will definitely be fun", she giggled in response.

The rest of the ride consisted of us chugging the Vodka till it was almost half gone, and dancing to the music that was playing. Mara, being the lightweight she is, was feeling the effect of the vodka. "I missed you" she said before pulling me into a hug and planting a sloppy kiss on my cheek.

When we reached our destination, we both hopped out of the car and I finally realised where she had brought me, Sabine, one of the best rooftop bars in London. I was buzzing, the bar had an amazing view.

Mara gave her name for the booking and the hostess looked through the list then smiled at us, ushering us to the table. We sat down, ordered our drinks and then we just sat there, looking out into the view.

"Lynn" Mara said, giving me a tiny shock after the long silence, I looked at her and she continued "This is our first stop", "Oh my god what are you talking about cheeky" I asked, she then told me that she had planned for us to go to the club after this and then an even bigger surprise to end the night.

She had ordered a Bloody Mary and I ordered a Sex on the beach; the drinks had just been served to us and we were already 3 ½ done. After finishing our drinks, Mara and I just sat there talking and catching up for about an hour.

By the time we were leaving, the bar was full, causing us to have to look around before walking to the elevator. As I was looking around, I caught a glimpse of someone I recognised, a ghost from my past.

I grabbed Mara's hand and yanked her towards me "Am I going crazy?" I whispered to her, she just looked at me, confused. I was sure it was him, but the way he was dressed made me think otherwise.

How could the boy I knew who used to wear green t-shirts with grey cardigans be sitting here in a white suit, with his mop of brown curls sitting styled on his head. I couldn't believe that it was him so I grabbed Mara's hand and dragged her to the table he was sitting at.

I tapped on his shoulder, he turned around and looked stunned. "Lynn?" he said giving me the most confused expression. "Hazza" I replied with probably an equivalent look of confusion on my face, he got up almost instantly and picked me up in a bone crushing hug.

Hazza was my nickname for Harry growing up, we used to hangout every time I was back in Holmes Chapel until 2011 when he had gotten busy with his band and wasn't in Holmes Chapel when I was around. Yes, the Harry I'm talking about is Harry Styles and I know most people at this point would be freaking out if they met him but to me, he was just a boy I knew from Holmes Chapel.

When he finally put me down all the people on his table and Mara were just awkwardly staring, I looked at him and realised he look so different, he had many rings on his fingers, his nails were painted, he had tattoos peeking out on his chest. Wow, had I been gone that long?

"I can't believe I'm seeing you, I thought you weren't coming back to London for a while" he said. "We all knew it was only a mater or time before I got back, and surprise, I'm here for good" I replied. "You're here for good?!" he questioned, I chuckled and nodded.

Mara was giving me a let's leave look because she had planned more to do for the night so I swiftly told Harry we had to leave, waved at him and his friends and started walking to the elevator with Mara's hand in mine.

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The rest of the night was absolutely amazing, after the pub, Mara had brought her yacht up to the Thames and there was a huge welcome back party for me. Almost all my friends from London had been there including Zoe Williams, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik who brought Gigi and Bella Hadid and Niall Horan.

It was crazy, bottles after bottles of champagne were being popped, we were dancing and swaying until I was so drunk just lay on one of the outdoor beds and looked up at the sky, Mara came up to where I lwas laying and laid next to me, "Thank you Mara" I said giving her nose a boop, she scrunched her nose up, giggling and said "Anything for you Lynn" .

We just laid there for a few minutes before getting back down to the party and dancing around with everyone, until a few people needed to leave, a few were staying and we had to go down to deck to show them their rooms. I said goodbye to those who were leaving. I picked up a bottle of water to sober up a little so I could help everyone to their rooms because Mara had gone off with some bloke earlier meaning I was now playing host.

As I looked out to where they were getting off, I saw someone walking towards the yacht instead of away, it was dark so I couldn't see who it was.