The Way I Feel Inside | h.s.

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Harry's POV:

Bee's face was a tomato. No exaggeration - I don't think I've ever seen anyone turn as red as she was in that moment Mitch came bursting through the dressing room door with Sarah, both of them dressed head to toe in black.

"I'm sorry, we didn't know anyone was in here with you," Sarah's sweet voice sang out softly, glancing between us with a calm expression.

Bee used her hands to push herself back up onto the couch and I rose up, giving her knees a reassuring squeeze and smiling at her before I turned back around to face Mitch and Sarah.

"That's just a lie," I raised my eyebrows at them. "He-" I pointed at Mitch, "definitely knew Bee was gonna be here."

Sarah tucked her lips into her mouth and widened her eyes before turning to Mitch and smacking him on his upper arm.

"Hey, it's barely been twenty minutes since the show ended! I didn't expect them to already be..." he gestured vaguely with his hand toward us, "...intimate."

I smiled and furrowed my brows at him. Sarah rolled her eyes, making me giggle. "Really Mitch? I thought you knew me better than that."

I glanced back to Bee behind me on the couch and saw her face still cherry red, her hands clasped together in her lap, staring in their direction. She was incredibly tense. She didn't return my eye contact.

"Hey," I placed my hand on her knee and leaned down to her eye level to try to get her to look at me, "you okay?"

She finally looked at me, but only for a moment, before I saw her swallow and her eyes shifted back over to them. I was confused, so while I was still at her level, I turned my head to look at Mitch and Sarah again, who were both looking at me confused as well. The three of us exchanged a look.

"Bee." I stated more firmly, placing my finger under her chin and my thumb in her chin dimple. "Look at me."

Her pale green eyes met mine but I kept my hold on her chin to deter her from looking away again. Her pupils were still slightly large but not too dramatically, so I didn't think her behavior was because of the drugs. "Will you say something?" I murmured in a softer voice than before.

Bee opened her mouth and inhaled, then nodded slightly into my hold. "I'm a little bit starstruck right now."

I did not expect her to say that. But now that I thought about it, she was behaving similarly to last night when she realized who I was.

I couldn't help it - I smirked. I tilted my head back behind me toward Mitch and Sarah. "You're even more flustered than you were last night. Are you a bigger fan of Mitch and Sarah's than you are of me?" I teased.

This allowed her to relax enough to roll her eyes at me. "You physically ran me over. It's different. Mitch Rowland's first impression of me will be me straddling you on the floor of your dressing room."

I heard Mitch and Sarah both giggle behind me and I turned around to smile at them, thoroughly enjoying this now that I knew Bee had a crush on Mitch.

"Oh, don't worry about that, Bee," Mitch stopped giggling to say, "My first impression of Harry was kind of similar, except his head was being straddled and he didn't have any clothes o-"

"Okay Mitch, thank you, that's enough," I interrupted, but gave Mitch a broad smile knowing that him talking to her would help relax her a bit. He shrugged and leaned back on the doorway.

When I turned back around to look at her she was smiling and she raised her brows at me. "That actually helps a lot," she said matter-of-factly.

I took my hand back from her face as she moved to get up off the couch and walked toward Mitch and Sarah. I admired her sequins shining as she walked in front of me, and made sure to give the back of her a once-over. The wide legs of her pants were loose, but they were no match for her ass and hips, where they hugged tightly onto her figure.

"Sorry about that," she said as she approached them. I sauntered slowly toward them, taking my time so she could do her own introductions.

I liked watching her interact with other people - I hadn't seen her with anyone besides me up until this point, besides the people in the audience. But that's not exactly a normal social situation. I liked watching her talk, seeing how she carried herself to hold dominance in conversations.

I watched her as she continued with Mitch and Sarah. She shook Sarah's hand first, but Sarah responded by pulling her into a hug.

"You're a fucking legend, I cannot believe I'm hugging you right now," she said as they held onto each other for another moment before parting. Then she put her hand out for Mitch and he took it as they introduced themselves. I walked up beside Bee just in time to see her blush return as I figured it would. She glanced back at Sarah to say, "Sarah, I have a huge crush on him, I'm sorry, I cannot help it, and I feel my face right now. I can't hide it."

Sarah just shrugged and smiled, maintaining her calm and kind demeanor as always. "Yeah, he's more sexy than he realizes. I think that's a big part of the charm." She winked at Mitch, and Mitch shook his head and tried not to smile.

Bee clasped her hands again and looked between them before blurting, "The show was incredible. You both were so fucking good. Not like that's a surprise or anything."

I nudged Bee's side with mine. "Hey, what about me? Was I 'so fucking good' too?" I gave her a pout when she turned to look up at me.

Her mouth opened and she placed her hand over it. "Oh my god, I feel so bad now. When I came in I literally forgot all about the show when I saw you. And I," she glanced between the three of us, "I'm so sorry Harry. Yes. You were amazing. So, so, so fucking good," she emphasized her point with big hand gestures. She then giggled and shook her head before folding her arms over her chest. "Damn these shrooms."

I widened my eyes at her and gestured toward the open doorway we were all standing near. "Bee, what'd I tell you? You're gonna get yourself arrested," I teased, knowing that she absolutely was not going to get arrested.

"Why don't we all head back to the hotel?" Sarah said. "I like this venue but I've been here all day. I'm ready to eat and change. And as Mitch said, we have some snuggling to catch up on since Harry was absent last night. Bee, you'll join us? The bed's more than big enough for four as long as we hang in Harry's room," she winked at Bee. Her flirty gesture caught me off-guard and I snapped my head to Bee hoping that she would look shocked again. I was pleased to see that she did.

Bee tried to hide her obvious dropped jaw by tucking her lips into her mouth and taking a deep breath. When she opened her mouth, she managed a cool and collected tone that made me bite my lip to keep from grinning. She subtly flipped her blonde waves over one shoulder.

"Yeah, sure, that sounds good."

A/N:

I hadn't written in a minute because I was moving and I am just now getting settled into the new place. Fortunately I have a great writing spot so hopefully I'll be writing more regularly again! Today is my birthday so my gift to myself was to sit my ass down and write a chapter. I could feel myself falling off and I didn't like it! I also need to catch up on some of my fave fics because I've hardly been reading any updates during this time as well!

Hope everyone who sees this is doing well and drinking water :)