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I Chapter six

POV: Harry Styles

I wake up and see that I am in my own bed again. Mum must have taken me there while I was still asleep.

To my sorrow, I see that the shutters are still in place for the windows.
I know that they open with a certain kind of remote control, but it is usually in such a high place that I cannot reach it.

Carefully, I put myself in my wheelchair and head for the lift downstairs. I quickly drive to the door and look out through the letterbox. It's the only way I can see outside and luckily our vegetable garden is right outside our back door. Don't ask me why we have a letterbox in the back door, I don't know myself. We have had it all our lives so I am used to it.

My mother started the vegetable garden because she didn't want to go to the supermarket too often.

I quickly look for the standard spots for the remote control. Not on the cupboard, not on the high sideboard...
Aha! On the fridge. How am I ever going to get it?

I take every spoon I can find from the kitchen drawer and stick them together with duck tape I found in another drawer. It's not tight, but it's good enough.

Carefully, I lift up my sling of spoons.
Shit, it's not long enough!
I lower my sling again and stick two more spoons on. Quickly I check through the letterbox whether my mother is still working, and she is. Quickly I head for the kitchen again.

I grab my crank on spoons and bring it up to the fridge. With great difficulty, I manage to slide the remote control so that it falls to the ground.

Quickly I pick it up and go up the lift with my sling of spoons. I have to act fast, otherwise my mother will see that all the spoons are gone and then I'll have a lot of explaining to do.

As fast as I can I drive to my room and press a few buttons. Why don't the shutters open? Come on!

Aggressively I press a few buttons and after what seemed like an eternity the shutters slide up.

I quickly take the lift down again and dismantle the crank. As quickly as I can I put all the spoons back in place, while keeping the remote control in my pocket.

We have several remote controls for the windows, Mum told me that once. I just hope that she is not one hundred percent sure where she put the remote control and that I have managed to get my own.

I hear the door slam shut, which means she's finished. I take the lift back to my room and close the door. Finally I can look out the window again... I have missed this view.

I sit down on my bed and stare out the window for a bit, until suddenly I see movement in the old people's house. How can that be?

I see two young people walking. Do they live there?

Suddenly everything falls into place. The car, the doorbell... they were new neighbours! We have new neighbours!

Is that why the windows had to be closed? Am I really not allowed to have contact with anyone?

I hear footsteps coming up the stairs so I quickly grab my remote control and press the button that closes the shutters.
Come on... FASTER.... I hiss.

I pretend to be asleep and just when the shutters are closed my mother comes in.

"Harry? Are you awake?"

I pretend she woke me up and with small eyes I look at her.

"Hey."

She comes and sits next to me on the bed and runs a hand through my hair.