The Forced Arrangement [Harry Styles]

21: Starting A New Year With A Smile ~The End

 Last chapter for this fanfic :(

*Cries in a corner* Hope you all enjoyed it and sorry for any grammatical mistakes, I tried my very best to not make any and sorry if it sometimes was too cliche or unrealistic :(

Gonna miss this fanfic though :(

Happy reading Amigos <3 ~Kat xxx  

Chapter 21:

Ashley POV:

"5, 4, 3, 2, 1 HAPPY NEW YEAR!" everyone screamed in the room, I winced at the sound that was tripling in my ears. Someone grabbed my wrist and turned me around, crashing their soft lips on mine. I recognized the soft lips against mine and kissed him back.

We pulled apart, breathless and bit my lip at the curly haired boy in front of me. He smiled down at me, I still had to tilt my head a bit upwards since my heels weren't tall enough but I enjoyed being shorter than a boy. I looked around and noticed Perrie and Zayn still with their lips locked while Danielle and Liam were hugging. I couldn't spot neither Eleanor nor Louis, I turned around to look at Harry. He had his famous smirk on his lips. My eyes widened and I mentally face palmed myself. How stupid!

I turned around and made a run for it but strong arms wrapped around my waist and pulled me back, hitting his chest softly. "You're not going anywhere," Harry whispered in my ear. I groaned and sighed.

"I hate you."

"I love you too," he replied and I shivered at those words.

I turned my neck around, facing him. He smiled and kissed my lips briefly before turning his head towards a specific spot. I turned my head and followed his gaze, I spotted Eleanor and Louis next to her, she was holding a microphone in her hand, a huge grin on her lips. My eyes widened and I squirmed. She smiled at me and opened her mouth to start her speech.

"This is so embarrassing," I muttered and heard Harry chuckling.

"Happy New Year everyone," Eleanor said, looking around the room. "As well as it's New Year's, it's also Ashley's birthday."

She looked straight at me and everyone turned their heads to look at me, even though it was really dark in the room, I was pretty sure they could still see my tomato red cheeks. Harry's arms tightened around my waist, as though reassuring me.

"I'd like to wish that goof a very happy birthday and a happy new year," Eleanor continued. "But first! I know you're going to hate me after this but I know you still love me."

I furrowed my eyebrows together, confused but realized immediately when the 'Happy Birthday' song started playing and everyone started singing it. My eyes widened even further when I saw a birthday cake coming towards me. Eleanor walked towards me, hand in hand with Louis, Zayn, Perrie, Liam, Danielle and Niall following after her, they surrounding the table that the cake was on, more people walking towards the table, waiting for a piece of cake. It was pretty huge, covered in purple icing, decorated with black icing and in the middle was a 'Happy Birthday Ashley' in the middle with black icing. I could feel my face getting redder by the second and apparently Eleanor was enjoying every second of it due to the huge grin on her lips, the rest were smiling at me. Louis handed me a huge white knife, I carefully took it between my fingers.

"Make a wish," Harry said and I looked at the candles lit up. I smiled, closed my eyes and made a wish, then opened my eyes, blew out the candle and placed the knife in the cake and pushed it down.

I heard everyone bursting into claps but I wasn't focusing on anything. Sure, I had a smile on my face but it was a fake one and apparently no one saw through it. I told them that I didn't want to celebrate my birthday but they went with it anyways. If they knew the reason behind it, I was sure that they wouldn't even mention it but they didn't know and I wasn't planning on opening my mouth to anyone. Not even Harry knew about it, he just knew that I hated it. Someone took the cake away and I refocused on my surroundings. Eleanor engulfed me into a hug, I wrapped my arms around her and hugged her back.