Eighteen | H.S. |

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Harry POV

They won't let me into the room. I sit outside and fall asleep on the chair. I feel my head shift and I jolt awake. "Can I go in now?" I ask the nurse at the desk. She shakes her head and continues what she was doing. "When will I get to go in?"

"When the doctor says so." She presses her lips into a straight line. I roll my eyes in annoyance. I wait, and wait, and wait. Finally the doctor opens the door, and surprisingly it's only been an hour. He approaches me as I sit next to her.

"What happened to her?" I intertwine mine with hers.

"She tore her ACL." His expression stays neutral, and I gulp. No, no. She couldn't of torn it, that means no more softball for about a year.

"No.." I breath out, and he nods.

"She is going to need surgery and physical therapy." I can't even believe this has to happen to her. The doctor walks out and I want to scream out in frustration, but I don't. Instead I rest my head on the bed and fall asleep.

...

"Harry?" I hear a soft whisper slip out of Sarah's mouth. I sit up and look into her blue eyes. A look of confusion crosses her face, and I just smile. "Why are you here?"

"Because I love you." I say and she frowns.

"I thought you hated me?" I frowned at her remark. Why would she think that?

"I never hated you, even when I saw you and Liam. I will never ever hate you." I say and plant a kiss on her lips. She smiles and looks around at where she is at.

"What happened?" She wonders and it crushes my heart to tell her, but someone has to.

"You.." I hesitate and take a deep breath. "Remember when you where rounding third base?" She nods and I continue. "You..you torn your ACL."

Sarah POV

"You torn you ACL." The words seep in and I realize what it means. No softball, no movement, no nothing for a couple of months. Then physical therapy comes.

I feel the hot tears roll down my cheeks and my throat burning. Everything I have worked for, every sacrifice I have made for softball is being wasted. All my time and work is being washed down the drain. I reach out and pull Harry close to me and put my head in the crook of his neck. He lays down next to me, and wraps his arms around me. I have been aching for the touch of Harry for so long. We are interrupted by Sydney and Kylie. Both have a grin from ear to ear.

"So, what happened?" Sydney ask looking at my knee.

"Well..I torn my ACL." and her face crumbles and sits next to me.

"No, you are the best hitter and catcher on the team. We are going to do terrible with out you. Why did this have to happen to our most valuable player?" She says out of frustration. The bed has all four of us on it and the doctor walks in and started to talk.

"You need to get off of the bed." He says to Harry, Sydney, and Kylie. They get up and the doctor goes on about the surgery and I just blank out because I don't care. "The surgery will take place on Thursday." That's a day away, and I'm really nervous. What if something goes wrong and I won't be able to walk again? "Um..that means that your boyfriend has to be dismissed."

"I love you." Harry kisses my on the lips and I pull him in closer and wrap my arms around his neck.

"I love you." And he walks out. I twist my fingers around each other and listen to what the doctor says. I dose off and have a dreamless sleep.

...

The surgery went by fast, I think. I honestly don't know because I wasn't awake. My leg hurts so bad, and they're giving me serious painkillers.
"Hey beautiful." I hear Harry's deep voice say. I open my eyes and groan.

"Hey." I breathe out, and rub the area between my eyebrows. He drags a huge teddy bear behind him that I didn't notice. "Is that mine?" I ask with curiosity.

"No, it's for the kid next door." He says sarcastically and kisses my temple.

"My knee hurts." I whine and pick up the bear. I pull it close to my chest, and Harry sighs.

"I know baby. I wish I could take the pain away." He wraps his long fingers around mine, and sits next to the bed. I look down at my knee, but it's covered. I wonder what it looks like. What did they do anyways? I forgot what the doctor said when he tried to explain it. I lay my head back onto the pillow and shut my eyes. Only to be woke up to the whole baseball and softball team.

"Sarah!!" They said when they walked in. I now have a gigantic pile of get well cards, Teddy bears, and flowers. I get a ton of hugs, but I don't really pay attention, because these drugs are really pulling me under. They all leave after what feels like hours, and my eye lids get really heavy.

...

I forgot about my mom. Who is going to pay for this?

"Harry," I said and sit up in the bed. "Who is paying for this?"

"They called your mom. She is going to be here in a hour or so." Shit. Shit. My mom is going to flip when she meets Harry. She doesn't even know David and I broke up. And she is going to freak when she sees I'm dating a guy with tattoos. She is going to think he is a bad person even though he's the sweetest person.

"Okay." I rub my temples. Just as I thought the stress was over, it is going to be followed by drama.

...

"Sarah! Oh my god!" My mom burst through the door and runs to my side. "Who is this? And where is David?" She motions to Harry. Here we go.

"This is Harry, my boyfriend. And David and I broke up." She gasp. I can't help but laugh. This is really funny to me.

"Your dating him?" She disapproves. "But David was good for you." This makes me laugh even harder, she is clueless. "Why are you laughing?"

"Because you don't get any of this." I wave my hands in the air. "I love Harry. He treats me better than David did."

"But David didn't have tattoos and he was the same class as us."

"Are you fucking serious? You think I care about class? Who the fuck are you?" I ask her.

"Watch your mouth, class matters, you don't want to be seen with someone like him, tattooed and dumb." I gasp at that one.

"He is smarter than you will ever be. Anyways I'd rather be on the streets with him than in a mansion with David. Harry isn't dumb and I love his tattoos." I defend Harry even though there isn't much I can do.

"Well, where does he live?"

"A apartment." I roll my eyes and grab Harry's hand.

"You should be with David not him." she glares at Harry. I hate how she judges people by the appearance.

"All you do is fucking judge. You don't even know Harry and you are already judging him. you don't even love dad anymore do you?" I scream at her. She never showed much affection to him. She takes a step towards me and Harry steps between us.

"Calm down." He says peacefully. And I let out a breath that I didn't know I was holding.

"I love your father very much."

"You know that David cheated on me right?" I smile and her jaw drops. "He shoved his tongue down Hailey's throat."

"That wasn't David." She says in disbelief and I just roll my eyes.

"I think it was. Anyways I don't give a fuck. That was a year ago, over and done with." I then pull Harry into a long kiss. He brushes his tongue against my bottom lip. I pull away and my mom is no longer there.

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