Thunder

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

I stood in the kitchen folding clothes over my arm that I had taken out of the washing machine and looked around the apartment which I shared with Darren. It was small and cosy and easy to heat, he always tacked that on at the end.

I turned on the TV, and flicked to E! Something droning that I could just watch mindlessly. I hummed to myself lightly glancing at the clock a few times to check when Darren should be home.

‘And who is Harry’s new girl?’ The presenter questioned, I whipped my head round and looked at the screen only to see a blurred picture of Harry and me laughing in Starbucks the previous day.

‘Oh shit,’ I whispered, slipping down into a chair and hitting the volume up.

‘So Jason, who is his mystery lady?’ The stick thin presenter questioned.

‘So it looks like this is a seventeen year old girl from the isle ofIrelandwho goes by the name of January Bellame. Now we found her twitter and it seems like she is a big fan of one direction herself.’ Jason said as a pixlated image of me flashed across the screen.

‘Is it possible she’s just a fan?’ The woman asked, as the camera swivelled back to her.

‘Members of One Direction just don’t hand their numbers out to fans what is what Harry was doing here.’ Jason told her, ‘but here’s what has the blog sphere reeling, January has a boyfriend!’

How do they find these things out?

‘His name is Darren and he’s nineteen years old and goes to university, now he’s currently away on a trip but he’s back today, so let’s see what happens.’ Jason said his tone final.

I flicked the TV off as my phone began to ring, ‘Harry’ the caller ID read.

‘Hey, Jan.’ He said his voice tense.

‘Hi Harry,’ I said my voice low.

‘Look, I’m sorry about this, like Twitter and all.’ He murmured.

‘I haven’t been on Twitter,’ I informed him. He was silent.

‘January, don’t go on.’ He warned me after a minute, but I was already logging on.

‘What is it?’ I asked him, I glanced at my followers, there had been a massive surge from my 111, to 206, 514. ‘I have more followers that’s it.’

‘The trends,’ he said tersely. I scrolled down with baited breath and read the top three trends.

#January

#Harrytakingdipsintoddlerpool

#JanuaryandHarry.

‘It’ll blow over,’ he promised me.

The apartment door swung open to reveal Darren, his hair was blown back from his face and he wore thick glasses. He had a lanky frame which masked his muscles. Darren had trained in Karate since the age of five and was a black belt. He was from a crazy rich family and his parents had died leaving him with stacks of money, unsure what to do, he settled for his and mine small apartment.

‘Hey babe.’ He said coming over and kissing me on the cheek.

‘Hi Darren,’ I said to him, ‘Harry Darren’s here.’

‘Speaker?’ Harry requested and I quickly flicked it on.

‘What’s this about?’ Darren asked, confused.

Harry’s voice crackled over the receiver, ‘it’s me Harry Styles.’

Darren looked at me raising his eyebrows, ‘is this some kind of joke.’