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Chapter 7

My eyes widened when I saw Harry. His father is the mayor?! He's the mayor's son?! What is - why is no one telling me anything?! Oh my God, I can't believe this. How could I not know that-

"Elena?" Someone calls my name and I look up to see my mom's concerned face.

"Yeah? Oh. Oh, yeah! Yeah, hey." Seriously? Gosh, I'm such a freak. He grins sheepishly and offers his hand out for me to shake, I look at his hand and up at him and remember that time when we bumped to each other. I bit my lip and took out his hand hesitantly and he grasped it, firmly shaking it, while I just stare at our shaking hands.

"Glad that we've finally properly introduced each other without bumping heads." He said with a deep chuckle. I awkwardly laugh along him and let go of our hands and scratched my elbow.

"You two have met before?" My mother asks, turning her body towards me with an amused smile on her face. I turned away from her and looked at my fingernails, suddenly having an interest in the white nail polish painted on them.

"Yes Mrs. Curtis, we bumped into each other accidentally at my school." Harry replied evenly. I hear my parents chuckle and I interrupt them quietly, "We're not actually here to discuss how we met, right mom? Dad?" They immediately stop and leads the Styles' family to the kitchen, where everything has been set out already.

Well, this is gonna be interesting.

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We were now eating and my father and Mr. Styles were talking subtly about the project that they'll be doing. I was seated at the end of the table beside my father, who was seated at the left head of the table, and my mother to my right. Same goes with Mr. Styles who was also seated at the right head of the table, with his wife to his left hand. I was eating quietly, listening to the people in the room around me talking to each other. My mother asked Dominic, whose name I've just learned, why he wanted to eat here instead in some classy restaurant, and it was because he didnt want attention and they laughed. I only smiled slightly and I could feel Harry staring at me, but I didnt want to think that he was looking at me so I drank from my glass and cleared my throat quietly.

When we were done eating, my father and Dominic proceeded to my father's office to officially discuss the project, while the rest of us were in the living room. My mom and Anne, Dominic's wife, were talking casually as if they were friends for a long time, while Gemma, their daughter, was on her phone and Harry, looking at some pictures hanged on the wall. I told my mom I'll be outside and she agreed, I need to talk to Angela about this.

Once I was outside, I took out my phone and searched for Angela's number and pressed call. I put the phone to my ear and wait for her to pick up.

"Hello?" She answers on the fourth ring and I sighed.

"Oh thank God, you picked it up." I mutter as I sit down on the porch swing and grabbed one pillow and placed it on my lap.

"Why? Is something wrong? What's going on?" She asked hurriedly and I shake my head but then I remembered I was on the phone with her and she can't see me.

"No, no, nothing's wrong. What's going on is that Harry is the mayor's son!" I whisper-yell the last part just because I didn't want Harry to know I was talking about him in case he was listening.

"Oh." She replied, dragging the 'oh' for a long time that it made her sound like she had an accent.

"Yeah about that, I thought you already know, since you guys were texting and all." She continued and I huffed.

"Well I don't, and how did you even know we were texting?" I ask her and glared at their car parked infront.

"Of course I would know! Harry tells me everything!" As if on cue, Harry comes out of the house and smiles down at me, I immediately end the call.

My heart beats a bit faster when he asks if he could sit down and I nod slowly, he grins then sat down beside me, placing his hands on his lap, clad with an expensive looking black jeans. I didn't know that I was staring at his face when he turned his head toward me and that made me flustered, causing me to look ahead of me.

I hear him chuckle quietly, probably because I'm a freak. God, I'm so embarassed right now.

"Hey." He spoke, making me widen my eyes a little bit. I turn around and look at him and he waves his right hand slightly and he smiles. I crack a little smile and clear my throat and took a deep breath, exhaling out a "Hi."

I don't know what I did but that made him grin even more. "You know, I feel weird because we've only talked, like, through text, and now here we are." He says as he extends his arms infront of him and I arch my eyebrows.

"Yeah, and I didn't even know you were the mayor's son." I reply, my cheeks heating up of embarassment. He laughs and shakes his head, looking at me.

"I thought you'd know that already."

I snort and shake my head, then shrug.

"Well, I never really asked you your real name." I laugh quietly and he does the same. We got quiet for a second until he reaches his hand out to me and said, "Hi, I'm Harry Styles, and I'm the guy who bumped into you and dropped your phone, by the way, were there cracks on your phone? I might get sued if there were any. What's yours?" I had to laugh at that causing him to laugh as well and remembered that he still has his hand stretched to me.

So I grab his hand and shake it firmly then reply, "Hello Harry, my name's Elena Curtis, I'm the girl who bumped into you and dropped all your papers and have possibly made you late to wherever you went and no, there are no cracks on my phone so you're not getting sued. Nice to finally meet you Harry." We laugh again and I notice his dimples popping out and the sides of his eyes wrinkle as he squints them while he laughs. It's adorable.

"Pleasure's all mine, Elena." We let go of our hands together and I could still feel the warmth of his hand on mine. We are still smiling at each other that I could feel my cheeks hurting from smiling too much. I took a deep breath then look ahead of me and let out the air in my mouth.

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Heeeeeey, sorry this sucked and yaaaay I'm back! I really was stuck writing this chapter I just couldn't type something, I guess writer's block wanted to be a bitch and say heeeey I'm back!!

Oh oh oh oh!!!

I passed my college entrance exam and omg i'm so happy!! I'm already enrolled and we start at June and i know you might think that wHAT WHY DO YOU START EARLY?!!?! Well it's bc we always start our school year in June and ends in March sooo the school year has like 10 months or so. But im used to it. *sigh*

anyways, i reallyyyy hope you liked this chapter and please give it a vote and a feedback bc feedbacks are what makes me really motivated and i just want someone to tell me how my book is bc i put soooo much effort in this book and it's hard when you write a chapter and no one ever votes in it or comments so it makes me sad, but yeah, just one click on that vote button is all im really asking, thank you!!

All the love, M. (I'm changing it to M bc thats my initial and not H, i only use H bc its Harry's initial haha oops)