THIS IS ANNA & ANNA 2- Now, everyone can listen!
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ANNA:
When she is fourteen, her family moves to Holmes Chapel and Anna forms an immediate bond with Harry, the green-eyed boy next door. Friends first, they explore life in their picturesque Eng...
"Well," Harry starts and looks over at me for approval, and I nod for him to continue. "We met when we were fourteen and have been in each others lives since then in one way or another," he finishes proud of his explanation rubbing his palm on the small of my back.
"Yup. That pretty much sums it up," I say. Even though I know there is so much more to the story. Even though so much has happened between us that I didn't even know where to start explaining it all to Kate and Alli. Even though we are still trying to find our way back to one another, unsure what the endpoint is.
I've worked so hard to forgive, move on and put him in the friendship box, but those eyes and dimples, and all the drinks I keep drinking, are begging me to take him right back out of it and build him a new box on my shelf.
"Will you get a picture of us?" Harry asks Kate, who is more than thrilled to take his phone and snap a photo. He grabs it from her and giggles, turning his phone to show me the picture. "Of course you look like you're in pain," he rolls his eyes.
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"Well, just be glad you got a photo, Styles," I say in a sassy tone. "What were you expecting? Me to lick your face or jump into your arms like the fangirls do?"
"Of course not, that would be super inappropriate," Harry says with raised eyebrows and both Kate and Alli look between us and I glare at Harry.
"Well, ladies," Harry booms, changing the subject, "we are going back to the hotel for a bit before we get on the bus to head out. Are you interested in joining us?"
I know I don't need to ask Alli and Kate, and I also know they will be disappointed if I say 'no'. Harry explains that we'll be taking cars from inside the arena to the parking garage at the hotel, to remain unseen. Then, there will be a low-key gathering until either people go to sleep, or the busses load sometime in the early morning hours.
We send a message to Alli's parents that we were going on to a party after the concert and head to the hotel in a separate car from Harry. When we arrive, we notice that it is indeed a small gathering. Each of the boys seem to have a couple people there to connect with, and we are told that Zayn is already in bed. So, we make ourselves comfortable with drinks from the kitchen and a plate of snacks for before heading out to the balcony.
Harry joins us outside. We talk about how Alli and I became roommates- how I offered for her to move in with me after her breakup. Kate quickly goes off on her own, now talking to Niall inside, so it is just the three of us. I can tell that Harry likes these glimpses into my life. A life that I haven't let him back into fully. It's not that I don't want him to know about it, but I just don't know how to explain this life that he, until recently, didn't have a place in.
Harry has been increasingly flirty as the evening goes on and as much as I try to stay neutral, we are creeping back towards the comfortable banter of our past. The girls and I are now happily tipsy, which also makes my usually good decision making very cloudy. Luckily, Alli is always like the mom when we were on the verge of making bad choices, and she decides to call our driver to take us back to her parents house.
