forbidden [h.s.]

fourteen.

harry's pov

I walk through the front door and Mason immediately emerges from his room. He marches towards me and glares at me.

"Where's Jade?" He asks, but I say nothing. "Tell me!" He yells and I rub my temples with my fingers. He's giving me a headache.

"Relax. She's at home. She was escorted by the police. She's safe and sound." I reply sarcastically and walk into the kitchen, setting my keys down on the counter.

As I expected, Mason follows me in here. Lovely. I know he has something to say, and I wish he'd just say it. I'm growing old here and I want to take a nap. I only woke up a few hours ago, but the events of today have drained me.

I can't believe I told Jade that I love her. I mean, I don't take it back, but I shouldn't have said it. It slipped out and now she feels weird about me. I wonder if she's still angry with me.

"I can't believe she spent the night here with you. She must have been terrified." Mason shakes his head.

I scoff and take an apple out of the bowl on the counter. "She didn't seem too terrified when she agreed to have sex with me." I say and toss the apple up in the air nonchalantly.

Mason's jaw tenses and he glares at me. "She made a mistake. Didn't you hear her? She wanted me. You were just available."

I roll my eyes. "You are incredibly thick, Mason. You know Jade hates you, right? Why would she miraculously begin to love you? Honestly, think it through." I don't know why I'm saying any of this. I know I should stop but I'm angry. Mason represents everything I hate about this world and I'm so sick of letting people like him treat people like me like we're nothing.

"I thought she hated me too. But I believe that her having sex with you made her realize how much she really wants me. She thought she wanted someone different, but once she tried it, she hated it. She knows now that she wants me."

I find my patience thinning with every word he speaks. "Here's a question." I say and set the apple down on the counter, leaning forward and pressing my palms to the cold granite. "Do you want Jade?"

Mason scoffs as if I've insulted him. I hope I have. "Of course I do. Have you seen her?" He says and smiles with pride.

How disgusting. She's nothing more than a prize to him. "Why do you fuck around with other girls then?" I cock my head to the side, interrogating him. "If you want her so badly, why cheat?"

Mason pauses for a moment, trying to think of an excuse. "Well, I don't want to limit myself to just Jade. That'd be selfish."

My eyes widen at his idiocy. The sad thing is, that probably makes perfect sense to him. "There's a word, I don't know if you're familiar with it, called commitment! It's something that Jade has to you but you can't manage to achieve. Going by your logic, it's selfish for Jade to reserve herself for you, isn't it?"

Mason locks his jaw, realizing that his own argument has backfired on him. He's so incredibly stupid. I don't know how Jade puts up with him. "Mason, we were friends before, you know. Before you introduced me to Jade, we were friends. I'm not saying I want to be friends with you, but can we at least be at peace with one another?"

"Not after you fucked my girlfriend!" He yells suddenly and I pick the apple up again, shrugging my shoulders and taking a bite.

I walk out of the kitchen, not wanting to speak to him any longer. But again, he follows me. I stop in the living room and turn around, narrowing my eyes at him. "Say it Mason. You're holding something in. Go on then. I'm a big boy." I patronize him, finding comfort in the fact that my intelligence outdoes his numerous times over.