Deep Dive (L.s AU)✔

Chapter 6 Sandy Surprise

Harry's Pov

Getting home really late with a dead phone and an angry father was not pleasant.

My father yelled at me and told me to make sure it doesn't happen again. Maybe it was for my safety or whatever but I'm starting to feel like Lottie was right. I did just turn eighteen and my father still treats me as a child.

I guess I kinda understood why. Maybe because he was protective of me after my mum but I still didn't know why because she only disappeared. But the older I got, the more angrier he grew, enforcing more rules on me.

Like how I have a curfew at ten pm, I couldn't have guy friends, go to work and come straight home, unless I was with Lottie because that was the only person he allowed me to hang out with.

So, yeah, I was kinda taking a few risks hanging out with Louis and his friends and even visiting Niall. It was really getting old, all of these rules. But I couldn't exactly go against my father...

After he had yelled at me, I went straight for bed to plug in my phone. I know Lottie must be texting me but it died while I walked home. All night, I laid there thinking, hoping, about Niall's decision about coming up to the surface.

Truthfully, I knew all about how Niall felt about his life under the water and how he grew up. I never try to bring it up because I knew how he felt about it and it would only make him shut down and completely disregard the choice he had. He confessed to me about it a few months ago and I've tried since then to convince him to come up and perhaps live with me and learn about the surface.

I've told him many stories about the human world and how not all humans are bad. Most were clueless, happy and just living normal lives. They've never really suspected the myth of mermaids except for that one girl, Louis's friend.

I didn't trust her.

Soon then, I didn't remember falling asleep, but I woke up to the sound of my phone going off like crazy.

Stretching, i reached for it, blinking away all the sleepiness to catch Lottie spamming my phone with messages.

To Harry, From Lotts 💅: Harry, Haz, H, wake up

To Harry, From Lotts💅: HARRY wake yo ass up!!

To Harry, From Lotts💅: H, yk I'm a very impatient person. I will dragged you from your sheets by your ankles. NOW TEXT ME!!!!

I couldn't help but laugh at her messages, looking through them as they started at six o'clock in the morning. I swear, she never sleeps.

But nonetheless, no matter how badly I did want to roll over and snuggle back into my nice blankets, I knew she'd take her threat seriously so I got up.

By now, it was ten in the morning and my father was at work, thankfully, so I knew Lottie was already sprinting her way here to kick down my door.

With that in mind, I freshened up quickly and got dressed just in time to hear her restless knocking on the door.

"HARRY! HARRY! IF YOU DONT ANSWER THIS DOOR IN FIVE SECONDS, I WILL KICK IT DOWN!" She yelled at the top of lungs so she made sure I could hear her from upstairs.

Stumbling down the stairs, I swore I was going to die in laughter as she started her countdown, all serious. I opened the door right as she hit two, still laughing.

She stared me with a serious look on her and I tried, tired so hard to stop laughing but I couldn't and laughed even harder. Finally her face broke and she smiled but hit my shoulder with a fake glare.