How You Get The Boy || h.s au

26. Sipping cocktails and looking at fine art

Clean ~ Taylor Swift

"You're all over me like a wine-stained dress I can't wear anymore"

Aurora
I sat in photography class picking at my black nail polish, or what was left of it. Every so often I'd glance at Harry who was constantly looking down at the notebook in front of him. I leaned closer to him to see what he was doing but he moved his elbow to cover the page.

The teacher- Mrs Andrews- was babbling on and on about saturation which I already knew about, so did Harry by the looks of it. I looked up at the clock, only two more minutes to go. Most people in the class began putting their things back into their bags subtly.

"Wait stop" Mrs Andrews said "before you all go, I have a small-ish announcement. Tonight there will be a gallery opening on Manley Court, and you're all invited." The whole class cheered and Harry looked up confused "I hope to see you all there tonight, dress classy- I have a reputation to uphold" without thinking I raised my hand "yes Aurora"

I froze and my hands began getting sweaty. "Erm, can we bring someone with us?"

"Of course, you all have a plus one" she dismissed us and I packed my notebook away, I tucked my chair in and noticed Harry hadn't moved. I lightly tapped his shoulder and his head shot up, he closed his note book and smiled at me.

"We can go" I said

"Oh right," he put his notebook away and slid off his chair "what was miss talking about?"

I sighed playfully rolling my eyes "that we can go to this gallery opening tonight on Manley Court"

"I heard of that, I think Liam's course is gonna be there too" he opened the classroom door for me and I thanked him as I walked through, we walked side by side down the corridor and I practically had to watch my feet the entire time so they wouldn't do anything I didn't want them to, eg trip me up.

"You can bring a plus one by the way"

"Well I don't have a date to bring, so I guess Louis or Niall. What about you?"

"Probably Belle" I shrugged guessing she'd be free, she's always free. "I'm gonna go wait outside her class, I'll see you later Harry"

"Until then Aurora" he smiled

"Until then Harry" I smiled and carried on smiling until he was out of sight, I let out a long sigh and my jaw ached from smiling so much. I strolled to Belle's class just in time to see her walking out. We gave each other the 'sup' nod and walked back to the flat talking about what we were going to wear tonight.

"How fancy is this thing?" She asked unlocking the door

"She said classy, so yeah wear your best"

"I better start getting ready" Belle said walking into her room, seconds later she walked back out again "I should probably shower first"

Harry

"C'mon guys! It'll be fun, I even went to Mrs Andrews to ask if I could bring two people instead of one!" I tried begging Niall and Louis to join me tonight but it wasn't their idea of fun.

"Harreh" Louis said "it will be boring as shit, I mean are any interesting people gonna be there?"

"Erm well, artists; photographers; rich people; my photography class"

"So Aurora's gonna be there?" Niall asked

"Yep"

"Well where Aurora goes, Belle does to so Niall will be interested" Liam who was also here teased Niall.