The Boy Next Door (Harry Styles)

Chapter Five

"Katie.." I didn't know what to even say. I took forever to respond to him. I liked the kiss, I did but I don't know what I was feeling. I liked him alot. I just didn't want to admit it to him or to anyone at this point. I don't think that anyone else would understand, I just don't know. "Y-Yes?" I couldn't even get the words out of my mouth. "I-I don't know what came over me I'm usually so good at not doing that but..." I cut him off " No, Harry. Don't be sorry. It was perfectly fine. And I know what you mean about controlling yourself or whatever, I do that too..." what was I saying? I've been doing that since I can remember. Which is a really long time to me. "Are you sure? Cause I don't want us to be awkward or anything.." awkward? Why would it be awkward? "Harry, I don't think that anything could ever be awkward between us no matter what happens between us." I felt his large hands pull me into a hug we stood there for what seemed to be hours.

"Harry?.." how was I going to tell him that, that kiss meant more to me then it probably did to him? I couldn't even admit to myself that I liked him and here I was about to tell him something that I would probably regret. "Mmm?" just 20 seconds of courage is all that I need. "I-I think that I like you... Like, like-like you..." I suddenly got really nervous. I never felt so nervous in my life around Harry or even telling him something. "I've liked you Katie.. for a while now actually" that I was not expecting at all. "Wait w-what?" I could barely even get those words out of my mouth. He had taken me by suprise. Without realizing what I was doing I leaning towards Harry about to kiss him, when he leaned in as well quickening the moment where our lips would meet. This time I felt better about the kiss since I knew that he had actually had those type of feelings for me but the only thing that was seeming to bother me was the fact that we had barely just started talking again.

And knowing how much we tend to fight over the littlest of things I was scared of how we would end up if anything came out of what was happening right now. I want to give this all a chance, give him a chance to fix everything. I just really didn't want to fight with him if something came up and ruined our trust or anything. "Hazza..?" he had a questioning look on his face like he was scared about what I was going to ask. "Hmm?" well here goes nothing."So, what if we start dating and then something causes a problem and we stop talking and a fight happens and then its all like it was only a couple days ago. I mean we've only just started talking literally only a few days ago and here we are kissing like we've been dating for this whole time we were fighting yanno? I like you Harry, alot and I don't want a fight to happen, I don't want things to seem perfect when really it's not. I don't want to love someone who will push everything out of their life just because one argument." I hadn't noticed that I was out of Harry's arms and pacing across the room just rambling on about what I was thinking.

I stopped walking and Harry just bursted out laughing at me. "Harry! I'm not even kidding about this! Why are you laughing?" his laughing was making me start to chuckle a bit. "I'm sorry love, it's just that you were rambling on and on about things and your face that you were making was funny." he started to calm down. Great, he was concentrating on my faces that I was making. "Katie, I know what you're trying to say. I thought about all of that. I'm not going to push anyone out of my life if we got into an arguement, I promise you that. Everything is going to be perfect as long as we want it to be. The best of relationships do have fights Katie you know that right? No relationship is perfect no matter how much you think they are, they aren't. I know we've only just really started talking again but we have been bestfriends for the longest of time so that fight shouldnt matter, should it? I don't think so. Look I like you and I want to make this work. Anything is possible as long as we both put in the effort." He stood up from where he was sitting and hugged me. I took a while to hug back because I was thinking about everything he just told me. It changed alot of things that I was thinking about, and answered almost all of my quiestions. I wasn't so sure about trusting him fully.. he's always seemed to let me down in some way somehow.

After that whole thing ended we decided to try things out and if it didn't work we would just go back to being bestfriends, or atleast try to. I wanted this to work. Harry was turning on a movie, we were in my room now. I got up to change. I didn't really bother to go into the bathroom I just changed in front of Harry. He just winked at me. "What?" I asked. "Nothing, just that you just changed in front of me." Then he put on a really cheeky smile. "Oh shut up" I said throwing whatever was closest to my reach which happened to be a shoe. "Ow, that hurt." I felt a little bad but he brought it on himself. "Haha, that's what you get!" I climbed into my bed cuddling next to him. Time went by really fast when I was with Harry.

--Harry's Pov--

I never felt any better than I have today. Okay, that was an exaggeration. But that's how it felt. Those kisses that me and Katie shared today. Just everything with her in general. She was softly snoring now. I could tell she was thinking a lot during the day. I understood everything though. That's how I felt at first. As long as I could control my anger and everything else that lead us to not speaking, this would be perfect.

I've been waiting for this day for years.