Butterflies

Chapter 13

Addison’s POV

Once we got out of the shoe store Harry put me down and let me walk so the pain would ease its self away after a while. I wasn’t sure of our next destination but as we walked through the mall the distance between Harry and I from the rest of the boys was growing.

“Do you notice them going off a little behind us?” I whispered up to Harry. “It seems they’re walking slower.”

He looked behind us and smirked. “I don’t know, I think they want us to get together.” He paused. “Like, officially.”

I didn’t reply. I didn’t know exactly how to respond to that. Should I go along with it, or what? Do I feel ready to fall completely in love or should I shake off that emotion? I really like Harry, a lot, but I guess I’m afraid of losing something if I fall in love with it.

Harry stopped in front of a store. It was a swimsuit store. “So you want to go by yourself?” he asked looking at the store and then at me.

“Yeah, I guess.” I replied. His face had a frown that was just barely noticeable. “Where should I meet you guys when I’m done?”

“Umm…” he looked back at the boys and they shrugged. “I guess meet us around the food court. How long do you think you’ll be?” 

“Not long. You guys could go get some shopping done if you need to.”

Zayn walked up. “Yeah, we probably need hair and make-up stuff.”

“Definitely.” I said. “I don’t have much of that stuff.”

“Ok, so maybe about 20 minutes?” Liam said, standing next to Zayn.

“That sounds good to me.” I said smiling.

“Later, then.” Niall waved and they turned to go off their own way while I turned to walk into the swimwear store.

Ugh this might be hard.

Harry’s POV

We walked through the mall to find an appropriate store for our needs.

“So why don’t you make a move on Addison, Harry?” Louis asked. “You obviously fancy her and you see that we are clearly trying to help you out with this.”

“I don’t know. She seems a little distant about everything, not really wanting someone to love her. But I really want to.” I said kind of quietly.

We made our way into a cosmetics store and started looking around.

“Ok so what kind of make-up would look good on Addison?”

“She’s too pretty for make-up.”

“That’s why we’ll go for something natural.” Zayn said wrapping up the boys thoughts. “Try to find brown colors; it will go with her eyes.”

We had to ask the store assistant for help but we believe we found everything we needed. Brown eye shadow, mascara, this little pencil looking thing, bronzer, lip gloss, and some body glitter. Then we looked around and got some hair things; bobby pins, sparkly clips that look like butterflies, and curlers. We decided that if Addison wanted her hair straight that we would just use Liam’s hair straightener.

“Ok, we should probably try to find Addison now. It’s been about 20 minutes.” Liam said looking at his phone.

We started in the direction of the food court with our bags of items and sat around a table to look out for Addison. Paul came up to us and asked if we found everything we needed and if we were almost ready to leave. We said yes and waited till Addison arrived. She finally came, holding a small yellow bag in her hand.