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Chapter 9

Harry Styles

"Again, who are you?"

"Harry."

I'd been on the phone with this so-called "boyfriend" for less than five minutes and I could already tell what kind of person he was. And I was going to have fun with it.

"How do you know Aurora?"

"You see, Aurora and my family used to hate one another, so we were never allowed to meet up. But we'd always secretly see each other and go on romantic dates. After an unfortunate incident both Aurora and I tragically died and-"

"Stop messing with me you asshole!"

I chuckled down the phone, "But it's fun, no?"

"YOU LITTLE PIECE OF SHIT I-"

"Hey! Hey! Jaxie Boo, why don't we calm down for a second and have a civil conversation? You can even give me a nickname too if you want. Whatever floats your boat."

"Jax-a-tron? Hello?" I echo down the phone at the sudden silence. I took the device away from my ear to see he had hung up. So rude.

"What are you doing with my phone?" I heard her voice from behind me. She stood with her arms crossed, eyes squinted in suspicion.

"Nothin', just having a lovely chat with your boyfriend."

"My- you what?"

"Jax. Your boyfriend."

Her reaction was unreadable like she didn't know how to react herself.

"You never told me you had a boyfriend."

"I didn't see why that would be any of your business, Styles."

I smirked to myself, taking small strides towards her small figure until I was leaning over her ear. "You really got an attitude today, Snow.

"Maybe I'll have to fuck it out of you."

Aurora Winters

Asshole. That was the only word I could think of to describe him.

Despite his lack of privacy for others, I couldn't understand why it bothered me so much that he and Jackson talked. What he might have said to him.

I didn't know Harry all too well, but time already told me that it couldn't have been a nice conversation. Harry had a talent for pissing people off.

I knew that things between Jackson and me were complicated at the moment. I mean we weren't even together, right?

I couldn't allow the situation with Jackson to become worse. Especially not after my mom, when she made it clear that this meant failure. I needed to prove to her that I was very well able to balance work and my social life at the same time.

I couldn't fail.

Which led me to now. I had paced my room for the past half an hour, trying to come up with an excuse to explain to Jackson who Harry was and why he had my phone in the first place.

"He's just some co-worker." I shrug exaggeratedly, pulling my lips down.

"You don't live with him, you don't know anything about him. You don't care about him." I kept mumbling to myself, over and over again.

Make this as believable as possible.

And just like that, as expected my phone rang in my hand. "Hello." I heard him speak on the phone when I put the device to my burning ear.

"Hey."

"So now I'm worth to be called? Why didn't you pick up your phone earlier?"

"Because I was obviously not around."

He scoffed, "And you're just leaving your phone at some guy's place?"

"No, of course not! I wasn't at any guy's place. We just happened to be at the same place."

"Who is he?"

"He's just a co-worker of mine," I replied. When he didn't reply straight away I could feel the panic emerge. Was that believable? Could he tell I was lying? Or was he trying to catch me out?

"So you're screwing your co-worker?"

Nothing could have prepared me for his answer. Did he really think that lowly of me?

"C'mon Aurora. Don't even try to convince me he's just some 'friendly' co-worker."

"But he is! He's nothing but a co-worker."

Even though I was only lying to convince Jackson of this, I felt a pit in the bottom of my stomach as soon as those words left my mouth. Of course, he isn't my co-worker but he's not nothing to me, right?

"You sound so believable, Aurora." Emphasising the 'so', I heard him scoff again and the pent-up anger in his voice. "I never imagined you to be the type to whore around so quickly. I wonder what I did wrong for you to be such a prude around me."

"That's enough Jax. We're not even together anyone, remember? You were the one who wanted a break."

"That's still no reason for you to be a bitch."

My blood was boiling to an extent I couldn't even describe. I felt like screaming at him. put him in his place. Curse him out.

But I took a few quick breaths. Closing my eyes, I remain the one in control.

"I'm tired. Let's talk some other time."

I hung up the phone, tossing it on the cover of my bed. The only thing I could think about was how tired I was. Mentally and physically.

All I wanted to do was put on my baggy t-shirt and a pair of pyjama shorts and crawl into the soft sheets of my bed and sleep.

My mind was wide awake, but my body was tired. I could feel my shoulders slumping over and my eyes still quite heavy but my busy thought wouldn't allow me to sleep.

I lift my head to look over at the digital clock beside me; it is currently two in the morning. With a sigh, I trudged across my bedroom and over to the living room. Unfortunately, I wasn't the only one awake.

"Sorry 'bout earlier," I heard Harry speak from his spot on the couch. "I guess it wasn't cool of me to take your phone like that." he scratched the back of his neck, his focus still on the screen ahead of him.

"Do you mean that?"

It was now that my insecurities showed in my voice that caught his attention. He turned his head over to me without any hesitation.

"Do I ever say stuff I don't mean, Snow?"

I didn't reply to him. It felt like he already knew my answer even in the silence.

"Wanna watch something together?"

"It's two a.m."

"So?"

It was weird sitting next to Harry on the couch and watching tv together. Not only was he a rich ass Rockstar but he was an arrogant one at that. Not the kind of guy I'd usually find myself watching tv together with.

But why did it somehow feel almost comforting to me? Just sitting there with him. Watching some boring show at two in the morning.

Why did we only know each other for such a short amount of time and there not be any sort of awkward silence between us?

Why did I feel so comfortable with him when I never did with anyone else?

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Chapter Nine!

Wow.
We can all agree that Jax is an
A-hole.
But how 'bout that sweet moment at the end? Aw.

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