Good-Bye Beautiful™ | Harry Styles ON HIATUS

Chapter Seventeen

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Half a Heart - One Direction

Grenade - Bruno Mars

Want U Back - Cher Lloyd

Stay Close, Don't Go - Secondhand Serenade

Thinking Out Loud - Ed Sheeran

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Mercy

"There she is!"

Louis' familiar grasp tightened around my shoulders from behind as I stood at my locker during the lunch period. Harry and I had just gotten to school no more than fifteen minutes ago and he had met up Zayn and Niall at the front doors when we first got here. Trinity and Louis had only just found me after being here for only ten minutes, and they both seemed to be in very good moods.

"I was only gone for a few hours," Laughing, I pushed my bag in my locker and continued the search for one of my missing books. "Did one of you take my Economics textbook? I can't find it and-"

"Found it." Trinity bluntly cut me off.

"Mercy," Harry's familiar cologne invaded my senses as he came up behind me. "You left your Economics book in my car, it must've fallen out of your bag when you tossed it in the back seat."

"Thanks, Harry." I smiled, handing Louis my text book and wrapping my arms around his torso. "I was about to freak out if I couldn't find it, Mr. Rosen would've made me pay for the book each day it was missing and I have no money."

"It's no problem, babe." He leaned down to meet my lips and wove an arm around my waist to pull me closer. I grinned into the kiss, pulling away a few seconds later once I remembered that Louis and Trinity were standing right behind me. As much as I liked Harry, my friends were about to grill me - Louis would probably kill me - and I didn't want Harry around for that.

"I'll text you when I get home tonight, hopefully." I laughed quietly. "My dad might take my phone away because of earlier. But I'll try."

"Alright, bye love." Squeezing my side, he kissed my temple and walked away down the hall to meet up with Zayn and Niall. The two boys waved to me, doing obnoxious kissy faces as Harry passed by them and smacked them on the head. They were stupid, and child-like, but Zayn had become kind of like a brother with how he treated me.

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Harry

"So you and Mercy?" Niall smirked, jutting his elbow into my side to prod me even further. I rolled my eyes and pushed him back as I hid the smile from creeping up on my face. If anyone knew how to get on my nerves it was Niall and Zayn in the smallest and most child-like ways, especially when it came to Mercy.

"What about us?" I asked.

Did Mercy want me to tell them we were dating?

"Are you two a thing now?" Zayn chimed in.

"You're acting like teenage girls, Jesus Christ." I groaned and ran a hand through my hair. "Do you think I just kissed her in front of her best friends because I wanted to get on Louis' nerves?"

"Well I mean-"

"Fuck off, Niall. She's my girlfriend, I can do what I want."

Zayn snorted from across the table. "I thought you didn't do relationships, Harry. At least not after the whole 'Miranda incident' at the start of Sophomore year, is what I thought."