Y/N Y/L/N is forced to return to the town where she was born for extraordinary reasons. Her father is extremely sick and on the verge of passing away. Alsfield has changed and is far from what she remembers and even though she lived in town until he...
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Y/N was speechless, and she felt very embarrassed. She could feel her cheeks flaring up from embarrassment as both men stared down at her.
"You are the mayor?" She asked again, surprised that the town had voted for someone so young. Y/N was also realizing how attractive the new mayor was. She liked how he was casually dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. He looked nothing like a mayor.
"I am Harry" he stretched out his hand. "Nice to meet you" Harry was very amused at how her expression and her tone changed.
"Y/N Y/L/N" she shook his hand, "I am sorry about my rudeness" She apologized which Harry found ridiculously cute. She mesmerized him, and he could tell that she was going to be incredibly special to him.
"See? That wasn't that hard" Harry joked, "You are new in town, right?"
"Not really. I was born here" Harry nodded and listened carefully, "Just visiting my father". She revealed.
"That's nice. Well, it's great to have you back. Let me know if there is anything I can do for you" Harry smiled at her making her swooned for him. "Niall, can I have a word with you? Have a good one Y/N" Harry waved as he turned his back towards her and walked back to his table.
"I'll be right back" Niall winked at her and walked towards Harry.
Y/N tried her best to start eating and mind her own business, but she couldn't stop herself to look up. From where she sat, it looked like he was diligently explaining something to Niall. The young cop only nodded back. Harry's eyes met with hers making her look down at her food quickly. She had been caught with the hand in the cookie jar, and why deny it? She was obviously checking him out. Y/N just wanted to pay the bill and run out.
"Y/N!" Mr. Brown called out as he walked up to her, saving her from the awkwardness. She tried her best not to look back, but she left someone's eyes on her, and it made her uncomfortable. Y/N was being watched, but she wasn't going to look up. She tried her best to ignore it and instead, she stood up from her seat and hugged Mr. Brown.
"Mr. Brown! How've you been?" She smiled widely at whom she considered to be the closest thing to a father figure.
"Good! It's great seeing sweetie. How long are you staying?"
"Just two weeks. I hope. I've got to get back to work" Y/N explained, "I am just finishing up breakfast before going to see Robert".
"You should come over to dinner tonight! We would love to catch up" Mr. Brown smiled, "Are you staying at the house?".
"No. At the hotel" Mr. Brown nodded before someone started speaking on his radio. "Well, duty calls. I'll see you later, honey" He smiled, "Niall!" He called out interrupting his conversation with Harry. Mr. Brown didn't even wait for Niall, he walked straight out into his car. From, the corner of her eye, Y/N watched as Harry and Niall walked out of the diner.
"Cute, huh?" Mrs., Brown asked as she refilled her coffee.
"Who?" Y/N asked as she faked being interested in some Excel documents that she had opened on her laptop.
"Mayor Styles" Mrs. Brown responded, "Apparently he was born and raised in town, but I've never seen him before he was a contestant for elections."
"That's odd. How old is he?"
"I think he is thirty or thirty-one."
"Should have seen him in school, but I don't remember anyone by that name" Y/N wasn't popular, but the town wasn't as big to forget the names of the people at school. Nor was the school too big to never have met the students from older grades.
"That's because he was homeschooled" Mrs. Brown shrugged, "To be honest I honestly didn't believe in his campaign and thought that he was going to be a disaster." The Browns had debated multiple weeks and the house had been divided. Mr. Brown thought that Harry was the way to go. Sure. He was young, but the town needed a change. "He has been doing a decent job lately. He is very attentive and open to suggestions. At least, he solved the issue with whatever was in the woods".
Y/N's curiosity instantly perked up at the mention of the woods.
"What issue? What's in the woods?" Mrs. Brown laughed and placed her hand on her shoulder with a big smile.
"Nothing anymore, honey. Harry took care of it with Mr. Brown" Y/N sighted and made a mental note to ask Mr. Brown at dinner. She was interested maybe what she had seen in the woods had some connection to it. Y/N didn't feel crazy anymore. Her lack of sleep had been validated.
"I should get going." Y/N looked down at her watch, realizing that visiting hours were just about to start in the hospital. If she wanted to check up on Robert, she needed to leave now. "I'll see you at dinner" She winked and kissed Mrs. Brown's cheek after putting down thirty dollars.
"Don't be late! We are having lasagna!" She called out before Y/N left the diner.
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Y/N hated the town's hospital with every fiber in her. Mostly after experiencing her mother's death. Potentially it was the number of times that she had driven her to the hospital when she had gotten so sick or when her father had beaten her up so badly that she was unrecognizable.
10:05 AM her phone showed her after she parked. She sat in the parking lot for a few minutes, trying to bring down her heart rate. The truth was that Y/N was still scared of her father. She was older now and didn't depend on him, but most of her darkest dreams had him in them as the main lead.
The first nights in college, she would wake up screaming and drenched in sweat. Her dorm monitor had even advised her to look for help from one of the psychology teachers. A piece of advice that she had taken as an insult at first but ended up doing exactly that. Things got better after she started assisting consistently. Pamela had been her salvation.
"Robert Y/L/N?" She asked at the nurse's station.
"You are?"
"His daughter" Y/N sharply said, annoyed that she had to keep revealing that she was related to him.
"Oh! Ms. Y/L/N, you are finally here! I thought you weren't going to ever come. He is in room 206" The nurse smiled and pointed her down the hallway. "I am sure he is going to be happy to see you".
"Thanks" She slowly walked down the hall. Suddenly, Y/N couldn't remember the reason she had agreed to come up to see him. It was not worth it anymore. Her mental stability mattered more. Y/N finally came up to the door of the room and stood in front of it. She was stiff as a board; her muscles had tensed up. Y/N closed her eyes as she remembered Pamela's words in her mind. She tried to remember everything that she had ever talked to Pamela about and everything she had advised her to do before seeing her father. "You are enough, a million times enough," she said to herself.
Y/N opened the door and faced the monster of her story.
