Platonic// h.s

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Mirabella POV

  What the hell? It went from awkward to the flirt - fest in mere second. After Zayn came back with our drinks, Niall turned up the heat. All the dirty messages, disguised as lovely comments, exchanged between the two were going to haunt me forever. I mean, something as innocent as asking for more water was made as dirty as mud.

"Can you refill my glass? I'm still thirsty." Niall smirked with a flirty wink. I nearly gagged, and sent Chloé a disgusted look. She nodded, agreeing, and sent one back.

"Sure, how much?" I raised an eyebrow at Zayn's question. Just fill up the damn cup to the top. And what type waiter asks that?

"A lot." Niall replied with a seductive smile.

"Yeah, I have a lot, too." Zayn replied with the same exact smile. What the actual fuck? Were they exchanging dick sizes?

"Just go fill the cup." Chloé ordered waving Zayn away with her hand. Zayn sighed, almost inaudibly, but walked away. I looked back over Chloé, a grateful look.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you," I chanted. She smiled and was about to speak but Niall cut her off.

"Why did you do that?" He half-shouted. "We were talking." Chloé scoffed with a roll of her eyes.

"More like, narrating porn." I laughed out loud at that one. Niall shot me a glare, which shut me up, and turned back to Chloé.

"Jeez, you're such a killjoy." I sighed tired of the fighting and decided to speak up. I suddenly felt the urge to go to the bathroom. I stood up while beginning to speak.

"Gotta go pee." I said and Chloé stood to follow me. "You can go back to flirting with Zayn while we're gone." Niall nodded as we walked off to the bathroom. We entered the empty bathroom and I closed a stall door behind me. Chloé took out her lipstick and started to reapply.

"I can't believe Zayn is gay!" Chloé exclaimed as I was doing the dirty deed. I nodded knowing she couldn't see it.

"I know, right? Like, what happened to Perrie?"

"They broke up, obviously. O-M-G!"

"What?" I asked zipping up my zipper. I flushed then walked out. Chloé turned to me, lipstick sting grasped in her fingers. She sat with a shocked expression only making me more eager to hear.

"What if she was his beard?" The comment made me burst out laughing, I'm not sure why.

"And she came bragging to us that it was 'true love', ha!" I dried off my hands and laughed once again. I don't know why it was so funny to me.

We walked out to go back to our seats but we're stopped midway but someone.

The mess of curls sat on his head like an old mop, his emerald green eyes looked more like puke, his oddly(penis) shaped nose sat in the middle of his ever-so disgusting face.

"What do you want, Harry?" I asked while crossing my arms over my chest. I noticed Chloé had done the same, with irritated look on her face. Harry smiled innocently while leaning his arm against the wall, blocking our way out.

"Nothing, I just came to say hi." I squinted at him, trying to figure why he was here. He never just comes to say hi.

"Hi." I plainly stated. "Now, leave." He laughed as if someone had told a joke.

"Aah, Bella, you're so funny." He gently clapped his hands together, his laugh continuing. I looked at Bella for guidance.

"Seriously," Chloé said aggressively. "What are you doing here?" He raised his eyebrows in suprise.

"Well, it's nice to see you too, Chloé." She rolled her eyes. "I just came over here to say hi, seriously." Now, Niall let out a laugh. Where did he come from? He was now standing behind Harry, looking very annoyed.

"Yeah, like the great Harry Styles would just come over to see a bunch people you don't even talk to anymore." Harry looked slightly pissed, now.

"Oh, come on, Neil, I don't see why you all hate me?"

"It's Niall," Niall said with gritted teeth. "And you know exactly why!"

"Look, guys, I'm really sorry about that. I was stupid back then, dumber than dumb. But I've changed over the summer, as some of you have as well," he looked at me, "I'm so sorry, can you forgive me?" He sounded...genuinely sorry. I could feel the sadness radiating off of him. I was about to forgive him when Chloé spoke up.

"Forget it, you prick." Chloé shook her head.

"Yeah," Niall agreed. "You think giving us a small little speech is going to make up for the years of pain? Ha, you still are dumber than dumb." Hurt flashed across Harry's face and I felt bad. He's sorry! Just forgive him! I wanted to yell at them. Harry look at me.

"Bella, do you forgive me?" I didn't know what to say. If I forgave him, I would be betraying my friends but if I didn't, I would feel horrible. All eyes were on me.

"I...forgive you." I spoke. Chloé gasped and Niall's face turned red. Harry's face lit up as he reached into his pocket. He took out a small slip of paper and placed it in my hands.

"Call me some time." He smirked then walked back to his table. I stuck the paper in my pocket than turn back to the others.

"I can't believe it." Chloé said breathlessly. She walked back to the table with Niall following close behind. I was hot on their trail.

"Neither can I," Niall said wiping his bottom lip with finger.

"What?" I asked knowing exactly what was coming up? I didn't know why I asked.

"How could you forgive him?" Chloé questioned. "After all he's done to us?" I needed to convince them to forgive him, it's not good to hold grudges.

"Oh, come on!" We sat back down. "Sure, he did do a few things but-"

"A few things?" Niall furrowed his eyebrows. "It was more than just a few things! He and his friends made fun of me for years just because I like boys."

"So they told a few jokes here and there, they didn't do anything too bad." Niall rolled his eyes at my response. I knew what they had said had hurt Niall but it was time to forgive and forget.

"Did you forget what he did to me?" Chloé hissed. "He left me alone with all those drunk guys at the party. Bella, he promised he'd take care of me." I felt the hurt radiating from her voice. "I- what they did to me...I can never forgive him." I sighed.

"You guys...look, just because I forgave him doesn't mean that I'm gonna be friends with him or some thing. It's not like I'm suddenly gonna care about him. I don't even know...look, I'm sorry for everything he did to you guys but I don't want to hold grudges. This is the new me, the nice me." I looked at them for forgiveness and, after a moment, they both sighed.

"You're right," Niall said with a small smile, "We're sorry for freaking out." I nodded while giving him a side hug.

"But," Chloé said with a stern look, "that doesn't mean we forgive him." I nodded, knowing it's gonna take them a little longer. A perky smile grew on Niall's face as he released me. I looked in the direction he was looking and smiled. Zayn was coming with the pizza.

"Yay, pizza," I squealed while clapping. Chloé did the same but Niall decided to be cool and just smiled. Zayn set down the pizza and I looked down at my lap.

There the small slip of paper sat. I wasn't sure if I should keep it or if I should throw it in the trash. It wasn't like I needed it...but you never know.

I pushed the paper back in pocket returning my attention back to the pizza.

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