Settle down

Chapter 49

"Lola, are you okay? Why do you want to know where Harry is?" Niall asks as his voice changes from happy to worried.

"If you know anything... Can you just please tell me?" I feel hopeless and determined at the same time. It's a strange feeling.

"I think he's in town somewhere. I don't know exactly. Do you want me to call him and ask?" Niall asks. It's very sweet of him to be so helpful.

"Oh no. Please don't call him. Thank you Niall. Uhm, have a good night, I'll see you Monday." I say and hang up. Town here is not very big, but at night it is rather intimidating. The time is now just over 5.30 pm and it's already dark outside, despite that, I decide to walk into town. It only takes over 15 minutes I think and the weather is nice, autumnal, but nice.

I don't know why I'm doing this, I don't know how I can let myself do this and I really don't know why I don't even feel the slightest bad about this. The chance of me finding Harry here is small and even if I do find him, what would I say? There is so much I want to say to him, but I wouldn't know where to begin. I want to tell him that he was the one that practically begged me to be with him (unofficially), I want to tell him that I'm not going to stick around if he acts like this and I also want to tell him that I think I'm starting to fall for him and that he hurts me. I don't know how I can fall for him when he's been a dick to me most of the time we've spent together, but I do know it's happening and if he's gonna keep acting like this, I want to stop it.

When I get into town there's not that many people out. I get into one street filled with family-friendly restaurants and when I look in through the windows I see families having dinner together. I remember when my family used to eat out together. I used to say that I hated it, but I actually loved it. We don't really do that anymore, it kind of just stopped when dad started to work so much. I miss it. I walk away from the street, because I really doubt I would find Harry anywhere there.

Harry's P.O.V

The time is only 6.30 and I'm already at a crappy bar with these same old dicks. I don't understand how they can think it's so much fun to do the same thing every weekend from 6 pm to over midnight and I really don't understand why I keep joining them. Guess I just don't have anything better to do.

When Lola called me earlier I was home getting dressed for tonight, I told her I was busy and that I didn't want to talk to her, but that wasn't entirely the truth. I am mad at her though, I may have been a bit too hard on her but I hate false people and liars. I never took her for being both of them. I know I have some shitty rumors and I admit that have not always been the best person ever, but she should know better than to trust them over her own feelings.

Josh and Dan called some girls over and even though I'm pissed at Lola, I can't stop thinking about her and because of this I don't feel any sort of attraction to these girls whatsoever. Something's very wrong with me. A tall brunette takes a seat in my lab and starts grinding and I just feel disgusted. My phone starts ringing and I push the girl off me and walk off towards the bathrooms.

"Yeah?" I say. I was kind of hoping it was Lola again, but I don't think she would call me after I called her psychotic. The caller ID says it's Niall.

"Where are you?" He says sounding rather angry. What's his problem?

"Nice to talk to you too..." I say and walk into the bathroom and look at myself in the mirror. I look like shit. My hair is getting too long for the bandana to hold up.

"Are you drunk." He asks with once again an angry tone.

"No, I'm not drunk. I don't drink, you know that! What's your problem anyway?" I snap back at him. He calls me out of the blue and yells at me. What the fuck?

"My problem is that Lola called me a while ago wondering where you where and she asked me not to tell you she wondered. She sounded upset Harry. What have you done?" What? I stay silent a few seconds too think. Did she want to go look for me?

"I.... What-what did you say to her?" I ask. I can't help but too feel a bit jealous that she trusts Niall and I don't like the thought of them being friends. 

"I told her that I thought that you were in town and I think she went looking for you?" He sounds very worried and that makes me worried. 

"Why do you say that like that's a problem. She'll probably go home when she can't find me." I say.

"That's the problem. She called me over two hours ago and now she doesn't answer her phone and both you and I know very well that town is not a nice place at night." He says and I suddenly feel like something in my chest swells. I quickly hang up and check the time. 8.00 pm. Shit. I run out of the bar and think where she might be. This city is not big, but there are a lot of small streets that all look the same and it's very easy to get lost of get into the wrong streets, because there are a lot of those as well.

Lola's P.O.V

Shit, shit, shit. I don't know where I am and I've been trying to find a way out of here for like an hour. I'm going to cry soon I swear. Why didn't I turn around when I didn't recognize the street I went into, and why didn't I ask the family that passed me a while ago for the way? They seemed nice and reliable. After them I've only seen scary people that I would never talk to even if I got paid. Most of the creepy people here are drunk men and I'm scared that one of them will attack me.

"Hello beautiful..." A man says. He looks like he's at least 30. He's unshaved and wears old dirty clothes and he's got a beer can in his hand. He walks up to me and touches my face.

"No...D-don't." Is all I can get out. He laughs and his I bet his breath could kill.

"Come here, let's go home to my place." He says and grabs my wrist. I try to jerk away but his grip is strong. He drags me with him.

"Stop! Let me go!" I scream, but he doesn't react. Finally I manage to release myself from his grip and I run for my life away from him. I slow down only when I know for sure he's no where close. I find myself shaking when I press my back to the side of a house. I want to go home. That's all I can think about and my phone is dead. Why does this have to happen? I want to go home and eat dinner with my family and then watch a movie with Dora. What if I never find my way out of here and I'll die. Just as I'm about to cry I'm interrupted by another manly voice.

"Oh my god, Lola!" I look up and see Harry with a panicked expression on his face. I'm so relieved that it hurts. When his strong, comforting arms press me against his chest and his familiar sent fills me, the tears start streaming down my face and I can't stop them.