You're My New Step-Brother? {Harry Styles}

Chapter 9; Discovery

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~Chapter 9; Discovery

Speechless.

His eyes were on me, and time was ticking.

I didn't have an answer to give.

My face started to burn, I was probably sweating from the nervousness. Harry wouldn't take his eyes off me.

"Mia?" Harry said, trying to get me to answer.

I felt stuck, what do I do?

"Yes." I mumbled, barely audible for my own ears. Harry nodded and slowly started opening his car door. That was my cue to leave.

I jumped out of the car and walked quickly to the front door, barging in. I ran up the stairs as soon as I got in, up to my room.

"Mia?" I heard my mom call as I went up the stairs, but I didn't stop to see what she wanted.

"Mia," she said again, knocking on my door once before opening it. I had just sat down on my bed. "What's wrong?"

I bet she asked because she could see the worry on my face. I swear I was this close to bursting into tears. What was going to happen between me and Harry? He couldn't even look at me while awaiting my answer. I don't want to lose him, but I know things won't be the same.

"Just some stuff.." I said, trying to stay strong. "It's nothing."

"Does this have something to do with your break up, because you can talk to me." she assured me.

"It's nothing, I promise. I would talk to you if it was something like that." I said. "I'm fine."

"Okay dear," she said patting my leg and getting up. "I'll call you down when dinner's ready."

Good, because I'm not coming out of my room until then. I couldn't handle looking at Harry or making eye contact with him. I knew exactly what was going through his head. He was probably creeped out, I mean your basically step-sister is in love with you. How weird?? I tried to stop, you have no idea how hard it is when your brain says stop, but your heart says go.

I didn't think he'd find out.

I didn't think there'd be a way he could find out.. I mean, who's gonna say "Oh, your step-sister really likes you"??

"Dinner's ready!" My mom called after about an hour of sitting alone with just my thoughts.

"Where are Harry and Des?" I asked, seeing only my mother in the kitchen.

"Harry took his dad out. He said they haven't had father-son time in a while." she replied. Of course. He felt the same awkward tension I felt, and did it to get away from me.

I sat down at the table, thanked mom for the meal, and started to eat. I was trying to eat fast so I could go back up to my room again.

"So, it's just us. What's been going on lately?" she asked. I knew she was going to try to pick at the information she didn't know, now we're alone.

"What do you mean?" I asked, carefully.

"You know, your moods have changed in the past few weeks, like today." she said. I knew that's what she meant. "And you never told me what happened between you and Adam."

"I-I never told you because I knew you would get angry with me." I admitted.

"I won't get angry sweetie, I promise. I just want you to be open with me. You know you can tell me anything."

"It was a mistake," I blurted.

"What was a mistake?" She asked frantically.

I let out a sigh. I might as well tell the truth, it's no use lying to my mom. "We slept together." I said in a low voice.

"What?!" she said, shocked. I hung my head low, tossing food around on my plate with my fork. "W-was this your first time?"

"Yes mom, I've never dated anybody else. I don't sleep around." I answered, trying to defend myself. "He talked me into it anyways."

"Why did you break up? Was it bad?"

"Oh god mom!" Was it bad? I definitely didn't wanna talk to her about my sexual experience. "We broke up because he used me." I admitted laying everything in the open.

"He used you for.. sex?" she asked. I nodded my head, pushing my plate away from me. "Honey, that's horrible. I'm so sorry."

"It's in the past now." I mumbled. I heard the sound of a door opening and looked behind me to see Harry and his dad stepping in. Looks like he showed up too early.

"May I be excused?" I asked, not waiting for an answer, bolting up the stairs back to my bedroom.

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I sat in my room for hours, just laying on my back in the silence, thinking.

There were two knocks on my door, randomly. Nobody had tried to talk to me, but now I figured it was my mom.

"Come in," I said in a soft voice.

The door began to open and the first thing I saw was dark curls. Harry.

"I thought you were trying to avoid me," I mumbled as he stood in the doorway.

"No, nothing like that." he muttered. "Can I sit down?" I nodded my head and he shut the door behind him. He walked over to the bed and sat down on my left side.

"What's up?" I said in a sarcastic voice.

"Come on Mia," he said. "You look as bad as you did the day of the break-up."

I just shrugged. I didn't really know what he meant by that.

"So you actually like me? Like Adam said?" he asked.

"I don't wanna talk about this."

"I do." he said, looking straight into my eyes. It's like he had some sort of power over me.

"How long have you..liked me?" he asked, carefully. He knew it was a fragile subject.

"A few years," I mumbled.

"A few years?! How come you never told me?" he asked, surprised.

"Harry, we didn't exactly talk."

"I still wish I would have known."

"Why does it matter?" I asked.

"Things could have been different." he answered.

"Different?" I asked. What was he talking about. He stared into my eyes not giving me an answer, and planted his lips right on mine. I'd been waiting for this for years, the feeling was amazing. It felt so right, but I knew it wasn't supposed to happen.

Why did it have to be so complicated?