Something Infinite

Chapter 7

Harry's POV

"Let go of the door," Jen said quietly, as I tried to stop her from blocking me out.

"Don't shut me out, talk to me," I tried to reason with her, make her see shutting me out right now was not going to help the situation.

"Harry, you have three seconds to back away from this door, before these are the last words I ever speak to you."

My heart sunk at her threat of walking out on me because of this. I should have fought harder to comfort her, but I was afraid of the outcome if I continued to push, so I backed away and let her shut me out.

"You know she didn't mean it Harry, she's just upset right now," Lauren's voice filled the empty foyer, as I stared at my bedroom door, holding myself back from opening it and barging in.

"We made a mistake by not telling her, I should have told her," I regretted keeping her in the dark, because now this was happening because of our secrecy. Maybe she would have handled it better if she had time to process it.

"We did it for all the right reasons, don't forget why we kept it from her. When my brother passed she went off the rails, I couldn't watch my daughter destroy herself again, while she was just getting adjusted to being a new mum," she came up behind me, trying to pull me away from the door.

"Who are we to decide whether she could handle something or not? This was a mistake, and now because of it, I could possibly lose my family," I stormed off into the lounge, processing the last five minutes.

"You're not losing anyone, this is just how Jen is. My daughter never dealt with grief well, everyone deals with tragedy in different ways. We may think she's being unreasonable, but who is anyone to judge how someone deals with a loss.

We are all grieving, he's my father. We are all going to react differently. I'm falling apart inside, but I have two daughters I need to worry about too. Sam has always been strong, so I know she will be okay, but Jen is fragile, I had to do what I thought was best for not only her, but my granddaughter.

You know why we did this, we love her and want what is best for her. She will eventually see that, but right now she's in shock. Give her time Harry, she will let you back in, and when she does she will need your support more than ever."

I didn't forget why we did this in the first place, it was only to protect her. She would see that eventually, I just hoped I didn't lose her in the process.

My thoughts were interrupted by my phone ringing. Usually I would ignore the calls, but it was Willow, she never called unless it was something that needed attention.

"I have to get this, sorry," I apologised before answering.

"Willow, is it important? It's not a good time..."

"I'll make it quick, I've just been given your upcoming promotional tour schedule for the album," she informed me. I had completely forgotten about the album promo we had lined up. It wasn't meant to happen until a couple of weeks after Mia's planned birth, so I still had three weeks to sort everything out before I left.

"Okay, so three weeks from now right? Just sync the dates to my calendar and i'll look at it next week or something."

"Well that's why I've called- since Mia was born early, promo has been pulled back two weeks early, extending it longer. Since this is your last album before the hiatus, they want to get as much in now, promotionally, to make up for the band disappearing for a year."

The boys, along with management, had decided after five years of constant travel, performing, recording and working, we would take a hiatus to focus on ourselves for the time being.