Oblivion [H.S.]

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It was 4 in the morning when Harry's phone started ringing. His eyes were burning out of tiredness, and he could hardly hear his own voice as he answered the phone. It was all blurry, so he couldn't see who was calling.

"Hello?"

He heard some sniffling in the other line.

"This isn't funny, Louis," Harry slurred and was about to hang up.

"It's Sophia."

Harry furrowed his eyebrows and sat there for a while, just staring blankly into the air. Finally he sat up and rubbed his eyes, clearing his throat.

"Sophia," he uttered, voice raspy and unclear. "Why are you calling? It's like, four in the morning," he said, checking the time on his phone, putting it back to his ear after.

Some more sniffling was heard from the other line.

"Uhm," she said, more sniffling. "Could you, could you come? I-I can meet you outside, cause it's probably not a good idea for you to come inside since it's so early, and, uh, yeah."

Harry was already out of bed.

"Of course," he said and ran his fingers through his hair. "Is there anything wrong?"

"I just.. It all got too much yesterday, and I-" she was cut off by her tears as she started sobbing. "I just really need someone to talk to about this, and I feel like you're the only one who I can do that with, and the only name I can remember is yours, so I checked my phone to see if your number was there and it was so I just called you."

Harry nodded hurredly although she couldn't see him, and stepped into his shoes. "Okay, I'm on my way. Love you."

He froze, realizing what he just said. He was so used to saying it every time he talked to Sophia before he hung up.

"I'm, so sorry, I didn't mean to say that, I'm so used to-"

"Harry, it's fine, I understand," she answered, and Harry could hear her smile through the phone.

Harry sighed relieved and grabbed his car keys. He hung up on Sophia and was ready to go. As he opened the door he was met by a cold, bitter air. His t-shirt was nothing compared to the crispy air that made him shiver and his teeth chatter. Remembering that they were going to be outside, he went inside again and looked through his coats. His coat was at Louis', because Louis wanted to borrow it. Harry didn't understand that, because Louis had numerous coats himself, but he said he
couldn't find the one Harry had anywhere, so he wanted to borrow it.

Harry suddenly remembered he borrowed Louis' jacket. It was a denim jacket with wool inside, and Harry loved it endlessly because it was so warm. He decided that since Louis could borrow his jacket, he could borrow Louis' jacket. Grabbing it, he put it on and went out the door and into his car to drive to Sophia.

The ride from Harry's house to Sophia's parents' house wasn't very long. It took about fifteen minutes to drive there, thirty five to walk. Luckily he had his own car, so he could easily get there without a problem.

He was finally there, and it was still dark outside. Checking his watch, he found out it was half past four. It usually got bright at seven in the morning, so no wonder. His feet stepped on something that made a sound, almost like plastic. There were candy wraps on the floor of the car. After eight. Sophia loved those. Harry didn't really eat candy because he had a traumatizing experience at the dentist when he was younger. He had so many caveties after Halloween that his dentist yelled at him so much that Harry had started crying. So from that moment, Harry hadn't loved candy as much as he used to.