Our Winter Love (Harry AU)

Chapter 19: Our Lies and Hidden Secrets

I woke up the next morning and still wanted answers. I need to find out what happened between Harry and Zayn. But I first need time to clear my head sorting through all the questions I have circling my head. Especially after Zayn kissed me last night.

The only place I can get that done, where I haven't been since Harry walked into my life, is my beloved hideaway. The treehouse.

Getting ready and seeing that Megan is for once in our tent and still sleeping- obviously after a late night, I decide to sneak out so that no one knows where I am. I'd rather be left alone.

Within minutes I'm strolling through the cold and slightly windy woods. Making my way towards the treehouse. I hope Harry isn't there. I doubt it since we've been together every morning so far and haven't been to the treehouse because we've had other plans.

Finally I arrive and climb up the rope ladder of the tree. Since I didn't wake up too long ago, my body is still a bit stiff and tired making it more difficult each step I take.

Reaching the top I push open the door and climb up through it. Once I'm inside, I notice that Harry isn't here and let out a sigh of relief.

Placing myself against the opposite wall of the treehouse I take out my phone to see I have a few bars of signal. The only place we get signal is here and the lake house so I usually take advantage of every moment when we came during summers. I just haven't been on my phone at all really lately because I've been occupied by Harry.

A text message comes through and for a minute I get excited, then realize it's just from the phone company.

I go into my Facebook app and scroll through the most recent stories. Everyone seems to be really enjoying their winter holidays at home with friends and family, going to parties and movie nights. Eventually looking at everyone else's news begins to annoy me so I exit Facebook and put my phone back into my pocket.

Images from last night when Zayn kissed me and overhearing Harry tell his friends not to tell me anything replay in my mind. How am I going to handle this?

Should I tell Harry that Zayn kissed me? Maybe that would make him tell me what happened between him and Zayn.

I'm just tired of guessing with Harry. He won't tell me about his family or personal life or what happened with him and Zayn. He's just hiding so much, I don't know how much I trust him right now. The last thing I want is to get hurt.

But Harry is just so captivating and the way he makes me feel when we get close is unexplainable. He makes me smile and that should be all that matters, but I just can't seem to shake off how little I know about him.

I'm trying to focus on just having fun with him but it's getting harder as we spend more time together and feelings begin to spark.

Thankfully it seems that Josh has sort of stepped out the picture, which relieves some of my stress, but now Zayn has stepped in and revealed that he feels something for me. Don't get me wrong, Zayn is sexy and I wouldn't complain about having him as mine, but there's something about him that makes me feel that he isn't the guy for me.

Though my thoughts seem to deceive me a lot and a part of my brain thinks I should give him a fair chance, just like Harry.

As I close my eyes and lean back against the side of the treehouse I hear someone climbing up the rope ladder.

Sitting quietly I wait, hoping that whoever has decided to climb up here has now stopped and decided to leave me alone.

But within seconds the door to the treehouse lifts up and curly brown hair appears as he climbs up through the door and onto the wooden floor.

He turns around and a smile immediately takes up his face, dimples on full display. I return the smile as naturally as possible.

Now how am I supposed to be all serious and get the details about him and Zayn when he looks so innocent and adorable?

"I thought I would find you here. Been looking for you all morning." He takes a seat beside me and places his arm around my shoulders. He seems in a really good mood today. I don't think I could ruin that.

"Yeah, just thought I would get some fresh air pretty early this morning." I smile and lean into him.

"It's okay. Are you feeling better than last night?" He asks with concern in his eyes.

I nod and smile, "Yeah, much better." Trying to sound as convincing as possible.

"That's good. I was kind of worried about you when you were taking so long in the bathroom. I was just about to come check on you after Zayn said he was leaving."

Well thank goodness you didn't.

"Oh I was just taking my time. Didn't feel the need to rush when I wasn't feeling well." I reply.

"Oh, well I'm glad you're much better today." He gives me another sweet smile, looking down into my eyes.

"You and Jade and Jody were so quiet when I came back from the bathroom though. Was everything okay?"

Harry's face drops for a split second before he recovers and replies.

"Yeah yeah. We were actually just all a bit tired I think. Nothing to worry about." He smiles and releases his arm from around my shoulder then stands up and reaches his hand out to me.

"You gonna come?" He asks with his soothingly deep voice.

"Where are we going?" I grab his hand and stand up.

Harry runs his hand through his brown locks and looks down at me, "We're driving to the top of the woods where the stream is pretty strong so we can swim. We are going now before the snowy weather comes around Thursday or Friday."

"Snowy weather?" I ask surprised.

Harry nods, "Yeah, they are predicting light snowstorms this weekend."

"But the weather hasn't been that cold? We've even had a day or two of nice sunlight." I explain, trying to ignore the fact that it might snow.

Harry chuckles, "It'll be fun don't worry. I've been here a few times where the snow has come and it's never been that bad."

I sigh and grab Harry's hand, "I guess it might be fun."

"Oh it will be." Harry winks at me and a slight smirk takes up his face as he opens up the trap door.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I stop and pull my hand away from Harry, placing both hands on my hips and trying to keep my face as serious as possible.

Harry sits down and allows his legs to dangle through the open door. He chuckles and looks up at me.

"Nothing bad, relax. I promise you'll have fun." He raises his eyebrows at me as if waiting for me to now reply.

"As long as it's not bad then fine." I raise my eyebrows back at him and give him my own smirk.

"It could never be bad with me, babe." Harry winks at me again before climbing through the door and beginning to climb down quickly.

I watch him climb down the rope ladder and finally reach the bottom, jumping onto the ground.

I don't move but instead stare at him from above. He realizes I'm not climbing down and looks up at me.

"What now?" He lifts his hands up in the air.

I look down at him and try stay serious, pretending to be mad or skeptical about his comment before he climbed down.

"Bella I was joking. Please, come down so we can go enjoy ourselves." He pleads.

I smile at him and he smiles back.

"Please?" He begs again.

"Fine, only cause you asked so nicely." I climb down quickly and finally reach the bottom, jumping onto the ground.

I turn to Harry and playfully punch him. He looks at me in fake shock before I giggle.

He then grabs my waist and plants a kiss on the top of my head as we begin to walk back to the campsite.

A/n Sorry was a bit of a filler chapter!