Mental

Chapter 14- Monkey see Monkey Do

"No guys you just light up this thing, and then we each toast a marshmallow over this tiny cute little fire place thingy and then you make your smore." Daisy explained for the millionth time as Niall once again burned his marshmallow to the point of no return.

I leaned back into Evan as we all sat in a booth surrounding this little smore thing. He looked down at me and smiled, probably thinking my friends are ridiculous.

"Where's Harry?" I asked and Louis looked over at me.

"He's picking up someone than coming here." He told me before stabbing a whole bunch of marshmallows onto his stick.

"Oh, I didn't know he didn't mention anything. I was with him all day."

"Don't worry about it babe, eat a marshmallow." Evan picked up a marshmallow and shoved it in my mouth making me laugh.

We were just about halfway done with this whole thing when Harry walked in with a girl. She was about my height, so pretty short and she had long curly brown hair and very bright blue eyes, kind of like mine. "Hey guys, sorry I'm late. This is Ariel, Ariel this is everyone. She gave a shy smile before they slid into the booth, Harry throwing her arm around Ariel like Evan was doing to me.

"Hey Harry, this is Evan." I introduced the two as the rest of the group kind of sat still looking at the two of us. They probably all think Harry just brought this girl cause I brought Evan but either way i don't really care. As long as he's happy. She was cute, they seemed nice together.

Liam kept looking at me with that look the, 'see he's a scumbag that can't let you be happy.' But little did Liam know, I didn't care all that much. We were just friends.

"So Evan tell us about yourself." Liam said and Evan cleared his throat sitting up.

"Uh well I'm a psych major at the community college, uh-"

"Wait college? How old are you?" Daisy asked looking at me. Oh right...

"22."

"Wait I'm sorry, what?" She looked at me a little shocked and so did everyone else.

"I'm 22." He laughed as I placed my hand on his chest. "Didn't Mads tell you?"

"Nope she did not." Daisy gave me a passive aggressive smile. "Sorry, just threw me off a bit. Keep going."

He kept talking and I could feel everyones discomfort with this situation but I hadn't looked at Harry yet. I slowly looked over at him and his eyebrows were knitted together, his mouth in a displeased pout as he looked at Evan. The thing that stuck out the most was that his fists were balled up, like he was angry.

Please God, don't let him get angry. We're finally on a good streak together.

After a little bit we relocated outside to the cold winter air, standing in a somewhat circle all talking and laughing. I shivered and Evan pulled me closer into his warm coat and I saw Harry do the exact same thing with Ariel. So did Liam. There's that look again.

We moved around the block to a little park and sat by the bleachers near the entrance. Zayn went to his car and pulled out a bottle of Malibu that we all passed around.

"Hey I've got to get going, I have work in the morning pretty early." Evan told me and I nodded standing up and walking him to his car. We stopped by his car that was parked infront of the park gates and I could see the group sitting and laughing. "I like your friends they're cool people. I hope we can hang out with them again soon." He smiled pulling me into a warm hug. I peeked over his shoulder and saw Harry staring over at us. I bet he thought I couldn't see him looking cause of how dark it was. Wrong.

"Yeah tonight was a lot of fun. Thanks for coming."

"Wouldn't miss a chance to hang out with you." He pulled back and gave me that big goofy smile. "So do you think I could get that kiss now?"

"I think you can." I giggled my heart rate picking up. I felt myself get nervous as he placed his hand under my chin, leaning in. Once I felt his lips touch mine i remembered everything Harry said but what I wasn't prepared for was when his tongue parted my lips. This was new and very strange. It felt weird and gross at first but after a few minutes I got used to it. I'm not even sure how long we were doing that for but the cool exterior of the car was starting to make me cold as he pressed me up against it.

He slowly pulled away and smiled at me, leaning his forehead onto mine. "Bye, beautiful." He smiled giving me one last kiss before getting into his car. I waved goodbye and touched my fingertips to my probably swollen lips as I walked back to the group.

"You were gone for quite a while." Daisy smirked as I sat down next to her.

"Looks like she took a trip to France." Louis laughed making kissy faces. I looked at him a bit confused not sure what he meant. "France, French, French kissing you know." He started sticking his tongue out and pretending to make out with someone.

"Oh ew!" I felt my face heat up and everyone laughed, but Harry. I thought he'd be happy for me, he seemed so helpful the other night.

"I think we should all head out. It's getting to cold, my nips are hard." Niall chuckled and we all agreed heading out was the best thing to do before we all froze to death . As we were walking out of the gates Harry came up to me and tugged my arm.

"I'll take you home. Sit in the back seat." I didn't argue, I just said bye to everyone as i got in the back, Ariel and Harry getting in the front. The car ride was silent the entire way to drop off Ariel who lived way too far away. Harry said goodbye to her and I climbed into the front seat. It was a little longer before he started talking. We pulled into an empty lot, an empty creepy lot.

"Are you going to murder me?" I joked and Harry turned to face me.

"No, I'm not going to murder you." He laughed lowering the heat.

"Then what's up? Why are we here?"

"Uh, I don't think you should see Evan again." He blurted out and it caught me off guard.

"What? Why?"

"He's 22, he's taking advantage of you. You're barely 17 yet and you're dating a 22 year old. Somethings not right and I don't want you to get hurt." He sighed leaning against the steering wheel.

"Well I don't really think it's your call. You don't even know him, he's actually an amazing guy. You two would probably get along really well." I told Harry and he just shook his head. "What?"

"I'm telling you, he is going to hurt you. I don't want you to get hurt Mads. Please just don't see him anymore." Harry begged.

"Oh yeah you'd hate to see me get hurt, like you haven't hurt me plenty of times. I knew that was a low blow but it was true. He wasn't innocent.

"Come fucking on!" He laughed loudly, mocking me. "I'm trying to help you, and all you do ever is throw the past in my face! You know what, whatever. You're right, he's a great guy. Fuck me, right? Don't come crying to me when he's hurt you and you need someone to put you back together again. Okay?" He angrily put the car back in drive and pulled out of the lot.

I didn't say anything, i just sat there and waited to be dropped off. "Bye, thanks for the ride Harry."

"You're welcome." He looked over at me briefly before I closed the door and he sped off.

Nothing golden stays.