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Chapter 46

Sorry this is so short but I hope you'll like it x 

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I walk home with a tray holding two take away coffee cups from Brewed. One for me from working all morning with a slight hangover, and one for Harry since he's been studying all morning. Or so he says but all the messages in my phone from him saying how he wants me home, begs to differ.

I unlock the front door and yell up the stairs, 'Harry, I'm back!'

I walk up to the bedroom, wanting to get changed out of my work clothes.

I throw my bag on the floor, place keys on the dresser as well as the two coffees until I see the napkin that I found last night placed on top.

A small smile comes to my face as I think about last night. We haven't spoken about him asking me to meet his mum again today but I hope the invitation still remains as well as him remembering the question.

He wasn't that drunk but I know he only seems to have a selected memory when he drinks which worries me a bit.

Shaking the thoughts off I sit on the bed and take off my shoes and socks, loving the feeling of my feet free from shoes I lean back on my hands only to feel something hard.

I turn to the side and notice a CD I'm about put it down again thinking its Harry's until I see my name written across the top. I smile as I realise it's addressed to me.

For Lylah,

I love you with everything that I am. X

I feel a girly giggle escape as I quickly walk over to the CD player. Nervously I place the disk inside and watch as it reads the disc.

Before I know it a soft guitar fills the room, it must have been recorded here since the acoustics aren't that good but part of me thinks it sounds better, rawer.

I sit down on the edge of the bed as Harry's voice comes to play.

"I want to write you a song

One as beautiful as you are sweet"

I feel myself blushing like crazy; I can already tell this song is going to kill me from cuteness.

"With just a hint of pain for the feeling that I get when you are gone"

I slightly laugh thinking of all the messages he sent me today at work, complaining he couldn't concentrate without me next to him.

"I want to write you a song.

I want to lend you my coat, one that's as soft as your cheek

So when the world is cold you'll have a hiding place you can go

I want to lend you my coat."

I feel my breath stop. He only wrote that lyric last night, did he record it this morning? Or did he record it earlier and then remembered the lyric last night?

"Oooh, everything I need I get from you

Oooh, giving back is all I wanna do

I want to build you a boat, one as strong as you are free

So any time you think that your heart is gonna sink, you know it won't

I want to build you a boat."

I feel a tear starting to build up, this is the sweetest thing anyone has ever done for me. The boys always tease him for girls latching onto him but they never give him enough credit for much of a romantic he is. And I feel overwhelmed as Harry, the person who sings love songs about a girl loves is signing them for me.