One Direction One Shots 3

The Before (Harry)

Harry’s P.O.V:

 Stuck in traffic driving out of London, I sighed heavily. Things have been weird recently, Y/N’s been acting differently. She’s been really off with me, and I can tell she’s trying to avoid me. At first I thought maybe I was just being over sensitive, but now I’m 100% sure there’s something wrong. We only recently - about 4 months ago - moved into our new house. We’ve been together for nearly 2 years, and although we’re both young, we’re settled in our relationship and decided ‘why not’ live together. I’m working, and she’s at University studying, and we found a really lovely house in North London that was perfect for us. It’s quite big. There was enough room for me to have a study to work in, and also a games room at the back of the house, and Y/N even has her own little studio at the bottom of the garden where she keeps all her uni work and girly stuff. 

I began to properly notice something was up in the last week or so. I always pick Y/N up from her University on Tuesdays and Thursdays, because she has late night classes that don’t finish till 10, and I don’t like her coming home on her own; but then in the last couple of weeks, she’s made excuses for me not to pick her up: saying the classes were cancelled, or a friend offered to drive her. This week I didn’t see, or even speak to her, for 4 days solidly - no texts, no calls, nothing. I did ring her a couple of times, but she rejected my calls and then turned her phone off. We aren’t the type of couple who texts and calls non-stop, as we both have pretty hectic schedules, however if I hadn’t seen her all day, she would always ring me before she went to sleep, or at least text. I admit I’m obviously worried about her, but I don’t want her to feel like I’m smothering her. She’s allowed to stay at friends’ houses. She can do what she wants… I just wish she’d let me know, so I’m not sitting at home wondering if she’s coming back or not.

In the last 2 weeks, she’s stayed at different friends houses nearly every night. And the nights that she has slept here, she’s fallen asleep on the sofa bed in her studio, and then waited until I left for work in the mornings before coming back up to the house. We’ve only actually slept in the same bed twice in the last couple of weeks - and we barely even touched. I tried to snuggle her in bed, but she moved away saying she was too hot. I finally accepted I needed to do something about all this the night before yesterday. She was in the living room watching TV, and as soon as I sat next to her and tried to cuddle her, she became really tense: like she physically froze the second I touched her. Then, she immediately got up, said she was tired, and went to her studio to sleep. I keep thinking back over the last few weeks, thinking what I might have done to upset her. My main worry is that she’s cheating on me. I fucking hope she isn’t, it would kill me. I really, really want to check her phone, but I know it’s so wrong. I’d feel guilty doing that. I admit I am quite a jealous boyfriend at times, and I do get really overprotective with her, but I wouldn’t ever invade her privacy. I don’t distrust her enough to check her phone. Well actually, I don’t know anymore. I don’t know what to think. I should just pluck up the courage to confront her. I know she’s in the house all day today working, so maybe I should just say something to her tonight. 

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I finished up at work quite late, and I felt nervous on the drive home. Y/N hadn’t text me all day - no surprise there - and I didn’t want to ask her if she was home, just in case she left purposely before I got there. Maybe she is cheating on me? Maybe she hasn’t been staying at friends houses?! That would explain why we hadn’t had sex in so long. My hands felt sweaty against the leather steering wheel of the car. I kept looking down at my phone, checking the time, seeing if maybe she’d text me. Perhaps she just needed some space? But why? We’re usually really close and open with each other, so it’s very out of character for her to be acting like this. Something was definitely going on.