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Chapter 3 - " five years"

Cailin's POV

" how does coming back to New York feel?" Stella asked me.

" exciting, definitely" I smiled.

Stella had become a really good friend of mine over the past two years. Louis had been dating her for a couple of months before I demanded on meeting her. Louis was never the type of guy to date a girl for a longer period of more than two months, so when they hit the six month mark I knew I had to meet her. I wanted to make sure she was the right girl for him. Louis took her to England and after spending the day with her I told him I approved. Not that my opinion mattered anyway. She had him wrapped around her finger.

The engagement had been my favorite part of their relationship so far though. When Louis told me that he was planning on asking her to marry him, I couldn't believe it. I was so happy for him. I went out and helped him pick out a ring that I knew Stella would love.

The smile on her face today was priceless. She looked so happy to have all her friends and family here celebrating their engagement. Stella had come from a big family very much like Louis, which was nice because they shared the same family values.

" but the unpacking is kind of insane..." I began saying but was quickly interrupted by the voice of my daughter.

" momma!' she shouted.

I looked over at the direction of her voice and saw something I never thought I'd see. Roy stood couple feet away from me with her hand wrapped around a man's hand, Harry's hand. It was a scene I had seen so many times in my dreams but felt like it could never be a reality. 

My gaze left their entwined hands and reached his eyes. The beautiful greens eyes that matched Roy's so clearly. The green eyes that I missed so much. I felt my entire body shake because of my uncontrollable feelings. My emotions couldn't decide on what to do. Run to him? Cry right then and there? Smile at him? Ignore?

Roy let go of Harry's hand and ran towards me. But my eyes didn't leave Harry's eyes. I felt like I couldn't breathe. Like the breath had been knocked out of me. It wasn't until I felt Roy tugging on my shirt that my mind came back to reality.

I looked down at her and saw her knee bleeding.

" what happened?" I asked her as I took a good look at her bleeding knee.

" I fell, but the nice man helped me" Roy said looking over Harry's direction. Instead of looking at Harry, I continued to look at Roy.

" well did you thank him?" I asked.

Roy turned to him with a soft smile.

" thank you Mister..." Roy began to say before she realized she didn't know his name.

" Harry" he said.

I could tell by the way he responded that he was some what disappointed that she didn't know his name.

" come one sweetie, let's go get that cleaned" Chloe said as she took Roy away from me.

As I watched Roy walk away with Chloe I knew that I had to look over at Harry. I just didn't know what I what do after that. When my eyes finally had the courage to look up, I was faced with Harry talking to a young little boy around Roy's age. That was definitely Kian, his son. He looked just like Harry. I couldn't help but smile as the two interacted. Then the little boy walked away from him. Harry looked at me again. So there we were, only a couple of feet away from each other. So many things to say and at the same time, nothing to say.

To my surprise Harry started to take a couple of steps towards me as he tried to come up with something to say. Panic was exactly what I felt. But then the sound of glasses being tapped by silverware caught both of our attention. I looked towards the direction of the sound and saw Louis and Stella on top of the stage where the band they contracted were minutes before.