A New Hope

Chapter 23

As we descended into British territory, I was practically jumping in my seat. I went ridge when we were about to land, i hated this part. My fist clenched over the arm rest. I felt Harry's hand wrapped over mine. I smiled slightly at him through my fear. As the plane came to a full stop, I jumped out of my seer.

Harry rose next to me. "you excited?" He asked. I threw myself at him, wrapping my arms around his torso and burying my face in his chest. I felt him reflexively wrap his arms around me and start stroking my back. I pulled away slightly to look at his face. "Thank you for everything Harry. It means a lot. I love you." He smiled and leaned down to kiss me. "I love you too." I grabbed his hand and excitedly pulled him out of the plane behind Louis. We walked hand in hand beside the rest of the boys until we reached a door into the airport. Then, we were met by a bunch of bodyguards.

This time Harry placed me in front of him, behind Louis, and took hold of my hand firmly. We pushed through small crowds and then were escorted to customs. The signs told me I had to go to a different desk then the British boys. I hesitantly let go of Harry's hand. He looked at me with worried eyes. I gave him an encouraging smile and walked off by myself. I felt a vibration from my pocket. I stopped to check my phone. I had a text from Harry. 'Let me know when your through, we will wait and find you.' I smiled slightly and replied to him. 'Will do. I love you.' I put my phone away and walked into line.

The line was pretty long. Finally I got up to the counter and was passed through customs. There was a large group of people that I was pushed into. Suddenly I was being pushed around by tall people. My mind instantly went back to the mob that happened this morning. I bumped into a man and fell to the ground. Someone grabbed my arm and helped me up. "Are you alright?" A slightly familiar British accent said. I looked up to recognise familiar ginger, tousled hair. "Ed Sheeran?" I asked in disbelief. He smiled. "You know me?"

I nodded excitedly. "Are you lost?" I nodded again. "I got pushed around by some people and now I'm not too sure where I am. I'm just trying to find my boyfriend, you know him. Harry." Ed's eyes widened slightly. "Styles? You're styles' bird?" I gave him a confused look. "Yes styles and i don't know what that means." He laughed. "Right. Sorry. Ill help you find him." Ed lead me out of the mob and after a couple of minutes I saw a familiar head of curls.

Ed brought me up to Harry who was facing the opposite direction. "Heya mate, I found your lost bird." Harry turned towards the familiar voice. His eyes lite up when he saw me an leaned down to give me a big hug and a kiss. "I was worried about you, you didn't text me." "Sorry, but Ed was kind enough to help me." Harry smiled at Ed. "how did you two start talking? Have you seen a picture of Cora with me or something?" Ed shook his head. "I'm a huge fan of Ed's." I said with a wide smile. "You are?" I gave him a funny look. "Yeah! He's extremely talented you should be more encouraging of your best mate." Harry fumbled slightly. I smiled widely and Ed started laughing. Harry went red slightly. ed took me into a sideways hug. "I like her." I smiled at him.

Suddenly Harry reached out and pulled me away from Ed and into his own arms. I laughed at his jealousy, Ed joined in. I leaned against Harry, my legs beginning to hurt again from my earlier beating, the being pushed around a couple minutes ago probably didn't help either. I think Harry just thought that I was showing him that I was only his because he just kissed my cheek. Suddenly the pain got worse everywhere.

My face began burning, my limbs were heavy, and I felt like I was being stabbed everywhere. I was dimly aware of Harry and Ed catching up. Did Ed just ask what happened to my face? I think he was looking at me for an answer, but if I open my moth a scream might come out. I felt really warm and a pain at my neck.

"Cora?" I heard Harry's worried voice break through my seemingly endless wall of pain. I saw Harry's worried face fill my vision, Ed's worried expression was in the back ground. "Harry." The whisper left my lips just as I collapsed into Harry's arms and darkness enveloped me in its cold embrace.

I woke up with a gasp, flying into a sitting position which I instantly regretted. "Cora!" A tired looked Harry exclaimed. I was still breathing heavily from the nightmare I couldn't remember. He came over and dropped onto the bed with me. He pulled me into a firm embrace. He pulled away slightly, looked into my eyes and then pulled me in for a long kiss that left me slightly breathless. "What happened to me?" I asked trying to remember what had happened but didn't succeed. His face fell. "Tell me." I prompted. He looked down at his hands which were holding my own hands. "You were poisoned." I raised an eyebrow at him, ever though he still wasn't looking at me. "What? How?" "They're guessing that when you were attacked by the mob of fans, one of them stabbed you with a needle or something." He mumbled.

"Who the fuck would bring poison to a place where you guys were supposed to be? and why would they stab me? I've done nothing wrong." harry still didn't look at me. it was starting to bug me so I grabbed his chin and lifted it so I could look at his face. "Hey, why won't you look at me?" I asked. Harry closed his eyes and a year fell out. "It's my fault, it's all my fault." I pulled him into a hug and felt him start to shake as he cried.

"It is not your fault Harry. The only thing you have done to me was teach me how to love and saved my life." Harry looking at me with sad eyes. "But if I wasn't famous then you wouldn't have gotten hurt. You'd be better off without me." "No. I would most definitely not be. Harry please don't doubt yourself. I would still be my old depressed and lonely self who believed no guy could ever like me let alone love me. I was sad 24/7 because I felt that I didn't belong anywhere. Anywhere! I had an abusive mother and always contemplated ending my life, but could bring myself to hurt myself." I looked down at my hands as I revealed my darkest secrets. "I had always believed that I was a waste of space and a mistake." I felt a tear leak out of my eye. I felt the bed dip slightly as Harry moved closer and pulled me into a warm embrace. "You never told me about all that." He whispered. "I hadn't spoken about it until now.

I pulled away, looking him in the eye and hastily wiping a couple of tears away. "That's not the point though. I was that person until I met you. YOU changed my life. Now I have a place that I feel I belong. In your arms an well just being with you, but I also gained the boys as friends. I had never really had friends before. You saved my life so don't you dare tell me that I would be doing better if I wasn't with you or had never met you before." Harry took me into another tight embrace and started stroking my back. I realised then that the tears were still flowing freely from my eyes. It hurt to remember what my life used to be like with all the sadness. But as my mind remembered who's arms I was in, Happiness swelled within my chest. I was happy, just being there in Harry's arms.