Nerd || H.S

Chapter 14

Monday - no college day. Why was I awake so early? 5am was not a time that I wanted to be wide awake by. I had nowhere to be and after at least an hour of trying to doze off again, I must have gotten only an extra minute of sleep.

Every time I closed my eyes, the delightful image of Harry in his underwear seemed to be unable to escape my mind.

I swung my legs off of my own double bed and grabbed my constantly buzzing phone from my bed side table, walking into the bathroom down the hall, opposite my bedroom.

Harry's joggers still hung low on my hips but not followed by his shirt this time, one of my own.

Harry kindly allowed me to keep his clothes for myself yesterday but I had placed Harry's shirt into the wash last night, not being able to resist from wearing his sweatpants yet again as they were way too comfortable to abandon.

After doing my usual morning routine in the bathroom, I tip toed into my mum's bedroom and slowly creaked open the door, whispering in caution of waking her. "Mum?" I glanced at her bed - empty.

She must have done an early shift at the hospital. She doesn't normally talk about her job too much, but I know that she says some cases she takes care of can be heartbreaking and I really respect her for everything that she does for people.

I went downstairs and into the living room, tugging the curtains open in an attempt to shed some light into the dark room, only brightening it up slightly as the sun was only just rising from the horizon.

Flicking the switch on the kettle and popping some bread into the toaster, I grasped my phone from my pocket and settled down onto the sofa. Glancing at the time on my lock screen before opening over night notifications, I yawned at the tiring sight of how early it was. 6:17am.

Being tired and not being able to sleep is so annoying for me and I just wished that whatever was on my mind would just go away and let me rest.

Last night I had fallen asleep at around midnight and had only just seen texts from Reece from 2am as I scrolled through notifications and messages from social media.

'How's about I come and visit you?'

Reece's early morning text read. Not expecting her to be awake just yet, I replied anyway.

'Come and surprise me in the afternoon, I'm home all day.'

Hearing the toast pop up and the kettle stop boiling, I pressed send and jumped up from my laid back position on the couch and strolled into the kitchen, making my tea and buttering my toast.

During the routine of making my early breakfast, I stumble upon a cute handwritten message on the fridge left by my mum. 'Lunch for later inside, have a nice day xx' - the note read.

I opened the half-empty fridge, my face lighting up under the glow of orange light emitting from it once finding a small bread bun packaged in foil with my name scribbled onto it.

Ignoring the refrigerated food for now, I grabbed my tea from the kitchen counter in one hand and my plate of toast in the other.

Settling down onto the couch, I switched on the TV and watched any random show that decided to play, tucking into my previously made breakfast and slowly sipping my hot drink.

...

"Hey!" I heard Reece's elongated holler from the hallway, followed by the door closing shut. As she walked into the living room, I was happily greeted by Reece, as radiant as ever, smile beaming from across the room.

She excitedly squealed and ran over to me, still chilling on the sofa. I gave her a big smile as she piled on top of me and held me tightly, wrapping her arms around the back of my neck.

I sat up and scooted back to the arm of the couch as Reece untangled herself from our hug.

"So..." She placed her manicured hand onto my knee and looked at me. "Did you fuck?" Reece quickly questioned as I rested my back onto the sofa. "Huh?!" I furrowed my eyebrows and smiled confusedly at her shamelessness.

"You and Harry... You had sex when you stayed at his house didn't you?" She smirked slightly at her wrong accusation that she believed was correct. "No, oh my god, no, no, no. Not even close." I laughed loudly at her scandalous assumption.

"And what about you? You seemed to be with a guy... What happened?" I replied. She smiled as she seemed to be lost in a day dream, quickly snapping her attention back to me.

"Um... Well... Basically, about an hour after you two left, we began to kiss on one of the living room sofas and swiftly after, we drove back to my house and had a tiny make out session on my bed. He didn't stay the night or anything, I wanted him to leave shortly after arriving to be honest." She played with the end of her shoulder length, naturally curly hair and glanced back at me.

"Anything else?" I curiously asked whilst smirking slightly. "Nothing else." She replied confidently, smiling.

Our casual conversation was unexpectedly pulled to a sudden stop, both jumping at the loud, quick thumping at my front door.

I ran to the noise and swung open the door to find a tall, buff, good looking man with a golden brown quiff and a slight beard, panting with his hand resting on the door frame.

"Where's Harry?!" His voice raised and breathy as I gave him a confused look. He gradually caught his breath, stood up straight and took a deep breath. "Harry... Have you seen him?" I furrowed my brows at this man's desperate behaviour.

"No... I haven't seen him all day... Why? Is he alright? And how do you know where I live?"

"I ran here from Harry's house. He told me that he was hanging around with a girl called Thea recently and I'm guessing that's you..." He explained as Reece appeared behind me, seeming as equally as confused as I was.

"I was hanging with him today and some angry guy appeared at his door, Harry told me to stay indoors and he never came back inside. This was about half an hour ago and I'm worried about him. He left his phone behind so I looked through it for some sort of verification of where he went but I luckily found your address in his messages."

His concerned words were rushed as I quickly slipped on my shoes, even though I was still in my comfy clothes. I had no idea what was going on but I was worried about Harry.

"Damn..." I heard Reece say under her breath as she glanced at the man at my doorstep in a black leather jacket, white t-shirt and black jeans and looked him up and down. "Reece, stop it." I chuckled.

She laughed at her own actions and hung back behind me. "Reece I want to find him on my own, can I trust you to stay and chill here?" I turned and questioned her.

"Yeah sure."