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Chapter XXIX

Author's note: Hello everyone! I'm back with Chapter 29. This story is almost over and it makes me sad, but I'm excited for a new chapter (ha, get the punz) in my Wattpad life. ALSO, can we talk about the amount of reads that this story has?! Oh goodness, thank you so much for everything, everyone. 

I had a bit of trouble writing this chapter, I think it's because we're so close to the end... But anyway, enjoy this chapter. Thank you for sticking around. Love you all, x. 

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Harry was pacing back and forth, and it was making me extremely anxious. I knew that we weren't in the best of situations; however, I also knew that we had gone through worse.

I was scared as to how Harry would react to all of this. Because the last the media got ugly, Harry had literally left me. So I wasn't sure if our relationship was strong enough for this one.

"Harry, please settle down," I said as I tried to guide him back down to his seat.

"I can't calm down, I've read too much," he said as he refused to take a seat.

"Harry," I let out a huge sigh. "Are we going to fight about this?"

"No, of course not. This isn't your fault, love. I'm just frustrated," he said as he finally took a seat next to me. "Are you ok?"

His words made most of my anxiety go away. A lot of what I was fearing had to do with his reaction regarding all of this. However, he was worried about me.

"I'm ok. It'll go away," I gently reminded him as I took a glance at the article that Marco participated in.

"I know," he said as he groaned into my neck. "Let's go somewhere, vacation?"

I smiled as he tried hard to make this situation easier for me.

"How about we invite some people over for dinner?" I asked as I started typing away on my phone.

Harry peered and looked at my phone to see who I was inviting.

"Would that attract too many paps?" he asked slightly worried as he realized that the people I was inviting were all paparazzi-attracters.

"It'll be good for us," I reassured him as I gave his shoulders a rub. Once I knew that Harry and I were going to be ok, I decided to call Seth. "Honey, I'm going to give Seth a call, ok?"

Harry murmured a response before I closed the door to the study.

I didn't even have to say anything when I gave Seth a call, he and the team already had a plan to execute—they were still looking out for me. I graciously thanked them as I decided whether I should give Marco a call or not. It was probably smarter to stay away from him, but I decided otherwise.

"Marco," I nervously spoke into the phone.

"Jess, cara," he spoke back smoothly. "I know you're upset, but you have to know that they're taking things out of context."

"I figured," I nervously laughed as he joined in on the nervous laughter. "I just have to ask that you stay away from the media for the time being."

"Of course, anything for you," he responded, and we chatted briefly about how everything was. We hadn't been involved in each other's lives in a few years, but it was always nice catching up with the people you once cared about. We exchanged pleasantries and wished each other well—it felt nice.

After the phone call with Marco, I decided to give a few people calls about the dinner. I wasn't sure if Harry would be too happy about the people that I had invited, but I figured he was going to face them sooner or later.