Meeting The Lads

Chapter 14

I clear my eyes and look up. Suddenly my heart stops and my mouth is full of saliva from not swallowing at the moment. It's Luke..

"Skylar! I didn't expect to see you here!" He says with a bright smile planted on his face.

"Yeah..." I say still worried for when Harry comes over here.

"Who are you here w-" he gets cut off by Harry. Shit.

"Hey love, who's your friend?" He asks standing in front of me a little.

"I'm her friend Luke... And you are?" He questions.

"I'm Harry... Her...date." He says looking down at me. I didn't exactly want Harry to take the title of being my boyfriend just yet.

"What a joke. You bring a date to the..."

"Harry brought me here. For our date." I say cutting Luke off once again.

"Sky... How come I don't know about this... Are you guys like a thing?" He asks, his face getting red with fury.

"I-no not yet." Harry says waving his index finger in the air.

"So you've been spending summer with this guy? Are you just leaving Ebony in the dirt? What about me? You didn't tell me about this?" He yells.

"Stop it Luke. I haven't been spending all summer with him okay? And Ebony is totally fine with all of this. Listen. Luke I'm fine, really." I say to him grabbing his arm. Harry takes my hand and squeezes it. Luke looks down with confusion in his eyes. Without a word he walks away then stops after a few quick steps. He turns around and looks me in the eye.

"I thought I knew you... Now I don't know what to be-"

"Luke I didn't tell you that I'm freakin, going out with a guy and you freak out on me like you're my dad or my older brother. You're not my boyfriend and you don't need you to protect me!" I yell, hoping he doesn't hate me after this and that nobody hears me.

"Skylar I'm sorry for caring okay? I love you and I know everything about you, I thought we told each other everything. What happened Skylar? When you get your heart broken don't come crying to me." He says and Harry glares at him. What does he have against him? He walks to his friend and doesn't bother looking back.

"I'm sorry, I don't exactly know what just happened." I say looking up at Harry.

"It's fine babe. Lets get swimming!" he says forgetting about the water and sliding of his shirt off . Once again I find myself staring. His tattoos are so hot and his muscles show so well.

I take off my clothes and look at my bikini top... I loved the baby blue with the whit polka dots! Secute ;)

"C'mon lets go hottie!" Harry says winking at me, before checking me out.

"Shut up." I mouth as I grab his arm and put my cheek against his chest while we start walking to the water.

"It's so cold!!!" He says walking into the water that has gone up his knees, me following.

"Just jump in." I say waving my hands and jumping into the cold, but peaceful water. I get back up and jump on Harry's back into the water.

"What was that for?" He yells in between laughs, sweeping his wet hair out of his face. I just keep laughing and splash him even more. Everything else seemed to be blurry other than Harry. I felt like I was having the time of my life. Laughing, happiness, that's the whole point of this trip right?

After about 45 minutes in the water, me an Harry got out. I watch him ruffle and pull back his hair.

"I'm starving!" He yells as if no one is listening. I giggle and look at him.

"Hmmm...what do you wanna eat? We could pick up Chinese and go to my place!" He continues.

"Yes! I love Chinese food!" I say getting my towel and drying my body.

"Alright." He says and grabs a towel. I pull my Capri sweat pants on and carry my shirt. Harry slides his on and doesn't change back in his shorts.

"I'm kinda thirsty...we forgot to get the water earlier ya know?" He tells me looking down at me by his side.

"Oh yeah, I'll wait til we're if you will," I say starting to run to the car..." I'll beat you there!" I say smiling.

"Oh no you won't!" He says running close to me. We stop at the car and run into a light hug and pull away laughing. My hair is still wet from the water but I leave it, just like Harry is leaving his head full of wet curls.

"Has that Luke kid texted you or anything?" Harry asks starting the car.

"No, not yet. He's too over protective, don't worry about him." I say biting my lip and looking through the window beside me.

"I can tell, so he's like your other best friend from America?" He asks and I can see him look at me in the corner of my eyes.

"Yeah, since preschool... I've known him a year longer than Ebony. He's a year older than me... He's always this protective of me, if not, more. I mean its not like stalking me or anything, he just makes sure I'm safe all of the time and when he saw you with me, I don't know..."

"He probably got jelly!" Harry says moving his eyebrows up and down, concentrating on the road. I roll my eyes and the rest of the at ride is silent. We get down and I throw the towels in Harry's washer. I watch him as he takes a Chinese food menu off his fridge and dials a number down to his phone. He orders and I scoot next to him while he talks. He smirks at me and looks down.

"Yes that's all, okay bye," He says into the phone before sighing.

"Well that took longer than I thought!" He says looking at me. I look to the side at a book shelf and grab a scrapbook. On the top it's titled 'baby pics'.

"May I?" I ask smirking at Harry.

"Noooooo!!!!!!" He says, his cheeks turning red.

"Too late pretty boy! Sit, look at them with me!" I tell Harry. He sighs and plops down next to me on the couch. As we look through the photos I give Harry many 'awes' to his baby pictures. When we get towards the back of the book I see more than just baby pictures, it's pictures of Harry growing up, which is cute to see what changed overtime. Pictures from when he auditioned for The X-Factor showed up and I couldn't help but smile, he was so adorable. Then more recent photos started showing up and this was getting very interesting.

Suddenly, I find myself struggling to fight back a tear from the flashbacks and memories I had with the person I see standing with Harry in a picture from not long ago. I feel my face heating up.

"Oh yeah! And that's-" Harry says pointing towards the picture. I cut him off and grab his hand.

"I know."