If you could escape the crowd (1D)

The begining

‘Bang’ what the hell was that? I rolled over and took a look at the clock 4:00am what the hell was I doing awake at this time, oh yeah I better take a look at what that bang was. I grabbed the baseball bat that was at the side of my bed and took a slow walk down the small set of stairs in our apartment. There was a small light on coming from the lounge I put my head through the door only to find my room mate Harry making out with yet another girl from the club he went to. Nothing to worry about it happens most nights, so I just made my way back up to my room and back into my bed.

Right so I should probably introduce my self, I’m Charlotte and I live in Holmes Chapel. I share my two bed apartment with Harry Styles we have been friends for a long time although he’s sort of changed. You see we’ve lived in this apartment together for nearly two years, and now since he’s tuned 16 he goes to these underage clubs and comes back in the early hours of the morning. Now it’s not every night but its most and he nearly always has a girl with him. Anyway so yeah I’m also 17 years old and I have a job in a cafe just down the road and Harry works at the local bakery, anyway on with the story of our life.

“Harry get up, we need to go shopping” I walked into his room and stood in the doorway “Alright, alight no need to shout I have a headache” again “Well how about you stop going out getting plastered when it’s illegal, and then you wouldn’t bring every girl you meet back to OUR flat” I crossed my arms and stared at him. “Char you need to loosen up a little and join me I’m just enjoying life while I’m still young” here we go once again, same excuse. “Harry you don’t get it do you, you’re my best friend and I get to spend no time with you because you’re either with a girl or you’re recovering from your night before, I hate seeing you like this.” It true it was the worst thing. “Char you know I want to spend more time with you” I was a little shocked “Really Harry because you never show it” This has happened quite a few times it’s not a first. “Harry you sleep with any girl you fucking see” he was starting to get angry and I could see it in his eyes “Me char me? What about Jack, Jake, Max and Ben” what? How can he say that, he knows never to bring him up. “Harry how could you say that you know never to bring that up” I turned and ran straight into my room, I locked the door behind me and sat on the floor; I brought my knees up to my chest and rested my head on them letting the tears flow out.

Well I though I locked the door obviously not. “Char I’m sorry I didn’t mean to bring him up, it just came out. I know your probably hate me now but I am sorry” I slowly raised my head and went and sat by Harry. “Its fine Harry I shouldn’t have had a go at you, it’s your life I can’t tell you what to do” he grabbed my hand and drew small circles on it. “Char your right though I should stay home a little more and maybe settle down with someone just like you”

Right I’ll stop it there and tell you about Ben, he was one of my ex’s he wasn’t one of the most sensible people on earth he got involved with a lot of things a 16 year old shouldn’t be. He use to do drugs, drink and all that but when he was sober he was really nice anyway when I told him we had to break up he didn’t take it to well and ended up stabbing me, luckily Harry found me and called the ambulance. Apparently I was 2 mins away from death, I haven’t heard anything from him since and we don’t bring him up again. It wasn’t just the fact that he stabbed me, it was if I was ever late for meeting up with him he would cut or beat me, but despite all that I still loved him and stayed with him for 5 months.

“Harry I think I’m gonna move out, I might move in with Stan. I mean I love living with you but were always having arguments at the moment were like a married couple, a break should do us good” His face dropped and his arm which was once around me moved away from me  and I could tell his eyes were watering. “Char I didn’t mean it and I don’t want you to leave” I knew that but I couldn’t bare this anymore “Harry it’s not about you bringing it up, I just think we need a break from our friendship, not for long just a week or two. That way you can do whatever” I didn’t want to hurt him; I just think maybe we both need to clear the air a bit. “Char come on; we’ve been friends for ages I don’t want it to change. I love our friendship” I could feel the tears coming back. “Harry please” He took one more look at me and walked out. ‘Stan’ I walked over to the wardrobe ‘Hey Char’ I cleared my throat ‘Can I come stay with you for a week?’ I could hear him skittering around ‘Yeah sure’ I took my weekend bag out and packed it with some clothes.

“Harry?” I walked out of my room and down the hall “Yeah” his eyes were puffy and red. “Oh Harry” I ran over to him and gave him a massive hug, we lay down on the bed for a while just talking and to be honest I felt a lot better just talking. “Harry, I got to go now” I got up and made my way out of his room “Oh ok” tears came back into both our eyes. I went back into my room grabbed the bag and walked to the front door “Wait Char, you will come back right?” I turned round “Course I will Harry” we gave our last hugs and I made my way down the hall. “I LOVE YOU CHAR” I smiled to my self and carried on walking “LOVE YOU TO HAZ” I got into the lobby it was suddenly very busy. It was only a few min walk to Stan’s so I walked it.

We have been friends with Stan for what..... 8/9 years. “Hey Stan thanks for all this” His house was massive; he shared it with his other best mate Jay. I explained everything to his why I was staying with him and everything like that, and surprisingly he understood.

So I wrote this ages ago but I wasn't sure whether to publish it or not. I hope you like it and please give me feedback <3 little_leprechaun_ xxxx