All That Matters

Chapter 17

We all finished our food quickly before walking back outdoors. Zayn and Niall hurried into Zumiez as Liam turned to me.

"Where's Louis?" he asks.

"He had to work out. They have a game tomorrow," I explain.

"We should all go!" Liam smiles.

"Thatd be fun," I agree.

"Did Dani leave already?" I ask Liam when I realize I had forgotten she was in town.

He nods. "She left yesterday. Her ballet studio is having some important recital or whatever,"

Harry stays silent, leaving a gap in between us- just as I thought. He hasn't shown any slightest emotion since we've been here and he hasn't hardly said a word to me other then when he bought my lunch.

"You guys want to go to Louis' game tomorrow?" Liam asks Niall and Zayn when they return outside.

"Sure, sounds like fun. What about you, mate?" Zayn turns to Niall.

"I'm down with that," he agrees.

"What about you Harry?" Liam asks.

He just shrugs. "Sure,"

"I'll check with him on the time." I say. We continue on and turn a corner so the Dairy Queen is just out of view.

"I forgot my phone inside," I huff. "I'll be right back," I turn and hurry around the corner and into the store to find my phone exactly where I left it, thankfully. I walk back out and walk passed a group of shady looking guys. No one else around. The way they stare at me as I hurry passed them is unsettling. Just as I think I'm safe I hear one whistle at me. I pause for a moment before continuing on. The boys should be just around this corner...

"Hey!" a guy yells at me. I continue forward but am pulled back by a firm grip on my shoulder.

"Dont walk away from me," one of the guys looms over me. I shrink down under this scary looking druggie.

"Back off," I try and sound brave but it comes out as a pathetic whine.

"Oh, you going to try and stand up to me?" he smirks.

"You're not. No one else is here to help you," he looks around, a sly grin spread across his crooked lips.

I stand there speechless, wanting to scream for Harry or Zayn or any of them- but nothing will come out.

"Now what should I do to you first?" his question sends chills down my spine and I don't answer.

"Answer me!" he roars before shoving me to the ground. I'm relieved when I hear a familiar voice.

"Did you seriously just do that?" Harry booms. I turn and see him standing there, fuming. He approaches quickly and gets in the guys face, cussing him out. I cringe at his descriptive way of explaining the ways he'll beat him up.

"If you ever touch her again I swear I will beat the sh-" Harry's cut off when the guy clumsily swings at him, he dodges it with ease.

Niall is behind me in seconds and he helps me to my feet. I look away as Harry pounds the guy in the face, his friends erupting in laughter as Harry dominates this helpless, weak guy. Some friends he has; then again, they're all probably drunk or high.

Liam and Zayn have to drag Harry away from the guy that lays broken and bruised on the ground. They pull him to Niall and I who had escaped around the corner and by a bench.

"Harry, mate, calm down," Zayn does his best but Harry still paces back and forth, clenching his jaw.

HARRY'S POV:

Im so pissed. The fact that he laid a finger on Darsey makes me want to shred him to pieces. I feel the eyes of strangers as they pass by, obviously intimidated. And I understand why. I'm not the friendliest looking person, and the fact that some whore just shoved my girlfrie- Darsey to the ground is causing me to go completely out of control. I swear if one person looks at me the wrong way I will smash them into the ground.

I look down at Darsey who is standing next to Niall. She stares up at me, a worried look in her eyes.