Behind Fame (A Harry Styles Fan-Fic)

Chapter 6

"Mims he's actual too good to be true! I can't believe it! We went on a date! Me! Harry Styles! What the hell!" I squeal, so excited.

"What's Chris gonna say when he finds out?" Mimi says with a worried expression in her lips, as she sits down on her sofa with the popcorn.

"Chris isn't gonna find out" I say quietly, avoiding the though of my dangerous stalker ex boyfriend. I've had my fair share of bad experiences in life... it all seems to be turning around and I can't help but smile at the thought of a happy life.

"Yes he is Laura. You need to get some sort if help. Get a restraining order up against him, restraining orders aren't just in movies, they do exist in real life." Mimi says as she gets up to put the disk in her DVD player.

"I haven't heard from him in about eight or nine days... so that's pretty good for him, and we broke up over four months ago... he finally seems to be giving me my own space" I say, as Mimi turns off the lights as sits back down, then looks at me with wide eyes.

"Laura? Do you think beating the utter shit of a nice random guy you were dancing with at the club is normal and not clingy? I'm sure you do remember all the blood, glass, and police, am I correct?" Mimi asks.

I ignore her and smile at her and turn to watch 'Mean Girls'.

I remember that night. I shiver at the thought. I had been dancing with a nice guy I met at the club and I saw Chris furiously coming towards me and him, veins throbbing in his forehead. "DON'T TOUCH MY GIRLFRIEND! SHE IS MINE!" Chris screamed, as he lunged himself at the nice guy. Chris nearly killed that poor guy. The sickening part is that we had broken up over two months before this happened. Chris had only gone to jail over night and the police let him out of jail the next morning. So now to this day I live in fear of running into him or something like that. He stalks me when I go to the shops and stuff. It's bloody frightening. He was very possessive of me. We had been together for about seven months, before I broke up with him. I broke up with him in the Mall so he would hurt me or make a scene, but it was only worse. The police ended up wrestling him off me after someone called them because they saw him shaking me violently.

I had only dated Chris because he was the most popular guy at school, and he never actually asked girls to be his girlfriends. He just had sex with them and threw them to the curb. So I considered it a privilege when he asked me to.

After about one month he began to use his words and language to hurt me, then after a while he... he began to use his... his fists. Mimi was the first person I told, then I told my boss whom is like a dad to me; Paul. But I kept this to myself for over five months because I was too ashamed to tell anyone. That had been my mistake, because the longer I waited, the worse it got.

I never even loved Chris. I just did it for the popularity. It worked, I was very popular... but with serious consequences.

I look back upon those days so embarrassed. I suppose I was stupider than him for not actually speaking up or putting my foot down, I just cowered under his disgusting possessiveness.

I can't believe I ever cared about being popular. I always was up there, but not because to wanted I tried to be with the cool kids, Mims and I just fit in there, with our awesome guy friends and our awesome girl friends. Mims and I had always been closer with each other than we were with any if our group. When two have been through so much together, it's impossible to break such a bond between two apart.

Life had been a challe-

"Laura!?" Mimi said, cutting me off from my thoughts, waving her hand in front of my face. "I said do you want some chocolate or a drink?"

"Uhhhh.."

"See, you're minds still so caught up in him! You have to actually go to the police and get it sorted!" Mimi says sternly.

"What? No. No I was just thinking about high school and last year and stuff..." I trail off.

"Do you miss it...?" Mimi asks, her voice full of emotion.

"I guess I do. I miss it before Chris happened. Everyone was so close and tight, like brothers and sisters, you know...? Apart from the couple in the group every now and then that decide they're in love, and then break up and make everyone fight" I laugh the last bit.

"Mmmmm... I know. Well why don't we all just go out this weekends or something?" She says enthusiastically.

"Umm... I don't know." I say worrying about Chris' presence.

"No one would tell Chris Laura, we could just invite the basic gang! Like old times!" Mims says, a small smile building on her lips.

"Uhhh..." Then again, everyone had been so understanding when the news got out about Chris being violent with me. Our whole group just completely ignored him from then. We're all still very much in touch these days, an still have parties together and go clubbing, but lately everyone's been so busy and it's been hard to find some spare time to catch up.

"Come on! You, me, Jace, Tom, Jimmy, Tay, Lacey, Ivy! It can't get better than that Laura! We could have an early dinner after work on Friday at McDonald's, then go to the Red Lounge Club! They have DJ Hendrix and Timmy Trumpet there!" She squeaks, unable I contain her excitment.

"Aren't writers supposed to be mature and bland?" I say, smiling.

"Is that a yes...?"

"Fineee!" I moan.