How everything changed (One Direction fanfiction)

Chapter Seven - Getting Closer

Kathryn's P.O.V

It was silent the entire way down to the garden. Things were a little awkward between us, but I didn't really care I just wanted to know what is was the boys wouldn't tell me. We reached the main floor when we were stopped by some girls.

"OMG!!! You are Harry Styles. Can I get your auto graph?" One girl said

"Can I get a picture with you?" asked another

There were about five girls and we spent about twenty minutes with them. Well Harry did I just stayed out of the way. After the twenty minutes I started to walk towards the garden and wait for Harry there. I think he saw me walk away, because he excused himself and ran towards me.

"Sorry about that" he apologized

"It is fine. That is a part of your job, so don't be sorry."I replied

We sat down on the bench outside. I didn't have a jacket and the wind was blowing. I wasn't really cold though. We sat in silence for a while and it was quite awkward. He started humming on and off. I loved the sound of his voice when he would actually sing quietly to himself.

"You are a great singer, Harry" I said deciding to break the silence.

"Thanks, so are you"

"Thanks..... wait how did you know I was a singer?" I was really confused

"Umm.....when you were in the garden yesterday I over heard you singing"

"What! I though nobody was here! Where were you?"

"Follow me" he took me over to the back corner were there were a lot of bushes "I was behind this bush"

I was speechless. Not knowing what to say, think or feel.

"Kathryn are you okay?" he sounded worried.

A tear fell down my cheek. I was embarrassed and upset as all the memories from yesterday morning flooded my mind.

"Kat what is wrong?" He was still worried. He placed his hands on my shoulders.

"Nothing, I am fine" I lied. I tried to dry my eyes, but it was no use I couldn't stop the tears as the picture of my dad lying on that hospital bed froze in my mind. I am a very sensitive person so I usually react pretty hard to anything sad. I totally don't take sad things well.

I couldn't hear anything, for I was now trapped in my own thoughts. All that I knew was I was crying harder and harder as I fell to my knees. The only thing is that I didn't hit my knees hard on the grass. As I fell I had felt arms wrap around me, catching me and slowly lowering me to the ground. I was now kneeled on the grass with Harry kneeling next to me, holding me tight. I thought of my mom and how she was lying in a hospital bed right now and that God could take her at any moment. This thought only made me cry harder and I buried my face in Harry's chest. He started to sway back and forth, and calm me down, but it didn't work.

After about five to ten minutes of this, I finally started to calm down. Harry loosened his arms around me and I looked up at him. He smiled at me without showing his teeth. I simply grinned at him and leaned back up against him. We stayed there for about another minute before he broke the silence. The first comfortable silence between us.

"Are you okay, Kathryn?"

"Do you want the truth?"

"Of course I do" he said calmly

"Then..... no not really." I looked back up to him and his smile was gone. So was mine.

"Do you want to talk about it?"

"You already know everything, since you heard me yesterday. That is kind of when I said everything and just let go of all my emotions and everything I had been wanting to say." I started to tear up a little bit again.

Harry wiped away the tear that fell and looked me straight in the eyes.

"Kathryn, I want you to know you can tell me anything. Here let me see your phone."

I slowly grabbed my phone out of my back pocket and handed it to him. He took it and did something. I had a sliding key board which he kept sliding until he was done. He handed me my phone again.

"If you ever want to talk and you don't have someone there you feel like you can talk to. My number is in your phone. Don't hesitate to call or text me just remember if you text me the first time you decide to talk to me. Make sure you let me know it is you."

I just nodded at him.

"And please don't give my number to anyone. Please!" he begged

"I won't" I replied with a laugh.

"I am happy to see you smiling again" he said smiling back at me. He still had his arms around me and I leaned back against him again. He started to sing "Summer Love". I looked up at him and smiled again. He stopped singing after the first chorus and started to speak.

"I know you like that song."

"I know you know I like that song, but do you know what my favorite is?"

"No, what is it?" He asked with a smile and a calm, soothing, relaxing voice.

"I don't have one" I said quietly.

"You don't?"

"Nope" I said popping the "p".

He chucked and smiled even bigger at me. After about five minutes of us still in that same position and him softly singing some short pieces of different songs, he let me go and took off his jacket placing it on my shoulders. He wrapped his arms back around me. I looked up at him confused.

"You were shivering and you don't have a coat so I figured if I gave you mine then we could stay like this a little longer before returning to reality"

I didn't realize I was shivering. I didn't even think I was cold. I buried my face deeper into his chest than last time and tears started to fall again.

"Hey, calm down. What's wrong?" He was really calm but sounded really worried.

"Reality is where I have no dad, and I could lose my mom at any second. I really wish reality was all a dream."

"Just think, in reality you got to meet me!" he said trying to left my mood.

I looked at him and he placed his hands on my head. He wiped away the tears with his thumbs and looked me in the eyes. He moved his hands to my shoulders and I looked away turning my head. He placed his hand under my chin and tried to moved my head to face him, but I refused to look at him. He pulled me into his warm embrace and I quickly shut my eyes as hard as I could so I wouldn't cry again. he started to stroke my hair trying to keep me calm.

"Everything will be fine." he said comforting me. "Trust me, no matter what happens you can always come to me about it and I will do my best to help you through it. You are an amazing person Kathryn and you just have to trust that things will work out for the best."

Then just like that I became close to Harry. He now sorta felt like the brother I never had. We got up and headed back inside. We stopped at the little coffee shop and Harry bought him a coffee and bought me another Hot Chocolate.