Strong // Harry Styles

Chapter 6

Harry's POV:
Her hand was quite small in my own, but it felt like it fit perfectly. I look over to her as were stopped at a crossing, her face all red from the running. She's looking straight, concentrating on something. Her eyelashes covered with fallen droplets of rain, and as she blinked they would fall down her cheek.

She has frown lines on her forehead that make me wanna (tssss) smooth out with my fingers. I wonder what she's thinking about so intently.

"Stop it." She suddenly says, a small smile playing on her perfectly sculpted lips.

"Stop what?" I say playing dumb,

"Stop staring at me, ya noob." She says turning her face towards mine.

"Did you just call me a 'noob'? Really? What the bloody hell even is that?" I say, trying to hide my laughter.

"GREEN LIGHT!" Kim yells, she tugs on my hand and we run again across the street in the rain.

We keep on running till we stop suddenly in front of a tan building, with a black metal door. Gold letters were engraved into the door reading, 286. The building was cute and slim, about 5 stories high.

"Bag please." Kim says, standing in front of me as I take my eyes off the building.

I drop the actually pretty heavy bag from my shoulder and hold the bag open.

"Keys." Kim says as she pulls out a set of keys, with multiply colorful keys on it.

"Thank you Dora, wouldn't have never guessed that." I say teasing, and she just sticks her tongue at me.

Calum's POV:
"No, no, no, NOOOO!" I scream, losing yet again another game to Michael.

"HA! Pay up Hood!" Michael stands from his bean bag and does a new victory dance I have yet to see before.

"Ugh," I say, grabbing a 20 pounds from my wallet.

"You really do suck." I hear Luke say from the couch near the kitchen.

"Oi mate, I swear Michael is somehow cheating." I exclaim, getting up from the love seat, walking into the kitchen where my phone was charging.

"Cal, I've even beat you. That says something." Ashton says nonchalantly from the love seat while he plays some game on his phone.

"Cal, when the fuck is Kim getting back, I'm starving." Michael whines, collapsing onto the bean bag chair once again.

"Michael you're always hungry." I say, tapping at my phone, opening Kim and I's conversation.

"She texted me over 20 minutes ago saying she was on her way home." I say out loud to the boys, "And that she has someone I would like to see." I continue with confusion dripping in my voice, unplugging my phone from the charger.

"What like her mum?" Luke says.

"UGHHHHhhh." I hear a whining and impatient Michael moan.

"No, she just visited her family, That's why I'm-

But I was interrupted by the door opening, and bags being placed on the floor.

There, standing in our kitchen was Kim and Harry Styles.

"HARRY!!!" Ashton yells, jumping to his feet as the other boys follow.

I on the other hand, am a bit shocked. How did Kim meet Harry? Did she tell him about us? How else would he just come to a random girls apartment? Well she isn't just a random girl, she is best friends with us, but Harry doesn't know that.

Or does he?

"Hey mate." I hear Harry's voice and it breaks me out of my thought.

"Hey man! What brings ya here?" I say shaking his hand and hugging him.

"Well I met Kim again at the market and it started to pour. I didn't have a car or anything so she invited me here so I didn't have to run 2 miles in the rain." Harry says looking over to Kim in one whole breath.

again?

"She didn't say that she lived with 5 Seconds of Summer although." Harry continues looking back to me and the boys.

"I missed that, huh?" Kim says, pulling a box of already made pizza and cookies out of a shopping bag.

"GODBLESS YOU KIM!" Michael yells, running over to the counter and Kim.

"You know me too well," he says kissing her forehead before destroying the barrier between him and the pizza.

She giggles shaking her head and unpacking the rest of the food.

I see Harry flinch a bit from Michael's actions in the corner of my eye. Weird.

"Hey Michael leave some for us would ya!" Ashton shouts, seeing Michael is currently shoving not one but two slices of pizza in his mouth.

We all laugh at Michael's dumbness and all sit down in the lounge area with our food.

"So Harry you said you've met Kim again at the market. You've meet before?" I say, biting into the crust of my pizza.

"That's correct. I've met Kim before at a  restaurant about 2 months ago, after the X Factor performance." Harry says biting into his pizza.

"Kim wasn't that the day.." Ashton begins but I practically murder him with my eyes to shut up.

"Yeah, that was the day. It's okay to talk about it guys, I'm fine." Kim says looking at us then back down at her barely touched pizza.

Carl's passing had hit us hard on all of us really. Kim was an utter mess, and she is like a mom to all of us. She does a lot of apartment stuff and we were lost without her. We're currently not on tour and come here to live I guess. When J called us that she needed us, we actually were visiting our families but took the first available flight from Sydney. Our families understand and actually have visited us a few times.

We've known Carl and their family for ages. Our parents were long distance friends and always went on vacation together and visited each other's house during the summer time. Even though we lived in completely different countries we always picked things up just like where we left them. Ashton's known Kim and her family for the least amount of time out of all of us yet he still cried very hard when Carl passed.

We all consider each other like family, really.

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