Unpredictable Love

Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Karleigh's POV

Remain calm. Remain calm. Remain calm.

This chant is shitty and useless, my heart is pounding and I think it's going to burst out of my chest. When I saw him sitting on the floor beside the couch we were going to sit on, I froze. Harry glanced back at me, then at Todd.

"Hungry? There's food in the kitchen, c'mon." What? Food? Todd is sitting here on the floor, and he's worried about fucking food. Why isn't Harry understanding my panic, he knows what Todd did to me.

Then it dawns on me, Harry doesn't know who attacked me, he only knows it was at Travis's house. I glance at Todd again and notice the plate in his hand. Harry thinks, I want food right now, how am I going to explain this to him. If I eat, I honestly don't think I'm going to be able to keep it down.

When Harry and I enter the kitchen, I glance along the counters for something to eat. Absentmindedly, I reach for the nearest thing, which happen to be brownies. Harry gets a plate and starts piling food onto it, I try to seem as if I'm actually eating this brownie.

Footsteps enter the kitchen, and I whirl around to see who it was. "Karleigh, hot shirt. Check out this tattoo I've got." I'm relieved to find out it's only Zayn.

I can't help but giggle at his words. Hot shirt, look at my tattoo? Like how does that even relate. Zayn pushes his sleeve up his forearm, and that's when I understand. He has a tattoo on his forearm that says Zap! and it looks great.

"Holy shit that's awesome," I gawk and Harry chuckles, he purposely told me to wear this shirt.

"You've got a lot of tattoos," I admire the intricate sleeve of tattoos that are wrapped around his arm. "I love them." I add, and he smiles.

"You've got any?" Zayn casually asks, and I shrug. "Not really."

"Not really? How can you not really have any tats?" Harry jokes and I shrug and grab another brownie from the counter, avoiding his question.

"Who has tats?" A deep, revolting voice asks from the entrance of the kitchen. I freeze and step closer to Harry.

A set of brown chilling orbs meet mine and I force myself to look away from Todd.

"Karleigh here, says she doesn't really have any tattoos." Zayn tries to joke, but my posture is stiff.

"You'd look great with a tattoo, babe." Todd says in a chilling voice and Harry stiffens.

"I don't think I've been introduced, I'm Todd." Todd gives me a disgusting smirk and I glower back at him. Todd reaches his hand out towards me but I make no movement to shake it.

"My name's lousy, you aren't missing out on much." I rudely say, and break our eye contact. Harry is still standing tense beside me, and I reach down and lace my fingers with his.

"Feisty. You've got a good one here Styles." Todd tells Harry, and Harry forces a fake laugh.

My temper begins to boil over and I release Harry's hand from my grip.

"That's quite the mark you've got on your cheek, Todd. What the hell happened?" I ask him, knowing that's exactly where I punched him when he attacked me.

His eyes harden and all humor is gone, he's glaring at me. "You know, it's a long story." He spits through his teeth.

"Well we have plenty of time, and I'd love to hear it. You seem so familiar Todd, are you sure we haven't met before?" I antagonize him, waiting for him to blow his cover.

"Maybe we have met before, I'd probably remember if you told me your name." Todd retorts and I bitterly laugh.

Zayn's eyes flicker between the two of us, trying to make something of our hidden argument. The look in Harry's eyes tell me, that he's already got it figured out.

"Don't worry Todd, I've learned from experience that she probably won't tell you her name. Tough luck." Harry remarks, his green eyes glaring at Todd.

"Let's go take a seat in the living room, shall we?" Harry suggests to me, and I swear I could kiss him right now.

We take a seat on the two-seated couch, and Niall grins at me from the adjacent couch. I smirk, and flick him off and Louis laughs under his breath as he notices mine and Niall's discrete exchange. I lean against Harry, and his entire body is tense.

He definitely knows it was Todd, if I didn't make it obvious enough for him, he's blind.

A few moments later, Zayn enters the living room and takes a seat on the floor. Harry's hand is rubbing gentle patterns on my thigh and I'm oblivious to Zayn talking to me.

"Hello?" Zayn repeats and my head snaps up. "Um, what?" I stutter and the boys chuckle, except for Harry of course who is so angry he's most definitely giving himself an ulcer.

"I said, isn't Trav--" Zayn starts to say, but Harry rudely interrupts him with a sudden burp. "S'cuse me." Harry pardons himself and I fight back a smile.

"Anyways, what were you're saying Zayn?" I return to the conversation. He thinks for a moment and opens his mouth to talk.

"Hey Zayn, when's your next gig to deejay?" Harry cuts him off again. Zayn studies Harry's face, and they exchange a brief moment of eye communication. "Uh it's next week, you all should come." Zayn suggests, and I grimace at the idea, considering what happened last time.

I don't manage to hear the rest of the conversation because a door from a nearby hallway opens and out steps my new found friend, Scarlotte.

Harry's eyes stay fixed on me as I stand from the couch. Scarlotte's eyes land on me, a large smile growing across her face. "Holy shit, Karleigh! What are you doing here?" She seems just as shocked as I am.

"I'm here with my, my, um with Harry." I stutter and gesture to Harry. She smirks knowingly, after all. She is the one who gave me some advice about him. She shoots me a wink and I glance down to see Harry still watching our conversation.

"What are you doing here?" I ask her.

"Oh I'm here with my boyfriend." She says with a smile, and points to the kitchen doorway. A bad feeling washes over me, and just as I turn to see where she's pointing, Todd walks out of the kitchen doorway. Just as I had suspected.

"You're fucking kidding me." The words spill out of my mouth, before I can stop myself. Nausea rushes through me, and I slowly sit back down on the couch. Scarlotte doesn't seem to notice my discomfort and she smiles, while waving Todd over.