Sleeping With Tattoos

A Lot

HARRY

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I'm laying on my bed minding my own business, thinking about the kiss, Natalie and the way she moved on me.....which was actually quiet surprising and I didn't see it coming. The TV programme plays but the background sound is better than the actual programme itself.

"Harry!" I hear my mums cheery voice calls from downstairs.

"Yeah!" I really can't be bothered to move from this bed, I'm too lost in my memories of earlier today.

"Can you come down please?"

Damn. I slide down the stairs on my feet and stop in front of my mum. Her lips pull up somewhere in between a laugh and smile.

"How was your day?" she asks wiping her hands on her apron.

"Good how was work?" I try not to let my lips form a smile.

"Work was just the usual. How was Natalie then?"

My eyebrows form a frown and I wonder how she knows I was with her.

"How did you know?" I ask her watching her smile and giggle to herself.

"Look at your smile!" She pokes her fingers in my dimples and I can't help but smile even more.

"Is it weird for a mum to ask her eighteen year old son about his love life?" she asks frowning herself.

"A little." I answer honestly. She looks at me from top to bottom and tears form in her eyes. I don't know why they do but it's clear she's staring at her little boy who managed to become a pretty decent young man without a father figure in his life.

"I made some brownies if you want some." She removes her apron and wipes away her tears with the back of her hand. I watch as she walks up the stairs to her room.

"Gemma?" I walk into the living room and Gemma's there sprawled out along the couch watching her stupid soaps.

"Do you think that Natalie would say yes if I asked her to go out with me?" I sit on the edge of the couch, on the small space that her legs are not taking up. I hold my hands and lean forward, my head drops in embarrassment as soon as I ask the pathetic question.

"Don't say that." She continues to stare at the TV.

"Don't say what?" I turn my head to the side as I stare at her a little nervously.

"Don't ask her if she wants to go out with you, ask her if she wants to be your girlfriend, that's so much nicer." Her eyes find mine and I smile at her before hitting her feet and rising to attend to the door that was just knocked at.

The door swings open towards me and Danny's face suddenly becomes highlighted by the moon.

"You alright Dan?" I step to the side allowing him access to the house.

"Yeah you?" he steps in and we head straight towards the living room. His eyes immediately focus on Gemma whose still stretched out on the couch.

I watch him as he sits on the couch next to Gemma and just watches and stares at her bum. He shifts to the edge of the couch and I hit the back of his head to remove him from his gaze.

"Sorry mate, she's fit." He shrugs but anger boils in my stomach.

"Don't Danny." I stay sternly and take a seat next to him.

"Hi Dan." Gemma doesn't even acknowledge him, she just speaks.

"You alright Gemma." She ignores him and for that, I'm grateful.

"What's up?" I ask him as he slouches back on the couch.

"Nothing I was just passing by, can't I do that to you anymore? We used to do it all the time." He smiles and I remember the days when he would come by here and I'd go to his house.

His mum was never there, she was always slapping about with whatever asshole could burry himself into any slut of a woman. Still, he was a good mate.

"Where did you go all those months? You never called, never text, nothing. You just disappeared. "

He looks out of the window that's opposite the couch and stares for at least ten minutes.

"I was away just clearing my head, doing what was best for me."

"So why didn't you ring?" I push.

"I told you, I was doing what was best for me Harry. But your fiends back now, so don't worry." He smiles and hits my back.

"Come on then tell me about your girlfriend." He leans back into the sofa and I smile and my stomach tightens with knots at the mention and thought of her.

I chuckle and sit back too.

"Who Natalie?"

Who else. He nods and I continue.

"Yeah she's good. We're good." I smile remembering the other night.

"Is she any good in the bedroom area?" he smirks looking at me.

Gemma throws a pillow at me and frowns.

"Don't make me hear that crap. I might vomit. God sake Harry."

"No we haven't! We haven't done that yet!" I cringe of the thought of my big sister knowing that.

"I used to know her you know." Danny's voice ran cooly across the room. It was ice cold. The atmosphere in the room had dropped to a low and the air seemed cold and rigid.

"From where?" I frown and become puzzled in my head.

Was he a past boyfriend? Neighbour? Were they ever a thing? An item?

I'm trying to stay calm right right now I want to pin him to the wall and ask how he knew her. Not one normal thought crosses my mind. Their all dirty all of relationships.

Ever considered he may have just been a friend? No.

"She lived near me, we used to bump into each other but then I went away." He smiles and my mind is no longer clouded and pulled down by ideas or anger. The thought of my best mate being with her makes me want to shout at her and hit him. But then I shouldn't be with her if that's the case.

"I helped her find work actually." He nods in my direction and realise just how much of a caring person he is. I care but would I find people jobs? I would probably limit their chances to more than they already were.

"Do you want some cookies or something? I think that's what my mum was saying she made?" I recline backwards even more enjoying an old friends company.

"No I'm going to be heading off now." I sit straight back up and join him at the door.

"I'll see you soon Danny. Are you coming back to school!" I shout as he makes his way down the path.

"No. And yeah you will see me soon. I'll be around a lot."

His figure disappeared into the darkness and once again the friend I had was gone.

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I feel so bad that it's been so long since I updated. I'm really sorry. It's a crap chapter so I apologise! gonna be really busy this week so can't promise anything! thanks for the amazing amount of reads and votes.

How was your 1DDay? Did everyone love it as much as I did?! I hope your not all that tired! What did you all get up to? xx