Chapter 8

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Sunday it was, and I was still having difficulty comprehending what had happened the night before. As you can see my tiny brain can’t handle so much at once. I decided the only way to deal with this is talk about it. Definitely not to mum though, so I call Sophie, the only person I can truly rely on. The phone rings twice before she picks up.

“Soph?” I mumble into the phone

“Yeah Mia!” She replies loudly.

“I have a lot to tell you” I state as I take a comfortable position on my bed.

I decide to tell Sophie everything from the rude tone he used towards my mum to when he followed me up to the bathroom and we….kissed.

“Oh. My. God” She stutters into the phone.

“I know” I sigh.

“Well it seems that you had an eventful night” She chuckles.

“Yeah I guess you could say that” I laugh back into the phone.

We ended up talking for an extra hour about how Sophie has a crush on the new guy in our year level called Luke. He apparently was super-hot and had a lip piercing. I don’t know what’s going on with Sophie because she hates guys with piercings and tattoos but she said this one’s different. She said they had talked a couple times and they were going to hang out soon. I told her to be careful and with that we ended the phone call.

Zeus and I finally pull ourselves out of bed to go downstairs to mum. I could hear her singing her favourite song as I smelt pancakes cooking on the stove.

“Someone’s happy this morning” I smile as I take a seat on the stool in front of the kitchen bench.

“Well I would like to think you were after how well last night went” mum smiled as she put a pancake on a plate and gave it to me.

“It was pretty good, I guess”

“Yes, apart from Harry’s attitude problem, I would say it went well” Mum laughs pouring more batter into the pan.

I couldn’t agree anymore, I think to myself and giggle.

I take my plate over to the lounge room and turn on some teen mom 2. I love this show! It’s amazing to see what one baby can do to change your life. Mum joins me in the lounge room and changes the channel over to Keeping up with the Kardashians. It was weird how intrigued she was by this show. After having breakfast with mum, Sophie and I decide to head down to the mall for some new clothes. We were invited to an 18th Birthday party this weekend and we definitely needed something to wear!

We arrived at the mall pretty early, which was good because we always took ages to find something we liked.

“Let’s try something new today” Sophie says holing up a little red dress and passing it over to me.

“There’s going to be so many hot guys this weekend and we need to look our best” she tells me handing me another one exactly like it in purple.

“Well you have to try this on then!” I tell her handing her a sparkly yellow dress that came out from the waist down.

“Alright!” She squealed as we rushed over to the dressing rooms!

“Show me when you have something on!” She smiles as she disappears into the small change room next to me.

We both come out at the same time. Me in a little red dress that hugged my body and showed my curves. It sat just above my knee and had a low neck line. It was so different to what I usually wore but I kind of liked it. Sophie came out in the sparkly yellow dress I handed to her earlier. The material puffed out right on her waist line and came just above her knees! She looked stunning!

“Oh my god, you look gorgeous.” We say in sync and start laughing.

“That’s the hottest dress I have ever seen.” She squeals as she gets a closer look.

“That’s it we are getting that one!” she laughs as she backs away.

“Are you sure it’s not to revealing” I say pointing at the neck line.

“Ahh definitely not if we are going to be at a party full of hot boys” she giggles taking another look at herself in the mirror.

“You are definitely getting that one” I squeal as I look at her dress more closely.

“You look hot!” I laugh as we both walk back into our own change rooms.

We pay for the dresses at the checkout and also pick up some new heals while we were there as well. I have to say I never thought I would ever own a dress like this. But there’s always a start for something isn’t there.

Sophie and I decide to head out for some lunch at a cute little café just around the corner from the mall. A lot of school kids seemed to hang out here on weekends, but that didn’t bother us because we loved this café just as much as everyone else!

We took a seat in the booth towards the back corner of the café and ordered some lunch. Like always I ordered their chicken focaccia roll and Sophie ordered their best cheeseburger.

Our conversation was interrupted when a loud group of teenagers walked into the café.

“Table for 6.” The boy I recognised way to quickly requested.

“Shit” I whisper to Sophie as I look away.

“Don’t make eye contact” I tell her as she turns away.

Harry walked towards the table with his arm slung around a brunette girl’s neck. I think her name was Nikki, but everyone around school called her Barbie cause that’s who she looked and acted like. She wore a short strapless top with mini shorts. Her hair was cut short and had a natural wave to it. She was gorgeous! So much prettier than me! Why did I even care, it’s not like I like him or anything. Following behind him I believe was Zayn and CC. They’re known around school as the best couple! Zayn was the same as harry, with tattoos and piercings and CC had a few herself. Behind them were Niall and Marnie. They were supposably in an on and off relationship. Clearly they were back on.

“Mia!” I was cut off from my thoughts.

“y-yeah” I stutter still examining the group.

“Your staring and they are about to notice” Sophie whispers.

“Shit..Oops” I say turning away quickly.

I didn’t even realise I was staring for so long, they had already taken there seat and were about to order.

“Do you think they noticed?” I turn towards Sophie with a worried expression.

“No I don’t think s-… actually he did, because he’s looking over this way right now” Sophie squeaked turning her head back to me.

“Shit, shit, shit” I cursed.

Our eyes met, as I slowly turned around to catch a glance. Why did I have to look, he’s gaze always catches me frozen, I think to myself.  A small smirk appears across Harrys face. Just look away Mia, I mentally yell at myself. But I can’t and before I know it Nikki catches me staring. 

(Authors Notes: Hey guys! Thanks so much for reading!!! Hope you enjoyed this chapter, what do you think nikki will say? Thoughts on harrys friends? Lets see what happens! xxx) 

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