Gold Rush

Chapter 10

My last class of the morning ended earlier than usual. I was the first to walk out almost running when I met Liam and Niall who were giggling over the screen of a cell-phone.

"Hi guys."                             

"Hey Hannah! What's up?" Liam asked me after giving me a hug. He always has been one of my favourite friends among Harry's.  He was calm and more mature than the others even if sometimes he could be surprising and played boys' little silly games. I continued to spend some time with him after the break up.

Niall nodded and gave me a huge smile, I liked him as well because he was care- free and he could laugh about anything and with anybody but we weren't close as I was with Liam or Louis.

"I'm great! Have you seen Harry? I was supposed to join him for lunch." I had not text him yet and I wanted to surprise him. Liam gave me an interrogative look but I ignored it, I was not sure Harry told them about us.

"We had just left him! He was on a bench near the building B." Niall told me, scratching the back of his head.

"Thanks guys, see you around!" I said in a hurry, before walking rapidly towards the destination. I was too impatient to find my curly boy for talking more with them.

I went through the crowded corridors, trying to choose the quicker path to reach the B building.

As Niall told me, Harry was near a wood bench but he wasn't alone. He was standing up facing a girl whose eyes were watering her face. She was beautiful enough. Her hair was the same colour as mine but straighter. Her dark brown eyes were injected of red and her lips moved really fast. I hid behind the corner of the building and tried to hear what they were saying.

"I'm sorry Halley." Harry spoke quietly. "It had to come to an end. I really appreciated... all this, but I warned you, I told you I..."

"You did not want a serious relationship." She cut him and spoke between two sobs.

"Yes... I'm glad you understand!" I could not see his face but I know he had a relief smile on his face, the idiot.

"I don't!! You made it lasted for six months Harry!"

I did not like how she was talking to him and what she was saying did not encourage me to think she could be my friend one day.

"I know but recently I did not feel the same..." the tall boy tried to intervene.

"Don't take me for a fool! I know she's back! People talk Harold!" She yelled at him but it was not her tone which made me jump, but the name she employed to call him. She was definitely not my favourite girl. She continued: "What are you going to do when she'll know uh? I'm not going to take you back when she will dump you again!" She raised her tiny fist and tried to punch him in the shoulder but she eventually ended her head against his chest, her sobs getting louder. He wrapped his arms around her, caressing her head. The jealousy led my feet before my brain could stop me.

"Do I interrupt something?" I asked, my tone far harsher than I planned.  

Harry let his embrace go and looked at me, confused but not worried. The girl, Haley as he called, parted her lips as if she had seen a ghost.

"Is one of you going to answer me?" I spoke again.

To my surprise, it's Haley who came forward me, without a word, her wild sight set on me. I was afraid she would punch me or slap me but she only held his hand to me. Harry looked as surprised as I was but this time I could see that he was afraid, too.

"You must be Hannah." She affirmed.

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