Downhill

Chapter 24

“Babe” I hear Harry whisper next to me “Becky” he starts gently prodding the end of my nose. 

“Let me sleep” I groan, shifting to get myself comfortable again.

“But you have to get up for today” he says.

“I don’t want today to happen” I mumble. Today Harry is leaving and in two days he is going to Niall’s house in Ireland before they go to judges houses. Wow this week went quickly. 

“Yes you do, you’re seeing McFly tonight” his morning voice is just the sexiest thing ever. Sexiest? Yeah sexiest. 

“Yeah but you’re leaving” I say, opening my eyes and looking up at him. His hair is sticking out on one side and his eyes are barely open. 

“Yeah” he pauses “I don’t want to go but I’m going to Niall’s house on Wednesday” 

“What time is it? I can’t be late for college” I ask.

“Its early don’t worry” I look over to the window, I can’t see any light coming through underneath the bottom of my blinds. We fall silent for a bit.

“I’ve never been to Ireland” I say, I have no idea what it’s like there but I suspect is probably not painted green with leprechauns running round with pots of gold like I used to think. 

“Neither have I, I’m worried I won’t be able to understand what everyone’s saying” he smiles.

“You’ll be fine” I assure him.

“We need to put that video on youtube” he tells me. He swings his legs off my bed and fetches my laptop from my dresser where it was plugged in. I sit up as he rejoins me. 

“So I can definitely delete this if no one likes it?” I check.

“Yeah” he types my password in and smiles at himself because he guessed correctly. I give him a grin when he glares at me. My password is ‘tom Fletcher’. 

He opens up the internet and loads youtube, we make a new account called BeckyBSings.

“You ready?” he asks when he finds the video we made in my files and is about to press upload. 

“No but go on” I say. The video isn’t great, its just a plain purple screen with the sound of my singing The End by McFly. He taps the enter button dramatically and it says its uploading. I get butterflies in my tummy, what if I get loads of comments saying I’m rubbish and stuff? 

“It’ll be fine” Harry says, he puts his arm round my shoulder and rubs his hand up and down my arm. 

Before I know it the video has uploaded and its gone back to my channel.

“Is it done?” I ask, Harry nods “Okay can we leave it now?” 

“I have an idea” he says. He opens up the webcam on my laptop “Smile” he says.

“What?” I say, covering my face. He presses enter so the picture is taken “Harry I look awful I’ve only just woken up” I protest, putting my hand over the lens. 

“So have I” he retaliates. 

“Yeah but you’re a boy” 

“And you’re a girl” oh shut up. 

“Why do you want to take pictures anyway?” I ask.

“Because we don’t have any pictures of us, I want to remember these moments forever and pictures last forever” I can’t help but add ‘and we won’t’ in my mind. I don’t want this to end but I have a terrible feeling that if Harry goes off to the live shows and gets all stuck in the Xfactor stuff and gets all famous then we’ll have to end this. I know Harry didn’t mean that but I want to know if he feels the same way. It’ll have to wait.