Fall.// h.s au Short Story

Chapter 9

It's a Friday once again. I'm sitting all by myself here at McDonald's eating lunch. There's a party at Harry's frat tonight; he asked me to come along but I have so much homework I can't procrastinate. Harry and I have been so close lately. We spend mostly every hour together except today he had to meet with the guys for a project. We aren't necessarily dating but we own each other and that's enough for me for a while. I check the time and notice it's already 10:15. I gather my bag and walk out the building, throwing my wrappers out to the nearest trashcan. I'm wearing the same boots I wore last time to Harry's party and I just realized they are a pain in the arse to walk in for long time. As the cool wind hits my face, I shiver. Fall is here and I barely even noticed it. I tug my jacket closer to me and wrap my arms around myself as I walk to my next class.

Class was same old, writing stories, revising crappy stuff, and writing stories. Harry and I were fooling around during class and we got scolded once but that didn't stop Harry. After class, Harry offered to walk me to my next one. While we were walking, Harry was sharing some of his puns to me.

"Then I said 'Thank you very moth!" We were both laughing so hard since Harry had a butterfly tattoo we had to stop walking to handle ourselves. After a couple more minutes of silent walking he speaks up. "But really Lauren, I'm having a pretty bad day today." His goofy toned turned pretty serious. I forgot about Harry's mood swings.

"What happened Harry?" I grab his forearm, but he pulls away and I feel rejected.

"It's nothing, let's just go." He starts walking faster than me leaving me behind him as I just stood there. If nothing is wrong, why the hell is he making it a big deal?

"Harry, tell me!" Curiosity kills the cat. I really want to be there for him, isn't that what people do when they're in relationships? I don't want to annoy him I just want him to be open to me, we've known each other for about 3 weeks but that doesn't matter, the bound we had says it all. He turns around to look at me and if looks could kill, I'm already dead he looks really pissed off.

"Shut up okay!" he yelled angrily, walking back to me. I'm surprised, what's going on? "Don't you dare act like you're my girlfriend because you aren't! Fucking God, Mind your fucking own business." He spat harshly at me. I'm not going to cry but I feel guilty for getting him mad, but I should be mad too but for what? He raises his hand and I thought he was going to hurt me so I flinched he suddenly realized. He growls in frustration and gathers both of his hands and rubs his face harshly and flips his hair. "Im not going to hurt you ever." he mumbles, he then stomps away leaving me alone and late for class.

"Ms.Everson, you're early for class today!" Mrs. Marthy says to me while I walk in class.

"Sorry." I mumbled while going to vacant seat.

"No need to sit down, go to the office, the secretary is looking for you." I simply nod and make a b-line straight to the office.

As I make my way to the office, I see the grey haired girl smiling at me as I smile back.

"Good afternoon, how may I help you?" she seems genuinely nice.

"Um, I'm Lauren Everson, you needed to see me." I lean my elbows on the counter top, seeing this might take long.

"Oh yes, yes." she pulls a drawer open and grabs a folder. "You have a new roommate; you are at room 318 at Johnson building right? She gives me a stern look and laughs a bit. I nod, and laugh a bit too. "Her name is Eleanor Calder. Okay? She'll be arriving at 6 tonight, that is what she told us."

"Thanks." I quickly leave the office and head straight to my dorm and clean it up for her, I check my phone 4 hours to go not bad. Eleanor Calder huh that sounds familiar. Maybe she's the culinary girl whose friends with Harry. Oh god, I just realized she has the same name as 'Calder coffees' what am I thinking?

I finally made it to my room. I took my jacket and scarf off and placed it on my rack then i started clearing her side of the room. The room is quite clean it's just I have some extra stuff lounging on her side of the room. After jamming to music for like 2 hours someone knocked on the door that must be her. I dust myself off as I get up from the floor and paste a big smile on my face welcoming whoever it is when I opened my door I wasn't surprise.

"Harry." I gave him a neutral look, he's holding a box in his hands. I know he's mad at me for pushing him but he didn't need to cuss me out.

"Um, yeah if you know Eleanor is moving in so we're helping her." He looks at me. He sounds like he isn't angry anymore but I know how Harry mood swings work. I move out of the doorway for him to move in.

He sets the box beside the empty bed and leaves the room without a word. Zayn and Liam come in my room a few minutes later, laughing.

"Hey, Lauren!" Liam waves at me, while carrying some pillows. I wave back, while lying on my stomach browsing through the web.

"Vas happening?" Zayn asked while walking around in the room checking some of my stuff out.

"Nothing much, just scrolling through the web." They both make small chats with me while we wait for the other guys to come in.

"How are you and Harry?" Liam asks while playing with his sleeves.

"I'm okay, I don't know about Harry go ask him." I say with some annoyance. Zayn and Liam both laugh which I don't get why. "Why you guys laughing?"

"Oh, it's just funny because he actually treats you like as a girlfriend, and Liam and i were waiting for him to screw up." They laugh harder which only causes me to roll my eyes and stifle a laugh. 'treats me like a girlfriend' that's really funny considering what happened today.

After a few more minutes, Harry and Louis come in holding two boxes each, they place it on the side of the bed and collapse on El's bed. Niall comes in right after just holding a pizza box and some beer.

"I know you guys are tired so here I bought a half-eaten pizza. And some cold beer." He smiles and as he opens the box, yup there's exactly 7 pieces left.

We all gather around an empty coffee table, sitting and getting ready to dig in. I sat in front of Louis, Harry beside him, zayn then Liam, beside me was Niall and an empty space for El. I had my first beer bottle, it was hard to drink at first but after a while it's not that bad. Once we're done eating we were just talking and making jokes then El finally came with 2 suitcases in both hands. She gives me a cheeky smile and I stand up to greet her.

"Hey!" I say happily and hug her. "Great, to have you as a roommate." I wink as I pull back.

"Same here! My old roommate was a total bitch." We both laugh; I know we're going to get along just right.

"C'mon sit with us. We're just chilling." I grab her hand and drag her to the middle of our room.

We talked for a couple more hours, just laughing and I can already tell I'm drunk. We all separated around the room. Louis and El, cuddling on her bed. Niall, Liam, and Zayn playing some card game on my desk. Harry is just on the floor leaning on the wall texting someone. We hadn't talked for 8 hours.

I stared at him for a couple minutes then he caught me shit. He gets up and starts heading towards my bed. He gets on my bed and crawls towards me. He smiles a bit then sits beside me, he nuzzles my neck and I can't help but giggle. I would've pushed him away but I'm drunk. Being drunk is always an excuse. He starts kissing my neck and whispers something in my ear.

"I'm sorry Baby."

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