Crazy Little Thing Called Love

Text Messages Or Party Preparations

Hi everyone, I'm on a roll today, so here is chapter number two! This is a bit of a filler chapter, hence it's quite short, but I can promise you that the next chapter will be up very soon and it will (hopefully) be as much fun to read as I have writing it at the moment. :) All the love, Summer xxx

It was the day before my birthday and I was desperately waiting for a reply from Harry. He had texted me late last night saying that he wasn't sure if he would be able to make it for my birthday and that he would talk to the director in the morning to see if he could get tomorrow and the day after my birthday off. My fingers were drumming a rhythmic pattern on the surface of the kitchen table and my eyes were roaming the kitchen on the search for something to distract me with. When my phone rang, I jumped and immediately answered the phone without looking at the caller id. For the first time in my life I was disappointed to hear my mother's voice at the other end of the line.

"Hi honey, how are you doing?" she chirped into the phone and despite my disappointment, I felt my lips tug into a small smile when I heard her voice. "Hi, mum, I'm fine. What about you? How is Sally?" I asked and as if she had heard me through the phone, I heard a loud bark in the background which made me laugh. "As you can hear she's doing very well and I am alright. Work is keeping me busy, but what can you do?" my mum chuckled and I smiled when I heard Sally bark again. "So, I was wondering what your plans for tomorrow were and if you maybe wanted to go out of lunch or something like that? I could drive down for a couple of hours and then be back to feed Sally later tomorrow night, if you like?" she suggested and by now I was widely grinning. "I would love to see you tomorrow, mum." I replied happily and we agreed that she would meet me at my flat around noon tomorrow, before she had to hang up because Sally was causing a mess in the living room.

The conversation with my mum had relaxed me and I decided to simply turn my phone's ringtone up and to do something productive instead, like doing my laundry for example. With a sigh, I walked into our bathroom and carried the full laundry box with both of our clothes into the kitchen where our washing machine was situated. Just as I had closed the door of the machine, my phone beeped, indicating that I had received a new message. I scurried over to the kitchen table and say that Harry had sent me a text.

"Dear Claire, I am so sorry, but I won't be able to make it home to London tomorrow. I asked Chris again this morning and after checking our schedule he said that it is impossible for me to go home tomorrow as we will be filming a very important scene for which I have to be present. I cannot tell you how bad I feel about this. Please enjoy your special day as much as you can and I promise I will come home for a day or two as soon as I can so that we can celebrate your birthday together. I will make it up to you, I promise. All the love, Harry xxx" My heart seemed to have dropped down to somewhere around my knees and I felt my eyes tearing up. Angrily, I wiped my eyed with my sleeve and replied with a simple "It's okay, C xxx". It wasn't okay and I was a hundred percent sure that Harry knew that, as well, but I also knew that this wasn't his fault so I didn't want to be angry at him. I was just... sad? Disappointed? 

I shoved my phone into my back pocket and started to clean and tidy up our flat, so that Lily and I didn't have to do anything tomorrow before the party. I had decided to only invite a handful of very close friends. Two of my friends from uni, Elouise and Milena, Ed Sheeran (my heart still skipped a beat when I thought about the fact that I was counting Ed to my group of close friends), the whole of One Direction -even though I hadn't seen Liam- in a while, Zayn and Gigi as a thank you for helping me with my panic attack,Lily, of course, and Leslie, Harry's friend, who I had talked to on the phone a couple of times during the past few weeks and who I had already baby sitted for once. It was going to be a very random group of people, but I was hoping that they all would get along well. I was a bit anxious about El's and Milena's reaction to Ed, Zayn and the whole of One Direction, as they hadn't met them yet. They had only recently found out that I even knew them, as I had tried to keep my relationship with the boys under wraps for as long as possible.

When Lily came home from uni, the whole flat was spotless, I had done all of our laundry and dinner was ready on the table. "I love you!" Lily called out as she walked into the kitchen and pulled me into a tight hug. "Did you spend your whole day cleaning?" she asked me and took a seat at the table. I joined her and pushed the bowl with mashed potatoes in her direction, while I helped myself to some carrots. "Maybe." I replied with a smile and she laughed and continued to pile food onto her plate. "Thank you so much for doing this! Uni was a nightmare today. Apparently they can't make up their minds about where we should do our summer placements and changed our hospitals AGAIN! I mean how the fuck am I supposed to plan anything this summer when I don't know where I'm gonna be working, hm?" She huffed and shoved a spoon full of food into her mouth. "This is delicious, thank you so much for cooking. I will do the dishes afterwards." she offered and I nodded and gave her thumbs up as my mouth was too full to say something. We enjoyed the rest of our meal and then spent the rest of the night watching Teen Wolf together, before we went to bed quite early in order to be fully rested for the next day.