Affliction

Chapter Four

Another wonderful update by Hallie!❤️

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Merideth's POV

I open the door for the curly boy who stares at me.

"Can I help you?" I ask rudely. It doesn't matter because he was rude to me when bumped into him on accident. So I have every right to be mean to him.

"Whoa don't get your panties in a twist! I am here to pick you up."

What? Why is he here. I don't even know him!

"What do you mean your picking me up? I don't know you, therefore why should I get into a vehicle with you?"

"I'm Harry. Harry Styles. I'm your ride to the bonfire. Now let's go before I change my mind." Though he was being pretty rude about it, I was glad he was picking me up instead of Luke. My encounter with him the today has still got me weirded out.

"Uhm, earth to Merideth. We need to leave grab your stuff and let's go." I must have been to into thought that I didn't realize I was wasting time.

We start walking to his car, when something dings in my head. How did he know my name. I certainly didn't tell him.

I stop dead in my tracks.

"What now?" he says with annoyance.

"How did you know my name?"

"Well we are in the same class."

Okay that explains it, I never thought he would remember my name. Maybe I'm being a bit to cautious.

We arrive to his car and he unlocks the door and we both get in.

As we are going down the road a million questions come to mind. I mean since we aren't listening to music I might as well ask them.

"So...Harry, What is this bonfire all about?" I try to say all cheery.

"Well...Merideth, it is suppose to kick off this year, they do it every year" he says calmly.

"Oh fun. How do you know luke?" Did I seriously ask that.

"We go back. I don't want to talk about it."

"I agree...." One more question. One more.

"Looks like we are here." Damn it. That was not a long car ride for what I was hoping.

"Wait Harry, can I ask you one more question?" Please say YES.

"Sure..."

"Why do you always stare at me in class?" I ask calmly

"Looks like they are about to light the fire." What the hell he just dodged my question.

If dodging my question wasn't bad enough he just got out the car and left me. Like what the actual hell.

So I just followed and got out of the car.

As I approached the fire they have yet to light it, me and Harry went our sperate ways. I spotted Paige only because she is pretty much the only girl with big brown curls. Luke was standing right next her. Shit.

"Hey!" She greeted with a huge smile.

"HI!" I said mutually.

She turned her and told Luke something and a couple of seconds later he walked away.

"What did you say to him,?"

"I told him to go get us drink. So we can talk." She said with a huge smile on her face. She was always happy.

"So how was the ride with Harry?" She said with a wink.

"Umm boring, he's quite rude isn't he?" I admitted.

"Oh yeah, that's Harry for you." She chuckled

"Why didn't you and Luke pick me up as planned anyway?" I question

"I thought you would like a new friend. Or..." before she can finish I interupt her.

"Or you were setting me up?" I say with an eye roll.

"Actually if you would let me finish, I was gonna say that he owed Luke a favor and we had already arrived and forgot we were gonna ride together. So be thankful." Well that was rude.

"Sorry, what favor did he do for Luke?" maybe, just maybe she will tell me.

"Just a favor. Don't worry about it." Before I could say anything Luke was back.

Great.

"Hey Merideth. Nice to see you here." God he is revolting. Yes he was so good looking but he makes me so uncomfortable.

"Hello." I say blankly.

I zone out during the rest of the conversation and glance around the small clearing we are gathered in.

Then I spot Harry. Staring dead at me. I would think he was a creep if he wasn't so...so whats the word I am looking for...hot? No that seems to weird he has something about him that is hard to just look away.

I peel my eyes away when I notice that someone was carrying a stick lit with fire. That's when someone threw it in the pit and it lit and it all went up in flames.

It was beautiful.

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A couple hours pass by and Harry hadn't looked over at me in a while. Paige was sucking faces with Luke. Thank god. I had a red cup in my hand and everyone was dancing like mad animals around the fire, the lame pop music was extremely loud, but sadly the night was coming to an end.

Everyone was leaving and before I could get Paige and Luke's atention someone grabbed my wrist and spun me around.

A guy.

I don't know this person. he had short hair and he was pretty tall and had a letter man jacket on and reeked of alcohol.

"Where do you think you are going, sweety?" Oh my god what the hell is happening?

"Why does it matter to you? Let go of me." I hadn't notice the death grip he had on my arm.

"Not till you give me a kiss. Those shorts look sexy on you, how about we take the off instead? What diya say, freshie." On the last word he breathed it out and his cold breath smelled so bad i thought I might vomit.

"No! let go." He started to lean in but I screamed HELP at the top of my lungs.

He put his hand over my mouth and layed me down. Why the hell did I agree to come to this party in the first place?

I started squirming when he put all of his weight on me.

"Stop squirming. I need you right now." What? He doesn't even know me.

All I could do was close my eyes. I gave up.

He started kissing my face, all over.

Why me? What did I do to deserve this?

Before I started to pass out my eyes shot open at the fact the boy was no longer on me. He was running away.

Then another figure was standing over me.

I touched my face and hadn't realized I was crying.

"Harry?" I sobbed.

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