Half A Heart (A Selena Gomez/Harry Styles Fanfic)

Prologue

Harry and I, were inseparable. We would do everything together and even though our classmates teased us to no ends, we would still hang out. We would have sleepovers, watch movies till midnight and even get in trouble with each other! Everything we did, was together. Our friendship was perfect. Obviously, him and I would have little squabbles sometimes but we would always make up by the next day. Today was his twelfth birthday and I had planned out a surprise birthday party for him to make up for what I was going to tell him tomorrow. I frowned while thinking about it since I knew that it would break him since it already broke me, but I knew that if I wanted to act and become an actress like I had always dreamed of, I had to move to the United States of America. Obviously, since I was born and raised in Holmes Chapel it would be a huge change, but I guess I had to suck it up. 

As I walked over to his house to pick him up so his mum could prepare for the party, I sighed. Why couldn’t I just bring Harry with me? I had been thinking about it for awhile, but I knew that both of our parents would oppose. My mum also kept telling me that I was only twelve and that I would make much better girl friends as I grew up and Harry and I would eventually grow apart anyways. I hated to think that, but in my mind I knew it was true. When I finally got to his house I knocked on the door waiting for either he, his mum, or Gemma to open the door for me. Little did I notice that while thinking about my move to Texas, I had started tearing up. I did notice right before the door opened, but I was too late.  I tried wiping all the tears off before the door fully opened but Harry’s mum noticed right away. 

“Oh, darling! What happened? Come inside dear, I’ll fix ya up a cup of tea or something. I’ll get you some biscuits too,” she said as she engulfed me in a hug. When she did that, all my emotions that were already built up reached its climax and I started crying harder. She then patted my head and lead me to the couch while she prepared some biscuits for me to eat. 

“Here darling, eat up! Now what happened? I’ve never seen you more upset before in your life!” she frowned as she put her arm around me and looked at me sadly. 

“I…I’m going to move to Texas soon. For my acting career, and I’ll just miss Harry so badly! He’s my best friend and how will I do all the fun stuff that we do alone? In a whole new place?” I sobbed into her shoulder. I hadn’t told anyone about this so she looked really surprised since she usually knew everything about me since she was like a second mum to me. Also because my mum was really good friends with her as well. 

 I then heard a crash and a clatter. I quickly turned around to see a very angry looking Harry. I had never seen my best friend this angry before so it did scare me a bit. 

“What? You’re moving to Texas and you didn’t tell me?” he yelled with a hint of sadness in his voice as he glared at me. “We’re best friends! You’re supposed to tell me about this Sel! When are you even leaving? Were you even going to tell me?” 

“Harry…I’m sorry! It’s just that I didn’t want to ruin your birth week as you call it! I was going to tell you tomorrow!” I frowned as tears spilled out of my eyes. 

“Yeah? So? When are you leaving Sel? If you say the day after tomorrow or something I will never, ever forgive you!” he screamed as he kicked the wall next to him. 

“Next month Harry…so we can have the most fun for the next two weeks!” I said, trying to smile to lighten up the mood a bit. I failed though and started crying again. His mum just held me in her arms whispering things in my ear like, “don’t worry honey” and “stop crying darling”. 

“We o-only have two weeks? Sel! You broke your promise! We promised each other that we would be in Holmes Chapel forever, you and I best friends forever. That we would attend each others weddings and that our kids would be best friends like us! We PROMISED each other! Did that mean nothing to you since we're only eleven? Well I meant every word I said, but you obviously didn’t! Bye Selena. Don’t talk to me, don’t call me. Our friendship is over,” he yelled with pure anger in his voice. He then grabbed his coat and ran out the door. 

I quickly stood up the minute he opened the door and chased after him while I called his name. “Harry! Harry! Wait! Hear me out! Please! I don’t want to go either, but I want to pursue my dreams and I just can’t do that in England! Harry!” I kept running and running until I finally caught up to him when he stopped to take a breath and then grabbed his arm. 

“What Selena? What else is there to say?” he whispered as he looked in to my eyes. We were both crying by then so I just hugged him like there would be no tomorrow and said, “We will be best friends forever. Today, tomorrow, forever and always. I might move, but I’ll come visit, you can come visit. We can send letters to each other, it’ll be perfect. Our friendship will never break. No matter how old we get and maybe, if I make it big you’ll see me on the big screen!” 

He then laughed a little and hugged me back and said, “You promise? Today, tomorrow, forever and always?” I giggled and then held my pinky finger out and said, “I swear on my life!” 

After that day, we had all the fun that we could possibly have in two weeks. We went camping, we went stargazing, we built forts in his house, we hung out in our tree house, it was perfect until the day of my move had come. 

I frowned as I packed the last of my things in my backpack since today was the day that I was going to fly over with my mum to Texas. There, I would get my acting lessons and also have my very first audition. It was a Barney audition and when I told Harry he laughed till his stomach hurt, but I knew that this was going to be the first step into stardom. I zipped up my backpack and then left my now empty room with a tear going down my face as I walked down the stairs to the car. 

“Harry!” I smiled as I saw him there with a bag in his hands infront of the taxi. 

“Here Sel, open it when your on the plane. I’ll miss you!” he smiled. His dimples were just too cute! 

 “Thanks Har! I’ll miss you too. Remember to write me, or email me! Maybe technology will advance even more and we’ll get to do more!” I giggled as I hugged him. I then kissed him on the cheek and ran off before he could see even more tears go down my face. 

A few hours later when I was on the plane, I got the little bag out that Harry had given me and opened it. There, I saw the cutest necklace I had ever seen. It was a paper plane necklace with words engraved on it. When I looked closely it said, "Best Friends Today, Tomorrow, Forever & Always" I then started crying all over again and then whispered to myself. 

'I promise Harry, I promise. Today, tomorrow, forever and always'