The warm breeze brushed against my skin as I stepped outside. The first week of the summer holiday’s had already passed. Surprisingly, I’d had no word from Harry at all. He’d promised to text me every day while he was away, but he never did. Harry Styles, my famous boyfriend. It's hard to believe, I know. We’d been together for six months. We knew there’d be difficulties to face with him being away from home so much. I never really thought about how bad these difficulties could be. He was part of the huge British/Irish boy band, One Direction. Every girl I knew had fallen head over heels for him and most were jealous that he loved me. On the other hand, I was just a small town girl, Bianca’s my name. I'll never understand how anybody could fall in love with a girl like me, but Harry did. We fell for each other. The first day Harry and I met was one of the best.
It had been an awfully long journey from Plymouth to Cheshire. To be precise, a whole 4 hours and 35 minutes in a stuffy car with obnoxiously loud 70’s music. I’d been asleep since the beginning of the journey due to my lack of sleep the night before. My mind was rushing with thoughts of what my new life would be like in Cheshire. I knew moving house was going to be a struggle because being the 'new girl' was never an enjoyable experience. Especially since I was starting a new school, the labelling of ‘new girl’ would follow me like a lingering rain cloud. Leaving my family and friends behind was fairly horrific too, all of them were sobbing when we left. I understand four and half hours doesn’t sound like much, but it’s not a cheap journey so we can’t visit a lot. I missed them already, that’s why I was so miserable.
“Bianca… Come on lazy, wake up.” My brother, Callum, patted my arm repeatedly. I stirred from my sleep and looked over at him. I'd have hit him twice as hard back for disturbing my peaceful sleep, but I stopped myself.
“Are we finally here?” I asked; feeling groggy from being woken up. He nodded at me with a small smile. I pushed myself up and looked out the car window. The sun poured down across the street covering the whole area in brightness. Our new house stood not far from the car, it was reasonably sized with quite a large front garden. Mum and dad were already unloading boxes from the boot of the car.
“Come on you two; help us get these in the house!” Mum shouted through the boot of the car. I groaned but didn’t complain and got out of the car. The first box I lifted felt incredibly heavy. Whatever was in it was sure to break my arms. I swayed slightly, this was the first time I’d stood up since we’d left our old house behind. I stepped onto the pavement and made my way to the house. Not paying any attention the pavement that was jutted out in front of me. Suddenly, I fell forward and the box slid out of my arms. I hadn’t managed to save myself in time and my body hit the pavement. I moaned at the pain down my left side. Cursing under my breath; I tried to slowly push myself up from the ground. A boy, whom at the time I did not recognize, came rushing over.
“Hey are you ok?” He had a deep, slightly husky sounding voice. Before I could respond he helped me up off the ground.
“Yeah, I’m fine. I’m a complete klutz!” I mumbled the last part mostly to myself, but I heard the boy chuckle. I looked at the box and to my delight everything seemed to have stayed inside of it. For the first time I looked at the boy and my breath caught in my throat. He was so beautiful. I mean, I couldn’t even explain his beauty. He had the most incredible green eyes that shone under the sunlight’s glare.
“My name’s Harry.” He gave me an adorable toothy grin, showing of his lovely teeth and dimples the size of ten pence pieces. God, could he get any more beautiful? He held out his hand for me to shake. It took me a moment to refocus.
“I’m B…Bianca.” I stuttered. Usually, I was the confident one but standing in front of Harry, I felt shy. Love shy; I thought to myself. Just after, I mentally scolded myself for having such ridiculous thoughts. I'd only just met him, being 'love shy' was most definitely not an option.
