The Lines Between || Harry Styles [ENDED]

Chapter 9

I was awoken by the loud ringing of my phone on my nightstand. I chose to ignore it; hoping that whoever it was would get the point. Apparently, they didn’t because just seconds after the rings stopped, it began ringing again. I grunted loudly, and slowly rolled over to the other side of the bed, reaching to grab my phone. The caller ID was Harry, great just what I needed at who knows how early in the morning.

“Harry, It’s really ea-“Before I could finish Harry cut me off.

“Sorry, I just, I had an idea. I was worried I’d forget if I waited till later to call you. ” Harry was talking really fast, I couldn’t tell if he was excited or nervous.

“Hold on.” I mumbled. I looked at the time on my phone, it was 2:08 AM. “Harry, you know it’s like two in the morning, what could be so important?” I laughed softly, still waking up.

“Well, I was thinking… We don’t really know anything about each other and I thought if we are going to be pretending to date, then we have to know at least a little bit about each other, you know?” Harry replied, still extremely talking fast.

“Go on.” I answered, curious as to what exactly he meant. It sounded like he was trying to ask me to hang out with him. I really was hoping he was. It was obvious we both had slight feelings for each other, despite the fact that we were supposed to be faking it. We just never actually hung out with each other. Three nights ago with Kate, and everyone was literally the only time I had hung out for fun with Harry outside of school.

Harry cleared his throat “Maybe, Um, I don’t know maybe if you want to hang out today?” He asked, the tone in his voice made it was a statement more than a question.

“Yeah, sounds fun.” I replied, “But only on one condition.” I smirked.

“And what would that be, Mrs. Lauren?” Harry joked in a formal tone.

“No truth or dare.” I laughed, and Harry did too. I made it kind of obvious that I hated truth or dare. That entire night I kept implying it.

“You have a deal. See you in um maybe an hour?” Harry asked.

“Sure, see you in an hour.” I answered, ending the call. I quickly got out of bed and rushed to my closet to find something to wear, I was much more awake now. I never took that long to get ready, I quickly through on an old band t-shirt and some jean shorts, tieing my hair up in a messy bun and rushing out the door.

We had both been sitting in Harry’s living room for over 5 minutes and neither of us had talked once. “Go ahead” I said, breaking the silence.

“What?” Harry looked up at me, raising an eyebrow.

“Go ahead. You wanted to know more about me. So, go ahead and ask me something.” I laughed.

“Oh, um, how many siblings do you have?” Harry replied.

“Oh come on, Harold! You can do better than that.” I joked, nudging him on the shoulder.

“Harold?” Harry said through laughs, “You’re not going to start calling me Harold, are you?”

“Well, I wasn’t planning on it but I guess now I pretty much have to, Harold.” I laughed. Harry rolled his eyes, but the small smirk on his face told me that he was actually enjoying it. “Now, give me a question. But this time a better question.”

“Ah, I can’t think of anything!” Harry laughed.

“Well then how do you suppose we get to know each other, Harold?” I tried to hold back my laughs every time I said Harold, I knew it was probably bothering him.

“Well how about this, we can take turns telling each other random facts.” Harry grinned, proud of the idea he came up with.

“Okay, um, my favorite color is green.” I replied.

“My parents are divorced.” Harry said.

“I have no pets.”

“I’m learning to play the guitar.”

“I actually know how to play the guitar.” I joked. We now were going at a fast speed. Leaving not even a short break between facts. We both stood up, and with every fact we said we both took a small step closer to each other.

“My birthday is in Febuary.”

“I don’t like Disney movies.”

“My middle name is Edward.”

“Spiders freak me out.”

 “My favorite colors are blue and orange.”

“My dad left when I was 9.” I said like it was a normal thing, it really wasn’t a tough topic to talk about for me. I was not all emotional about it like most people would have been. It seemed to have shocked Harry a lot though. There was a short silence. It was then I realized how close we actually were. Our faces were nearly inches apart. We both just stared into each other’s eyes for a moment.

“I’m uh, I’m really sorry, that happened to you.” Harry mumbled, without any emotion on his face. He wasn’t acting like he didn’t care, it just seemed like he was mainly paying attention to my lips. His eyes flickered between my lips and my eyes. “I really want to kiss you right now.” Harry whispered.

“Why don’t you?” I mumbled.

“I guess, I um…” Without saying anything else Harry pressed his lips against mine. At first, I was a little surprised, I didn’t expect him to actually kiss me. But he did, and I didn’t regret it at all. I kissed him back. Our lips moved in sync as Harry’s hand slowly made its way around my waist. I felt him smile through the kiss.

Before anything else could happen, Niall spoke up as from the doorway of the living room, “Ew, get a room, you two.”

“Niall! What are you doing here?” Harry asked, as we both quickly broke apart.

“Hmm. I don’t know? Maybe it could be because I live here too?” Niall laughed, as he walked past us and stretched out across the couch.

“Wait, how long were you standing there?” I asked, wondering if he had heard the thing about my dad leaving.

“Long enough to know that there was tongue involved.” Niall joked, reaching for the remote and turning on the TV. Niall almost made it seem like it was a normal thing. He really didn’t care. It seemed a little suspicious but I wasn’t going to mention to him his lack of questions. I really wouldn’t know how to answer any of them. I definetly had feelings for Harry and it was obvious he had feelings for me. But, I still wouldn’t know how to explain our relationship if someone asked. I knew Harry probably wouldn’t be able to either. It was just complicated.

Don't feel like editing, it's really late. So, I will probably just go back later and change some stuff. Leave comments! I want to know what you guys think! (: