Stalker

Chapter Ten

The past two weeks have been a blur; my time spent in my room painting. Brushes were sprawled across the floor haphazardly and my pants looked as though a rainbow puked on them. My hair gave off the impression that I haven’t showered in days and I pretty much smell like paint.

And all of that was because of last Monday, no wonder I never liked that particular day. The previous week, on Monday, I had returned back to my friend’s house just after work. She had one of her friends over which took interest in my drawings and has requested a few of my paintings to present in his elder brother’s upcoming gala. His pleading eyes and my friend’s puppy-face made it hard to turn him down, so as you see, I’ve been working on the drawings ever since. The stipulated short time was no advantage; I tried my best to make the drawings flawless in such a few weeks.

Even though the gala isn’t until next week, the drawings should be submitted by the next few days. I’ve come to learn the arts of doing a messy bun over the weeks not bothering to style my hair everyday since it’ll end up frizzy from working too much.

I haven’t heard from Harry during these past few weeks but it seems as though he has a lot on his plate recently. I haven’t seen him once not smoking or sighing; his face always contorted into one of tiresome and exhaustion. I stumbled across his mother a couple of times and his grandfather as well but never him.

“Dinner’s ready!” My mum announced from downstairs.

Tonight, we had Steve over. The man has never shown any signs of disrespect and impudence around me but I was never comfortable with him around. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m still not used to my mother hiding things from me or thinking that she’d want him to replace my father, but I couldn’t help but feel annoyed with his presence.

I left all the equipment behind and went down the stairs. My mum was pouring wine in both her and Steve’s glasses while orange juice was already in mine. Not that I was a big drinker anyways, I’ve actually never had a drink before.

I took a seat on the table and ate in silence while mum and Steve were discussing something that had to do with Antiseptics.

“Mum I think I might head out after dinner, just for a small walk.” I mumbled still chewing my food.

“Take care though, I heard there’s been a lot of kidnapping around lately.” I nodded at her a proceeded eating my food.

After dinner was over I wore my rainboots and was clad in a coat, and then headed outside. The soft breeze of wind made my hair head backwards as I wrapped my arms tightly around myself preventing the cold from taking over.

Midway through my walk I spotted a lean figure walking not so far away from me with a lit cigarette in one hand and a phone in the other. He was clad in a pair of blue jeans and a sweater with a beanie covering his ears. Harry I pondered whether to go ahead and talk to him or let him be.

But before I could think, my feet carried me over to where he was now leaning puffing out smoke. “Hey there.” I greeted before covering my face again with the neck of my coat. He looked at me skeptically before a small grin broke into his features, “Hi.” He spoke effortlessly tilting his head to the side with a smile.

“What are you doing out in the cold?” He asked throwing his cigarette on the floor and stepping over it with his boot.

“Taking a walk, I got bored I guess.” I shrugged.

“Taking a walk in this cold? Who the hell does that?”

“Oh yeah? What’s your excuse?” I questioned, eyebrows raised.

“Same thing.” He laughed.

I pouted slapping his arm playfully. “You’re a jerk you know that?”

“Eh, been called worse.”

I stuck my tongue out and preceded my walk leaving him behind. Soon enough, he was by my side laughing, “Aw don’t be like that Pazzy.” He cooed poking my rib.

“Go away.” I giggled swatting his arm.

“Would I be a jerk if I got you some coffee in this cold?” He asked finding the situation amusing.

“If you did, I’d let you off the hook this time.” I smiled looking up at him.

“It’s a deal then!”

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