The Way You Look at Me (Zoella x Harry Styles)

Chapter 9

Chloe's POV

"Let's head down town and rent some movies." I grab Alfie by his wrist pulling him up from his black leather couch. 

"Fine, but I'm choosing. I'm not sitting through another chick flick this time." He groans following me out the door.

"How much food do you need. You’re going to get fat." I scold Alfie for walking out of the movie rental store with, popcorn,  malteasers, jellies,  coke and marshmallows.

"Excuse you. I will not" He says placing a jelly on his tongue. 

"You will, and then I get to say I told yo-" I am cut of by Alfies swears.

"You have to fucking kidding me." He snaps. I look to the direction he is staring. 

It's Zoe. Accompanied by none other than a beaten and bruised Harry Styles and one of his friends.

"I thought she told us she was going home." Afie pouted.

"Well she obviously changed her mind. Come on let's just go back to your house. Please?" I plea.

"No, not yet. Where are they going?" 

"I don't know. I'm not psychic nor can I read minds." I fold my arms getting annoyed at him.

"You're just being jealous." I say. 

"Of course I'm jealous! I'm going to find out where they're going." He goes to take a step forward. I grab his arm to stop him.

"You're carrying so much food, they will see you and she will be even more pissed at you then she already is. Alfie it's a terrible idea." I try to make him understand that stalking her will do no good.

"Fine." He gives in.

 "Good. Just try not to think about it okay? She will forgive you by tomorrow. We both know it ." 

We start our walk back to his house, bags and hands full of sweets and drinks. I delay our walk only once, when we have to stop to pick up a few of our bought goods. As the cheap plastic bag rips allowing them to fall to the pavement.  

***

We lay out all the sweets on Alfie's coffee table in his sitting room and we are just about to watch one of the movies that we bought, when we were inturupted. Alfie's mother has come home early from work. 

"Mum, you're home early." Alfie lets his mother in.

"Yeah I'm having some people from work over for dinner, I'm sorry sweetie but I need you out of the house for like two, three hours maybe." Mrs Deyes rushes passed checking her relfection in the mirror making sure everything is in order. She walks as fast as she can in her black high heels to the kitchen.

"What are we supposed to do then?" Alfie ask's obviously upset with his mother.

"Eh, You can go to Chloe's, Zoe's Louise's.  Or that Carnival that is on down the road. Anywhere but - Clean that up" She points a finger to the mess of sweets in the room oppisite.

"I'm sorry I know it is not fair of me to do this, but I have no choice. Should I cook the food or order in? You know what there's no time to cook it." She pulls out her mobile phone and dials a number I assume is a resturant. 

"So where are we going?" Alfie ask's me after we had tidied away the un eaten junk food we had left out. "Well, to that carnival of course. There's not one here everday." I smile. 

Harry's POV: 

Zoe is slowly eating a stick full of fluffy candy floss. The smile on her face is telling me that she doesn't go to these things much. What does she do with her life? Sit in studying all day, because that's what it seems like to me. 

"Okay, who wants to go on the ferris wheel!?" She squeals.

"No. Not a chance." Luke and I say in unison.

"Please, I've never been on one." She frowns.

"Fuck, fine. God you're annoying." I run my hand through my hair and I turn to look at Luke.

"Sorry man, you're on your own. If you need me I'll be at the shooting games." If looks could kill Luke would be lying lifeless on the floor right now, with the glare I am giving him as he walks away.

Zoe runs up to a bin and drops what is left of her candy floss in to the can.

"I can't believe I'm doing this shit." I shake my head. "Yeah, well. You'll get over it." A smug smile fights her lips. I can't help but smile too.

We hand our money over to they bald guy behind the ticket booth. He slides the tickets over to us. Zoe happily takes her seat in the ferris wheel. I follow taking the seat beside her. I pull the bar over our heads to hold us in. The ride starts and we are gradually gaining height. 

"Wow" Her mouth drops in awe as she takes in the light of the carnival rides and of the town this high up.

"This is beautiful." She says. I'm looking straight at her. She finds the simplest things amusing.

"Yeah, it is." Is all I say. Her head turns to look at me the light from the rides catch her eyes making them sparkle. She looks amazingly pretty right now. Scrap that she looks hot. I hate that I'm even thinking this. I can have any girl that I want, but I have to start caring for the one that's off limits. She belonged to Alfie the second she moved to this town. 

I remember seeing her on her first day in our school, she came in and made friends with Alfie fucking Deyes imeditatly. I've aways hated Alfie just for the fact that he is filthy rich, and I am no where close to having a tenth of the money he has. I've had to work along with my Mum for years to try and help her keep the shit hole of a house we have.  Zoe never even noticed me until that day she crashed into me in the shopping center. She is too inlove with Alfie to notice anyone else. The only reason she's even talking to me is because of that damn tutor class. I never really minded that she never talked to me before but now I do. 

"Why are you friends with me Sugg?" The words are out before I think them through.

"Why do you want to know?" She asks confused.

"I- I don't know, just that... I thought maybe the only reason you were hanging out with me was because of that tutoring shit." I look away. She starts to laugh at me. Great. I look even more stupid to her.

"No, that's not why I hang around you Harry. You're different from my friends. You're fun to be around you don't make me feel like I have to be perfect all the time." She smiles.

"Perfect? How do you pull off being perfect? You're far from it" I tease and she swatts my arm with her hand. 

Alfie's POV:

I hand Chloe over a stuffed turtle I have just won at one of these carnival games.

"I don’t want it, you keep it" I tell her as she tried to hand it back to me.

"Thanks Al, he's cute" She laughs.

"Hey isn't that, the guy. That guy whos friends with Harry?" Chloe's hand is out stretched pointing to the boy that was walking beside Zoe and Harry earlier. 

"Yeah. Does that mean they're here?" My stomach drops. Of course he would take her here.

"Why is he on his own" Chloe furrowed her eye brows looking at the boy. I pull at Chloe's wrists dragging her along.

"She's with him somewhere."

I see a giggling Zoe step off the ferris wheel with Harry at her side. They are talking about something I don't care what but I'm going to talk to Zoe anyway.  I freeze in my tracks when Zoe's arms wrap around Harry's neck and she pulls him in for a hug.

"You know what. I've changed my mind let's go home. I'd say the two hours are up by now." I say my voice catching on the end. I don't know why I feel so horrible. It was just a hug right? It means nothing. Zoe is my girl and will always be my girl.