Off The Ice

Chapter 20

(Warning: This chapter has explicit content and if you are uncomfortable reading such things then you should read up until they kiss. This is the only warning I will give. Happy reading. xx)

I freeze for a second. Harry's with Karly. Obviously he's having a good time which means he's not thinking as much about as I have been thinking about him. I fight my instincts telling me to stay in my car and open my door. Once I'm out of my vehicle, Harry recognizes me and his face drops. He leaves Karly's side and walks right up to me. "What the fuck are you doing here?" His eyes take in the glasses and I see a flicker of something in his eye.

"I would've called you but I don't have my phone."

"I would've ignored it anyway and that's not what I asked. What the fuck are you doing here?" He growls. I look back at Karly and she's waiting impatiently on the sidewalk. 

"I know you're lying."

"I'm going to need you to elaborate."

"I know you're lying to me. I know you don't really mean all that stuff you said to me, you just said it because you knew that's what I thought. You said what you knew would get me to leave and it worked. I want to know why. What the fuck is so bad that you have to hit me where it hurts just to keep me away?"

"Sutton, I can't have this conversation right now." He mutters, moving closer as he takes a small look back at Karly who is paying no attention to us.

"Sucks to suck because it's happening." I say, standing my ground. 

Looking back and forth between me and Karly once more, he groans and takes my arm in his firm grasp before he starts dragging me to the doors of his building. "Harry, where are you going?" Karly asks. "You know what will happen if you do this."

"Seriously Karly. Shut the fuck up." He snaps as he opens the door to the lobby. Once were in the security of his room he shuts the door and looks to me. "Why did you have to be so fucking smart and figure it out?" He mumbles. 

"Harry stop procrasinating and tell me what the hell is going on. Why did you lie to me? To protect me? I don't need protection, I can handle whatever it is." 

"I don't think you can."

"Why do you think so little of me? I'm not a baby." I say as the door unlocks. I expect his roommate, Niall, to come in the door, but it's Karly. "She has a key?"

"I wouldn't be so nasty to me considering I'm about to tell you what he won't. He's about to tell you something but I know he won't tell you all of it. And if you know a little you need to know it all. You don't want get any further into this whole mess than you already are. Harry, you're just making it worse." She says, shooting him a feisty look. "Harry and Hastings aren't as good of friends as they used to be."

"Yeah I know. He raped some girl."

"That's not all he did. On top of that, he also slept with Harry's sister before she left."

"Shut your fucking mouth Karly."

"And then when Harry found out he beat the shit out of Hastings."

"So? I would have too if I were in his shoes." I say, defending Harry's violent actions for some unknown reason.

"Harry was then arrested for assault. Fucking idiot beat him in a public place with bystanders who called the cops."

"You were arrested?!" I shout, looking back at Harry. He's fuming with anger. I can tell it's taking everything in him not to beat the shit out of Karly, right here and now. "Wait, how do you know all of this? Where do you come in?" I ask, turning my attention back to the high schooler that's telling me all of this information.