CHAPTER TWELVE
Anna’s Point-of-View
My heart was beating so fast that I can’t even keep up with it. I knew I wasn’t dreaming. I wasn’t imagining things anymore. My ears weren’t deceiving my, though I wished they were. Harry told me, and I quote, that he was ‘FALLING FOR ME’.
‘This cannot be happening.’ I thought to myself.
“Say something.” His voice called out.
What the hell am I going to say? Honestly, I didn’t know what to say to him. He can’t expect me to jump into his arms and tell him that I feel the same way because I’m not. I don’t feel the same way. At least that what I think…
“Anna…” he said, faintly.
I looked at him. His smile was hopeful as well as his eyes.
He sighed, “I’ve been feeling that way towards you for months now. At first… I just didn’t mind it. I thought it would just go away in its own but… then every little thing you do, I started to notice it. Every little part of you, your lips, your eyes, your hair, I started to notice it. And on my birthday… breaking up with Taylor made me realize that the feelings I have for you was something real. It was real and it was true. I tried to deny it. But as much as I wanted for it to go away, it kept getting stronger and stronger. I never knew that my feelings would show the way it did. Niall asking you out, if a guy’s near you or touching you… it makes me so mad because… I knew I wouldn’t have the guts to do that to you. That’s why my temper, the fights we’re having, and hooking up Kendall, I thought of doing all of those things because I hoped that they would make my feelings go away.”
He stood up and grabbed my arms, “But I guess, it only made… my feelings… STRONGER.”
I looked down, hoping to avoid Harry’s piercing stare. He gently grabbed my chin and made me look at him.
“Look, I don’t expect you to feel the same way but… this has been eating me alive and I want you to understand why I’ve been acting like this. I won’t force you.”
I feel so stupid for not speaking. I feel as if I’m such an idiot for not talking. I feel useless. I feel… heartless.
“But I am not gonna stop showing you how I feel. I’m not going to deny any of this anymore. I’m going to take the fall.” He pulled me into a hug.
No words dared to come out of my mouth. It’s like I was restrained from talking. My lips was frozen along with my body.
“Anna, I love-“
“NO!!!” I screamed, jolting up.
“Woah! Woah! Anna, wake up. Everything’s fine!” I looked up to see that Zayn was by my side.
“What- what happened? Why am I-“
“I was going down the stairs when you started screaming.”
I looked around to see that I was still in the kitchen. There was a bit of light coming from the outside. The sun was starting to rise. I turned back at Zayn, he was wearing his jersey shorts and a white shirt.
“What are you doing down here?” he asked.
“I… uh… woke up in the middle of the night. So I went down to make tea.” I looked down at my cup. There laid Perrie’s phone beside it. And I was seating in the same seat before-
“It was just a dream.”, I thought.
“Are you alright?” Zayn took a stool and sat next to me.
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Fanfiction"I never understood what love was really like but I felt for the first time looking in your eyes." "So now you're just quoting one of your songs." She crossed her arms and leaned on her, now, smoking and half burning car. "I don't have to quote it...
