Smooth Criminal - Styles - Completed

chapter 23

As we silently drive back ‘home’, I try to progress everything that has been said in the last few hours. My… mother and I had an actual conversation and we decided to see each other some time. This is what I’ve been waiting for my whole life, but it doesn’t feel like I had expected to at all. I don’t what I had expected all these years. I thought we would hug and cry and I would meet my biological father. Maybe I would have brothers or sisters. It’s not like I’m disappointed, not at all, I just didn’t expect this. ‘’Thank you, Harry.’’ I look at Harry who’s focussing on the road. ‘’You’re welcome.’’ He briefly smiles at me.

I don’t know if I’m still mad at Harry, but I want to be. That sounds weird, doesn’t it? Anyway, I want to be mad at Harry because he has been lying to me this whole time. From the moment we ‘met’. He put all these microphones in my room and he had people following me, every step I took. ‘’Harry, why me?’’    

‘’What do you mean?’’ He asks, he sounds nervous. ‘’Why did you… choose me? Like, why not someone a guy or a man who could have actually protected you?’’ This question has been running through my mind from the moment I found out about all of this… whatever all of this is. ‘’You were the only one in the park.’’  A part of me hoped that it wasn't just a coincidence, that he wanted to stay with me. ‘’Were to policemen real? Or were they actors or something?’’ Harry chuckles and I feel like he’s laughing at me while I’m being very serious. I want answer, he owes me answers. ‘’They were real, they didn’t know I’m undercover. That’s why it was all over the news.’’      

‘’I thought that only happened in movies.’’ I chuckle and open my window. ‘’Do you regret hiding me?’’     

‘’No, not at all.’’ I try to smile at him, but something stops me. Even though I want to be mad at Harry, I want him to like me the way I like him. I want him to tell me that those kisses did mean things, that it weren’t just a few kisses. ‘’And I kind of already knew who you fathers were that night on your piano.’’ He mumbles. ‘’I figured as much.’’ I laugh. We pull up the driveway and get out of the car. ‘’It’s so fucking hot, we just got out of the snow.’’ I mumble as Harry opens the front door. ‘’I know right.’’ He laughs and lets me in first.

There’s loud laughing from upstairs and I hear Harry chuckle behind me. ‘’That’s probably Niall.’’ I like Niall, he’s always laughing and smiling... unlike Louis. ‘’I’m going to put on something comfortable, I’ll right back.’’ I inform Harry and walk up the stairs. I hear that the laughing is coming from my room and see that the door is open. ‘’What are you doing?’’ I ask Niall and Zayn who are crying from laughing. Then I realize they are wearing my lingerie over their own clothes. ‘’Oh shit.’’ Niall mumbles. ‘’Busted.’’ Zayn adds to it before they both start laughing like complete idiots again. ‘’Aren’t you a little too old for this, oh my god.’’ I try not to laugh and shut the drawer with my lingerie in it.

‘’We thought you wouldn’t be back for a while.’’ Zayn laughs. They don’t bother to take off the fabrics. Instead, they open my balcony doors and call for Harry. I can hear him laughing from downstairs and can’t help but laugh too. ‘’Get out, I need to change.’’ I push them out of my room and change clothes before going back downstairs. Niall is still laughing while Zayn is ‘normal’ again.

‘’Would you like to go out for dinner tonight, with all of us? For your birthday.’’ Harry asks me, opening a beer and giving me one. ‘’Louis too?’’ I groan. ‘’Yes, Louis too. Believe me, he’s not that bad.’’ Harry tries to convince me. ‘’He’s an asshole.’’ I mumble and take a sip of my beer. ‘’But do you?’’     

‘’Yeah, sure.’’

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‘’ ‘Morning.’’ Liam smiles at me as I join him at the table in the backyard. All the others had a little too much to drink yesterday, so I guess they are still asleep. ‘’ ‘Morning.’’ I smile back at him and fill a mug with coffee. ‘’You liked your birthday?’’ Liam asks me, starting a conversation. Last night Liam and I had a nice conversation, serious but funny. I guess the only person I still don’t like, at all, is Louis. ‘’Yes, it was great.’’ I nod with a smile.