Give Me Love

Drinking Problems - Part 5

When Harry first opens his eyes he forgets where he is for a second. When he opens his eyes all the way he remembers, Haley invited me over and we passed out. He starts to lift his body off of the very uncomfortable floor but a sudden bang on her door makes him freeze. 

"Haley wake up right now we need to talk!" Says a very angry masculine voice from the other side of the door. Shit. Harry thought to himself. "Haley I mean it right now!" Harry starts to panic not knowing what to do so he throws a pillow at Haley to wake her up. "Hey, what the hell I was sleeping." Haley says rolling over to face the source of her rude awakening. 

"Crap I forgot you slept here." Harry rushes towards her and puts his hand over her mouth shushing her. She looks at him confused but then she hears the loud knocking on her door and the voice of her father. Her eyes grow wide and Harry removes his hand. "What do I do, he sounds like he's getting really impatient out there." Harry says in a whisper. Haley motions towards the window. Harry walks over and as he's about to open it and jump out he sees an older looking woman in the garden right below Haley's window. He turns around and sees Haley heading for her door. He does the first thing he can think of and goes into the closest thing near him to hide. Her closet. He pushes himself in between some of her clothes and stays quiet. Wow it smells really good in  here, I wonder what laundry soap shes uses? Harry thinks to himself. 

Haley places her hand on her door and opens it staring into the eyes of her irritated father. Curse my cousins for being such bitches. She thinks as she lets her dad walk into her room and then shuts the door behind him. 

"Have a good time last night?" Zayn asks her crossing his arms over his chest. He couldn't believe what Tess and Debbie told him this morning when he woke up. His baby girl got drunk? She was always such a good kid and for the most part followed his rules. He has good reason for not wanting her to drink, especially out side of the house. She doesn't remember to much about the home she was in before Zayn saved her, but when he took her in he hired a private investigator and learned as much about her past as possible. One of the things he learned was that her birth mum had a big drinking problem. She was an alcoholic that loved getting drunk more then her daughter. He was scared that his princess would turn out the same. So yes some of his rules were strict, but it's for her own good. 

"Dad let me explain, please." Haley says trying to calm down her father. "What is there to explain, you went behind my back and broke the rules, I don't want you drinking Haley it's dangerous." He was starting to get emotional but he held is tears back. He loved his daughter more then anything in this world, he just wants to keep her safe, but now Haley was starting to get mad. Harry is trying his best not to be rude and listen, but it was hard not to. 

"Dangerous, how is anything that I did last night dangerous, yes I drank a little I had fun, I wasn't in danger I was with people I trusted and I didn't drive home."  Zayn starts passing back and forth in the room. " A little Haley, really, your cousins told me you were flat out drunk, you have a hangover right now don't you?" Zayn says walking towards her and resting his hands on her forehead. "Ya, so?" Haley says feeling her head pounding. "Then you drank more then a little, and as far as you being with people you trusted, they told me Louis left, and then they left, you should have left with them,don't get me wrong the guys of One Direction are nice guys, but you just met them Haley how do you know that you can trust them?" Ouch, Harry thinks to himself. 

Both Zayn and Haley calm down a little. "I'm sorry I upset you dad, I was just trying to have fun, I didn't think it would be that big of deal."They both sit down on her bed and he grabs her hands and looks her in the eyes. "Honey, if you want to drink,just please do it here were you're around people who love you and who can watch you to make sure you don't drink to much." He pauses and debates if he should tell her, he decides it's a good idea. " I don't want you to turn out like your birth mom." Haley's heart starts to beat fast at the mention of her. "What do you mean dad?" A tear falls down her cheek, she hates how much anxiety she gets just from talking about her old life. "My dear princess don't cry." Zayn says and wraps her in a hug placing his chin on the top of her head as he says the next part. " You're birth mom was an alcoholic, she couldn't control herself around alcohol, and she did terrible things to you while she was drunk, I just don't want the same thing to happen to my little girl." 

Haley shakes her head and lets go of her dad and looks up at him. "How do you know this?" She asks, she feels so confused and has so many questions. " When I first found you, I hired someone to look into your past, so I actually know a lot of things,  that you can't remember because you were so young. If you ever want to know more you can just ask me, your 18 now, so you deserve to know."  She shakes her head OK and then scoots back, she's a little shocked that her dad has been hiding so much from her. She's not ready to hear everything just yet. "OK, well I need to go finish getting ready for a meeting, so I'll see you when I get home." She just nods her head again. "I love you princesses, when I get back we can talk more if that's what you want." He leans over and gives her a kiss on the top of her head. "I love you too dad." He hugs her one more time and then leaves to go get dressed. 

Haley walks over to the other side of her bed and sits on the ground leaning her back against her bed and places her head in her hands. There is so much running through her mind now. She new she came from a bad place, but for the most part she was in the dark about what happened. When she had panic attacks from things triggering her, she didn't know why these specific things upset her so much, It just kind of happens. It's like her body remembers what she went through but her mind is blank for some reason. 

The sound of her closet door slowly opening interrupts her train of thought. She looks up a little bit and sees a pair of boots walking towards her. Harry was still here? Crap that means he heard everything. She doesn't say anything and just sets her head back down. Harry slides down next to her and doesn't say anything either. He doesn't know what to say or how to process everything. 

He builds up his courage, takes a deep breath and finally speaks. "I know you don't know me very well, like your dad said, but I had a lot of fun with you last night, and I would like to get to know you, so, if you need anything I'm here for you." He plays with his fingers nervously,not sure how she'd react. 

Haley appreciated the friendly jester, and even though she just learned something terrible, she couldn't deny that she had a really fun time with him last night, remembering how they both drunkenly stumbled into her room last night through her window so no one would see Harry and they both tripped on the window seal looking like idiots. She giggled a little. This causes Harry to smile, she has a beautiful laugh, he thought to himself. "What's so funny?" He asked. Haley shook her head and then set it on his shoulder. "Nothing, just, please hold me." She says. Harry doesn't waste a second and wraps his arms around her, resting his head on hers. She breathes in his cologne and relaxes into his arms. "You smell really good." She says causing him to smirk. "Speaking of things that smell good, while I was hiding in your closet like the ninja that I am, I couldn't help but notice how good your clothes smell, what kind of laundry soap do you use?" He says trying to lighten the mood and get her to laugh again. It worked she started laughing into his chest. "If you really must know, it honey vanilla scented." She says. "Why thank you love." 

They sit there for another 30 minutes talking about random stuff and asking each other a lot of questions so they know each other better and exchanging phone numbers, but then they both agree that it's time for Harry to leave, before someone comes up and sees him in her room. They says their goodbyes and Harry leaves out of the window. As Haley is watching Harry walk down the street she can't help but smile and think about how this could be the beginning of something great.