You & I (Harry Styles)

// Chapter 4 //

Heeey guys! Sorry, havent updated in a while. Here's a filler chapter! Hope you like it :) ilyyy xx

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Harley’s P.O.V 

The sound of my phone ringing wakes me and I flutter my eyes open as I grab my phone from the bedside table.

“Hello?” I say into the receiver while rubbing my eyes, the bright morning sun shining into my room.

“Hey Harley! Did you just wake up?” Anna asks.

“Yeah. What’s up?” I ask still half asleep.

“Well I was wondering if you wanted to come to the beach today?” she says like a question.

Going to the beach doesn’t sound too bad, considering the weather today. She might be going with Brendon though and they’re gonna be all lovey-

“Hello? Earth to Harley?!” Anna practically screams into the receiver.

“Huh? Oh yeah, sorry. I’ll come, is Brendon coming?”

“Okay sweet. Yeah but he’s gonna be there later on ‘cause he has work until 2pm”   

“Alright cool, what time are you going to be here?” I ask, while taking out my tiffany blue triangl swimwear bikini and my outfit.

“Umm, about 11? Is that alright?”

“Yeah. See ya soon babe!” with that, I hang up and head to the bathroom to wash my face and brush my teeth.

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A knock on the front door downstairs interrupts me from changing into my outfit for the day. The knock keeps getting louder and louder.

“One minute!” I shout as loud as I can and the knock gets way more louder than the previous ones. I run down the stairs as fast as I can.

“I said one min-“ I start as I open the door but cut off when the person standing on the pavement is someone I thought I’d never see.

“J-Jacob, w-what are you doing here?” I ask the guy who I once called my brother.

“I came to see our parents. Didn’t they tell you?” he asks me as if I should’ve known.

“No. Anyway they’re upstairs, still sleeping. Just don’t break anything like you did last time okay.” I try to say in the nicest way possible, not wanting to make a scene.

I hear a car horn out the front and quickly run upstairs to grab my bag and my phone.

“Where you going?” Jacob asks as I come down the stairs.

“Beach with Anna” not making eye-contact with him.

“Who’s car is that?” Anna asks as we drive away, heading to the beach.

“Oh, Jacob.” I say and she gasps.

“As in…?”

“Yes.”

She decides to stay silent and turns the radio on.

*Flashback*  

The sound of glass breaking and screaming downstairs frightens me. Jacob, my brother was out drinking again and came home angry and drunk. I never know what makes him so angry, he just seems to love to break things when hes drunk or angry, both. Whatever.

“Jacob! Please, stop!” I hear my mother scream from downstairs, frighten clear in her voice but Jacob doesn’t listen, he just keeps breaking anything in sight.

I’m debating whether to go downstairs or not. I have a little hope that maybe I can stop my brother from destroying our house, but what do I know. I’m just a 15 year old girl.

I hear another glass break and exit my room. As I’m walking down the stairs, I can see that the living room is trashed; pieces of glass scattered everywhere, our family photo frames on the floor, everything is broken.

“Jacob! What are you doing? Please, stop!” Jacob stops for a second then throws the glass vase in his hands at me and the next thing I remember seeing is pitch black. Everything else after that I can’t remember at all, everything is a blur.

I find it so weird that I remember what happened before Jacob threw the glass at me and I blacked out but I don’t remember what happened after that.

*end of flashback*

“Harley! We’re here!” Anna says and we get out of the car and I realize that it’s the beach we always go to, ever since we were kids we would come here every summer.

We decide to get fish and chips then eat it by the sea. There was a little veranda where you could just relax and look out on the sea, it was beautiful.

Once we got our food, we walked to the large veranda and started eating as we picked a place to stand.

“This view is so beautiful!” Anna says like we have never been here before.

We put the box that our food was in, in the bin and sit on the veranda.

I feel something soft touch my shoulder and as I turned around, I saw that my bag fell into the water.

“Oh no! No, no, no, no”

I lock eyes with a swimmer and he dives into the water and as soon as I saw where he was going, I realized he was going to get my bag. I run to the sand and retrieve my bag from him.

I finally reach him and he hands me my bag.

“Thank you so much, you are a life saver.” I thank the man.

“Nah, don’t worry about it. It’s nothing really” He smiles and I return the smile.

“At least, let me get you a drink or something?” I ask, wanting to get to know him. He seems so different and unique to all the other guys I have met.

“Sure, I’d love that. Uh, what’s your name by the way?” he chuckles.

“Harley. What’s yours?”

“I’m Harry.”