A dream come true: Chapter 1

Chapter 8

I got about 3 hours of sleep last night. Too many things were on my mind.

I woke up at 7 am after I realized I wasn’t gonna get much more sleep, and I called Sydney to see if there was still a recording session today.

I really should tell her about the pictures before they come out in the news, but something tells me she already knows.

She doesn’t answer again so I just leave her a voicemail. I go turn on my T.V to E! news and well what do you know..

“Claudia and Harry? Acquaintances… with Benefits?!” I hear my TV say. Almost as if it was mocking me. It goes to the clip of my interview, where I say we’re acquaintances. Then it goes straight to the various pictures of us making out. Yay. I’m just annoyed at the press right now.

I realize there are 11 hours until I see Harry. Maybe I should try sleeping again, I don’t wanna wait that long.

With that I get a text from Sydney,

“Why aren’t you in the studio? Get here in 5. And we need to talk.”

Shit shit shit. Ugh why does life hate me.

I get ready in literally 30 seconds and rush to the studio. I wore ripped skinny jeans and a tanktop with toms. I really couldn’t dress up today.

As I get to the studio I can already see Sydneys’ pissed.

“What were you doing?” She asks me strictly. Well I guess she wasn’t my “bff Sydney” anymore.

“What girlfriends and boyfriends do.” I tell her with an attitude.

“Well did you guys discuss this with your managers?” She snaps back at me.

“We were going to. But we were put in a compromising postion. I have no idea what the press were doing there.” I say 100% honestly.

“Oh well you definitely were in a compromising position.” She basically just called me a slut. Nice.

“Hey. I was going to tell you. He said he’d want to be in a relationship with me, so we were kissing, that’s normal. Nobody was supposed to know yet.” She should understand this isn’t my fault.

“He wasn’t supposed to do that.” I hear her mutter under her breathe.

“Excuse me?” I say slightly confused.

“Nothing, you should have known better. Now go, you’re late.” She walks away impatiently.

I just get into the studio and begin working having nothing on my mind but what Harry was gonna tell me tonight. I had some questions that needed to be answered.

After what feels like a decade recording tracks, I finally get out. It’s 4:30. I have an hour and a half before I go see Harry.

As I get in my car to leave I realized he lived half an hour away from the studio. I might as well show up early, I don’t wanna go back home to have to drive back soon anyways.

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I get to Harrys’ loft and see the other boys’ cars. I guess they’re still here.

As I go to knock on the door, I realize it’s still open. I let myself in and say

“Hello?”

No one answered so I just made my way to the living room. This loft was huge, the ceilings were 5 times my height.

As I turn the kitchen to get to the living room I hear Ted. He’s saying,

“What the fuck was that Harry?! That didn’t go as planned.” He sounded really pissed.

After I heard that I turn back against the wall, hoping they didn’t see me.

“You don’t understand, I told you to cancel it.” Harry said. What were they talking about?

“Cancel it?! It was already scheduled. I couldn’t just cancel it Harry. But tell me, why did you want to cancel it? This is huge and can lead to big things for her AND your image. But now you just fucked it up.”

What a mouth on this guy… Wait. Was I the her they were talking about?

“I thought it was too soon. I was thinking if the E! news interview came out first, it’d make more sense.” Harry said. And I felt my stomach drop.

“Then why when the press came in were you two kissing? That doesn’t explain things Harry. Do you or do you not have feelings for her. REAL feelings?” Ted asked straightforwardly. It gets quiet for a bit then Harry mumbles,

“I was just playing the part.”

“Harry don’t lie to yourself.” Louis said softly.

“You clearly have feelings for her mate.” I hear Liam say.

“If that’s the case I’m shutting this whole thing down Harry, I knew I never should have taken Sydney’s damn offer, it just got both of you on the media’s bad side. You can forget about her and this will just blow over.” Ted said strictly.

Then everything got silent.

I could feel my eyes water. No, this couldn’t be what I thought it was.

Then a phone rang. Ted answered saying

“Sydney, I know what you’re gonna say, Harry fucked up, we’re ending this right now this isn’t good for Harry OR Claudias’ image.” He then says,

“Hold on boys I need to take this.”

I hear his footsteps lead away to the patio and the boys just sit there.

Until Zayn says,

“Harry, honestly, what happened?”

I can’t take it anymore and walk into the living room,

“Yeah, that’s what I’d like to know too.” I said my voice trembling and my eyes tearing.