Mary's POV
I hurry out of the cafeteria before my anger explodes and I end up doing something I don't want to. Then, I hear footsteps behind and I turn around.
No one who knows me would try to come here. Not even Marc.
Then, I see him. The guy who won't leave even if I kill him instead. Harry Miller.
"I'll drop you home. Nothing else. I swear.", Harry says in an annoyingly calm voice.
Home. That word strikes me like a punch between my eyes. I laugh, its so bitter that the feeling must have washed over him because his calm expression wavers and he looks almost, hurt.
"Home. Yeah, right. You do realize that I don't have a home now. I stayed at that hell house only because of Marc, but...now...I don't think I can face him. At least for a few days."
"Don't say that you don't have a home.", I look at him, his expression is so painful and hurt and then, its gone. I'd think I'd almost imagined. Almost.
"Come at our place. Maddy'll be glad to have you.", he says and extends is hand and looks at me expectantly. I take it for once with full faith that this guy won't betray me.
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"What an ass", Maddy says as she frowns once I've finished telling her what happened.
"Precisely", I hear Sydney say at the door as she enters with a packet. Behind her enters Harry Miller closing the door behind.
"See I got chocolate ice-cream as a peace offering." Sydney says plopping down on the bean bag and holds up her packet.
Maddy takes her ice-cream and unwraps it and starts eating it.
"A peace offering for what?", she says in between bites.
"Oh, about that, I'll let Mary explain.", Sydney says as she smirks.
I take a deep breath and think : Oh God, please don't let it be my last
"HarryaskedmeoutforadateandIcouldn'thelpbutsayyesItsjustonedateandpleasedon'tkillme.", I say in one breath but Maddy looks deathly pale and inhales her ice-cream and starts coughing vigorously. And then she starts shaking her head vigorously and gasping like she wants to talk.
We give her some water and she relaxes. Her breathing becomes normal again.
"WHAAAAAT?!", she yells when she can finally talk.
"Hey, listen. I'm really sorry for not telling you before, Mads. Calm down", Harry intervenes.
"Yeah sure. Don't tell me. I'm the extra one right? Yeah, anyways not letting me fangirl over your couple, get you ship names, get you future babies' names and-"
"Wait, what?", I interject her rambling," Future babies? Seriously Maddy?"
"What? your kids are going to be super cute. I can't wait to see them!", she squeals.
And then I throw a pillow at her, it hits her squarely in the face, and then she throws one at me and it hits Sydney, Sydney throws it at her but it hits Harry instead. And just like that, ladies and gentlemen, the pillow fight begins.
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Harry's POV
"Hey Harry?", I hear Dylan's voice behind me and turn around. Since that 'cafeteria incident' I stopped sitting at the table and started sitting with Maddy, Mary , Sydney and Alec during lunch. Its been a week now. Mary stayed for two days at our place and then shifted to God knows where. But she didn't go home of that I'm sure. She even went and got her stuff from her place without anyone coming to know.How she did that with cctv cameras and security guards around, I don't know.
"Can I sit?", Dylan asks
"Ya sure.", Mary says," Pull up a chair."
He gets a chair and sits between Maddy and me.
"Uh, so guys there's this road trip this weekend. You know because its a long weekend. Since Friday's a holiday. You guys want to come?", he asks hesitantly.
"Sure, why not? We'd love to come.",Mary says cheerfully. A little too cheerfully to me.
"Uh, is only for, you know, uh..the football players-", Dylan starts to say
" And their female companions.", Mary finishes for him. She's smiling really broadly.
"I know.", she continues, " Well, Alec can take Maddy, you can take Sydney and I can take Harry.", she says with such finality that its unnerving.
"Where are we going, my male companion?", Maddy asks Alec sarcastically.
"I don't know, ask Sydney's male companion", he replies in an equally sarcastic tone.
Dylan looks at a complete loss of words then Mary snaps her fingers below his nose and raises her eyebrows. He hesitantly answers , "Hudson Valley"
"Great. We'll meet outside Harry's house. Friday morning at 8. You'll have to bunk on Monday because it'll be a 4 day trip. Okay?", Alec says.
All the girls show him a thumbs-up. And then everyone looks at me and I have this strong gut feeling to get up and run away.
And then Mary says," Come on, male companion. We're waiting." I sigh and I nod my head and everyone laughs.
Oh my God, what did I sign up for again?
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