until the end; narry

thirteen

theme: floating// alina baraz

" You have beautiful eyes." Harry smiles at Niall. His cheeks started to turn red, but he looked so beautiful by the fire it was unreal. " Harry stop it." Niall nervously took a sip of his ice water. " I wanted to uh...Thank you for being honest with me at dinner. It meant a lot." Harry grabs Niall's hand and caresses it with his thumb. " I hope so. You know no one knows bout the things I've told you. You're the only one. So Niall please, don't tell any of your friends back home. Not even Zayn. Even though I know he's your best friend. You guys grab coffee together all the time." He sighed.
   Niall found it interesting that Harry scoped him out all the time at work. " They won't know. I promise." He smiles. " And here come the mosquitos." Harry chuckles and stands. " After you."
  Niall stood and lead the way into the house. " I'm gonna get out of my work clothes, have a quick shower I smell like food." Harry chuckles and makes his way up the stairs. " Don't chase after me." Harry yelled while stepping to the top of the stair case. Even though Niall knew Harry was joking, he decided to follow him.

The sound of water filled the room. Harry's room was similar to the one downstairs. His clothes were inside a dirty clothes bin and his dress shoes were beside it. The door was slightly cracked and Niall could see the mirror fogged.
Slipping out of his clothes and putting them in the corner, he walked into the bathroom and slipped in the shower. Harry turned around a jumped a bit at the sight of a naked Niall standing before him in the shower.
" I didn't invite you." Harry squirted soap onto Niall shoulder and started rubbing it in. Niall places his lips onto Harry's. Both men started kissing in sync. " Sorry to crash your party." Niall mumbles into the kiss while sticking back Harry's hair. " Apology accepted." Harry smiles and pulls Niall in closer.

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Day Three

My eyes opened slowly to an empty spot beside me. I sit up and look around the room trying to remember what happened last night. Flipping the cover off of me and looking down at my naked body, I suddenly remembered.
I swing my legs over and stand up. Coming in sight was the clothes that I took off before getting in the shower last night. I quickly slipped them on and trotted downstairs.
" Something smells good." I chirp and start pouring myself a cup of coffee as I entered the kitchen. " Morning, Love. Eggs and waffles." Harry smiles at me. " When does our plane leave?" I ask while sitting at the island table while Harry bought me a plate of food. " This evening at 7:00." He responds and turns off the stove before sitting down with his own plate.

" You wanna take me anywhere special before then?" I hint while throwing a fork full of eggs into my mouth. " Actually, yes. How does board walking sound?" My head popped up from my plate. " Harry, what the hell is that?" I chuckle a bit. " It's basically a bridge at the beach. There's games, food, rides. Stuff of that matter." He shrugs and takes a swing at his apple juice. " Sounds fun." I smile. " But it's really early I doubt anyone's there." I say. " Exactly." He raises his eyebrows. " Go and get dressed."

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" Shit I almost had it." I roll my eyes. Harry takes the last dart from my hands, throws it, and hit two balloons perfectly. " Congratulations! Choose any prize on this row." The man says behind the tall counter gesturing towards the top row. " Anything on the top row, babe." Harry says while taking out, and checking his phone.
" I want the red panda bear please." I say. The man smiles and grabs it from the top row, handing it to me. " Thanks." I smile at the big black eyes the panda bear had. " Have you never went board walking before?" Harry starts conversation as we walk away from the game.
"How would you know?" I spat at Harry's stupid assumption.
" Niall you haven't won one game since we got here  three hours ago." Harry laughs and nudges me. Well he's right.

" Let me get you some food I know you're hungry." Harry says. " I had breakfast not too long ago." I lift my chin and look the other way. " Niall, you're always hungry." Harry smiles at me as he leads me into a small food shack. Damn him for being right. " I'll just have a pineapple mango smoothie." I say and look at Harry. " I'm more thirsty than I am hungry."
" Yeah, I would be out of breath too after throwing balls at the target each time..and missing..each time." Harry continued to tease. " I don't play games, Harold. I'm better at magazine editing." I chuckle the last part. " Here. Sit." Harry gestured me to sit in front of him at a table beside us.

" Harry..What's gonna happen when we go home?" I ask. I had to say it. I couldn't keep pretending that California would last forever.
" Well..I'll tell Savannah about us. Soon. And if you trust your friends so much..I trust them to respect the decision of dating the boss. But of course the office can't know." Harry says sitting back in his chair. " Well what about your father?" I say looking up at him. I know his family is a touchy subject him, but his own father not knowing that he's gay must be so terrible. Judging by the stories and little hints Harry has given me, his father seems like a pushy man who wants his son to be perfect. And sadly, society being the way it is today and given the Styles' reputation, gay is nowhere near perfect.
Harry continued to stare at the table and tap his finger against the wooden table top, until he shot his eyes up at me.
He couldn't tell his father. He couldn't hurt his father by ruining that image of a perfect and successful son. He just couldn't.
" Okay." I say softly looking into his sad piercing green eyes. " Okay."

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