Equal Ice // Harry Styles AU

Chapter 37

Chapter 37

Harry’s POV

After I had dropped Gabrielle off at her house, I began to drive out of the neighborhood.

As I was making the turn out of the neighborhood, I saw a somewhat familiar car driving into the neighborhood. It was dark so I couldn’t see the car completely clear, but I had a feeling that it was probably Gabrielle’s dad driving home, so I was pretty happy that I got her home when I did, for her sake. I honestly wouldn’t have minded if her dad had gotten home before us, but I knew especially after that conversation we had, Gabrielle clearly wasn’t going to like it though. I’m sure if we were in that situation though, she’d sure as hell come up with a way to get out of it.

I was trying not to be, but I was still pretty annoyed with how she handled it when I was suggesting that she tell her dad about us. I understood why she didn’t want to tell him and she did have some pretty good reasoning’s as to why she wasn’t agreeing with anything that I was saying, but I still thought that it would be the best option to tell him.

I suppose that I could ease her into the idea of telling him, come up with some ways for her to lead on subtle hints to her dad and maybe that would help her be more open to the idea of telling him since he might already have an idea by then. I just didn’t realize how wrong it was of me to keep it form my aunt until she found out and she told me how upset she was that I hadn’t told her sooner.

I knew Gabrielle and her dad probably wouldn’t have that same reaction when she told him, but I think it might make her feel better and less stressed about everything if she just got that big lie off her back and out into the open so she wouldn’t have to hide it and live with herself keeping something from her own father. I also remembered that she was keeping our relationship from Bella too.

Maybe if she told Bella first and it made her feel less stressed and less like she was lying to everyone she cares about, maybe it’d make her more willing to tell her dad. Because honestly I was pretty tired of us just sneaking around all the time. I mean sure now we could hang out at my house since my aunt knows, but I was starting to not feel comfortable from keeping this from her father. He’s her father and I think he has the right to know about her personal life to some extent, but considering his feelings towards any and all hockey players, Gabrielle does of some reason to think differently.

Going back to Bella, I began thinking of ways that Gabrielle could tell her best friend about us. It may be a bit a harder to do that now that I’ve discovered Bella likes me, but I’m sure we could figure something out. I still haven’t really decided what I was going to do until I’d talked with Gabrielle, but I knew I couldn’t call her tonight so I’d try to call her tomorrow before I left for the park.

I was thinking about maybe just telling Bella no and then explain to her that I said no because I was seeing her best friend, but I wasn’t really sure what Gabrielle would think of that. She might want to be the one to tell Bella, or at least be there and have some control over it.

When I finally made it back to my aunt’s house, I just went straight into my room since I didn’t see my aunt anywhere since she was probably getting ready for bed in her room. I was a bit nervous for tomorrow for many reasons, but another one of them being that I was hoping nothing would change between my aunt and I.

I guess I don’t really know how anything would, but I just feel like things might be a bit weird for a while now that she knows about Gabrielle and knows that I basically lied to her for the longest time. Nevertheless though, I got myself ready to go to sleep, and after the long day I’d had, I fell asleep right when my head hit the pillow.

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I woke up the next morning in a way that I haven’t been woken up by in awhile. My eyes slowly opening as Ben was tugging at my arm.