Meant to be (Harry Styles Love Story)

Chapter 8

I started to panic a little not knowing what to do. Ali and Katie grabbed a hold of each arm gently trying to calm me down.

"Why are freaking out?" She asked. I took a deep breath to steady my nerves.

"I don't know. It's Harry and ugh." I couldn’t get the words out right.

"Just calm down, they're all here. Let's go down and act normal." I nodded and we walked out of my room and stopped at the top of the stairs.

Harry's P.O.V

I rang the doorbell and stood there nervously while holding the carnation box in my hand. Her house was massive! I felt so small standing in front of the huge front doors but then again, her parents are millionaires. Her dad opened one of the huge front doors and smiled at me.

"Hello sir." I said using my manners. Kyle and Logan were standing behind me and greeted him too.

"You must be Harry. Come in please." He said cheerfully gesturing me to step inside. The foyer of the house was open and huge; skylight ceilings, two way staircase with a railing to see over the edge from the top. Everything was neatly placed and cheerful and absolutely beautiful. We talked to Victoria's dad while we waited for the girls to come down. Kyle and Logan knew her parents better since they've all been friends since elementary school so I felt a little out of place during some of their topics.

"There coming!" I turned to see an older attractive woman hurry down the stairs with a camera in hand, must be her mum. We all turned towards the staircase and saw 3 beautiful girls appear at the top of the steps. I almost didn’t recognize any of them.

"You guys look stunning." Logan said to them. They all smiled and slowly made their way down the steps. I stepped forward to grab hold of Victoria's hand once she reached the bottom.

"You took my breath away." I whispered in her ear.

"Thank you. You don't look to bad yourself." She giggled.

"Picture time!" Her mum announced. She made us take a bunch of group photos, which I didn’t mind. Then she took photos of each couple separately, and then a few of the boys and girls separate.

"We have to get going." Katie complained. We said goodbye to her parents and headed out to the car. Victoria stopped in front of the limo I rented and her mouth was wide open.

"You got a limo?!" She said; her mouth shaped into a big smile.

"Yep. What would prom be without a limo?" I said cheekily. I held the door open for her and the others and we all piled in. Everyone was excited about tonight, and I couldn’t wait to tell Victoria the news.

Victoria's P.O.V

I couldn’t believe he got a limo! My jaw dropped when I saw it.

"You got a limo?!" I said in total shock. He laughed at my reaction to it.

"Yep. What would prom be without a limo?" He smiled cheekily. He held the door open for everyone and we climbed inside. I was bouncing in my seat at everything that was happening; it didn’t feel real.

"This is for you." Harry said handing me a carnation box. I took the flower out and hugged him tightly.

"It's beautiful." I said almost in tears.

"Not as beautiful as you." He said to me. He helped me put it on around my wrist and soon the limo pulled up into the school's circular driveway. We climbed out and walked hand in hand inside. Other people were still arriving as well but there were a lot of people here already.

The theme was Paris. A scaled Eiffel Tower was placed in one corner of the room and shiny cut outs of stars were all over the walls. Strings of lights were hanging across the ceiling setting the mood and red and black color schemes were seen throughout the entire gymnasium. The DJ was set up at one end of the room and had strobe lights flickering and the light bounced off the walls. The overall look of it was breath taking. I felt like I was really in Paris at some point.

Everyone looked gorgeous and stunning in their evening wear and Harry immediately took me to the dance floor leaving the others behind. The music was blasting and echoing throughout the gymnasium. The other kids were laughing and moving to the beat and just having fun with everything. I danced with Harry acting all crazy and weird. We couldn’t stop laughing at all the fun we were having.

We took a small break to cool down and got some drinks. We lost Ali and Katie a while ago when we first hit the dance floor so it was just the two of us now. We were talking about earlier today and what I did before he showed up when Brittany came over.

"Hey guys." She gave us a fake smile. The kind people give to others when they rather eat dirt than see you. I waved at her plainly, so did Harry.

"Having fun?" She asked.

"Yup." I said popping the 'p'.

"Who's your date?" Harry wondered.

"Chase, I lost him though." She pointed to the crowd and shrugged. We ignored her not trying to draw any attention to ourselves. She eventually left, seeing that we weren’t going to try and talk to her and there was no point in her staying. A slow song came on and Harry held out his hand, palm up.

"May I have this dance?" He asked sweetly. I placed my hand in his and we walked to the dance floor to join the other couples.

We danced close to each other. The mini lights made his eyes sparkle and he looked so handsome in the fake moonlight. He held me close to him while we danced and I leaned my head onto his chest since I'm that much smaller than him.

"I have I told you how beautiful you look tonight?" He whispered into my ear.

"Only about a million times." I said looking up. We both smiled at each other for the longest time before he broke the stare.

"Come on, I want to tell you something." He dragged me off the dance floor and took me outside into the cold, breezy night. I started to shiver from the cold and he gave me his suit jacket by wrapping it around my shoulders. We kept walking along the pavement of the school to the garden that the Garden Club members created early spring. He grabbed my hand again and pulled me into him and started to slow dance.

"You could’ve asked if you wanted a private slow dance." I teased.

"That's not what I was going to ask." He implied. I quirked an eyebrow at him not knowing what he meant.

"It's something else." He said.

"What?" I asked.

"You've heard of X Factor right?" I urged him to go on.

"I'm trying out for it. I want to know if I'm really good or not and getting that kind of criticism would help me know for sure." I smiled.

"Harry that's great!" I exclaimed. Then I thought about the 'what if''.

"What if you make it?" I asked. He just shrugged.

"I don't know." I nodded and we kept dancing. "But I want you to be there with me. Whatever the outcome may be." He said.

"I'll be there." I said. He looked away from me and didn’t seem sure about something.

"Is there something else?" I asked. He looked up and I could see worry in his eyes, then he softened up and they looked calm.

"I want to you ask you…." He paused and I gave him a look to continue.

"Will you be my girlfriend?" I nodded slowly and leaned in and kissed him tenderly. He pulled away and looked confused.

"I'll take that as a yes?" He said. I let out a small laugh and kissed him again.