Secret

Chapter 10

Chapter 10

[Harry's pov]

"Look, I really, really don't want to talk about it." Bella tells me, regarding what her and Chase were talking about. "Fine, you can tell me later. But are we good? You're not mad at me?" I ask her. A small smile spreads across her face as she nods slightly. "Yeah, we're good."

I sigh in relief. "So if we're good, I can do this...?" I grin, getting up and walking towards her. I start to tickle her sides. "Stop it!" she yells between laughs. We roll off the bed and I briefly stop tickling her. She's under me while I'm on all fours, interesting position. I smile at myself for that and shake it out of my mind. I look down at her under me, the brightest smile overtaking her face. She is beautiful.

"Bella!" her mom calls and we freeze. "Hide!" she whispers in panic. The first thing I think of is the bed, so I quickly crawl under the thing.

"Bella what was all that noise?" she asks, "I heard laughing and yelling."

I feel around and touch something soft. It feels lacy. I pick the item up to discover what they are and almost chuckle.

"Nothing Mom, I was laughing at a funny picture I saw." Bella says. There is a slight pause. "You're crazy." her mom says, closing the door behind her.

I get out from under the bed, holding up the panties. "Hey, did you lose these?" I tease her. Her face twists into an expression of embarrassment and horror as I laugh. She snatches them out of my hands as her face turns firetruck red. "Asshole." she mumbles and throws the panties in a drawer. I notice that she's acting a bit squirmy now as she walks to the other side of the room. "Hey, it's okay. I was just teasing."

She rolls her eyes and pushes me back onto the bed. I grab her as we both fall on the mattress. She squirms and giggles under me. "Harry," she says. "Bella!" I tease. "Get off me!" she protests, full on laughing now and trying to push me off of her by the shoulders.

"Hey, let's play a game." I suggest. "Like what?" she asks, pushing the hair that has fallen onto my face back off my forehead. I like it when we're like this; gentle and calm and caring. Too bad we're only just friends. I'd like to be more, but I haven't told her 'the news' yet. I shake it from my mind.

"20 questions." I reply, getting off of her and sitting on the bed. "Okay, you go first." she says.

***

I wake up to Bella shaking me from my sleep. "What?" I grumpily say, rubbing my eyes.

"Um, you slept here and you need to go before my parents wake up. It's four in the morning." she explains. Quickly, I sit up and my eyes are wide open now. Oh God, I hope we didn't fuck. I mean I like her and all but that could be a lot of trouble and drama I don't care for right now. I mean not saying I don't want to fuck Bella I mean...oh never mind, I can't think straight right now.

"We didn't...?" I ask quietly, gesturing between me and her. "No, God no." she answers, putting her hand to her forehead. "Just making sure." I nod and get off of her bed. "How would you not remember...doing it anyway?" she asks.

"Some people do it all the time. You never know." I answer her naïve question, I mean there are so many possibilites. You could be drunk, on dateline drugs, high, and even more, but whatever. I push my hair back and grab my bag off of the floor.

"I'll see you at 8:45 darling." I tell Bella, exiting through the window with a smile.

I climb down the same way I climbed up, and walk all the way home. It's really not that far but it's not a walk I would take at my leisure.

***

I look down at my phone. 8:57, shit, I'm late. By the time I make it to the classroom it's 9:02.

I try to quietly walk into class but it doesn't work as everyone turns to look at me. Ms. Christians crosses her arms in disappointment. "Do you have a pass?" she asks me. "No, but sorry I'm late." I say, turning to look at Bella. I wink and she looks away awkwardly. "Harry, you need to go down to the main office and get a pass please." Ms. Christians tells me. "But Ms. Christians, I'm already here. What's the point?" I question. "The point is that if you don't get a pass I will mark you absent." she answers. I scoff and walk down to the office.

On the way down the hallway, someone calls my name, "Harry, hey!"

I turn around to see that it's Naomi and I mentally roll my eyes. I cut off connection with this girl a while ago for a reason, she's an annoying bitch. "Hey." I say, but I keep walking as she tries to catch up. "Where are you going?" she asks. I look down at the textbook in my hand and contemplate hitting Naomi in the face with it. "The office." I answer plainly. "Really? Me too." She pats my arm and smiles at me. I press my lips into a thin line. "Awesome."

We keep walking ahead and Naomi speaks again, "Hey, can I ask you something?"

I nod as a signal for her to continue. "Do you like that Bella girl?" she asks the unexpected and I stop walking for a second. "That...that's none of your concern." I decide on my choice of words to try and be as not rude as possible. "Oh. Seems like it though." she states and I ignore her. I walk faster and open the door to the front office, getting my pass, and getting out before Naomi. She annoys the shit out of me.

I arrive back at class, hand Ms. Christians the pass, and take my usual seat- two behind Bella and one ahead of Brianna. "Hey." Brianna whispers. I give her a small smile instead of replying.

Class goes by slower than I had hoped and I try to catch up with Bella. "Bella, hey." I greet once I'm by her side. "Hey Harry." she replies. "Um...do you want to come over to my house later? I need to tell you something and I was hoping we could hang out, I mean my house is a little messy but..." I ramble and she smiles. "Yeah, sure, I don't mind."

"Gnarly." I say and smack myself for it mentally. "Gnarly?" she questions with a grin on her face. "Yes, it's gnarly that you're coming over and I would like to think that I'm gnarly for inviting you even though my lovely abode is messy as hell." I smily goofily. "You are such a dork." she says. "Yeah? Well you're a dweeb." I tease. We arrive at Bella's second period, but lean against the lockers outside the classroom and talk. "Yeah, I'm the dweeb here," she counters with a giggle. We smile for a long time and just look at each other. I sigh. I don't want to tell her what's going on in my life right now, the 'news', but I have to. I shake my head to clear the thoughts. "I had fun last night." I say with a smile, poking Bella's cheek. "Me too, I'm glad my mom didn't find out." she basically sighs, sounding relieved. She reaches her hand up to pat my cheek and smiles. "I have to get to class and so do you, mister."

"Alright," I say.

"Alright," she says.

I dismiss myself from her and pace to class quickly. In the hallway, I walk to fast and before I can dodge the oncoming person, we full on collide. It's Jessica. She falls to the ground, dropping her textbook and looking up at me with angry eyes.

"You fucker!" she exclaims. I attempt to help her up but she smacks my hand away. She stands up, dusting herself off and picking up the textbook. "Hey, Harry I hope you're taking the advice I gave you about Bella." she taunts while glaring at me. "Watch where you're going." I say, ignoring her, and she rolls her eyes. "Whatever." she snaps and walks away.

Everyone seems to want to talk to me about Bella lately.