Little Expectations (Harry Styles Fanfiction)

Chapter 7

okay im sorry im a shitty person bc no update in forever but here ya go y'all

btw idk if the information in this chapter is 100% correct but just roll with it okay

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Payton's POV

The days and weeks have come and gone faster than I ever expected. We've been in Italy since yesterday morning and it's the most beautiful place I have ever seen. Going from country to country, learning and trying new things in every place we go is amazing. I never thought that being from such a small town I would end up here, traveling the world with my newly discovered best friends and Harry. Harry and I aren't technically friends but we aren't enemies anymore, so I guess that's some progress.

Harry and I also got Niall and Louis back about a week after that whole hair fiasco. We took all of their stuff and hid it under one of the other buses. I almost had them convinced a fan took their luggage. It lasted about three days before they decided to tell security about it and we had to blow our cover. Needless to say, they were pretty pissed.

I have a day off tonight. This is well-deserved. Watching a toddler is alot of tiring work. Thank god for Gemma, Harry's lovely sister, because offered to watch Brooke for me so I could relax for once. I met Gemma a few weeks back when she visited all of the boys at one of their stops. She's so sweet and genuine, not to mention gorgeous. We've become friends, and whenever she visits I get to do all the girly things I can't normally do surrounded by all this testosterone, like getting my nails done and watching chick flicks. The boys actually listen to Gemma as apposed to me so I usually end up counting down the days until she visits again.

Within the few seconds of free time I get in the day I'm either talking to my friends and family back home, Niall, or practicing my music. I never so much as hum a tune if a living breathing person is in a mile radius of me. It's not that I'm bad, I just can't sing in front people. The only people I can sing for are my parents, Annie, Maddie, Tony, and surprisingly Brooke. Whenever I put her to sleep she'll ask me to sing her a song about a princess, though the princess varies between Ariel and Jasmine every night. Her eyes will light up as she tries to sing along with me before she slowly drifts off into a slumber full of sweet dreams.

So as I sit there alone in my hotel room, working on my arrangement of Fix You by Coldplay, I find myself at peace. I know this is what I was meant to do, and how I wish I could do what they boys do everyday. If I weren't so deeply petrified of opening my mouth in front of anyone, I could possibly be happy and peaceful all the time.

I decide to call Annie as I work on it, to get her opinion on the song.

"So has anyone heard that pretty little voice over there in 1D land?" She asks.

I snort a laugh, "No way, Annie. I mean I sing lullabies to Brooke but nothing more than that. I'm lucky I can even sing for you."

"Yeah, yeah. Okay so what do you have so far?"

I sing past the first chorus and mess up during the second verse, which happens to be where I'm having trouble with the arrangement.

"You should hold that last note a little longer, you know, for dramatic effect," a familiar male voice says behind me.

My eyes shoot wide open and my face pales. I quickly grab my phone muttering a goodbye to Annie, telling her I would call her back soon. I doubt she heard me over her squealing 'OMG I JUST HEARD HARRY STYLES TALK ON THE PHONE AHHHH'

"What are you doing here?" I ask slowly.

"I came to get Brooke, the concert is over.." He replies, pointing to the clock on the wall. It reads 11:00 PM. Geez, time flies when you can't make a song your own.

"Oh, right. Um Gemma took Brooke tonight so I could have a night off. I think they might be sleeping on the bus. Brooke wanted an adventure today," I explain.

He laughs a little at his daughter's actions. "Of course she did. Well, thanks Payton."

"No prob."

He starts to exit my room before he suddenly turns around and surprises me.

"I meant what I said about the song. Just hold the last note and go up instead of down in the first part of the chorus. And you have a beautiful voice. You shouldn't hide that from other people, Payton,"

"Um thanks," I say awkwardly. I don't really know what to do with myself right now. I'm mentally slapping myself across the face at how weird I'm acting. Maybe it's just because Harry gave me a compliment.

"Alright, well, see ya," he says, walking down the hall.

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Harry's POV

Woah. I have never heard such a beautiful voice in my 20 years of being alive. It was like an angel was brought down from heaven just to fly right into my soul. It made me smile bigger and wider than I have in a while.

I near the bus that I know Gem and Boo would be in, and quietly enter the space. I see Brooke peacefully sleeping in my bed, basically taking up the whole thing like always. Gemma is awake and watching tv when I sit next to her. There's a silence begging to be filled for a while.

"Gem what's happening to me?"

"You have gotten so much better, Harry. Ever since Payton came you've started to become less grouchy all the time, less depressed."

"I think I might like her," I whisper.

"No way! Really!?"

"I don't know, it's just I noticed how pretty she was from the start but I heard her sing tonight. And after that, something happened. Like something snapped and flew away."

"That was one of your walls breaking down," She smiles.

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aw yay harry actually doesnt hate everything for once!

anyway i hope you all are enjoying this story. feel free to comment and let me know how you feel about it and stuff. or we could talk about random shit i mean whatever works for you.

thank you so much,

roni van xx