Ellie

"Are you going to talk to me?" Harry asked, clearly annoyed.

I hadn't talked to him barely at all last night, this morning or on the plane.

I pushed my hair back and pulled into his driveway.

"You want me to talk?" I pushed and he nodded slowly. "Fine. I think it's hilarious that you forgot to tell me you were going on a three month long, world wide tour. You, nor my dad, actually." I huffed before continuing. "How long have you known?" I didn't let Harry tell me anything yesterday, I don't even know when he leaves.

"Two weeks." His eyes were locked on his lap and I took a breath before swallowing hard and unlocking the car. "I didn't forget to tell you, I was just nervous. I leave in two weeks, in case you care." He looked over to me and I rested my head on the steering wheel.

"Of course I care, you should've told me." He moved his hand to my leg and I bit my lip to stop the tears. "I'm happy for you, it's just hard to be when you didn't tell me." We have yet to make eye contact and I wasn't exactly planning on it.

"Ellie, you have to believe that I wanted to, it's just not exactly an easy subject." He reminded me but it still pissed me off.

"I'm your fucking girlfriend Harry." I practically yelled and he squeezed his eyes shut.

"You have to understand this is hard for me too!" I flinched as he yelled at me but he didn't seem to notice. "I don't want to only be able to see you three times in three months but it is what it is, you shouldn't be mad at me for doing something that makes me happy."

I looked at Harry for the first time and his eyes met mine.

"I'm not mad at you for going on tour! I'm mad that you didn't tell me," I paused and he took his hand off me. "Just go, we can talk later, I have to unpack." I looked away and he sighed, pushing his head against the back of the seat.

"I'll come over later, okay?" He tilted my chin to look at him and I nodded.

"Yeah," he pressed a kiss to my cheek before grabbing his suitcase from the back and waving to me as he walked towards his house.

After Harry's slip up last night we said goodbye to Easton and Azalea and I booked it for the room. We shared maybe ten words throughout the night and morning, if that.

I pulled open my door to reveal a very excited Bear.

"Hi, boo!" I called him by his known nickname and he jumped up my legs.

I sat on the floor and he crawled into my lap while I cuddled and talked to him.

"Ellie! How was your trip?" My dad walked down the stairs and I stood up to hug him.

"It was great, until yesterday." I remembered that he hadn't told me about Harry and his smile faltered.

"What happened?" He placed a hand on my arm and I moved away to grab my suitcase.

"Would've been nice to know Harry was going on tour," I said as I made my way up the stairs and he looked up at me.

"That's not my place to tell you." His face was hard and made me want to cower in my room forever.

"Yeah, well, it would've been nice." I turned around and continued my way upstairs, without another word from my dad and a very happy Bear trailing behind me.

Harry

Liam told me exactly what to say to Ellie and I had gone over it a million times in my head on the way to her house but I lost it while I knocked on her door.

She opened it and I smiled at her, stepping in and kissing her cheek.

"Hey," she was dressed in her grey Nike sweats and a short red zip up hoodie.

"Hey, love," I followed her into the kitchen and she passed me a mug of tea. "Thanks," I sat at the island and she just smiled.

"I'm sorry about today. I'm so happy for you, it was just a lot to take in, you're going to do amazing." Her eyes were soft and her one hand was wrapped around her stomach while the other was around her mug.

"No, I should've told you. It's not fair that I didn't," I told her but she shook her head.

"Harry, it's okay." I placed a kiss on her forehead and she put her mug down. "I guess we just have to make the most of the next two  weeks." A smirk danced on her lips and I laughed.

"Harry." Ron's voice caught my attention and I looked over to him, where he was leaning on the door frame.

"Hey Ron, how's it going?"

"I'm good, thanks for taking Ellie on your little vacation." He paused for a second before looking at his daughter. "I have to talk to you." She bit her lip while looking at him and nodded her head.

"Actually, stay in here, Harry should be here." Ellie furrowed her eyebrows and looked over at me before looking at her dad again.

Ron walked over to stand at the other side of the counter across from us and sighed.

"Ellie, I know that you just found out about tour and you've got a few things going on but, uhm," she raised an eyebrow at him and he swallowed hard. "Well, I'm going to move in with Sara." His words made my jaw drop and I immediately put a hand on Ellie's leg.

"You're what?" She screeched, standing up. He closed his eyes for a moment before nodding. "What? Why? I've barely even met her! Last time I saw her was at Easter and it's nearly October." She was yelling now and I stayed quiet.

"I know, but I'm there practically every night, there's no point in owning this house too." She scoffed and ran her tongue across her teeth. "I'm happy to leave this house to you Ellie! Even you and Harry," he glanced at me and I shook my head in shock.

"I don't want to live in a house this big by myself, don't you think that's ridiculous?" Her voice hasn't softened but I don't blame her.

"Yes but-" he started but she was quick to cut him off.

"I'll have my stuff out by the end of next week, you can sell the house." Her voice was hard but I could see the hurt in her eyes.

"Eliana," Ron's voice practically begged her to be okay with it but she glanced at me before letting Bear inside and sighing.

"I'm trying to be okay with it, I'll start looking for houses." She motioned for me to follow her and I looked at Ron as she made her way down the hall.

"It's just bad timing." Was all I said before I followed the beautiful girl upstairs.

Ellie

"This ones cute." I mumbled to a very sleepy Harry beside me. His face was pushed into a pillow and he kept shutting my laptop on me.

"It's two in the morning, please come to sleep." He grumbled and moved so his arm was wrapped around my stomach, as I was sitting against the headboard.

"Just let me look at a few more." I looked down to see him press a gentle kiss to my bare hip and my heart melted.

"Ellie, just move in with me." The words didn't surprise me, as we basically lived with each other anyway.

"I wouldn't want to put that on Liam or you, I can figure something out." I scrolled the houses for rent and Harry shut the laptop, once again.

"You'll live with us for a bit, now come to bed." I obliged and put the computer on the floor, sliding down the bed and into Harry's arms.

"Night, love." His lips pressed lazily to mine and I returned it.

"Goodnight."

Xoxo

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