GOTTA BE YOU (HARRY STYLES)

11

It was the next day an everyone was getting ready to go to the concert. Harry and Louis had already gone ahead of the girls, but they were going to meet each other before and afterwards. Stella, Lisette, Jessenia and Khristina still thought that Daniel was EJ and Harry's baby. EJ found it hilarious, but she knew that she woul eventually have to tell them that it was only a joke.

"He's a month old?" Stella asked as she watched EJ dress Daniel. "And did Harry and Louis really go baby shopping with you?"

"Yep," EJ replied, putting on Daniel's blue and orange socks. "I have some pictures that Louis took, they're in my iPad. Harry picked out these socks."

Stella nodded slowly. "Hmm, he's not really you guys' son. Because I saw you just this summer, and you didn't have no baby-bump. Plus, Harry was in Spain around the time you would've gotten 'pregnant'."

"Ha-ha-ha! I knew you would be the first to catch on!"

EJ picked up Daniel and carefully placed him in her sling.

Stella sighed "You were born to be a mother," she said skeptically.

"Stella, are you ma at me?" EJ asked.

"I'm not mad," was the apologetic reply. "I'm just trying to grasp the fact that you and Harry are a thing, and that you two are dead set on doing this together. I mean, you and I used to joke about how we were never going to have kids. Yet here you are, waltzing around with a month old as if you've been doing it forever."

"Yeah, I know. But if you had been there with me the day the woman left Daniel......" she hugged the sling, the memory making her need to do so.

"You getting all maternal on me?" Stella joked, smiling.

EJ rolled her eyes and started out of the room. She grabbed Daniel's carseat on her way to the garage, she knew she would need it later.

As EJ stood backstage she kept wondering why she hadn't seen Harry yet. Stella and the other girls were in their seats, but EJ was staying backstage because Daniel was asleep in the carseat.

"I'm certain he's here somewhere," Zayn assured her. "Harry and Louis were the first ones here."

He hugged her and left. At that very second Harry came in, followed by some girl who was tugging at his shirt. Harry seemed to be laughing all the while. Then suddenly, with a strong pull, the girl had Harry by the shoulders and planted a long, wet kiss on his lips.

"Harry!" EJ said, walking up to them and pulling him away from the girl.

The girl scoffed "I never knew that the backstage help was so....." she trailed off as she tried to think of something to say. "Ugh! I'm not even going to say or think it. Call me, Harry."

The girl pecked Harry once more on the lips and disappeared. EJ and Harry were along now. EJ was hurt and angry.

"It's not what it seems," Harry said, a little too quickly EJ thought.

"Really?" she asked, on the brink of tears. "Because from where I was standing it looked like you were enjoying it very much."

"Ella, I promise, I wa-"

"Harry, you were my first kiss. The first guy I've ever fallen for. Not to mention that we are both in agreement to raise Daniel. Together. We're together for (what?) a couple days and you're already letting another girl in? I don't want Daniel to grow up knowing that you're like that. That is not the kind of envirement I want him growing up in. Harry, I don't know what I ever saw in you....I don't even know you."

"Bur Ella, I-"

"Save it," EJ released a sob as she went and picked up Daniel's carseat. "Have a good concert."

She went out one of the 'Exit' doors and quickly went to the car in the parking lot. Once Daniel was buckled in safely, EJ texted Stella to let her know that she was going back to the house. They can get a cab, she thought to herself.

Miranda was at the house when EJ got there. She told her what had happened and that she was leaving early the next morning.

"I want to keep my promise to you," she said, gathering together the baby things. "But I can't stay here knowing that Harry lives rght across the street. We're barely together and he's already broken my heart."

"Oh hon," Mirana said, hugging her as she broke into deeper sobs. "It's alright, I understand. Mum is basically settled, I can get someone else to keep the house for me. But where will you go? Daniel isn't old enough to travel to Puerto Rico just yet."

"I'll rent a flat somewhere," EJ replied, pulling away and stuffing things into her suitcases. "I can get a van and pile everything inside and live in it until I find a place, if I have to. And when Daniel is old enough, I'll move back to Puerto Rico."

She took a deep breath and calmly let it out. She was beginning to feel a little better and was glad to have gotten it off her chest.

Early the next morning, EJ bought a minivan and was loading all of Daniel's things into the back. She had gotten a van that could hide the seats in the floor.

"That's the last of it," Miranda said as she closed the trunk. "You take care of yourself now."

"I will," EJ sai, hugging her briefly. "I'm sorry."

"Don't worry about it. Drive safely."

She nodded and got in the driver's seat. As she started to drive away, she caught sight of a tall figure on the sidewalk across the street, in the mirror. The person was bunled up, but EJ could see the curly hair sticking out from the cap.

"Goodbye," she said softly, turning the van around the corner and out of Harry's life.

"The flat is full furnished except for the little room," said the realitor who was showing EJ around. "Which can turned into a nursery. There's the dining room, family room; master bedroom and bathroom. There's a guest bedroom and bath, but you can use it as you please. And of course the kitchen area."

EJ looked around the family room, bouncing Daniel so that he stayed asleep.

"Its a very nice place," she said, sitting down on one of the sofas. "And affordable. You said a down payment of ten-thousand, and four monthly payments of nine-hundred, am I right?"

"Yes, but there is also the option for a rent plan."

EJ nodded and studied the room again. The room was a lime-green color an had light pink polkadots on the base-boarders.

EJ liked the apartment best out of the seven she'd seen. She had spoken with her parents, they wee willing to help wire her the money for the payments. They didn't know that EJ and Harry were broken up, she kept that subject on the back burner.

"I'll take it," EJ said after a while.

The realitor nodded and went to the dining room to finalize the paperwork.

"Well Daniel," EJ whispered as she stood. "Welcome home."