From The Dining Table [H.S]

Chapter 38:

I wake up early in the morning because my phone was vibrating and wouldn't stop. Meaning someone was trying to call me.

I roll over and pick up the phone that was face down on the dresser next to me. It's my manager. Not the one from before, Jim. He got fired a little bit ago for making sexual advances on employees. I knew he was a bad guy.

Now, my new manager is a wonderful girl named Claire Trip. She was great and always tried her best to please me, which is a great change compared to Jim.

"Hello?" I ask her in a groggy voice.

"Harry!" she squeals and I rub my eyes. It was too early for this to be honest.

"What?" I whine, trying to stay quiet so I didn't wake Nikki.

"You got the part in that movie and you didn't tell me!" she says happily, "I'm so happy for you!"

I chuckle and stretch a bit, "Thanks" I say, "My girlfriend and I celebrated last night" I say, looking over at my sleeping baby.

"Well I hope you don't mind celebrating another night! My husband and I would like to invite you and Nikki over for dinner tonight" she says. I shrug, I'm always down for a free meal, but it wasn't really necessary.

"Claire, you don't need to cook us dinner" I tell her and I see Nikki starting to move around a bit.

"Stop it, Styles" she tells me, "I'm cooking chicken Alfredo okay?"

I nod, "Alright, what time?" I ask her and Nikki sits up and looks at me, wondering who I'm talking to probably.

"Let's say 6? Is that good?"

"Perfect" I say, looking at Nikki with a smile. Sleep was still set deep in her eyes as she rubbed them and stretched, giving me a smile back.

"Dress casually nothing fancy" she says, "Wait, a Nikki casual" she tells me and I chuckle. "Don't you dare show up naked you freak."

I shake my head, "I'm not going to show up naked!" I say and I realize Nikki doesn't know who I'm talking to and she looks at me quizzically.

"It's casual I got it, I'll see you later tonight" I tell her and she gives a light chuckle, saying bye and I hang up.

"Where are you going that you're going to... well not going to show up naked?" Nikki asks me once I end the call.

"Not me" I say, "Us." I lean towards her for a kiss but she pushes my face away, not feeling romantic this morning I guess.

"Where?"

I look at her, "To Claire's" I say and she immediately gets excited. She likes Claire, thankfully, because Claire really helped us with our relationship and being able to keep it.

Yeah, Simon said yes that we could keep dating but fucking Jim got it in Simon's head, after I talked to him, that we needed a lot of restrictions on our love life.

After Jim was fired, Claire came in, saw how in love Nikki and I were and she had to do something to help us. And she did.

"When?" she asks.

"Not until later, baby" I tell her and she nods smiling.

"I'm excited, we haven't seen her in a while" she says, laying back in bed.

"Yeah she was calling me because she was mad I didn't tell her I got the part in Dunkirk" I say with a chuckle and I lean down, putting my hands on either side of her and leaning down to kiss her lips.

She happily kissed me back. "We got a little busy" I told her, moving the rest of my body over hers. I press my body against her and she wraps her arms around my neck. "Round two?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.