Summer to Remember

Chapter Twenty Three

I woke up in the morning with the sun's rays shining on my face. I looked to my side to find Rebecca sleeping with her phone in her hand, she was so cute even when she was alseep. Remembering yesterday, I smiled to myself. Harry must have helped me get in my bed and went back to his room, what a gentlemen he was. Getting up to go to the bathroom I realized that I fell asleep in my floral dress, I looked like a complete disaster especially with all my smudged makeup after crying last night. I decided to take a warm shower to start the day, afterwards I picked a casual maxi dress to wear and put my hair in a high bun. While getting ready I noticed that there wasn't a single sound in the entire house, everybody must be asleep I thought. Slowly tip-toeing out of the room, I walked downstairs to the kitchen to find Harry sitting at the table reading the newspaper. I couldn't help but burst out laughing, he looked like an old grandpa reading the newspaper first thing in the morning. I guess I surprised him with my laughing because he quickly turned around and gave me a cheeky smile. "Good morning babe" he grinned.

"Good morning love" I said giving him a quick kiss on the lips.

"Did you sleep well?" he asked.

"You bet!" I replied cheerfully as I sat down across from him at the table. "No breakfast?" I asked jokingly.

"Actually I was waiting for you to wake up so we could buy some groceries" he winked.

"Good idea, shall we go now?" I said in my fail of an English accent.

"You first m'lady" he said as he got up from his seat and gestured me to get up.

He was such a goof but that's what I liked about him, he had the ability to make me laugh all the time. I followed him to his car and we were on our way to the local market. The beach house was in a small private complex and there was only one local market, I could already tell that everybody who lived here was extremely rich, the cars parked in front of the houses were ridiculously expensive. "We're here love" Harry said as he got up and opened my door for me.

We were searching the aisles for pancake mix when I heard someone call Harry's name. "HAAARRRYYYY!" a female said excitedly. We both turned around curiously wondering who it was. To my surprise it was a blonde girl, around my age in tall six inch pumps with a short mini dress and a ton of makeup waving at Harry. Instantly, I looked over to see Harry's reaction and trust me, he did not look pleased. 

"Bethany!" he said trying to sound excited. I looked at him with confusion, I had no clue who the hell this girl was. She ran down the aisle and put her arms around his torso, giving him a very warm greeting. 

"Where you been Hazza?" she said and I had a feeling that she knew him well enough to call him that. 

"I've been busy, busy, busy!" he said sarcastically. Finally the blonde girl looked over at me examining almost every bit of me, I felt extremely uncomfortable under her spotlight. "This is Ella, my girlfriend" Harry said as he wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me closer to him.

I faked a smile in her direction trying to seem friendly. 

"Hi" she said coldly, I could tell she didn't like me already. 

"We should go now" Harry said as we interlocked fingers and said goodbye to Bethany. 

"Who was that hun?" I asked once we were paying at the cash register.

"Old friend" he said instantly while taking out his wallet to pay for the items.

For some reason I could tell that she was not an old friend, I had a strong feeling she was something else.