Nacho Average One Direction Story

And Fly

LIZZ MAYBERRY POV

     He wouldn't get up. I had tried everything nice. "Harry get your sorry butt up this very moment!" I shouted while hitting him in the head with a pillow.

     "Right meow?" He asked and I rolled my eyes. He made a feeble attempt to push himself off the ground and fell onto his stomach again, hugging a pillow to his chest. "I cat!" He grumbled forcefully.

     "Yes, you can. Harry, I'm not kitten!" I said before I could remind myself I should be stern and not playing along.

     He opened one eye and looked at me with a smile and for a second, I was hopeful I had succeeded. But he scrunched his nose and shook his head, pressing his face into his pillow and bringing his knees under him like he was doing yoga in child's pose.

     I sat on his back and bounced lightly. "If you don't get up, you can't give me my surprise."

     "Oh, yeah!" He exclaimed as he stood up briskly and sent me flying as a result.

     "Easy, chief," I laughed as he ran down the stairs to breakfast.

HARRY STYLES POV

     I was very nervous she wouldn't like it. I was nervous she would hate me for bringing her here. But as I led a blindfolded Lizz around the chain-link fence that surrounded her high school track, I couldn't help but feel like I was doing the right thing.

     I led her to the high jump area where the mat was uncovered and the bar was already set at a low height. Mrs. Mayberry, who still insisted I call her Rose or Mom, and Mr. Mayberry, who I call Sir because he absolutely terrifies me, stood to the side. Sir was aiming his iPad towards us, filming the whole thing. Zac was standing next to Rose Mom.

     Sir gave me a nod and I gave the camera a thumbs up but I know my face didn't look as confident because Rose Mom stifled a giggle.

     I stepped in front of Lizz to face her and took a deep breath. "It's okay if you don't want to be here. I'll get you out as soon as you breathe the word," I murmured and I watched as her eyebrows drew together with suspicion.

     I reached to the back of her head and slowly undid the blindfold which was just a pair of my shorts because three hoots for planning ahead. As I lowered the shirt away, Lizz slowly opened her eyes and immediately shut them again as soon as she recognized where she was.

 

     I put my hands on her shoulder and leaned into her to make sure she was listening to me. "Lizz, you said your biggest regret and one of the worst things about it was that you ended on a miss. Rose Mom- um, I mean your mother talked to your doctor and he said you would be fine to do some jumping with the bar set low."

     "I don't think I can, Harry," she said while gripping the front of my t-shirt with two fisted hands as she breathed raggedly.

     "I know you can."

     "I don't need this. This chapter is gone in my life."

     "It's closure."

     "You said you would take me away if I didn't want to do it."

     "But I know you do. You are just scared. But I know you want and need this. Elizabeth, I know you. Yesterday you said you trusted me more than anything in the world, right?" She nodded. "Do you still?" She nodded again. "You want to."

     "Yes."

     "Then just go for it. Let it freaking rip. If I didn't think you could do this, I wouldn't have put you in this position."