Sex, Secrets and Love II

4. Work

I jumped out of bed and went over to the mirror. I must admit, I do like the way that my face glows once I have had sex with the boys. In the six months I was away from them, I hadn't had it once, I looked plain. Boring.

"Whatcha looking at" Harvey asked me, he came over behind me and places his arm around me. I looked into the mirror and saw the two of us. We look picture perfect, but if people really knew everything going on, it is far from perfect.

"Wait" I realised that Harvey was here, and not out with the others. "Why are you here?"

"To fuck you" He said and I chocked on his vulgar words. He laughed at me and stroked the pad of his thumb under my eye. "I have some work that I really need to do, and research that needs to be done by tomorrow so Luke told me I wasn't allowed to go" He said, rolling his eyes at the end. I laughed and walked over to my wardrobe.

"He just wants what's best for you" I said and winked a him, shaking my naked bum at him as I walked away.

"What are you doing today?" Harvey asked me as I was pulling on my underwear.

"I thought I would go to the studio. I need to go and see what bits I need to shoot with this week." I said while pulling on a black skater dress and some black slip on vans.

"Can I drive you? There is a library next door right? I could do with being somewhere where I have to work" He said. I smiled and nodded at him. I grabbed my bag and went to grab by keys from the kitchen.

"Can I drive your car? I have always wanted to drive and Audi" He asked me as he was walking out of the door. I threw him my keys, which he didn't manage to catch, then continued to moan about the whole way to work.

Harvey took all of his stuff into the library, across the road from my studio. I walked inside and went to my fitting room. To my surprise, Toby was sat at my desk, going through the outfits that I was needing to wear this week. How it works with this company, I basically get a pile of clothes that I am requited to model for that week. On top of that, I sometimes need to do demonstrations or catwalks. They don't come often but when they do, It is a lot of extra work and rehearsals.

"Toby!" I said, extremely shocked. "What are you doing here on a Sunday?" I asked.

"Oh hey Rose, um" He said, scratching his neck, looking like a deer caught in headlights, "I just wanted to make it easier for you when you made it in to work this week, I know you moved house so I didn't want to put any extra pressure on you" He said and guided me over to the rack of clothes, "I separated everything into categories like swimwear and jumpers, and on the paper on your desk I planned possible outfits that you might be able to wear if the stylist thinks that it suits you. I just wanted to help" He said.

"Wow, Toby thank you!" I said. This will save me heaps of time.

I looked through the papers that Toby had drawn up. I made slight amendments and looked through the clothing racks, picking out some of my favourite items of clothing. It didn't take me long at all to do the bits and pieces I wanted to do as Toby had already done the most of it for me. I picked up my folder and went to the coffee shop with Toby downstairs in out studio.

He went and bought us both a drink and we sat on the sofas in the shop. I didn't want to disturb Harvey yet, he if he was working I would rather him do that for a while longer.

"Where did you move to?" Toby asked. I had once lived down the street from Toby, he was a lovely lad but he hadn't worked with the company for long. His mother works higher up, so he now has an apprenticeship with us.

"Back where I lived before, with a group of friends who all go to University. It's about 30 minutes away from here, but in the opposite direction to my old flat" I said, but tried to change the subject back to him as I didn't want the subject of who I live with, "What about you? I know you used to live near me but who with?" I asked him. He looked delighted to be answering the question.

"I live with my brother and his friend and one of my friends, it's great being away from my parents, it just sucks that I then have to work with my mum" he said and rolled his eyes. I laughed at him as he carried on moaning about his mum. He was actually a really lovely guy.

We spoke about school and what he enjoys doing and what he wants for life, he told me about his family and friends. He was talking for a while before he tried to switch it back to me.

"What about your family? Do you see them much?" he asked.

"Not really, I don't have the best of relationships with my parents, not really with my brother anymore as well. Its kinda complicated but I have a good group of friends, and a great job so, it'll all be okay" I said.

"Who do you live with now?" He asked, "I didn't catch it earlier" He said and waited for the answer.

"Me" I heard coming from behind me. I turned around and saw Harvey walking over to me.

"Yeah, Toby this is Harvey. He is one of the people I live with." Toby politely held his hand out and shook Harvey's hand. "I'll see you later on in the week Toby" I said and glanced down at my watch, I didn't realise it was coming up for 6pm, "we need to run" I leant over and gave him a hug and picked up my folder and walked out the café. Harvey slumped along next to me and kept quiet until we got into the car.

"So I'm ringing you." Harvey started once he was pulling out of the carpark. "and ringing and ringing you because you had been working for quite a while" he carried on, dramatically, "and I find you all over a lad in a café!" he said, raising his voice.

"Alright, alright. One, I did go and work but Toby had done most of the work for me already, he didn't want me to be overwhelmed seeing as he knew I was working. Two, I wasn't all over him. I was getting to know who the people are that I work with" I said and Harvey shut up for a while.

"Look, we only just got you back" Harvey muttered. His hand reached over to my leg and gave it a tight squeeze. "We don't want to lose you."

The rest of the car journey home was quiet. Harvey said that he 'didn't feel well' when we got home and just went straight up to bed before even saying hello to any of the boys.

I went into the living room, I saw three of the boys sat there.

"Wheres Zayn?" I asked.

"He said he wasn't feeling well, he went straight to bed" Liam told me. I nodded at them and we all sat in the living room and watched tv until around 10:30. The boys were all really quiet today, I felt a weird atmosphere in the room.

"Bedtime for me!" Louis sung while climbing off the bed.

"Same" Liam and Niall chorused. The three boys left the room, without looking back.

Once I was sat, on my own in the living room I decided to go and see if Harvey was okay. I want the boys to be happy, so I creeped up the stairs, tuning all the lights off as I went and went into Harvey's room.

He was just lying on his bed, staring at the wall so I just silently walked over to his bed, stripped off and climbed in and held him tight.

"I don't want you to leave" Harvey whispered.

"I'm not, I'll be with you boys for as long as you want me" I said and stroked his head until he fell asleep.