High School Musical (Hariana)

We're Sorry & I'm Sorry

Harry went home later on that day and started shooting hoops. He was missing every basket and grunting. He was mad at himself because he doesn't know what's the deal with his team not counting on him. And most importantly, why Ariana won't speak, look or sing with him anymore. Harry's dad watched him from the kitchen seeing his son beating himself up of something he didn't know what it is.

The next day at school, during study hall Harry went to his and used to be Ariana's secret hideout. Suddenly, he saw some of his teammates. "Oh, hey."

"Harry! Hey." Niall said.

"Hey, Harry!" Said Luke.

"Hey, um... We just had another team meeting." Ashton told Harry.

"Oh...wonderful." Harry said sarcastically.

"We had a team meeting about how we haven't been acting like a team. I mean us, not you. About the singing thing..." Ashton trailed off.

"I don't even want to talk about it." Snapped Harry.

"We just want you to know that we're going to be there. Cheering for you."

"What?" Harry asked.

"If singing is what you want to do, we should boost you up, not tear you down. Yeah. Win or lose, we're teammate. That's what we're about. Even if you turn out to be the worst singer in the world. Which we don't know, because we haven't heard you sing." Ashton encouraged Harry.

"You're not gonna hear me sing, guys. Because Ariana won't talk to me..." Harry stopped for a moment. "...and I don't know why." He sighed. Ashton looked at Niall and Luke.

"We do." Ashton said.

"What?" Harry looked at them confused. Luke pulled out some cookies and handed them to Harry.

"Here. I baked these fresh today. You'll probably want to try one before we tell you the rest." Ashton, Niall and Luke all told Harry what happened and why they did it. And that they're sorry for everything.
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In the science lab, Ariana was working on some problem to practice with the scholastic decathlon team. Suddenly, Lauren and the academic team came up to Ariana and stopped Ariana to say an apology. "Ariana, we were jerks. We thought Harry and the whole singing thing was killing our chances of having you on the scholastic decathlon team."

"I heard what he had to say. I'm on your team now. Done." Ariana said snapping at Lauren.

"We all heard what he said to his team, Lauren." Becca said to her, pointingly.

"No! Not done. We knew Ashton could get Harry to say things to make you want forget about the callbacks. We planned it, and we're embarrassed and sorry. No one forced Harry to say anything." Lauren told Ariana.

"I'll believe it when Harry says that. And you know what? It's okay. We should prepare for the decathlon, it's time to move on."

"No, it's not okay. The decathlon is whatever, but how you feel about us, and even more, Harry. That's what really matters." Ariana rolled her eyes looking back to her textbooks finding a new problem. "We tried." Lauren whispered to the scholastic team and went out. Ariana looked at them as they left, feeling bad for snapping.
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Later on that very night Harry went to Ariana's house to try to apologize to Ariana. "Hi, uh... Just came to say I'm sorry." He said to himself. When he wasn't looking Ariana's mom, Joan Grande, saw him talking to himself. She opened the door scaring Harry. "Hi, Mrs. Grande, I'm Harry Styles."

"Oh, Harry!" Ariana came down hearing her mom saying Harry's name. Her sister Becca was in her room working on some of her homework from school. Her mom looking back seeing Ariana on the stairs shaking her head mouthing 'no.' "Um... Ariana is kind of busy with homework, now's not a good time."

"I made a mistake, Mrs. Grande, and I would really like Ariana to know that. Could you tell her that I came by to see her?" Harry asked.

"I will... Harry. Goodnight."

"Goodnight. Thank you." Harry walked away but stopped himself. He looked back to the house had a fence. Harry opened the fence being quite as he can. He opened up his phone and called Ariana.

Ariana was in her bedroom studying and doing homework. She was about to cry remembering what Harry said. Suddenly, her phone started to ring. Seeing it's Harry, he sucked up his courage and answered. "Hello?" She asked timidly.

"What you heard, none of that is true. I was sick of my friends riding me, so I said thing to shut them up. I didn't mean any of it." Harry looked around nervously hoping no one will find him.

"You sounded pretty convincing to me." Ariana turned on her light and Harry noticed figuring out a plan.

Becca could hear a little bit of the phone conversation that her sister Ariana is having with Harry. She put down her pencil and got up from the bed and walked over to Ariana's bedroom. "Ari, what's going on?" She asked.

"I'm on the phone with Harry," Ariana told her. "He wants to explain to me what happened at school."

"Listen, the guy you met on vacation is more me than the guy who said those stupid things." Harry started to climb Ariana's tree that leads to Ariana's bedroom balcony.

"The whole singing thing is making the school whack! You said so yourself. Everyone's treating you differently because of it."

"Maybe because I don't want to only be the basketball guy. They can't handle it. That's not my problem, it's theirs."

"But what about your dad?" Ariana asked as she leaned up against the bed frame. Becca went to sit down on her bed, listening to the conversation.

"And it's not about my dad. This is about how I feel, and I'm not letting the team down. They let me down. So I'm going to sing. What about you?" He asked Ariana.

"I don't know, Harry. You said it yourself you don't even want to do it."

"Ariana! Listen to me. Well, you need to say yes." He paused for a moment. "Because I brought you something."

"What do you mean?"

"Turn around." Ariana turned around seeing Harry standing there on his balcony. She opened the door and stared at Harry confused.

What is he going to do? Harry thought.

Harry:

This could be the start of something new
It feels so right to be here with you
Oh
And now...lookin' in your eyes
I feel in my heart
The start of something new

Harry sang the song that they sang at the New Year's party and spoke new. Ariana smiled and Harry pulled out the sheet music to the song. "It's a pairs audition." Ariana walked up to Harry and took the sheet music. She turned to Harry and hugged him.

"You are forgiven." Harry smiled and both of them looked over the sheet music in Ariana's room.