Once a Love Story

Chapter 3 - Harry

Tessie P.O.V

When school was over, I waited for Alex outside the school. I wanted to talk with him, be with him and just see him. However, he didn't come, even after half an hour. I decided to ask Ann, if she wanted to go to Holiday with me, so I texted her. After 30 seconds, she already answered. She couldn't because she had to attend to a family dinner. Well then, I might as well go myself. There was only a few customers, so I got a table for myself. I sat there with my strawberry smoothie and thought about the roses and the note. Could it really be William? But he never said anything about liking me, and defiantly not loving me! As I sat there, I felt a presence beside me. I looked at the person, who just sat down next to me. My eyes widened as I saw who it was. It was Harry, the moviestar!? I was speechless and VERY surprised! Harry smiled at me with an innocent smile. I just nodded back, which made him giggle!? What was going on!?

Harry P.O.V

As I stepped into Holiday, my eyes fell on one girl sitting in the corner. She was deep in thought, I could tell. She just looked down in her smoothie, her facial expression changed every second. I laughed to myself and thought it would be interesting to talk to her. I sat down next to her. When she noticed someone sitting next to her, she looked my way. She was VERY surprised by seeing me, which made me smile. She was actually very cute when surprised. She nodded firmly, which made me laugh a little. She was very polite. She turned her head toward her smoothie again and her whole body became firm. She was nervous, which I understand. I was a former actor, so she had probably seen me in movies. "Aren't you going to drink it?" she gave a little jump of surprise, and then looked at me with a nervous and confused smile. "What?" she asked confused. I pointed at her smoothie. "Did you buy it just to stare at it?" she blushed as she looked at her smoothie. "N-NO! I am going to drink it!" she almost yelled in embarrassment. I laughed as she took the smoothie up to her mouth. After taking a big sip from it, she looked superior at me. "What do you say to that?" she said happy and high in pride. I couldn't hold it in, so I broke out I laughter. I take a glance at the girl, who is totally red in embarrassment. "D-don't laugh!" she shouts in embarrassment. "I'm sorry, it's just that you are so funny to tease." She looks at me as if I am stupid. "You don't even know me!" she pout, while looking the other way. "No, but I want to" she turn her head surprised. "What?" she ask. "You heard me" I stand up to go up and buy a drink.

Tessie P.O.V

Harry stands up and walk towards the bar. What just happen, except me making a fool of myself in front of a moviestar. I take a sip from my smoothie and glance up at Harry, who is waiting for his drink. He is cool, but not very nice after teasing me like that. Then it hit me... A moviestar just talked to me, actually teased me!? OMG! Why did he even talk to me to begin with? I looked up to where he was standing and caught him looking at me. He smiled at me and even WAVED to me!? What is wrong with this person!? I hurried to turn my head and tried to ignore him. However, that didn't help. After he got his drink, he sat next to me again and looked at me. "What?" He just smiled at me. "Nothing just thought you were cute when embarrassed" he said it with a smirk on his face. I took a deep breath and looked him in the eyes. His dark, brown eyes were still gorgeous, but this time they were looking at me! I almost melted, just like chocolate! "Why did you talk to ME of all people?" He looks at me. "You looked like an interesting girl, so you caught my eye" he smiles charmingly at me, which makes me blush. NO TESSIE! You have Alex! I smile at Harry. "Thank you, but I already have a boyfriend" Harry suddenly break out in laughter again... what now? "Sorry, but I didn't look at you that way AT ALL! I just want a new friend, nothing else!" I get all red, feeling embarrassed! "S-sorry, I just thought that... after you said it that way..." He stopped laughing and suddenly changed back to being serious, looking firmly at me. "But if you want to..." "NO!" He then starts laughing again and I realized that he teased me again... GOSH this guy! I punch him in the side out of anger and embarrassment. When he (finally) is done laughing he looks at me. "So what is your name?" he take a sip from his drink. "Tessie..." I say quietly. "Tessie" he repeats while looking around with a satisfied smile. Then he turns my way again. "Tessie, do you want to be friends?" he says with a big smile. "F-friends?" I ask confused. He nod and I thought that, if it's only friends that won't hurt. Plus, Ann will be so happy to hear this! I smile at him and nods, which made his smile bigger. Now I could see his shining teeth's. He's really good looking! But I love Alex more... I always will!  

After talking with Harry, my mood changed completely! He really is a cool guy! We talked about music, movies (also the ones he had a part in) and many other things! We have so much in common and I already feel comfortable with him. I don't know why, but I trust this person, even though I just met him. As we talked our topic changed to my boyfriend, Alex. "So how is your boyfriend like?" I blushed, thinking of giving Alex the title 'my boyfriend'. "He's name is Alex and he is very sweet! I really love him!" Harry smiled. "How long have you been together?" "2 months" Harry's eyes widened of surprise. "And you already LOVE him?" I giggle to myself. "I fell in love with him the first time I saw him in grade school" I blushed and Harry looked at me, dumbfounded. "That's really rare, you know!" I looked at him. "What do you mean?" he looked down on his drink, suddenly with a sad smile. "A girl who stays with you, even though it won't work out... it really is rare." He gives a bitter laugher and then sigh. "But it does!" Harry looks up at me. "It does work out for us! He loves me, just as I love him! That our love!" I say with confident. Harry stares at me, but then giggle. "You are really cute when you're talking about your boyfriend." I blush and play with the straw from my smoothie. "What about you?" "What?" "Do you have any girlfriend?" Harry keep silent, but then sigh. "I had, but she couldn't take me being popular between other girls... so she left me." I felt sad for him and didn't know what to say. "Don't worry, somewhere out there, there is a girl who will take it. Not because she likes it, but because she likes you. I truly believe that!" Harry looks up at me, deep in though. Then he gives me a sad, yet happy smile. "Thank you, Tessie." I smile back at him, when my phone suddenly vibrate. It's a text. I grab my phone from my pocket and look at the text. It is from mom, who ask where I am. Then I look at the clock. "AH!" I stand up in chock and Harry looks surprised and confused at me. "What is it?" he ask. "Look at the time, I need to go home!" I turn my head towards Harry and smile. "Thank you for today, Harry! I really enjoyed talking with you!" Then I turn to the exit and run for it. My mom is gonna kill me!!

When I got home, mom was furious! She gave me an hour-long lesson about how bad it is being out so late at night, especially on weekdays! When I (finally) escaped mom's lesson I jumped on my bed. It's been a long day! First the misunderstanding with the roses and the note, then Ann and her search for the real culprit behind it and then the thing with Harry. Ah! That reminded me, I just left Harry in Holiday like that! I didn't even say goodbye properly! I just left like that. Well, the next time I see him I will apologize. I looked at the roses and the note, which lay on my desk. Could it really be him? AH I am going to get a headache because of this!!

Next day ~~~
I overslept today. It had been a very stressful morning at home, so I didn't get the time to do my makeup properly today! I hope Alex don't realize! He hates when I don't wear any makeup! I ran all the way to school, so I was pretty tired when I arrived at the school. Ann sat on her seat in the class and I didn't even get the time to greet her, because the lesson already started. What a horribly morning!

After the first lessons, we finally got lunchbreak! I hurried over to Ann and greeted her. Then we walked towards the cafeteria. I asked Ann about her family dinner and she told me all about how her two youngest cousins made the chicken fly in the middle of the dinner. I laughed my ass off! "What about you? What did you do yesterday?" As I was about to tell her my encounter with Harry, I got interrupted by Mary calling my name out loud. "Tessie!" we both looked toward the way the voice came from. Mary was standing a little further down the hall from us. She looked angry. "Tessie you cheater!" What? I noticed the crowd of people standing at the bulletin board. I hurried to the board, just to see a piece of paper hanging there. It was a picture from yesterday with Harry and me on. "What's this" I heard a familiar voice behind me. I turned around, just to see Alex and his bunch of friends. He looked angry, VERY angry. I felt the panic run down my spine. No... this is not happening!