"The Only Way I Know" (A Harry Styles Fanfiction)

Chapter 28

Okay here comes the apology. Sorry I haven't updated this story in forever. School has really been keeping me busy and so has the homework. But I'm going to try to update as much as possible from now on.

Love you!!!!

SHAY'S POV:

Yesterday was the usual and by usual I don't been boring at all. Harry and I got up and laid in bed for god knows how long and just simply laid there. At first we just laid there looking at each other while Harry had his left arm behind my back, with his huge, warm hand under my shirt and was running his fingers up and down my spine, every once and again letting his finger nails gently scrape across my back. Our legs intertwined and my small fingers tracing over the tattoos on his chest, taking extra time to run my fingers over his butterfly. Listening to him take in deep and sporadic breathes every time I moved my fingers somewhere different just showed how much of an effect I had on him. Harry's chestnut curls lay inside his emerald eyes, those eyes, who were solely trained on my own. And in this moment I realized. Harry was it for me. He was the easiest person for me to be with, the easiest person to be around, to get along with, and to love. It all just came simply with him, that first night I met him in the hotel I knew I was already stuck. He was utterly mesmerizing, all it took was for me to look into his eyes. And right now that statement has never been truer. I love Harry. It most definitely hasn't been long that I have been with him, but I know for a fact that I love him. Time does not define love.

And that is how my whole day was spent with Harry, nothing less and nothing more than just that. It was everything that I needed. We talked, laughed, and joked with each other all day and I absolutely enjoyed every moment of it.

I was drifting into a sleepy state when Harry lightly nudged my arm with his head.

"Shay" Awe I was just about to fall asleep wrapped up in Harry's arms.

"Baby, hey are you awake?" Damn you for being so cute Styles.

"I guess I am now." His chuckle was heard through the room.

"Sorry love, I think I should get going. I have to run a few errands." He said while tucking a strand of hair behind my ear.

"Where do you have to go?" I questioned while turning onto my side, propping myself up with my arm.

"Uh, um ah just, you know. The bakery." Hmm sounds fishy.

"Oh really? Which one?" I think I've caught him in a lie. But why would he need to lie to me?

"Ah the one, the one down the road, around the corner." There was no bakery down there. So he was lying.

"Mm. Okay we'll have fun going to the 'bakery." Well we will just see how this pans out. If he doesn't come clean by tomorrow then I'll bring it up. Yeah, okay.

HARRY'S POV:

Whew that was a close one. I know it wasn't right to lie to Shay, but I had too. I was technically going to run errands, just not going to the bakery. I'm going to pick up Shay's anniversary gift that I had to run to the store a few days back. I think she'll like it, I hope she'll like it. It took a little bit of extra thinking on my part to get it perfect gift for her, but I feel like I really hit the nail on the head. So if you want to know what I got her listen up.

A year or so ago I had been gifted a key necklace from a fan at a meet and greet in Las Vegas. She gave me the key necklace saying that she wanted to 'pay her key forward to me'. I was taken back from her story behind the key necklace and I was extremely touched by the necklace. The necklace meant so much to that teenage girl, and now to me. I wore it every single, solitary day keeping it close to my heart just the same as the meaning behind it. The key necklace represented a love to Miranda, that was the fans name. She said that her boyfriend gave her the key necklace a few months after she and him had been dating. They were madly in love and you could see that from the way she told the story. She went on to say that they dated for a solid 2 years until they hit a bump in the road and things went downhill. She did not go into detail about it but things went down and the 'rest was history' as you would say. They broke up. She says that she needed to let the necklace go, along with her boyfriend and the bad memories it was bringing for her and give it to someone who could show love and compassion and give it to somebody who cares because she felt the urge to pass it on, start a chain reaction. She decided the person she would pass it onto would be me because she said how she could see what a wonderful and try genuine person I was. Also she said she could just tell how in love I was with Shay. Miranda said she could see it in my eyes and that the key now belonged to me. I was absolutely touched.

As you can guess. I am giving this key necklace to Shay now. By giving her this key, I'm going to show and tell her how much she truly means to me and that she has the key to my heart and to never let my heart go because I have never in my life felt this way about somebody before. I love her to death. She's my other half. The owner of the key to my heart That's why this present is perfect.

I took the key to the jewelers to get it engraved. I wanted it to have a special saying on it.

"Our love is endless"

-anonymous

Our love is endless. Oh and if you don't get the the 'anonymous' thing, well that's was I signed my name as on the note I wrote to Shay a month or so ago. It had a special meaning to us and we would always talk about it.

And now in a few hours is when I would be giving this key with so much meaning to Shay because she metaphorically and literally has the key to my heart.