Equal Ice // Harry Styles AU

Chapter 96

Chapter 96

Harry’s POV

I got a good amount of stuff packed in the last twenty or thirty minutes that I’ve been in my room. I would’ve been further in my packing, but a little less than halfway into it, I realized that even though I told myself that I wasn’t going to bother with washing the dirty clothes, I knew that it would probably be a good idea to wash some of them.

I really didn’t want the first thing I had to do when I got to England was have to wash all my clothes because I knew my mum would nag me about all my dirty clothes when she would insist on helping me unpack because she knew that I wasn’t going to do it right away.

I had a tendency to just unpack things as I came to need them instead of when I got home. To me doing it that way just seemed easier and more convenient, but my mum wouldn’t care if it worked for me. She would want my room to be clean and all my clothes to be clean and suitcases put away. Some clothes were clean enough that I didn’t have to wash them, so after putting a load of laundry into the washing machine, I went back to my room to pack the rest of my clothes which were pretty much all packed by now.

Everything else I needed to pack I either couldn’t do until the day I left, like my toothbrush and all tha or I just didn't feel like packing anymore right now. All the other things that weren’t packed yet were just due to my laziness of having to pack and wash my clothes right now. While I was waiting for my load of laundry to be finished, I decided to hang out in the living room for a bit where I knew Ben probably still was.

When I walked into the living room, I saw Ben and my aunt sitting on the couch watching a movie. I quietly walked into the living room and sat down on one of the chairs to watch the movie with them. When I looked over at Ben, I was reminded of what he had asked me earlier this morning about why I hadn’t been going to practice lately.

I had never even thought about him taking notice to me being here all day instead of me leaving after breakfast and not getting home until around dinnertime. He was obviously going to start realizing though and asking questions, and it wasn’t fair to him not knowing what was going on. Even though telling him was probably going to be hard for all of us, but it really did need to be done.

I decided I should just tell him tonight because even though he just asked me one question this morning, it was just the beginning of many more to come that I wouldn’t have answers for unless he knew. I was probably making a bigger deal of this in my head than it really was, but I couldn’t help it.

He was my little cousin and I was his older cousin, we were practically like brothers, and now I was leaving. I couldn’t bear to stay though. I was fed up with everyone at the ice rink and all these stupid rules and feuds that were in place there.

Once the movie was close to being over, my aunt got up from the couch and told us that she was going to go start making lunch while we finished the movie. Ben and I both nodded as she walked out of the living room while we continued to watch the TV. I had missed a lot of the beginning of this movie so I wasn’t positive on what was going on and some parts were confusing to me since they were probably explained earlier in the movie.

The ending was going to be pretty predictable though, so once I was sure that I had figured out how it was going to end I decided to go into the kitchen. I quietly got up from the chair, hoping Ben wouldn’t notice right now that I was leaving the living room. He never asked me where I was going so I guess he didn’t notice or didn’t care. I walked into the kitchen where my aunt was preparing sandwiches for Ben and I.

“I know you’re probably hungry, but you need to wait for Ben to finish watching the movie,” she told me, not looking up from spreading peanut butter on a sandwich for Ben.