Beauty and the Beast

Chapter 21- finally together

"Harry no I don't want to"

"Please"

"No Harry if I get kidnapped by your stupid friends then I won't even give a shit I hate this world anyways"

"Don't say that" I turn around and walk down the street I guess his car broke down because he's been walking everywhere. He wants my forgiveness but I'm not giving it to him. Yeah last week I got in the car with him and went to his house but that's because I was scared shitless of what was happening with me. And now he doesn't want me to be alone period.

"Harry just go away" he grabs my wrist and pulls me around and kisses me. We haven't kissed in what feels like forever because we never know where are relationship is. I lean into it for a second before I pull away quickly. I shake my head.

"I can't be with you"

"Yes you can, you can stay with me and I can keep you safe from anyone, please let me help you"

"I don't need help" I look up at him and he looks down. his pleading eyes are making me go weak but I need to be strong and hold myself up with the little peices I have left.

"Yes you do look at you. Your broken and you know I can help you"

"I know I'm broken but what's me living with you going to do about that? you ran a business and me being around you can put me in even more danger"

"please please let me have a chance" I stare at the ground. what if I do give him a chance? it won't hurt to try right? nothing's going to be fixed if I live in that old depressing house anyways and I'm not safe either. At least when I'm with him I feel safe and secure.

"Okay" I whisper at the ground.

"What?" I can hear the smile in his face but I don't want to see it right now.

"Okay" I say a little louder. he puts his fingers under my chin and lifts my face up. he searches my fave for any sign to say I'm joking but he can't find one. he smiles and kisses me. I kiss him back and he smiles through the kiss. I feel my walls slowly breaking down but I can't let them.

"Can we go now it's been a long day for both of us" he says pulling away. I nod and turn to start walking he comes by me and grabs my hand. I hesitated but laced my fingers with his.

"So what happens now?" I ask watching our feat.

"We go to your place get your shit then go to mine"

"I'm not ready to leave my grams house"

"Well then we go to my house get my shit then go to yours"

"Okay, sounds good" we walk in a comfortable silence until my house comes to view.

"You have a car right" I nod at him.

"It's in the garage"

"Why don't you ever drive it?"

"It got fixed a while back, remember when we first met?" He nods at me remembering the day we met and he gave me a ride to my house.

"You were so scared that day" he laughs at the memory but I don't. I scoff at him and look away.

"I think every girl was" I feel his grip on my hand tighten a little bit he quickly relaxes. you can see my house just down the road and I sigh in happiness. Once we get to the house in silence I unlock the door and Harry shuts it behind him.

"I'm going to change and find the keys so just stay down here" he nods and walks to the couch. I jog upstairs and change into sweats then go back down. I walk into the kitchen. I go through each drawer looking for the black key.

"Where the hell did she put it?" I whisper to myself.

"This one?" I turn and Harry has the key in his hand.

"Yeah" I turn and go out the door to the garage.

"What the actual fuck Skyla"

"What?" I walk to the driver side of my car and look over at him confused.

"You have a Range Rover?"

"Umm yeah? I've had it?"

"And you've been walking everywhere for the past 3 months?" I shrug at him and he shakes his head. We both get in and once we take off his questions start.

"How did you afford this?"

"My parents were pretty wealthy It used to be theirs"

"You don't have to pay monthly"

"No they owned it"

"Holy shit" he whispers but why is he so surprised? he has one just like it but his is black mines white.

"How did you get yours?" I question glaring over at him.

"Umm I just had the money"

"So you just randomly had the money to buy an apartment and a super nice car?" he nods and nervously looks away. the way he gets nervous when we talk about his money makes me feel off about him but I need to look past it.

We pull up to his house and I notice his car is gone.

"What happened to your car?" I ask as we walk up to his apartment.

"Umm it's getting fixed"

"Ohhhhh" once we get there I just sit on the couch waiting for him to get everything and I stare at the wall I stared at when I was here last time. I get the chills and stand up walking over to the kitchen. which also bad things have happened. I move away and decide to go to Harry's room.

"Woahhhh" Harry's getting changed but all I could see is his butt. I turn around and lean on the door.

"Tell me when your pants are on" he chuckles which makes my heart melt a little and finally says he's done. I turn back around and sit on the bed.

"I thought you were gonna wait in the front room"

"Umm i was thinking too much" he nods and continues shoving clothes into his bag.

"How long are you staying?"

"As long as I need" e smiles at me and his dimples pop out I smile back and watch him carefully as he shoves a couple shirts in the bag. He zips it up and I stay staring at the same spot. He's staying with me. because he wants to keep me safe. but is that the same Only reason? To keep me safe? to be with me? or both? or none.

"Ready?" I stare at the same spot not answering. I feel the hole tearing inside of me more and more thinking about why he's staying with me in the first place.

"Skyla? are you okay?" my eyes flicker towards him and a smile comes to my face. it's fake I can tell because it came too fasts and I think he notices because he doesn't smile back.