Mistakes || H.S. ||

chapter 22

Yesterday was Thanksgiving and we had a nice family dinner, Harry, me, my mamaw, papaw, and Braxton. Nothing really big.

It was 5 in the morning and I couldn't sleep. I was watching Boy Meets World while sitting in the rocking chair. Everybody else was asleep.

We had our flight back to London at 7 pm. So I had a while to start packing.

The sun was just starting to rise and I decided to grab a cup of coffee and head outside on the porch.

One of my old neighbors Austin was outside mowing the grass. He immediately saw me sitting on the porch. He waved, "Hey Zoe! Where you been?" He said, walking over.

"Oh nothing, Carly and I moved to London for college. Oh yeah. The norm." I said laughing.

"Let me guess? You went up there to meet One Direction." He said acting like a smart elic.

I looked down at my feet kicking, "Uhh about that. I kind of met somebody." I said awkwardly.

"Who's that?" He asked smiling.

I grabbed my phone out of my back pocket and showed him my background.

He gasped, "You are lying, that's totally photoshopped. That's the boy. The boy from the band. One Direction. Oh my gosh." He said sitting down on the porch steps.

Then I heard the front door squeak open, "Hey babe, why are you up so early?" And then he sat down beside me putting his head on my lap.

He glanced up at me, and I pointed toward Austin coughing.
Harry jolted up, staring at Austin.

"Who's this?" Harry asked concerned.

Austin looked at me scared.

"He's one of my childhood friends, we grew up neighbors. He saw me over here and decided to come say hi." I told
Harry.

Austin tried to walk away secretly.

"No. No, you can stay, I wanna ask you something about Zoe here." Harry said wrapping his arm around me. I laid my legs over his lap.

"So what was Zoe like years back?" He asked smiling.

"Well she was a blabber mouth. Haha, but she made straight A's, barely made B's. She was the basketball star, she was always single, until she met Trey. She was a goody-goody, never broke the rules. Always stayed home, barely partied until she met Carly. She started playing AAU & met Duval girls. She started changing. That's when I never saw her again." Austin said, fumbling with his fingers.

I grabbed Harry's hand, "That's when I moved to London, I kind of wanted to leave all that behind. I wanted to start new at college down here. I didn't want to be near anybody I knew, but Carly obviously had to tag along." I said frowning. " But I met you and I was so glad."

"Oh yeah, I forgot. All she did was fangirl about you all. 1D that, 5sos this. She pretty much went to every concert, watched every video, knew every song." Austin said laughing at me.

"That's fine, I love my fans. Especially you." He said kissing my cheek.

"Well I need to head back and mow the lawn. It's nice to meet you Harry." He said standing up, shaking Harry's hand.

He bent down and hugged me, "I'll miss you Zoe, it was good to see you." Austin said walking off.

"I wanna head back to bed." I said groaning.

"Go to bed babe, I'll stay down here and cook ya some breakfast after you wake up." I raised up out of the swing and kissed him. "Thank you"

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I woke up out of bed, gosh I feel so much better. I reached over and grabbed my phone and checked the time. Gosh, it's already 2, it's not breakfast anymore.

"Thank god your awake! We need to start packing." Harry said rushing through the door.

I jumped outta bed.

"Ugh what about my food." I groaned.

"Well I made it about 4 hours ago. Your papaw said to go ahead throw the scraps away." Harry said.

"That meany."

"Don't say that. How about this? We leave early and I'll get you some food from your favorite place?" He said wrapping his arms around my waist. His front to my back.

I turned around wrapping my arms around his neck smiling.

"Okay that's fine with me." I said.

He leaned in to kiss me and I dodged.
"Nope not until I get my Taco Bell." I said teasing.

"Are you kidding me, baby?" He said with a baby voice giving me the puppy dog eyes. I gave in and leaned in. He smiled into the kiss. Asking for entrance and I let him. I mumbled against his lips, "Go.Pack."

He groaned and grabbed our shared suitcase.

"Since you love me so much, can you pack for me, while I go shower?" I asked nicely. I gave him a pouty face.

"Nope not until you kiss me." Pointing to his cheek.

"Fine." And I walked around and went to kiss his cheek but he turned his head and I kissed his lips. I smiled, "This is why I'm crazy inlove with you." I said.