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The one where he's with Kendall, while she's standing alone in a crowded room.

"Y/N, for the thousandth time, I can't come with you, but I promise I'll get there soon after," Harry states, continuing to fold his clothes and place them inside the little suitcase and travel pack laying open on their bed. Frowning at his lack of sorrow or any remorseful emotion, y/n moves closer to him and nudges him reproachfully.

"Harry, this is really important to me. You know that," she says softly, unable to express how much she wanted him to be there.

"It's just a party," he mutters, raising his hands in defense when y/n's face fell. It was the Halloween party held in an Art Exhibit where all of y/n's friends and her boss from work would be there to support her. The art exhibit held at a museum an hour and a half away was famous for its modern art, depicting the past from the perspective of the current year. Y/N had created a series of pieces painstakingly over the pay two years.

She had calculated every shade and stroke she would brush onto the canvas. Now was her moment to get her art some exposure from some very famous judges coming down to the museum for both the event hosted there, and an art contest awarding the artist with the best technique and most creativity instilled within their collective pieces. Y/N could feel something good coming out of the blood, sweat and tears she had spent on the project. At least, she hoped that was the case.

She wanted Harry to be there in particular, because he was her muse and motivation. The entire piece depicted Harry, from the softness of his curly hair to the hues of forest green in his eyes and the craters indenting his cheeks. The faint amusement and shyness in the purse of his cherry lips as he smirked, and the innocent furrow of his eyebrows. It was him. It was her love on a series of canvases, all set to unravel what was the love of her life.

Harry didn't know.

He didn't know that there was a contest, and she'd entered it with her masterpiece being him. He didn't know she'd spent months sketching and painting what she remembered from when he'd laugh with his dimples showing and his eyes alit like a child on Christmas Day. He didn't know she'd spent months putting what she felt onto paper, restarting over and over if the slightest feeling was inaccurately expressed. He probably didn't know how much she loved him. But that was okay, y/n had decided, because she wasn't quite sure of the measure of that, either.

He didn't know she had spent hours and days at a time painting in the art studio downtown where she kept her work, because she was painting him. He had assumed she was working on some other project and that the exhibition event was just a Halloween party. Nevertheless, Harry had been the one to text y/n repeatedly when she had fallen asleep in the studio, paintbrush in hand as the moonlight swept over her cheeks and hair. He had been the one to coo and half carry her grumpy, sleepy self into the car, where she would fall asleep and wake in her warm, safe bed with him the next morning.

"Baby, you needa eat," he'd scold y/n half heartedly, his eyebrows dipping in concern as he lifted her up from where she'd nodded off, standing in front of a canvas and had nearly fallen and hit her head on the hardwood floor beneath them.

"Don't look!" y/n yelped, panic in her eyes as Harry merely rolled his eyes amusedly, and brought her closer to his chest when he had her up in his arms in bridal style.

"Only got my eyes on you, petal," he murmurs, sponging kisses to her cheeks, and down her neck, making her giggle softly.

"Not here, you goose," she stops him through laughs as he continues to assault her with kisses and lovebites- "there are paintbrushes everywhere, and there's paint on the floor. Not on the floor, Harry!"