the stranger [h.s]

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As soon as we walked into the school building, the sound of the band playing along with the cheer of students was loud.

"Ready for a good ole Texas pep rally?" I ask as we near the entrance of the gym.

"Most certainly." he smiles. I then open the door and start walking in, automatically smiling at the familiar sight. Cheerleaders in stunts, football players on the gym floor in uniform, the band playing loudly as the students cheer along with them.

"wow," Harry gasp chuckling as he looks around.

"and it's just getting started." I smile as I find his hand, leading us through the crowd.

Every once and a while, I would hear a loud gasp or a faint whisper saying, 'that's harry styles.' But it was nothing like it normally was, this is was considered paradise compared to the normal LA outing.

I find my mom sitting standing toward the front of the crowd, we push our up next to her.

"You made it!" she cheers smiling as she claps her hands to the cheers.

"Wow, this is cool." Harry laughs as he watches the students hoot and holler.

"Oh yes, it's very fun!" my Mom laughs.

"Does Ashley know we are here?" I ask my mom as I start searching through the cheerleaders looking for her.

"I'm not sure, she was just over there to the right but I lost sight of her!" my mom says, joining me in the search for Ashley.

"Ah, there she is!" I say as I spot her, she was on the other side of the court chatting with one of her friends.

"Oh good." my mom smiles.

"So that's your little sister?" Harry ask.

"Yep, thats Ashley." I chuckle.

"You look alike," he says looking back and forth between us.

"We do?" I say surprised at his thought.

"Yeah, aside from the hair." he smiles small.

"Yeah, the hair always gets everyone." I laugh.

I look back over to her and see her looking straight at us, her eyes are now wide and her mouth is wide open.

"And that is exactly what I apologized for earlier, she has officially spotted her 'Harry Styles' " I tell Harry as we both look at her. Harry lifts his hand and waves awkwardly with a smile on his face.

She smiles back but quickly looks away, trying to play it cool.

"Gosh Ashely," I sigh as I start to laugh.

"Oh shush Collins, she's nervous." My mom says elbowing my side.

I just laugh it off, and Harry does the same.

The actual pep rally starts now, the band starts playing the school song and the cheerleaders start performing the motions to it.

My Dad walks out and stands beside some football players, starting up conversation.

"Oh there's my Dad!" I say telling Harry as I point out him.

"Oh okay, is he nice?" he says obviously nervous.

"Don't worry, he's very very nice." I giggle.

"Oh good," he smiles.

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The pep rally has officially ended, people were clearing the gym to head back to class.

Harry and I were following my mom through the crowd, occasionally stopping to talk to an old family friends.