You're My North Star (H.S. Fanfic)

Part 37 - Here Comes Trouble

"Bro, how is it fair that you have such a good diner so close to your apartment?" Louis uttered through his waffle stuffed mouth, Emily quietly laughed to herself to see him scoff down his last couple mouth fulls whilst Zayn complained about Liam stealing the fruit off his plate.

"Hey, Liam, blueberries are my favourite." He pouted with his bottom lip hanging out, "Zayn you can have mine, I don't like them anyways." 

She pushed her plate towards him as his face lit up, "thank youuu." He took no time to guard his hand over them as he piled them onto his fork. 

"So, your really training all day today?" Niall mentioned, "Yep, it's an open day so its important that i'm there to set a good example for all the new kids that want to join." Niall sunk his head into his hands as he looked down at his empty plate. "That sounds fun, I don't want to sit inside all day." 

"You don't have to" Harry argued giving Niall a glimpse of hope that his day wouldn't be boring. "We could all do something while Emily's at work." 

"Yea, but what?" He sighed, sinking back into the corner of the booth they were sat at. "Well, whatever we want" Louis chimed in forcing his mouth full down his throat. 

Niall still until bright ideas started to pop into his head as he started suggesting plans, Emily stole a glance at the clock knowing she had to be at the rink soon and just as she suspected the hour hand was crawling closer to 10:00.

She slipped out of her seat and swung her jacket over her shoulders, "I'm going to head guys, have fun today though." The boys quickly wished her a successful open day over each other's voices before quickly listening into each others ideas of a fun day, well all the boys but Harry, he grabbed her hand just as she turned, pulling her back for a quick kiss. "Have a good day babe" 

The name stirred up her butterflies as well as a gleeful smile, "you two" she chirped happily before walking out.

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"Got it" Bella grinned after hearing Harry's lock click itself open with her mangled bobby pin. Her and Jake awoke at the crack of dawn so they could mess around once more hoping that it would make Emily question whether she should really be in the position she was in or not. Bella had decided late yesterday night that if her belongings that were left at Harry's suddenly went missing she would start to feel suspicious on there relationship, I mean why would you hide your girlfriends clothes and shit if someone else wasn't in the picture. And on the other hand, if Harry suspected she was taking back her belongings then it might seem like she was drifting from the idea of them being together.

It wasn't a huge idea but it would definitely stirr some trouble. There was also a 50% chance that he would be in so it was risky but after Bella saw those pictures, risk was no longer one of her concerns.

"Ok, so you tell me what looks like hers and if you recognise anything" Bella explained to Jake as they creeped into the empty apartment. "Uh, that hoodie is definitely hers, oh so are those shoes.." he pointed towards them as Bella bunched the items in her arms. She continued to frantically search round the apartment since there was no telling when Harry would be back.

While Bella raced into another room looking for more stuff Jake was distracted by the flowers sat on the counter, maybe they were from Emily?

He neared them and took the note out of the bunched up petals, wait a minute, these were for Emily. It sparked a small Idea into his head, he pulled the lighter he kept in his pocket at all times just in case he needed a random smoke and started a small flame at the bottom of the card quickly moving onto the now curling petals. 

"Ok I think I got enou-" Bella came out his room with a bunch of Emily looking clothes and froze to see the rising flames. "Jake what are you doing?" 

"It's not going to hurt anyone, we can leave right now and it will go out by itself, see there's water at the bottom of the glass." Bella rolled her eyes knowing that it was so uncalled for as she reminded herself that Jake doesn't like doing silly little pranks for revenge. 

"Ok, but we have to go" She quickly sprung open the door to see the one facing them with held turning door knob. "Jake! Come on!" Her whisper was emphasising her quiet shout as he ran out after her not thinking before he left.

They had managed to run out the apartment just before being caught by Harry's neighbour, Bella struggled to catch her breath whilst Jake on the other hand pulled a cigarette from his pocket, "why now?" She questioned, pushing the surprising tone out her voice. "Craving one after the smell of that smoke" 

He popped it in between his teeth and dived back into his pocket for the lighter, oh the lighter, where was the lighter!? "Shit, I think I left the lighter inside"

"You're kidding.. Ugh, Jake what the fuck! ..We can't even go back up there and anyway my bobby pin is too mangled to pick the damn lock again." 

He pushed his tongue against his teeth knowing that it was a stupid thing to do, but he wouldn't get caught for it. No way. The last person Emily would expect to be in Harry's apartment burning her flowers would be Jake. Surely.