Moksha's Love Story

CHAPTER 4

Two days after my date with Harry, I hopped on a plane back to New York for the winter break. Since Ela lived in California and Anna in Georgia, they decided the flight home wasn't worth it and decided to stay with Chieko in upstate New York instead. I am so excited. I think we're renting out an apartment in Manhattan for a couple of days to have some fun on our own. 

After I landed at JFK I immediately called Chieko. 

"Hey where are you? I just landed. Terminal 2."

"Perfect. Ok so when you exit the doors you'll see a parking structure across the street and were on the second floor. See you soon."Chieko replied.

After I found Chieko's car, we headed out to our airbnb in midtown where I was met with Ela and Anna unpacking. 

"Moksha!" Anna shouted while tackling me onto the bed.

"I missed you!" Ela said jumping around. 

"Hey guys! Ok, we have to spend a couple of hours just catching up on our first semesters. Who wants to go first?" I said.

"Ok so Dartmouth is literally I swear smaller than Exeter but it's really nice because since it's like in the woods, I can really get into the tortured writer mood. And I'm getting so much better at writing too. It's like the professors actually know what they're talking about instead of like Ms. Marshall's class so I'm happy. The boys are ugly though so that sucks." Ela shared.

"Oh the boys at Yale suck booty. They're all like either nerds or annoying rich kids that are on LSD all the time. I'm so upset, I had such high expectations and I'm having a hard time to even find someone to crush on. " Anna said.

I enjoyed listening to everyone's stories but when the topic of boys came up, I just had to tell them about harry. He's all I've been thinking about since our date. He gave me his number so we could talk while I was back in America. He always sent the sweetest texts and voicemails. 

"Guys I have to tell you about a date I went on a couple of days ago in London. His name is Harry and he's a music artist and just the most adorable guy in the whole entire worl-"

"Wait Moksha." Chieko interrupted. "What's Harry's last name?"

"Styles, why?"

"Oh My God. You're telling me you went on a date with Harry Styles?" Chieko asked mouth agape.

"Yeah you heard of him?" I asked, wondering why she was making such a big deal out of it.

"Ok I know you listen to your quirky music but you cannot be that clueless. Harry Styles? The single biggest pop star right now? Just came out with Fine Line where like fiver of his songs were on the top charts? Who sells out MSG in like two seconds? Like that Harry STyles? Do you have. a picture?" Chieko said.

I was at a loss of words for a moment. There's no way he was this famous or else I would've known right? I showed the girls a selfie of us together at the restaurant and they all freaked. Was he really this big of a deal? I didn't exactly trust my friends so I just decided to google Harry Styles instead. The search engine easily produced pictures and songs and tweets and news headlines within a matter of seconds. He really was this big pop star. Did he lie to me? Why didn't he tell me? I had to give him a call so I quickly went to his contact in his phone. By now it was easily 2am in London.

"dfeihello" Harry said, seemingly just waking up.

"Hey, Harry, it's Moksha. I am so sorry to wake you."

"No no don't worry about it. How are you, how was your flight?"

"It was good, I'm good thank you for asking.Hey, uh, I have a question." I proceeded.

"uh ok, what's your question?"

I didn't know how to phrase it so I just blurted "Are you a big chart-topping pop star?"

The line went silent for a moment and then I heard him sit up. "uh, how did you find out?"

"I told my friends about you and it turns out they're big fans. Why didn't you tell me? Or at least mention it?"

"Well you knew that I was in music and dropped an album. Maybe I was just being cocky but I sorta thought you had at least had an inkling of who you were on this date with. When you continued in our conversations and had no video who I was, I was so relieved and was so happy that you just liked the harry that didn't have any of that other stuff attached to it. Look, I'm sorry, I know I should've told you but it was really nice to meet a beautiful girl that didn't give a shit about who I was."

I was silent. I didn't know how I was supposed to feel. Betrayed? Excited? 

"Harry, I wouldn't have cared. I have to go now but we'll talk later." and then I hung up.

"Ok I know you just found out that your boyfriend is this big pop star but you gotta admit, it's pretty epic." Chieko said. 

I laughed it off and we all headed out to dinner. 

"Oh by the way! I invited Garrett and Akil." Anna mentioned as we got onto the subway.

Great, so now I have to deal with that awkward business too. I guess it will be nice though. Like a little Exeter reunion. Thank god it was just our small little group of friends though.

"Moksha be pulling Akili too?" Ela joked.

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"Oh! There they are!" Chieko said. 

As we made our way to them, I positioned myself so that I would be sitting next to Ela and Anna. 

"Hey! How's it going you guys?" Akili said while greeting all of us with a hug. 

I don't know if I expected him to be awkward but needless to say, I was shocked at how natural he was being. Maybe this wasn't going to be as terrible as I thought it would be.

After a while when we were all done with our meal, the topic of significant others came up. Of course, Garrett and Bona were still together and doing phenomenally with the whole long-distance thing. Akili, apparently, was still single. At that moment my bone head friends decided to tell the whole table that I was dating Harry Styles. 

"No no, I wouldn't say dating, we went on a single date," I said giving the girls a stink eye. I looked across the table at Akili and he tried his best to avoid my eye contact. Was he sad? 

When we exited the restaurant I whispered to Ela, "Hey did you see how Akili got sad? When you guys mentioned Harry?" 

"Yeah totally. I wonder why though. Didn't you guys break up mutually? And like a year ago?"

"Yeah I don't know why he was acting like that. Weird."

"Guys I am SOOOOO tired, do you just want to go back and call it a night?" Anna asked.

"Yeah sure. We can also just go back and talk like we used to at school." I said.

End of Chapter 4:

Recap: Moksha back in the US with the gang sees akili, finds out who Harry Styles is, you read the chapter

Next Chapter: IDKKKKKK probably back in oxford who knows.