My Guitar Buddy (A One Direction & Emblem3 Fan Fiction)

Chapter 9

"SKYLAR ELIZABETH CHARLESTON GET YOUR ARSE BACK ON THE TOURBUS BEFORE I COME BACK AND KICK IT!" Ashlyn hollered through the phone.

I winced and held it away from my ear, putting it on speakerphone. "No thanks, Niall kind of bitched out at me and made it very clear that he didn't want me there."

"Screw Niall, the rest of us want you there," Ashlyn snapped.

"Ew, that'd be way too weird," I said, making a face.

"You know what I mean," Ashlyn snapped. "Please come back, I can't survive by myself!"

"I don't want to," I told her, and it was the truth. I really didn't, not after how Niall had yelled at me.

Although he had a point, I probably had taken it a bit too far with the teasing. But I didn't want to go back. 

"Skylar," Ashlyn said. "If you're going to come back you need to be here before 6 tonight or else we'll be gone. Also, take into account the fact we were supposed to leave yesterday except Niall made them stay just to see if you'd come back."

I flinched. "I don't care."

"Give me that," I heard someone say, and the next thing I knew was that Harry was on the phone. "Skylar, love, please come back!" 

"Why?" I asked, my voice quavering. "It's not like he wants me there."

"Skylar, we don't care if he doesn't want you there," Harry said in his deep, sexy voice.

Did I just think that?

"We want you there," Harry insisted.

"Yeah, okay," I snorted. 

"I'm telling the truth," Harry said.

All of a sudden, my mixed up feelings and my anger and guilt and sadness just was really overwhelming and I burst into tears.

Harry gasped. "Skylar, what's wrong?"

"Nothing," I sobbed. "Absolutely nothing."

"Skylar," Harry said. "I'm coming."

"You don't know where I am," I said through my tears.

"I will," Harry said. "See you in ten minutes."

Harry hung up the phone and I continued to cry after I'd set the phone back down on my desk.

Harry's POV

I dashed out of the bus.

"Where are you going?" Liam hollered after me. "We're leaving in an hour!"

"To do something important!" I yelled back. "Something Niall should've done yesterday," I mumbled under my breath. 

I hailed a cab and told them to take me to Oxford University. I'd figure out her dorm once I got there.

Ten minutes later, the cab pulled up in front of the dorms and I handed him a 20-pound note. "Thanks," I said breathlessly. "Keep the change."

I got out of the cab and dashed into the dorms. I texted Skylar: what dorm room?

Skylar : O god haz, don't tell me ur here.

Harry: fortunately, i am ;) 

 Skylar : ugh, i'm in 29 on the 19th floor. get ur arse up here if u dare.

I hopped onto the elevator and hit 19.

The elevator ride was so slow, I honestly think that the clocks were working against me or something. 

The doors finally sprang open and I dashed down the hall looking for room 29. Once I'd found it, I knocked on the door, which opened.