The Academy // Harry Styles AU

Chapter 35

Chapter 35

Nicole’s POV

I felt awful when I woke up the next morning. All the lights in the room were already on and I could hear my friends talking as they were I guess getting ready for the day. I was about to go ahead hop out of bed, but I looked down and realized that I was still wearing Becca’s dress that Harry had me put on last night.

I knew I couldn’t get out of bed wearing her dress because that would just cause all kinds of questions that I wouldn’t be able to answer. Plus it’s not exactly a normal thing to get out of bed in the morning wearing a party dress that isn’t even yours.

“Are you finally awake Nicole?” I heard Liz say.

“Yeah,” I mumbled as I pulled the covers up to cover me more just to be sure that they couldn’t see the dress.

“Are you okay?” Becca asked me.

“My head hurts,” I said without thinking.

I immediately wanted to take it back because I knew I didn’t have an excuse to give them as to why my head hurt.

“Probably from all that studying you did. I still can’t believe you skipped the party to study, you could’ve done that today,” she said, and I attempted to shrug in response.

“Come on and get dressed, we’re going to go get a late breakfast from the coffee shop,” Christina said.

“Yeah, just take some Advil and you’ll be fine,” Liz added on.

“I think I’m going to stay here, I’ll catch up with you guys later,” I said.

Christina looked unconvinced while Becca and Liz just went with it and began to walk out of the room. Christina looked like she was going to say something, but she didn’t and just joined Becca and Liz and walked out of the room. I waited a few moments after they walked out the door just to be sure that they were gone, and then I pulled the covers off and got up and went to my closet to find some of my own clothes to change into.

I was trying to see what all I could remember from what happened last night. I remembered most things; it was just the matter of remembering the details of what happened.

I went through the events of the night in order after I had had a few drinks, and the first thing that popped into my head was Harry apprehensively asking me to be his girlfriend, and that immediately made butterflies erupt in my stomach just thinking about that. I never in a million years thought that that was going to happen this year, especially not with him, but it did and I was contently okay with it. I was going over everything else that happened after we had left the party.

One thing that was a bit hazy in my mind was the fact of what all happened in the bathroom with Harry. I remembered him kissing me, and I also remembered a few other things but I mean maybe my mind was playing them up and bit and they didn’t exactly happen, I knew for sure I threw up but that was beside the point now. I didn’t really know the specifics of how far the intimacy went and I was going to feel weird bringing it up to Harry.

I was still standing in front of my closet, not really deciding on what to wear yet since I got sidetracked by my thoughts. Harry had really wanted me to dress up last night and I knew that was just because of the place we were going, but it kind of made me wonder if maybe he wanted to start dressing up a bit more on a regular basis. I mean I wasn’t like those girls, like my friends, who try and dress cute almost everyday. Occasionally I’ll feel like dressing cute but I usually wear jeans or leggings and a shirt.

Autumn had started already and sometimes it would be a bit chilly outside so I decided on wearing some jeans and a cream sweater paired with some riding boots that I really needed to start wearing more often.