Addicted || HS

Thirty-five

Just a quick shoutout to DreamsWishesLove she's amazing.
~Previously on Addicted~
"Is that why you turned into... a bad boy?"

"I don't know. As time passes you just change. I mean nobody is the same person their whole life, people change as life changes."

"No! Are you some kind of freak?"

"Says the guy who accepted to do the bet himself."

"Just kidding man. But aren't you supposed to be with Rose. Why are you in a strip club while you have a woman who's loyal to you."

"Good thing I brought her here to show her where you were."

That familiar girl is Rose. Her face is twisted with anger, and I can see her eyes getting watery. I can see that she is hurt.
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Rose POV
Do you know that feeling that you get when you fall asleep and you feel like you're falling? Well that's how I felt, like I just fell into a deep hole that people fall in when you are lied to or betrayed. But it's actually my fault for giving Harry a chance. I mean for god sake he was my bully! Why do I keep on going back to him? There has to be a reason though. I left everything behind me for him and now I'm in a strip club in front of him after he told me he wanted me and got in an argument. Look at me now, I'm crying over a guy who means nothing to me, yet he's everything I have left.

"I found Rose on the street." Aaron begins to speak. Next to him there's a girl that I think is his sister, and looks as terrified as if she just went through a hunted house.

"Rose was crying when I found her and I told her that you went to a very special place." Aaron smirks at him. My anger inside starts to hurt me, turning into tears that are gathering in my eyes. Harry in the other hand doesn't look hurt, but I can see that he isn't happy.

"You left me to come to this?!" I blurt out. "You left me to come here? It was a mistake to come here to England with you, and to think that I even love you. Man how could I have been so stupid?" A tear rolls down my cheek but I wipe it off with the palm of my hand.

"Rose I-"

"Save it Harry! You're never going to see me again. Do you understand? Don't call me or even come looking for me because I'm done! Im tired of catching up to you when you're just leaving me behind." I meant every word I said. I don't know if what I'm doing is a mistake or I'm over reacting but it feels like the right thing to do. I turn around and I walk away, but Harry grabs my arms before I took another step.

"Rose please listen-" I jerk my arm away from him and I quickly walk away from him, pushing my way through the crowd. I managed to make the tears fall down slower, in a speed where they can just stop. My hands land on the door and I open it with the remainder strength inside of me, which isn't much.

Nobody said it was easy. I start to think as I quickly rush outside, trying to get as far away from the club as possible. Nobody said it would be this tough. Nobody said there's a way to break from it all. But actually someone did tell me all of that...

"Ouch." I say as soon as my butt hits the cold concrete floor. I look up to see Amanda, the girl who got pregnant from Harry. I shake my head and I wipe out a tear from my face that was drying on my cheek already.

"I'm sorry darling- wait don't I know you?" Her voice is soft, smooth like melted chocolate. She helps me up, fixing my hair by putting a lock of it behind my ear that was covering half my face. I take a deep breath, inhaling the cold air outside, opening my lungs with its vibrating chill.

"Yeah. I was the girl next to Harry in the plane." My voice cracks a little at the end, but I don't think she noticed. She looks kind, nothing like the way I remembered her at the plane. I try to smile but I bet I look like a horrible monster by trying.

"Did something happen with you two." I look down to my feet, then back up.

"Well we had a fight. And we broke up." She gives me half a smile, like you would give to someone when you don't know if you should smile or just not show anything. She looks around then looks at her phone.

"Well I was supposed to go grocery shopping." She begins to speak, not looking away from the screen of her phone. "But we can go get coffee instead. You can talk to me, and let everything out-"

"Thanks Amanda but I need to go." She looks up from her phone before I start to walk away.

"You can't let all those emotions build up inside of you. If you do it will explode someday. And when it does, you will fall down, and never get up again." I turn around, not sure what to say. I smile and I then give in.

"Fine, but I will want a Mocha." She smiles widely, showing a little of her pearl white teeth.
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Don't you have those days when you wake up from a long nap and it takes you a few seconds to then realize where are you? Well that's how I feel like right now. Even though I do know where am I, it just feels different without Harry. It feels different without having him next to me.

"He really hasn't changed at all." Amanda breaks my thoughts, pushing them behind my mind. She grabs the straw of her iced coffee drink with her teeth, then twirls it around with her tongue before taking a sip.

"How did you meet him?" The question comes out bitter, but I smile at her to make it sweeter.

"Well Gemma was my best friend. I met Harry when I went to Gemma's house to study for an up coming test. He said he had a crush on me and I fell for him, and his mind tricks." I nod, not knowing why but it felt like the right thing to do. I lick some whipped cream off from my Mocha with the tip of my tongue, then I take a sip out of it.

"Im done." My voice comes out firm, and a little shaky because of the cold thats creeping from outside when someone enters the shop.

"With what?"

"With love. I was fine without it and I will be great if I get rid of it." I admitted. She puts her drink down and looks at me in the eyes.

"Love doesn't exist. Just like perfect people don't exist the same applies to Love. Love is just mixed up feelings balled up into one. Which means if you do love someone then you have to prove your word. You have to prove the feelings that you have inside to even call them love." Right there, in that moment I realized that what she said was all true, and it even clicked in my mind, like a spark.

"Can I ask you something?" She nods before taking a long slow sip of her drink. "Do you know any hotels around here where I can stay until-" She swallows her drink that was inside her mouth and puts her hands up.

"You can stay with me. It's only me and Darcy in our apartment."

"Thanks but I don't want to bother."

"Bother? Its okay darling. Plus in a hotel you will have to be paying per night. Do you even have the money?" I shake my head as a 'no', and she smiles. She stands up and throws her empty cup away in the trash.

"Well come on. Lets go get your thinks and settle you down in my place."

"They're at Harry's place..."

"Do you have a key?"

"No."

She looks around to see if nobody's around. "Then I guess we will have to break in." She smiles before opening the door to walk outside. I just hope nothing wrong happens.
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Some people just need a high five.
In the face, with a chair.
-WaleskaRomo