A Lost Object [h.s]

Chapter 16

Aurora

I stood at my window staring off into the night. It was now seven thirty. The sun had gone down about an hour ago. The sky was filled with bright stars. I looked over at my bed looking back at Harry. He was still sitting at the corner of the bed. His eyes were dropping. I don't know why he didn't just leave. He could go home and sleep.

I slid open the window walking off onto the balcony. I leaned and rested my elbows against the railing. I let out a long sigh, closing my eyes, letting the harsh breeze of the winter night overtake me.

I turned around at the sound of the window opening. Harry walked over to the spot I was at. He leaned against the railing in the same position as me. He clasped his hands together, his fingers lacing through one another.

"Why are you standing out here in the cold?" He speaks.

I shrugged my shoulders. I looked off into a distance, up at the stars. "I like the view at night. The stars make it even more beautiful." I come out on my balcony almost every night to look at the stars. They mesmerized me.

"You like stars?"

I turned to look at him. He was now turned to face me, his side leaning against the railing. "What you don't?"

"No. Not a big fan of stars."

"You're not a big fan of a lot of things." I scuff. Harry didn't say anything. He moved closer to me, now only a foot of space between us.

"I'm not a big fan of this engagement either." I didn't expect his words to pain me a little, but surely they did. I wasn't thrilled about this engagement either, but I never planned on telling him that to his face.

"So why let it happen? You could've told your parents no."

"Did your mum listen when you told her no?" He asks. I understood where he was getting at. My mother didn't care about what I had to say when it came to this engagement. I shook my head in response to his question. He looked down at his hands before meeting my eyes again.

"I promised my mum I would do anything she wanted of me. I had to go through with it. I'd caused her enough pain. This was something she had her mind set on. She didn't think I would ever find someone to love me enough. Even though she's told me my whole life that I'm capable of being loved. I don't think she believed her words. I didn't." 

Why Harry was opening up to me at that moment was a mystery to me. We didn't know each other long enough for him to be sharing all that information. Not that I minded it. It seemed like he needed a person to talk to.

"What do you mean by that, when you say you've caused her enough pain?" Harry was no longer making eye contact with me. He stared off into the space behind me.

"Just pain." He sighed. I nodded, understanding that he didn't want to go that deep into it.

"What about you?"

"What about me?" I questioned weirdly.

"What's the story as to why you got forced into engagement with a stranger?"

I appreciated that Harry was open and honest about his feelings, but I just wasn't ready to let him in on a part of my life I kept private. I wasn't ready to tell him my story. I don't think I'll ever be. Either way, there was no need for him to know. It was my story after all.

"There's no story. Just my mother being my mother." I didn't enjoy lying to him. To anyone for that matter. Lying was one of the biggest things I hated. But, I wasn't ready to share with him. I wasn't ready for him to know that there was a story to tell.

"That's a lie." He hummed. I shrugged my shoulders once again. I pulled the corners of the thin material of the cardigan I was wearing over my chest in hopes to protect myself from the cold breeze that just blew. I hadn't realized how close Harry had gotten to me in the matter of the few seconds I wasn't looking at him. I swept my hair back that was blowing in my face. I looked up at Harry who was already staring at me. He moves even closer, getting rid of the small space that was between us. Before I could question his actions his lips gently press against mine.

I stumbled backwards in shock with eyes wide. I stared at him for some moments, he looked so unfazed by the action. I looked around for a few seconds before sliding the window open, going back inside my room. What the hell was that all about? I sat down on my bed still in shock.

Harry still stood outside in the cold. I thought about leaving the room in hopes to avoid talking about what just happened with him, I decided against it. My head snapped up at the sound of the window sliding. Harry came back into the room, closing the window after himself. He walked over to where I was sitting. Standing in front of me.

He opened his mouth to say something, I stopped him before he got the chance. "You should go." He gave me a surprised look. He nodded instead of making a big deal about it. I watched him leave my room,  the sound of my mother's voice calling out for him ringing through my ears. I stood up quickly closing and locking my door to avoid my mother's lecture at this time.

My phone started to ringing loudly from my bed. I walked over to my bed retrieving the phone from under the covers. Odyssey's name written in bold letters on the top. I clicked the green button, pressing the phone to my ear.

"Hey Odyssey, did you land yet?"