Masochistic Sonder | 𝐻𝒮 | Harry Styles

Chapter Twenty Two: How Do You Sleep

Chapter Twenty Two: "How Do You Sleep"

I QUICKLY LOOKED back at the guy, our eyes met then he quietly turned and looked at his two friends talking as he passed his fingers between his hair.

"I'm going to make a call, I'll be right back."

"She bought the chocolate for me by the way," I heard Bastet saying and as I looked back to see if William was following me I noticed Bastet jumping on the sofa to sit next to the guys.

I entered the bathroom, William followed and there he stood, tall, with his wings as white as snow beautiful closed behind him, from the front I could barely see them.

I leaned my hand towards towards him and grabbed his hand, staring into his eyes, he gave me a confused looked to then ask: "What are you doing?"

"Checking if you're real."

"Bastet must think of them as some type of kittens, how many guys does she bring inside the house?" he asked.

I looked at him confused before whispering: "Kittens?"

"Answer me, Aaliyah, how often does she bring guys to your house?''

''Usually, I don't know, okay?'' I mumbled furrowing my eyebrows looking up to him, I grabbed his hand and pulled it closer to me, causing him to step forward and his wings at his back suddenly opened wide, I stepped back nearly tripping over the mat and instinctively closed my eyes unconsciously waiting for something to happen.

"Stop holding my hand," he whispered, and I felt his hand against my back.

I slowly opened my eyes, my heart lost a beat as I looked into the guy that was now holding me, Harry leaned towards me, everything seemed to start moving slowly, his warm breath on me and his fingertips at my back, he leaned in even closer.

"Your eyes, they're not glimmering," I whispered, it wasn't Harry, Harry's eyes always glimmered whenever he looked at me but he's were just like anyone else's, to add on Harry's innocence was just something that had always interested me and that Harry I had in from of me didn't give off innocence like his.

I felt the need to shut my eyes and my body automatically without my will leaned forward, what was I thinking?
One thing I knew for sure is that I wanted to, I felt like I needed to.

"See, you're in love, once again-''

My eyes slightly opened and I saw Seth in front of me, scared I brought both of my arms forward pushing him far away from me, his grip on my back loosened and I stumbled backwards, I tried to look into his eyes as I asked him: "Once again?"

I let go of a breath as I waited for him to answer me.

"Why are you doing this to me and why do you look so much like him?'' I questioned, my eyes wondered everywhere around the bathroom, my eyes shifted from the teal marble walls and they glided down to sink at my left to then quickly look at the see-through double showers at my right; all of this to avoid looking into his eyes.

"Like who?"

A smile grew on his rosy shiny lips he had numerously licked, they glimmered and I couldn't take my eyes off them.

"You know exactly who, don't you?" I asked with a smirk, my lips slightly parted and with my eyes staring deadly in his I searched for truth but nothing, the grin remained on his lips and I knew I couldn't trust him.

"What do you mean I know exactly, listen, Aaliyah, you should forget about them and go upstairs and have a rest." He walked closer and I backed away.
I wanted to have him in my arms but I had to do the right thing, it wasn't good for me to be any closer to him at that moment, it was as if I couldn't recognise William anymore.

"Please, don't tell me what I have to do, I choose and I think it's better for me to go," I shouted.

Once I made it outside the bathroom, I let go of the breath I held inside, the taller guy that sat at the arm of the sofa looked at me and right after Bastet head poked out behind the sofa staring at me worriedly, the other two stood up slightly and turned back.

"That sounded pretty toxic," Bastet whispered.

"Instead of talking about how toxic my phone call was, don't you think you have to introduce them to me?"

I walked toward the front and sat at the sofa's arm, there was a lot of space but I felt unease to sit alone. I looked down onto the guy who only wore a black t-shirt since I was wearing his jumper and he looked up to then look away.

"This with no manners but he still manages to be a gentleman, is Ethan, he's a rockstar and he's so good at playing the guitar," she smiled patting the guy's shoulder, he turned around once again to look at me with a half-smile on his lips, his hair was brownish as his eyes.

"Ethan is not that rude, since he happens to be your half brother," - said the shorter guy, to then throw one chocolate at Bastet, I glared at him and he looked back pouting his lips at me and as a response, I rolled my eyes - "and I'm Alexandre."

"That's disgusting, next time you throw another one to me I'll cut your head off!" Barked Bastet pushing Alexandre, then she quickly picked up the chocolate and threw it his face.

"I'm Arthur, nice to meet you," the taller one introduced himself nodding his head upwards to me and I smiled.

"I'm Aaliyah."

"You've got a hot name, wait, is that even possible, to have a hot name?" Asked Alexandre whispering the last words, with his fingers he traced an invisible line in front of him and looked at me, pointing his finger at me.

"Anyways, Bastet I have to go to bed I'm dying right now, I just need some rest, it was nice to meet you guys."

She looked at me at nodded, the other guys nodded along and I smiled whispering one last bye.

"Not unless I come with you," I heard William whisper behind me.

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