The Time Capsule (Harry Styles Fanfic)

Chapter 17

Madden's POV
17 years old

    I had dreaded this day since the time I had realized what would eventually happen when me and my boys got older. Two of them would leave me and only 3 of us would remain. It would be a whole year before we were all together again, and that was if we all decided to go to the same college.

    Harry and RJ were both leaving for college today, and they had decided to go to UNC Chapel Hill together. Still in the state we lived in, but hours away. Not just right down the road, and I can walk over and see either one of them whenever I wanted to. Their parents had of course worked it out to where they would share an apartment together, so they wouldn't be separated from each other. I had gone and helped Harry pick out all his room stuff and things they would need around their home.

  We had all made plans already about how we were going to go down and visit them on weekends and they were going to come home and see us too. I knew it wasn't actually going to be a year before we were all together, but it would be a year before things were back to normal and we weren't going to have to keep saying goodbye. I hated goodbyes.

    "Would you stop crying, we haven't even left yet!" RJ said as I had started to cry again. The five of us were sitting out on the beach watching the sunrise in the late August heat, one last time. Something we had all loved to do on the first and last days of summer ever since we had been in elementary school. Today was our last day together, Harry and RJ were leaving around lunch time.

"Only a couple hours left." I said, ignoring RJ. He hated when I cried, and I knew it was just bothering him because he couldn't fix it.

    "We'll make the most of it." Harry said against my hair. I was sitting between his legs on the sand, and my back was leaned against his front. He'd be leaving me soon too.

   "Don't get me wrong, I'm so happy and excited for you guys, just can't believe this day is already here. It came out of nowhere."

   "Do you guys remember the time we first got Harry to laugh?" Baker asks. "Asshole took the longest time to open up us."

   "He laughed because I broke my leg. Wasn't even funny." Edge says, still mad about that day all these years later.

   "I laughed because you wrecked your bike trying not to hit a tree, and somehow still broke your leg." Harry chuckles loudly in my ear. "I had never seen someone fly so far over their handlebars before."

   RJ and Baker laugh too while Edge just stares out at the ocean. I rub his arm lovingly, because I had not laughed that day. I had cried when I saw the crooked way Edge's leg was laying and when he had tried to walk on it he screamed so loud it hurt my eardrums. He turns and smiles at me softly, and lays his hand on top of mine, still my most sensitive boy all these years later.

   "What about the time Baker pantsed old man Wilkers at the grocery store and we all got grounded for 2 weeks." RJ says, and we all bust out laughing at that one.

   "I knew that wasn't his dick we were all seeing in his pants! And I was right when that damn cucumber rolled out on the ground."

   It was true. Baker had always said there was no way an old man was packing that much junk at his age, and when he yanked Old Man Wilkers pants down, a cucumber the size of my forearm rolled out of his underwear and right in the middle of the grocery store. He chased Baker the whole way home waving his cane, and we had all been laying on the ground in stitches from laughing so hard.

   "We had the best times." I say, and know that they're bringing up these memories so I won't be sad anymore. And in a weird way, it worked. It was hard to be sad when you couldn't stop laughing.