"Smoking kills but so does life, which death has a sweeter taste on the tongue?" x When an avid smoker and an overly considerate girl worlds collide, someone is bound to get burned. Published (Feb, 2019)

Elle Grey doesn't need anyone. She only needs herself, a paintbrush, and if she gets desperate enough, there are the few people she actually tolerates that she can talk to. She knows that there's more out there in the world - in fact, she spends most of her time either daydreaming or painting about it. She knows that the South Dakotan town she's grown up in is only suffocating her. That's why she finds Harry so intriguing. He's different and he brings out something in her that she wasn't sure was still there. Suddenly she's second-guessing everything she has known her entire life - maybe she does need someone.

"Life is about deep kisses, strange adventures, midnight swims, and rambling conversations." -Unknown Running away wasn't the hard part of it. In fact, that took very little thought at all. Trying to figure out why it felt so right was what made it complicated. How a boy on a bus changes everything.

Raine never liked overconfident people, and Harry never liked judgemental ones. But when everything around them isn't what it seems to be, all they need is each other to make it out alive. • • • "Keep your eyes open thunderstorm, because everyone here has their own agenda and you might be interested in some of them." 18/04/20 #1 in harrystyles 6/11/19 #156 in fanfiction

"Harry if we are going to do this no one can know!" I say. He looks at me with his green eyes piercing in mine. "Not even Niall?" Taking a deep breath I say the words I have been dreading. "He has to know. I can't hide something like this from him. He's my brother!" ***** BIRTH CERTIFICATE: Alaina Paige Horan Born: August 7, 1992 in Mullingar, Ireland Mother: Maura Horan Father: Bobby Horan After a trip to Ireland Alaina's dreams of meeting her birth parents come true. Though something she never expected was finding out she had 2 brothers, and one just happened to be a member of the biggest boy band in the world. Follow her journey of self discovery, building new relationships with family, friends and a special someone that catches her eyes.

Roots from the trees go deep within the soil of the earth. Roots within us grow deep within our soul, linking us to our family, our hopes, our dreams.. Our roots lead us to our start.. they lead us to our heart. Sterling King is a girl with deep roots, and long branches that lead to nothing. Harry Styles is a boy with bright leaves, and ever growing colors. EXCERPT: "Hi." "Um... hi." "What's your name?" "Sterling...." "Well... Aren't you going to ask me what mine is?" "No...Why would I do that?" "Because I'm a stranger peaking over the fence... I thought you'd be curious." "Well I'm a stranger sitting in a tree house... I stopped being curious a long time ago. Curiosity brings nothing but trouble." "Well I'm Harry... and I'm curious about you Sterling..." "Well... stop." -------------------------- DO NOT PRINT MY WORK!!! "Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you." - Isabel Allende • TW: mentions of death, and rape/sexual assault. PTSD.

It was the summer of 1989 in Paris, France when Bellerose and Harry first met. In which a girl who works at a strawberry field in the summer and a library in the off seasons, and a boy who writes songs, poems, short stories and paints all year round, meet unexpectedly on one hot summer afternoon in a strawberry field. All Rights Reserved to harryartwork, 2017 ©

Agoraphobia noun • (ag-uh-ruh-FOE-be-uh) An anxiety/panic disorder characterised by an intense fear of leaving ones house, open and/or enclosed spaces and public spaces which might cause you to feel trapped, helpless, or embarrassed. He stood there in my doorway uninvited, looking at me as if I was the crazy one. "I've seen you too, I wouldn't mind if you stared for a while longer" As soon as the words left his rosy pink lips my legs almost gave out under me.

Her eyes have their own vocabulary, and what a beautiful language to learn.