Chapter 22
I was packing my stuff for my trip with Harry to Holmes Chapel. I didn't know if I should be excited or not. I still was worrying about that stupid note. Harry said it was just a prank, but I didn't believe that. Why would someone do that? I sighed while I ran a hand through my hair. Let's not think about it anymore.
I heard a car outside and looked out of my window. When I saw it was Harry's car I quickly grabbed my bag and went downstairs. "Hey!" Harry waved at me while he walked towards me. "Here let me carry that." He grabbed my bag and gave me a smile. "Thanks." I smiled back. He put my bag in his trunk and we both stepped into the car.
"So are you excited?" He asked while we were driving. "Yeah. I can't wait to see your family again." A smile appeared on his face. "They missed you, you know." I nodded.
"What did Vanessa say about this? About the fact you're leaving with me for an entire weekend." I asked while Harry frowned. "She um she doesn't have anything to say about it." I raised my eyebrow. "Was she mad?" "Umm a little at first but I'm very good at convincing people." He smirked and winked at me. "Yeah I'm sure you are." I muttered.
"So did you get any more notes?" "No." I quietly said. "That's good, you see? It was just a stupid prank, don't worry." I gave him a small smile and nodded.
After two hours of driving I saw a big sign with 'Holmes Chapel' on it. I looked around and saw all these familiar things. "You wanna go to my old house? My mum already is kinda expecting us." "Yeah of course." I smiled, I couldn't wait to be honest. Anne was always so sweet to me, she felt like a second mum. I missed Gemma too, she was always teasing Harry and me but I still loved being around here.
Suddenly I saw Harry's house coming closer. Harry parked at the parking lot and stepped out of the car. He opened the car door for me while a bright smile formed on his lips. "Finally home." He said and we walked to the front door. Harry grabbed his keys and opened the door.
"Mum! We're here!" Harry yelled and we walked into the living room. I looked around, everything has changed, they had bought all these new modern stuff.
"Harry!" Anne shouted. She walked to her son and hugged him tight. "You're finally home again, I missed you so much." I smiled a little, Anne was always so sweet and caring. She didn't changed at all. When she pulled back she looked at me. A big smile grew on her face and walked towards me with open arms. "Emily!" She shouted and pulled me in for a hug. I smelled her sweet perfume which she was always wearing. "It's so good to see you again Emily, we really missed you. And look at you! You're beautiful sweetheart, you're not that little girl from four years ago anymore." She said smiling. "Thank you, it's great to see you." I gave her a smile.
"Well look who's back!" Gemma said and hugged Harry as well. "Em!" She shouted and pushed Harry away. He rolled his eyes which made me giggle and I felt Gemma's arms wrapping around me. "Wow you have changed! You look great Em. How are you?" She asked. "I'm okay, happy to be back." I smiled. "Guys do you want some tea?" Anne yelled from the kitchen. We all sat down on the couch while Anne walked in with a plate with tea and cookies. "Here you go," She smiled and sat down in the chair next to Harry.
"So Emily how have you been? How was Holland?" "Yeah it was nice, but I missed England though. I got almost hit by a car in the begin because I always looked at the wrong side." I giggled. "But Amsterdam was great, weird language though." "So you speak Dutch now?" Gemma asked. "Yeah a little, but people were always laughing at me cause I pronounced the words wrong with my weird accent." They all laughed a little. "That's great to hear." Anne smiled at me.
"Harry told us the terrible news about your mum. I'm so sorry, she was such an incredible kind woman." I slowly nodded. "Yeah I really miss her, but I'm okay." I quickly said. "So where is Robin?" Harry said to change the subject, he clearly noticed that I wasn't in the mood to talk about it. "Oh he's at work, he will be back after dinner tonight." "Cool." Harry simply said.
After a while of talking Harry and I decided to go upstairs. I walked into his room while a smile appeared on my face. Everything was exactly the same as I could remember. We spend so much time in this room, it felt like home. Harry plopped down on his bed. "Yeah I didn't really spend much time after the x-factor in this room, my mum never changed it I guess." I smiled and nodded. I walked towards the dresser and saw a picture frame. It was lying upside down so I grabbed it to see the picture. My smile grew bigger when I saw the picture. It was a photo of me and Harry on our first day of high school. It's so weird how the time flies sometimes.
"You remember this." A smirk played on my lips while I showed Harry the picture. Harry started to laugh. "Our first day of high school, we were so young in that pic. You looked cute though." Harry grinned. I rolled my eyes but couldn't help but smile a little.
I sat down next to Harry on his bed. "Sometimes I wished I could go back to that moment. Just no worries, no drama, my mum would be still alive. We were still young and innocent. Well except for you of course, you never were innocent." I grinned.
"I want to show you something." Harry said. "What? Like right now?" "Yeah or later, doesn't matter, but I'm sure you will like it." "Okay." I nodded. "But i'm going to the bathroom first." I said and stood up. "Oh yeah I should use the one downstairs." "Why?" "Because I just used the one upstairs." He laughed a little while I looked kinda disgust. "That's gross, thanks for the warning." I walked downstairs and went into the bathroom.
When I came back I ran into Gemma. "Is Harry driving you crazy already?" She smirked. "No I just had to use the bathroom." I laughed. She nodded. "It's really good to have you back. Harry missed you you know." "Yeah I missed him too."
"And it was so unfair of that stupid management of him." She rolled her eyes. "Uh what?" "Yeah like that they forbid him to have any contact with you and stuff."
My jaw dropped. What? They did that? So all this time that I thought Harry forgot about me it was just management!? I couldn't believe it, why would they do that? Do they hate me? What did I ever do to them? Suddenly another thought popped into my mind.
He didn't forget about me... He never did...
"You okay?" Gemma asked. "Yeah, yeah I'm fine." I quickly nodded. "Wait... You didn't know? Did you?" "No I didn't." I honestly answered. "He just said he was sorry for not contacting me, he never explained to me why actually." "Well it was very hard for him, I hope you know that. He really missed you and he hated the fact he couldn't text you anymore. You've always been special for him. I never got that to be honest, but what the two of you have together is really special." She smiled. "Thank you." I gave her a quick hug while I heard someone walking down the stairs.
"Emms are you ready?" Harry asked, I turned around and nodded. "Where are you going?" Gemma asked. "We're going into the town, we'll be back before dinner." She nodded and walked away. "Well lets go." Harry smiled and we walked outside.
He walked towards the shed. "Where are you going? Aren't we taking your car?" I raised my eyebrow. "Nope." He said while he took out two bikes. "We're gonna bike." He smirked while I started to laugh a little.
When we sat on our bike I immediately thought about all the rides we had towards school. I always loved to go biking to school with Harry, even though I always complained about the messy hair I got. "So you're not gonna tell me where we're going?" "Nope." He smirked and ran a hand through his messy hair.
"I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I really missed biking with you." I said while he grinned a little. "Me too. We have to go here to left, then we're there." To the left? That's... That's my old house... I suddenly saw my old house in a distance.
We stepped off of our bikes and dropped them in the grass. I stared at my old house. It was still the same. Suddenly harry took some keys and started to open the door. "What are you doing? There live new people her." I hissed. "No it's mine." My eyes widened. "W..What?" I stumbled. "I bought it." He grinned. "The people who bought it moved out a year ago, nobody wanted to bought it so they wanted to break this house down. I couldn't let that happen so I bought it." "What did you want to do with this then?" I asked, still surprised about it. "Well I thought maybe if you would ever come back someday you could live here again." He scratched his neck while I started to smile. "That's really sweet Haz." I whispered. "Let's go see it yeah." He said and grabbed my hand.
We walked into the empty hallway. I looked around for a bit before we were going upstairs. I was standing in front of my old room. I took a deep breath while I opened the door. I stepped in what used to be my room and looked around. It was so empty and it felt somehow weird.
"C'mon help me with this." Harry walked towards the wall and tugged on the wallpaper. "What are you doing?" I raised my eyebrow. "I've waited for you so we could do this together." "Do what together?" I asked while a smile formed on his lips. "Just help me to take down the wallpaper." I walked towards the wall and started to tug on it as well. "Wait." He held out a pocketknife and started to tug on the wallpaper again. It came off and we both pulled down the wallpaper.
When most of it was off we both took a view steps backwards. A bright smile appeared on my face. I couldn't believe I forgot this. "Harry Styles, Emily Bennet. Best friends forever." Harry read the words that were written on the wall. I started to laugh. "Gosh look at those crappy autographs." I pointed at them and he started to laugh as well.
He suddenly held me by my waist and pulled me closer. "You see? We kept our promise." He smiled. "Yeah we did." I walked towards the wall and slide with my finger on Harry's name.
"Harry? Why did you never tell me about your management?" I turned around to look at him. "What do you mean?" He frowned. "Why did you never tell me that it always has been management who forbid you to talk to me again?" "You talked with my sister didn't you?" I nodded. He sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "I don't know, I couldn't really tell I guess." "I'm sorry, you have no idea how hard it was for me to listen to them. I didn't want to break our contact but I didn't have a choice." "But why did they say that? Do they hate me?" I asked quietly.
"No Emms, because I was a mess without you." He whispered.
"They said I couldn't think straight and I needed to change. Niall kept on saying that I should never have kissed you...." "What?" I interrupted him. His eyes widened and his cheeks flushed. "I mean... I um..."
"You remember...?" I asked softly. He looked down and nodded. "Yes I did. I just didn't want to say anything cause maybe it would be awkward for our friendship. So it seemed better to me to just pretend like I didn't remember." My jaw dropped. He remembered?
"You should have told me!" I started to yell a bit. "Do you know how awkward it was for me? To have my first kiss with the guy I have a crush on and then find out the next day that he couldn't even remember our kiss!?" I yelled, but then suddenly realized what I just said. "You what? You had a crush on me?" Harry's eyes widened. "What? No I didn't I mean..." He slowly came closer me.
"You mean what?" He asked, suddenly he pushed me a little against the wall. "I mean.." I looked at his lips, they looked so soft. Why the hell am I looking at his lips? I looked into Harry's eyes. "I mean..."
He cut me off by pressing his lips against mine.
♡Harry's POV♡
I pressed my lips against hers. I needed to kiss her again, I wanted to feel those lips against mine for fucking four years now. I pushed her further against the wall. She opened her mouth for me and I slipped my tongue into her mouth. I put my hand on her waist while I held her cheek with the other hand. She ran her hand through my hair. "Harry..." She whispered inbetween the kiss. "Shh." I whispered back and started to kiss her again. "Harry... You have... Vanessa." "Stop talking." I ran my hand through her soft long hair.
Fuck she was right though. Vannesa.... Well I'm not sure if we're still together after our big fight before I went on this trip with Emily. To be honest I didn't care at the moment. I only cared about Emily. She just told me that she had a crush on me, why was I so stupid for never making a move. We could have been together, but I was too busy with my reputation to care. I started to kiss her again.
Suddenly Emily's eyes widened. I pulled back and looked at her questionably. "What's wrong?" I asked, her eyes were still focused behind us. I turned around and saw a guy standing in the doorway. The guy had brown hair and he wasn't really tall. Half of his face was burned and I saw some tears behind his eyes.
"Je... Jeroen?" Emily said with a shaky voice.
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