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Calabasas, California
June 3rd, 2013

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Chuckling to himself due to his previous conversation with Jeff Winsley, Harry placed several pieces of cut up fruits and other small snacks on his plate. Sure, he was at a formal event, but he was still starving.

After taking the last piece of a small, delicious looking piece of a cut up sandwich, Harry noticed a small girl in the corner of his eyes glaring him down.

Turning slowly, he smiled at her politely, but she just continued glaring, squeezing her plate full of fruits and cheeses.

"You took the last piece, Styles," she growled, her electric blue eyes shining in anger. Harry merely chuckled, rolling his eyes at the angry pubescent girl.

There she stood, the one and only Poppy Winsley, thirteen years old and cold as ice.

"Well hello to you too, Poppy, delightful seeing you here," Harry replied monotone.

"You have enough food on your plate to feed all of the starving children in Africa, and you just decided to take the piece that I wanted?" She hissed, making Harry laugh lightly as he poured himself a cup of tea.

"You cannot be serious, it's a fucking sandwich," he said, amused, finding the situation hilarious.

Although, she was anything but amused.

He looked at Poppy with a grin, taking In her appearance. She had the face of an angel, bright blue eyes and long, curly eyelashes, and thick eyebrows. Her silky looking hair was in two braids, and a white, expensive dress was hugging her little body. How could such an angelic, innocent looking girl have the coldest eyes he'd ever seen?

Harry rolled his eyes at her, and turned around. She just glared, and stepped forward to get a glass of orange juice, before turning sideways abruptly to grab a napkin. But, to her surprise, while doing so, she collided with a hard chest, whiskey flying all over her white dress, and on her face. She stumbled backwards, shock written all over her face.

"Oh I'm so sorry!" A middle aged man apologized, trying to grab napkins whilst trying to help her up at she same time.

Poppy just glared, shoving him off of her while feeling anger pumping through her veins. She felt like she was going to scream, she wanted to scream. It took all of her will power not to scream her lungs out like a banshee.

Looking down at her dress in disbelief, her mouth fell agape as she shrieked. "You ruined my dress! THIS DRESS WAS CUSTOM MADE!" Poppy snapped, making the man widen his eyes in horror and try to apologize quickly. "This dress is worth more than your life!"

The man gulped at her harsh comment, and then grabbed even more napkins, trying to hand them to her while still apologizing rapidly.

Poppy just growled, shoving the napkins away before storming off in anger, feeling like she was going to explode.

And there stood Harry from afar, watching the whole scene unfold with an amused grin.

"What a spoiled little brat," he whispered to himself.

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Now

Harry smiles at the trip down memory lane, shaking his head at the memory. The last encounter he had with Poppy. It's funny to him, really, how three years later, he's snuggled up in bed with her, his girlfriend, the same girl he despised before.

"Harry, why are you staring off into space like that?" Poppy laughs, mindlessly playing with the necklace Harry gave her last night.

He just shook his head, stroking her soft cheek. "Do you remember the last time we saw each other?"

Poppy's smile turns into a shameful frown, and she nods slowly. "I'm not like that anymore.."

Harry leans down to kiss her soft lips passionately. "I know you're not, but it's just crazy to think that just three years ago we hated each other."

Poppy smiles, peppering kisses all over his neck. "I hated you a lot, because you had my parents attention and I didn't."

Harry's heart ached at her words. He never realized that. "Really?" He breathes, feeling guilt wash over him.

Poppy nods slowly, a look of sadness in her eyes. "My parents have always seen you as like a son, they spent so much time with you they soon forgot they had a daughter. It's always how it works. They get so caught up with work they," Poppy's voice cracks at her last word, "Forget about me."

Harry's heart shatters in his chest as Poppy struggles to fight the tears welling up in her beautiful eyes.

"No, Poppy," Harry whispers, snuggling her into his chest lovingly. "They love you, you know they do. But they're business people, and business isn't easy," he explains softly, stroking her hair.

Poppy looks up into his eyes sadly, and then snuggles back into his chest once again.

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Once again, Poppy goes to work with Harry, even though he has a very important business meeting that he cannot miss.

So, Poppy dresses in a tight fitting yet professional nude pink dress, as well as a diamond necklace and her fur heels, and walks off to go find Karla.

"So has Emily tried to come near him recently?" Karla gasps, taking another spoonful of yogurt.

Poppy shakes her head, taking her own spoonful. After she swallows, she sighs, "but I have like a feeling that she's going to come back sooner or later."

Karla nods, taking all of the information in. Recently, the two have them have been pretty close, and though Karla idolizes Poppy, she wants to know the real Poppy Winsley, not what she's wearing or who she's dating. She wants to be her friend.

"You trust Harry though, right?" Karla softly asks Poppy, furrowing her eyebrows.

"Yeah of course I do, but it's her that I don't trust," Poppy tells her truthfully. "And I know Harry of course has multiple girls swooning over him, and someway or another more encounters will happen like that, but she's just so persistent and I have a bad feeling about her."

Karla nods sincerely. "But you're Poppy Winsley, how could Harry possibly want more? And I've never seen him serious about a girl, I've never even seen him with a girlfriend before. He's strictly business. But like as soon as you came into his life he's different now."

Poppy's heart melts. And it's true. Every single word. Since Poppy's entered Harry's busy, lonely, life, he's different. In a good way. He's happy, more alive. Poppy makes him feel different, like he's young again.

Poppy smiles softly, "I worry about Emily so much because.. I know girls like her would kill to sleep with him." Poppy sighs at the sensitive topic.

Karla furrows her eyebrows, finding something missing in Poppy's words. There's more to it than that.

"Poppy, you haven't slept with him right?" Karla asks slowly.

Poppy shakes her head. "No and that's the point."

Karla closes her eyes momentarily. "Poppy, you're easily one of the prettiest girls I've ever seen. And your personality is amazing, you're good to him, you're good for him. Harry wouldn't give that all up just for some pussy. Do not pressure yourself into that."

Poppy nods, smiling. "Thank you Karla, it means a lot."

Karla just nods, throwing her yogurt into the small trash can placed in her office. They're both sitting on Karla's desk.

"Anyways, Harry should be right about done with his meeting now, you two should go do something today, it's beautiful outside."

Poppy hugs Karla, and then grabs her Chanel purse before waving and telling karla to text her. And with that, she's off.

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Aw a trip down memory lane haha.

Anyways! I have some questions. I'm updating a lot faster now and i wanna know if you like where this story is going. I would really really appreciate if u guys took the time to answer these questions xox❤️💓

Oh and btw, some of my friends who read this story say they don't trust Karla & think she has a thing for Harry like most assistants do in other Harry fanfics but trust me

I truly adore Karlas character and she really does not have feelings for Harry whatsoever she loves her bf and genuinely likes poppy. I promise she won't try to get with Harry like most of his assistants do in other books. :) x
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