Harry's pov

"You what!?" asked Charlie
" You heard me Charlie and it's not a request from your friend Harry it's an order from your boss Harry," I stated

"You're officially doomed, man." He shook his head and said.

"Do your work ." I ignored his petty remark.
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Friday Morning

Bella's pov

I was sitting in my car with my driver heading to college.
I hope today would be more normal than yesterday.
Yesterday was a mess. I was the topic of the day. Everyone had something or the other to say about the incident that took place at Stacy's residence Wednesday night.

Thank god Drake did not turn up to college yesterday it made things a lot easier to handle.
Not that I am scared of him or anything. It's that his presence would have made things worse.

As per the information I got from some of my faithful college mates he won't be coming for a few days because he was somewhere out of the station with his father for some business purpose.
Another reason to hope that today will be better.

After dropping me Sam ( my driver ) drove off.

I was heading inside the college campus when I saw a shadow going towards the college garage.

I didn't know why but it kinda appeared to be suspicious. Without even thinking twice I followed the silhouette.

When that shadow was close enough I realized that he was a boy or man. Maybe he was any student or teacher.
If that was the case then nothing was strange or unusual about it.
But the thing that got my attention was that he had long almost shoulder-length hair. That no one in our college had or at least no one I knew of.

I may not speak to many of my college mates but I am very well aware of them. So recognizing them would not be a big deal for me.

But this boy did not look like he was from our college.

He went into the garage. I followed him in.

Then he suddenly stopped.
"Why did he stop ?" I thought.

Then it hit me I was so stupid to openly follow him I was not even looking for any kind of camouflage. Obviously, he would know that he was being followed.

I swallowed a heavy lump in my throat.

Nevertheless, I courageously asked
"Who is this?"
After a fine half a minute or so he turned around.

My breathing had almost stopped.

"It's me ." He said looking at me with one hand behind his head.

I let out my breath.
It was Harold. Thank God.
But what was he doing here?

"Harold?" I said absolutely not expecting to see him.

"You remembered my name ."
He stated as if I did not know that.

"What are you doing here?" I asked him the most obvious question I could.

"I uh I came to meet you..." he was fumbling with words.

I was really confused and did not know what he actually meant by this statement.
So I just looked at him so that he could complete his answer.

"Uh. I came to say sorry to you. Ah for the last time we met I just abruptly left and ah I think it was rude on my part so I uh I came to say sorry to you."
He finally succeeded in telling me.

He didn't believe I would buy that. Did he?

"You're stalking me!" I exclaimed
"No uh no I just wanted to meet you and apologise so uh....." he trailed off.

"So you stalked me ?" I completed his sentence.

"Uh uh, kind of. Yeah. Sorry."

Was this man actually accepting that he stalked me !?

"Do you know how much I despise stalkers?" I said with a slight smile playing on my face I couldn't help it.

"Umm. Not until now." He stated.

"Well, maybe you'll never know as I forgave you for stalking me for you came to say sorry. Even when the mistake was not yours. You had to somewhere and I understand it must be something important that you hastily left." I said.

"So I am forgiven?" He asked
"Of course. You are." I said with a chuckle

He smiled and nodded.

" So.." He said
"So.." I said

"Uh I would have asked you to stay a little longer and we could talk but I know you have college now. Do you?"
"I do." I nodded

" So ah, I better go now..." He said and started to open his car door.

"Harold," I said

He ceased his movement and looked at me waiting for me to speak.
"Ah I would ah never leave my college to stay here," I said
He nodded, evidently a bit disappointed.

"But since you came all the way here just to say sorry. So uh I could maybe come back here when I'm free with my lectures, uh in the lunchtime maybe. If you'd like then we could talk then?"

Harry's pov

She said that she was ready to come back here to spend some time with me talk to me.
It was so easy she said it so easily and here I was battling with myself whether or not to say it.

I was beyond happy right now.
"That would be great. When do you have your lunchtime ?"

"After four hours. "

It's okay I can wait for four hours. At this point, I didn't care about how many hours do I have to wait I was happy by the fact that she agreed to meet me.

"Alright, then I'll wait."

"You'll wait for four hours ?" She asked uncertainly.

"Yeah it's okay I'll be in my car," I said pointing towards my black Nissan Rogue.

She smiled and said
" Okay then. We'll meet after four hours."
She started walking backwards.

" I hope I could make it. "
She said and went.

But why did she say 'I hope '? Was she planning to ditch me?
No, somewhere I knew this was not the case.
I wonder why she said it though.
Nevertheless, I sat in my car and turned on the radio.
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I was so engrossed in listening to music and in my thoughts that I didn't realise when four hours passed away.

I saw Bella she was looking here and there evidently trying to find my car.
I pressed the horn to bring her attention towards my side.

Beep

"Ahh" she gave out a not so loud scream
"You scared me!" She said
I came out of the car and stood in front of her.

"You didn't remember which one was my car ?" I asked really surprised as my car stand out separately from the rest. Not showing off or anything but this is the fact.

"No. I am not good at car stuff. "
She stated bluntly.

I gave her a chuckle and said
"So you aren't good at choosing boy's dresses, you aren't good at car's stuff.
On the whole, you aren't very good at boys stuff ?" I asked not so seriously.

" Well. You could say that" she said playing along.

I smiled and said
"You showed up. I thought you wouldn't"
" Obviously I did. Why wouldn't I? You waited for four hours! It would have been rude of me to leave you hanging. " she said and somewhere I knew she meant that.

" And I can't stalk you to say sorry to you ." She adds with a chuckle.

I laughed too.
" So ah don't keep standing let's sit somewhere. " I said
" Yeah let's sit outside there's a park..."
She started suggesting.
But I spoke before she completed
" Why not sit here on the bench ?"
I asked I know it is not such a good idea to sit on a bench placed at the corner of a college garage.

But I couldn't go out. I could not afford to be seen in public, not with Bella and as it is she doesn't know who I am.

" Why ?" She asked obviously not expecting this weird proposal.

" Uh, I don't like being around many people you know.."

"You have public anxiety?"

"No uh. Well no it is not the reason why I am avoiding going in public it....uh..uh"
I was fumbling with words.
I was confused about what to say

When she said
"It's okay you don't need to tell if you don't want to. No problem I am okay with sitting on the bench," she said making me smile brightly.

We sat on the bench placed at the near corner.

"Isn't it creepy to sit on the corner bench in a deserted garage?" I said with a slight chuckle.

" Well. It is. Technically it isn't. " she started making me confused.

Looking at my confused face she said
" Wait. You'll come to know."

That moment only I saw a linked couple, a boy and a girl handcuffed together came out of nowhere almost making out in front of me!

" Don't tell me! Oh my God it's not creep
it's gross."
I said in disgust.

She just chuckled.

"So Mr Harold ." She said I looked at her.

" I would really like to know how did you stalk me?" She asked

" I knew this question will come up."

" Well obviously. "

" Ah, I have a friend who is into this. So I ah asked for his help."
I kept the answer as short as I could.

" Well, now I am confused whether I should be relieved that you aren't a stalker or be terrified that you have friends who are stalkers?"

I chuckled and said
" Well, not a stalker a hacker actually. "

" Wow, that's impressive!" She said clearly amazed.

"Really? You're impressed because a professional hacker stalked you?"I asked pretty amusedly.

"Nah! It's just that hackers seem pretty cool to me ."

"Do you like hacking?" I asked really surprised.

"Never thought of it that way. "

"Oh"

"Where are you from?"I couldn't help but ask her accent was very different and unique. I have travelled to many places around the world but never came across such warm accents as hers.

"Why do you ask? Is it because of my accent?"

I gave her a knowing nod making her chuckle.

"I'm from Manchester, England," she said after.

I became even more confused owing to her accent is not even one per cent appeared to me that she would be from England that to so close to my home town.

"So you're English?" I asked more than stating.

"Yeah ." She chuckled seeing me all intrigued.

"Well originally yeah. But I don't have an English accent." She said.

I raised my eyebrows, gesturing for her to continue.

"Uh, My father is a ship captain. Owing to his job we never actually settled at one place for more than a few, say eleven months. So uh, now you can get why my accent is the way it is ." She started making it a lot more clear to me.

"That's great! You must have seen the world by now." I said.

" Not exactly the whole world but yeah he was transferred to many places. So we've been to Australia, the USA, Pakistan, Spain and now again to California, America. "

"That's amazing. But at the same time I guess, it must have been difficult to settle in a new country and when you're finally settled then you're transferred again."

"Hell yeah! It was hectic. If my father would have asked for it then just he could have been transferred and come back after the sail but he wanted his family to be with him so.."

"Although this way you would be in the same country as him but he still could not be with you all. You know like he would be on sale."

"Hmm. That's right but my mother felt comfortable this way so.." she said
I nodded at her.

"So. What do you do?" She asked all of a sudden.

"What?" I asked not so sure about what exactly she asked about.

"Ah I mean you're probably not a college student that means you do something like some higher course or some job. Do you?"
She asked.

"How could you say that I'm not a college student?" I asked pretty surprisedly. How could she say that so confidently?

She chuckled and said
"Isn't it obvious? You're here instead of being to your college if you go to any.
Then you have this seven-seater Nissan Rogue, as written on it."

"Uh. That could be my dad's. " I said

"Could be but it's not. As no dad gives his son who's still in college a seven-seater car and also it's not what the majority of college boys prefer. One more reason is that I could just simply tell you don't go to college. Sorry but you look pretty old for it"

She explained effortlessly.

I just sat there looking at her. Impressed.

"Okay. You're right I don't go to college. "

"See." She said with a knowing smile.

"So . What do you do?" She asked again.

I froze.
I can't tell her that I am a singer. Obviously no. What do I say now? Another lie? I had no other choice.
But I need to be careful she's really smart, I could make it out by now. Therefore I need to think of something that she doesn't doubt.

" I uh I am a tour manager. I manage and plan tours of various singers and bands." I stated and kept it as short as I can.

I'm dreading lying to her but I can't do otherwise or else I'll lose all my chances to spend some more time with her.
However, she despises Harry Styles as a pop singer not as a human. I want her to know me better as a human and then decide what she thinks of me.
That was the thing I kept telling myself self.

Even though I knew I was doing wrong but when it pays off me by me sitting with her and talking, believe me when I say it feels so damn right.

"Oh, I see ." She said.
She did not ask about it further and I am glad for that.

"What are you doing in college?" I asked out of curiosity.

"English honours," she said.

"Literature."

She nodded.

"What do you want to do with it ?" I asked

"A writer? I guess," she answered

" That's appealing. But why does it seems that are you not so sure about it?" I asked her

"I'm sure. That I want to do this but not sure if I only want to do this," she said in low voice.

I made a questioning face.

She carried on
" I know I want to write stuff and let people know my thoughts, my thinking, perspectives and all but I don't only want them to see life by my eyes. You know. I also want to see life by their eyes, the way they see it. I also want to know what they are thinking, feeling, what they want from life. What they are longing for. And especially I want to know if I could help them with any of these things."

I was mesmerized. The way she talks, the way she looks so purely and differently on every topic. She has a different outlook on every other thing and that's just so inspiring!

I kept listening to her with full interest.

"I want to help people and not only through my work going to them, but I also want to go to them in person and nurture them. You know I want people to get inspired by me but more than that I want to be inspired by them. I, I know I'm just speaking devoid of any sense but I just felt like saying it all."

She finished with her signature angelic smile.

I smiled back at her.

" It's alright. And it's actually so nice of you to think that way."
I said.

After a long silence, I finally decided to speak up

"Let's play twenty questions?" I asked.
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AN

Hey there whoever's reading, it really means a lot that you're spending your precious time reading my work. I hope you're enjoying it too.
However this is to inform you that I'm not really well these days you know dealing with fever, headache, tonsils and all, therefore, I'll not be able to update regularly.
Nevertheless, I already have a few more chapters saved in my drafts that I'll be posting soon.

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