Three weeks later
Arabella's POV

"Yes yes, finally, it's getting somewhere!" Mark exclaims as Johnnie and I finish. I jump off of him excitedly, running on the spot like a little girl.

"Okay, I'm done with you two for today, but I would suggest that you work a bit longer. I'm finally seeing the progress that I wanted to see." He says clapping his hands, while the next rehearsal is about to start.

"Okay well we cant work in this studio, so let's grab our stuff and go to another." He says causing me to nod. Once I've grabbed my stuff I wait for him at the entrance of the main studio.

"We could go to my apartment, I have a studio, it's not huge, but then we can rest a bit before we work on it again." He nods as we both walk to his car.

"Not necessary to drive, but we'll live." I say, causing him to chuckle.

"You used to walking?" He says and I nod.

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We walk into my apartment as I lock the door behind us.

"Make yourself comfortable." I say as I walk to put my bag down and wash my hands.

"Do you want anything to drink? To eat?" I ask him, walking to where he was sitting on the living room couch.

"Water sounds good." He says smiling up at me from his phone.

"Are you sure. Don't cry when I come back with some awesome avocado toast." I say wiggling my eyebrows, making us both laugh.

"You know, honestly, that sounds amazing. Would you like some help with that?" He asks before I shake my head no and walk into the kitchen.

I sing softly to myself as I maneuver around the kitchen, finding everything I need. Just as I put the bread into the toaster, my phone starts ringing. I take it out eagerly, hoping that it's Harry.

Im sure you've picked up that Harry and I call each other almost every day. It's not a chore, and it's definitely the highlight of my day.

"Hey Haz." I say swiping across the phone to answer his call.

"Belle." He says smiling at me as my eyes light up. "How are you my love?" He asks.

"I'm good, but tired after rehearsals today, I'm actually with Johnnie now, Mark says we've made progress, but advise that we rehearse longer." I explain to him as the toaster starts beeping louder than usual. "Give me two seconds." I say as my eyes widen, as I slowly back away from the camera. As soon as I'm out of view, I run to the toaster, to see smoke coming out of it, while my toast is way past just being considered as burnt.

"What's going on there love?" I heard his British accent come through the phone.

"I totally didn't just cremate my toast." I say coming back onto camera, seeing him burst out laughing, tilting his head back.

"Still can't cook love?" He says smiling at me to which I shake my head no.

"Well it's your fault." I say giggling.

"Mmh love, and how's that?" He says whirling his eyebrow up at me in curiosity.

"Well for one, you always baked and cooked for me at home, and secondly, you were one hundred percent distracting me right now." I say as his smirk grows.

"Distraction hey?" He says winking, causing me to blush. "Well I didn't even know you were making toast or anything at all, because all your attention was on me." He says, making my blush deepen.

"Bella? Are you okay in there, I smell something burning and I heard you talking to someone so I thought I'd come check. Not that it's not okay if you're speaking to yourself you know?" He says, causing me and Harry to burst out laughing.

"First of all I burnt the toast." I say and start laughing when Harry cuts in.

"Burnt is an understatement." He says, masking Johnnie look confused for a second before I gesture to my phone.

"It was honestly all Harry's fault." I say shrugging.

"Hey, it really wasn't." He says pouting, making me want to grab him and kiss him right now.

"Ahh I miss you so much." I say pouting at him.

"Oh, is this the famous boyfriend, Harry." Johnnie asks walking next to me, facing the phone screen.

"Hello mate." Harry says waving at Johnnie with a smile, even though I can see that his smile doesn't reach up to his eyes, making me roll my eyes. He sees that obviously and smirks at me.

"Hi, I'm Johnathan, you can call me Johnnie though, I've heard a lot about you." He says smiling at Harry, I do notice that Johnnie mirrors the same expression as Harry.

"It's good to meet you." Harry says nodding at him. I feel after that, that it just got awkward, and I'm not stupid and I can see that by their fake smiles.

"Okayyyy." I say biting my lip before grabbing the phone. "baby, I love you, I'll call you later." I say blowing him a kiss, making me laugh when he catches it.

"Okay love, I love you even though I might be asleep later." He says smiling making me realize it's already 5 here, which means it's 10 there, making me pout but nod, before I end the call. I shake my head lightly before putting my phone down.

"Okay so now that lunch is out of the window, how about we go work on this variation." I say clapping my hands together to which he nods.

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"And five si- no Johnnie stop." I say laughing as he lifts me and spins me around instead.

"Why should I?" He says, making me roll my eyes.

"Because we've got stuff to work on." I say as he puts me down. I furrow my brows and look down as his hands still holding mine.

Next thing I know, he whips his arm that's holding mine, making me go flying out and back into his chest. I look up at him as he looks down at me licking his lips. I stare at him for a few seconds before realizing how close we are right now.

"Johnnieee stopppp. We're not going to get anything done at this rate." I say moving away.

"Well we could get other things done." He says making my eyes widen as I stare at him in shock. "Relax, only a joke, Harry seems like a lovely bloke." He says laughing at my expression.

I understand after getting to know Johnnie better, that it's just personality, but something made me feel like that wasn't one of his jokes.

"Okay let's do this then." He says holding out his hand which I accept as we start going over the dance.

"And five six, turn seven and lift" I say as we go over the steps slowly.

"Okay well it definitely looks much better." I say shrugging.

"Are you kidding!? That was completely perfect! We finally got it." He says to me making me nod. "How about some celebratory ice cream." He says smiling while I sit down on the studio floor.

"I don't know, I was going to call Harry." I say looking up at him.

"It's already 7 here, which means it's late in New York no?" He says, making me frown.

"Yeah I guess." I shrug

"So Ice cream?" He says wiggling his eyebrows while shaking his shoulders making me laugh and nod, accepting his arm to help me up.

"Let me just grab my jacket and phone." I say, walking out the studio and into my room.