Now that I've posted chapter 15 in Little Shy Arel I can finally write this one shot. It's Harry's POV during that very chapter. Hope you like it! It's really short, though.

Bel, xx

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Ariel
Harry Styles 

I’ve decided to focus more on Niall, on being a better friend. We already came here and if we are not going to find anything about Ella, I better give her my total support. I can help him to get distracted, or to have fun. Maybe this place doesn’t have to remind him of Ella all the time.

About the lake girl I’ve decided it’s enough. I’m not gonna get obsessed over finding a girl —like Niall did— when she clearly doesn’t want to be found. I said thanks and she accepted my gratitude. Oh yeah, I got her note. She wrote back to me, a brief note saying you’re welcome and that she had her reasons to leave and hide. I accept that. I’m no one to push her to do something she’s not comfortable with. I did what’s the polite thing to do: I thanked her. It wasn’t the optimal way but I did it nonetheless. My mum wouldn’t be disappointed.

There are many other things to focus on, like helping my friend.

But my friend is currently MIA. I’ve gone almost everywhere looking for him. Seriously, he’s not a midget as to disappear in this place. I know it’s big but not that big. Still, I keep looking for him and during my search I run into someone I’ve seen before. A girl with bright blood red hair. The mute girl of the lake I met the other day. I keep walking towards her, although she seems a bit distracted. She looks cute, though, with her summer dress making her look adorable and so feminine.

I greet her and I expect her to shiver and look scared, like the last time, but in this occasion she doesn’t do that, instead, she smiles widely at me, so full of happiness and light. I am awestruck because I thought she was cute before, but once I see her smiling this brightly I can only think of how gorgeous she is. The way her blue eyes sparkle like she’s at the top of the world.

She’s so… beautiful.

There’s no other way to describe her and I feel like I’ve lost my ability to speak. But I manage to finally utter something, “I um— I… I— I was looking for Niall, my band mate. Blond, Irish, laughs at everything. Might look a bit sad, though.”

“Stables,” she replies still with that lovely smile that makes her look so pretty.

“Thanks!” I reply politely and I decide to carry on and go after Niall when it hits me. She talked. “Wait, you’re not mute!” I exclaim, just realising in that moment what happened. I had totally forgotten about how she never uttered a word before and how I assumed she was mute. But she never contradicted me when I assumed that. She didn’t even shake her head!

“I’m not,” she replies and giggles. She giggles —which is quite adorable— and I can’t stop my eyes from widening. She’s acting so different from the last time I saw her.

“Oh my God, I’m so sorry! It was so rude of me to think you were. My God, I’m really, really sorry!” I rush to apologise. No matter how mesmerised I am with her smile and soft voice, what I did was a really dickhead move. “Really, I’m so sorry.”

“It-it’s okay,” she giggles again and I can’t help the smile coming to my lips. It’s like she’s a complete different person but the same girl I saw by the lake at the same time, the girl who was scared who looked terrified when I took a step closer.

“I’m sorry,” I repeat more calmly this time, still smiling, looking right into her blue eyes. They are special, they are not like Niall’s or Louis’, you know? They have light blue eyes. Hers are deep blue eyes, almost navy blue eyes. Beautiful eyes, like her smile. “So, what’s your name?” I ask because I’ve been dying to know that.

She replies, “I-’m Ariel.”

Ariel… I finally know her name and it’s a lovely name, cute like her. It fits her perfectly. And I tell her that, it actually slips my out of my mouth but it’s the total truth so it’s okay, I guess.

And I stay there talking to her for a bit more, asking her simple questions so things are clear. Now I know she lives by the lake, her family owns that place and she helps there and here at the centre but she’s not a formal employee like Ella was. I want to know more about her and I’m so captivated that I even forget about Niall so I decide to let him take a ride on his own, later I’ll go after him. That’s good, right? Plus, I don’t really want to stop talking to her. I’m not sure she’ll be like this the next time. She said she’s not good with people, right? And that’s why when she leaves I wonder if when I actually see her again she’ll talk to me. I don’t know what was different today, what made her talk to me or why she didn’t say anything before.

Either way, I really want to see her again and talk to her again. She’s so… I don’t know, especial. So fragile but sweet. It’s like her eyes scream she’s afraid but at the same time she wants more. Maybe that’s why seeing her smiling like that surprised me so much.

I wonder what else is there to find out about her.

See? Why would I care about finding lake girl, who doesn’t want to face me, when there’s this other girl who seems so intriguing and whose eyes shone with happiness when we talked? A girl who even when she blushes looks lovely? A girl who has to work so hard to talk to other people?

Ariel…I really want to know more about her.