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17

May POV

"You look older." Those are the first words she says to me.

"Yeah." I am 24 now so I would expect to look older.

"Is your daughter with you?" I remain silent. Now I know no one has told her about April. I kinda wish someone did so I don't have too.

"N-no." I manage to say.

"She's 4 now, yes?"

"She would've been 4." I say softly. I can feel my heart thumping through my neck.

"Would've been?" Her eyebrows furrow with confusion.

"Not that you really care but uh after I gave birth to her she passed away. Got what you wanted huh?" Her face flushes and she opens her mouth to speak. "Anyways, I'm going to go." As I'm about to walk away she talks.

"Can we catch up?" My insides burn.

"You had 4 years to want to talk to me. And now I really don't want anything to do with you."

"I tried looking for you at Sadie and Ellie's wedding."

"Did you stop paying for a phone?" I ask.

"May I-"

"Anyways if you did even try to reach out to me I wouldn't have replied because you told me to abort the baby that I really did want and that's inexcusable. Today, I actually had a good day and I'm not going to be having a shitty night by talking to you for 5 minutes so if you'll excuse me." I walk away quickly and close my eyes for a brief moment and let out a sharp breath.

I see Harry waiting by the exit. I walk over to him and he smiles gently. "Ready?" I nod.

***

I place my spoon in my mouth and lick the remaining ice cream off.

I'm a bad stress eater so I'm almost done most of the tub.

"You okay?" I look up to Harry who has his head tilted at me. "You seemed a tad off when we met at the exit."

I lick the metal spoon and let out a deep breath. "I bumped into my Mom in one of the isles." I admit. Harry's green eyes soften.

"What did she say? Was it something rude?"

"No, she just asked questions." His head tilts at me.

"Does she know about April?" I bite my lip.

"No one told her so I had too because she asked where she was." I release a deep breath. My eyes look back up to Harry who's staring down at me. He gently kisses my forehead.

"Don't let her get to you."

It's hard to do that when she's been the thing in my life I always wanted to please and get approval from.

I rest my head on his broad chest and close my eyes against him briefly. "I love you." I murmur.

"I love you more." He kisses the top of my head and rubs my lower back with his finger tips.

"Can you take the ice cream away from me so I don't eat it all?" He snickers gently and kisses my cheek.

***

I wake up the following morning with a headache. Harry left for work an hour ago and I just got up.

I sit at my laptop and check my emails.

[email protected]

Can we please catch up?

~Mom

I put that email in the trash and move on.

[email protected]

Hey May, how you've been?

~U/F Nick

U/F? I question what he means.

My eyebrows soon go straight and U stands for Uncle and F stands for father.

How odd backwards it's FU?

I delete that email and go to the next one.

[email protected]

Hey May!

There's gonna be a BBQ at the house this Saturday at 2:30pm. Stop by?

Love,
Dad

I reply saying:

I have my internship from 2:30-5 I'll see if I can
~may

What's with my family and emailing me now?

I shut my screen and hear my phone go off. It's Harry. "Hello?" I say.

"Hey, May. Can you do me a favour?"

"Sure." I yawn.

"I left these files on my dresser. Can you bring them over to me? I have a meeting and need them."

"Yeah sure. Text me the address."

"Will do. I love you."

"I love you too." We hang up our call and I stand up and walk back to our room and see the brown files resting there.

I put on jeans and jacket then slide on my shoes. I soon leave the apartment moments later.

***

"Hello! How can I help ya?" The peppy girl at the front desk says. Her hair is bright blonde and her eyes are a hazel.

Her happiness seems fake. It matches her hair well.

The building is very fancy. And I look like trash.

"I have files for Harry Styles I need to give him." Her eyebrow raises.

"Do you have an appointment?"

"No." I say. "Why would I need an appointment to drop of files he asked me to get?"

"He would've asked his assistant to grab the files if he needed them." Her name on her tag reads Liz.

I don't like Liz.

"I live with him and he called me to drop them off. That's what I'm trying to do."

"A lot of journalists try to sneak in and get interviews with our workers. I'm not buying it." My eyes burn on the bitch in front of me.

"Can you call him over here so I can give it to him? You'll be right here to witness it."

"You can leave and tell your publisher to piss off." Her smile still on her face.

I see Harry walk over to us and smile. He leans against the counter. I hand him the files. "Thank you."

"You're welcome." My eyes glare to Liz who's staring at us.

"Liz where there any problems between you and May?" I guess he noticed the sudden tension.

"No Sir." Her voice still peppy. His green eyes glance back to me. "If she ever comes by just send her to my office, got it?"

"Yes Mr. Styles. I'll take note of that."

"Good." Harry's voice is stern. "Want a tour? The meeting doesn't start for an hour."

"Sure." I say with a soft grin.

We walk away from the main desk and I chuckle. "Mr. Styles?"

"Sounds fancy right?"

"Sounds snobbish and business like." I say. "Are people here actually intimidated by you?" I ask.

"Yes." I laugh. "What?"

"You got scared of a moth that came into the house once." I giggle.

"Shh. Lemme feel intimidating." He opens an office door. "This is my office. I spend most of my time in here or in the conference room." I look around.

"Nice." I observe.

"Would you like any coffee? I can get my assistant to get you some."

"Assistant?"

"Her name is Jenn. She's just outside."

"No, I'm good thanks." I say with a chuckle.

"What's funny now?"

"You can't get your own coffee?" I ask. "Does she get you your breakfast too?"

"Ha ha." Harry says. "No, just my coffee. Then she grabs my papers that I needed to print, and that stuff. She's quite nice."

"Sounds fun."

"Very." We step out of his office and walk around. We get glances from some of his women co-workers.

Overall the whole floor is very intimating in it's own way. I feel out of my element.

"Hey Harry." A man with blue eyes greets us.

"Hey man." They shake hands. "Uh Niall this is my girlfriend May. May this is one of my co-workers Niall."

"Wow just a co-worker?" Niall scoffs. We shake hands and I smile gently. "You're much more pretty than what he described." Harry stiffens.

"Hm, thank you." I say.

"I've known Haz here since he was around what is it now? 10? Not as long as Sadie of course."

"You know Sadie?" I ask.

"Of course! She was my first girlfriend before I moved to Vancouver." Yeah, I can see that. "You're her younger sister, yes?" I nod. "I saw her last month. You guys don't look a like."

"I get that a lot." I say with a snicker. She's only my half sister so I wouldn't really expect to look much like her.

Niall looks back to Harry then back to me. "Anyways, I hope you had fun walking around and stuff. I'm going to go before Harry punches me. It was nice meeting you May."

"It was nice meeting you Niall." The happy man walks away and I look up to Harry. His jaw tense.

"How come I've never met him?" I wonder how many more actual friends of Harry's I haven't met. "He's nice."

"Yep."

"Really?" I laugh. "You're tense looking because i was being kind?"

"No." Harry loosens up. "Anyways, to answer your question I don't have an answer really."

I feel like I don't know a lot about Harry's life with his friends.

"Interesting. You should invite him and some of your friends over for dinner one night." His eyebrows furrow.

"Dinner?"

"Yeah, I want to meet them."

"They're more of the clubbing type." His hand runs through his hair. "But I'll give it a go. I'll see if they can bring their girlfriends and or wives." I nod.

"Great. Anyways, I'm going to go. I'll see you later today. I would hug you but I don't know since your at work." I ramble. His arms wrap around my body and he kisses my cheek.

"I love you."

"I love you too." I whisper back.

We both bid our goodbyes and we go our own ways.

Since we've been taking counselling sessions for the past 2 weeks, we go twice a week, we got into the groove of hugging and cuddling again. We haven't kissed though.

And by kissed I don't mean like not kissing each others cheeks. I mean a real kiss.

I can't really remember when we have kissed like that last. I know it's been a long time though.

Harry POV

I open my office door and see Niall in the chair I have for guests. He turns around and faces me.

"Hello." I greet. I close my door and sit across from him.

"Hi." He smiles. "May's hot." My hands grip my knees. "Why didn't you say that?"

"I said she was pretty."

"Pretty not hot. She has that like nice figure going. Nice ass. You got it good huh?" I stare at Niall blankly. "What? We don't talk like that anymore?"

"Not about May."

"Oh, she's serious then."

"I've been with her since my senior year of high school, Niall."

"Well, I don't see a ring in her finger so it must not be that serious, huh?" I stare at Niall who smirks.

A://N

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