Chapter 10
AN: Important contest information at the end.
Demon Harry and I looked up at the building as I brought my hand up to shield my eyes from the sun.
"I didn't know demons had other jobs besides the one at the office." I truthfully told him, staring at the glass windows in awe as Harry nodded from besides me, taking a bite of his banana.
"Well yeah, I'm pretty cheap so the paychecks I give my employees aren't big enough to support them alone. Lots of demons have normal jobs in the human society we just don't let the humans know. You know state farm?" He asked through a mouthful of fruit as I turned to look at him.
"Yeah?"
"Whole company. Run by demons." He informed with a cocky smirk as my jaw dropped at his words.
"What? No it's not." I said in denial as we looked at eachother.
"Uh, yeah it is. How do you think they appear whenever you need car insurance. Duh." Harry scoffed, giving me a look as I furrowed my brows at him.
"But that's a commercial. You're lying." I stated, pointing at him as I raised my brows before he tossed the empty banana peel over his shoulder, carelessly discarded it on the ground before turning his head to meet my gaze.
"Am I." He said in an arrogant tone, unbuttoning his shirt to reveal another shirt underneath that was red with the white logo state farm on the right side of his chest as my eyes widened in disbelief.
"You work for state farm?" I breathed in amazement as he grinned and closed up his shirt.
"Oh honey," He patronized, grabbing my chin and keeping me still so our eyes would meet.
"I own state farm." Harry declared with a cocky smirk as I slowly took his hand away from face while I gaped at him in surprise.
The recess bell suddenly rang, catching both Harry and I's attention as we saw the hallways inside the elementary school flood with little kids rushing out of class.
"So Haylie works here right?" I leaned over asking Harry for confirmation as we prepared to go inside.
"Pretty sure I saw something about her working with kids on her record." He simply shrugged in response.
"Okay, just pick up that banana peel you tossed and we'll head in." I told him, going up the steps as he sent me a look.
"What? I'm not picking it up I threw it for a reason. If I just picked it up it would be lame." Harry protested, tugging on the hem of my shirt from behind as I turned to give him a look.
"Okay and, in what world is throwing banana peels cool." I said in a slow voice, clasping my hands together as I looked at Harry who pursed his lips in thought.
"Narnia..."
"Pick the banana peel up Harry." I cut him off, widening my eyes at him for emphasis as I pointed at him before I went inside while he let out a sigh of defeat and followed my orders.
"Hi! Hi there, excuse me sorry." I greeted a little chubby boy in a friendly tone, giving him my best 'I'm not a pedophile' smile as he looked up at me in confusion.
"Hi, um, do you by any chance know which room Haylie- uh I mean, Ms. Charter is?" I asked, bending down to be eye level with this little kid as he blinked at me.
The small chunky boy continued to stare at me with a blank expression, blinking slowly as I heard Harry let out an audible groan of annoyance in the background.
"Alright kid we just wanna know what room number she's in." Harry said, moving passed me in impatience before he placed his large hand over the child's forehead, the boy's eyes rolling back at the contact, his mouth falling open slightly as he dropped the cheese stick in his hand.
"Alright. Room three. Thanks. Run along now." Harry said as I watched him in disbelief, removing his hand from the boy's face as the boy blinked in confusion with a dazed look before Harry spun the child's body around, shooing him away.
He casually tucked his hands in the pockets of his jeans, turning to me with a careless grin only for it to immediatly drop when he saw my face.
"Wha- What? You wanted to know and he wasn't answering." He brought his hands up in confusion as I shifted on my feet and glared at him.
"Yeah well you didn't have to possess him. What did I tell you about that, you can't just possess every kid you see." I chastized, shaking my head at him as I walked through the hall, heading to room three.
"For your information, I didn't possess him. I simply read his mind and went through his memories-"
"Oh yeah like that's any better."
"Why can't you just thank me I mean really, thanks to me now you know which room to go to." Harry said, the both of us bickering at one another as we entered the classroom, our argument trailing off as we looked at the empty room.
"Huh, she's not here." I said in slight disappointment, looking at all the vacant desks before I suddenly heard a slight snap from the teacher's front desk.
"Sh, you hear that?" Harry asked making the both of us exchange confused looks of apprehension before we slowly approached the large wooden desk at the front of the room where the silent snapping and sobs were coming from.
"Haylie?" I asked as Harry and I both lowered our heads to find Haylie underneath her desk, curled up in a ball with flushed tear stained cheeks, her glasses somewhat tilted at a strange angle on her face as she lay in a pile of empty pistachio nut shells on the floor while opening more of them with a nut opener in her hand as she sniffled.
"What- what are you guys doing here?" She asked when she saw us, not bothering to lift her head off the ground as she avoided our gazes and opened another pistachio.
"We were uh... we were just around the neighborhood.... is all..." I trailed off, slowly crouching down in front of her as I gave her a cautious look.
"Boss told you where I worked on the side didn't he?" She sniffed, her nose sounding stuffy as she fixed her glasses and looked up at us with blue teary eyes as her gaze went over to Harry behind me as I nodded.
"Haylie..." I began in a soft gentle tone that people use with hurt little animals as I peered down at her.
"Yes..." She said, looking up at me as her lip quivered.
"Why are you laying underneath your desk in a pile of empty pistachio nuts?" I asked her in a slow voice so everything would process and sink in as she cracked another nut.
"Because they sound like the sound of my broken heart." She wheezed out, curling up even more and cradling the nut opener in her chest before she grabbed another pistachio.
"They also sound like his nuts smashing into pieces for doing that to me!" She cursed, now going on a rampage of opening the pistachio nuts as I gave her a look.
"Is this about Psycho Harry?" I asked in confusion as she paused to look up at me, pushing up her glasses.
"No, it's about my ex boyfriend." She answered as my eyes widened at her words.
"What? You have a- but when did you- you had a boyfriend?" I questioned in shock, rising from the ground to stare at her in disbelief as Harry nodded.
"Oh yeah, I heard about your break up with Gilbert. There's even a rumor going around the office that you were so heartbroken you quit both of your jobs, became an unsuccessful stripper and then moved to Utah." Harry informed in a casual tone as I turned to give him a look while Haylie stared up at him.
"Who would say that about me?" She asked, looking up at us with a frown.
"I got really bored." Harry shrugged making me immediatly narrow my eyes at him.
"Oh wow, a poster about the solar system." He forced a laugh when he saw my irritated expression as he pointed at a poster across the classroom.
"I'm just- I'm gonna go check Uranus." He simply said, snapping his fingers and pointing at me then at the poster before he awkwardly left and walked to the other side of the room.
"Haylie I thought -I thought you said you loved Psycho, I mean with the whole I won't let them yell at you and the whole touchy touchy screen hand touch." I told her as she slowly sat herself up on the ground, tucking her knee length skirt down a bit as she frowned.
"I do love him. He's like a little baby seed that I've been watching grow and grow into a beautiful little cactus. Like I'm serious, I even named one of my cacti after him." She told me, moving over a bit before she took out a large glass bowl of a succulent garden from underneath her desk with large stones and thickened plants.
"I practically raised Harry, both plant and Psycho him because his parents never really took care of him. I always reminded him to hydrate himself, not to panic, don't jack off too hard over Scarlette Johansson." She shrugged as she looked down at her small garden bowl as my smile slightly faltered at the last part.
"See, this one is Harry," Haylie said, pointing to a little cactus with a small pink flower on it before she moved over to her other plants.
"And this is Schmidt, Gilbert, and Elmer.... and- and G-gilbert." She started to cry all over again, her tears falling into her bowl of plants as I watched her with a frown.
"I'm sorry, Gilbert was my ex. H-he left me for a younger girl." She wheezed, taking the tissue box from the top of her desk to blow her nose before she took out a folded picture from her jean jacket, handing it to me as I opened it up and visibly cringed in surprise when I saw an elderly man probably in his late eighties with a sixty year old look woman leaning on his shoulder.
"I-I know he's too young for me but- ugh you probably think I'm such a cradle snatcher." She cried, wiping at her tears as I looked up to raise my brow at the twenty three year old girl.
"Are you not seeing this. The guy is like, what, eighty years old and the woman is a good sixty. You're in your early twenties-"
"I only look like I'm in my early twenties but I've been alive for centuries Liza. I can't do that Twilight Edward and Bella thing where just because he looks young he gets to be with her even though he's older than her own father I mean- I tried it. I dated one of the history teachers here and at dinner he said 'don't you wish you could've seen the Boston Tea Party' and then I said 'Seen it? I lived it!' and he never talked to me again. It's weird. I feel like I'm a fraud and I'm dating little babies, even with eighty year olds." She rambled on with a flustered look, bringing her arms up for emphasis before she hugged the glass bowl of plants to her chest.
"I can't just be one of those demons who hit on someone not even half or a quarter of my age, it makes me uncomfortable." She admitted with a frown as I heard Demon Harry scoff in the back.
"Just at me next time." He called out to her as he poked at one of the classroom projects on display.
"But uh- what about Harry. You guys get along together so well. Don't you see him in a like- like attractive sexual kinda wayyy....." I tried to reason as I gave her a supportive smile making her look up at me with furrowed brows.
"He's a cactus... it would really hurt to be sexually attracted to him-"
"I'm talking about human Psycho Harry." I cut her off as she blinked in surprise.
"What? My little carver? I mean yes I know he's attractive and everything but his personality reminds me too much of when he was a child and I had to take care of him. He's like a little brother to me." She told me in a genuine tone as I let her words sink in.
"That's what Selena Gomez said about Justin Bieber but by 2014 he wasn't the only one saying baby, baby oh." I told her as I heard a crash from the back of the room where the building of popsicle sticks collapsed to the floor as Harry took a step back in surprise, running his hand through his hair nervously when he met my gaze making Haylie lift her head up, peeking over her desk at the mess.
"Someone- someone broke that." He breathed, awkwardly pointing at the mess on the floor as Haylie and I looked at one another.
"Liza I would just give up now. I am never leaving my desk and I'm just going to stay here and cuddle these cacti and empty pistachio shells." Haylie sighed, slowly sinking back to the floor as she pressed the side of her face against the cold surface of the glass bowl in her arms.
"Harry she's cuddling cacti!" I said, not knowing what to do as I looked at him for help.
"Kind of busy here babe!" He yelled back from across the room in a distracted tone, not even looking at me as he tried to put the popsicle sticks back together on the display.
"Okay Haylie just listen for-"
"Ms. Charter," A tiny girl's voice sniffed as someone entered the classroom, making all three of us look over to the door where a little girl in ponytails wiped at her teary eyes as my gaze traveled down to her scraped knee.
"Sydney, oh Sydney what happened?" Haylie frowned, immediatly getting up from under the desk, accidently bumping her head in the process and rubbing her forehead as she quickly went to the girl in concern, placing a gentle hand on the child's heaving shoulder as she cried.
"Come on hun, we'll get you cleaned up and have a bandaid on that okay?" She said, lowering her head so she was eye level with the little girl, the sadness on Haylie's face replaced with worry as she reassured the child and gently ushered her out of the classroom to the bathroom across the hall.
I have an idea.....
"How much you wanna bet Haylie would drop everything if I told her Psycho was hurt." I said, nearing Harry with a smirk as he fixed the classroom display.
"Liza that's manipulative." He told me, turning to give me a look before a slow mischevious grin spread across his face as he pointed at me with a popsicle stick in his hand.
"I like it."
••
Demon Harry and I entered his flat to find the Psycho, Assassin, and Vampire hanging out in the living room with bright neon colored and vibrantly patterned leg warmers on them.
They were like these socks that covered the ankles instead of the feet, like what women used to wear back in the eighties when they exercised.
Even the Assassin was wearing a bright baby blue fuzzy pair of leg warmers as all three Harrys looked up at us in unison from the couch.
"Why are you guys wearing that?" I asked with furrowed brows before they all slowly raised their pointer fingers to point at Demon Harry besides me.
"What the bloody hell did I do?" He exclaimed when he saw that all eyes in the room were on him.
"Yeah the whole ankle kink man, it's weird." Vampire Harry breathed out, taking a swig of his beer as the other two nodded.
"We're doing this because we care about you.... and we can't trust walking around here with out bare ankles around you." Psycho explained as the Demon narrowed his eyes at them.
"You're in on it too?" I laughed in surprise, pointing at the Assassin who simply shrugged, leaning back into the cushions.
"Psycho said he caught him staring at his ankles before." The Assassin said as the Demon's jaw dropped.
"I have never stared at your ankles!" He claimed, furiously pointing at the Psycho.
"It was a Tuesday morning, nine am, we were in the kitchen and I was back from my jog and I felt you staring! Don't deny it!" Psycho said with finality.
"That's because you came back leaving a trail of blood on my floors with your shoes. Everyone knows you don't do morning jogs you were just carving and why would I even want to stare at you guys' ankles when I can just stare at my own since we all have the same ankles." Demon Harry snapped at the three who still looked up at him with unconvinced expressions on their faces.
"I think it's time we take out our emotion cards." Psycho announced in a casual tone, leaning forward and resting his elbows on his knees as him and the Vampire took out small index cards from their back pockets.
"We are doing this because we care for you deeply, and as friends we find it difficult to be walking around with our ankles showing while you're here-" Vampire Harry said, clearing his throat as he read from a small piece of paper.
"Okay you know what, no, you guys are not having an intervention about a kink I only have for my girlfriend -For god's sakes you wrote your feelings on a coupon for that vape shop across the street." Demon Harry shook his head, snapping his fingers and pointing at the two as Vampire Harry slowly raised his raybands over his eyes.
"Oh- oh you guys are official now? You guys are like an item.... Alright, alright." The Vampire smirked, nodding his head slowly as he gestured between the Demon and I.
"Wha- you two are using labels now?He just said the G-word! You just said the G-word! So you wanna use labels now like when did that even happen!" The Psycho fumed, pointing at Demon Harry and I in disbelief.
"You know what I'm feeling. I'm feeling attacked." Psycho continued, flipping through his cards before he turned his head to the Assassin who was staring out the window.
"Hey, where's your emotion cards I gave you." Psycho asked the Assassin.
"I'm wearing leg warmers. Don't push me." Assassin responded in a low impatient growl as he continued to glare out the window, not bothering to turn to the Psycho.
"I think I have the right to call Liza my girlfriend at this point." Demon Harry exclaimed as the Psycho stood to his feet.
"Oh do you! Do you now, and what makes you think I'm going to let my precious little pumpkin here go on a date with some trashy good for nothing skinny jeans wearing guy- I mean look how skinny your jeans are." Psycho snapped, grabbing my wrist and pulling me close to his side like a protective dad as I looked up to give him a look.
"You're wearing the same skinny jeans!" Demon Harry pointed out in irritation.
"As Liza's daddy I don't approve of you, isn't that right mommy vamp." Psycho said, looking over at Vampire Harry with his feet propped on the coffee table as he gave him a look.
"I'm not apart of this..." The Vampire said, slowly raising his hands up in surrender.
"You were apart of this when you put the leg warmers on, it's too late now." Psycho Harry said, snapping his fingers at him as the Vampire sighed, throwing his head back in annoyance before he slowly rose to his feet and held me at his side as well as we faced Demon Harry.
"Uh, first of all she's the one who asked me out on a date." He pointed out, still arguing with them.
"And I bet all you want to do on this so called date are naughty naughty things to my pumpkin isn't that right. You should be very ashamed of yourself young man, trying to get into poor Liza's pants." Psycho patronized, grabbing my head and placing it against his broad chest, keeping me still as I blinked in surprise while Demon Harry's body tensed at the action.
"I've already gotten into her pants!" Demon Harry snapped in frustration as the Vampire and Psycho gasped, pretending to be shocked while my shoulders slumped and I let out a tired sigh.
"I need to sit down." Vampire Harry said, placing a hand over his heart pretending to be surprised as Psycho and Demon Harry continued to argue while Assassin muttered a small "kill me" under his breath.
I moved away from Psycho when the two began to get in eachother's faces, yelling and cursing at why Demon Harry should be able to go on a date with me as I sat besides the Vampire.
"Hey mommy vamp, can I talk to you in private for a minute?" I asked with a teasing smile as he smirked and raised his brow at me.
"Sure kid." He chuckled as we both slowly got up from the couch and walked out of the room unnoticed.
"So, what's it you wanna talk about?" He mused, laying down on the guest room bed with his hands behind his head as I layed besides him while we both stared up at the ceiling.
"Well," I began, letting the silence in the air stretch over us for a few moments as I thought about how I was going to word this.
"I was going to the kitchen last night and..."
"And you heard and saw me act like a total whipped school boy, no...." He laughed in embarrassment, smiling as he covered his face as I sat myself up.
"No, no. It's nothing to be ashamed of here." I reassured him, patting his broad shoulder as he lowered his hands down to narrow his eyes at me in a playful manner.
"You like Natalie." I stated in an obvious voice although my tone was soft as he sighed, scratching at his head awkwardly.
"Yeah, yeah I do. I dig her- and not gonna lie but when I first met you I -and still do- think you were cute. I thought wow, look at this human girl just going at it and trying to bite my neck while mumbling nom nom into my skin. You're hilarious and it took me a while to get over you- not as long as Psycho and Assassin but I knew to back off when I saw the way you looked at Prince Demon dude." He explained, running his tongue along the side of his fang as I watched him.
"But then Nat it's like- it's like we really get eachother. Just her care free laid back personality, did you know the other day we had a full on discussion about weed. It was- it was amazing." He breathed out, deep in thought as he looked at me and gave me a sad smile.
"But she has a husband... who she really loves." He said, blinking up at the ceiling as he let out a heavy sigh before I leaned over and hugged him, feeling his arm wrap around my waist as he held me close.
"Don't get too emotional on me kid." He joked, pinching my cheek as I smiled and buried my face against his chest.
"Hey guys, Harry and I just came back from the grocery store and look what I found!" Nat exclaimed, walking in with a grocery bag in her hand before she took out a mug with a cartoon vampire on it.
"I have no idea if this is offensive to you but woo! Team Edward all the way now- hey.... what's the matter? I mean- yeah the mug was like two bucks only but I think it's pretty nice." She began, tilting her head to the side in confusion when she noticed the sad smile on Vampire Harry's face, making me look up find him laughing at her, shaking his head as he rubbed at his tearing eyes.
"You're ridiculous." He told her, blinking his tears away as he smiled at her while Nat and I exchanged looks.
She put the mug back into the plastic bag and placed it on the floor as she approached us on the bed, sitting down on the other side of Vampire Harry across from me as she looked down at him.
"You do know," She began in a gentle tone, brushing a strand of his brown hair away from his forehead.
"One day you are going to find that one person who will genuinely laugh at all your terrible jokes." Natalie smiled down at him, making the Vampire chuckle in response before she layed down and hugged him, the two of us hugging Vampire Harry as he let out a sigh and held us close.
"So you guys just let your girlfriend and wife cuddle him on the bed?" Psycho spoke up from the door as Vanilla Harry and Demon Harry stood impatiently at the entrance, watching us.
"I'm timing it." Vanilla Harry said with a tense body, bringing his hand up to look at the watch on his wrist.
"It's fine... it's cool... you know as long as he doesn't get too close to her- your hand is getting really close to her ass just warning you!" Demon Harry snapped, raising his voice as the Vampire blinked in surprise.
"Oh, sorry." He said in a genuine tone, raising his hand higher on my waist.
"I'm feeling kind of emotional too. Where are my hugs?" Psycho Harry pretended to sniff as Vanilla Harry's watch beeped.
"Alright that was fifteen seconds." He announced before he walked over and grabbed Natalie away, casually placing her over his shoulder as she waved at everyone while he walked out with her.
"Group hug! Vampire's not feeling well." I told the Demon and Psycho who were still waiting at the door as I clung to Vampire Harry who sent me a grateful smile.
"Alright, move over." Psycho smirked, rubbing the palms of his hands together as he neared my side before Demon Harry grabbed him, yanking him over to the other side of the Vampire across from me by his shirt.
The Demon and Psycho joined, all of us hugging the smiling Vampire before we heard footsteps in the hallway.
"There's always room for one more." Vampire Harry offered with a grin when the Assassin leaned against the doorframe, looking over at us.
"I'll pass." He said with a raise of his brow before he walked out of the room as the four of us held eachother on the bed.
"Let's get him." I hissed in a creepy voice as we all shot up from the bed, yelling and hollering his name as we darted into the hallway to find the Assassin already running away from us, cursing in Italian.
AN: SUPER IMPORTANT!!!!
I've already made the characters who will be love interests for the Vampire, Psycho, and Assassin and just to let you know, you guys haven't met the Psycho or Assassin's love interest yet but you have met the Vampire's.
It's not Nat btw.
BUT I KNOW HOW MUCH YOU GUYS HAVE YOUR OWN FAVORITES BETWEEN THE PSYCHO, ASSASSIN, AND VAMPIRE SO HERE'S THE DEAL.
I am going to hold a one-shot contest.
You pick one of the three Harrys, the Psycho, the Assassin, or the Vampire and write a one-shot about them meeting their love interest or who you have in mind if you want.
Or not, your one shot can be about anything, can be dirty, cute, funny it's up to you.
Just tag or dedicate the chapter or one shot to me so I can read it and there will be three winners.
The first winner will have the choice of having their name used as the love interest for Psycho Harry or Assassin.
Second winner will have their name used as the love interest for the Harry the first winner didn't choose.
Third Winner gets a personal imagine written by me of them meeting their fav Harry from this story.
June 30th will be the last day to enter your writing and you can only enter one of your works. If you have any questions just ask.
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