Chapter 17:

My eyes were tightly closed as I slept, although my mind seemed slightly conscience as my senses were aware of where I was. I rebelled against waking up, I want to sleep, just a little bit longer. I didn't hear anything in the room except a deafening silence which made me smile internally knowing I still had time to sleep before I needed to actually wake up. I began to drift off into a daze until I felt something shift beside me, It seemed to be perched next to me on the couch.

After the film last night we all fell asleep in Eleanor's living room, me and Eleanor on a couch each and Perrie and Danielle asleep on the floor. We won the couches fair and square, we took teams and flipped a coin - which me and El won. Yay!

I felt it shift again beside me and started to hear a slight mumbling from other voices walking into the room, the girls must have been in the kitchen to get some breakfast. Knowing I had to wake up, I groaned and stretched slightly although I hit something hard next to me, I opened my eyes to see a large head of curls hovering over me and green eyes piercing into mine.

"AHHHHH!!" I screamed and fell off the couch, only to be cushioned by Harry's muscular frame; I lay on top of him and looked into his eyes, the familiar green orbs pouring into mine whilst a small smirk appeared on his lips.

"Morning." he whispered, his breath brushing against my face and tempting me to lean down and kiss his perfectly pink lips. I was just about to respond when I realised I was still on top of him, crushing him beneath me. My eyes widened and I quickly scuttled off his frame.

"Sorry about that, you just scared me." I blushed and pushed a piece of brown wavy hair behind my ear. He took both of my hands in his and closed the gap between our bodies, resting my hands on his hips and placing his own hands on my shoulders.

"It's okay." he kissed my forehead lovingly and engulfed me in a large hug, his arms wrapping around my neck and pulling me into his chest as mine hugged his waist. We pulled apart slightly and I looked up to him. I could see in his eyes that he wanted exactly what I wanted. He wanted to feel the way we felt when we kissed, when our lips collided and our bodies melted into each other.

I noticed his torn expression when he simply kissed my forehead again, knowing he didn't want to kiss me in front of other people because we weren't too sure what was going on between us and therefore didn't want to make them feel awkward; so in return, I just stood on my tip toes and raised my lips to his ear.

"I'm kissing you right now." I whispered pulling back and seeing his large dimpled smile appear on his face, he bit his lip making me want him even more.

His lips lowered to my ear and a whisper escaped between them, "then why don't you?" I immediately felt my cheeks heat up at his question; He then leaned his forehead against mine and looked straight into my eyes, teasing me.

"JUST KISS!!" we smiled at everyone in the room as they all watched us. I giggled, my eyes never leaving Harry's.

"Don't mind if I do." he answered cheekily before smashing his lips onto mine, oh how I've missed this feeling! He's my drug. His pink plush lips were soft against mine and his touch warmed my entire body right down to the core, the butterflies in my stomach erupting as they normally do whenever I see or think about him.

His large hands reached my cheeks and cupped my face as he deepened the kiss, sliding his tongue alongside my bottom lip asking for entrance. I accepted, and soon our tongues were battling each other, grazing each other every now and then, sending me into a frenzy.

"Alright kids, let's keep it PG!" Louis shouted, braking us from the heated kiss. Our foreheads leaned together and I panted for breath as did Harry, smiling at what we had just done. He was right, I could never get used to this.

"Awww! You two are so cute!" the girls gushed as Louis rolled his eyes, he walked over and whispered something in Harry's ear before winking and strolling into the kitchen. I followed behind him and Harry followed behind me. Placing myself on the countertop, Harry stood inbetween my legs with his arms wrapped around my waist as I spoke.

"So what are you two guys doing here?" I asked politely, wanting to know why they had both come here in the early morning.

"Well considering the girls are all working and you're not working until this afternoon, we thought we'd take you to lunch then drop you off at work? How does that sound?" Louis asked. I smiled at their sweet gesture and nodded, already excited for the rest of the morning with them. I love how considerate they were, it's always flattering when people think of you and these two had done exactly that.

After the girls left for work, Lou, Harry and myself all went to get some breakfast. We decided to go to a small secluded cafe, the lads were regulars apparently so the owners gave us a corner table, making our presence here almost non existent. We sat down at the small rounded table and ordered our food, Louis sat in the middle whilst me and Harry sat opposite each other, stealing occasional flirty glances.

The waitress came over and gave us our orders, she smiled at Harry and gave him a wink before strutting off and wiggling her hips in an attempt to gain his attention, it seemed to work as he turned his head and watched her walk away.

My eyes flickered sadly down to my food as I began to play with it, not really feeling hungry; although when I glanced back up to Harry he turned his head back and rolled his eyes in annoyance with a slightly disgusted look on his face - he clearly didn't like the way she flirted with him which made me smile as he looked up at me, his eyes sparkling as he held our gaze.

His dimples appeared and made me smile wider before I looked down to my plate coyly, "So Lou, what are you doing today?" I asked him, not wanting to leave him out. It's not like me and Harry are dating but, we are close, we have a connection that I don't have with the other lads. They're more like my brothers, they make me laugh and tease me, whereas Harry, he is something more, I just don't know what it is.

"Well we have a meeting with management today, so we're going to be there for an hour or two, apart from that, nothing." he shrugged.

I raised my eyebrows and took another forkful of my pancakes, "Do you know what the meetings about?" I asked curiously.

"Nope, we don't find out until we get there, but apparently it's for something tomorrow." he continued as he finished his waffles.

"Well I hope everything goes well. Call me if you need anything." I smiled making sure they know I'm always here for them.

"Thanks," Lou smiled at me as I took the last forkful of my pancakes, "we better get you to work then, we need to get the rest of the lads and head to this meeting now anyway." All of us stood up and left the cafe, soon we were driving the familiar route to work, dodging multiple fans and photographers as we pulled up outside the shop.

"Bye lads." I waved and hopped out of the car gracefully. I slammed the door shut and made my way inside, pushing through all of the fans to get in safely. Phew! Now time for work...

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---{Harry's POV}---

After we dropped Faith off, me and Lou rounded up the rest of the lads and are now heading to the meeting with management. "What do you think they need us for?" Liam asked, his eyes flickering to each of us as he waited for our response.

"Dunno', they said its urgent and something to do with tomorrow." Zayn added as we tried to solve the mystery of todays meeting.

"What's so important about tomorrow?" Niall said as he glanced out of his window at the multiple fans that were stood waiting outside of the large glass building. "Here we go." He breathily added just before we made our way out of the car and through the mob of fans outside. After successfully making it inside, we were taken straight into the meeting room, seeing Luke, John and Paula all sat in seats as they waited for our arrival.

"Hello lads, come in! Take a seat." John smiled and motioned for us to sit down, we smile at them warily in return, still wanting to know what this suspicious meeting is about.

"We know you're probably wondering why we've called you in so urgently?" Paula guessed, to which we all gave a small direct nod. "Well you have been nominated for a few awards. One for Best Boyband, one for Best Album and one for Best Single." she added and looked at us.

"Oh my god!" we all smiled happily at each other in disbelief.

"The awards ceremony is tomorrow, Caroline said she should have some tux' for you already." Luke smiled.

"Do we get to bring people?" I asked wanting to know if I could bring Faith.

"Yeah. It won't matter anyway, no-one will see them." John mumbled to himself rudely.

"But make sure they look nice, just incase they are seen. We don't want anything bad for your image!" we nodded and left the room. Sure, management were annoying, but we were still pretty blown away with the fact that we were nominated for three awards. They were the last thing we were thinking about right now.

"I can't believe we're up for three awards!!" Louis screamed happily.

"I know me either! I'll get on twitter to the fans." Niall added as he whipped out his phone and began typing on it.

"I'll call Perrie and see if she if going, they might be nominated for something as well. I can't believe we only just found out about this now though." Zayn said as he dialled her number into his phone.

"I know yeah, the fans probably already know." he chuckled although only half-heartedly. I glanced around and noticed everyone doing their own thing, except one person whose eyes remained trained onto the floor. Liam.

"You okay mate?" I asked him as I nudged his shoulder. His face remained tired and unhappy as his eyes focused on his shoes.

"Not really." everyone focused their attention on him, knowing that when one of us is upset we all listen and try to help, it's what we're here for, to look after each other when things get hard to handle. We're brothers.

"What's up mate?" I asked him and slung my arm around his shoulder as his eyes began to glaze over succinctly.

"Me and Danielle broke up." he sniffled and raised his hands to his face, wiping one fallen tear as if it wasn't there.

Our mouths all dropped in shock and confusion, they seemed to be fine the last time we were all together. "When?" Zayn asked concerned.

"Before we came to this meeting. I think it all just got to her. I just can't believe it's over." A few stray tears left his eyes; he wiped them away only to find more flowing. The lads gave him their condolences and I just hugged him tighter. He needed his friends, and that's exactly what he has.

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After the events in the car, Niall invited us all over to his place, which is where we all were now. A rather large bowl of crisps was tightly cradled in Niall's hands. Liam was sat beside him with his own bowl, both of them sat on the couch munching nonchalantly as we watched Toy Story 3 to cheer Liam up. It seemed to be working a little bit as he could never be upset when this film was on, it was his weakness, it always made him smile.

Louis and Zayn rang Eleanor and Perrie earlier to inform them on tomorrows happenings and by the looks on the lads faces, the girls had agreed to go. Considering Eleanor loves fashion and Perrie has been to an awards ceremony before, I knew that both of them had something to wear, whereas this is all new to Faith. And I know she would be hesitant if she didn't have anything to wear, I should really sort that out.

I dialled Faith's number into my phone and waited for her to answer, "Hello?" her sweet and loving voice asked into the phone and waited for my reply.

"Hey Faith." I chirped. I love hearing her voice, it automatically makes my day brighter an I can't help but smile. This is what she does to me and she doesn't even realise it.

"Oh hey Harry! How was the meeting with management?" she asked, sounding happy to hear my voice.

"It was okay, that's actually what I wanted to talk to you about. But first, how was work?" I heard her sigh and huff slightly.

"Busy, there were so many people. You wouldn't think that a flower shop would get a lot of customers but we do! And with Millie jumping all over the place, it just takes my breath away." she sighed again giggling slightly, I smiled at her cute and innocent little giggle, "Hey, how's Liam? Danielle told me that they had broken up." she asked genuinely concerned about the news.

"He was devastated in the car, but he seems to have perked up now that he's watching Toy Story 3." I chuckled, looking over at Liam.

"Could you put him on the phone please?" I smiled and walked through the kitchen to where Liam was sat in the living room, then handed him my phone.

"It's Faith." I smiled informing him. He took the phone happily and pressed it to his ear before answering.

"Hello?" he asked into the phone, his eyebrows furrowed slightly in confusion, "Oh hey Faith!" he smiled hearing her voice. "No they are." he nodded. "Yeah, he's right next to me." I looked down at Liam and furrowed my eyebrows, were they talking about me? "Of course I would." he smirked up at me evilly, making me feel slightly on edge. "Really?!" he laughed into the phone, "no I won't tell him, I promise." he laughed again and looked at me, "I'd never noticed before but he does." small tears escaped his eyes because he was laughing so hard. I'm happy he is smiling and laughing but at the same time I'm a little scared, I want to know what they're saying about me! "Well I'm gonna' give you back to him because he looks a bit scared, I'll speak to you soon! Thanks for that Faith!" he ended and handed the phone back to me, I glared at him playfully and walked back into the kitchen so I could have some privacy.

"What were you two talking about?" I asked nonchalantly hoping she would tell me.

"Oh nothing, just you." I could picture the playful smile on her face, "So what did you want to talk to me about?" she asked changing the subject, I let it go, figuring I could ask another time.

"Well at the meeting today they told us that we have been nominated for three awards, and the award ceremony is tomorrow night..." I waited silently and hoped that she got the hint.

"Aww congratulations! You guys are going to win! I just know it!" she cheered though the phone.

"Well I was hoping you would go with me. You could be my good luck charm." I smirked cheekily.

"Harry I would love too..." she started before I interrupted her.

"Great, then it's settled!" I said.

"But," my face fell when that word escaped her lips, did she not want to be seen with me, my heart sank at the thought of her not liking me. "I don't have anything to wear. I can't exactly go in jeans and a t-shirt can I? I'm not used to big events like that," she finished, breaking me from my thoughts.

"I can take care of that, don't worry about it. I can ask my stylist Caroline for help, if I do that will you come?" I asked hopefully.

I heard her sigh playfully, "I suppose so, yeah. If you really want me there..." she teased making me smile, I could see her virtually rolling her eyes at me playfully.

"Thank you! I'll sort it out and you'll be picked up tomorrow with Eleanor, I might not see you until when you arrive though." I smiled.

"Okay that's fine with me, I guess I'll see you tomorrow Harry." she spoke softly into the phone as she said goodbye to me.

"Bye Faith." I ended the call and then dialled our stylist Caroline's number and waited for her to pick up.

"Hey Harry, what's up?" she sweetly responded.

"Hey Caroline, the awards ceremony is tomorrow and I'm taking my friend Faith but she doesn't have anything to wear, could you maybe find something for her please?" I asked her, waiting for her answer in anticipation.

"Yeah sure, what does she look like?" Caroline questioned.

"Green eyes, brown wavy hair, pale skin, slim." I told her.

"Okay, no problems Harry. I know the perfect dress for her, text me her address and I will take it over to her tomorrow." She spoke, making me smile thankfully.

"Thank you so much for this Caroline! It means a lot." I said gratefully and text her the address.

"No problems, bye Harry." I bid her goodbye and sighed in achievement; Faith is going to look stunning tomorrow, and I can't wait until I see her. Those bright green eyes bursting with colour, her soft skin silky to the touch, her long brown wavy hair effortlessly styled and her beautiful figure accentuated by whatever she wears. Faith is an incredible and stunning person even in casual clothes, I'm going to be absolutely breathless when I see her tomorrow!

I strolled back into the living room with a wide grin plastered on my face as I thought about Faith; when I glanced up I noticed all the lads giggling to themselves. "What are you guys laughing at?" I asked inquisitively.

"Liam just told us what him and Faith were talking about on the phone." Niall answered. I rolled my eyes and slumped onto the couch childishly. I want to know too!

"Tell me!" I whined and looked at them all as they snickered.

This is going to be a looong night...

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