Silence engulfs the room as soon as I stop talking. The eerie quietness making me more and more tense with every passing second. I wait and wait for Harry to say something but nothing is said. 

After a few minutes, I finally gather the courage to look up from the ground towards Harry and immediately avert my eyes away when I find him sitting at the corner of the bed and staring right at me. I shuffle a bit in a my place before letting out a breath and opening my mouth to speak.

"I'm sorry, Harry." I say in a quite voice and hear him take in a sharp breath before he gets off of the bed and pads towards me.

I cautiously look up when he's only a few inches away from me, his mouth set in a straight line, not giving away anything. 

"He's here, isn't he?" Harry asks me calmly, not showing any aggressiveness or anger like I had expected him to. 

I meekly nod my head in response and wait for Harry's response. 

"Where? Is he standing outside this room?" His voice is still calm but I know it's just like the calm before the storm. I'm sure there's something big coming but I don't know what damage it will do.

"He's.. outside, yes." I tell him and with that Harry turns away from me towards the door. 

I snap my head up, watching him with wide eyes as he walk towards the door at a fast pace, leaving the room within the blink of an eye. A shaky breath leaves my mouth as I slowly follow after Harry, unaware of what he's about to do. 

"How dare you come back here?" I hear Harry shout and immediately I rush towards the source of sound. 

"Did I not tell you to show me your face ever again?" Harry shouts in Luke's face, whose pinned to the wall while Harry's tightly fisting his t-shirt in his hands.

"Harry, don't do this, please." I immediately plead him, not wanting him to hurt Luke for any reason.

Harry's head snaps in my direction and he squint his eyes angrily at me, fisting Luke's shirt more tightly as he shouts at me.

"You won't say a word, Stella. Not a word!" His voice is threatening, the loud tone and his angry expressions only making him appear more dangerous. 

"Get out. Get out this instant." Harry says, turning his attention back towards Luke as he drags him towards the living room with his collar. 

"Harry, no. What on earth are you doing, please. I told you the truth, don't." I say, running towards them and grabbing Harry's arm, trying to pry his hand off of Luke's collar even though I'm fully aware that I'm way too weak for forcing him to stop. 

"I told you to stay the fuck out of this." Harry says, aggressively pushing me away from him. His force full shove on my chest causes me my fingers to slip away from his hand and losing my balance, I fall on to the hard ground. A small whimper escaping my lips at the harsh collision with the ground, my chest somewhat burning from Harry's forceful push. 

This seems to grab Harry's attention though as he forcefully pushes Luke backward and rush towards my side. I feel the tears pool in my eyes when Harry wraps his arm around my mid section, helping me to stand up on my feet. 

Keeping his arm around me, he turns back towards Luke, his face red with anger and nostrils flaring.

"Did you see what happened because of you?" Harry questions Luke in the same loud tone and I flinch a little before attempting to pry him arm away from me but instead of letting go, he only tightens his hold. 

"He didn't do anything, Harry." I try again, hoping that he'll believe me but Harry doesn't even look at me at time, instead he removes his hand from around me and grabs Luke's wrist, dragging him towards the exit. 

"Fucking fine, mate. I'm leaving." Luke finally says, snatching his wrist away from Harry's grasp and pushing past him as he continues walking.

"Luke, don't leave. Tell him the truth." I say, finding myself walking after him, not wanting him to leave yet. Not without helping Harry.

Just when I'm about to pass Harry, my hand is grabbed and I'm forced to come to halt. I snap my head towards Harry, wiggling my hand to free myself but failing miserably. I feel the tears escaping my eye as Luke disappears from my sight. 

"Stop him, Harry." I plead in a broken voice but instead of listening to me, Harry just shakes his head at me before finally letting go of my hand. 

With one hard look, he turns away from me and walk the same way Luke did. I follow after him at a slow pace, hoping that he's going after Luke but instead Harry goes over to the table in the living room and grabs the box of pizza.

Silently, I pass the living room and immediately run towards the main door of Harry's house, silently praying for Luke to be there. My prays however are left unanswered as usual and I feel the tears finding there way back into my eyes as I try to open the door but it's locked and only God knows how.

With a small sob, I sit down onto the floor and wrap my arms around my legs, silently crying to myself. 

As I think about the reason for my tears, I don't find any specific reason. Like every other time, all the brutal things I've experienced during the past two weeks come back to my mind but this time, there's one more reason for my tears. Harry's health. 

A few minutes pass like that, me sitting on the floor in isolation and crying over my fate until I finally hear the sound of foot steps echoing through the silent house. The sound gets louder and louder with every passing second before finally it stops and every thing becomes silent again.

Even though I can feel Harry looming over my figure, I don't dare to look up as I sniff with my head buried in my knees. 

After a few seconds Harry lets out a sigh and I hear him shuffling before finally he sits down beside me, his shoulder touching mine. 

"Babe." Harry's voice is just a whisper as he tries to grab my attention, placing his hand on my tense shoulder and rubbing it gently. Immediately, I find myself shying away from his touch, not really caring that it might make him angry. 

"C'mon, don't be Iike that. Don't you want to eat anything? I know you haven't eaten anything because of me." Harry says gently, his voice no longer sounds monstrous like it did not so long ago, instead now his voice is sweet enough to lull anyone into a peaceful sleep. 

"I'm not hungry." I mumble quietly, not moving an inch or attempting to even glance at him.

"Not even a little?" This time he uses a baby tone causing me to somewhat smile to myself at his attempt to lighten up the mood.

"If I eat.. Will you call Luke back?" I ask daringly even though I already know the answer to the question.

"You won't eat because of that man?" Harry's tone is cold again and the way he says those words makes Luke seem like the most disgusting thing ever.

"I.. I told you the truth, Harry." I say, finally looking up at him and find him glaring at me with his eyebrows frowned and jaw clenched tightly. 

I flinch back when he throws the plate in his hand on the ground, causing it to shatter into pieces before standing up to his full height and facing away from me.

"Stella, don't test me. Or God help me I'll.." He says his voice daring me to continue what I've started. 

"You'll what, Harry." I question him quietly, standing up on to feet as I wait for what will come my way next. "I told you that I lied. Luke never touched me, he's been sincere to you the whole time. I was the one who left you, remember? And he was there to help you out when-"

I stop talking mid sentence when Harry turns back around at inhuman speed and grabbing me shoulders he pushes me into the wall.

"Shut up! Just shut the hell up." Harry shouts causing my eyes to widen at his sudden harshness. "Yes you fucking left me and he was there to help me out but I still believe you more than I'll believe him. Wanna know why?" Harry says, raising his eyebrows at me while I just stand there motionless.

"Because I love you. I love you." He says and I feel a pain in my chest. His love for that woman, his sincerity, it makes me feel something deep inside every time we talk about it all, it makes me feel something strange and weird and to be very honest I don't know what that feeling is.

"I love you." Harry says those three sacred words again before gently pressing his lips to my own.

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