Bella's pov

10:30 pm

"Yes, mother we'll be at the airport by 4:30 am," I said while closing the door of my room.

I was on my bed ready to doze off when my phone beeped.
There was a text from an unknown number.

It read

Hey there "I don't like Harry Styles".

(Bold & Italic is Bella and Only Italic is Harold/ Harry)

I understood who it was.

Hey there "I'm a die-hard fan of Harry Styles".
I replied.

What were you doing?

Typing. What are you doing?

You'll never answer straight. Ever! Will you?

Nope, not until you answer me.

Urgh. Never mind I was getting bored.

So now I'm away to bring you out of your boredom. Is it?

..........

Why are you texting me now? I said that you could text me if you plan to meet.

Maybe I want to meet.

Very funny.

No. Maybe I'm serious.

Shut up.

🤐

I stiffened my laughter

Again. What are you doing?

Not over it yet?

.......

Well, basically I was fidgeting on my blanket trying to sleep.

Sleep? So early even when tomorrow's a holiday?

Have to wake up early tomorrow morning to pick my Granny from the airport.

Oh, I see. So ready for tomorrow?

Yep...
Almost

Hahaha, that's right there's always something left for the last minute.

You're right no matter how long we are ready something or the other is always left out for the end.

Ikr. So are you done with your preparation like 'choosing which dress to wear?

Hahaha, I know it's my weak point but this time I didn't have to do it someone helped me out.

Oh! Yes and I believe his choice was just great.

Not actually but I have to just go with it.
(Sighs) What else can I do?

Oh believe me his choice is great and white will definitely suit you. You'll slay it!

I felt my cheeks getting warm and could sense that I was blushing hard.

So how is my progress?

What?

I mean you texted me 'cause you were bored. So how is my progress to bring you out of your boredom?

Great by far. Keep it up 👍
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Bella's pov

Saturday went real quick I spent most of the day with Granny enjoying.
Sunday too flew away like a breeze.
About Harold? He hadn't text me after the last time.

Saturday went unnoticed but on Sunday I didn't know why but I expected at least a 'Good morning' text but it never came.

Monday, somewhere I expected him to meet but he didn't.

I was disappointed not because he didn't come or texted me but because I hoped he would. I didn't know why I expected it in the first place?

I mean we met only a few times the first two times was unexpected, the third time he just came to say sorry and the fourth time we didn't meet but he just texted me 'cause he was bored.
So why should I even expect him to meet me?

Well, Tuesday was very normal as compared to the last few days. I didn't expect him to come neither did he came.

Wednesday was normal too
Until.

It was fifteen minutes for the lunch break and I was writing with an abnormal speed as I was late to complete my assignment whose deadline was today second last lecture.

It was not very normal for me to be this late for any of my assignment's submissions. Maybe it was because I was distracted.

Nevertheless, I'm happy I got a free period otherwise it would've been next to impossible to complete it by the deadline.

My phone suddenly beeped with a message appearing on the screen.

It read
Hey! Can you come online for a second?

The message was from an unknown number but I knew exactly who it was.
I didn't save his number I didn't know why? I know I should have. I mean that was the only thing to do but I purposely did not save it.

(Bold&Italic are Bella's texts
Only Italic are Harry/Harold's texts.)

Who is this?
I asked very well knowing the answer.

What! Didn't you save my number?

I asked a question first.

Uh-I am Harold. That 'Harry Guy' as you say.

Oh.
I faked surprise

Why didn't you save my number?

I didn't do it intentionally...

Oh! Okay, it's just it's not pretty common.

What's not common? Girls not saving your number?

I dreaded clicking on 'send'.
I didn't know what gotten into me that made me type this.
This was probably because I didn't want to talk to him because of the not so common and normal thoughts I'm starting to have.

You could say I wanted to avoid him.

???

Nevermind. Why did you text?

Umm. I was just...

What?
You're bored again?

No-uh-I was wondering, your lunch break will start after ten minutes right?

I glanced at the top of my phone's screen and exactly ten minutes were left for lunchtime to start.
This boy was pretty accurate.

Yes. Why?

Nothing I'm just about 700 meters away from your college garage and will be there within 6-7 minutes.

" What!? " I said out loud rather than typing making the whole classroom turn towards me.

If you just screamed "what" then my answer is "yes".

Don't tell me you're texting while driving.

Don't worry I'm walking. Also to inform you I don't drive that slow to cover 700 meters distance in 7 minutes.

Again I made fool of myself Obviously he hinted to me he was on foot.

Thanks for your concern though.

Well, I wouldn't want my number to be the last one on your contact list when you hit your car with the street light.

Oh! See that's so concerning of you.

......

So. If you're free we could meet again?

Why? Why do you wanna meet?

Umm...

I mean is this even fair? First, you just text me if you are bored and now you wanna meet.

Isn't that the reason you gave me your number in the first place? So I don't bump into you unexpected.

I did I have to say that what has gotten into me Obviously he would say that he was right on his path.
I felt like a complete idiot now. I mean this is so hypocritical of me I was the one who gave him my number to text me when want to meet and now I am the one having a problem with it!?

I didn't know what was happening to me!
Urgh, that annoyed me.

Yeah. You're right. Sorry, it's just I'm a bit stressed out, you know work pressure. So what were you saying?

Uh-I wanted to talk to you about something. Can we meet?

Where?

You know I have kind of 'public anxiety' so definitely not in the campus or park.

So where else?

In the garage? Why not.

You won't stop getting creepy, will you?

Well. I think that's my thing.

That's my thing too.

What the hell was wrong with me? Why did I have to say that?
I

just clicked on send unknowingly.

What I meant was that also didn't like to be around many people so places like the garage, which were most of the time empty were my thing.

But what I typed just did not specify that.

Before I could go and rant about what I actually meant he texted back.

I could make that out. You don't seem like much of a socializing person.

Thank the lord he understood what I meant.

Yeah. You're right I socialize just to a certain extent.

That's a great thing you know to have a choice of how much you want to socialize or publicize yourself and your life.

Elaborate, could you?

Uh- nothing I just meant not all people are allowed to choose how much they want to socialize...

Okay.

I kept my response brief and tried not to ask anything as it seemed like a sensitive topic for him to talk about so I let it go.

I'm here now.

Okay. I'll be there in the next five minutes I guess.

Alright, I'll wait.

There was a tingling feeling in my stomach indicating how excited I was.
I tried hard to ignore it though.