The Fight for Love [AU/Punk Harry Fanfiction]
Chapter 18
Gabby’s POV:
“Does mom know you’re here…”
He laughed. It was deep and comforting to me. He had been gone for three years. “Of course she knows, Gibs.”
“Don’t call me that.” I immediately regretted saying that.
His face went pale, “Sorry.”
I had just been ticked off by Harry and this is not what I needed right now, “So are you staying or are you planning on abandoning us again?”
He shook his head, “I don’t know yet.”
I laughed, “So you admit to abandoning us?”
“I didn’t. I just left.”
“Without an explanation. I would call that abandonment, I mean, unless you want to call it something different. I would also call it being an asshole.”
“Gabriella, that is no way to talk to your father.” I turned around and saw my mother standing in the kitchen.
“I don’t consider him a father.”
I pushed my way past my mother and made my way up to my bedroom. I heard footsteps that sounded so similar to Harry’s coming behind me.
“Gibs- I mean, Gabby, please listen to me.”
“Will your words be slurred?” Shit. I thought these were good comebacks, but I knew they were really hurting him.
“I am your father!” He yelled. “You will change out of that whore-ish dress, come downstairs, and listen to me!”
I rolled my eyes and made my way up the staircase. I slammed my door shut, but I knew that wouldn’t do anything. I took off the dress, which I actually liked. I put on some pair of sweatpants and picked up my favorite sweatshirt, which was my fathers’. I put it back down; I couldn’t let him see I missed him. I thought a white t-shirt would do. I walked down the stairs slowly. I could hear my mother and father talking in the kitchen.
“I didn’t call you here to yell at her.” I heard my mother’s gentle voice. She called him? She knew where he was this whole time and she didn’t tell me?
“Sometimes that’s the only way to get through her thick head, I wonder where she gets that.”
My mother sighed, “Just talk to her, talk to her like you’re her father. You have to let her know these boys are no good for her. She needs someone clean cut.”
He laughed, “I wasn’t clean cut and you still love me.”
“Loved.” She corrected him harshly.
I stepped into the kitchen and took a seat at the table across from my father. “What do you need to talk to me about?”
My father spoke first, “The boys I hear you are dating. You need to stop.”
“I did. I broke up with Quinton.”
“Now you’re onto this Harry boy.” My mother interjected.
I rolled my eyes, “I am not into Harry. He is just my friend.”
“Get a better choice of friends.” My father’s voice was stern.
My mother put her hand on his wrist, “What your father means is, you need better influences.”
I laughed, “Yeah, okay.”
“This isn’t a joke, I don’t know why you’re laughing.” My father really wasn’t going to let this one go.
“These are the people I like. They are the people I want to be with. They made the person I am right now.”
My father was looking right into my eyes, “I don’t like the person you are now.” That made my spin shiver.
“You haven’t been around to know me.” I threw back.
“Maybe that should change.” My mother proposed.
“What?” I questioned.
She sighed, “Maybe, you should switch towns and school’s. You can move with your father?”
“I am not moving.”
“Why?” My father questioned.
“I like it here.”
“I don’t like what it’s doing to you.”
“You don’t get a say.” I looked straight at him.
“I am your father and you will listen to what I say. I am still your guardian.”
“I would rather you be dead.” Shit.
I got up from the table and grabbed the keys to Izzy’s car. I got in and wheeled out of the driveway. I had tears down my face and I had no idea where I was going. It was already 12:15. Had an hour gone by already? How is that even possible? I suddenly came up to the frat house. I needed to find someone. I need to find Harry. I walked into the frat house. The party was still going on. I could see Izzy and Niall on the couch sitting and laughing. I saw Liam across the room with Dani, she was a girl in our health class. She was trying to get into the gang. I looked so dumb in my sweatpants, but I didn’t even care.
I walked up to some random guy, “Harry Styles, where is he?”
“Upstairs, first door on the left?”
What? “Okay thanks…”
I ran up the stairs and knocked on the door.
“Harry?” I began to open it.
Harry was sitting on the end of the bed with his pants off and putting on his shirt. There was a dark haired girl getting her pants on. What the hell did they do?
“Harry?” I asked again, standing in the doorway.
He looked up and looked at the other girl. I shook my head as my eyes began to fill up with tears. I ran back down the stairs. I knew what they did. They fucked.
______
I ran down the stairs as quickly as I could. I could hear Harry coming behind me, quickly picking up his pace.
“Gabby! Wait!” I heard him scream.
Liam quickly turned around and cut Harry off, “Stop.”
Harry listened and I looked behind me and saw Liam approaching me, “Stop, Gabby! It’s me!”
I shook my head, “No! Liam, go back to your date!”
“I don’t have a date!” He yelled at me; I was still walking to my car, but I slowed down.
I finally stopped walking, “Go back to your date.”
His hand stopped the tear that was rolling down my cheek. “Don’t cry.”
I threw my hands in the air, “What else am I supposed to do?”
Liam brought his hand back to his side, “You’re not driving home.”
“I cant stay here, that’s for sure.”
“Let me drive you home.”
I shook my head, “No, I cant let you do that. You wont have a way to get home.”
“Gabby!” I saw Izzy running to us, well stumbling.
I walked quickly to her, “Izzy, slow down, you’re going to hurt yourself.”
She laughed, but she quickly stopped, “Why are you here again? Why are you crying?”
She was quickly sobering up, “Don’t worry about it, Iz. Go hang out with Niall. Liam has got it under control.”
“No I should be with you.”
“Go, I am not going to be the reason your night is ruined.”
“Fine, fine. We are going to have a girls day tomorrow though.”
I nodded my head in agreement. She embraced me for a hug and pulled away. She walked off, not stumbling as much anymore.
I turned back to Liam, “I’m fine, see?”
Liam was looking beyond me and I could see him shaking his head. I turned around to follow his gesture and I saw Harry coming right for us. I was lucky he wasn’t running fast.
I looked back to Liam, “Catch.” I threw him the keys. “Start the car and drive, now.”
He nodded his head and ran to the driver’s side. I got in the passenger seat and he quickly drove away. I heard Harry’s muffled yelling, but I couldn’t make out what he was saying. I looked n the rear view mirror and saw him throw up his hands. I wanted him to learn his lesson this time.
______
“Why did you come back?” Liam asked.
“My father came back. It was bad…” I continued to tell Liam what happened earlier. I was going to tell Harry all of this.
He shook his head as we pulled into my driveway, “I am so sorry, Gabby. You can stay at my house if you want. I think that would make things worse though. With your parents and with Harry.”
I nodded, “Thanks, Liam. I’m glad I have you as a friend. You’re…different.”
He laughed, “I don’t know if that’s good or bad.”
I smiled, “It’s great. But, how are you going to get home?”
He shrugged, “I don’t know…I could call someone, but they are all drunk.”
“Didn’t you drink too?”
He shook his head, “I don’t drink. Makes people sloppy. I like to remember what I do at parties.”
I laughed, “You can stay here for the night.”
He shook his head, “No way, I am not going to stay here, in the middle of this war.”
“It’ll be fine!”
“No way.”
“Please? It will keep them from yelling at me for another night.”
He sighed deeply, “Fine.”
I clapped my hands, which was so stupid, “Yay!”
I got out of the car and Liam followed. I opened my front door and could hear my parents in the living room. The tv was on but some infomercial was playing.
“Mother? Father?”
“In here, Gabby.” I heard my father call from the living room.
“I have a guest tonight.” I warned.
I lead Liam into the living room, “This is Liam, Liam Payne.”
My father held out his hand, and Liam shook it. “Nice to meet you, Liam.”
I wasn’t expecting this, “He just has to stay the night. He doesn’t have a way to get home, because he drove me home.”
“Where did you go?” My mother asked.
“Back to the party. I forgot my cell phone.” That was a lie.
She nodded her head, “Why did he drive you home?”
“He thought I had been drinking, and he didn’t want me to drive.”
My mother smiled at this, but it slowly faded. “Didn’t you drink?” She asked Liam.
“Oh no, Mrs. West, I do not drink.”
She smiled again, “Well it was nice to meet you, Gabby, show your guest to a bedroom, and not yours.”
“Mother!” I exclaimed.
“Sorry, that was inappropriate.” She apologized.
Liam laughed and I dragged him up the stairs. He pulled out his phone.
“Shit.” I heard him mumble.
“What?”
“Harry has called me twenty times and fifteen texts.”
My eyes went wide, “Why?”
“He wants to know where you are.” He said, but he didn’t look up from his phone.
“Tell him that I’m home.” That was the truth. “And tell him, I don’t want anything to do with him.”
That was the truth too.
“Does mom know you’re here…”
He laughed. It was deep and comforting to me. He had been gone for three years. “Of course she knows, Gibs.”
“Don’t call me that.” I immediately regretted saying that.
His face went pale, “Sorry.”
I had just been ticked off by Harry and this is not what I needed right now, “So are you staying or are you planning on abandoning us again?”
He shook his head, “I don’t know yet.”
I laughed, “So you admit to abandoning us?”
“I didn’t. I just left.”
“Without an explanation. I would call that abandonment, I mean, unless you want to call it something different. I would also call it being an asshole.”
“Gabriella, that is no way to talk to your father.” I turned around and saw my mother standing in the kitchen.
“I don’t consider him a father.”
I pushed my way past my mother and made my way up to my bedroom. I heard footsteps that sounded so similar to Harry’s coming behind me.
“Gibs- I mean, Gabby, please listen to me.”
“Will your words be slurred?” Shit. I thought these were good comebacks, but I knew they were really hurting him.
“I am your father!” He yelled. “You will change out of that whore-ish dress, come downstairs, and listen to me!”
I rolled my eyes and made my way up the staircase. I slammed my door shut, but I knew that wouldn’t do anything. I took off the dress, which I actually liked. I put on some pair of sweatpants and picked up my favorite sweatshirt, which was my fathers’. I put it back down; I couldn’t let him see I missed him. I thought a white t-shirt would do. I walked down the stairs slowly. I could hear my mother and father talking in the kitchen.
“I didn’t call you here to yell at her.” I heard my mother’s gentle voice. She called him? She knew where he was this whole time and she didn’t tell me?
“Sometimes that’s the only way to get through her thick head, I wonder where she gets that.”
My mother sighed, “Just talk to her, talk to her like you’re her father. You have to let her know these boys are no good for her. She needs someone clean cut.”
He laughed, “I wasn’t clean cut and you still love me.”
“Loved.” She corrected him harshly.
I stepped into the kitchen and took a seat at the table across from my father. “What do you need to talk to me about?”
My father spoke first, “The boys I hear you are dating. You need to stop.”
“I did. I broke up with Quinton.”
“Now you’re onto this Harry boy.” My mother interjected.
I rolled my eyes, “I am not into Harry. He is just my friend.”
“Get a better choice of friends.” My father’s voice was stern.
My mother put her hand on his wrist, “What your father means is, you need better influences.”
I laughed, “Yeah, okay.”
“This isn’t a joke, I don’t know why you’re laughing.” My father really wasn’t going to let this one go.
“These are the people I like. They are the people I want to be with. They made the person I am right now.”
My father was looking right into my eyes, “I don’t like the person you are now.” That made my spin shiver.
“You haven’t been around to know me.” I threw back.
“Maybe that should change.” My mother proposed.
“What?” I questioned.
She sighed, “Maybe, you should switch towns and school’s. You can move with your father?”
“I am not moving.”
“Why?” My father questioned.
“I like it here.”
“I don’t like what it’s doing to you.”
“You don’t get a say.” I looked straight at him.
“I am your father and you will listen to what I say. I am still your guardian.”
“I would rather you be dead.” Shit.
I got up from the table and grabbed the keys to Izzy’s car. I got in and wheeled out of the driveway. I had tears down my face and I had no idea where I was going. It was already 12:15. Had an hour gone by already? How is that even possible? I suddenly came up to the frat house. I needed to find someone. I need to find Harry. I walked into the frat house. The party was still going on. I could see Izzy and Niall on the couch sitting and laughing. I saw Liam across the room with Dani, she was a girl in our health class. She was trying to get into the gang. I looked so dumb in my sweatpants, but I didn’t even care.
I walked up to some random guy, “Harry Styles, where is he?”
“Upstairs, first door on the left?”
What? “Okay thanks…”
I ran up the stairs and knocked on the door.
“Harry?” I began to open it.
Harry was sitting on the end of the bed with his pants off and putting on his shirt. There was a dark haired girl getting her pants on. What the hell did they do?
“Harry?” I asked again, standing in the doorway.
He looked up and looked at the other girl. I shook my head as my eyes began to fill up with tears. I ran back down the stairs. I knew what they did. They fucked.
______
I ran down the stairs as quickly as I could. I could hear Harry coming behind me, quickly picking up his pace.
“Gabby! Wait!” I heard him scream.
Liam quickly turned around and cut Harry off, “Stop.”
Harry listened and I looked behind me and saw Liam approaching me, “Stop, Gabby! It’s me!”
I shook my head, “No! Liam, go back to your date!”
“I don’t have a date!” He yelled at me; I was still walking to my car, but I slowed down.
I finally stopped walking, “Go back to your date.”
His hand stopped the tear that was rolling down my cheek. “Don’t cry.”
I threw my hands in the air, “What else am I supposed to do?”
Liam brought his hand back to his side, “You’re not driving home.”
“I cant stay here, that’s for sure.”
“Let me drive you home.”
I shook my head, “No, I cant let you do that. You wont have a way to get home.”
“Gabby!” I saw Izzy running to us, well stumbling.
I walked quickly to her, “Izzy, slow down, you’re going to hurt yourself.”
She laughed, but she quickly stopped, “Why are you here again? Why are you crying?”
She was quickly sobering up, “Don’t worry about it, Iz. Go hang out with Niall. Liam has got it under control.”
“No I should be with you.”
“Go, I am not going to be the reason your night is ruined.”
“Fine, fine. We are going to have a girls day tomorrow though.”
I nodded my head in agreement. She embraced me for a hug and pulled away. She walked off, not stumbling as much anymore.
I turned back to Liam, “I’m fine, see?”
Liam was looking beyond me and I could see him shaking his head. I turned around to follow his gesture and I saw Harry coming right for us. I was lucky he wasn’t running fast.
I looked back to Liam, “Catch.” I threw him the keys. “Start the car and drive, now.”
He nodded his head and ran to the driver’s side. I got in the passenger seat and he quickly drove away. I heard Harry’s muffled yelling, but I couldn’t make out what he was saying. I looked n the rear view mirror and saw him throw up his hands. I wanted him to learn his lesson this time.
______
“Why did you come back?” Liam asked.
“My father came back. It was bad…” I continued to tell Liam what happened earlier. I was going to tell Harry all of this.
He shook his head as we pulled into my driveway, “I am so sorry, Gabby. You can stay at my house if you want. I think that would make things worse though. With your parents and with Harry.”
I nodded, “Thanks, Liam. I’m glad I have you as a friend. You’re…different.”
He laughed, “I don’t know if that’s good or bad.”
I smiled, “It’s great. But, how are you going to get home?”
He shrugged, “I don’t know…I could call someone, but they are all drunk.”
“Didn’t you drink too?”
He shook his head, “I don’t drink. Makes people sloppy. I like to remember what I do at parties.”
I laughed, “You can stay here for the night.”
He shook his head, “No way, I am not going to stay here, in the middle of this war.”
“It’ll be fine!”
“No way.”
“Please? It will keep them from yelling at me for another night.”
He sighed deeply, “Fine.”
I clapped my hands, which was so stupid, “Yay!”
I got out of the car and Liam followed. I opened my front door and could hear my parents in the living room. The tv was on but some infomercial was playing.
“Mother? Father?”
“In here, Gabby.” I heard my father call from the living room.
“I have a guest tonight.” I warned.
I lead Liam into the living room, “This is Liam, Liam Payne.”
My father held out his hand, and Liam shook it. “Nice to meet you, Liam.”
I wasn’t expecting this, “He just has to stay the night. He doesn’t have a way to get home, because he drove me home.”
“Where did you go?” My mother asked.
“Back to the party. I forgot my cell phone.” That was a lie.
She nodded her head, “Why did he drive you home?”
“He thought I had been drinking, and he didn’t want me to drive.”
My mother smiled at this, but it slowly faded. “Didn’t you drink?” She asked Liam.
“Oh no, Mrs. West, I do not drink.”
She smiled again, “Well it was nice to meet you, Gabby, show your guest to a bedroom, and not yours.”
“Mother!” I exclaimed.
“Sorry, that was inappropriate.” She apologized.
Liam laughed and I dragged him up the stairs. He pulled out his phone.
“Shit.” I heard him mumble.
“What?”
“Harry has called me twenty times and fifteen texts.”
My eyes went wide, “Why?”
“He wants to know where you are.” He said, but he didn’t look up from his phone.
“Tell him that I’m home.” That was the truth. “And tell him, I don’t want anything to do with him.”
That was the truth too.
Notes
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