Riley's POV:
6 days later

"Please Harry, just do it for me!" I whine as he laughs in my face. I love how all the other guys in the classroom are dissecting their frogs but when it comes to Harry and I, he's the one acting like more of a girl than I am.

"I am not touching that thing Riley. You better start, Niall and Dixie are almost done." He mutters, and I roll my eyes at him. Both of us look over at Niall and Dixie's lab table and Niall's got the whole thing opened up, organs lying out on a tray and Dixie is writing everything down... they might not like each other but they're a better match than they realize.

"You're such a wuss." I stick my tongue out him before sliding on my gloves. I steady the stupid frog in on the tray and slice it down the middle, just enough so it's open. The smell reeks and I turn over my shoulder to gag.

"This is great!" Harry smirks, and I scrunch my nose together with a pout on my face.

"Harry, please do the rest." I beg, and he shakes his head at me.

"C'mon Ri, it's my first day back to school and you've been learning about this stuff all week... Can't you finish it? I'll write everything we need to know down." He bats his green eyes at me and I cringe, nodding my head.

I continue prying the little intestines and eggs out of our female frog and can't help but smile at Harry who is very studiously writing down his observations of the frog. Over the past few days we've been on our 'break' and for me it's going very well... We do everything that we used to except kiss of course.

As I'm lost in my thoughts I accidentally squish the heart a little harder than I was suppose to, splattering frog gunk onto Harry's lab coat.

"Oh my gosh, I didn't mean to do that." I gasp with a chuckle, and Harry shoots me a glare. He slides on his rubber gloves and picks up the long stringy intestine and wiggles it in front of my face.

"Harry! Get that away from me!" I squeal taking a few steps back as he follows me forward.

"Payback is a bitch, Miss. Cutler!" He winks, tossing the frog's intestines on the top of my head.

"Harry," I say through gritted teeth but still holding back a smile, "take. it. off. now." I spit, and he collapses to the floor in a fit of laughter. Soon Dixie, Niall, Perrie and the rest of the class join in laughing and I roll my eyes.

"Niall, please take this off my head!" I groan, and Niall joins Harry on the ground.

"Ri, you've never looked better!" He chokes out, and I give him the finger, tilting my head down and letting them drop to the floor.

"Gross." Perrie chuckles from beside me. Everyone in the room starts cracking up and I see a genuine smile appear on that cheeky bastards face in front of me... I think people are slowly starting to warm up to him. Seth hasn't given me much trouble since the party and Harry's first day back was a success.

"Seriously?" The teacher's groggy voice interrupts our play time. "Clean everything up and sit in your seats until the announcements are over." He sighs, exiting the room once again. Harry starts cleaning up the intestines covering the floor and I finish up the frog remains quickly as announcements play overhead.

As I clean and watch Harry from a distance, I wonder what he has been thinking these past few days. I can't say that I don't like our time apart because I do, but I miss him. I miss our kisses, I miss having his arms around me walking into school, I miss the Harry I came to love who stayed at my house and teased Joni about her clothes.

But then again, I like where we are right now. I like our friendship, I like our playfulness and I'm pretty happy for the most part. Everything is going well, but maybe that's because Harry hasn't been in school lately. I still wonder about Eric and Seth's sister and if Harry can really change. I know he won't stop being over protective and aggressive but he had a very mean streak and I don't favor mean people or actions. Danny and I have been texting not that Harry knows that and Nick is slowly becoming a bigger part of my life... Let's just say I have more options then I imagined I would have...

"Seniors, don't forget to purchase your tickets to the Winter Dance next Friday--" The announcement plays over head.

"Senior dance is next Friday?!" I whisper to Dixie as I slide my backpack over my shoulder. Have I really been that caught up with Harry and everything else that I forgot about my own senior dance?

"Obviously, everyone has been talking about how it's on Friday the thirteenth... didn't you catch on?" She chuckles, and I shake my head back and forth.

"I don't have anything! No dress, no make up or hair appointment, no date..."

"What about Danny or Nick?" She suggests and I turn around to see where Harry is... washing his hands vigorously at the sink. What a baby.

"I don't know... no one has asked." I ask as Perrie comes up beside the two of us.

"What!" Dixie whisper shouts, pulling me closer towards her. "You cannot go with Harry, you're on a break! You're too good for him and all of that, c'mon Ri." She gives me a knowing look and I just shrug my shoulders. Dixie has been pushing me to officially end things with Harry, but I can't.

"I bet he will ask you... I'm going with Zayn!" She gushes, and I roll my eyes.

"Of course you're going with Zayn, who else would ask you? You're in love." I chuckle, and Perrie nudges my arm.

"So are you and Harry, so what's stopping you?" She smirks. My first thought is, Dixie is stopping me. But then I remember that she's my best friend and she's just looking out for me.

"Who are you going with?" I poke Dixie and a small frown develops on her perfectly glossed lips.

"I haven't been asked yet." She replies nervously, and I immediately nod.

"Yeah, it's still early," I lie, "but we'll both get asked eventually!" I say nervously, scratching the back of my neck.

My brain is scrambling at the moment and I have that panic that I usually get about these kinds of things... So 8 days from now is senior dance. Not prom, but senior dance. Harry hasn't been in school, maybe he didn't here? Then I also think, maybe Nick and Danny aren't even the slightest bit interested since they didn't ask me yet?

"Ready to go?" Harry asks, coming up behind me. I jump for a second and smile innocently, nodding my head. "You alright?" He asks, and I grin nervously.

"I'm good, yeah." I insist, leading the way to my car waiting outside-- His mum asked me to drive school.

"I had a good day today." He says in a low voice as we reach the car. When I unlock the car I giggle at his babyish smile and he smiles back.

"I'm happy you're happy." I tell him genuinely as I slide inside the drivers seat.

"Just because I had a good day doesn't mean I don't want you to be mine again..." He whispers, and I nod, turning up the radio to tune him out.

I'm confused right now, completely friggen confused.

Notes

I HAVE TRIED TO UPDATE FOREVER AND IT WOULDN'T GO THROUGH I'M SO RELIEVED THIS IS FINALLY WORKING.

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