Breathe
Realization Part 3
Nina’s P.O.V
I stand unresponsive to the man talking into the phone. Harry’s shot him self up, staring worriedly at me.
“ Nina, are you still there?”
“Yes, I’m still here”
“ I would really like to talk about this in person, I live in New Jersey with my wife and two kids, where are you located?”
“ That works out nicely, I’m in New York”
“ We’re coming up there on Thursday, do you think we could meet up?” he sounds breathless, exasperated, I could only imagine how this could be for him after my reaction.
“Yes please I would love that” My breath gains speed.
“Wyatt” I take a deep breath and swallow
“Yes?”
“Thank you for calling me” Tears build up in my eyes and Harry moves closer to me.
“I look forward to meeting you Nina” I hear him smile
“ I’ll see you Thursday”
He hangs up.
“ What was that, who was that?” Harry’s eyes are wide. I smile and giggle and a grin appears on his mouth.
“ I have a brother” Tears burst from my eyes and I can’t control my laughter.
“ Who? How do you know?!” Harry remains un amused
“ I’m meeting him Thursday, he lives in New Jersey, I don’t know but I’m going to see him”
“ I’m coming with you” He insists.
“Of course” I don’t argue with him “ Maybe he can help me with all this” I frown and gesture towards the untouched living room.
Harry swoops down and his lips meet my forehead. I grin and lean into him.
“ Are you hungry?” He asks, I nod “ Famished”
“ Sit up, I’ll make supper” He pats my sides and walks to the fridge
“ I can help” I step forward, he waves me away “ I want to cook for you” He pushes.
I put my hands up in defense and sit up on the bar stool, in perfect view of Harry.
“What do you feel like babe?” He asks me without turning around, head in the fridge.
“ eh” I respond “ You pick”
“ Nachos?” He shuffles a few things around
“ No”
“ You don’t like nachos?” He laughs
“ Not at this time of night”
“Okay what about noodles?”
“Depends what kind” I raise one eye brow even though I know he cant see me.
“ Mr. Noodle or pasta?” he turns, I put on a gross face
“No?” He chuckles, he lifts a foil-covered bowl
“Mac and cheese?”
“ Yes” I say enthusiastically… I love mac and cheese.
He grins like a small boy and places the dish into the microwave.
“ Take the foil off Harry!” I scold him and he quickly opens the microwave to remove it.
“ I’ve got it under control” He informs me jokingly.
He strides over to me. I turn my head away from him and smile
“ What do you want?”
I feel his hand on my cheek turning me to him; I reach him and his smile, revealing his perfect teeth and dimples. His head moves forward and his lips find mine, softly, slowly we mold to each other.
The microwave’s beeps interrupt our make out session. He groans and moves away from me.
-
Here you go, he places the mac and cheese filled plates in front of me and sits up beside.
“ This is really good” I take a mouthful.
“ You like it?” He mocks me
-
“ Babe come to bed” I hear Harry groan outside the bathroom. I shuffle my wet hair around in a towel quickly and throw on a baggy shirt, I think this is Harry’s, and a pair of boy short underwear.
I open the door and his head tiredly moves up to see me. I laugh as he groans and falls back onto the bed; I shut off the light and move in.
“ You smell so good” He embraces me, arms wrapped around my body. I smile and cuddle into his chest.
“ Goodnight Harry” I kiss his jaw
“ I love you” He whispers, lips on the bridge of my nose
“ I love you too”.
Tia’s P.O.V
“ So we have invitations?” I look over at El and Dani who are gluing white lace patterns on black notepaper.
“Yes, handmade” El smiles
“And food” I look over to Louis and Zayn who are focused in on Fifa.
“ You guys said you would help” I grab Zayns controller, his hands shoot up and his eyes widen.
“No Fifa till we have these plans done” I state they whine and move to sit with the rest of us.
“ I wish Nina was here” Perrie whines
“ We all do, her and Harry” El says with a hint of sadness.
“She’d know what to do” Dani places a finished invitation to the side and rubs her growing stomach.
“Dani you’ve gotten allot bigger” Perrie notes
“Gee thanks Per” She cocks her head
“No like in a good pregnant way” She smiles
“When are you due?”
“June 16th, hopefully” She smiles down
“Hey that’s Nina’s birthday!” I almost yell
“Only three months to go” Louis rubs Dani’s back
“Where did the Niall and Liam go?” I look around
“ I think they went to Nando’s to get us food” Zayn pulls out his phone
Nina’s P.O.V
5 days later
“ Are you sure you’re ready for this?” Harry asks me before we enter the car.
“ If I don’t do it now I never will” I take a deep breath and close my eyes briefly.
We drive to the café Wyatt said he’d be meeting us, it seems to take forever but the whole way was only 10 minutes, we pull up and I notice the kid friendly environment present, which means he must be with his family.
Harry takes hold of my hand and leads me through the door as soon as we get in I skim the length of the establishment with my eyes.
“ I don’t know what he looks like” I whisper
“Nina?” A deep voice asks from behind me, Harry and I turn at the same time and both remove our Ray Band glasses
“Wyatt?” I say sheepishly
“Yes, I can’t believe it’s you” He embraces me, I feel Harry awkwardly move away, I don’t hug him back at first, my arms stay there limp, but when I feel a tear hit my shoulders I wrap my arms around his back.
He doesn’t look much older than me, maybe he is and just is one of those people who don’t age, we have the same nose, and ears and lips and face structure… hell we mine as well be twins. The only difference is that he has our father’s eyes, where as I got my mothers. His are a smoky blue tinted with green. He has brown hair that does the sort of Nate Russ thing.
“Please come sit” He ushers us kindly to a private table isolated in the back of the room.
I notice two small children a boy and a girl and a women, with long blonde hair and a petite frame feeding them some sort of mixture.
“ Nina, this is my wife Jessica and my twins Mallory and Parker,” He says proudly
“ Nice to finally meet you” She stands and shakes my hand
“ This is Harry” I nudge Harry forward.
“ Nice to meet you Harry” We take a minute with greetings. I bend down to the levels of the small children.
“Hi Parker, hi Mallory I’m Nina” They shyly turn their heads away from me smiling
“Mommy whose that” Mallory says pretending to whisper
“That’s Nina and Harry, they’re our friends,” She explains.
“Nina, we have lots to talk about” He gestures to a table further then the one with the kids at I nod
“Harry can you stay here please” I say quietly hoping he doesn’t start an argument
“You don’t want me to come?”
I shake my head “ I can do this” He breaths out like a dragon, but silently agrees.
I follow Wyatt to another table farther away from everyone else.
“ I’ve been trying to find you for months” He says quietly
“ I had no idea I had siblings, no one ever told me” I blink and think back to my times with my Grandparents, neither of them told me I had a brother, and Tia and her parents wouldn’t of known.
“A detective came to see me a few weeks ago” He starts, my mouth slowly parts “He gave me a folder filled with letters and told me about you”
“ I have letters too, and he came to see me also, he gave me a will” I bow my head, why didn’t they include Wyatt in the will.
“ I don’t understand why we were kept from each other” I shake my head
“ Nina, they kept us from each other because our father did some bad things” His eyes flash horror and I notice him playing with his finger I look down and notice me doing the same thing. Holy Shit.
“What kind of bad things?” I pace myself, thinking over every bad thing in existence.
“ He was part of Lanza Mob in central California, some stuff happened and he ended up owing money to the leader of the group, they said if he didn’t pay that they would take the life of their first born, which was me” He pauses taking a deep breath, I run my hands through my hair as my brain processes everything I’m hearing
“ So, one night the Lanza Mob came after us, we all fled and got out alive but our parents lived in fear that one day they’d come again. They took me down to Red Bank New Jersey and put me in the care of some friends, I never saw them again.”
“ How old were you?” is all I can manage
“ I was 4” He whispers
“Why did they keep me?” I feel my body heating up and my limbs getting heavier.
He shrugs “ All I know is that they moved to the coast, and then they were taken”
“You said you had letters?” I look up at his piercing eyes
“I have letters too”
He smirks “ Funny how that works hey”
“ Why didn’t they mention you in the will” I frown, unsure if bringing up the will is a good thing.
“They didn’t want anyone knowing I existed, for my own safety” His voice sounds hurt, like a long lost boy everyone forgot about.
“I want you to have some of the stuff mentioned on the will” My tone is hard, persisting.
“ No Nina it’s fine, the stuff that’s on the will is yours, I don’t need anymore junk to throw in the house”
“They left me 4 estates all over the world and nine hundred million dollars”
His eyes pop open “ Wh-What”
“ Please, I’m only 18 I’ll be 19 in June I don’t know what to do with that much money”
“It should be split evenly everything” I add
He shakes his head “ It was your name in the will, not mine”
“Well now that it’s mine I can do what I want with it and I want to give it to you”
“ You don’t have to decide all this today” He looks up at me “ I just wanted to see you in person, I just wanted to know I had a family”
“ Daddy” We look over to see Mallory, tears running down her face
“ What’s wrong sweetheart” He picks her up tenderly and she curls into his chest
“Pah-ker hit me,” She informs him, her voice muffled.
I smile at them “ We should get going” I look over at Harry and catch him starring.
“Lets meet up again soon please” I stand
“ Yes, sometime this week for supper maybe?”
Harry’s P.O.V
“ Tia when are you going to get here?” I say trying to hide my phone in my curls.
“ We’re at the Airport, Niall had to eat and Louis forgot his phone” She sounds exasperated
“ But you’re all there now?”
“Yes they’re boarding our flight, I’ll see you at Mom and Dads in 5 hours” She hangs up the phone.
I take a deep breath and turn
“ Who was that?” Nina looks at my phone
“ Simon, just band stuff” I lie
“ My parents want us to go over for dinner tonight” She tells me information I already know.
“ Oh really, are we going to go?” I sound too hopeful
She looks at me studying my every move “ Yeah, I have to tell them about all this”
I wrap my arm around her shoulders as we walk up to the car.
I stand unresponsive to the man talking into the phone. Harry’s shot him self up, staring worriedly at me.
“ Nina, are you still there?”
“Yes, I’m still here”
“ I would really like to talk about this in person, I live in New Jersey with my wife and two kids, where are you located?”
“ That works out nicely, I’m in New York”
“ We’re coming up there on Thursday, do you think we could meet up?” he sounds breathless, exasperated, I could only imagine how this could be for him after my reaction.
“Yes please I would love that” My breath gains speed.
“Wyatt” I take a deep breath and swallow
“Yes?”
“Thank you for calling me” Tears build up in my eyes and Harry moves closer to me.
“I look forward to meeting you Nina” I hear him smile
“ I’ll see you Thursday”
He hangs up.
“ What was that, who was that?” Harry’s eyes are wide. I smile and giggle and a grin appears on his mouth.
“ I have a brother” Tears burst from my eyes and I can’t control my laughter.
“ Who? How do you know?!” Harry remains un amused
“ I’m meeting him Thursday, he lives in New Jersey, I don’t know but I’m going to see him”
“ I’m coming with you” He insists.
“Of course” I don’t argue with him “ Maybe he can help me with all this” I frown and gesture towards the untouched living room.
Harry swoops down and his lips meet my forehead. I grin and lean into him.
“ Are you hungry?” He asks, I nod “ Famished”
“ Sit up, I’ll make supper” He pats my sides and walks to the fridge
“ I can help” I step forward, he waves me away “ I want to cook for you” He pushes.
I put my hands up in defense and sit up on the bar stool, in perfect view of Harry.
“What do you feel like babe?” He asks me without turning around, head in the fridge.
“ eh” I respond “ You pick”
“ Nachos?” He shuffles a few things around
“ No”
“ You don’t like nachos?” He laughs
“ Not at this time of night”
“Okay what about noodles?”
“Depends what kind” I raise one eye brow even though I know he cant see me.
“ Mr. Noodle or pasta?” he turns, I put on a gross face
“No?” He chuckles, he lifts a foil-covered bowl
“Mac and cheese?”
“ Yes” I say enthusiastically… I love mac and cheese.
He grins like a small boy and places the dish into the microwave.
“ Take the foil off Harry!” I scold him and he quickly opens the microwave to remove it.
“ I’ve got it under control” He informs me jokingly.
He strides over to me. I turn my head away from him and smile
“ What do you want?”
I feel his hand on my cheek turning me to him; I reach him and his smile, revealing his perfect teeth and dimples. His head moves forward and his lips find mine, softly, slowly we mold to each other.
The microwave’s beeps interrupt our make out session. He groans and moves away from me.
-
Here you go, he places the mac and cheese filled plates in front of me and sits up beside.
“ This is really good” I take a mouthful.
“ You like it?” He mocks me
-
“ Babe come to bed” I hear Harry groan outside the bathroom. I shuffle my wet hair around in a towel quickly and throw on a baggy shirt, I think this is Harry’s, and a pair of boy short underwear.
I open the door and his head tiredly moves up to see me. I laugh as he groans and falls back onto the bed; I shut off the light and move in.
“ You smell so good” He embraces me, arms wrapped around my body. I smile and cuddle into his chest.
“ Goodnight Harry” I kiss his jaw
“ I love you” He whispers, lips on the bridge of my nose
“ I love you too”.
Tia’s P.O.V
“ So we have invitations?” I look over at El and Dani who are gluing white lace patterns on black notepaper.
“Yes, handmade” El smiles
“And food” I look over to Louis and Zayn who are focused in on Fifa.
“ You guys said you would help” I grab Zayns controller, his hands shoot up and his eyes widen.
“No Fifa till we have these plans done” I state they whine and move to sit with the rest of us.
“ I wish Nina was here” Perrie whines
“ We all do, her and Harry” El says with a hint of sadness.
“She’d know what to do” Dani places a finished invitation to the side and rubs her growing stomach.
“Dani you’ve gotten allot bigger” Perrie notes
“Gee thanks Per” She cocks her head
“No like in a good pregnant way” She smiles
“When are you due?”
“June 16th, hopefully” She smiles down
“Hey that’s Nina’s birthday!” I almost yell
“Only three months to go” Louis rubs Dani’s back
“Where did the Niall and Liam go?” I look around
“ I think they went to Nando’s to get us food” Zayn pulls out his phone
Nina’s P.O.V
5 days later
“ Are you sure you’re ready for this?” Harry asks me before we enter the car.
“ If I don’t do it now I never will” I take a deep breath and close my eyes briefly.
We drive to the café Wyatt said he’d be meeting us, it seems to take forever but the whole way was only 10 minutes, we pull up and I notice the kid friendly environment present, which means he must be with his family.
Harry takes hold of my hand and leads me through the door as soon as we get in I skim the length of the establishment with my eyes.
“ I don’t know what he looks like” I whisper
“Nina?” A deep voice asks from behind me, Harry and I turn at the same time and both remove our Ray Band glasses
“Wyatt?” I say sheepishly
“Yes, I can’t believe it’s you” He embraces me, I feel Harry awkwardly move away, I don’t hug him back at first, my arms stay there limp, but when I feel a tear hit my shoulders I wrap my arms around his back.
He doesn’t look much older than me, maybe he is and just is one of those people who don’t age, we have the same nose, and ears and lips and face structure… hell we mine as well be twins. The only difference is that he has our father’s eyes, where as I got my mothers. His are a smoky blue tinted with green. He has brown hair that does the sort of Nate Russ thing.
“Please come sit” He ushers us kindly to a private table isolated in the back of the room.
I notice two small children a boy and a girl and a women, with long blonde hair and a petite frame feeding them some sort of mixture.
“ Nina, this is my wife Jessica and my twins Mallory and Parker,” He says proudly
“ Nice to finally meet you” She stands and shakes my hand
“ This is Harry” I nudge Harry forward.
“ Nice to meet you Harry” We take a minute with greetings. I bend down to the levels of the small children.
“Hi Parker, hi Mallory I’m Nina” They shyly turn their heads away from me smiling
“Mommy whose that” Mallory says pretending to whisper
“That’s Nina and Harry, they’re our friends,” She explains.
“Nina, we have lots to talk about” He gestures to a table further then the one with the kids at I nod
“Harry can you stay here please” I say quietly hoping he doesn’t start an argument
“You don’t want me to come?”
I shake my head “ I can do this” He breaths out like a dragon, but silently agrees.
I follow Wyatt to another table farther away from everyone else.
“ I’ve been trying to find you for months” He says quietly
“ I had no idea I had siblings, no one ever told me” I blink and think back to my times with my Grandparents, neither of them told me I had a brother, and Tia and her parents wouldn’t of known.
“A detective came to see me a few weeks ago” He starts, my mouth slowly parts “He gave me a folder filled with letters and told me about you”
“ I have letters too, and he came to see me also, he gave me a will” I bow my head, why didn’t they include Wyatt in the will.
“ I don’t understand why we were kept from each other” I shake my head
“ Nina, they kept us from each other because our father did some bad things” His eyes flash horror and I notice him playing with his finger I look down and notice me doing the same thing. Holy Shit.
“What kind of bad things?” I pace myself, thinking over every bad thing in existence.
“ He was part of Lanza Mob in central California, some stuff happened and he ended up owing money to the leader of the group, they said if he didn’t pay that they would take the life of their first born, which was me” He pauses taking a deep breath, I run my hands through my hair as my brain processes everything I’m hearing
“ So, one night the Lanza Mob came after us, we all fled and got out alive but our parents lived in fear that one day they’d come again. They took me down to Red Bank New Jersey and put me in the care of some friends, I never saw them again.”
“ How old were you?” is all I can manage
“ I was 4” He whispers
“Why did they keep me?” I feel my body heating up and my limbs getting heavier.
He shrugs “ All I know is that they moved to the coast, and then they were taken”
“You said you had letters?” I look up at his piercing eyes
“I have letters too”
He smirks “ Funny how that works hey”
“ Why didn’t they mention you in the will” I frown, unsure if bringing up the will is a good thing.
“They didn’t want anyone knowing I existed, for my own safety” His voice sounds hurt, like a long lost boy everyone forgot about.
“I want you to have some of the stuff mentioned on the will” My tone is hard, persisting.
“ No Nina it’s fine, the stuff that’s on the will is yours, I don’t need anymore junk to throw in the house”
“They left me 4 estates all over the world and nine hundred million dollars”
His eyes pop open “ Wh-What”
“ Please, I’m only 18 I’ll be 19 in June I don’t know what to do with that much money”
“It should be split evenly everything” I add
He shakes his head “ It was your name in the will, not mine”
“Well now that it’s mine I can do what I want with it and I want to give it to you”
“ You don’t have to decide all this today” He looks up at me “ I just wanted to see you in person, I just wanted to know I had a family”
“ Daddy” We look over to see Mallory, tears running down her face
“ What’s wrong sweetheart” He picks her up tenderly and she curls into his chest
“Pah-ker hit me,” She informs him, her voice muffled.
I smile at them “ We should get going” I look over at Harry and catch him starring.
“Lets meet up again soon please” I stand
“ Yes, sometime this week for supper maybe?”
Harry’s P.O.V
“ Tia when are you going to get here?” I say trying to hide my phone in my curls.
“ We’re at the Airport, Niall had to eat and Louis forgot his phone” She sounds exasperated
“ But you’re all there now?”
“Yes they’re boarding our flight, I’ll see you at Mom and Dads in 5 hours” She hangs up the phone.
I take a deep breath and turn
“ Who was that?” Nina looks at my phone
“ Simon, just band stuff” I lie
“ My parents want us to go over for dinner tonight” She tells me information I already know.
“ Oh really, are we going to go?” I sound too hopeful
She looks at me studying my every move “ Yeah, I have to tell them about all this”
I wrap my arm around her shoulders as we walk up to the car.
Notes
What is Harry up to? ;)What do you guys think?
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SO I promise you guys I won't take so long to update anymore, I had to take a short break because of things going on right now but updates should be more frequent now.
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2/22/16