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It Takes Patience III: Stripped

Chapter 8: As You Wish...

*Harry’s POV*
I knew she wasn’t ready! I fucking knew we shouldn’t have tried, but Reagan knows how to play on my weaknesses and make it damn near impossible to deny her anything. Even when I’m upset with her, she knows what exactly to do or say to make me overlook what I know to be wrong. I try to follow her up the stairs to my room, but before I can even get there, Gemma walks through the door with trusty sidekick, Tamsin.

“Hey, Barry. You look handsome today.” Tamsin walks up beside me bumping her hip into mine in a playful way. This is the last thing I’m in the mood for.

“Stop fucking calling me that!” I almost growl at her instantly irritated by her presents. This is the last thing I need tonight and I’m still uneasy about Reagan and Tamsin being under the same roof. I highly doubt that Reagan knows that Tamsin’s the one I was with when I made my stupid decision, but it makes me nervous none the less. Tamsin rolls her eyes before she smirks at me obviously not getting that I’m not joking around with her.

“Oi, stop being rude to my friend.” Gemma walks over handing Tamsin a glass of wine before she gives me a kiss on the cheek. I pull her in for a quick side hug and then push her away from me as I turn to try and go upstairs, but Gemma pulls at my arm.

“Let go Gem.”

“Come on Harry, I haven’t seen you in a while. We’ve both been swamped with work. I’ve missed you. Where’s Reagan?”

Gemma smiles at me and rubs my arm. She always somehow knows when my mood is less than stable and instead of adding to the fire, she tries smothering the flame. I know that’s the only reason she’s pretending to care about where Reagan is. I’m grateful for her effort. Gemma still doesn’t care much for Reagan, but she really needs to let that go. Everyone else around me has and so have I, for the most part.

Tamsin runs her tongue across her teeth and looks down at the ground at the mention of Reagan’s name as if it’s left a sour taste on her tongue. She doesn’t even know Reagan enough to have a reason not to like her. I suppose her only reasoning would be because she has no mind of her own and feels the need to hang on to every word my sister says. I don’t understand how Tamsin has a chemist degree. A master’s in it at that. She acts like a fucking idiot half of the time.

“She’s upstairs. I’m going upstairs to check on her so will you let me go? We can spend quality sibling time another day maybe when you don’t bring your third wheel around...Why are you here right now anyway?”

Tamsin drops her head again. I don’t get why she’s acting so sensitive all of a sudden. Before Reagan, when I used to insult her she would shoot something right back at me and hold her own. She wasn’t always annoying.

“Mum called me and told us to stop by. It’s a perfect night for a bonfire and she said Robin lit the fire pit outside obviously. Where have you been? You live here and you don’t even know what’s going on around you?”

“I was busy.” I grin at my sister and she makes a face of disgust, but I quickly remove the smile from my face when I remember what the result of my activity was.

I turn on my heel and bound up the stairs in order to get to Reagan when Gemma calls up to me.

“Bring her downstairs and we’ll all spend a bit of quality time together. I haven’t talked to her in a while myself. I’d love to know what her intentions with you are this time around.”

“Sod off Gemma!” I have half a mind to go back down the stairs and tell her off. She has no idea what Reagan’s been through and even her saying that to me jokingly pisses me off.

I knock on the door, to my own room, and go in without waiting for a reply from her. She’s on my side of the bed under the covers. I can tell that she cried, but this isn’t something that I want her to beat herself up about. It’ll happen eventually but until it does my right hand will have to do.

I kneel by the bed and hesitantly run a hand through her hair that she’s since taken out of the ponytail. Her medicine rests on my nightstand and I’m shocked that she’s actually taken it. She usually just comes to me whenever she feels a panic attack coming on, but I guess in this case I can see why she didn’t.

“Hey...”

“Hi.” She responds quietly and her eyes dart away from mine.

There’s no point in asking if she’s okay. I already know the answer to that question, but I need her to talk to me and tell me what’s going on.

“It’s alright ya know? I knew that it would be too soon for you to try and do that. I shouldn’t have let you. Don’t be so hard on yourself...” She nods but doesn’t respond, still looking everywhere in the room but at me. Maybe right now isn’t the time to talk about it. I know I hate it when people force me to talk about shit. It’s infuriating and it happens to me at a scheduled time on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

“I’m not upset with you or anything.” She nods again, but still no actual response.

“My mum is doing a bonfire outside with Robin. My sister and her pet Tamsin are here. Do you want to come down?”

“I’m tired.”

“Fresh air will probably be good for you.”

“I don’t want to go outside Harry. Just drop it please. I just want to be left alone.” Reagan pushes my hand off of her and turns around facing away from me, but she might as well have slapped me, that’s how it felt.

“Fine.” I stand up to leave and close the door behind me before I head back downstairs.

I pull my jumper over my head and pull on my boots before I head outside. Everyone is talking and doesn’t really notice me walk up, but that’s fine with me. The only chair available is the one next to Tamsin. I pull it so I’m not so close to her and sit down, gazing into the fire. I’m in awe of how destructive it is. Almost all of the firewood is engulfed in it, consumed by it. Soon there'll be nothing left.

“Do you want a drink?” I’m distracted out of my thoughts when Tamsin stretches out her arm with the wine bottle in hand.

I take it from her and drink straight from the bottle. I pull it away from my face to eye level to see how much is left. Just a little over half, they barely touched this.

“I was going to give you a glass.”

“You were going to give me a glass in my house? I think you often forget where you are when you come over here.” She rolls her eyes and stifles a chuckle before she looks around at everyone else. My mum sister and Robin are all in a big conversation, talking about the wedding no doubt. I drown them out at take another swig from the bottle.

“How do you know that no one else wanted anymore?”

“They’ll get over it Tamsin. We have more downstairs in the cellar. Why are you talking to me? I’d rather you leave me alone.” She turns in her seat to face me.

“I don’t think that’s entirely true. If you wanted to be left alone, you wouldn’t be out here with us right now...Where’s Reagan?” I drink again not having a rebuttal for her and she smirks at me, raising an eyebrow while waiting for an answer to her question.

“She’s tired. She went to bed.”

“Hm.”

“What was that supposed to mean?”

“What?” She looks at me batting her eyelashes feigning innocents that I know she doesn’t have. I don’t think Tamsin has been innocent since birth.

“Don’t ‘what' me. That fucking noise, that ‘hm’ what was that supposed to mean?”

“Nothing Harry, it’s just,” Tamsin’s eyes look around once again to make sure that everyone is still deep in conversation, “ it’s just if you were mine, I wouldn’t let you come outside alone.”

“Well I’m not and I never will be so you have nothing to worry about there do you?”

I furrow my eyebrows at her and stand up to go back inside. What the fuck was that supposed to mean? If I were hers, I scoff and grab the wine bottle to finish it off before I feel my phone vibrate in my pocket.

From: Liam

Where are you fucktard and why haven’t any of us seen you? Louis said you got your ass kicked.

I finish off the bottle before I text him back laughing to myself. Wine always makes me kind of silly and tingly feeling...maybe I should drink more of it.

To: Liam

I didn’t get my ass kicked asshole! I kicked someone else’s ass and if you keep talking shitl I’ll kick yours! Are you with the lads?

From: Liam

With the lads at mine, sending out the good vibes. You should come by if Reagan doesn’t have you on too tight a leash. You can bring her too she can meet Soph, Eleanor is here as well. We’ll stop smoking. I know she doesn’t like that.

I don’t know why but I feel myself get jealous when Liam tries to be considerate of Reagan even though he talks about his girlfriend in the text. I look up the stairs and shake my head. She doesn’t want to be bothered right now. I might as well do as she wishes and leave her alone. She should be fine here by herself. Tamsin and my sister won’t bother her. If they do, I’ll strangle them...maybe just Tamsin.

To: Liam

I’ll be there in ten minutes.

I grab my keys off of the counter before I leave out, hoping that if I leave her alone tonight she’ll be willing to talk to me in the morning.


Notes

Hi loves another update Because I adore you all! What did you think of this chapter? PLEASE LOAD ME UP WITH COMMENTS I LOVED THE LAST SET! What's up with Tamsin? ;] Do you think she's someone to watch out for? If you're enjoying my little story so far please comment, subscribe and vote! It makes me want to update more and it makes me incredibly happy!!! LOVE YOU ALL FOR READING!!!!! ~Xx

Comments

@XOXOH

Hi there lovely, I am a big fan of your books and you don't know how happy I am to see you back here. I LOVE THIS TRIOLOGY so dam much......so let me get this straight....you are not updating this story anymore on here? You are only going to continue this story on wattpad?? .....despite what decision you make I will be waiting for you because I want to know what will HAPPEN ....sorry I am weird xxx

@MACxx
No problem xx

XOXOH XOXOH
8/20/15

@polisson just added you on watt pad can't wait to see what you have in store! Starting uni daze as we speak thank you for replying to me!!! :)

MACxx MACxx
8/20/15

@MACxx
Hi love! I am XOXOH I unfortunately can't log into my account on here for whatever odd reason??? Google gives me an access denied message but it still shows me when people comment here.Anyway, I will be posting this story again on wattpad under the user polisson it's gonna be a revamp so it will probably be a bit longer and have new parts. I wish I could log in to tell everyone about it. I also have another story that you may like there called Uni Daze. I'm sorry that I can't post here anymore :(

polisson polisson
8/20/15

MISSING THIS SO BAD. My favorite book ever and ive been rereading to fill the whole in my heart! Truly miss your writing it's the only thing I have to look forward to when I get on here! Miss you hope to hear from you soon!

MACxx MACxx
8/19/15