Mirrors (A Harry Styles Fanfic)

"Wait here, babe" Harry whispers, he walks over and surprises his mum and and sister in the kitchen.

They scream and I hear Anne sob, even though she saw him a while ago she's still sentimental about seeing him. It warms my heart that Harry loves to come over, but it feels like someone is crushing it when I hear Anne cry or say that she misses her wonderful son.

"I have some news... and kind of warning" Harry says, what are you planning?

"You're scaring me Harry, what's wrong?" Gemma says.

"Well, you know that Kendall and I broke up," so his is how we're doing this, "and I just wanted to let you know that I brought someone with me-"

"What the fuck Harry!"

"Gemma! Calm down" Anne says.

"Gem, mum, I want you to meet my new girlfriend"

"Does Piper know about her? I swear Harry-"

He appears again and holds out his hand, I can't help the grin on my face.

We appear in the kitchen and Anne starts giggling, Gemma stands there wide eyed then runs toward me and bombards me in a tight hug.

"You little shit." Gemma tells Harry as we sit in the patio.

The sun is warm, but the cold wind instantly takes away the spring-like heat. We sit, sipping on some home made lemonade by Anne.

"Well, I wanted to surprise you." I stare up at him and smile, his green eyes are glowing, his hair slick back and away from his face. I remember when that wasn't the case, I quite like this more; he looks mature, handsome and... hot.

I look down at my cup, I can't shake the smile on my face. I feel him staring at me so I look at Anne, who has a sweet smile on her face.

"Where's Robin?" I ask

"Oh, he's visiting his son." she says, all hints of a smile gone from her expression. Hmmm...

"So, how long are you guys staying?"

"Just until tomorrow, I have to go back to work on Monday" Harry tells Gem.

"Yeah, me too."

"What do you do at the station now, love?" Anne asks sweetly.

"Well, I've been moved up I guess you can say, Nick still bosses me around," I giggle, "obviously, but I'm in charge of the guests really, not much of a difference from before but it's a lot more official" It definitely earns me more money, but it's not that different, at least now I get to boss some people around which is always nice when working with Grimmers.

"Oh that's great, what will you like to do after? I mean, do you want to beonthe radio?" Anne asks.

"Not really," I scratch up my nose, "I love being around music, but honestly I don't think I could handle being on air" I smile at her.

"Well, if we are done bombarding my girlfriend with questions, I'd like to take her to the bakery" Harry stands and holds out his hand for me, the bakery? He's never taken me there.

"Oh I hope I wasn't-"

"Oh no, it's fine Anne!" I assure her by placing my hand on hers, she smiles and winks at Harry.
I take his hand and follow him back into the house. He gives me his brown jacket and helps me put it on by the door.

"Are we walking there?" he zips up my jacket- his jacket, pokes my nose and grabs my face. He presses his lips against my forehead, I fight the urge to pull him towards my lips.

"Yes, I've never actually showed you around" he entwined our fingers and we head out.

We take a shortcut into town, a trail made up by a dirt road, yellow leaf trees along the side walks. One side of the roads is facing the backs of large buildings, the left side is just a wide grass opening with loads of trees looking their leads, leading ito the river. It's breathtaking, the simplicity of the town, the calmness and beauty it radiates by its geography. So unlike what I'm used to back in London. There's still the antique buildings, english homes you see all over the UK, but it's got a whole other feel to it.

"It's so beautiful" I whisper, not looking away from the trees. I remember when I used to climb trees when I was younger to get away from Markie's water-gun.

"Yeah," he squeezes my hand and I look up at him, now mesmerized by his beauty, "why are you so captivated by the trees? They're just like the ones at home" he says with a small laugh, oh what a sound.

"Oh, I know, they're just in such an open space, it's like a large park but minus the madness."
He cocks his head to the side, "Yeah," he says in wonder.

He pulls me into another shortcut between two large buildings. We appear back into a large fussy street, more familiar than the large open space to me.

I immediately become afraid that someone will see Harry and freak, but this is his home town, we won't be mobbed... Will we?

We cross the street and head north of the street, we pass a jewelry store, a gift shop, a small ice cream shop and a diner until we reach a bakery with a sign W. Mandeville. I look up at Harry, he has a huge smile on his face, he waves to the window and I notice that there are two ladies waving back in excitement. They run to the door and hold it open for us.

"Harry!" the older one says with a sight, as if she'd lost her teenage son for the day and he decided to finally show up. He embraces the woman in a warm hug.

"My child" says the other woman in a sob, it's heartwarming to see Harry be in touch with the people he knew before his job. It's beautiful.

"Mary, Rose, this is my girlfriend Piper." he grins at me, green eyes shining and staring into mine.

"Hello love, I'm Rose" says the youngest of the two as she pulls me into a warm hug, she looks around her forties while Mary looks about fifty.

"I'm Mary," says the other woman with a warm smile as she hugs me as well. So welcoming and friendly, no wonder Harry is such a gentleman, he learned it from the people around him. He was raised well, with a huge heart, adorable and talented mind, he's perfect to me.

"Hello, it's so nice to meet you both, he always talks about his adventures in the famous bakery" I smile at both of them.

They let us walk around for a while as he shows me around, once we're back to the front of the store there are some customers.

"Hey, Harry! I didn't know you were in town" says a blonde man, around his thirties, Harry shakes hands with him and informs him that he just came back today. He asks about someone and the man assures him she's fine. Maybe the man's wife.

I notice him walking back to me as Mary is recalling a story about Harry trying to impress a girl with his "mad bagging skills". I giggle as she tells me how he'd slap his face with the bag and the girl wouldn't stop laughing at him.

"What are you beauties laughing about?" he wraps an arm around my waist, he kisses my temple and I lean myself on him.

"Just you." I smile up at him.

"Funny," he raises a brow, Mary squeezes my arm and walks away, leaving us alone, "here put this on" he turns me around and helps me put on the apron.

"What's this?" I ask once it's tied. He puts his on and grins at me.

"We will be selling some baked goods" he leans down and presses his lips to mine, I don't try to deepen the kiss because of the people around us. I feel it would be disrespectful, I'm sure Harry hasn't been like this with any girl around them.

After two hours of Harry's adorable charm and charisma with the customers, we walk back to Anne's and Robin's. I spot a large tree at the end of the street, I let go if Harry's hand and bolt towards it.

"Where are you going?" he yells behind me.

The wind is cold, the sky is a mixture of violet, pink, light and dark blues; a beautiful horizon, I can't help the smile on my face. I reach the huge tree; I grasp the branch above my head with both hands and hoist myself up, placing my foot where the trunk divides into three. Once I'm standing, I step onto the back branch and slowly crawl up, step into a smaller but firm branch and sit facing the open space of Holmes Chapel, swinging my legs. Harry appears under me and grabs my legs

"Do not pull me" I warn, pointing a finger at him.

"I won't, babe" his eyes meet mine, I see the crinkles indicating his smile.

I want to look away from his eyes so I can take in the beauty of this town, but it's physically impossible.

"We should go back," he turns around and pats his side with both hands,what? "legs, baby."

"What?"

"Your legs, love, piggy back ride." I can hear the grin on his face.

"What if I fall?"

"You won't," he looks up at me and winks, "I got you, baby."

I put my feet under his arms, my heart starts pounding really loud; it's notthathigh up but I'm still afraid of hurting myself or him.

"I don't want to hurt you..."

"I got you, stop worrying Pipes" he pesters

"Fine." I sight, I try to reach for his shoulders but can only reach them by my finger tips, he grabs my shoes and pulls me down.

"Harry!" I hold on to him just before my jaw made contact with his head, he lowers me down more and I adjust myself, "Are you okay?" I ask into his left ear

"I'm fine" he says with a faint laugh.

We walk in silence until we reach the shortcut leading to his house, my hands inside his jacket rubbing his chest.

"Are you cold?"

"No, I'm okay" I say, he squeezes my thighs and I kiss his cheek. I love this, even though we're not saying anything we both know we're enjoying this.

He puts me down by the front door, he swings it open and we find Gemma sitting on the couch watching telly.

"Where's Anne?" I ask.

"Oh, erm... she's upstairs with Robin." she says.

A door slams upstairs, seconds later Robin appears downstairs and storms out to the backyard. I feel unwelcomed into this; like I'm intruding into Anne's and Robin's personal life. Harry grabs my hand, he leans down and kisses my temple. He makes eye contact with Gemma who's eyes are now watery.Oh no, Gemma...I approach her and wrap my arms around her.

"They're fine Gem." Harry says as he sits on her other side.

"They were doing so fine, and presently mum just wanted me to come over because she didn't want to be alone with Robin," she wipes her tears, she doesn't sob; I always knew Gemma would be to hard and poised to sob in front of anyone except maybe Harry, "and I just feel like it's happening again." she looks up at her brother.

"No Gem, you say that when they fight, they'll get through this, their relationship isn't like mum's with dad"

I remember Harry saying that Gemma helped him get through his parents divorce, it's ironic to see the conversation displaying now.

"Yeah, I guess... I just don't like seeing her unhappy."

"They're just going through some tough time and she needed support, that's all, don't over think everything Gem" I let go of her so Harry can hug her.

"Maybe you should go talk to her?" I suggest.

"Yeah," she stands up and gives me an unfamiliar smile, embarrassed that I saw her cry maybe? "I'll do that" she finishes, and leaves the room.

I look over at Harry and he shrugs. I hope he meant what he said about Anne and Robin, they looked so happy together. it saddens me to know that Harry is so used to his parents fighting. My mum and dad did fight, but it stopped once she was gone and I never saw fights anymore. Harry saw them until he left to London. I reach for his hand and entwine our fingers, I squeeze his hand in comfort, he gives me a crooked smile and I reciprocate the action.

He pulls me over to him, grabs my hips and sets me on his lap. I wrap my arms around his neck, bury my face there and kiss his skin. His thumb running circles under my shirt, on my side...

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I wrap my arms around Harry, we're laying down on my couch, watching a movie. His lips press to my forehead, I close my eyes at his contact, my leg comes up and wraps around him.

"Do you have to go?" I whine

"Yes, baby, we have a video to shoot, don't get upset, don't do that to me." he's right, I'm being unfair.

"Sorry." his finger comes under my chin and makes me look up at him, his lips press softly to mine.

"You want to come?" he says against my lips as we try to retain our breathing.

"Are you sure I'm allowed?"

"Yeah, of course love, plus Lou and the boys would love to see you" I haven't seen the boys in a while either. I haven't seen Niall...Shit! I haven't talked to Bella!

"Erm," I hoist myself up, "has Niall said anything about Bella, I haven't talked to her in a while?" although Harry and I promised not to talk about them I feel concerned about my friends, specially when Bella refuses to talk about him.

"Every time any of us bring her up he either smiles or gets all depressed, that kid's got it bad, babe."

"Bella won't say anything, I feel like she does like him but she doesn't want to," I say confused.

"Yeah, that's what Niall says, the poor guy is also confused, I tell him to find someone else you know," he smiles lightly, "he went out with Barbara Palvin, and she seems to really like him."

"Oh, I'll talk to Bella" I say to myself more than to him.

"Go put some clothes on so we can go," he pulls me up

"But panties and your tee shirt are clothes," I grin, he slaps my behind and I yelp, running to my room.

I put on my red parachute pants, my black The 1975 tee and my black boots. I don't know what song they're shooting, part of me hopes is Through The Dark, but I know they'll be outside and it's cold as hell. I grab my burgundy sweater, put my sex hair in a high ponytail and meet Harry outside.

"Piper!" Niall runs excitedly towards me as I walk up the steps of the trailer where Lou is doing hair and make up. He joins me rinse and closes the door.

"Fucking freezing outside!" he whines, he sits on a couch on the corner.

"Hi Lou, hi Louis, Liam" Lou is doing Liam's hair as he has a conversation about juggling with Louis, weirdos.

"Hey, Pipes," they all say in unison.

"Where's Harry?" Liam asks.

"With Zayn, going over some stuff about the video; he doesn't want me to know what song you guys are doing, I'm not allowed to go on Twitter or YouTube, or tumblr because I might find out" I laugh.

"Don't worry love, we won't say a thing" Louis smirks.

"Darn!" I say playfully, I sit next to Niall, who's hair is now ruined because of the wind.

"Hey," he says.

"Hey Niall, how are you?"

"Fantastic!"

"Great!" I grin.

"She doesn't know does she?" Louis asks, know what?

"I don't think so..." Louis grins at me, what the hell?

"What's going on?" I ask confused and rather irritated.

"Niall has got himself a girl" Liam grins. Oh, Barbara...

"So, you're dating Barbara?"

He snorts, "No, Bella's my girlfriend."

I can't help but snort, "What? Really?"

"Yeah!" he grins excitedly, why didn't she tell me?

"But they can't tell anyone yet." Liam scolds. Of course they can't... I roll my eyes at Bella in my head; we need to talk.

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