Mirrors (A Harry Styles Fanfic)

“Maps says there is park near here mate” Zayn tells Niall. We’ve been driving around for about 10 minutes, I was getting a little nervous that someone would see the boys were in the car and there’d be chaos, but so far we’re good.

“You guys want to go to the park?” Niall says, I see him raise an eyebrow questioningly through the rearview mirror, “what would we do there?”

"I didn't fly all the way here to just go to a stupid park" says Nick beside me

“I say we get some doughnuts” Harry says beside me, his left elbow is resting on his left leg and his hand is cupping his cheek; it is, hands down, one of the most adorable things I’ve ever seen.

“And coffee, I could go for some of that right about now” I can hear Gemma say.

My phone vibrates in my pocket, I got a text from my brother:
Stop staring at him

I feel blood swim to my cheeks and ears; I immediately look away from Harry and sit back on the seat. I feel him inching closer to me and I go stiff, I hope he did not notice that. Nick's small laugh tells me he noticed.

“Is it okay if we don’t get yogurt” Harry whispers in my ear making the hairs on the back of my neck stand, “Or would you prefer yogurt?” his breath smells like banana with a small hint of mint... did he take a mint?

“Doughnuts sound great” I tell him with a smile.

We stop at the closest doughnut shop to us according to Zayn’s phone. Gemma, Lou, Zayn, Niall, and my brother get out while Nick makes no effort to let Harry and I pass

"Erm Nick?" Harry says. Nick takes out his phone and hands it to Gemma who is holding the car door for him

"What do you want?" he asks Harry

"For you to let us pass" Harry says making it sound like a question.

"No you idiot! From the shop" what the fuck is Nick planing, "Fine I will just get you guys whatever" he says and gets out of the car, I try to follow but he shuts the door and apparently he locked it

"What the fuck was that?" I say to Harry

"He's being a dick as always" he says. He takes out his phone and I imagine he send Nick a nice little message. "Would you like me to tell him what you want from the shop?"

I sit back on the seat as I realize I'd been sitting on the edge, "No it's fine, I don't mind what they bring me" I smile up at him, even sitting down he towers over me. He smiles his famous dimpled smile.

I'm starting to think that this will be kind of awkward, I'm hoping they'll hurry up because I've only been alone with him in a confined space once; when we drove to a park, but he played music so it wasn't so awkward.

"So..." Harry begins to say, I look at him signaling for him to continue but he just closes his lips, lovely.

"Yeah..." I say mentally wanting to punch myself, "why is this so awkward" I say without thinking and immediately regret it.

"Maybe because Nick made it awkward"

"How is that?" I ask confused... but I do realize that maybe Nick leaving us here the way he did could've caused the awkwardness.

"Well we have been alone before but not because someone made us be alone..." he says and pretends to check his phone for notifications, which from where I'm sitting I can see are none.

"Oh" I say, "well maybe we shouldn't make it awkward... are you excited about going to Los Angeles next month?" he looks at me and gives me a warm smile.

"Yeah, I actually am" he puts his phone in his jean pocket, "How was LA?"

"Great! You know, for the shops I got to see and my hotel room... and also the plain" I laugh

"That's right! You were only there for a couple hours, are you guys staying here 'till tomorrow? "

"I think" I tell him, uncertaned of my own answer. Nick didn't really specify but we did bring some of our stuff with us... I really want to punch him.

I notice Harry looking at me as I dosed out, and I blush.
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Once everyone is back, we take off to our ride around. Nick got Harry and I heart cookies, what the hell is a doughnut shop doing selling heart cookies in July and why the hell did Harry and I get one? I blame my brother, I'm sure Nick wasn't the only one who thought of it.

We drive around for about an hour and then the boys decide they have spent one too may hours up and around. Apparently Nick got us rooms in the same hotel as the boys and he also got one for my brother alone. I really want to fucking punch him right now.

Once in the hotel, Nick goes over to get our rooms, Niall, Zayn and the girls say goodnight and head to their rooms. Harry stays behind to wait until we have our room cards.

"Here they are" Nick says as he hands my brother and I our cards, "You're in the 9th floor Piper, your brother and I are in the following" he says as if I can't see that myself.

I really am fed up with him.

"Well, goodnight guys" Harry says. He hugs Nick, my brother who makes a really weird noise as it happens, and then me. "See you tomorrow Pipes" he whispers into the hug.

"I really liked the show" I say before he leaves

"I hope you join us for another" he smiles, waves goodbye and heads to his room.

I grab my carry on bag and walk towards the lift. As soon as the elevator doors close behind us I glare at Nick

"What?" he asks defensively

"What? That is exactly what I want to know, what the hell are you trying to do Nick!" I say rather loud at him

"Oh oh" my brother says beside me, yeah he better be scared because I know he's behind this too, but I will deal with him later.

"Oh come on!" he smiles stupidly, "I'm just trying to help you get what you want!" What the bloody hell is he talking about?

"And what do I wantNick?" I raise a brow at him

"Oh come on Piper! What everyone wants with my friend" What the actual fuck?! the doors of the lift open to the 9th floor,

"Get out, both of you"

"What the fuck are you talking about Nick?" my brother says as we step out

"Mark -"

"Look kid, stay out of it" says Nick, evenough though I agree with him, I do not like one bit they way he's talking to my brother.

"Go to the room Markie, I'll go in a bit" I hand my brother the card and watch him go look for the room, I turn to Nick once I see him go inside, "What is wrong with you?"

"Don't act all innocent with me Piper, why else would you be talking to Harry, I'm trying to help you get laid by a pop star!" I have never been so disturbed in my life

"Is that what you do? You find him girls to sleep with? What on Earth makes you think I want to be one of those girls who just sleeps with someone to brag about it! I actually care about Harry and I want to be his friend, actually he's the only friend I've got right now because you really disgust me"

"Excuse you bitch? You want me to believe that the girl who had her first conversation with him while drunk actually cares about my friend?"

"Well that drunk girl seems to care more about your friend than you do right now!" I push him and start walking towards the room before I do something stupid like punch that smug little face. The door is slightly open, as I enter I find my brother on the bed with his phone in hand, he looks up once he hears the door being shut.

"Did you lose your job?" he asks with a sadden look on his face. I didn't consider that, I hope Nick isn't as unprofessional as to fire me for his own obscene actions.

"Hope not kiddo"

"I thought he was trying to get you guys to like date, not to-"

"It's fine Mark, it doesn't matter" I say. I'm not sure if I should tell Harry of what his friend tried to do or not, I don't want to intervene in their friendship, plus it may just make things worse with Nick.

I get dressed for bed and hope I can go to sleep. Once in bed I can't help but wonder if Harry knew of Nick's plan even though he was uncomfortable with what he did by leaving us alone in the car. What if Harry expects Nick to do this? Why would he even want to be with me? No Piper, this is not Harry, not the one I talk to constantly and tells me about his day and asks about mine. Who always tries to make me laugh and wants me to speak about the things that bother me. Not my Harry.

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I wake up the next morning to a text from Harry

*Want to grab some breakfast?*

He sent it about thirty minutes ago, I hope he hasn't left yet. I jump at my brother snoring beside me and laugh.

*I would love to, have you left yet?*

He texts me back seconds later saying that he's on his way to my room. I jump off the bed and throw my phone on the bed, it probably hit Mark because he groaned, and run to the bathroom. I throw on whatever outfit I can make with what I brought on my bag and put my mess of a hair in a bun. I debate wether I should wake my brother or not as I tie my shoes when there's a knock on the door, how does he know what room I'm in? Probably Nick.

I open the door to find Harry wearing a bandana on his head, an unbuttoned plaid shirt, black skinny jeans and the famous brown boots. I look at his face and then at the bandanna and try really hard not to laugh

"How does sit look" he asks hopeful

"Erm... different" I state, he smiles along with a short one second laugh in the back of his throat.
"My brother is still sleeping, but let me just get my phone and wallet" Once I have my things we head out of the hotel.

"Where would you like to go?" he asks me once we're sitting inside one of their friends: the Range Rover.

"Well what do you recommend?" I ask him, we stop at a red light and he looks at the GPS

"Well, there's an IHOP close by" he says rather enthusiastic.

"And what is the I HOP?" I ask him as we make a turn

"If I'm not mistaken, it stands for International House of Pancakes. They have really good pancakes" he smiles

"Well IHOP it is my friend"

Five minutes later we drive into what seems to be IHOP by the word being repeated thrice in front of the restaurant. We park close to the entrance and walk inside, I hope people don't make it difficult for us to have breakfast. I also hope fans don't go crazy if someone decides to post a picture of Harry and I alone at a restaurant. they give us a table right away, as we follow the nice waitress people start noticing Harry and start taking out their phones. I notice him tapping the waitress' shoulder and whisper something to her

"Of course Sr" she smiles up at him and heads further into the restaurant, I figure he asked for a more private place to be were we won't be disturbed and he won't disturb anyone. We reach our booth and we slide in opposite directions, sitting facing each other, the waitress hands us the menu's and we order our drinks, she lets us know that she'll be back shortly and walks away with a smile.

"Nice waitress" I smile up at Harry, he smiles nodding

"It's admirable to be so positive so early in the morning, you can always learn something from people all around you" I can't help but smile at his comment.

"What do you recommend other than the pancakes?" I ask him as I continue to read through the menu.

"The omelets are really good! And really big" he laughs, I notice they have an omelet with bacon in it and my mind is made up. The waitress comes back with the orange juice we ordered, she takes our new orders with a smile and leaves once again.

"I'm sorry that Nick was acting weird yesterday, he always does this whenever I tell him I made a new friend who happens to be a girl" I'm surprised by this and wonder if Nick told him anything

"Did he-" I begin

"Yeah" I feel the blood rush to my cheeks feeling slightly embarrassed that he knew what Nick was trying to do. "You should've seen him when I started hanging out with Cara, he was so devoted to getting us to hook up, I told him that I wasn't interested in her like that but he found out that she liked me so he made it his mission to get us to date" he says and shakes his head, Nick is possibly insane, "it worked but not in the way I would've liked it to"

He's never talked about relationships with me, neither have I to him but it bothers me to know he is unhappy about it, "What do you mean?"

"Well, when he started trying to make us date I was a little upset, but once Cara and I talked about how upsetting it was the way he was acting we began to talk about other things, like how much we mean to each other and so on. From then on I asked her to hang out more than usual and mostly just the two of us, to make the story short" he was interrupted by the waitress bringing us the food, she apologized for the interruption and left, Harry started cutting his food as he continues, "well anyways we began to have feelings for each other but she refused to take it further"

I take a bite of my food and almost scream of how good the pancakes are, "Why is that, if I may ask?" I look up at him to read his expression, he scowls as if deep in thought

"She didn't think it would be a good idea" I recall seeing a lot of Harry and Cara going around the internet, I know they're still friends

"She friendzoned you" I blurt out, he lightly laughs and nods

"In a way, yes" he smiles that dimpled smile and we continue to eat.

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