"Are you ready?" Harry asked smiling as it was time to go home from school.

"Yep." I responded smiling back at him. Naomi still had school so I didn't have to worry about her seeing us going home in his car alone.

No one seemed to bring up the fact that me and Harry went home together and I hoped they didn't even think about anything more of it in their heads. I felt silly for thinking about Naomi the whole time and wondering how she would react. She couldn't stop us being friends anyways and that's all this was for now.

"You didn't say anything about going to that party Naomi talked about. What do you think?" I asked as we were driving home.

"I don't know yet. If everyone goes, I guess I will come too. Liam talked about coming by car anyways so maybe we could go with him."

"Absolutely, I don't think it's a problem. It's a good thing school won't start until 10am the next day." I remembered.

We arrived at my house and as I was getting out of the car Harry reached for my hand and turned to look at me with that cute face of his. I had to admit his hand on mine felt pretty amazing.

"So... Um... Yeah. I don't know why I did that." Harry said quickly and took his hand off of mine.

"It's ok. I... I don't mind. I'll see you tomorrow then. I don't start until 9am so I'm going to come with my own car. Thanks for the ride today." I said and smiled at him as sweetly as I could.

I went straight upstairs and threw myself on my bed. I just laid there for a little while, thinking about Harry and everything that was perfect about him. Just picturing him in my head made me smile and feel all happy inside. I wondered if I could call him my boyfriend one day. It seemed so, so far away.

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Wednesday

"I'll pick up Harry first and then you, okay? We'll be there, say 7pm." Liam called me and said.

"Alright, I'll be ready! See you!" I ended the call and did some finishing touches to my makeup.

Since we were going to a party held by strangers, I wanted to look my absolute best and had a bit more effort in hair, makeup and clothes this time around. I wore a deep red dress that had a bell-shaped hem and an open back and paired it with black heels. I added some jewellery and was ready to go. Luckily, mom was spending the night with Johnny so I didn't have to worry about telling her where I was going. And I wouldn't have to come home that early either.

I sprayed some perfume on my neck, checked that I had everything in my purse and made my way downstairs. I put some cider and wine to my small shopping bag and waited for the boys to arrive. As it was getting closer to 7pm, my pulse was getting higher and higher. I couldn't wait to see Harry and see his expression once he saw what I was wearing. I thought I had done a pretty impressive job with myself.

I felt like I was a total mess with my thoughts and feelings. One day, I was all moody and sad about the fact that I had a crush on him because of Naomi. The other day, I was so happy and excited thinking about him and seeing him that I couldn't keep my feet on the ground. And I wanted to impress him, like tonight. Of course I had thought about him when I was doing my hair and when I was choosing my clothes.

I heard a car approaching our driveway and saw Liam's car parked there as I looked out of the kitchen window. I put my biker jacket on and went outside.

"Hey! Oh, I love it! Every time you sit in my car, it smells wonderful for days after." Liam greeted me and made me laugh.

"Thanks love! I might have to get you your very own bottle so it can always smell this good!"

"You do that! So, I got the directions from Naomi. It's going to take a while and I'm not exactly sure about the street..." Liam continued. Harry was looking at Liam and gave a quick look towards me, grinned and mouthed a silent 'hi' to me.

"You just go pass that big supermarket and then turn left, that's the street." I responded to Liam and mouthed 'hi' back to Harry, wanting to mess with his curly hair.

About half an hour later, we arrived to the house where the party was obviously taking place. The house was big and very nice looking although it was an older building. The front yard was gorgeous with multiple flower decorations and bushes. I wondered if the neighbours minded the loud techno-like music blasting from inside.

Liam went ahead of me and Harry as we followed him to the front door. He rang the doorbell but naturally no one came to open the door. It was impossible for anyone to hear it since the music was so insanely loud. Liam looked at me and I shrugged my shoulders. He turned back towards the door, tried the door handle and it turned out the door was unlocked. We walked in slowly, looking around the beautiful house. There had to be around 40 people inside it and people were acting like they were in some rave-party. For example, there was people were dancing on the sofas and on the massive dining room table.

I took my jacket off and put it inside my shopping bag. I asked Liam, if I could go and leave it back to his car so I didn't have to worry about it. I went quickly outside after making the guys promise to wait for me in the same place. I wasn't exactly feeling the party-vibe in the house yet. I locked Liam's car and walked back inside. As I walked towards the lads, I saw Zayn and Perrie talking to them.

"Gracie! So glad you are here. This party is insane. I just saw two girls in one of the bedrooms, naked... And wait, there was a guy with them!" Perrie explained what she had seen, half in shock, half laughing.

"Oh my gosh! Good for the guy, I guess!" I responded and hoped one of the girls wasn't Naomi.

Niall, Theo, Louis and Eleanor joined us a little while later as they arrived after us. We were all talking with each other in the kitchen, which seemed to be the only place people still hadn't occupied for wild dancing. Harry leaned against the kitchen counter and I stood next to him. I turned to look at him as I was explaining about something and noticed he was looking at my exposed back. He quickly turned his eyes to mine and nodded as if he was listening to my girly stuff. I was glad I had decided to wear that dress for the party, it was definitely paying off.

No one had seen Naomi yet and we wondered where she was. We decided to take a little tour inside the house and find her. Liam led the way across the gigantic living room full of people and it felt as if we were in an actual club. I looked at Harry, who was walking behind me and gave my hand to him, which he gladly took. Finally, we were on the patio in the backyard and I saw Naomi smiling from ear to ear as she saw us. At that moment, I let go of Harry's hand as fast as I could.

"You guys came! I promise, this is going to be sick! Did you meet Lauren yet? This is her house." We all greeted Naomi and shook our heads. No one knew what the owner looked like. Naomi called for Lauren inside the house yelling like a crazy person but it worked as Lauren soon came outside to greet us.

She was a blond, tall girl with model-like features. Her clothes also looked like something a runway model would wear. Her face looked familiar and I suddenly realised she had actually done some catalogue modelling for a local clothing company.

Unfortunately, I felt like she was either high on drugs or she was drinking something extremely strong since it was easy to notice from her eyes and behaviour that she was somewhat out of everything. And it was just around 8pm. Great party, I muttered in my head. And these were the people Naomi loved to hang out with nowadays.

Naomi seemed to be alright and she promised me she hadn't been drinking almost anything and that she had learned from her past mistakes. She didn't smell like vodka and looked sober so I believed her. I actually felt really happy for her, she was full of energy and enjoying everything. And she was way more positive than before. She gossiped to me, Eleanor and Perrie about some of the girls at the party and we had a bit of a hard time following her since we didn't know them. But they definitely lived a wilder life than us, that was for sure.

At some point of the evening, I went to find a bathroom inside the house. The one downstairs was occupied and after for what felt like 10 minutes I gave in and went upstairs to search for another toilet. I found one that was free and went in. As soon as I closed the door, I heard a knock.

"Who is it?" I asked and wanted to be sure about the person on the other side of the door before letting anyone in.

"Gracie, it's Harry." Harry said and I let him in. He closed the door behind him and locked it.

"Great, if Naomi comes upstairs and sees us coming out from this toilet together, she won't be smiling any longer." I said to him, a little annoyed.

"Relax, she's still outside and dancing the night away. I feel like I can't even talk to you around anyone else. I don't want this to be this hard." He explained and the hard expression on my face melted.

"I don't want that either. I'm sorry. I'm just constantly thinking is this wrong or is this right. Can we do this and that. It's driving me crazy, to be honest." I confessed and felt like a rock was rolling off my heart.

"You're not alone with that one. I can sense from you that you are stressed when we are together in a group. And then I just have a really hard time acting normal around you..."

"Like you were looking at my back earlier tonight?" I teased him.

"Haha! That's your fault though. You have no idea what that dress of yours does to me. No idea..." Harry responded slowly and suddenly bit his lower lip looking as sexy as ever while taking a long look at me.

I couldn't say anything back. I felt like everything froze inside me and I couldn't even move. He bit his lower lip! He actually did that. Did he not understand what that kind of a move made me feel? I want him all over me right now, I yelled inside my head. I realised he was waiting for me to say something so I finally opened my mouth.

"Kiss me." I said boldly and waited for him to take me. Take all of me, right then and there. His eyes grew wide, first with hints of surprise lingering in them. Seconds later, they were filled with passion and lust. I felt small and fragile under his eyes looking at me intently, fighting to find out what he should do.

I swear I could remember that next moment for ever and ever. After he was done studying my face and pondering whether it was right or wrong to kiss me in that bathroom, he wrapped his arms around me, his skin touching my exposed back. His soft and full lips found mine and we were merely moving them slowly in sync, learning what the other one felt like. His hands were pressing me closer and closer to him, but his touch was gentle the whole time. My hands rested on his arms first until they went slowly up and I wrapped them around his neck, feeling his beautiful hair in between my fingers.

I opened my eyes as our lips were still locked and noticed his eyes were open too. I could see that he was fighting the urge to take that kiss further. He didn't have to ask for my permission as I was feeling exactly the same. I opened my mouth slightly and he quickly catched on and put his tongue softly inside my mouth. I turned a bit so that he was now leaning against the sink and I was pushed against him. As the kiss deepened and both of our tongues were basically making love to each other, I felt his member getting harder and harder.

The knowledge of him being turned on only made me even more turned on and not long after, I was moaning quietly with passion in my voice. I had to force myself not to touch his crotch, no matter how much I wanted to tease him and make him feel even better.

"Gracie, you are so beautiful. Honestly, I have never seen anyone more beautiful than you. And don't get me wrong, as a person, you are simply amazing!" Harry said as we took a pause from kissing after a long while.

"Thank you Harry. That's really sweet. You are easy on the eyes as well. I could look at you smiling all the time." I responded smiling and tilting my head, hugging myself to him.

"You make me smile. And you make me want you, a lot." Harry said and kissed my cheek slowly. My heart skipped a beat, when he said that. I wanted him too, so, so bad.

"Do I? Come here then..." I said and pulled him in for another wet kiss. His other hand found my leg, lifted it and wrapped it around him. I wanted to just let go and jump to his lap altogether.

"Gracie? Harry? You better come out!" Liam's voice suddenly stopped us as he was pounding the bathroom door.

"Liam! Are you alone?" I freaked out to which he said yes. I tugged my dress down, fixed my hair quickly and Harry's too. I opened the door slowly and saw an annoyed Liam waiting for us.

"You've been here, like... I don't know, forever! Naomi is asking about you Grace and believe me, I had a hard time keeping her from coming upstairs." Liam explained and I felt bad for him.

"I'm so sorry... Thanks though. For not letting her come here. I'll find her." I said and made my way downstairs leaving the boys behind me.

As I went outside, I saw Naomi kissing with some girl and smoking a cigarette. I thought that she was definitely not sober anymore, her behaviour was telling me the opposite. She got up from the chair she was sitting on as she saw me coming to the patio.

"Gracieeee, where have you been? Liam finally found you. Listen, you need to try this." She said and offered me her cigarette.

"Honey, you know I don't smoke. No thanks." I said politely and shook my head.

"It's not a regular cigarette... C'mon." She simply said and offered the joint again.

"Oh... Still, no thanks. Are you okay here?" I realised she had been smoking weed which probably made her appear the way she was now. And I didn't like it, she was not being herself again. She told me she was having a great time and everything was good.

I stayed outside with Naomi for a bit longer and luckily, the rest of our friends joined us soon. Sure, we had seen people smoking weed before at parties and most of us had tried it once. But it was never a thing for us and none of us smoked. Neither did Naomi before hanging out with these people. I just didn't feel comfortable seeing her acting all crazy and weird.

Harry was mainly talking with Niall and Zayn, while I talked with Theo later on. We hadn't talked with each other properly after my birthday party, not just the two of us at least. I could see from Theo that he was still trying to be very flirty with me. Maybe kissing him hadn't been the best idea after all. It didn't take long from him to wrap his arm around me, trying to get closer.

No matter how I tried to make it politely clear with my behaviour that I wasn't interested in getting physical with him, he didn't stop. When he was drunk, he was quite persistent. And this time was no different.

"Theo, can you let her go? She looks a bit uncomfortable." Harry came up to us and made his point clear.

"Are you uncomfortable Gracie? You weren't two weeks ago, when you wanted to kiss me." Theo asked, still holding me.

"Yeah, we shouldn't have done that. It was just a silly kiss Theo. And it happened that one time." I said smiling a bit but feeling very uncomfortable. Especially because Harry was standing right in front of us.

"Aren't so-called friends with benefits the hottest thing right now anyways? What's wrong with having a little fun? Right Naomi?" Theo continued boldly. I freaked out as I saw Naomi now standing next to Harry.

"Exactly Theo! I've told Gracie a million times it wouldn't hurt her to have some innocent fun. C'mon, go for it!" Naomi laughed and pushed my shoulder playfully.

"I don't want to." I simply answered, now annoyed.

"Live a little and don't always..." Naomi and Theo said basically at the same time but they were cut short by Harry.

"She doesn't want to, okay. What's wrong with you two? Not everyone wants to sleep around." Harry said strongly looking at both Naomi and Theo.

"Oh, I get it. Harry, you like her. Don't you? I've heard you are quite the player yourself and now you act all protective about her. Doesn't just add up..." Theo suddenly said and finally let go off me. I looked on the ground, trying to figure out the best way to disappear from that situation as quickly as possible.

"Harry... Do you like her? More than as a friend? Is that why you left me?" Naomi confronted Harry and turned to face him now fully. I lifted my head and looked at Harry who was trying to get me to say something with his eyes.

"Naomi, calm down. There's nothing going on between us..." I started.

"Wait, wait! Hey! I saw you two leaving school together the other day, in Harry's car! And you were all happy and smiley. Looked more than friendship to me." Theo explained enthusiastically, clearly trying to fuck up my friendship with Naomi.

"Wow, you are a bit of a bitch, aren't you?" Naomi asked sarcastically from me.

"You seriously can not believe that. Theo, you should go. And you too Harry." I said to the boys as I wanted to talk to Naomi alone. The lads nodded and walked away.

"Tell me the truth. Do you two have something going on or not?" Naomi asked with wide eyes. I didn't want to lie to her, I really didn't. But this was not going good... No matter what I would say, the end result would not be okay.

"Yes, he did give me a ride to school and a ride back home on Monday. No, there is nothing more than friendship going on between us. I swear." I lied and felt my heart bleeding. Lying had never felt worse. Naomi's gaze relaxed a bit and she nodded.

"Fine, I believe you. I'm just not ready to see him with someone else, although it may sound really stupid considering we went out only a few times. But I don't think I would ever be fine seeing him with you, no matter what. Come here, I'm sorry for acting all crazy." Naomi said and pulled me in for a hug. I felt like a criminal and just wanted to never see her face again.

Notes

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