Harry's POV

I can't believe I kissed her. If you call that a kiss. Not that I didn't want to, its that it took almost all my will power to stop kissing her. To not wrap my arms around her and ravage her in the water with her family a few feet away.

I'm sitting in the jeep with her, I told her that I would drive back, I thought it was the least I could do considering she drives all the time, and I do have an international drivers license so I can legally drive in California. Plus she looked so tired I would have felt bad if I made her drive.

“You should rest.” I tell her after we get back on the highway, I needed help navigating back through the gravel road. I turn to her, already slouching against the side of the seat with her shoes off and her legs tucked under her.

“Are you sure?” She asks, like usual concerned about everyone else.

“Yes, I slept the whole way to the campsite it's only fair.” I find her hand and lace my fingers with hers. She smiles at me and closes her eyes, I bring the back of her hand and press my lips to it, she lets out a slight giggle, and squeezes my hand in response.

She quickly falls asleep in the passenger seat and I turn the radio down so its just loud enough to hear. I drive in silence for a while, just me and my thoughts. I've never had a girl come into my life like Elliot and let her take over my mind, body, and soul so quickly. I have no idea what to do when I'm around her, I'm never nervous but I find my thoughts being twisted and jumbled in my brain constantly. I don't want to leave her in a few weeks. I want her to come with me everywhere, just being around her makes me calm.

I catch myself looking at her out of the corner of my eyes, trying to concentrate on driving but it's hard. Her face is relaxed, her lashes flutter every once in a while and she occasionally has a smile on her face. Even when she's sleeping, shes always happy.

I hear my phone rattle against the center console and quickly pick it up, it's Zayn. Like the perfect person to talk to about this, him and Perrie spend so much time apart, yet they're still together.

“Hey mate.” I answer the phone quietly.

“Harry, what are you doing?” He asks.

“Um, driving back from camping.” I laugh.

“You? Camping? How did you get roped into that? Isn't your hay fever going crazy?” He lets out a loud laugh.

“Elliot's family does this big camping trip with all of her cousins and she asked me to come so I did. And I brought my allergy medicine so that helped.” I explain.

“Ah, the famous Elliot. I've been meaning to ask you about her, I saw you and her all over the Daily Mirror. What's up with you two?”

“Well, not a lot. I asked her out on a date now that I'm officially free from Zoe's death grip. But I really like her. Like really like her.” I explain.

“Oh has Harry found love?” He teases.

“I wouldn't go that far yet.”

“YET?” I pull the phone away from my ear he was so loud. “No way.”

“Yes way. There's something different about her.” I try to tell him.

“Same way I felt when I met Perrie. Well, we didn't really get a long at first but you know, it didn't take long for our mutual distaste for each other to turn into admiration. It didn't take long to realize I wanted to marry her, spend the rest of my life with her, and for her to be the mother of my children.”

“But how can you stand to be away from her?' I ask curiously.

“I don't know, we're both really busy people, I want her to be successful, she wants me to be successful and we just support each other. If we can't see each other we do everything else we can, I send her things, she send me things, we call, text, facetime as much as possible, and when we're both free we just commit to each other and spend as much time together as possible. We try not to let outside influences get to us. It's not that hard when you only want one person, everyone else just falls by the wayside.” He explains and I listen intently. “So you really like her?”

“I do. I never thought that I would like someone for this long, I mean long enough to meet her family, I want to talk to her or see her everyday, I want to wake up with her every morning, and fall asleep with her every night.” I just let the words flow out of my mouth.

“Damn. You got it bad.” I can tell he's smiling on the other end. “Where is she?”

“She's sleeping in the passenger seat next to me.”

“You sure she's sleeping?” He teases but I quickly look over to her to make sure she's not awake or moving slightly.

“Yes, I'm sure.” I respond.

“Well, I called because we have to push some things up. The tour is starting in February as you know but we have to get some arrangements squared away , but we were all suppose to be back in three weeks, Simon needs us back in next week.”

My eyes widen, “Next week?” I say louder then I would have liked, I quickly look at Elliot and thank god she's still sleeping.

“Sorry mate. But we have some more endorsement deals to do, and they want us to look at new merchandise ideas. We have a meeting Monday morning.”

Monday morning? That means I have to leave on Sunday, meaning no going out on Saturday which is when I wanted to take El on our date. So now I only have a week left to hang out with her. Then I'll be leaving her for now Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years. This is why I don't date, I can never stay anywhere for long periods of time, but I need her.

“Still there Harry?” I hear Zayn talking to me and bring my thoughts back.

“Yeah, I just thought I'd have more time with Elliot.” I realize after I finally said it out loud. I now wish that I would have told her how I felt about her two months ago. Three months with Elliot isn't enough.

“Well make it count, you'll only have a month with her when you get back before we have to tour Australia and that area.” He reminds me. I told Elliot that we're going on tour but I didn't tell her how long I'll be gone for and since I'll be so far away I won't be able to come back to see her as much as I want to.

“Yeah, well I gotta go Zayn, I'll have to make some travel plans when I get home and just get stuff ready. Thanks for the heads up.” I tell him.

“No problem. Remember to be honest with her, it helps, don't hide that you have to leave earlier then you thought. Trust me, don't hide things.” He advises me.

“I'll tell her when she wakes up.” I promise him. “Talk to you later.”

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I finally arrive at Elliot and Joe's house, Joe apparently had a few extra days off so he went with Rose to visit her family up in northern California, so it was just Elliot. With her sudden “fame” I didn't really like that she was staying at home by herself, considering so many paps have taken her picture and our pictures in front of her house but like usual, Elliot didn't care, she was staying in her house.

“Elliot, we're here.” I pulled into the garage because Joe wasn't there and closed the door before we got out. The paps wern't there but I knew it wouldn't take long before people noticed we were back.

Elliot stretches and turns to me with a sleepy smile. “Thanks for letting me sleep. I didn't realize how tired I was.”

“All good, lets get our stuff unloaded.” I tell her as I pass her the keys and we carefully get out of the jeep. The garage isn't that large so not a lot of space to move things.

We put the fishing poles, tackle box, and chairs away in the garage and grab our laundry basket of dirty clothes and bags and bring them into the house. Elliot immediately throws our clothes in the washing machine and slips her shoes off.

I should be heading back to my house but I really just don't want to. I don't have anything to do tomorrow, Elliot has to work, but Joe's not here and I just want to stay with her.

“You want to order pizza or Chinese?” Elliot asks basically reading my mind.

“Yes, I'm starving! I'll order it, you can go shower.” I tell her.

“And you need one too.” She plugs her nose and fans her hand in front of her. “You stink.” She giggles.

We clean up and settle down to eat when I decide to break the news to her about leaving a week from tomorrow.

“So, Elliot, I talked to Zayn today on the way home.” I start.

“Oh yea, and how is he?” She smiles.

“He's good, got some bad news though.” I watch her face fall ever so slightly and I feel terrible already. “We have to work on some arrangements for the tour that starts in February, and do some more endorsement deals, and look at new merchandise so we have a meeting next Monday. I have to leave a week from today.” I nervously tell her.

“Oh.” Is all she says as she puts her pizza down as if she suddenly doesn't like the taste of it. The buzzer goes off for the dryer, signaling that it might need more time and Elliot doesn't say anything about my news, just gets up and heads down the steps to turn it back on. I hop up and follow her down the steps to see her leaning against the dryer.

“Elliot?” I cautiously walk towards her. She turns and you can tell she's upset, she's not crying but I know she's upset. “I'm sorry, I cant fix it though, I have to be there.” I tell her.

“I know, I just feel overwhelmed all the sudden, you're leaving, my parents are leaving, it's a lot to take in. You and I are going on our first date, I'm overreacting because I'm so tired.” She rattles off and gives me a shy grin. “I'm sorry, I'm acting stupid.” She admits.

“No, not stupid. I was really upset when I found out, I wanted these three weeks with you. So now we only have a week.” I walk towards her to hug her. “We'll be fine.” I assure her, not quite knowing if we will be, I've never been this far away from a girl and needed to stay committed, but I want to. I want to do this with Elliot.

“Will you stay tonight?” She whispers in my ear, I still have a death grip on her, I won't let her go.

“I thought you'd never ask.”

Notes

Hey-o!

So I got some new votes, but sadly my ratings went down. :(

Hope you like the new chapter! My little brothers had to go to school today, I secretly laughed. But I'll be going back to school soon so....

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