Stephanie Pov

I run into my College building, hoping that I'll make it on time. I'm hardly ever late and last night I was awake for most of the night. I kept thinking about Harry and certain little flashbacks of the younger him kept coming into my head. So far we've seen an okay side to Harry, although to be honest I don't really now what I was quite expecting from him.

"Stephanie!" I hear Amy call and I spot her sat in the back row in our rehearsal hall. I think Miss.Lavam hasn't noticed I'm late, I quickly make my way over and sit down next to my best friend. "Everything okay?" She asks.

"Yeah, I didn't get much sleep last night and I slept through my alarm." I roll my eyes as I put my bag down in the floor infront of me. "Why are we sat in the dark?" I ask as I only just notice no lights are on. Amy shrugs unsure and we see Miss.Lavam talking on the phone.

"How's things with Harry? I want to meet him!" She asks with a smile. I look at her and smile, I try to think of I words to sum up how things are. But the truth is not much has changed with him staying with us.

"It's okay, he seems pretty cool." I answer as I look at her. I don't bother to explain how we keep exchanging looks when no one is looking at us, it's annoying because I don't know why this awkward tension between Harry and I keep happening. Maybe it's because we used to get on well and now we don't know much about each other? But he doesn't have this with Jed. I know I'm living in denial a little bit but I don't know what exactly Harry remembers from our past. I know I remember certain things, but I try not to think about them.

"Okay everyone listen up please." Miss Lavam says as she gets our attention, everyone stops with their individual conversations and the room falls silent. "We've had a power cut so unfortunately we won't be able to have class today. Technicians aren't sure how long this could be off for, so we're sending you all home for the day." A few cheers interrupt her and she puts her hand up and they stop. "I do have some work for you to take with you, just so the day isn't completely wasted." She adds. "So please come up and grab a file." She asks. The room is suddenly filled with numerous of voices as we talk amongst each other.

Amy and I stand up and sling our bags over our shoulders and make our way towards the stage to collect some work. Amy looks at me and smiles.

"Hang out at yours?" She asks. I nod without thinking as I grab two files and pass one to her. "Thanks, we can go through some of this at yours.." She adds.

"Yeah okay." I say as we walk out of College. All that rushing around to try and get here on time was so pointless, I should have just stayed in bed.

"I'm parked over here." Amy says as she points to her left. I follow her towards the car, I glance down at my phone and I text Mum that I'm coming home. "Shall we get food on the way?" She asks as she opens the car door and I do the same.

"Yeah, I want a McDonald's." I smirk as I sit down and close the car door, Amy does the same and looks at me.

"Really? A McDonald's?" She asks as she doesn't look to impressed. Amy is more of a subway girl, but I like McDonald's. It doesn't matter how old you are, in my eyes you're never to old for a Big Mac. I look at her and nod with a smile. "Fine. McDonald's it is." She sighs as she starts the car up. I put my seatbelt on and start to glance down at our work file.



Harry's Pov

"This one is pretty cool. It controls the sound level of selected singers. So if you want back up singers singing behind the main singer, you can fade them out so you can't hear them as much. Have a go." Ryan says as he plays a random song from a group he works with. I slide the switch down and I notice their voices getting quieter.

"That's pretty cool." I say impressed as I keep turning the volume of their voices up and down.

"Then you have this one, it can help sharpen the voice." Ryan says as he moves it gently. I notice how clear the voice has become. It's insanely good in here. "I've got a band coming round tomorrow evening, maybe you can join us and I'll show you some more?" He asks.

"Yeah why not." I smile as I look at him. We hear my phone ring and I reach in my pocket and slide it out to see Naomi's name flashing on the screen. This is the fifth time she has tried to call me, I reject her call. "Sorry." I say to Ryan who smiles and nods. Then it rings again, for god sake! I look at the screen and go to reject but it's Mum.

"Is it okay to take this? It's my Mum" I say and Ryan nods and signals for me to go ahead. I leave the studio and head out into the corridor as I answer.

"Hey Mum." I say as I hold the phone closely to my ear.
"Hello Love, I had to call to make sure that you are okay." She says as she sighs down the phone.
"I'm fine Mum, just been in the studio with Ryan." I say as I sit down on the bottom step of the stairs.
"I miss you so much." She says and I hear the lump in her throat.
"I'll be back before you know it." I sigh as I look ahead, I hear a car pulling up outside. "I've got to go Mum."
"Oh okay, as long as you're okay you know you can me anytime Harry" She says reassuringly.
"I know, you and Gem are okay aren't you?" I ask quickly.
"Yes, we're fine." She sniffs.
"Good, okay I'll call you tomorrow." I say and she starts to tell me how much she loves me. "Love you too Mum." I say as the door opens.
"Bye Love."
"Bye" I hang up and I see Stephanie walking in, a girl follows her. I stand up as she looks at me a little startled.

"Hey.." Stephanie says as she looks at me with a quizzing look. I put my phone in my pocket.

"Hi" I reply as I look at her then to her friend.

"Oh, Harry this Amy, my best friend. Amy this is Harry." Stephanie says as she looks from Amy to Me. I smile as I put my hand up to wave and Amy does the same.

"Nice to meet you Harry." Amy says and I reply with a simple 'you too'. I thought Stephanie is supposed to be at college, I don't bother to question it.

"I'm gonna go.." I say as I head to the studio, they're already half way up the stairs as I glance back and looks at them. I open the door and head back into the studio.



Stephanie Pov

"Well he's hot... But I'm not sure what to think about him." Amy says as she sits down on my bed and makes herself comfortable. I sit on my computer chair and swivel round to face her.

"There is something about him that makes me a little wary, but I don't know what it is." I answer as I look at her as she nods in agreement,

"Maybe it's because of his fights? I couldn't help but notice his bruises. He must get so angry.." Amy says as she drifts off into her inner thoughts.

"Everyone gets angry." I say defending him. It's not fair for us to judge Harry when we don't really know what's happened to him or why he's been caught up in fights.

"I just think guys who flip of the handle a lot, which I'm sorry, Harry obviously Does that's why he's always in fights, they are best to be avoided." Amy says as she looks at me with sympathy. I look away.

"That's pretty hard when he's living with us. Besides we haven't seen any anger in him yet." I say and Amy shrugs and the conversation dies off. We sit in silence for a couple of seconds.

"So bowling tonight? Adam has arranged it." Amy says changing the conversation. "Maybe we should invite Harry?" She adds. I look up at her and frown.

"I thought guys like Him are best to be avoided?" I ask and Amy smirks as she nods.

"Well If he came out with us then we can make the right judgement of him, don't you think we should see what he's really like?" Amy asks and I don't like how she is suggesting this. I don't want to be 'testing' Harry, he doesn't deserve that. Amy stands up and opens my bedroom door.

"Where you going?" I ask as she smiles to me, I quickly get up as she leaves my room. "Amy!" I snap as she's half way downstairs, suddenly Harry walks towards her.

"Hi Harry, we were just wondering if you'd like to come bowling with us tonight?" Amy asks as she's smiling at him. Harry looks at her and glances to me, he quickly looks back to Amy.

"Thanks, but I think I'll stay here tonight." Harry says but Amy sighs. I look away as I could really do without this humiliation today. Harry's not interested in hanging out with us.

"I think it could be good to get to know you, plus it will be a laugh?" Amy asks and Harry smiles. "So yes?" She asks and Harry laughs.

"Okay. Fine. But I haven't been bowling since I was about twelve?" Harry raises his eyebrows as he says this I can't help laughing.

"This isn't exactly twelve year old style bowling. For every skittle you knock down, you drink the same amount of shots." Amy says and Harry looks more interested, "so be ready for seven." She adds as she turns away and smiles to me as she heads back to my room, Harry follows and he stops as I smile to him

"Sorry.." I whisper and he nods, he winks at me as he walks away towards his room, I quickly step inside and close my bedroom door to be greeted with a very pleased Amy.



Harry was certain that he drove us to bowling, so we picked Amy up who is now sat in the back and we are on our way.

"I heard James is there, I really need to impress him tonight." Amy says as she looks in her mirror as she studies her reflection.

"He's an idiot" I say as I glance back at her, I can see in the corner of my Harry glancing over to me.

"So was Jason, but you still went there." Amy says and I roll my eyes as I I look away from her. Hearing his name still makes me feel like shit. I look over to Harry as I see his phone light up, he quickly takes It and rejects the call. That's twice now he's done that.

"Anyone important?" I ask and he shakes his head. It goes off again and I look to see 'Naomi calling'. I look away as he rejects it for the third time. "Your girlfriend?" I ask and he quickly looks at me.

"No." He snaps and looks back at the road. I go to speak but he beats me to it. "She was someone I was dating, that's all." He adds.

"Oh. She seems pretty keen to talk to you?" I ask and he doesn't respond. I look away from him as I can tell this is uncomfortable for him.

"She's the reason I'm staying with you guys." He starts and I look at him, "It doesn't matter." He says as he looks away from me and shakes his head.

"You can talk to us if you need to Harry.." I offer and Harry smirks as he looks ahead at the road. I frown as I don't understand why he finds that so amusing.

"I'm good, thanks." He says as he changes gear and speeds up a little. I don't bother to ask anything else. I glance back to Amy who looks at me a little confused, I shrug and look back as Harry clears his throat. "Is it this way?" He asks, as we come to a turning on his right.

"Uh, yeah." I try to answer in time for him to not miss the turn, he quickly steers the steering wheel and I feel my body lean against the door. The car falls silent again as we enter the Cinema's car park.

"Ahh!! James is here!" Amy cheers causing me to jump. I ignore her as I'm still focused on Harry, he doesn't seem very happy about me questioning about Naomi. Once Harry parks up, I hear Amy un clip her belt and she opens the door.

"Harry.." I say as I look over to him. He looks at me as he takes his belt off him. "You should tell her it's over." I suggest and Harry nods. There must be a some sort of emotional history between them if he gets this uptight whenever she is mentioned.

"I will." He says as he opens his door and steps out. I sigh as I un clip my belt and open my door and step out. Harry locks the car and we head over to Amy who is with our friends. She immediately introduces Harry to everyone. Then I freeze, Jason is here.

"Oh god." I say under my breath, only Harry notices as I look away. He turns to me and frowns.

"What's wrong?" He asks and I nod in the direction of Jason. Harry glances over and then looks back to me. "Your ex?" He asks and I shush him. He smirks and looks away from me. "Come on. " he says as he starts to walk inside. I look at him and follow him in. With Jason being here, I know something is bound to go wrong and it can't involve Harry!

Notes

I've edited this chapted due to some recent feedback. I'm hoping it's much better than before. Any reviews would be highly appreciated!