"BO!" I screamed to the sister I hadn't seen in four years.

"Lex!" She screamed back at me. She held me tight, both of us not wanting to let go. Our mum and dad were standing behind me, waiting patiently to see their daughter whom they also haven't seen in years.

"Sweetheart!" My mum yelled planting a loving kiss on her forehead and squeezing her until she couldn't breath. When she let go my dad was quick to take her place. It was one happy family reunion. I was happy, I think my parent were happy. Harry seemed happy standing next to me our hands clasped together.

Then I remembered the other voice.

"Was that Charlie?" I asked Harry quietly trying to hide my worry. He nodded slowly. "Is he gone?" Harry watched as Niall and Liam came around the corner of the house. He quickly went to them for answers.

"He says he won't leave without talking to you." Harry came back. I didn't want to talk to him. I wanted nothing to do with him. I hadn't thought of him on years and things seemed finally good. "He says he's going to wait all night."

"Well then I guess he's going to have to because I'm not talking to him right now." I brushed invisible dust from Harry's suit jacket.

Everyone went back to their conversations after Louis commanded them to do so.

"You are Harry Styles." Bo said coming over to greet him.

"Yup." I said proudly. She stood her hip cocked out. She began quizzing him, asking him all sorts of question my mum and dad already did before she decided he was good enough for me. She then enveloped him in a hug, squeezing him tight accepting him into our family. "What are you even doing here?"

"I got a call from a Louis Tomlinson, said you were going to be engaged and he was throwing the two of you a party." As if on cue, Louis walked up to us.

"You called her?" I asked him, a tear starting to form under my eye. When he didn't say anything I gave Harry a look. As my sister started talking to my mum and dad, he returned a similar look, which meant we were on the same page. I took a finger away from his hand, and then another, and then one last one. As soon as I let go, we tackled Louis and crushed him with our arms.

We were all laughing.

"This is really awesome, thank you so much Lou." Harry gave him one last sympathetic look, before.
Harry and I went around to all our families, saying high, accepting hugs from family members I haven't seen in year. We had food and then after they left it was just our parents, the lads and the girls. When the sun started going down and the fire pit was lit.

"It happened out here actually, around the fire we had last night." I said sitting in the same chair I was sitting in last night. A cup of tea in my hands. Harry had come back to the fire with a couple blankets in his hands. He handed them out leaving one for us, wrapping us in it as he sat next to me.

"You were all sitting out here?" My sister asked.

"Yup, Louis, Niall, Zayn, Liam, Danielle, Perrie and of course Eleanor."

"That's sweet, I remember how you would always stay up with the fire when we went camping." She said.

"She still does, we were up until two thirty with the fire." Harry told her.

"No wonder you guys stayed in bed so late." Liam spoke. I did love camp fires, which made the last twenty four hours so perfect.

Between the stories our families were telling everyone about when we were children, Harry and I would give each other smiles.

"And then I walked in and saw him sitting on the counter eating a handful of butter." Anne was telling everyone about his fifth birthday. We laughed, as Harry's face became more red. Our mum's were switching back and fourth at telling embarrassing stories of us.

I got up when I noticed our supply of marshmallows was dwindling.

"Can I get anyone anything?" I looked to each of them. "Water, tea, some crisps?" I put out suggestions.

"Can I get a water please?" Liam, Zayn, my mum and Bo all asked at the same time.

"Yeah, can I get you anything else?"

"More marshmallows, babe!" I laughed turning around, to go inside. Making my way through the living room to the kitchen. Searching through the cupboards for another package of the sweets I heard a noise from outside. Not the back garden outside either, it was from the front.

"Crap." I sighed remembering Charlie said he wouldn't leave. As much as I didn't want to go out there I felt my feet heading towards the door.
I stopped my hand from reaching for the handle when I heard someone come in the back.

"A bunch of people asked for water when you left, so I came to help you bring it out." It was Harry. I spun around to see him stop and stare at me.

"Will come out with me?" I didn't feel comfortable being out there by myself. He slowly nodded. "Just, please, just don't say anything, please." He put two fingers to his lips, turning them like a key, then he dropped his hand to his side. I held out mine as if to ask him to hold it.
My other hand reached to open the door.

He scrambled to stand when the door opened all the way.

"What's he doing here?" He spit out. I felt Harry's hand tense in mine.

"I don't feel comfortable out here without him." I timidly said. I was still afraid of him. We hadn't talked in many year and the last time we did, he almost drove me to harm again.

"You need him to protect you?" His voice went high, like he was making fun of me, which I didn't doubt he was.

"Actually yeah. You scare me Charlie. Just tell me what you want so you can leave." I was more angry then scared now. He didn't have the right to make me feel so small. And I had decided just then, that I wasn't going to let him scare me anymore.

"Not with our friend Harold here."

"I'm going to tell him anyway, he's going to know." I said with more confidence then I felt I had. He didn't speak. He didn't even move his mouth to say a thing. He wasn't going to speak. "We're going inside then." Harry and I turned to go back inside and leave him outside.

"Wait!" When I turned back around, his eyes were closed and his lip quivered. "Lexi. I'm sorry, please stay. I need to talk to you."

"Make it quick. We've still got family here."

When he finally opened his eyes I'd seen something that I'd only seen from him once time before. When he'd walked into my room, seeing me crying and calling myself useless after a date with him. He had felt so bad that he had made me feel that way. But that was the only time he had felt bad about what he had done. Every time after that he's yell more about how I was overreacting.
"Lexi, I'm so sorry for everything I did to drive you away. I can't keep lying to myself about it. It was all my fault, all those nights when I would hear you crying, everytime, I would drive you home from a date, I knew I'd made you feel like crap. And I'm sorry, you didn't deserve it. No one deserves that." He started crying, which made tears slowly drop down my face.

"Charlie." I wanted to say more, but I hadn't known what.

"I just hope Harry can be the man for you, that I couldn't be."

"Me too." Harry whispered almost too quiet to hear. I had hoped Charlie hadn't heard.

"Charlie." I said again, trying to speak, but again no words would come out. The tears had stopped falling from his eyes.

"I know I screwed up bad, I hope you're all right, and I didn't cause you too much damage. I'm glad to see you've been happy." Silence, I could tell he wanted to say more, I wanted to say more, but for some reason, words wouldn't come. "I hope you continue to be happy, and maybe someday, long from now, after we've grown some more, we could go for coffee or something." Part of me felt like he had been hitting on me, but the other part knew he just wanted me happy. I let my lips form a weak smile, the moisture from my eyes ending.

"Charlie, I forgive you. I- thank you for coming tonight. Don't worry about what happened with us, it's water under the bridge." I bit my lip, knowing Harry would have a lot to say about this later. "I hope you're happy too." And with that I turned from him, pulling Harry back in the house.

A weight had been lifted. The anger and hatred I once held for Charlie was gone. No longer keeping me from things. I relaxed my shoulders back into Harry's hand in the small of my back.

"Thank you." I rotated my body into his arms, holding him tight, talking into his shirt. He smoothed the hair down putting a hard kiss on my temple.

"Lets get back out there, yeah?" He sounded uneasy. There was so much he wanted to say, so much that he couldn't say in front of our family.

"Harry, I know you've got loads to say, so thank you, again, for not doing so right now. We'll talk later, after they've gone." He gave a small nod before grabbing me into his side walking out to the fire to join everyone again.

"I think your sister and I are off." My mum said, standing and walking towards us. "Congrats, again! I'm so happy for the two of you." She kissed us both on the cheek and gave us small side hugs before my sister came and did the same.

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"Bye guys thanks so much for coming!" It was the last of the guests. All the remained now was Louis, Niall, Zayn, Liam, Dani, El, and Perrie."Thanks again guys, you've really made this special." I told going around the fire and hugging each one of them.

I walked inside, intending for Harry to follow, which he did.

"Night." He waved for us from the door.

Notes

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