Chapter 6
I arrived to my brother's school right when the last bell rang, all the classroom doors openedand let out all the children free to go. They all looked the same with their backpacks and lunch boxes, that’s why it was still hard to find David in the crowd. I don’t even remember what he was wearing. After a couple of minutes I spotted David walking from behind a crowd of girls, he smiled as he came walking toward me with a paper on his hand.
"Guess what" He said trying to cover up the paper behind his back.
"What's the paper you got there?" I tried grabbing it but he was too fast and moved it away from me.
"I got an 100 on my vocabulary test!" He gave me the paper as I made sure he wasn’t lying, and he wasn’t.
"We should go celebrate!" I smiled taking his paper and placing it in his backpack.
"ICECREAM"
"Let’s go to ColdStone!"
We made our way through the crowd toward the town plaza, which was just a couple of blocks away; it was around three of the afternoon. Children and teens roamed the streets walking home or meeting up with their friends.... talking about friends, I haven't talked to mine in a while, well since Glimmer's accident.
As we passed a McDonalds, we found Coldstone on the corner of the street. My brother opened the door, showing a line of people waiting to get some ice cream. The cold breeze of the building made me sneeze quietly getting "bless you's" from strangers.
"Hello, welcome to Coldstone" The young cashier said with a smile.
"Hi can we have two ice creams please" I said asmy brother ran toward the flavors of ice-creams.
"I want chocolate with gummy worms!" He screamed as the cashier nodded heading toward the chocolate ice cream serving it on a small bowl adding sour gummy worms on top.
"And I would like hazelnut"
"No toppings?"
"No, and in a cone please",The cashier looked familiar maybe from school, her smile, I've seen her somewhere.
"Here you go that will be five dollars and twenty five cents" I reached for my bag, putting my hand all the way in-between my folders looking for my wallet. I couldn't feel it; I felt a pencil and markers, lip-gloss and an eraser but no wallet. The people in line waited impatiently making me turn red.
"It has to be in here" I whispered to myself as I continued looking in my bag.
"Put it on my card" A young voice said from behind me, his hand reached toward the cashier giving her his visa card.
"No its okay, I know I brought my wallet"I said
"It's fine," I turned to look at him and it was Harry; wearing a white t-shirt, black jeans and sunglasses. His curly locks stayed in place as he turned to give the cashier a smile, showing his dimples on his rosy cheeks. He looked great.
“Oh, thank you” I said trying to not be awkward. Harry paid for my ice cream and his as well. Once David and I walked out of the shop, Harry was beside me. We sat in one of those benches outside.
“Thanks again for the ice cream Harry. I could have sworn I brought my wallet” I said as I frowned.
“It’s okay love. Just be glad I was here to pay for you” he responded back as he gave me a smirk. We began talking about random things. Our favorite foods, bands, colors, etc. Harry would also ask my little brother questions. It was really adorable.
We finished our ice cream and I began to say goodbye when Harry offered to give David and I a ride back home. I was debating in my head; should I walk home and risk being kidnapped? Or should take a ride from a good looking guy? Decisions, decisions.
“Oh c’mon Veronica, get in. I won’t bite, that’s if you want me to” oh Harry is such a flirt. But I said yes and climbed along with David.
“So where do you live?” Harry asked with a smile that showed his dimples.
“Oh you’ll make a right on Peppermint then another right on Miramar”
“Veronica, do you have… a… boyfriend?” Once Harry asked me this I didn’t know what to think. The most rational solution was that he is just trying to start a conversation.
“Nope, do you?” that’s the best I could have said.
Harry laughed and answered, “Well no I don’t have a boyfriend. I like girls. But I don’t have a girlfriend either” I couldn’t help but laugh when he said that. He stopped at a red light when I noticed Zayn was in the car beside us. There was a blonde chick sitting on his passenger seat. Both Harry and I waved at Zayn as he returned the wave. I could have sworn that he glared at me. But I wasn’t positive.
“I can see Zayn is back with Perrie. Umm me and the boys are gonna have to talk to him” it seemed as Harry was talking to himself when he said that. I could care less who Zayn was with, the only thing that bothered me was that glare he most likely gave me. Maybe it was because I didn’t take his offer to give me a ride earlier.
Once we got to my house Harry parked along the curb and turned off the engine. David quickly got out and ran to the house. He had said earlier how he wanted to pee so I guessed that’s why he ran like the wind. Harry nervously fiddled with his keys as I was about to get out.
“Well, thank you Harry. I really appreciate it, I’ll see you tomorrow at school”
“Oh erm, yeah bye Veronica. No need to thank me, it was my pleasure” he said with a smile. “Wait, I’ll be stopping by later! If you hear a knock on your window don’t get scared” I was a little nervous when he said that. Was he going to climb to my window or something?
“Oh… umm okay. I’ll see you then!” I turned and walked towards my house as Harry drove away from the curb.
I really don’t know why he was going to come later. I walked into my house and heard my mom in the kitchen, I went to say hi and then made my way upstairs to work on homework. I didn’t have much because it was my first day, thank goodness!
I finished my work then went on Tumblr. I didn’t notice the time until I heard some noises coming from my window. I got up quickly and headed towards it. It was about 8pm and it was kinda dark outside, but Harry was there looking up from where he stood. It was like Romeo & Juliet. Only a little awkward.
I opened my window and greeted him as calmly as I could.
“Hi Veronica, how’s the weather up there?” he said back.
“It’s a bit breezy but okay I guess”
“I just wanted to stop by and say goodnight, so… goodnight” by this time he was staring at his shoes, I could see a hint of red appear on his cheeks.
“Really? Well how sweet of you Harry. Goodnight to you too!” he smiled at my response and looked up to look at me. He held an intense gaze, which I broke with a sneeze. He laughed and said goodnight once more as he turned to his car.
“Oh! Before I go, I have to tell you something… you looked beautiful today Veronica” he turned again and go into his car. Now it was my face that was burning.
The rest of the night, my mind was racing to come up with a reason why Harry came to my house. But I decided not to make a big deal about it and sleep. I actually fell into a deep sleep without any dreams that night.