Love At First Type ~ COMPLETED
Mixed Feelings
Harry sat through the interview, trying to avoid questions when he could, but he couldn’t avoid all of them. The next question asked was directed towards him, and though he’s not sure how he got found out, he certainly doesn’t have to ask himself. He is famous.
“Harry, photos were taken yesterday of you and this girl. Would you like to tell us who she is?” The interviewer shot her biggest smile and pointed to the screen where shots of him and Morgan shared coffee filled the screen.
Harry’s instinct answer was to say no. She technically asked him if he would like to tell her about Morgan, but he couldn’t shoot down the question.
“Um…” Harry could feel his palms get sweaty and he looked to the other boys for help.
“She’s just a friend of ours,” Liam answered for him. Harry mentally sighed and looked at Liam in thanks.
“Oh… Well that’s all the time we have; it was great meeting you boys.” She shook hands with all of them before the boys were ushered out by Paul to get to the recording studio.
The boys loaded into the van, waving at fans blocked by the way of a gate and buckled in before Paul sped off. Small chatter was made amongst the boys. Harry sat in the back next to Liam, who was staring out the distant window.
“Thanks, Li,” Harry said.
Liam turned to face Harry and smiled. “No problem, Harry, but you have to introduce me to her. You didn’t tell me she was fit.” Harry chuckled and left it at that.
“Hey, what do you guys know about ‘kik’?” Harry asked randomly.
“Kik? You mean that messaging app. That’s one of those old apps, Harry. Why do you ask?” Niall answered for him.
Harry sighed. He supposed if he told the truth, they wouldn’t mind, but if he did tell, they could also be extremely mad at him for deleting his account. The situation was a 50/50 chance of them being okay or yelling at him, but in the end, Harry decided he would keep this secret.
“I saw it somewhere; I was just curious.”
When the boys had finished recording for the day, they were all thoroughly exhausted. The night had come upon them, and it was much too late for the band to go out somewhere, so they found themselves back at the bachelor pad wasting time with a few bottles of beer they stumbled upon.
Harry decided to call it a night and waved at the other boys before walking to his room, but he definitely wasn’t going to sleep just yet. He pulled up the App Store on his iPhone, the 11th version to be exact because it was the must have phone of the now seeing that Apple came out with a new phone each year. This version was no different than the previous versions before it, for each new version only got slimmer and slimmer until they became as light as paper money.
By now, Harry had already searched and uploaded the kik app; it’s oddly similar texting features lead Harry into a confusion as to why she didn’t just give him her number, but of course there were always precautionary reasons to strangers. He quickly made up an account with the same username ‘JustYourNormalGuy’ and added her into his contacts list as shown by the device instructions.
‘Here goes nothing,’ he thought to himself as he typed out hi and hit send. A nervous fluttery feeling came across his stomach and he had a sudden urge to hurl, but he held back the nervous feeling.
Minutes had passed, but no response came. ‘Of course she’s not going to reply; it’s close to eleven. She’s probably asleep right now.’ Harry mentally argued with how stupid he thought he looked to her, but what did he care? She’s just a friend after all, or perhaps she was just trying to be a kind stranger.
He swore quietly under his breath, unashamed that he had let the words come from his mouth, and decided that if she never responded it would be for the better. So he changed into a comfortable pair of sweatpants, leaving his torso exposed and lay down in his bed trying to process what this girl, whoever she may be, might be thinking about his stupid text.
As much as Harry wanted to sleep, he couldn’t because of the empty feeling in his stomach. He tried to count sheep, but a wolf swallowed them all whole, leaving his thoughts disturbed. He tried to picture a happy place, on a boat of a distant shore, but he ended up being pushed off the boat and opened his eyes just in time to not see his body be severed by a shark. Every time he closed his eyes in an effort to sleep, something bad happened and disrupted his attempt. This kept on going nearly all night until the sagginess in his eyes caused them to close, and he fell into a heavy sleep.
Buzz… buzz… buzz… SMACK!
Harry’s eyes slowly blinked open when he heard the sudden noise of an object hitting the hard wood floor next to his bed. He repositioned himself to peer over the bed and catch sight of his phone buzzing uncontrollably in a circular motion on the ground. Harry groaned, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, before picking up his phone and focusing his pupils on the lit up screen.
*1 New Message*
Harry unlocked his screen and opened up the message app, but he found no texts in result. He was upset by the early wakeup call and confused as to why it said he had a message but didn’t. He sighed and checked his other social medias before noticing a red 1 in a circle hovering over the kik app. His eyes grew wide, unsure if this was a good thing or a bad thing. Nevertheless, he opened up the app and began to read the message he received.
ThatInvisibleGirl: Sorry for the late response. I had read your message last night, and typed message and waited for your reply when I realized I hadn’t hit send. I can be pretty forgetful when I’m half awake xD
Harry suddenly felt a wave of relief. ‘She forgot to hit send; thank God,’ he thought. He was almost certain he had messaged her too soon, or that she was just in the heat of the moment when she gave him her kik username and accepted his request to be his friend. He laughed at her quirky forgetfulness before noticing the time. ‘Wow, I wonder what job she has to do in order to be up at 5 o’clock in the morning.’
JustYourNormalGuy: Thanks for the wake up call… haha and it’s completely fine. I was just a bit worried you weren’t going to reply at all
ThatInvisibleGirl: Oops sorry. I like to get up before first light to see the sun come up… and not reply?!?! That’s an absurd idea; you’re my new best friend!
JustYourNormalGuy: Best friend?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Well yeah… I don’t really have many friends. Well, I do, but they all seem to not care about me. It’s like I’m invisible to them (hence my username), and you… you’re different. I could just feel this instant “best friend” quality in you
Harry could feel a blush come to his cheeks. It was amazing the affect this girl could make on him. ‘And to think I don’t even know her name… Maybe I can ask her.’
JustYourNormalGuy: So “BEST FRIEND”, would it be okay if I asked you what your name is?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Hm… It depends on who’s asking ;)
Harry thought about it for a second. It couldn’t be bad to tell her his first name; there are hundreds of Harrys in this world, and he would tell her if it meant he could just know her name. So without second thoughts, he typed out his answer.
JustYourNormalGuy: I’m Harry :)
ThatInvisibleGirl: Darren
“Darren,” he said aloud. He liked the way her name rolled of his tongue as if he had known her forever. He liked that her name was different and cute, in a friendly kind of way. Or at least he thought it was a friendly kind of way.
ThatInvisibleGirl: I have to go; the sun is about to rise and I have to get to the roof before it does. But I’ll kik you later, Harry :)
‘You too, Darren,’ he wrote. He bit his lip hitting send and turning of his phone. He smiled as he did so and leaned back onto his bed. All he could think about was how stupid he must look right now, but he honestly had no idea why he was smiling. He frowned now. Darren just became entitled his best friend, but his previous face could have proved wrong.
He groaned. ‘She’s just a friend, Harry. She’s just a friend…’ he scolded himself mentally. ‘Right? I mean I don’t even know her – in fact, I only know her name… She’s just a friend… yeah…’
Harry finally decided to get up and let his mind erase itself of stupid thoughts by taking a shower. When he finished, he put on a pair of jeans and a simple t-shirt before quietly making an escape to the kitchen. For some reason, he felt like he hadn’t eaten in years, and he was craving something sweet at the moment. He dug around in the fridge and most of the cupboards but came out empty handed. He dug around some more before he realized that nothing in this house could satisfy him. He sighed, leaning his back against the counter and stared out the dark window just in time to see the sun coming out over the horizon line.
‘I like to get up before first light to see the sun come up,’ she had said. Harry smiled and walked over to the window to get a perfect view. He thought about how ironic it is that she’s watching the same sunrise as him, but from different locations in this strange world. Harry thought about how he could picture a girl somewhere, smiling from a rooftop, enjoying the same view as him, and he smiled too.
“Good morning, Harry. You’re up early,” Liam strolled into the kitchen and started to rummage through the fridge. Harry quickly snapped away from the window and his smile faded away as he did so.
Harry awkwardly shuffled his feet and stared at the ground to think of a lie. “Yeah… My phone kept going off and I couldn’t go back to sleep after, so I came out here.”
“Mhm… and you were awkwardly staring out the window for no apparent reason. Sounds legit.” Liam backed away from the fridge and closed the door smirking to him.
“Damn… I thought he didn’t see that…” Harry muttered under his breath.
“Harold Edward Styles, did I just hear you swear?!?!” Louis burst into the room with a fully awoken smile erupted across his face.
“Shit, no! I mean, yes but… it was an accident!”
“You just did it again. Welcome to the dark side Mr. Styles. We’ve been expecting you.”
Harry groaned. His so-called “friends” were poking at his sides, harassing Harry about his slip-ups. Not once had they remembered hearing Harry swear, and every time someone around him did, he would claim to not tolerate foul language.
Now that Harry himself had expressed himself through such foul words, he knew his friends would never get over this. But he didn’t seem to mind, for he also felt good about letting some of the built up aggression run loose in his language; he definitely wasn’t turning back.
“Harry, photos were taken yesterday of you and this girl. Would you like to tell us who she is?” The interviewer shot her biggest smile and pointed to the screen where shots of him and Morgan shared coffee filled the screen.
Harry’s instinct answer was to say no. She technically asked him if he would like to tell her about Morgan, but he couldn’t shoot down the question.
“Um…” Harry could feel his palms get sweaty and he looked to the other boys for help.
“She’s just a friend of ours,” Liam answered for him. Harry mentally sighed and looked at Liam in thanks.
“Oh… Well that’s all the time we have; it was great meeting you boys.” She shook hands with all of them before the boys were ushered out by Paul to get to the recording studio.
The boys loaded into the van, waving at fans blocked by the way of a gate and buckled in before Paul sped off. Small chatter was made amongst the boys. Harry sat in the back next to Liam, who was staring out the distant window.
“Thanks, Li,” Harry said.
Liam turned to face Harry and smiled. “No problem, Harry, but you have to introduce me to her. You didn’t tell me she was fit.” Harry chuckled and left it at that.
“Hey, what do you guys know about ‘kik’?” Harry asked randomly.
“Kik? You mean that messaging app. That’s one of those old apps, Harry. Why do you ask?” Niall answered for him.
Harry sighed. He supposed if he told the truth, they wouldn’t mind, but if he did tell, they could also be extremely mad at him for deleting his account. The situation was a 50/50 chance of them being okay or yelling at him, but in the end, Harry decided he would keep this secret.
“I saw it somewhere; I was just curious.”
When the boys had finished recording for the day, they were all thoroughly exhausted. The night had come upon them, and it was much too late for the band to go out somewhere, so they found themselves back at the bachelor pad wasting time with a few bottles of beer they stumbled upon.
Harry decided to call it a night and waved at the other boys before walking to his room, but he definitely wasn’t going to sleep just yet. He pulled up the App Store on his iPhone, the 11th version to be exact because it was the must have phone of the now seeing that Apple came out with a new phone each year. This version was no different than the previous versions before it, for each new version only got slimmer and slimmer until they became as light as paper money.
By now, Harry had already searched and uploaded the kik app; it’s oddly similar texting features lead Harry into a confusion as to why she didn’t just give him her number, but of course there were always precautionary reasons to strangers. He quickly made up an account with the same username ‘JustYourNormalGuy’ and added her into his contacts list as shown by the device instructions.
‘Here goes nothing,’ he thought to himself as he typed out hi and hit send. A nervous fluttery feeling came across his stomach and he had a sudden urge to hurl, but he held back the nervous feeling.
Minutes had passed, but no response came. ‘Of course she’s not going to reply; it’s close to eleven. She’s probably asleep right now.’ Harry mentally argued with how stupid he thought he looked to her, but what did he care? She’s just a friend after all, or perhaps she was just trying to be a kind stranger.
He swore quietly under his breath, unashamed that he had let the words come from his mouth, and decided that if she never responded it would be for the better. So he changed into a comfortable pair of sweatpants, leaving his torso exposed and lay down in his bed trying to process what this girl, whoever she may be, might be thinking about his stupid text.
As much as Harry wanted to sleep, he couldn’t because of the empty feeling in his stomach. He tried to count sheep, but a wolf swallowed them all whole, leaving his thoughts disturbed. He tried to picture a happy place, on a boat of a distant shore, but he ended up being pushed off the boat and opened his eyes just in time to not see his body be severed by a shark. Every time he closed his eyes in an effort to sleep, something bad happened and disrupted his attempt. This kept on going nearly all night until the sagginess in his eyes caused them to close, and he fell into a heavy sleep.
Buzz… buzz… buzz… SMACK!
Harry’s eyes slowly blinked open when he heard the sudden noise of an object hitting the hard wood floor next to his bed. He repositioned himself to peer over the bed and catch sight of his phone buzzing uncontrollably in a circular motion on the ground. Harry groaned, rubbing the sleep from his eyes, before picking up his phone and focusing his pupils on the lit up screen.
*1 New Message*
Harry unlocked his screen and opened up the message app, but he found no texts in result. He was upset by the early wakeup call and confused as to why it said he had a message but didn’t. He sighed and checked his other social medias before noticing a red 1 in a circle hovering over the kik app. His eyes grew wide, unsure if this was a good thing or a bad thing. Nevertheless, he opened up the app and began to read the message he received.
ThatInvisibleGirl: Sorry for the late response. I had read your message last night, and typed message and waited for your reply when I realized I hadn’t hit send. I can be pretty forgetful when I’m half awake xD
Harry suddenly felt a wave of relief. ‘She forgot to hit send; thank God,’ he thought. He was almost certain he had messaged her too soon, or that she was just in the heat of the moment when she gave him her kik username and accepted his request to be his friend. He laughed at her quirky forgetfulness before noticing the time. ‘Wow, I wonder what job she has to do in order to be up at 5 o’clock in the morning.’
JustYourNormalGuy: Thanks for the wake up call… haha and it’s completely fine. I was just a bit worried you weren’t going to reply at all
ThatInvisibleGirl: Oops sorry. I like to get up before first light to see the sun come up… and not reply?!?! That’s an absurd idea; you’re my new best friend!
JustYourNormalGuy: Best friend?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Well yeah… I don’t really have many friends. Well, I do, but they all seem to not care about me. It’s like I’m invisible to them (hence my username), and you… you’re different. I could just feel this instant “best friend” quality in you
Harry could feel a blush come to his cheeks. It was amazing the affect this girl could make on him. ‘And to think I don’t even know her name… Maybe I can ask her.’
JustYourNormalGuy: So “BEST FRIEND”, would it be okay if I asked you what your name is?
ThatInvisibleGirl: Hm… It depends on who’s asking ;)
Harry thought about it for a second. It couldn’t be bad to tell her his first name; there are hundreds of Harrys in this world, and he would tell her if it meant he could just know her name. So without second thoughts, he typed out his answer.
JustYourNormalGuy: I’m Harry :)
ThatInvisibleGirl: Darren
“Darren,” he said aloud. He liked the way her name rolled of his tongue as if he had known her forever. He liked that her name was different and cute, in a friendly kind of way. Or at least he thought it was a friendly kind of way.
ThatInvisibleGirl: I have to go; the sun is about to rise and I have to get to the roof before it does. But I’ll kik you later, Harry :)
‘You too, Darren,’ he wrote. He bit his lip hitting send and turning of his phone. He smiled as he did so and leaned back onto his bed. All he could think about was how stupid he must look right now, but he honestly had no idea why he was smiling. He frowned now. Darren just became entitled his best friend, but his previous face could have proved wrong.
He groaned. ‘She’s just a friend, Harry. She’s just a friend…’ he scolded himself mentally. ‘Right? I mean I don’t even know her – in fact, I only know her name… She’s just a friend… yeah…’
Harry finally decided to get up and let his mind erase itself of stupid thoughts by taking a shower. When he finished, he put on a pair of jeans and a simple t-shirt before quietly making an escape to the kitchen. For some reason, he felt like he hadn’t eaten in years, and he was craving something sweet at the moment. He dug around in the fridge and most of the cupboards but came out empty handed. He dug around some more before he realized that nothing in this house could satisfy him. He sighed, leaning his back against the counter and stared out the dark window just in time to see the sun coming out over the horizon line.
‘I like to get up before first light to see the sun come up,’ she had said. Harry smiled and walked over to the window to get a perfect view. He thought about how ironic it is that she’s watching the same sunrise as him, but from different locations in this strange world. Harry thought about how he could picture a girl somewhere, smiling from a rooftop, enjoying the same view as him, and he smiled too.
“Good morning, Harry. You’re up early,” Liam strolled into the kitchen and started to rummage through the fridge. Harry quickly snapped away from the window and his smile faded away as he did so.
Harry awkwardly shuffled his feet and stared at the ground to think of a lie. “Yeah… My phone kept going off and I couldn’t go back to sleep after, so I came out here.”
“Mhm… and you were awkwardly staring out the window for no apparent reason. Sounds legit.” Liam backed away from the fridge and closed the door smirking to him.
“Damn… I thought he didn’t see that…” Harry muttered under his breath.
“Harold Edward Styles, did I just hear you swear?!?!” Louis burst into the room with a fully awoken smile erupted across his face.
“Shit, no! I mean, yes but… it was an accident!”
“You just did it again. Welcome to the dark side Mr. Styles. We’ve been expecting you.”
Harry groaned. His so-called “friends” were poking at his sides, harassing Harry about his slip-ups. Not once had they remembered hearing Harry swear, and every time someone around him did, he would claim to not tolerate foul language.
Now that Harry himself had expressed himself through such foul words, he knew his friends would never get over this. But he didn’t seem to mind, for he also felt good about letting some of the built up aggression run loose in his language; he definitely wasn’t turning back.
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A good handful of the other characters are YouTubers playing themselves, but there aren't any specific people who play the rest of the characters like Leanna. It's all up to your imagination really.
5/13/15