Juliet stood staring at her reflection, unsure of everything and her appearance was always one of those things no matter what situation she was in in life.
‘’Stop it! You look gorgeous, now come on.’’ Sophia sighs as she grabs Juliet’s wrist and pulls her towards the bedroom door.
‘’Do you think he’ll like it?’’ Juliet asks with a huff as Sophia leads her down the small flight of stairs into the living room.
‘’Harry is going to flip, I promise he’ll love it.’’ Sophia assures as she lets her wrist go and gestures her to follow her to the door.
Juliet clutches her purse in her hands as she follows Sophia out of the door, shutting it behind them. The girls headed towards the end of the hall to the elevators, and little did they know they weren’t going to be the only ones taking a trip to the lobby floor.
As the doors opened, they were greeted with the presence of three girls around Juliet’s age or possibly a few years older.
Sophia rolled her eyes as the girls began to whisper amongst themselves, staring at Juliet as Sophia pulled her into the elevator and pressed the desired button she needed.
‘’That’s that girl Harry was with.’’ One of them said a little too loud, Sophia picked up on it.
‘’She’s probably going to go fuck with him now anyways.. look at how slutty she looks.’’
Juliet ignored the comments, but she could sense that someone else wasn’t too happy about what the preppy girls were saying. Sophia tired her best to compose herself and not lose her cool in the elevator.
The snickering began as the elevator stopped and beeped, the doors soon opening. Sophia grab Juliet’s hand and hurried out of the metal trap and towards the front exit, ignoring the gasps and spastic reactions from girls that idolized her.
Honestly she couldn’t care any less about them now, she just wanted to get Juliet to Harry so she could tell him what happened, knowing that he surely won’t be happy and probably will not ever let Juliet leave his side again.
Sophia handled hate all the time, but the first few months are hard, and the first day is the worst.


* * *


“What the fuck does that even mean?!’’ Juliet heard Niall’s loud voice say as they got closer to their cornered and private table, the waiter leading the girls through the busy and crowded restaurant.
‘’It means-‘’
‘’Juliet.’’ Harry’s eyes lit up, interrupted Liam as he saw Juliet’s presence.
He stood and finished the distance between them, Sophia walking on by to the table, letting them be by themselves for a few minutes.
Juliet smiled as Harry held his arms out for her. She gladly accepted the offer and leaned her forehead against his chest with her arms around his torso.

‘’Miss me?’’ Harry asks as Juliet hugs him tight, mushing the side of her face against him.
She just smiles, taking in the feeling of being his in his arms, under his care and protected by him – she loved the way Harry made her feel and she didn’t want to let go.
“You look beautiful.’’ Harry whispers against her temple as he leans down a tad to be closer to her.
‘’Thank you.’’ Juliet says with a muffled voice.
‘’Are you going to join us or just stand there?’’ Niall asks with a laugh as he looked over his shoulder to see what was taking so long.
As Juliet leaned back, her cheeks turned red and Harry couldn’t do anything but smile at how adorable she is. In his eyes she was the most beautiful girl in the entire world, and it will stay that way – forever.
Harry and Juliet sit down beside each other, Harry moving his chair closer to hers just to be that close to her – it made him feel better about everything.
‘’So did you girls enjoy your day?’’ Liam asks as he sips his wine slowly, cutting his eyes at Sophia.
‘’Yes of course! Juliet is a dear, I love her to death. We have a lot in common actually – it just took me a while to get it all out of her.’’ Sophia smiles as she sends Juliet a smile.
‘’So you enjoyed it to?’’ Harry asks, looking over at the only thing on his mind.
Juliet nods lightly, smiling to Harry in reply.
‘’Juliet doesn’t look very happy.’’ Niall smirks as he looks at her from the end of the table where he sat.
Harry sent him a glare, his attention turned to Niall’s stupid comment – Niall knew little things like that pissed Harry off bad, but yet he done it anyways just to get noticed.
‘’She’s fine.’’ Harry states, rolling his eyes as he meets Juliet’s eyes.
She looks away, ashamed and embarrassed at the thought of the article that Sophia told her about and even more at the mere thought of what happened while leaving Sophia’s apartment.
‘’I showed Harry.’’ Liam says in a mumble to Sophia, but it wasn’t that soft – he didn’t intend it to be a secret so he didn’t really care if they heard.
Harry stares at the side of Juliet’s face, trying to read her and figure her out right now – it wasn’t that hard because he could sense that she wasn’t emotionally feeling good at the moment. He sighed and placed his hand on top of her thigh under the table, rubbing the pad of his thumb against her soft skin, trying to soothe both her and himself.
‘’Sophia must’ve told you?’’ Harry says with a gulp as he catches Juliet look at him from the corner of her eyes – not for long but long enough.
‘’Yeah, I did. And then.. when we were leaving.. we got in the elevator and, well, there were a few girls in there and they didn’t really know how to whisper.’’ Sophia shakes her head lightly from side to side – ashamed of the way people act nowadays.
‘’What they say?’’ Liam asks, furrowing his eyebrows – just as curious as Harry was to know.
‘’They recognized Juliet.. and then they said that she was on her way.. to.. to.. you know.. Harry and.. then something about what she’s wearing.. I held it in this time, Li, but next time.. I might end up pulling some extensions out of someone’s head.’’ Sophia crossed her arms on her chest, annoyed at the event – in her head she was planning out what she’d do the next time she heard someone say something about Juliet.
“God forbid, if I ever hear anyone say a word about her….’’ Harry licked his lips and tightly squeezed his eyes shut, ‘’Change the topic, please.’’ He asks through gritted teeth, trying to keep himself composed in front of Juliet – the last thing he wanted her to see was him lash out.
‘’Juliet you gorgeous tonight.’’ Niall cuts into the next conversation with a bad start.
Harry raises his eyebrows as emphasis as he looks over at Niall, a cold dead stare on his face.
‘’And who the fuck are you to tell her that?’’ Harry says in a low tone, not amused at all.
‘’Harry.’’ Juliet sighed out softly, sitting her hand softly on top of Harry’s but he didn’t stop or even flinch, he just continued to stare at Niall with anger in his eyes, jealously in his heart.
‘’I mean.. It’s just a compliment.’’ Niall shrugs, leaning back in his seat not effected by Harry being so over reactive yet again.
‘’She doesn’t need to hear that from you.’’
‘’Well then who is she supposed to hear it from?’’ Niall cocks his head lightly as he stares back at Harry, not afraid or even regretful because there wasn’t anything to regret or be scared of.
‘’Me.’’ Harry simply stated.
‘’And why’s that? She doesn’t belong to you.’’ Niall says.
‘’You’re just trying to piss me off, Niall, and I’m not in the mood for it right now.’’ Harry warns him – finding his way through Niall’s little game.
‘’Oh.. really? Well, I was just wondering how you think you can complement her and I can’t? She doesn’t belong to you, you don’t own her, and she clearly doesn’t want you.’’ Niall smirks lightly, loving the little tricks up his sleeve.
Honestly, Niall was just playing around, trying to get Harry to bust and so far it was working for sure.

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