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Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 36

I spot two bags of luggage near the stairs and my heart nearly leaps out of my chest. I don’t know why I’m freaking out this much.

“Honey is that you?” I hear my mother shout for me.

I walk into the kitchen, slightly confused.

I stand near the door way and I’m greeted by a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek. Who is this woman?

“Mum what’s gotten into you?” 1

“Oh Rosie it’s been too long without having seeing your precious little face, I missed you”

“I thought you weren’t coming back till next week?”

“Yes but I decided to come back early and surprise you”

“But what about your work?”

“Oh forget about that, I wanna talk about you, how have you been ?”

This is extra weird, my mother never asks about me, she’s always running frantically all over the place, not a second to spare for her only daughter.

“I’ve been good, I just wasn’t expecting this” I smile.

“That’s great honey ,here I made some muffins” she hands me a plate with a blueberry muffin on it. My mother was never the type to make homemade treats or bake anything for that instance, something is off.

“Mom are you okay?”

“Yes better than ever, I realised I never spend much time with you and I guess im just happy” she caresses my cheek. “That’s nice, I’ll be in my room”

“Okay and sweetie who was that you were with?”

“Just a friend”

“A boy friend?” She sung.

“No mum just a friend” I roll my eyes.

“You should invite him over sometime, I’d like to meet this friend of yours”

I preferred her old self. But I see she is trying to get more involved in my life which is not something I want right now, it’s hectic as it is already.

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NEXT DAY

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“Sweetie why are you getting ready for school?”

“It’s Thursday” .

“I got a text saying that school is cancelled”

“Did they say why?”

“No but I’m guessing it’s something important”

“That’s good news then” I slump back into my bed.

“Yes great because we can have a girls fun day out!” She squeals.

“I was thinking of just staying at home”

“Rosie you’ve been at home every single day, let’s do something different for a change”

“Fine but it’s 7 o’clock in the morning, can you wake me up later?”

“Sure honey go back to bed”. She kisses my forehead then leaves.

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As I began to get ready for the mother- daughter-day-out, I was thinking about Harry. Where was he yesterday?, I thought he would be waiting for me. What if something happened to him!?

I quickly text him just in case.

‘hi, r u mad at me?”

I pressed send and chucked my phone on my bed.

I put on a cute pink cardigan along with a white tennis skirt, then did some light makeup on my face to fix it up a bit. When I say a bit I mean A LOT.

“You look nice today” my mother says as I climb into the passenger seat.

“Thanks ,where are we going then?”

“Shopping!” I mentally prepare myself for today, who knows what could happen.

We drive into town and mother parks the car near the shopping centre. We get out and head straight to the clothes shops.

I’ve never seen my mother so excited before, she already has stacks of clothes piled on her arms and every 2 minutes she tries to get me to try on a piece of clothing which is definitely not a suitable attire to wear in public.

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“Honey why don’t you go look for something nice to buy” she sensed my disinterest and sent me away.

“Okay then, I’ll be in the other store”

I walked into a room packed with cute dainty dresses and at the back of the room I noticed a couple of lingerie hanging up on the walls, that caught my attention. I grabbed two cute dresses and while walked over to the pretty lingerie sets, I recognized a pair of eyes staring at me. It was Harry. What was he doing here? I stopped in my tracks and forgot how to breath for a second. I chose to ignore him and continue my shopping. The bras and knickers were so detailed and such a pretty colour. I wondered if Mr Styles would like these…

Why the hell am I thinking of him!?

I turned to look back and he was still staring with a wide devilish smirk plastered on his stupid ,handsome face.

I was about to walk over to him but he walked out of the store. “Rosie, there you are” my mother came up to me with 3 bags full of clothes, I was surprised.

“Did you find anything you like?” I was caught off guard and held up everything that was in my hand. “Yes these, can we go now ” I handed her the two dresses and the baby blue lingerie set.

“I need to pay for them first then we can go get something to eat”

“I’ll wait outside” I walked out and tried to spot the tall man that disappeared from my view not too long ago.

“Come on honey, I’m ready” my mother called, and I hurried towards her direction, trying to distract myself from thinking of Harry.

“I spotted this cute café we could eat at, unless your wanting to go someplace else?”

“No it’s fine I don’t mind where we eat” I managed a smile.

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We sat down with menus in our hands. This place had lights hanging from the ceilings and walls made out of wood, it gave off a cozy atmosphere, I liked it here.

“Isn’t this place beautiful?, I just love these lights” my mom smiled cheerfully.

“Yeah I guess”

The waiter came up and wrote down our orders. I ordered the grilled cheese and milkshake, while mother ordered a healthy salad with a glass of wine, very classy.

“Mom it’s literally 2pm” I pointed out.

“There’s never a wrong time to have a glass of wine”. She argued. I sat back and waited for the food to arrive.

Meanwhile my mother abruptly stood up and vanished out of my sight. Weird. Where did she go?

A couple of minutes later she came back,but not alone. A familiar man was standing next to her. “Rosie I’d like you to meet Harry, and Harry meet my daughter Rosie” he stretched out his hand for me to shake, and I took it. “Nice to see you again Rosie”

“Well seems like you two have already met”

“Yeah mom he’s actually a teacher at my school”

“Oh how wonderful!” She smiled.

“Harry why don’t you grab a chair and join us” he went to get a chair “mom but we’ve already ordered ” I angrly whispered.

“I hope I’m not disturbing you two”

“Nonsense Harry ,I’m sure Rosie doesn’t mind, isn’t that right Rosie?” They both turned to look at me.

“Y-yeah it’s no problem” I faked a smile.

The food arrived and Harry ordered some fries, my mother left to go to the loo

“Harry how the hell does my mother know you?” I exclaimed.

“Calm down Rosaline, we met in college a few years ago”

“Oh god please tell me you haven’t slept with my mother!”

“Don’t worry it wasn’t like that, we were good friends, your mother is the kindest person I’ve ever met”

“What are you two talking about”

“Rosie here was just asking if I’d like to dine with you two tomorrow, weren’t you?”

“I uh-“

“Honey that is a wonderful idea, and Harry we’d be honoured if you’d come round to ours sometime, it’s been so long since we caught up”

“I agree, it’s been too long”

The rest of the time I spent trying to mentally bury myself in all this embarrassment. This seriously can’t he happening.

After they said their goodbyes, we headed to the car. Ok the way back home my mother explained how she knew Harry and told me stories of their friendship. I cringed every time she mentioned his name.

I stormed up to my room and flopped on to my bed. “Hey honey you forgot this” she left the bag on my floor and left. I remembered what was inside and got curious to see what it would look like on.

After putting it on, I was really feeling myself, it really accentuated my curves.

A brilliant idea popped into my head.

I took a sexy picture of myself lying in bed with my hair sprawled over my face and confidentially sent it to the one and only, Mr Harry Styles. Let’s see how he reacts to this…. MWHAHAHAH