Chapter Eleven

Two weeks past since 'that' night or as I liked to call it the best night of my life. Our relationship was going from strength to strength and Louis had convinced not only the boys, but me to join them on a skiing trip to France.

"I can't believe I'm doing this" I grumbled as Louis led us into the ski fit room.

I was wrapped up in salopettes, a jacket and had about 3 layers of thermals on underneath as well as a hat, gloves and a snood and I was still freezing.

"It will be fun" Louis tried to be convincing.

"I've never skied before and I am shitting myself" I told him.

"Relax you have an amazing teacher and he's gorgeous too" Louis winked.

"What's his name?" I asked.

"Louis Tomlinson" Louis winked and I shoved him.

"I'm not going to let anything happen to you, I promise" Harry put his arm around me and kissed the top of my head.

"On a mountain that might be different" I spoke and my voice was going shaky from my nerves.

"Sophie none of us are going to let anything happen to you" Zayn added doing up his boots.

"Everyone ready?" Louis stood up

"Hey babe!" Harry called and he placed a helmet on my head "You need to wear this"

"What?" I shrieked.

"It's the law and I don't want you to hurt yourself and anyway you look cute" Harry took my hands and pulled me up.

"Why aren't you wearing one?" I asked frowning.

"I'm a pro at skiing" Harry winked.

I held tightly onto Harry's hand as we made our way to the slopes not only was it impossible to walk in these boots, but add snow into it and you fall all over the place. I was trying to copy Louis with his ski's slung over his shoulder casually bobbing up and down as he walked as if this was normal. Louis demonstrated how to put he ski's on and I tried to copy, but ended up slipping and falling on my arse.
Harry laughed, but held out his hand to help me up "Hold onto my hands and remember I'm not going to let you go anywhere"

I managed to get my ski's on whilst holding Harry's hands, once I was in, he then put his on effortlessly and I must say the sight of him in his skiing gear and the way he had control over his ski's turned me on.

"Harry, are you alright taking Sophie up this slope, we want to go up the mountain" Liam asked.

"Yeah sure" Harry nodded and turned smiling at me "It's just you and me clumsy"

"I'll see you later!" Louis skied off and I was impressed by his skills.

"Good luck Soph!" Niall called as he followed Louis. Zayn and Liam followed all of them having skied before.

"Don't let go of my hand" Harry ordered and dragged me over to the ski lift.

"Harry! I'm scared" I admitted.

"Don't be, you will be safe with me" Harry skied around so he was behind me and put his ski's on the outside of mine so I was pushed along by his body nearer the front of the queue.

I watched as the girl in front of me stood and waited for the plastic thing to come around and held onto being dragged up the slope.

"What do I do?" I called out to Harry.

"Don't panic, I am right behind you all the way, just grab the seat and let it take you" Harry carefully pushed me forward and the man on the lift helped me grab hold of the seat.

It was a task to stay standing when the lift dragged me forwards and I kept repeating Harry's words over and over in my head don't panic, don't panic. I reached the top and started panicking. I let go of the rope and instead of going anywhere I fell over.

"Sophie! What you doing?" Harry laughed and he skied round and pulled me up.

"Harry I am shitting myself, I am obviously not supposed to ski that's twice I've fallen over in about 5 minutes-" I blabbered, but Harry put his finger on my lips.

"Sophie, do you trust me?" Harry asked.

"Of course I do" I nodded.

"Would you rather have Louis as your teacher?" Harry asked smirking.

"Definitely not" I shook my head.

"In that case trust me that you will be fine, if you fall over I will pick you up and I am here right next to you" Harry cupped my cheek with his hand.

"It looks so steep!" I looked over at the slope.

Harry moved my face back to look at him "Keep your eyes on me and I promise it's not as steep as it looks"

"How many times have you been skiing?" I asked.

"Are you doubting my teaching skills?" Harry questioned.

"No" I shook my head.

"Do this" Harry turned the front of his ski's in forming a triangle shape, I copied him still clinging onto his hands "That's the snow plough, do that on the way down, if you want to go faster straighten your ski's if you want to slow or stop make the plough bigger, okay?"

"Yes" I nodded.

Harry slowly went over the edge of the slope backwards, all the time holding onto my hands, only looking away to check he wasn't skiing into anyone "See you're skiing!" Harry cheered "Remember if you fall you'll fall onto me and won't hurt yourself"

"But then I'll hurt you" I answered back.

"I would rather hurt myself ten times over then see you get hurt" Harry replied and I slowly felt his hands releasing mine.

"What are you doing?" I panicked and fell forward. Harry caught me and dropped to the ground with me in his arms "I'm so sorry!" I cried out hoping I hadn't hurt him.

"You were doing so well" Harry got himself up then gave me his hands pulling me back up "This time don't panic, I'm still here"

"Please don't let go" I begged.

"I'm right here" Harry nodded and slowly released my hands.

Harry was right, it was easy once you got the hang of it and by the end of the morning I was skiing down the nursery slope with Harry by my side without holding onto him, I skied down the slope and the boys were waiting at the bottom.

"Woo go Sophie!" Louis called out as me and Harry came down the slope together.

"Looking good bebz" Zayn called up and I wasn't sure whether he was talking to me or Harry.

Harry came to a perfect parallel stop where as I ended up straight in Liam's arms "Oh hello" Liam laughed as he caught me to stop me from falling.

"Sorry" I apologised as Liam helped me out of my ski's.

"Don't worry, you're doing well" Liam smiled.

"Anyone up for lunch, I'm starving!" Niall interrupted.

"Yes!" Harry agreed.

I followed the boys and Harry took my ski's putting them next to his and took my hand as we walked into the restaurant. There was a good spot on the roof where we were in the sun.

"Sophie you ready to come up the mountain?" Zayn asked.

"No!" I shook my head.

"Maybe tomorrow" Harry added.

"I don't mind swapping if you want to go up the mountain, I need to talk with Sophie anyway" Louis looked at me.

"If it's okay with you?" Harry asked me.

"Yeah I don't mind" I nodded wanting to know what Louis needed to talk about.

"I won't be far away if anything happens" Harry reassured me.

"Which it won't because I am the best teacher ever" Louis winked.

"If anything happens to her I will never forgive you" Harry warned.

"Yeah yeah" Louis rolled his eyes

We finished our lunch and headed back out onto the slopes, Harry helped me get back into my ski's then gave me a kiss.

"I can't promise that you'll be fine with Louis, but I promise I'll beat his arse if you're not" Harry kissed my forehead.

"Be safe" I whispered.

"I will" Harry winked before skiing off with the boys leaving me with Louis.

"Come on then impress me with your skills" Louis grinned.

"I don't have any" I grumbled.

"Yeah you do!" Louis took my hand and pulled me over to the lift, he was going to let go, but I kept hold of it not wanting to be knocked over by the people behind.
I got on the lift first and when I made it to the top I tried my best not to panic and I clumsily managed to stay up right, I could feel my balance going, but felt Louis' hands on my waist pushing me forward.

"You got off without falling over!" Louis laughed.

"Just" I added.

"Has Harry taught you turns?" Louis asked.

"No" I shook my head.

"And he calls himself a teacher" Louis rolled his eyes "Right when you want to turn put your weight onto one leg and you'll see what happens"

Louis tried his best to make me feel safe and I just kept telling myself he wasn't going to let anything happen to me, we had a couple of runs down the slope with me mastering the turns before we went and sat outside the bar.

"What did you want to talk to me about?" I asked as Louis brought the drinks over.

"Have you heard from Hannah?" Louis asked sitting down.

"No, I'm sorry" I bit my lip.

"I didn't want to ask you in front of the boys because they would tell me to move on" Louis looked down.

"You're allowed to miss her" I squeezed his hand that was on the table.

"Sophie I know you wouldn't but after knowing how hard it is to let go of Hannah, please don't do the same to Harry" Louis kept my hand in his "We're not going to be home forever and you've dealt with it well, but when there's distance and girls trying to get Harry you can't leave him, stick through it"

"I promise you I'll never hurt him unless he gives me reason to" I nodded.

"If he gives you reason too, I'll hurt him for you" Louis smirked.

As the light started to fade we all headed back to the chalet, on the way back in I felt something cold and wet smash into the back of my head.

I spun round and saw Zayn laughing "Oh no you didn't" I narrowed my eyes bending down and gathering snow in my hands.

"Babe I'm on your team" Harry lobbed a snowball at Zayn, but he ducked and it hit Niall on the side of his face.

Niall looked around confused and Harry dropped down onto the floor trying to hide himself, Niall's eyes landed on me with the snow in my hand "It wasn't me!" I cried out.

"Of course it wasn't" Niall grabbed snow and chucked it in my direction and it hit me square in the face.

"Oi!" Harry jumped up "That's my girlfriend you just hit!"

"I'm sorry!" Niall apologised quickly.

A full-scale snowball fight broke out and soon we were all running around, covered in snow. Harry chased me with a pile of snow in his hands planning to dump it over my head, I turned round and threw a snowball at him hitting him in the chest an ran away before he would do anything else.

An arm reached up and pulled me down behind a snowdrift. Louis put his finger to his lips, grinning at me "Let's gang up on Harry" Louis whispered and he passed me a lump of snow. Louis nodded and we both jumped up, pelting Harry with snowballs. Mine hit Harry square in the face, and he stared at me shocked. I burst out laughing and high fived Louis.

The warm chalet was welcoming after being covered in snow and I rushed up to the bedroom desperate to put something dry and warm on, I pulled all my clothes off leaving me in my underwear.

"You should have a shower so you don't get cold" Harry walked in and I spun round covering my body, he laughed.

"What about you?" I asked relaxing when I saw it was him.

"Naaa I'll be fine" Harry answered, I noticed how his eyes were lingering on my chest and had an evil idea.

"Suit yourself" I shrugged and reached around unclasping my bra and allowing it to drop to the floor.

Harry mouth dropped open and his eyes stayed fixed on my bare chest. I walked into the bathroom and just before I closed the door, I turned to look at him "You're not going to join me?" I asked.

"Yes" Harry squeaked and ran to the bathroom making sure the door was securely locked.

I allowed the warm water to flow over my body and then felt Harry's arms wrap around my waist, he turned me around to face him and pushed me up against the wall.

"That was a very naughty thing to do Sophie, I never knew you had it in you" Harry's voice was huskier than usual and it turned me on.

"There's a whole naughty side of me you haven't seen yet" I winked and pressed my lips to his

Harry's hand ran down my thigh and he hooked both of my legs around his hips before lowering me down onto him.