Chapter 9

3 weeks later

ROSALIE'S P.O.V:
A few weeks flew past, and my life here in London has been amazing. All the assignments and exams from College were done so lessons mostly consisted of practical work. My friendship with Harry has gone a lot stronger; we see each other every now and then. I took his advice and tried a lot harder to communicate with George. It was nice; George even got an overseas phone plan just to ring me. I call my parents almost every 2 days and I call Jess about once a week since she's such a party animal.

I guess I would consider Harry was one of my closest friends. We get along so well, and there's no sexual tension or any flirtation between us unless it's just fun and banter. He was there whenever I was stressed out with anything, and I was there when he had problems with other things. We regularly Skype whenever we're bored because we enjoy each other companies and we never get bored. After Harry followed me on twitter, my followers gained up 1,000+... mostly were One Direction fans who were so curious why I had so much little tweets and yet he followed me.

It was an awkward stage confirming to the fans that I was just Harry's friend. My friends back in Australia did not believe me and some girls from my school were quite jealous. They thought I was just friends with him to get close with the other boys, and that is not true. I met the other boys once or twice and they are so nice and sweet. I've formed a close bond with Zayn and my best friend Jess was so shocked but at the same happy for me.

Ring Ring Ring, Ring Ring Ring.
"Hello?" I asked.
"Hey Rose! It's Harry, just wondering if you want to go shopping with me and Louis at Jack Wills. There's some massive sale going on, you interested?" he asked.
"You better come Rose, you can't leave me with him!" shouted Louis in the background.
"I'd love to, I'm really lazy today so I'm just going to come down in track pants" I said
"We'll do that too! Meet at my apartment in 5 minutes?" Harry asked.
"Yep! I'll be walking now, see you guys later" and I ended the conversation.

My apartment is approximately a 15 minute walk to his place. Louis and Harry live together and it was good because I got along well with Louis, he never fails to make me laugh. I've been over at Harry's place at least 3 or 4 times, only for lunch or brief meetups or just came to hang out and chill and watch our favourite shows. It was good that I felt so comfortable around him.

HARRY'S P.O.V:

Ring Ring Ring, Ring Ring Ring.
"Hello?" I asked.
"It's Rose, I'm waiting downstairs, come quick I look like a homeless person" she hung up immediately and chuckled. After I met Rosalie, my life has been a lot easier. It was good to consider her my best friend other than the boys and the fact we had such a chill and comfortable friendship, it made me feel a lot better. Our friendship is kept a bit private because I don't want my fans to make accusations. My relationship with Caroline has been good too; the media doesn't seem settled about it and frequently paps us when we're simply going out to eat.

"Louis, you done getting ready? Rose is downstairs" I shouted. Louis appeared in the living room wearing his famous grey onesie and a beanie with ugg boots. I looked at myself and realised I felt a bit overdressed so I went to my bedroom and changed to my grey track pants with a loose knitted jumper and wore my ugg boots to match with Louis with a beanie and aviators. We walked downstairs and spotted Rose sitting on a chair scrolling down her phone. She looked gorgeous as always, she was a natural beauty. She never wears makeup around me unless we're going out really important. A more reason I love her as a friend because she's herself. She was wearing her grey tracksuit with a loose short sport tops with a cardigan and her harry bunched up in a beanie with her tanned aviators.

"You look nice today" I said.
"Are you joking? This is what I woke up in but I guess both you boys scrub up pretty well" she joked.
We walked out the apartment lobby and walked down the street. It took around 20 minutes to walk to the store but it was fun walking with my two best friends. Louis started doing Irish jumps down the street whilst Rosalie was walking like a penguin. They are both just goofs, I love them. We started talking about embarrassing moments and we cracked up so hard Rosalie fell on the floor. Louis later zipped his onesie all the way up and made me and Rosalie hold his hand to the store. When we just arrived I looked back and realised 2 paps taking pictures of our journey. If I see it in the news tomorrow, it's going to be quite embarrassing.

"Guys, they took photos of us" I said.
"What, where?" Rose looked and started blushing. "Oh dear, I look like a mess but oh well! At least we're helping them with their job" she said.
"Let's get inside before they take anymore" Louis said and directed us inside the store.
We took about 1 hour to go through the whole store and came out with a whole heap of stuff. We walked outside the store but to be bombarded with a couple of our fans.

"Harry, Louis! Hi! Can I take a photo with you?" asked a fan.
"Yeah sure, who would take the photo though?" I asked.
"I can if you want me to" replied Rosalie.
"Thank you so much!" replied the fan.

Rosalie started becoming a photographer and took photos for every fan that insisted for one. She was so sweet and starting conversing with the friends. While we all talked to them, a fan shouted;
"Harry, who is she?!" I smiled at Rosalie and she blushed immediately. "She's our good friend, and my best friend!" I said and wrapped my arms around Rosalie and smiled cheekily. Some of the fans did a few "awwws" and a few weren't so appreciative that I was hugging Rose so I let go.
"Girls I'm so sorry but we're in a hurry, gotta go home now. Thank you, we love you!" Louis shouted.
"Bye! And Bye Rosalie!" shouted a fan.
"Byeee!" waved Rosalie as she smiled to everyone.

We continued walking until Rosalie had to go home since she was having dinner with Amy.
"I had such a fun time, thank you!" said Rosalie.
"I did too, lovely to catch up with you again" said Louis.
"Me too! I'll talk to you soon yeah? We're busy this whole week though" I said.
"I understand, I got a job offer tomorrow so I hope I get that" Rosalie said.
"Good luck babe, I'll see you soon yeah? Fun hanging out with you today" Smiled Louis as he reached in to give Rosalie a hug then departed to our apartment.
"Thanks Rosalie, for today. For talking to the fans, I think they really love you"
"My pleasure, they're all very sweet. But I think I got to go now, I'll see you soon?"
"Yep, I'll talk to you like tomorrow. Anyways bye Rose"
"Bye Harold" We exchanged in our usual cozy bear hug and departed whilst waving to each other.

ROSALIE'S P.O.V:
As I came back to my apartment I helped Amy cook dinner. It's been a while since we made a home cook meal mainly because she is constantly going on dates with her new boyfriend, Dave and I was stuck having to order take away food almost every night. We decided to make stir fry noodles and for dessert some fried icecream. We spent it by watching our favourite show, Friends, and bonded well. As we washed up I ran to my bedroom and it was quite late so I decided to log on my Facebook to see what was going on. I was really shocked that I got about 100+ friends requests and I knew who none of them were. I was quite confused because it was out of the blue. I clicked the notifications and I got various people posting on my wall. I looked and most of my friends were sending me links of a newspaper article... about me!

Jess Richards
Rose! You are famous, there's articles about you and Harry! Omg.

Chloe Edwards
Are you dating Harry Styles?! No way.

Tommy Jones
Nice one Rose, you're dating a british boy now. How about George? :( LOL!

Rachel Vasquez
No way you are friends with 1d, i'm so jelly! Xx

I clicked on the article and it stated:

CHARMING HARRY STYLES SPOTTED WITH MYSTERIOUS BEAUTY.
One Direction heart throb Harry Styles was spotted out going on a mini shopping spree with his best friend and band mate Louis Tomlinson and a mysterious brunette who sources claim her name is Rosalie Vanetta. It is believed that she is from Australia who recently moved to London after receiving a prestigious scholarship. (You hear that Caroline, she's a beauty with brains!) They all looked like they were enjoying each other companies as photographers caught them having fun while walking down the street. A photo here shows the three laughing in hysterics and displayed the bond they have, especially Harry and Rosalie. There are also rumours circulating that the pair are seeing each other and seem to have a ridiculous close bond.

After their shop in a Jack Will's outlet they were seen conversing with other One Direction fans where Rosalie was taking many photos for all of them as well as talking to everyone. A fan that was there at the moment tweeted: Just met Harry_Styles and Louis_Tomlinson. Rosalie is such a lovely girl, I ship her with Harry ... stuff Caroline!

Reow! Fiesty! A majority of One Direction fans are welcoming Rosalie with warm and open arms as her twitter account loverosalie was bombarded with many messages. Her followers also dramatically boosted up but shows minimal tweets from her. A fan that was at the scene said: "I met the pair and instantly did not like Rosalie because I thought she was just one of those girls who seek attention. I asked Harry who she was and he seemed reluctant to say that she was his best friend. The pair seem to get on really well and there is no romance between them. She looks as though she makes Harry happy, and have a close bond. I'm a Rosarry shipper now!

Interesting.. now we have to wait up to see what Rosalie or Harry have to say about this. Is this really just a friendship? Does Caroline know anything about this? Will something be blossoming soon enough? Stay tuned!

I read with disbelief and checked my twitter immediately. My followers gained up dramatically and I had so many questions asked by so many fans. They were all so lovely but some were a bit harsh and started criticising about my appearance and saying that I was a slut etc. I also went on Jess' tumblr account and all the One Direction blogs that she followed, popped up all these photos of me and Harry. One caption stated: "They look so good together, I usually don't ship anyone with Harry besides Louis but this is an exception"

I couldn't get over with all the support and love that I was getting from the fans. I feared I was going to be hated on but I really did appreciate it all, it was far too overwhelming. I decided to tweet to confirm that me and Harry were not dating.

Loverosalie
Hey 1D fans, thank you for the love I've been receiving. Me and Harry are NOT dating, as we are both in a relationship with other people but he is one of my best friends! :)

Also! I cannot accept friends requests on Facebook for privacy reasons but I will answer as many messages and inbox from you all xx

I logged off and began scanning my inbox as I came across George Michaels. I clicked on it and read a sentence which I knew immediately wasn't good news.

George Michaels.
hey, we need to talk..