Chapter 21

ROSALIE'S P.O.V:

I heard my alarm go off, as I realised I forgot to turn it off. I groaned and stretched and realised it was around 8 am. I was asleep for literally a whole day, which was definitely a first. The day before after the shopping spree and lunch I went to bed early around 9 after watching the Notebook and crying at how I can't have a love life like Noah and Allie. I rubbed my eyes frequently to adjust the bright light bursting through my curtains. I was still dead tired for some reason but I got the strength to stand up. I reached for my phone to turn off the beeping and realised I had a text from Harry.

Harry Styles
Hey! Coffee tonight? Last night in Sydney, leaving at 12am :(

To: Harry Styles
Hi! Deffo! 6pm? X

I left my phone on my bedside table and went to wash up. My breathe smelt absolutely awful and I looked just as bad. I cleansed my face with facial wash and brushed my teeth which seemed like forever. I brushed every single knot in my hair creating really weird waves. I shrugged and went downstairs still in my pyjamas and my ugg boots. I smelt something that excited my taste buds and I knew immediately it was my mum's cooking. I placed my hands in my pockets and placed my hoodie up and went to the kitchen. I noticed my dad sitting on the table eating toast and reading the news paper whilst my mum was cooking eggs. My dad noticed my presence and immediately stood up and gave me a massive hug.

"Are you feeling better hun?" asked my dad, knowing he was still worried sick about the whole George thing.
"Much better, thanks dad" I replied. He did a half smile and indicated me to sit next to him as my mum came to bring me a big plate of eggs with toast.
"There you go sweetie, eat up!" she exclaimed excitedly.
"Thanks mum, love you" I replied.

I digged in since I haven't eaten for what seem like years and finished in just a few minutes. My parents were smiling at me that they seemed to get their old daughter back. I wiped my mouth and clean my hands as well as washed the plate. My mum asked me to get the mail and local newspaper from outside so I reluctantly grabbed the keys and walked to my front yard. I walked towards to the mail box until I sensed presence on the left side. I peeped at the corner of my eye and realised George was just about to leave somewhere. This sucks having an ex as your neighbour. I grunted to myself and collected it all and jogged to the door until he called my name.

"Rosalie! Wait!" George called as he carried his school bag towards me. I wasn't in the mood to talk to him, and I was clearly annoyed with everything he does now. I couldn't trust or look at him the same way.
"What" I replied bluntly as I turned around to look at him.
"You look nice today" he smiled.
"You're kidding me right? Are you trying to compliment your way through to me?" I replied.
"No! I'm serious" he said. I looked at him and was quite annoyed that he was being sweet again. I also felt really uncomfortable standing there as an awkward moment was blossoming between us.
" How've you been?" he said, to break the silence.
"Been better" I replied, I noticed his face falling down to stare at his feet.
"Heard you spoken to Jess yesterday, at the shops..." He said.
"I did... why, what'd she say?"
"She was really happy, she misses you and loves you ok.
"Ok cool, I love her too."
"Rose, I'm sorry.."
"For some reason I can forgive my best friend, but you, what you said was just... you're not worth my time."

HARRY'S P.O.V:
Ring Ring Ring

Whoops. We were just in a photoshoot for a magazine and as my phone went off everyone looked at me as it interrupted the photos. The photographer frowned as well as the stylists and people working. My manager gave me a look and the boys looked at me wondering who it was. I grabbed my phone out of my pocket and noticed it was Caroline across my phone.

"Hello...?" I whispered.
"Harry, we need to talk" Caroline replied. I apologised to the people and asked them if I have a few minutes off considering that this sounded important.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Did you see the new article about you and... her?" she grunted. I knew exactly who she meant by her, obviously Rose.
"No, why?"
"I'll link you via text, I don't know if it's true but I need you to tell me it's nothing." she whispered. She hung up and then a few seconds later I got a beep and it was a text with a link. I opened it up immediately and I couldn't believe the images I saw that was posted.

Harry Styles flacks Caroline off with a younger lady
Ooooo! What is this we see? Harry Styles cheating with his so called "best friend" Rosalie? These pictures are currently from the trip in Australia the boys are in. They are seen hanging out in a Sydney Theme park called: Luna Park and this image shows them going on a roller coaster with Rose at the front laughing and Harry at the back smiling back. What is this? A new relationship? Already? Does Caroline know? So many questions need to be answered. More close sources claim the two are absolutely smitten with each other and are spending as much time together as it was heard Rosalie Vanetta, is now single. We have no information what happened to her boyfriend, but maybe she left him for the curly locks? These images also shows Rosalie hanging out with the boys, and having a food fight as well as walking with each other.

Later that evening, Louis Tomlinson who is a band member tweeted Sydney is absolutely beautiful (image below) and it is clearly depicted Harry and Rose on the right. The friendship is becoming very intimate since fans are always spotting them going shopping, drinks, and other things. Another source says that Harry adores Rosalie, but Rose thinks it's wrong to cheat but at the same time cannot resist the opportunity. No management or spokesperson has stood up for Harry or Rosalie so we just have to leave this story out in the open. Another interesting thing is that most fans are teaming up to support the new couple, trending "Harry & Rosalie" worldwide. Most are happy of the new couple yet some are furious with their cheating behaviours. Caroline has also not spoken out about this.

Further a close source with Caroline claims that the age-gap pair is having struggles in their relationship. The friend says that Caroline often complains how Harry is having a crazy, teenage lifestyle whilst she wants to settle down and have kids at that age. They often fight and the distance at the moment is not making it any easier. Harry is supposed to be fed up with the relationship and has already fallen for Rosalie as it has been told. But to be honest, the perhaps-new- couple do look good together. Stay tuned!

I felt my anger heating up in my face. I hate when news reports do this, and it would probably hurt Rosalie again since the fans would have another hit at her. I rang Caroline up immediately.

"Hello?" she whimpered.

"Babe, trust me it is not true. You know me, I am 100% loyal. That rollercoaster ride, it was just for fun, nothing happened.. Please, I am being completely honest, I will never do that to hurt you. You mean so much, I don't want this to explode into anything bigger and I'll let everyone know it's false and it is. Don't hate Rose, she's doing nothing." I sighed as I finished my sentence. There was a few silence moments until I heard Caroline's voice peaking on.

"I trust you, and I believe you. I just... it's hard to contact and I know you're coming home soon but I just needed reassurance"
"Thank you, trust me, I will clear it out. I love you"
"I love you too"
"I also got to go, I'm in a middle of a shoot."
"Yep, sure"
"Bye"
"Bye babe"
"Also, could you please somehow clear it up as well. We need to let people know we're strong and together"
"Of course"

I hung up and let out a sigh. I immediately went on twitter and all my mentions were about Rosalie. I grunted with frustration and googled other articles that had similar stories. I really wonder who these "close sources" are, because I know I have never said any of those things neither have I done or thought about it. To be honest, I have thought whether I had feelings for Rosalie but after a while I was just being silly and I never told anyone about this.

Harry_Styles:
Please stop it with the cheating rumours, all are completely false. Please respect them both.

Harry_Styles:
They are both the kindest people I met and some media portrayals are completely distorted.

I thought that was enough to prove until Caroline tweeted as well.

Carolineflack1:

Sick of people depicting others completely the opposite.

I smiled and favourited it and within seconds I got lots of mentions with fans saying sorry as well as newspapers and online gossip sites announcing our proof. I suddenly remembered about Rosalie so I immediately texted her with the link.

To: Rosey Bear
You will not believe the bullsh*t I just read: heres the link. I reassured Caroline, check twitter xx

From: Rosey Bear.
Wtf, no way. That is horrible and completely rubbish, arghhhasidwida.

I went to check on twitter and noticed Rosalie had already tweeted about the story.

Loverosalie:
Please respect other people's relationships and let them be. Stop publishing something that is not true at all.

I smiled and texted her immediately back to thank her. I still couldn't get over the story, it was so completely wrong. Ugh, I hope this doesn't ruin the fans perspective of Rose because they absolutely adore her. Also, I hope they don't hate on Caroline, she nowhere deserves it. I realised a few steps quickly tapping and I turned around and noticed the boys looking concerned.

"You saw?" I asked
"Of course, you ok?" asked Liam as he came to rest his hands on my shoulders.
"Yeah, just really annoyed" I replied.
"Trust me, we've all been there" Zayn said with a half grin on his face.
"Hope you feel better because we're going to go get your favourite drink in Starbucks!" Shouted Louis
"And then we can go Nandos!" said Niall. I smiled at them all and nodded.
"Thanks boys" I replied.
"No probs" Zayn said as he clutched his arm around my neck and dragged us out to continue the shoot. I was going to miss this wonderful city, it treated me well. The boys and I have a magazine interview and another shoot this noon and a late performance pre recorded for a tv show this afternoon so we've been rehearsing so much. I am so excited. I brushed the false story at the back of my end, and I took a deep breath. I'm going to stay true to myself because I know what is false and what is not so whatever the stories claim I know that I am true to what I believe and that stories are there just to heat me up.

ROSALIE'S P.O.V:
A few hours as past and it was currently 6pm. I decided to be productive and gets my mind off things so I helped with my mum in the backyard and did a few walking laps around my neighbourhood. I wasn't worried or anything because the people my age who live in my area were at school and my community is very quiet and close knitted. My parents asked me about the recent article since she saw my twitter. It's quite weird because my mum just made an account to keep in date with my friends to see how I'm doing. It's quite annoying and freaky but it's sweet at the same time. My parents have been overprotective lately, but I knew for a good reason. They really trusted Harry, Louis, Zayn, Niall and Liam and are probably the only boys besides those in my family that they trust with me. I told my mum to have plans to go have coffee with Harry which she surprisingly allowed me to go. As I went to have a shower, I got a text from Harry.

From: Harry Styles
Scrap the cafe, I don't want to be caught or anything. Can I come over with take-out and chill? :)

To: Harry Styles
No problem, when are you coming and what food?

From: Harry Styles
Thai from your fav restaurant? 6:30 pm x

To: Harry Styles
You are forever warmly welcomed to my house! LOL

I got up and decided to have a quick shower and probably just wear pjs since it was only casual dinner plus I always wear my pjs around him and PLUS I really can't be bothered to get changed. I finished washing up and dressed up in an onesie Amy got me in London and wore my cute floppy animal hat with ugg boots with my hair loosely curled on the side. My parents are going over to my aunties to do some planning for my cousin's wedding so I was home alone. I heard a doorbell ring as I reluctantly got up to open the door. Harry showed up in his lazy wear of Hollister track pants and a baggy jumper with plastic bags of food.

"Hey!" I shouted as I gave him a big hug. He smiled and exchanged the same and went inside the house. He took off his beanie and placed the food on the kitchen bench and looked at me.
"How are you?" he asked.
"I'm good, pretty weird morning right..?"
"I know, were you extremely annoyed or was it just me?"
"Trust me, I was annoyed.. Anyways, forget about it! How was the photo shoot and performance?" I grabbed the food and placed it on the couch since I hired the movie The Hangover 2 to watch whilst we eat.
"Great, we nailed the performance"
"That's really good to hear"

I smiled then placed the food on the coffee table in front of the couch. Harry got himself comfortable immediately and took of his shoes and jumped on my couch. We sat cross-legged on the sofas and opened the food. Two massive foam containers of my favourite food, and I could feel my mouth watering.

"You are seriously the best, thanks" I chuckled.
"No problem, owe it to you haha" he smiled.

He grabbed the remote and turned on the movie. We couldn't stop laughing at the movie, and Harry also brought dessert so we ate really slow and finished just at the end of the movie. As it finished, I went to grab water for us to drink and just to chill since I probably won't contact him a lot for the next few weeks.

"What did Caroline say?" I asked as I gave Harry the cup of water.
"She surprisingly handled it well, she's a bit edgy and shocked but she knows we're telling the truth"
"That's good though," I smiled as I took a sip of my drink.
"Christmas is soon, any plans?"
"No, sadly! I can't go back to Australia since Christmas is in a few weeks so I'll be back in London AND my assignments due a few days before Christmas AND Amy is spending with her boyfriend's family so I guess it's just me, take-away and dvds wooo!" I chuckled
"You can come and celebrate with my family!" Harry suggested.

"Uh, that would be weird! And it's your family, I don't want to interrupt"
"No it won't, my parents and my sister are DYING to meet you, since they've seen reports and things"
"Are you sure?"
"Deffo! I'll ask my mum but I'm sure she'll let"
"Thanks Harry, that's really nice of you"
"No problem Rose! You are noway spending Christmas alone, plus I'll give you deets as soon as I can"
"Thanks Hazza, I appreciate it."
"Oh and me and Louis are planning a Christmas party for all our friends, so come?"
"Love to" I grinned.
"Anyways, let's play 10 questions!"

The next hours we began playing, we always play this just to get secrets out of each other and to really know more about each other. It was so easy to talk to him, to admit things because I knew he wouldn't judge me. He tells me everything too, I feel really thankful that he trusts me. We asked each other random questions like: What do you want to do before you die? Or What food you will absolutely never eat?

"Last question to you! What's one ultimate romantic scene would you dream will happen to you?" Harry asked me.
"Hmmm..." I said and went into a deep thought to think of all the romantic films I have watched.

"I've always wanted to be kissed in the rain, dramatically like a 'I miss you so bloody' much kind of thing. Like a desperate kiss, but in the rain with the person holding roses. And then later playing in the rain, being absolutely comfortable and lovey-dovey with each other because no-one will be around to see. It's quite cheesy, but it will be my ultimate dream! Never will happen though haha" I chuckled as I realised how weird I just sounded. "How about you? Same last question"

"Well, I've always wanted a girl to stay in bed with me the whole day. Like, wake up from an amazing time last night, then bring breakfast in bed and just watch tv and cuddle and bond but in bed, and stay there for the rest of the day. Super cheesy as well but I'd love to do that one day" said Harry. He noticed I laughed a bit too loud and nudged me to stop laughing.
"Hey! HAHA, It's not that bad" He frowned playfully.
"It's not bad! It's really sweet, just shocking you are such a romantic"
"Shocking?"

"No No! Just... a nice surprise" I smiled.

The rest of the night we decided to watch his favourite movie, Love Actually that I have never watched. I cried dramatically at the wedding scene with Harry having a bit of a sniffle. We couldn't stop laughing at the end of the movie because we pictured ourselves crying together. I realised it was about 10:30 and Harry had to fly out to Melbourne the morning after. I was really glad it wasn't awkward today, and I was glad the whole news report blowed over because I didn't want anything to jeopardise Harry and Caroline's relationship. He is really smitten with her, I can so tell in his eyes when he talked about her after dinner. Harry packed up his phone and other belongings and called a taxi. He gave me a gigantic bear hug and we exchanged our goodbyes.

"Continue having an amazing Australian tour! I'll miss you loads"
"Thanks Rose, and I'll miss you just as much"
"Stay safe"
"You too, and stay strong! I'll try to talk to you soon"

"Byeeeeeeeee!"
"Bye!" He said as he gave me a short peck on the cheek and went on his way to his taxi.

I waved goodbye as he jetted off and as I turned my head I noticed the window next door open with someone staring through. It was definitely George, and he didn't look really pleased to see Harry leaving my house so late.