West Pub

Chapter Five

"Relax your muscles, you're way too tense. C'mon, I won't hurt you."

He went from shoulders and neck on to the middle of her back, listening her letting out small whimpers and sighs. He took them as a good sign and made his way on her lower back, enjoying it himself. It was nice to get to touch her when she for once was relaxed and didn't seem so frantic all the time.

She giggled a little when his hand brushed over her sides. Harry smirked and started to tickle the girl under him, laughing at the sight in front of his eyes.

"Please, stop, I can't breathe!" Tessa screamed, she could feel herself beginning to cry because she was laughing so hard, honestly not able to breathe all too much. She had somehow turned around while Harry tickled her and now that he stopped, she was heavily breathing under Harry, who was smiling widely at her, still quietly laughing.

Tessa's smile faded a little and her eyes got bigger as she realized the position they were in. Harry was sitting on top of her and seemed to notice the situation too. He flashed her a smile and bent down, pressing his lips on hers. This was the second time they ever kissed and Tessa still wasn't really sure about things - and Harry could tell.

"Are you ok?" he asked almost whispering. He was only inches away from Tessa's face, looking down on her with almost closed eyes, her heart beating like mad.

"I - yeah, why do you ask?"

"You immediately went back to tense as I kissed you and.. well, it felt like you didn't want to kiss me back, it wasn't good kind of tension?" Harry explained, still as close to her as possible. He could tell it wasn't because she didn't want to and he was more than eager to know what made this girl so.. afraid of physical interaction and /him/.

"I have.. I've never had a boyfriend before. I'm seriously not a social person, my life revolves around school, work and the internet. I've only kissed like twice before you and even then I was drunk so I have no memory of it whatsoever", Tessa breathed out all at once. It had been bothering her the entire week, knowing Harry had had girlfriends before, a few of them and he most likely wouldn't be even able to count all the girls he had kissed with. She pushed Harry a little as a sign she wanted him to get off, and as Harry was still a little taken a back, he leaned back and Tessa got up from the sofa.

She took her jacket from the chair it had been lying on, and eyed for her bag before she remembered she didn't have one with her. "Thanks for the massage, it felt great. I think I need to go now", she said and started walking towards the door. As she opened the door, she could hear Harry calling after her, wanting her to wait a minute, she hadn't given him a chance to say anything. She closed the door, sighing. She didn't handle situations like these all that well.

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"Marlene what do I do?"

The two best friends were sitting on the couch. They had their favourite TV serie 'Gilmore Girls' playing on the backround but neither of them were really looking. They were eating ice cream and on the coffee table in front of them there was a jar of nutella, bananas and some candy.

"Well, I still don't really understand why you left? He didn't say or do anything to offend you did he?" Marlene asked, furrowing her eybrows as she reached for a banana.

Tessa chewed her sweets before she answered: "No, I - I didn't give him a chance to say anything."

Marlene smiled a little at her best friend. She knew it wasn't easy for her to talk about her feelings to anyone or tell them anything too personal, yet alone let anyone inside her walls, giving them a chance to actually get to know her.

Harry had called her once during their "girls night" that had been quickly set up and even sent a text but Tessa didn't want to open and read it.

"I screwed up, I always do", Tessa sighed and to Marlene it looked like the girl was on the verge of tears. She quickly put down the box of ice cream and hugged the girl. Wow, she hadn't realized she took this all so seriously. She knew the Finnish girl liked Harry, but it wasn't like she had actually done anything that bad? Surely Harry wouldn't call or text her if he was mad. He had nothing to be mad about, Tessa didn't actually tell him she was a serial killer or anything bad.

"No you haven't okay, what do you mean?"

"I don't know how to be social Mar, situations like that make me so anxious and to be honest a bit scared. And now he knows that about me and he has every opportunity to use it against me somehow and I-"

"Tessa, are you serious? Harry's not like that. You, have every opportunity to use it all against him. He's a world wide superstar, remember? You could make a million if you decided to go and talk to the media! He obviously cares about you - which, if I may add, I've always told you he would if he got to know you -, even though you've know each other for a bit over a week. Tessa, I've said this to you before, many people have, and I will tell you this again. I love you just the way you are and if I was a boy - to me it would be cute if you didn't have a list of boys you've slept with", Marlene smiled at her at the end of her little rant.

There were few tears rolling down from Tessa's eyes, but she was smiling and got up to hug her best friend tightly. No matter how shit she was feeling for god know's what idiotic reason, she almost always knew how to cheer her up.

"Thank you, Mar. I love you too", she whispered in her ear. The two girls hugged each other a while and then let go giggling a bit. Then Tessa decided to push Harry aside for a while, and asked Marlene how things were with Louis.

"Well, we like each other a lot. We're taking things slow and stuff but.. I think we're good", Marlene said smiling, leaving out all the details. Tessa grinned at the sight of her. Louis made her so happy and that was all Tessa could wish for Marlene.

The girls talked about everything that was going on. They both agreed work hadn't been easy in the past few weeks, but besides that everything was going pretty well. They had made friends with girls from Marlene's school and they got along with their co-workers. In fact, they were going shopping on Monday, with a few girls from school. Tessa had a short morning shift and Marlene finished school at three, so they had decided to spend some quality time together.

"I guess I'm going to bed. It's only eleven but for some reason I'm dead tired", Marlene said after awhile, and yawned. Tessa smiled at her best friend and told her goodnight, saying she'd clean up the mess they had made on the livingroom.

Tessa put the left over sweets on the kitchen counter, closed the Nutella jar and threw away the empty box of ice cream. She was just about to turn off the lights and walk over to her room, as she heard a knock on the door. She furrowed her eyebrows and she wondered who the hell was knocking on their door at that time. It must been the wrong door they were knocking onto, since they had to know someone in the house who let the person in.

She opened the door and the smile she had put on her face, to kindly tell the person they had mistaken the apartment, faded. What was he doing there?

"Harry, what - what are you doing here?"

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A/N: So, this was supposed to be up yesterday as a second smaller chapter of the day since the other one was so short but our internet decided to stop working so it just wasn't happening.. please vote/comment/fan, do something to let me know what you think.

There will be a new longer chapter up today or tomorrow, depending on how the internet is working and if I find the time to finish it by tonight. x