mutuality | wroetoshaw

forty six

For the purpose of this chapter (and the rest of the book) we're introducing JJ's girlfriend!! Obviously the name is fictitious and for the plot.

THE WEDDING CHAPTER IS HEREEEEE 🤍 enjoy it whilst the peace lasts lol

Also, I wrote this chapter with Jealous by Nick Jonas on repeat, which inspired me for the last half of this chapter hahahah

"Wow," his voice is gentle, as I walk out onto the balcony adjoined to our room in the villa, all dressed with my make up done ready for the wedding.

Harry is sat on a chair, just finishing a cigarette, turning to me with a smile full of adoration, putting the remains of the cigarette into the ashtray, walking towards me to kiss me gently on the lips.

"You look...I don't even have words. I love the dress, I told you it would look amazing, didn't I?" He reminds me, and of course he's right. He always is.

"You did, indeed," I grin, enjoying the feeling of his lips against mine. "And you look amazing," I admit, loving the black shirt on him. He looked so smart, so well dressed, and it made me realise how lucky I really was to be loved by him.

"Thanks," he grins cheekily. "I might have to roll these sleeves up, though. It's supposed to be thirty four degrees today, we're all going to be sweating all day. Make sure you put suncream on, you burn easily," he reminds me, and it's a good thing I'd packed it for the trip.

"Will do. You're going to have to do my back though, it's a backless dress and I think that's where I burn the easiest."

"I'll go grab it and we can sort that out. Everyone's leaving in about twenty minutes anyway," he offers, sliding past me and back into our room to rifle through our stuff.

We'd arrived two days ago, and in all fairness we actually hadn't spent that much time together. Harry had gone golfing with some of the boys, and I'd been spending time with the girls.

Although, yesterday, Tobi, Mollie and I had gone out into one of the nearby towns to try out some gelato, which was a very good decision because I'd fallen in love with the local shops mango flavoured gelato, so much so I'd actually dreamt about it last night. I'd definitely be dragging Harry there before our plane home in a couple of days.

Our villa was actually really nice — JJ had offered to pay for everyone in exchange for upgrading it from the previous one, but no one wanted to let him do that so we'd all just paid for our rooms, and I was actually really glad we'd changed because it was luxurious here.

The views were scenic, looking out into the Italian countryside. The wedding venue bordered the sea, and was about a twenty minute drive away from where we were staying, but from our balcony we were able to see an orchard, which made for some really lovely pictures.

We were staying with seven other people, Kon and Kirsty, JJ and his girlfriend, Maya, Tobi and Mollie and Vik and Ellie. It was actually a really nice mix of people, and it was good to properly get to know Mollie, Maya and Ellie. I knew of them, but hadn't seen them much so spending time with them had been lovely.

Harry comes back out onto the balcony, suncream in hand. "Found it, finally. You pack in such an odd way," he laughs fondly, shaking his head as he squirts some onto his hand.

Luckily, my hair is slicked back into a bun so he can easily rub it into my back, which he does. The cold sensation is nice, because the air is warm and it's a nice little refresher.

"How have you got tan lines already and I'm only just starting to tan?" He complains, spreading the cream around.

"Probably because you've been wearing a whole T-shirt playing golf and I've been purposefully tanning by the pool?" I say sarcastically.