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Chapter 38: Coming Right By

Finally. A few more days and I'm officially finish with university. By now, I'm just finishing my requirements and I'm already chilling and feeling the freedom now.

Maybe I can go fangirl again but I am still fangirling over them, the boys. A week ago they have announced that they will be having a concert at the O2 arena, a thank you concert for their success and they will be giving out one thousand five hundred tickets to the winners of their games.

I just finished fixing my applications and other requirements and I decided to take some frappuccino and bread before going home.

"Good afternoon!" The lady from the cashier says with a smile. "We have new frappuccino flavours." She adds. "I still prefer mocha frappuccino and a fresh blueberry almond muffin." I say with a smile. "Name?" She asks. "Tara." I answer.

"Tara?" I guy from my back says and I turn to him. "Adam?!?!" I surprisingly say. "Oh my!" I smiled so big. "Good to see you here!" He says and gives me a hug. "Oh, just a second, love." Adam says. "Please add one cappuccino." He says to the cashier and reaches it money. "I'm paying hers too." He adds. "No, Adam..." I say. "It's fine." He nods. "Uhm, alright." I shrugged and laughed.

While waiting for our orders, we talked about the boys and college.

"Why are you here?" I ask him. "I went to the office to get some papers and decided to stop by a coffee shop before going the O2." He says. "Oh, do you want to come and see them?" He asks. "Oh, wow. Would they even let me in?" I say with a laugh. "Of course! Everyone misses you. I did!" He says with a laugh. "I would love to see the crew but am I allowed?" I ask him again. "Yes. Of course. I am your backstage pass." Adam says.

Our orders came and as a thank you to Adam, I came with him to the O2. I'm really excited to see the boys and nervous to see Harry again. I don't know how are they going to react to my surprise visit.

"I really planned to see them before or after I finish university. Thanks for taking me here." I say as we get inside the O2. "You're always welcome." Adam says with a smile, I felt so comfortable with him again as I can see on his face that he is really glad to see me again.

I saw Brooke, Andy, Josh, Dan, Lou, Tom, and more. It was really nice seeing them. They told me that the boys are on stage rehearsing as I can hear music from the outside and since my intention is to meet the boys, I had to see them right now.

Adam takes me to the stage and right exactly their director gives them a break. We walked towards them and my heart started to beat so fast again as I saw Harry shirtless, Zayn and Niall and Louis in a tank top and Liam in a shirt.

"We've got someone!" Adam says out loud that caught everyone's attention.

"Oh my. Tara!" Niall says with a smile and walks towards me with hug. "Good to see you! I miss you!" He says. "I miss you too!" I say as I hug him tighter. "Surprise visit! Aha, so glad that you came." Zayn says and gives me a hug. "Louis! Oh, I miss you." I say and wrapped my arms around him. "Hahaha! Glad to see you." Louis says with a smile. "I feel so good today after you came!" Liam says as he hugs me. "Gah, you're all still so tall." I say and they laughed. "I missed you all so much." I say with a smile. My eyes search for Harry who I then saw walking towards me who already has his shirt on.

"Prince Harry coming through." Adam says and we laughed. "Can you feel the love tonight?" Adam adds and I rolled my eyes to him with a smirk. "Tara." He says as he gives me a hug. "Good to see you." He says and I nod, he releases me and I just smiled.

"Adam and I saw each other in a coffee shop when he was on his way here so, I decided to come with him since I told myself that I want to see you boys before I graduate in a few days." I tell them. "Oh wow. Brilliant. You're almost finished with college." Liam says and I nod. "Really excited." I smiled.

I'm still nervous that Harry's standing in front of me with a smile on his face and I can't even look straight at him.

"Tara, are you going to have a graduation party?" Niall asks and we laughed. "I'm still thinking of it. If I do and you lads have time, do come. You're a part of my success." I say. "Of course." Zayn says.

"I really miss you all." I say just to break the seconds of silence between us. "I guess I have to go now." I say. "You lads have rehearsal to do and I just came here for a visit. An unexpected one. Thanks to Adam." I hold on tight to my phone that I'm holding as I take a deep breath and smiled. "We're free for hours." Harry says and smiles. "I miss you Niall." Louis says to Niall as he puts his arm around Niall's shoulder. "I miss you too, Louis. Let's go for a talk." Niall says and he and Louis walked away. "Adam, Zayn." Liam says and he walks away from us leaving me and Harry. "Sorry about them." Harry says. "It's nothing." I shrugged. "Uhm, so, have you taken some grub?" He asks. "I have." I answer. "I'm starving though." Harry says and I am awkwardly stand in front of him. "You look so uneasy. Chill. It's just me." He says as we laughed lightly. "I'm actually nervous." I tell him and we started walking off the stage and to the back.

"How are you?" He asks me. "Fine. Still the same." I answer and maybe this is how we just ended our conversation. "And you?" I ask. "Great. When's your graduation?" He asks me. "Two days from now." I say and we both sat down on the couch at the lounge where it was a bit quiet and no one is bothering us. "Congratulations. I'm happy for you." Harry says and I smiled. "Thank you and the concert is when?" I ask. "Saturday. Which is after your graduation. Please come. I'll be giving you a passes. Bring Ellie." He says. "Ellie and I? Oh, wow. Th... Thank you." I answer and in a sudden, my phone rang.

"Excuse me." I say and answered Ellie calling. "Yes?" "Where are you? I'm in your house." She says and I forgot that she'll be staying there until graduation. "Oh my glob. I am very, very, very, sorry. I'm on my way." I say. "Where are you anyway?" "At the O2. With Harry. Just met the lads." I answer her. "Oh curly! Take your time." Ellie says with a laugh. "Belt off! Ashton might hear you." I say. "Okay then, say hello to curly from me and ask him if he has a girlfriend." Ellie says. "No! I can't ask that! You're insane. I hate you." I say with a laugh and I looked at Harry who is eating bread and looking at me with a smile and his eyebrows up. "I'm going to tell Ashton that you're with curly!" She says and it's just the worst thing she could do. "Fine! I'll call back." I say. "Let me hear it!" Ellie shouts over the phone.

"Harry, Ellie wants to know if you're dating someone." I say and he chuckles. I honestly even really want to know it from him. "No. I'm single." Harry answers and it is just relief again.

"Heard it? Can I now end this call?" I ask her. "Yeah sure. Have fun with your love. You waited for that." She says and I smiled as I end the call without saying anything than bye.

"Sorry about Ellie." I say. "It's fine. She's always like that." Harry says and I nod. "I haven't dated anyone after...uhm, yeah." Harry tells me and I nod. What about the Laura girl? I wouldn't like to talk about it and the other girls that was linked with him so we just talked about the lads and college. He also explained about the Laura girl which was a girl flirting with him but she wasn't his type.

Before we stand from our seat, he takes a photo of the both of us and we walked to the room where the other lads are.

"I'll be going now but can I ask for a photo with you five?" I say. "Of course." Louis says and we all stand together and Richard, who works with the crew takes the photo with my phone.

"Thanks, Richard." I say as he gives me my phone back. "See you all again." I smile and waved to them. "You'll be back here, right?!" Niall asks me and he really expects me to come. "I will." I nod. "Brilliant." Zayn smiles. "Congratulations again, Tara." Liam says with a smile and a hug. "We'll see you again! Call us if ever you're going to have your party!" Louis says with a laugh and reaches me a hug as well. "Thanks for coming over." Zayn gives me a hug so does Niall and Harry. "I'll walk with you." Harry says. "Oh, I can do it." Adam says who is beside me. "Mmm?" I hear from Harry who gives Adam a smirk. "Hahaha. Go for it." Adam says and we all laughed and Harry and I started walking.

"Hey, thank you." I say. "Anytime. I'll see you on Saturday." He says. "Okay." I nod. "Do you have your car with you?" He asks me. "I... I still don't know how to drive." I say with a smile. "You don't want cars?" "No. I do but I just like someone driving me." "Is Ashton here?" Harry asks. "Nope." I answer. "I'll drive you then." He says and I shake my head. "No, Harry. I'll just take a cab." I say. "Are you sure?" He asks. "Yes. I am. You know me." I nod and before I open the door where I was about to walk out, he pushes the door and we both exchanged looks.

"Do...do...uh, no." He says as he shakes his head. "What is it?" I ask. "Nevermind." He says and when he was about to open the door, I pushed it this time. "What is it?" I ask. "Take care." He says and wraps his arms around me, his soft hair is on my face but I didn't care. "Oh, I will." I say as he releases me and I held on the door knob. "See you soon." I say with a smile and walked out of the venue. I feel so happy and felt relief after seeing Harry and everyone. I know from myself that I hated every piece of him but everything just came back now. I miss him and I need him just because I realised that he's the one who makes me happy as we are having a good conversation a while ago and it's just want I need, my happiness. He's the only guy I have ever been so comfortable with besides from my dad and Ashton, Harry will always have a special place in my heart.

As soon as I reached my house, Ellie and Ashton are playing with their consoles.

"You're home." Ellie says as she puts her console down and takes a drink from a can of soda. "And you both left the door open." I say as I take my shoes off. "How is Harry?" Ashton asks. "Still the same. Wait---what? How did you know?" I ask. "Harry tweeted a photo of both of you." Ellie says and I take my phone out of my jacket's pocket and went to Harry's twitter where he tweeted a photo of us with the caption,

"Lovely @tarashaw dropped by."

"He called you lovely." Ellie says and I rolled my eyes. "Shut up, we're graduating soon." I say with a laugh as I stand from my seat. "I'm very excited!" I say as I don't say anything from Harry's tweet.

•

"Good morning! Get the hell up! Dad's coming!" I say as I barged in Ashton's room. "Five more minutes." Ashton says and I roll my eyes. "It's my graduation day!" I say and pulled his covers. "You have to drive me to the airport we are going to fetch dad!" I say and walked out of his room and went to the lounge to wait for Ashton.

Dad will be coming all the way from New York, he'll be coming since mum's on a business trip to Australia so I asked her permission if I can bring dad and despite of their situation, she agreed.

He's already used to go flying from America to Europe since he does business in New York but lives in Glasgow, so I guess that he doesn't get jet lags that much, I hope so.

We soon reached the airport where we met dad. It had been two years since we last saw each other.

"Dad! Dad!" I say as he was walking with his luggage and we both waved to him. As he gets close, I ran to him and gave him a hug, so does Ashton.

"Glad to see you, Tara! I missed you." He says. "Dad, we both miss you." Ashton says. "You got fat." I say as I tap my dad's belly. "Ate too much in work." Dad says. "Today's your graduation. Where are we supposed to go?" He asks. "Home. The ceremony will be later." Says Ashton.

•

"Ellie!" I say as I approached her and gave her a hug. She is with Chris and her mum. "Hi, Mrs. Bennett. Hi, Chris." I smiled to them. "Congratulations!" Ellie gives me a hug. "Congratulations too! I'll miss you! Oh my." I say and we both laughed. "We'll both see each other, come one. I'll be staying in a few days in your house!" She says and we laughed. "Just tell me when!" I say with a smile.

"Oh, your dad is there!" Ellie says and waves to my dad, he also waved back to Ellie. "Have you met our other mates?" She asks me and I nod. "Yes! I talked to Jay, Carrie, Leigh, Anne, uhm, Jesy, the others, almost everyone. Even Calum." I answer and she nods with a smile. "Even Calum..." She repeats. "He has a girlfriend. Get over it." I say to Ellie and she laughs. "I'm happy for him." I add. "We can still be friends even thought he was a jerk." I say and we both laughed.

"When are you getting your boyfriend?" She asks me and I rolled my eyes. "Harry?" She teasingly says. "He wouldn't...ugh, you know it has been months." I chuckled. "No, I mean is that Harry?" She says and her eyes were over my back, I turned then and saw a curly haired guy in a plain shirt, sunglasses, blazer and jeans. "It is!" Ellie exclaims and I tell her to be quiet. "Go on. I won't disturb you. I'll see you again. Call me." She says and gives me a tight hug. "I'm really happy to have a friend like you." I tell her and she nods. "Talk to him. He came here for you." Ellie says with a smile and I take a deep breath and nod. "I'll call you!" I say and we laughed. I walked back to dad and Ashton where Harry is a bit far from us.

"Give me a second." I say to Ashton and walked towards Harry. "It is you." I say with a smile. "It is. Unexpected?" He says as he grins and I just died. "Ellie saw you. You know her vision." I say. "Yeah. Oh, here. Congratulations." He gives me a bouquet of flowers. "Thank you. Wait, why are you not in the arena?" I ask. "It's my secret." He says in a whisper. "Who's the guy Ashton is with? I was about to walk towards them but I noticed the guy." Harry asks. "He's my dad." I say. "Oh. Wow. I'm sorry. I...I..." "Sorry for what?" "I wanted to ask you for dinner." He says. "Do you want to meet him?" I ask. "I'll tell him that you're the one I wrote about." I say. "Is it fine for you?" He asks. "Yeah. Dad will love you. For...for being the topic I used for my book?" I say and he laughs. "Come. I'll introduce you to him." I say. "Nice necklace you got there by the way." He says as we were walking towards them. "Oh." I smiled and I was wearing the one he gave me. Harry then greets Ashton and then,

"Dad. Sorry, uhm. This is Harry. Harry Styles. Remember him? I mean, he was the one, the, the topic in my book." I stuttered a bit. "Oh, oh yes. Glad to meet you." Dad says. Harry reaches his hand and dad accepts it for a shake. "Good to meet you Mr. Shaw." Harry says. "You look familiar." Dad says. "He's...he's from One Direction." I say. "I've seen you with Tara." Dad says. "I've been on tour with him." I tell dad. "Oh, dad. Can we have dinner?" Ashton says. "With Harry." I add. "Of course. Where do you want to eat? Somewhere private." Dad says. He loves quiet restaurants, privates ones with no easy access. "Atlier. It's a great restaurant." Ashton says. "Atlier?" I ask. "It's the name of the owner." Ashton rolls his eyes at me. "They serve brilliant food there." He adds. "Atlier's the best." Harry says. "Atlier then. Hop in the car." Dad says. "I'll take my car. I'll see you there." Harry tells me. "Oh, why won't you tell them." I say. "I'll be taking my car with me, I'll just follow, sir." Harry says. "You're so formal." I say to Harry. "Then what?" He chuckles. "Okay Harry, we'll see you there." Dad says. "Get in the car now." Ashton says and I did.

Harry goes back to the his car and Ashton drives to Atlier.

"Harry Styles." Dad says. "He seems so special to you, Tara. You want him with us." He adds. "He is." Ashton says. "You don't like his company?" I ask him. "He's fine. He looks like a nice lad. Is he your boyfriend? I guess I have seen you with him before." Dad says and I lean back to my seat. "He's Tara ex." Ashton says. "Ex? So you broke up and he's here?!" Dad says. "He didn't jerk." I say. "They already broke up twice." Ashton says. "And he's coming back? Tara." Dad looks so annoyed but he still doesn't know the story. "Because the first time we had to, I wasn't ready, you know I really can't believe that I'm dating Harry Styles from One Direction so he gave me time for space and to adjust. Second is that I told him that I would like to finish college first and just focus there so that I can do well." I tell dad and he nods.

"He's one of a kind, dad." Ashton says. "You're worth his wait." Dad says and I looked at him. "What?" I ask. "He waited now you finished college, he came back for you." Dad says with a smile. "No, ugh, he just wanted to say hello." I say. "I've been there." Dad chuckles and I roll my eyes. "Been there? You waited for someone?" I laughed. "I waited for this girl, we were also in college, I played football and this girl told me that she still doesn't want a boyfriend so I waited for her for four years." Dad tells us. "Why doesn't she want a girlfriend? Oh my gah, how can someone not like you?" Ashton says. "Well, she also wanted to finish college without dating anyone." Dad says. "That's impossible! How could she...not date anyone..." I ask. "But she's really good. She graduated with a lot of awards in college. She's amazing. We did then seriously date the last year in college but not that...we didn't even kiss." Dad says with a laugh and he feels a little shy while telling us his story. "Dad, you were so slow in college." Ashton says. "But then she made the first move when I asked her out a few days after graduation that really surprised, the it all started. She is really a hard working woman, we worked at the same company, and she gets promoted so quickly than me." Dad says and Ashton and I kept on complaining on why dad is so slow in getting girls. "Then after years we got married and had a boy then a girl, named them Ashton and Tara Shaw---" "Oh, dad!" Ashton exclaims and we both laughed. "You should give Harry a chance---" "He doesn't even tell me why is he here and please, later do not talk about love at the dinner." I say as I take my seat belt off after Ashton parks in the car park of the restaurant and not so far, I can see Harry's car, he gets off and walked inside the restaurant.