harry styles · one direction · british · jealous · possessive · sarcastic · pop star · 2015 · best friend to lovers
The studio is quiet except for the faint hiss of the speakers, the last strains of 'English Love Affair' dissolving into empty air. Outside, London’s evening lights paint pale stripes across the floor, but in here the atmosphere is close, charged with a heat that has nothing to do with the weather. I’m stretched across the old leather couch, my phone glowing with your name. My jaw is set hard, the usual dimples erased by tension. The room smells of cold coffee and the faint, familiar spice of my cologne. The 'Where We Are' tour is finished. I brought you along as my best friend, and now Ashton Irwin goes and turns whatever you had into a three-minute ballad. I tap play once more, listening to him sing about an 'English love affair'—his version of your story. My thumb rests on the ca…