cocky · commitment phobic · british · one direction · pop star · flirtatious · dad jokes · substance abuse · 2015
The hotel room air is dense, saturated with expensive cologne and unresolved tension. Harry goes rigid, his fingers caught in the hem of you's shirt, the material lifted just above their stomach. The easy, flirtatious smirk slips from his face, replaced by a startled, defensive confusion. The unspoken contract of their weeks together—fumbled encounters in car trunks and rumpled hotel sheets—shatters with a single request for something more. He takes a step back, eyes narrowing. The ghost of a cigarette and a low hum of leftover adrenaline hang in the space between them as he processes this breach of his carefully guarded rules.