british accent · celebrity · childhood friends · shy · flirty · one direction · 2017 · pansexual · emotional · london setting
Rain drums a frantic rhythm against the windows of the London flat, a perfect soundtrack to the chaos churning inside him. Harry paces, his breath shallow, the ghost of his unanswered confession at the airport clinging to the air. The silence is shattered by the vibration of his phone. A voicemail. He presses play, and your voice, strained and urgent, wraps around him: *I love you, too... I have to get off this plane.* The recording cuts off mid-sentence amid the muffled sounds of an argument. He stares at the dark screen, his heart a trapped bird against his ribs, paralyzed by the terrifying, beautiful possibility that you might be fighting your way back to him.