I Can Love You More Than This

        

“Good morning and welcome to Sutton Place Hotel-Vancouver! May I help you?”  said the receptionist

“Good morning!” said Harry with a sleepy voice “Simon Cowell has booked two single rooms a month ago on behalf of Harold Edward Styles.”

The way he’d always pronounced his whole name, combined with a sleepy voice made me shiver. I could have never imagined something more sexy than that.

“Stop thinking about him! You have a boyfriend back there in New York, remember?” said KBrain bossy 

“Leave the girl alone!” complaint KHeart “This is not New York, it’s Vancouver!”

“She still has a boyfriend!”

“What if she started to feel something for this young man who is wearing Calvin Klein underwears? If I were her I would fall for him first.”

“She doesn’t feel a thing for him! He’s playing with her mind and she actually likes this kind of game.”

“Hey, I’m right here!” I exclaimed “I can hear everything, and KBrain is right, I have the most amazing boyfriend I could ask for and I won’t give up on him, not even for Harry who, by the way, is so hot in his grey suit and white T-Shirt!” I said to my mind, imaginary drooling

“I’m sorry to inform you, but we have no rooms left!” the receptionist said

“Well, Miss, I don’t care! It’s2 o’clockin the morning, we’re tired and I’m not leaving till you give us a room!” Harry said punching the reception’s table

“Chill down buddy!” I told him passing in front of him “I’m sorry for his behaviour but he’s really tired, however, could you please check again, Mr. Cowell booked two rooms long time ago!”

“He did, butNorway’s president is here with his family, that’s why we have no free rooms left. I’m very sorry.”

“I guess we have to go to another hotel.” I said talking Harry’s hand and walking to the hotel’s exit

“Wait, please! We still have a matrimonial room. Is it fine?”

“Yes!” said Harry  wearing a huge smile which came out of the blue

“No way!” I protested, but he caught me by the waist and whispered in my ear

“Do you wanna sleep under a bridge tonight, my darling?”

“No!” I said rolling my eyes

He turned around to the receptionist and told her in a cheerful way

“We’re talking it, don’t listen to this pretty little girl who doesn’t really know much.”

“Excuse me?!” I exclaimed raising an eyebrow “We’re the same age and please don’t tell me that you’ve received anOxfordletter as I did!”

“You’ve received a letter fromOxford?” asked Harry giving me a proud look “Congratulations then! But still, you’re younger than me!”

“Yeah, so young. You’re from February and I’m from July, 5 months, such a big deal!”

“July? Hmm…middle of summer. Hot!” he said smirking

“Room nr. 801, sir! Here are the keys!” the receptionist said

“Thank you so much!” said Harry

“Enjoy your stay here and by the way, you’re a very cute couple!”

“Aw, thank you darling! You deserve an autograph!”

“We’re not a couple and we’ll never be one!” I shouted, mending my way to the elevator

“Yes, we will!” yelled Harry running to catch me up

Our room was at the 8^th floor. I’d never expected Harry to shut up for few minutes and to interrupt his constant tease. He just stood there, in a corner, analyzing every gesture of mine, analyzing my face expressions, watching me. I could feel his eye stuck on me, but I wasn’t that spunky so as to turn around and watch him in the eyes.

When the elevator was at 5^th floor, I screwed up my courage giving him a glimpse, he suddenly looked down, but in a matter of a second he lifted his eyes and smiled. That smile melted my heart away, the temperature was rising and as it wouldn’t had been enough, his eyes told me anything but “I know you want me!”.

       

Our room was literally huge, divided into two smaller rooms, both with an amazing view of the Vancouver’s skyscrapers. The first room was more like a living room, there were a couch, two armchairs and a coffee table in the middle and a TV on a cupboard, on the right side there was the biggest bad I’d ever seen since then, which was actually taking up the whole room. Harry got the luggage out of his hands and went straight to the bed, he let himself fall on it and said

“This bed is like Heaven! Can’t wait to sleep!”

“What? Where I’m supposed to sleep then?” I asked confused

“In the bed, of course!”

“I’m so not gonna sleep with you in the same bed!”

“Why? I don’t bite, but I can, if you want.” he smuggled

“Look, here’s the deal, you are going to sleep on the couch and I’m going to sleep in the bed.”

“Why don’t you sleep on the couch?” he raised an eyebrow

“Because I’m the girl, Harry! Be a gentleman once in your life!”

“I am a gentleman! I let you get out of the elevator first, so as to take a look at your sexy ass!” he smirked and came closer to me

“Oh, buddy, I can’t stand you anymore!” I said pushing him off “You are horrible!”

“What did you say? Adorable?! Oh, thanks babe!” he laughed

I laid on the bed so I could clear my mind, but the cheeky devil wouldn’t left me alone, he was like a leech, accompanying me everywhere in the room.

“This bed is very soft, isn’t it?” he laid next to me

“Yeah…” I groaned

“We could have a lot of fun in it!” he smuggled

“Harry, please stop!” I said almost crying “I’m Louis’s girlfriend, your best friend’s girlfriend, for God’s sake!”

“He’s not my best friend, he’s much more than this, he’s my brother!”

“Even worse, why would you do this to him?”

“It’s not my fault that we’ve always had the same tastes in girls.”

“Well, I don’t really care! You have to stop flirting with me. I don’t care if you fancy me, I don’t give a damn on this, I’m not gonna cheat on Louis! I can’t do this!” I yelled banging the bathroom’s door

I leaned against the door, barely helping myself to cry. I couldn’t believe what had already happened. How could I let things go that far? In the very end, sultry tears were overlaying my rosy cheeks, at that very moment I wished I could teleport myself toLondon, aLondonrainy day was all I needed. After few minutes I upended from the ground, turned the tap on and let the frosty water soothing my red eyes and cheeks.

The moment I opened the door, Harry raised from the bed and embraced me, his strong arms were warming me up, pulling me closer to his body. I placed my head on his chest and he softly whispered “I’m so sorry for everything. I’m stupid and I’ll never forgive myself for making you cry. I’m sorry baby.”

“It’s fine, baby.” I looked him straight in the eyes “As you said, it’s not your fault, we can’t help ourselves of falling in love. It just happens.”

“Yeah, I think it…just happens.” he breathed out

“Let’s go to sleep. I’m really, really tired.” I yawned

“Good night!” he kissed me on the forehead and went in the other room to sleep on the couch

“Good night Hazza!”

The next morning a ray of sunshine woke me up. I felt a bit dizzy and the headache did nothing but emphasizing my abjecting  condition. “What a wonderful morning!” I said sarcastically to myself. Then I remembered I wasn’t all alone in the room. Harry Styles was 3 steps away from me, butterflies made me shake and so did the thought that I might feel something else for him. I was sure that he was still asleep and I didn’t want to wake him up, so I just turned on the other side and there he was, Harry sleeping like a baby next to me.

On one hand I had a feeling of joy because he was so cute and still while sleeping, I wanted to play with his curls but I knew it would probably wake him up and on the other hand I felt nothing but angriness, I hated him for making me cry, for making me doubt of what I was feeling for Louis, for every moment I’d spent with him. It washalf past 12so I decided to wake him up in my way, meaning throwing him off the bed.

“Auch!” he screamed

“Morning sunshine!” I said sarcastically

“Katherine, if this is your way of saying ‘Good morning’ let me tell you that it sucks big time!” he complaint

“This is my way of informing you that you we’re supposed to sleep on the couch! What were you doing in my bed?”

“Obviously, sleeping till you came like a hurricane and interrupt the most amazing dream I had so far!”

“Really? Tell me about it.”

“I dreamed about my life without you in it! It was likeParadise!”

“Oh, I’m so sorry…actually I’m not. Life’s not usually fair, not even with popstars, so try to get used to it.”

“You’re such a talkative girl, I’m going to take a shower.”

While Harry was talking a shower I decided to check on my phone. I had plenty of messages, 50 actually, most of them from Niall asking me about Kaya, but I looked only for those ones from Louis ‘How is your trip babe?’ , ‘Are you having fun with Harold?’ , ‘I miss you already!’, ‘I love you don’t forget this!’, ‘I can’t wait you to come home!’, ‘I want to kiss you!’ I couldn’t hold back my tears, Louis, at first sight seemed so untouchable, but after a short time I discovered that he was also carrying and loveable. I didn’t know much about him, however, about a single thing I was absolutely sure, I was truly, madly, deeply in love with him.

“Harold Edward Styles!” I yelled as I entered the bathroom

“What the hell? What happened? Did the toilet kidnap you or what?”

“Where is my toothbrush?!”

“Oh, well, next to my glass.”

“And what is it doing there?”

“Chilling around?” he giggled

“Not funny. You used it, didn’t you?”

“I forgot my toothbrush inNew York. It’s not my fault that it lovesNew York.”

“Yeah, I guess I’ve heard this line kinda often.”

“I’m sorry.”

“This one too. You know, just listen to me, first of all if you want to borrow something from me just ask me and secondly if you care about your life, don’t ever use my toothbrush again!”

“Pinkie promise!”

“Now get out!”

The time I got out of the bathroom, Harry had already got dressed and again I was imaginary drooling, he was so hot in his black suit and a V-black T-shirt and of course his must-have Ray Bans.

“Are you starring at me or it’s only my imagination?” he smuggled 

“You look good, I have to admit!”

“I don’t look good baby, I look awesome!” he kissed my cheek

“Yeah, yeah, as you say.”

“I’m going out to take a couple of phone calls.”

Meanwhile I was getting myself ready and repeating Niall’s script, meeting Kaya was something very important to Niall so I had to had it done perfectly. When we get out of the hotel Harry exclaimed

“Welcome toVancouverbabe!”

“Thanks!” I said smirking

“I have to go and talk to some guys from Syco Records towards our Canadian tour. Will you be fine?” he asked worried

“Yeah, sure, don’t mind for me. I also have to meet someone and maybe we’ll go to Starbucks and probably shopping.”

“Sounds great. See you at dinner.” he said kissing my forehead

“Have a nice day!” I said waving

The first thing I did after Harry had left me alone was to go at a newspaper shop and bought a map ofVancouver. By the end of the day I had all streets and alleys ofVancouverwandered. My feet were hurting like never before, I was starving and I hadn’t found that Kaya girl yet, so I decided to take a taxi. It was exactly the house Niall told me about, but something was totally different because this house was abandoned.

“Excuse me, sir, do the Johnsons live here?” I asked a neighbour who was cutting the grass

“No anymore miss. They moved toBrazilan year ago.”

“An year ago? Are you sure?”

“Yeah, of course, I’ve been their neighbour since forever.”

“Oh, Ok, thank you a lot!”

“No problem!”

When I turned around to get in the taxi, it was already gone so I decided to call the only person who could help me

“Hey, Harry, sorry to disturb, where are you?”

“Why didn’t you tell me about your secret plans? Have you any idea of what could have happened to you while wandering the streets? Not everyone is sweet and nice, Katherine!” almost yelled Harry while opening the door

“Because it was secret, it was something between Niall and I, I couldn’t tell you.” I explained

“Well, thanks to God you are safe now! I won’t let you alone again!”

“It’s like I hear my dad!” I rolled my eyes

“What are we going to do now?”

“Concerning what?”

“You know, all this Niall thing. We can’t tell him that the girl he is in love with is a liar.”

“I don’t have any idea, but I think that telling him the truth is the right thing to do.”

“Maybe, I’m not so sure about this. Anyway, the right thing for me at this very moment is to take another shower.”

“Cool. This way I can peacefully talk to the phone.”

“Enjoy your chit-chat, the shower is going to enjoy my beautiful voice!”

“You’re so vain!”

“Not like Zayn.”

“Indeed.” I said laughing

Firstly I wanted to call Louis, but at a second thought I had to talk to someone else.

“Hey dad! Am I bothering you?” I shyly said

“No honey, not at all. I’m having breakfast with Simon. How are you?”

“I’m fine. Bon appetite and send my greeting to Simon.”

“Thank you honey.”

“So, you’re inDubai. I have such a lucky dad!”

“Yeah, you have.” he laughed “I’ve bought you an amazing cocktail dress. I hope you’ll like it.”

“I’m sure I will. When are you coming home? I miss you.”

“On Tuesday morning I’ll be having breakfast with you guys.”

“Can’t wait.”

“How’s Billy?”

“He’s fine too, taking a shower.”

“I have to hang up baby, I’m sorry. I love you all a lot.”

“Love you too daddy. Bye.”

When the conversation ended, I felt miserable. Not only because I lied to my father, but mainly because he lied to me in the most pathetic way. By the time I was whipping away my tears, Harry got out of the bathroom completely naked.

“Oh my God!” I exclaimed “Put something on you!”

“What? Don’t you like it?” he said walking around the room

“Just put something on you!” I went and wrapped a towel around his waist

He was still wet, tiny drops slipping from his curly hair, now dark, on his chest, down to his worked out abdomen. He lifted my chin and looked me in the eyes, my heart started to beat faster and faster, worsening my breathing, the butterflies in my stomach didn’t help me either, they were flopping like crazy.

“You seem nervous.” said Harry with a husky voice

“I…am…not.” I breathed out without taking my eyes of him

He grabbed me by the waist and pulled me closer to him, now I was touching his chest and I was absolutely sure that my cheeks went from my usual rosy colour to an intense red. When he started to fondle my back, it felt like my spine was hit by a thunder, I started to shiver and in the next second his lips were stick to mine.

He started softly, letting me breath once in a while, but then it went from a simple kiss to a real snogging, each of our tongues were fighting for dominance, my lips into his we’re like toys in a baby’s hands. Now, we were both gasping, letting our breathing mingle, but Harry didn’t wait too much and started to kiss me again, this time going a bit hereinafter my neck, his warm hands were fondling my abdomen, slightly getting back up to my neck at once with my tank top.