Nine

Harry's P.O.V

I followed Liam out of the doorway and into Jordyn's room, but was stopped when I collided into Liam's back.

"Where did she go? Her door was closed 5 minutes ago" Liam said, looking around Jordyn's room, which was empty.

I shrugged. "She probably heard us yelling" 

Liam groaned and pushed past me, and headed downstairs. I followed behind him.

"Jordyn?" Liam yelled out.

No answer.

I followed a few steps behind him into the kitchen, where Niall was finishing the leftovers from his meal with Liam. 

"Have you seen Jordyn? Do you know where she went? I can't find her" Liam said in a panic.

"No" Niall said, with his mouth full of food. "What's going on?" He swallowed.

"Harry here" Liam said, pointing to me, "Took Jordyn on a date and then kissed her off guard and thats why she's been in hiding for the past two days" He seemed pretty angry. Niall's eyes went wide, and he looked at me. I bit my lip, knowing that what I did was wrong, and I had kissed her too soon, but I couldn't take it back now.

I was knocked out of my daze of mentally arguing with myself by Liam's voice.

"The dance room" He whispered, and immediately ran off to the other end of the house, leaving me and Niall in the kitchen alone.

"Soo..you like Jordyn?" Niall asked, breaking the silence.

"Yeah" I responded, "But Liam thinks I just want to sleep with her, and thats not true at all. I actually like her Ni, I like how shy she is, and how easily she gets nervous" I laughed a little.

"He'll come around. It's Liam, he's always being protective, you know that Haz" Niall said, while taking another bite of his burger.

"Yeah I guess you're right" I said. A few seconds later Liam came back into the kitchen.

"No luck?" I asked. Liam shook his head no. "Where the hell did she go?" He asked himself.

"I did hear the back door close a few minutes ago, it could have been Jordyn" Niall said.

It finally clicked in my head. The back door. The woods. Jordyn went to the treehouse.

"I know where she is" I said, while bolting out of the house, heading towards the woods.

Jordyn's P.O.V

I finally made it to the treehouse, and climbed up the ladder. I stepped onto the creaky wood floor, and looked around. It looked the same as it did the other day, except the blanket was all messed up, where me and Harry were sitting. I sat down on the blanket and leaned my head back against the wood, looking out the big window. It was oddly quiet in the woods, only the sounds of birds chirping filling my ears. It was quite peaceful actually, now I know why Harry always comes here.

How did Liam even find out that me and Harry went on a date? And why did Harry tell Liam that we kissed? Weren't we supposed to keep all of this a secret? I guess that backfired. 

I closed my eyes and relived what had just happened. Liam's voice, it was so...so loud, and filled with anger. From the first day I got here I could tell Harry was a big flirt, by the way he kissed my hand when we first met. Why didn't Liam warn him then to keep away from me? Or did he? Maybe that was why Liam was so angry with Harry. He knows how big of a flirt Harry was, and he didn't want me to get hurt by Harry. 

I don't know why I ran away after Harry kissed me. I just panicked; I've never been kissed before how else am I supposed to react? A part of me thought that was Harry's plan all along, to kiss me and get in my pants and then never talk to me again. Liam told me he's known for that, but hearing him call my name after I ran away, he sounded so...hurt.

After reliving what just happened, I realized something. I am breaking up the boys. Liam is mad at Harry, and Liam never gets mad at anyone. I felt terrible for making them fight, and it's all my fault. If I wasn't here then they would be just fine right now. Why do I have to ruin everything?

Tears started to form in my eyes, knowing that I caused something terrible to happen between two best friends. I took the small blade out of my sweatshirt pocket that I took with me from my room, with shaky hands, and looked at it through my blurry eyes. I needed to do this, this was the only way I could help myself feel better. I am the cause of Harry and Liam fighting, and now this is my punishment. 

I wiped the tears off my cheek that escaped from my eyes, and positioned the blade on my left wrist, right where my first ever scar was slightly fading. I was just about to swipe the blade across my wrist, when I heard a voice.

"Jordyn no!"

Harry's P.O.V

I ran all the way from the house to the treehouse without stopping. I finally reached the treehouse and slowed down a bit. Jordyn had to be up here, where else would she go? I did tell her that I come up here to think all of the time, so I'm guessing she's done the same.

I climbed up the ladder and heard sniffles coming from above me. She was here. And she was crying. I put my foot on the last step, and Jordyn sitting down came into my view. Tears were rolling down her face, and she was looking down. What was she lookin- oh my god. That's a blade in her hand. Was she about to cut herself? She told me she had stopped! I pulled myself up into the treehouse and ran over to Jordyn.

"Jordyn no!" I said, while ripping the blade out of her hand before she could slice her skin. But it was too late, she had only nicked herself a little, but it was enough for blood to start dripping down.

I looked at her with hurt in my eyes, and there was hurt in hers as well. She looked down at her wrist with blurry, wet eyes, and winced in pain.

I acted quickly, in hopes to stop the pain. I ripped off part of my sleeve of my white t-shirt and wrapped it around Jordyn's wrist and applied pressure to it, to try and stop the blood from oozing out.

After a few seconds, the flowing of the blood settled, and I relaxed a little bit, knowing that Jordyn would be okay.

"Why?" I asked Jordyn, looking up into her teary eyes.

"Y-you can't t-tell anyone Harry" She said sobbing.

"You said you stopped awhile ago" I said quietly.

"Please promise me that you w-wont tell anyone" She said again.

"I promise, only if you tell me why you did it" I answered.

"I'm the reason why you and Liam are fighting. It's all my fault and I'm ruining everything" She said, not making any eye contact with me.

"Don't you dare say it's your fault, It's my fault that I kissed you, I was stupid to do it so soon and I'm really sorry Jord" I said, wiping the tears off of her face.

"It's okay" She said, calming down a bit. "I'm sorry for running off afterwards"

"I told you I would help you through everything, that we would get through it together. I wouldn't have judged you, if thats what you were thinking" I said to her.

"I-I've just never been kissed before" She said, looking down at her wrist, "I panicked" 

"I understand" I said. By now Jordyn had finally stopped crying and calmed down.

"Thank you for finding me here, if you didn't come when you did I don't know what would have happened" Jordyn said, finally looking me in the eyes. They were red and puffy, but she still managed to look beautiful.

"I knew you would be here" I smiled at her. "But know that none of this is your fault. Liam is just being a good, protective brother, and he will get over it eventually. And please, please, please promise me that you will never cut again, you are way too beautiful to hurt yourself like that"

"Thanks Harry" She said, giving me a small smile. "I promise"

"Good" I pulled her into a hug. She froze at first, but then hugged me back tightly. Without releasing Jordyn from my grip, I leaned my back up against the wood paneled wall. Jordyn instantly relaxed into my arms, and laid her head on my chest.

I smiled down at her; her eyes were closed and she seemed at ease for once. We sat there in silence as I played with her hair. After a few minutes Jordyn's breathing became steady and I realized that she had fallen asleep. I didn't want to wake her; she looked so peaceful, so I cradled her into my arms and stood up.

How the hell was I supposed to get down the ladder with Jordyn in my arms?! I looked out of the treehouse and down to the floor. I definitely couldn't jump, I guess I'd just have to go slow and carry her with one arm.

After about five minutes of carefully going step by step down the ladder, holding Jordyn with one arm, I finally landed safely on the ground. It was now starting to get dark, so it was a bit difficult to see. I headed back towards the house, smiling to myself, that me and Jordyn were finally on speaking terms again.