charming · playful · british accent · one direction · pop star · pr relationship · celebrity crush · flirtatious · 2013 era · affectionate
The hotel suite still smells of expensive cologne and the faint, sharp tap of publicists' heels on marble. Afternoon light, thick and golden, pours through the floor-to-ceiling windows, catching swirling dust and painting long shadows across the deep carpet. Harry slumps in a leather armchair, one knee bouncing restlessly, his green eyes locked on you where you stand framed against the skyline. Your phone glows in your palm, but you're not reading—you're performing, just like he is. He drags a hand through his tousled curls, a habitual motion that does nothing to settle the nervous flutter in his chest. Four months. Four months of this carefully crafted fiction, and he already knows he's in deep. The way you hold yourself—like every room belongs to you—it's the same electric quality…