Perfect

Chapter 4

Emma woke up quite early the next morning. It was the day of the music awards and while she wasn’t happy about having to go, especially as Zacky’s date, she was excited to see Harry. She knew the possibility of actually being able to talk to him was small but even if she got a small glimpse of him she would feel better.
She felt like she was going crazy. She barely knew Harry but she couldn’t stop thinking about him. There was something about him that just entranced her. She was captivated by his smile, and the conversations she has shared with him. It was so easy for her to talk to him which is what she has needed more than anything lately. She felt that he could be that thing to fill the void in her life. Her someone to talk to about anything, to be her safe haven.
She checked her phone to see what time it was, wishing that she had given Harry her number just so she could text him a good morning. She noticed that it was only 6:34 a.m., she also noticed that 6 text messages from Zacky. She groaned as her read the text messages.
My Z: Emma I’m sorry
My Z: Please don’t ignore me I really am sorry
My Z: Emma c’mon I thought you felt the same there’s no way you can blame me.
My Z: you’ve always acted like you liked me you cling to me like your life depends on it yet you’re going to be mad at me for a little kiss
My Z: ok obviously you are going to continue ignoring me or you’re asleep but please call me when you wake up
MY Z: I’m sorry babe I love you
She contemplated for a moment going to his room and letting him know that she accepted her apology but she wasn’t sure she was ready yet. It wasn’t that she didn’t accept his apology, it was that she was confused. She has always loved Zacky, she has always wanted to be with him but things have changed and she didn’t quite know how to feel about it.
She decided to go down to the lobby and get some breakfast. She piled food onto her plate, pancakes, eggs, sausage, bacon, ham, fruit, toast and jam, and a donut. What? She was starving. There is no way she can eat it all but it all looked so good.
She walked to the sitting room and took a seat at the bay window, looking out over the city. It was an absolutely beautiful, overwhelming site. Even at 6:00 in the morning the streets were packed with people. People rushing around, too busy with their lives to stop and enjoy it for one second. It made her sad, people tend to take everything for granted and worry about things that shouldn’t matter. After losing her parents she realized that nothing is or ever should be more important than the people you love because in a blink of an eye they can be gone forever.
“It’s beautiful isn’t it?” Emma heard a voice say from behind her, a voice that instantly made her heart smile. He leaned against her back with his chin resting on her shoulder looking out the window with her. “Do you ever wonder why people feel the need to rush everywhere they go?”
“Morning Harry, I actually was just thinking about that. People need to slow down and appreciate what they have in their lives.”
“Couldn’t agree more.” Harry said turning to sit down next to her, throwing her feet into his lap. “Jeez girl, you hungry on what?” He laughed.
“Not really, just can’t ever decide what I want to eat so I always grab everything.”
“Well you better be sharing because I’m starving.”
Emma laughed. “Of course, have whatever you want.” She said placing the plate on her legs where they both could reach it.
“I tried to find you last night. I wandered the hotel for about an hour hoping I would see you.”
“I was wandering around too. Must have been going in opposite directions.” Emma said.
Harry grabbed a pancake off her plate and started to shove it in his mouth. “So you excited about the awards show tonight?” Harry asked.
“Kind of. I’m excited that the boys are nominated for two awards and that they get to perform and I’m quite excited to see you perform and hopefully win the awards you are nominated for…”
“So what aren’t you excited about?”
“Having to be Zacky’s fake date.”
“Why? I thought you two were close.”
“We are…well were.” Emma said looking at Harry, who clearly wanted her to explain. “I went to his room last night because I was upset and right as I was about to go to sleep he leaned in and kissed me, like passionately and I kind of freaked and ran out of his room.”
“But I thought you liked him?”
“I did, but when he kissed me I didn’t feel anything and it made me really mad that he thought it was okay to kiss me, all I could think about was you and how I only wanted you kissing me.” Emma trailed off keeping her head down to hide her embarrassment from Harry. She can’t believe she admitted that to him out loud, that was never her intension, it just kind of slipped out.
Harry put his finger under Emma’s chin and lifted her head. When she finally looked at him she saw a shit eating grin on his face. “I can’t stop thinking about you either Emma. Is it ok if I kiss you?”
“Of Course it is Harry.” Emma said as Harry leaned over and gently placed his lips on hers. It started as a slow, soft kiss but eventually escalated to quite a steamy make out session. His lips felt perfect on hers and she couldn’t get enough of the feeling. Emma never believed in the stories about a kiss making you see stars but Harry made that statement true. Once they both started to run out of breath they pulled away from each other. Harry looked at Emma and grinned, getting up from the window seat.
“Well I’ll see you tonight then Emma.” Harry said winking as he walked away.
“Yeah.” Emma all but whispered back to him, not being able to find her voice. This boy was going to drive her absolutely insane.

Several hours later, Emma was standing in the bathroom that was attached to Avenged Sevenfold’s dressing room, trying to squeeze herself into the dress Zacky picked out for her.
The dress was skin tight and too revealing for her taste. It had a strapless deep plum corset underlay that barely covered her boobs and butt, with a black lace glittery overlay on top. If it wasn’t for the overlay she wouldn’t even wear the dress but the overlay came up a few inches higher in the front with a sweetheart neckline and was angled at the bottom one side being around mid-calf while the other half came just below her knee. She defiantly didn’t feel comfortable in this dress but she didn’t really have a choice. Val, her brother’s fiancé, had already done Emma’s long blonde hair into an elegant curly up do with bits of glitter in it to match the dress, and Michelle had done her makeup in a dark vampy, but also elegant look. Though she didn’t like the dress she liked the rest of her look. She took a deep breath and walked out of the bathroom.
“Holy shit Em, you look absolutely hot, and it grosses me out to say that, but damn girl.” Brian exclaimed.
“thanks Bri.” Emma blushed.
“Wow.” Emma heard Zacky say quietly under his breath as he walked over wrapping an arm around her waist. There was a lot of tension in between the two of them but they had no choice but to fake it for the award show. “You look beautiful.” He whispered in her ear.
She gave him a quiet thank you and a tiny hug before resting herself into his side as she watched everyone scrambled around to finish getting ready. Everyone in the dressing room looked great. Michelle and Val, who were identical twins, looked absolutely stunning, just as they always do. They make Emma kind of jealous because it seems that they don’t even have to try to be perfect. Her brother, who looked awesome in his tux was hugging Val as they both laughed hysterically at something. She envied his happiness and couldn’t help but feel sad at that moment that she couldn’t bring herself to that happiness with the people around her.
A few moments later someone came into the room letting them know it was time to get seated. They walked out of the room, down to the theater where the award ceremony will take place and took their seats, Emma sandwiched in between Zacky and Matt.
The seat around them were slowly starting to fill in and Emma was sad when she couldn’t find Harry. It was two minutes until show time and the lights were starting to dim when some behind Emma whispered in her ear. “What a coincidence that we are seated right behind you.” Harry said, “More specifically, me right behind you.” He whispered grinning at Emma. Emma was starting to think that Harry had something to do with that little fact.
She turned slightly in her seat to say hi to him and the rest of the guys in his group, including finally Zayn who she hadn’t previously met. He was very quiet and didn’t seem to care much about meeting Emma. Louis on the other hand was bouncing in his seat saying how excited he was that Emma was there. She couldn’t help but laugh at him. She was about to tell them all that they looked great and wish them luck for the night when her brother slapped her in the arm and told her to turn around and stop talking to them. She did as she was told, even though it upset her.
Just as the show started and the host began talking Harry whispered in her ear one final time. “By the way, you look sexy as fuck tonight.”

Throughout the award show Emma could feel Harry’s eye burning into her. Whether it was when he was sitting behind her or when he was on stage performing, or when excepting the many awards that him and his group won.
One Direction was nominated for 5 awards and they won all but 1 of those awards. Every time it was announced that they won an award they boys would go crazy behind her, jumping up and down and hugging each other and they would run onto the stage to accept the award, each time Harry staring very intently at Emma. When they performed their hit song, which was probably Emma’s favorite, “Story of My Life” Harry sung the song directly to he, never taking his eyes off of her. She could tell that her brother was getting irritated by Harry’s action so Emma tried not to have a reaction to him.
When it came time for Avenged Sevenfold to perform, Emma was left sitting by herself as the boys took their spots on stage. She tried to focus on their performance because she loved nothing more than watching her brother and the rest of the boys perform, but Harry was making the quite possible. He wouldn’t stop whispering things to her, touching her, or blowing on the back of her neck. She wasn’t complaining but he was making it impossible for her to concentrate on anything but him. Avenged Sevenfold gave an amazing performance from what she did see and won all three awards they were nominated for.
After the award show was over a lot of the artists were deciding where to go for an after party. Emma roller her eyes at the thought, she knew that that meant she would spend the night alone while Val, Michelle and the boys went out parting. A few minutes after mingling they left and went back to their hotel. Emma, Val, and Matt walked into their room and Val immediately went to the bathroom to change her clothes and as soon as she was done Matt did the same, it was like they couldn’t get out of there fast enough. Emma just wished she could go out with them.
“Em, we are going out tonight,” Her brother said to her just as she expected. “You need to stay in the room tonight, no going searching around the hotel. Just stay in the room.”
“I know the drill Matt, jeez.”
“Yeah, I know you do, it’s just whether you want to listen or not.”
“I won’t leave the room Matt. Promise.”
“K, love you sis.” Matt said as he gave her a hug and kiss on the cheek as he and Val left the room.
It was going to be a long, boring night for Emma.