Headstrong

Chapter 3

Elsie POV

One week later

Ever since that crazy night in our hotel a couple days ago, I started seeing Harry and the boys more. We had to see them all in secret of course. Chris would kill us if he ever found out. Harry was actually a very sweet guy. He was genuinely interested in knowing about my life, as I was with his. Practice has been going great, just a lot of refining and cleaning up all of my moves for each event. I was in the gym when I received a text from Harry asking if we could hang out tonight. It was already late so I decided he could meet me here at the gym. When everyone started leaving, I told Chris and Kenzie that I was going to stay and work on my routines for just a little while longer.

"Are you sure you want to stay by yourself?" Kenzie asked. There are times when she worried about my well-being, this time being one of them. I blame her worry on Peter after he left me in the parking lot.

"Yea I'll be ok I'll be back soon. Don't worry," I reassured her. She gave me a skeptical look and was the last one to walk out of the gym.

After she left I went to my bag and got my phone out, turning my music to my floor song. I went to go plug it into the speakers and started the music. When the music started, I began my routine. When I started to dance, I forgot about everything around me and it just came. I set up for my first move. It consisted of an aerial combined with a back hand spring that ended with a back flip. I perfectly stuck my landing. After that I did some switch leaps and a few pirouettes. Then I went into my second set of flips which was a back tuck pike layout which was, again, landed perfectly. After another 30 seconds of my routine, I was finished. I heard a random clapping. My head snapped around to see Harry sitting off to the side. I instantly smiled.

"How long have you been there for?" I asked walking over to him.

"Long enough to know that, that was probably amazing," he said with a dimpled smile.

"Well, I do try," I said pretending to flip my dark purple hair over my shoulder.

"How was your day today?" he asked me. I told him my day was just fine and the conversation grew from there and we talked about some random things.

"You should do some more flips," he said cheekily after we finished conversing.

"You're such a cheeky little shit aren't you?" I said. "But if you insist," I said and ran onto the floor and did a round-off back handspring into a double back flip. Harry made his way over to the mat and took his shoes off before stepping on.

"You know I can do gymnastics too right?" He said.

"Alright Styles, let's see then," I said motioning for him to start. "Show me what you got." He stepped to the corner of the mat following my actions of concentrating. After 2 minutes he was still standing there. "I'm still waiting," I giggled.

"I am getting into my zone. What I'm about to do is the hardest gymnastics trick known to man. I need full concentration," he told me. He then proceeded to do a somersault. He ended by putting his arms in the air like every other gymnast does when they finish.

"Oh my god. That was so beautiful," I fake cried and rapid clapped my hands. "You landed perfectly and your form was amazing. I give you a 10."

"Ha ha ha. See, I told you I'm a natural," he smiled at me as he made his way over to the corner of the mat where I was sitting. "So I wanted to ask a question," he said and sat down in front of me.

"And what question is that?" I asked. He took a deep breath and asked.

"I was wondering if you would like to accompany me on a date this Saturday. Just you and me. No boys or teammates, just us." My eyes instantly widened in shock. I was not expecting him to ask that question.