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Author's note: the following one shot is purely based on fantasy. Please let me know if you’d like to read more…enjoy:)

Summary: Y/N Y/L/N is forced to return to the town where she was born for extraordinary reasons. Her father is extremely sick and on the verge of passing away. Alsfield has changed and is far from what she remembers and even though she lived in town until her high school graduation she barely recognizes it. The town hides a big secret from a few individuals that live in it including Y/N. The man who maintains the town's secret and protects it is no other than Harry Styles. Things take a sudden twist when they meet. Numerous things will impede Y/N from returning to San Francisco to her somewhat ordinary life, will she be able to abandon the town that she had successfully escaped the first time? What is the big secret that the townspeople are hiding, and what is Y/N's role in it? Who is Harry? Where does he come from? Had she met him before? And what does he want from her?

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Y/N had never liked the town where she had been born at. So, as soon as she had graduated from high school, she hopped on the bus and got the hell out of the place. Unfortunately for her, things had taken a turn for the worst, and she was back on a similar bus heading to the small town.

Two nights ago, her father had been hospitalized. She had gotten a call from her aunt letting her know that her father wasn't going to make it through the night. Therefore, Y/N made all the necessary arrangements to travel up north to Oregon.

Y/N never had a close relationship with her father. Her father was difficult and had a behavior that Y/N had never been able to understand or figure out.

Her mother had been the reason for her sanity throughout all the craziness that her father daily generated. Y/N’s mother passed away two days before Christmas when she was a sophomore in high school.  It was all a blur for her. She could still remember being told that she had died, but everything that had happened after it was still a big blur to her. Her brain safety mechanism had been to block, all the painful memories after that day.

Life after the death of Y/N’s mother had been miserable. Her father had always been an alcoholic, but his drinking got worst after it.

Alsfield hadn’t changed one bit since she had left. It rained most of the year and the town was always covered with a permanent fog that always caused drivers to crash on the curves by the cliffs. Most of the townspeople kept to themselves and even though the town was small there was lots of privacy. It wasn’t like other towns in America where the housewives would gossip most of the day. Alsfield was a quiet place where nothing much happened.

“Visiting someone?” The man that sat beside Y/N asked. He had brown hair and blue eyes. He seemed to be roughly around her age. He had been quiet most of the ride, aside from when he pulled his snacks out of his bag.

“Sort of” She paused her music and took one of her earbuds off. “You? Are you from here?”.

“Sort of” he smiled, “I moved after high school”. Y/N frowned a bit but tried to contain herself. She didn’t want to come off as rude. She just couldn’t come up with a reason as to why someone would move into Alsfield after graduating. Most of them were trying to get out not move in. “For a job opportunity,” he added after a few minutes. “Who are you visiting?”.

“My father” Y/N wasn’t proud of it. Her father was probably going to be disappointed by seeing her. However, even though he had made her childhood a living hell, she wasn’t going to have any sort of regrets or guilty conscience if he passed away.

“By the way, I am Niall” He stretched out his hand for her to take.

“Y/N” she smiled as she shook his hand. “Nice to meet you”.

“Likewise,” He responded.

The bus finally came to a full stop by the first gas station in town. As Y/N had predicted, it was drizzling and very dark. She threw her bag over her shoulder and waited until Niall got off the bus to get out. By the time she had gotten off, most people had already caught a ride into town. She pulled her suitcase to the sidewalk and pulled her phone out.

Y/N just wished she could find a cab or an Uber. She wouldn’t have access to a car until she arrived home. And her house was a bit secluded from town, so she needed a way to get up there before it got later and darker.

As she searched through her browser in hopes of finding a cab service a honk interrupted her.

“Would you like a ride?” It was Niall on a pickup truck. “Free of charge of course”.

“Why?” She laughed as he pulled over.

“I am just being a friendly neighbor” Niall helped her to get her suitcase and bag on the truck before they both got back in. “Where to?”.

“How long has it been since you last visited?” Niall asked as he drove down the road and towards her childhood home.

“A few years actually” she confessed, “how has everything been lately? Is Mr. Carter still the mayor?” Y/N had gone to school with her daughter.

“No. Not anymore” Niall looked over at her and gave a reassuring smile. “There is a new mayor”.

“Really? What happened to Mr. Carter? He was quite young to retire.” He was named mayor the year that Y/N’s mother passed. They would usually gawk at the man when they saw him around town and would make jokes about his attractiveness.

“I think he moved away or something. The new guy is quite nice. He was born and raised here” Niall was close to the new mayor. Some would even call them best friends.

“Oh really? What’s his name? Perhaps I know him.”

“Maybe you do. You’ll get to meet him when the time is right” Niall added and quickly changed the subject of conversation before she asked any further information about the other man. He asked about where she lived and where she had gone to college.

Y/N lived in San Francisco in a small apartment and worked for a tech company. She had a pretty quiet life which she loved. She only had two best friends and had no boyfriend. Y/N lived with her rag doll cat Milo.

“Who did you leave him with?” Niall asked as she noticed the familiarity of the streets and the convenience stores that they drove past.

“My best friend. Is Mrs. Brown's diner still open?”

“Oh yes! Better than ever! She is still around, bossing everyone” Niall chuckled, “I love their turkey sandwich and tomato soup”.

“Mrs. Brown is just going to outlive us all. I would always get her brown sugar donuts after school” Y/N reminded herself to stop by in the coming days to pay her a visit. Mrs. Brown was a very special person to her. She had allowed her to crash on her couch a few times after Y/N’s father had kicked her out.

“Here is fine,” Y/N told him as Niall pulled over on the side of the road to a modest, American house.  It was an all-white, picket fence, three-bedroom home with blue shutters with a small back and front yard.

“You are Robert’s daughter?” He asked her, recognizing the home in a heartbeat. Y/N automatically winced at the mention of her father. Niall made a face too confused because he had never heard about Robert’s daughter before.

“I guess so.” She shrugged as she got out of the car. “Thank you for driving me” Y/N thanked him, “I know it’s not as close to town.”

“No problem. Let me know if you need anything else” He smiled, “Welcome home, Y/N” Niall said before driving away...

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