𝒾𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓃𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 ➜ estarry
Knowing what was ahead of him for that afternoon, wasn’t making it any easier, at this point he had just came to terms with how awkward the whole thing would be, and might as well get through with it. Parking his car, Harry grabbed his hand bag and made his way up where he was expected for the meeting where they would be adjusting the last couple of details, including meeting the cast, before they get to shooting his Carolina music video. Up until there, nothing new on his line of work, now insert the main female actress, Ester Expósito, and it gets trickier then you would think. The Spanish actress gained a lot of notoriety through the netflix series ELITE, and it came to no surprise when she appeared as one of the options for the role. Did Harry have the power to remove her from the project altogether? Of course he did. But he wasn’t petty like that, and as the blonde when through the different stages of casting and eventually picked for the role, he kept his mouth shut, and here they were, with Harry stepping into the hall and becoming face to face with a girl that the last time he saw in flesh was in between the sheets, at an hotel room in Madrid, a night where his only regret was to wake up alone, not sure what he did wrong so that the Spanish had the need to sneak out on him. One of the things he hates the most is when his gut feeling fails him. He believes in his instinct when it comes to people, random hook ups wasn’t something the male did often, so in a way he did put a lot of trust in the female, only to have it blowing in his face the next morning.
“Hey” Harry politely replied, as he watched the actress go on a ramble, resulting on his face turn into an intrigued frown, so we going down the we never met before route, alright, he could do that. “I think that I would have been exposed already if that was the case, not that I know much about tinder, never tried it, I’ll take your word for it” was what he could muster as an easy going reply, hopefully something that wouldn’t raise any suspicions towards the two of them. “Nice meeting you” He decided to give her the chance to shut up about pictures and how he looked, her nervousness was clear, at least for the singer, all others would think it was over meeting Harry for the first time, a reaction he often gets, but he knew better. “After you” Harry gestured to the door, following inside and picking the seat across from the actress. “Good afternoon everyone” He greeted, grabbing a bottle of water from the center of the table. All his creative vision about the while music video had already been passed to the producer and photography director, so he wouldn’t be participating much, trusting his team to handle it like he knew they could. Against his will, his gaze would always fall on Ester, the woman clearly doing all in her power to avoid it, so he would quickly try and focus on what was being told, as the producer was showing sketches and all the planning for the two days of filming they would have ahead of them in about a week.
nice meeting you. now this really hadn’t been ester’s intention behind her nervous rambling; acting as if they had never met. the words kept repeating in her head as he sat across from her, even when he greeted everyone and she should’ve probably done the same, all she could come up with was a smile as she sat down, her eyes always wandering over to him when she knew he wasn’t looking. but this was harry styles, so maybe he really didn’t remember her. the blonde didn’t even want to think about how many women he must’ve met at his concerts that he invited up to his hotel room. she had just been one of many, and she wasn’t blaming him for that. if she was in his position, she probably would’ve done the same. still, it probably made the whole situation more awkward than she had expected it to be. “alright everyone, let’s go over the script, shall we ?” the director disturbed her overthinking as a batch of paper was placed in front of her, her eyes scanning the first page. “i’m sorry, could we maybe listen to the song again ?” her request filled the quiet room. “it’s been a while since the whole casting and stuff, so i’m really not sure i remember it correctly.” a lie, she knew all his songs, since she’d been a fan even before the whole madrid thing. but maybe the actress just wanted to involve him a little, since he looked so relaxed in his chair, not really participating out of whatever reason.
the spaniard flipped through the pages of the script afterwards. the story matching the lyrics shouldn’t have been a surprise for her, but she still found her cheeks turning into a soft rosé at the script. quite frankly, she had filmed way more explicit stuff than what was expected of her here, but the whole story about a one night stand hit a little close to home with what had happened. “looks like we’ve got a long night ahead of us,” ester let out a small chuckle as she looked over at harry, her finger pointing to page six of the script that would basically take up the entire evening and night with the different scenes they wanted to film in that specific time, earning a side eye from someone from the crew before they all fell into some chatter about the production for a moment, basically leaving the two out of it. “kinda excited to see what your secret is to pulling all nighters.” her habit of always having to fill the silence back again. there really was nothing else she hated more than sitting quietly somewhere and not engaging in any kind of conversation.