#acbtm asks

[ficbynic]

Are you gonna keep breaking my heart with this story? Part 2....💔

IT’S A PROCESS. IT’S A JOURNEY. 🙈

[ficbynic]

Ommmmmmg Can you give us a little hint about the sequel ?

Mhmmmm 🤔All Coming Back To Me will be about what happens after Take Care. It will be about Emilie and how she’s dealing with being back home in Denmark. It will be about what happens next in her life, as well as in Harry’s 👀

[ficbynic]

I know you have a main blog somewhere but I would love to know what you think about Fine Line and which songs you think fit the Take Care universe 🥺 I think Falling and Sunflower maybe? Merry Christmas ✨

Hello :) So this is an old message (hence the merry christmas!) and I’ve explained that I haven’t been on my main blog at all the past seven, eight months or so. But I have enjoyed Fine Line a lot and I was going to see Harry live on tour in a couple of months (unfortunately it’s one of the Europe dates and won’t happen till March next year but what can you do). I also just loved receiving this message, so I’m gonna try to answer it properly! Meaning… I’m gonna just go down the full Fine Line tracklist.

// THIS CONTAINS TAKE CARE AND ACBTM SPOILERS //

1. Golden

It doesn’t realllly give me Take Care vibes, since Harry wasn’t the ‘open’ one at all to be fair. However, ‘I know you were way too bright for me’ could refer to how Harry felt about Emilie, especially towards the end of Take Care. At the time, he couldn’t quite believe his luck and thought there had to be a catch. The ‘I don’t wanna be alone when it ends’-bit could refer to Emilie’s stay in London in general. ‘Don’t wanna let you know, I don’t wanna be alone. But I can feel it take a hold. I can feel you take control. Of who I am and all I’ve ever known’. This could be the reason of everything ending the way it did. But then, Maybe between Take Care and ACBTM, Harry decides: ‘Loving you’s the antidote’.

3. Adore You 

I think Adore You could be about when Harry and Emilie first met in Take Care, and they manage to not let the limited time they know they have get in the way of their romance developing. It’s like: who cares what happens, we’ll cross that bridge when we get there, for now, ‘Just let me adore you. Like it’s the only thing I’ll ever do.’ Coming to think of it like that, it’s maybe also a bit against his better judgement, since Harry knows it’s not the only thing he’ll ever do, because at some point, he’s going to be gone on tour. And in Take Care, he knows that at some point, Emilie has to return home. But to me, Adore You is about forgetting all of that for the time being, just enjoying each other’s company. 

2. Watermelon Sugar

The initial stages of falling for someone. Similar to Adore You, which is why I put Adore You first because I feel like there’s more to it than WS.

4. Lights Up

No Take Care connection, I don’t think. Maybe the self evaluation and self reflection could be linked to the time between take Care and ACBTM, where Harry kind of learns a lot about what happened and about himself, I guess.

5. Cherry

I don’t know, I think to me, this one is so personal/obvious irl that it’s difficult to kind of take this song and connect it to a fictitious story. It’s weird though, because looking further into it, there are quite some similarities, thinking of Cherry being written in the time between Take Care and ACBTM. ‘We’re not talking lately’ (obviously). ‘I just miss your accent’ (I MEAN!) Even with Camille’s voice at the end, emphasising her French roots and that there was a language-thing in their relationship, it’s funny to think that there could’ve been a similar song about Emilie, but in that case, with a Danish voice mail. You know what I mean? So weird/funny tho, also since Take Care was written and posted around the same time irl Harry Styles dated Camille. 

6. Falling

I could see this connecting to the time between Take Care and ACBTM, but also to the time in Take Care when Harry’s on tour and kind of [spoiler alert] acts like a jerk when he finally returns to London because all of these bad thoughts crept into his head while he was away. I think he was doubting everything while he was gone and he could’ve felt like he was drowning/falling. Also: ‘Forget what I said’ reminds me of how he acted after returning from Japan. Also the regret of what happened right before Emilie left London to go home. ‘It’s not what I meant’. ‘And I can’t take it back. I can’t unpack the baggage you left’; the struggle of coming to terms with having been the one at fault after Emilie’s already gone.

7. To Be So Lonely

Even though this is one of my favourites on the album, it’s probably the song I am able to connect least to my story. There was no baby-calling after the breakup. There was no wanting to be friends again. Sure, Harry would’ve been lonely and would’ve thought it was hard to go home and be by himself, but yeah. No.

8. She

I think to irl Harry Styles, She isn’t about anyone in particular, just about a fantasy/day dream about just That Someone. I don’t think I sense a Take Care/ACBTM connection here.  

9. Sunflower Vol. 6

YES TO CONNECTING THIS TO TAKE CARE AND HOW EMILIE AND HARRY STARTED. It’s one of my favourite songs on Fine Line simply because it’s so FUN and you can kind of feel yourself falling in love/crushing on someone in the song itself. Further analysing the lyrics, ‘kids in the kitchen’ is funny, relating to the story. Also: ‘I was just tongue-tied before I got to know you’: Harry having spotted Emilie before they met but not speaking up or even telling her about having spotted her, even after they properly got to know each other. ’My eyes want you more than a melody’: working, singing, song writing isn’t as important to Harry as it is to be with Em, hence why he’s always eager to return to London while being on tour :)

10. Canyon Moon

This could also be about Harry being on tour in Europe and always wanting to go home straight away, also just to be around Emilie more. However, he takes the feelings developing for her with him, ‘through Paris all through Rome’. Home in this Take Care-scenario is London/Hampstead of course.  

11. Treat People With Kindness

No Take Care-connection at all in my opinion. If anything, it kind of would take me back to the touring bits described in Take Care, Emilie knowing he was on tour and actually going out to take a look at the venue in Hammersmith, etc. It’s a very concert-feeling-y song in my opinion, so it would take you back to Milan (described in Take Care) and just the fans and concert-vibes in general.

12. Fine Line

Difficult one, maybe Take Care-Harry could’ve written this in the time between Take Care and ACBTM. ‘There’s things that we’ll never know.’ Things could’ve gone so differently. In that sense, Harry and Emilie were a fine line, as well. In the end, Harry knows that ‘We’ll be alright’.

~~

A very long answer there! Hope you liked it. I enjoyed thinking about the Fine Line songs and connecting them to my story, I hadn’t done that before. So this was fun! Thank you.

[ficbynic]

I can't believe it is over 😱 these two stories were amazing and I enjoyed reading them sooo much. I hope that sometime in the future you'll write something new because your writing is just so good 😍

Thank you so much! 😭 I can’t believe it’s over, either! I’m so glad you enjoyed both Take Care and ACBTM. I’ll definitely keep writing, but for now, I don’t have plans to post something any time soon. I always have new stories developing in my head, though :) (I can also envision myself returning to Emilie & Harry and maybe indulging in writing some blurbs or one shots or whatever 🙊)  Again, thanks so much! I really appreciate you taking some time to send me a message! X

[ficbynic]

I really liked this chapter! It’s reassuring to see that Harry is actually making a solid effort. It also makes me nervous though.... like, H and E are getting better but it still feels like they’re both walking on eggshells

Thank you!!! 😊 And I know what you mean, regardless of everything, it’s still such an uncertain phase they find themselves in. They know they have to say goodbye again and they know how that went down the last time 👀

[ficbynic]

If he doesn’t tell her, he’s an absolute idiot!

Wellllll, you never know with these two!

[ficbynic]

OMG HE LOVES HER AHHHHH

He does ☺️

[ficbynic]

Just popping in to say I hope you’re doing well and that I’m excited for the new chapter! I also really enjoyed the discussion all of the anons were having about H and E. Hope that continues!

That’s so sweet, thank you! It was definitely fun receiving the messages, I hope it continues as well! 😊 Although it does kind of make me nervous about posting the rest of the story, curious about what people will think. Only two parts left 😬