okay so this is a baby styles fic as in harry is like 16 okay
harry styles hated school, like he enjoyed learning and socializing, but he hated homework and essays and studying so he wasn’t technically the best student. with gsce’s right around the corner and a mother who wanted harry to be more than a part-time bakery assistant, she hired winnie, the girl at the top of harry’s class (that she met at a meeting for parents who wanted to volunteer for one of the school dances)(winnie loved helping out in school activities, well she was forced to by her father, the principal/whatever the head of the school is called in england)
anyways, harry is bitter that he has to take time out of his busy social schedule to go to the library three times a week with a girl that he barely knows (although from what he’s heard she’s stuck up) so instead of getting the friendly, flirty, cheeky harry she’s always heard about she gets the harry that not a lot of people see. so she does her best to make it as painless as possible for him, because tutoring him meant she didn’t have to stay at the school until her father was ready to go, and honestly she liked being around harry.
from the moment she started tutoring him she could tell that he knew the information, his notes weren’t half bad and he had little questions written in the margins. so one day when she mentioned his notes he didn’t say anything about it, just blushed and flashed her one of those cheeky harry grins. ‘you’ve got to study for these harry, i know you know it, but you’ve gotta ask the questions and you’ve gotta study for it’ she would say after every meeting until he finally cracked and replied with ‘i hate studying, i’m shit at it.’ winnie would smile ‘i can help you with that, but next time you have to be prepared with more questions, have highlighters, and bring something to eat your stomach growling is so distracting’ harry wouldn’t say anything so winnie would stick out her pinky finger, ‘swear it, swear you’ll bring food and highlighters’
that’s when ‘swear it’ became their thing and their friendship began growing. it would be little things like ‘swear you’ll read this chapter when you get home and give me a summary of it once you finish’ or in regards to what he would say to her ‘swear you’ll listen to this album instead of getting ahead on homework’ and they would have to prove to one another that they did whatever they swore.
so the big history test that harry was terrified about came around and he was nervous for it. he felt prepared but winnie had to cancel their last session beforehand because she was puking in her toilet at home and not at school like she said she would be. it was almost like winnie could feel harry stressing out about the test, all the hair pulling and reading her little notes written in pink pen giving him the main ideas and important dates over and over again so she called him. ‘swear you’ll do fine’ she said to try and calm him down about the test, and she realized she wasn’t tutoring harry for the 30 pounds he gave her at the end of the week, it was because she had feelings for him. so she kept trying to calm him down. ‘swear you’re gonna do great’ ‘swear you’re ready for this harry’
he found her after the test, beaming and thankful because she was right, he was ready and he was gonna do great, and when he saw her all he wanted to do was kiss her. so he walked up to her, the confident lad that he likes to be, and shows off his score and he swears he’d never been so happy to see her gap-tooth smile and she hugs him tightly telling him how she knew he was going to be fine.
‘swear you’ll kiss back if i kiss you?’ he would ask her with nervous hands tapping against her lower back as she slowly pulled from his hug, but kept her hands around the back of his neck.
swallowing the nerves, and the loud voice of her father saying that academics before boys or her personal favorite (when he was a little tipsy during the holidays) M.D. before the D,
she smiled at harry ‘i swear’
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