Harry woke up even before his alarm went off the next morning. It was still dark outside. He had spoken to Niall, and they were going to take the girls on an adventure today. It was pretty elaborate, and he was sure Julie would have something to say about that, but he sort-of had to do it this way. Had to set it up where they were a bit isolated, but yet he wanted it to be a real experience. Plus, the adventure was a bit far away by car, so they had to travel a bit more conveniently since he had to be back at a decent time tonight to be ready for the show day business the next morning. He wanted them to experience as much of an adventure as they could. He turned on the light of his phone for just a bit of light and rolled over to see Julie sleeping calmly. He didn't have to wake her yet. It was only 4 am. They didn't have to leave until about 6:30 am. He just couldn't sleep. It was time to make up for his behavior of the first two days when she'd arrived. He smiled as he thought about that. She came to Indonesia to be here for him. Then even though he was treating her horribly, she'd traveled to South Africa and took even more shit from him. He never had a relationship like this. He knew he was missing something in his previous relationships but never knew what. Now he did.

"Stop staring at me. And turn off your light." Julie said burying her head in the pillow and slapping at him.

Harry laughed and turned the light away from her. "How did you know I was staring at you?"

"I could feel it. Why are you awake?" She asked uncovering her face when the light was pointed away from her.

"Can't sleep. I'm excited." He said moving a strand of hair from her cheek.

"What time is it?" She asked picking her head up a little and catching the screen on his phone. "Jesus, Harry, it's like 4 am."

He laughed again. "I know that. I told you. I'm excited. But you can sleep for a bit yet. We don't have to leave until about 6:30 am."

"Where are you taking me, boyfriend, that you are so excited that you wake up hours before you need to?" Julie asked as she picked up his hand and played with his fingers lazily.

Harry smiled. First, because he loved it when she called him 'boyfriend', and second because she was instinctively playing with his fingers again, the nervous and tired habit of hers that he loved watching. "You will find out. But not right now. When we go. Just trust me."

"I do trust you, but I hate surprises." She said closing her eyes.

"Yeah, I know, but too bad." He waited for it. "Ouch!" He laughed when she pinched his stomach. That's what he expected. "Seriously, I want to surprise you, and I want you to enjoy yourself."

"Harry, I'm in South Africa for crying out loud. Who would have thought I would even be here?" She opened her eyes and looked up at him. "I might as well get up. Since someone is like a kid on Christmas morning. As we're up before the freaking sun comes up, you better make sure I get damn good coffee and a good breakfast."

"No," he laughed. "Come here." He laid back and pulled her to him. "I will put my baby back to sleep. Lord knows I don't want to deal with cranky Julie on our special day." He knew, when her head hit his chest what to expect, and he was right; she bit him playfully. He laughed again and wrapped his arms around her. "I love you, baby. Get some more sleep." He kissed her head and rubbed her back gently as she drifted off to sleep slowly. He closed his eyes and tried to go back to sleep too, but he just couldn't. After he knew she was in a deep sleep, he got up quietly and slowly so that he didn't disturb her. He would make sure she had her coffee and her breakfast when she woke.

Julie rolled over and took a deep breath before she even opened her eyes. She could smell the coffee. And breakfast. Bacon. Yum, bacon. "That better not be that healthy turkey tofu bacon crap you think everyone needs to eat." She said as she slowly opened her eyes.

"Good Morning smart ass." Harry said to her coming over and climbing on the bed. "Nothing but fattening, greasy bacon for you." He climbed over her and kissed her. "Think you can get up now, sunshine?" He laughed as she crinkled her forehead. He adored the fact they could give each other a hard time and each understood.

"Watch it, haven't had my coffee yet. You better be careful with your sarcastic ass." She said as she pushed him from above her and sat up. "I want my coffee." She said grabbing a kiss as she got off the bed and heading to the bathroom.

He shook his head and watched her close the door. Well at least things seemed more back to normal this morning. He hoped it continued. He knew she would have a hard time forgetting what had happened this trip, but he was glad she was trying. He was also glad she was being honest that it still bothered her. They couldn't work through it if she just pushed it aside. She was growing so much. He got off the bed realizing he still had a goofy grin on his face. "Get it together Styles." He laughed at himself and shook his head. He went and got breakfast out and set the plates on the table with her coffee. When she walked out pulling her hair back, he smiled at her. "Breakfast is served." He gestured towards the table.

After Julie took the hair tie from her mouth and put it into her hair, she walked over to Harry and the table. "Cheese omelet, bacon, fruit and hash browns. Hell, you do love me." She giggled as she ran her hand over his stomach and sat down.

He smiled again and sat next to her. "Yeah, I do, and I love I know exactly what you want. Even though..." he started to say.

"No, don't say it." She said as she picked up a piece of bacon. "I don't want to hear it. This is GOOD, do not tell me how bad it is for me." She shook her head. She loved he was healthy, and that he encouraged her to eat healthier, but sometimes you just needed a good damn piece of bacon. "Lecture later, eat yummy food now." She picked up a grape and threw it at him. "See there's fruit. Makes it all better, you just don't count the rest." She put her feet up on his lap when he sat down and picked up her fork. "Oh, look at all this cheese. See this is better than sex." She giggled when he pinched her toes.

"Shut up." He laughed. He rested his arm over her legs on his lap and started eating his breakfast. A healthier version of hers. He couldn't stop smiling. She honestly could give him a harder time with the way he treated her. He would have expected it; he would have also accepted it. But she wasn't. He thought she would build that wall up and push him away. That what he said to her would make her pull back from him because of the reminder of how she used to be spoken to, but again she didn't. This was her. This is how she normally was with him. Sassy words yet loving touches, gestures. Her feet in his lap.

"Wow, Styles, clever come back." She said looking up at him and winking.

"Oh, seriously, shut up now. Because if you get me going on this type of talk, you know you will run from the room red, hot and bothered." He winked back at her.

She laughed. "Yeah, ok, fine, you win. This time. It won't happen much, so enjoy it while it lasts." She looked back at her plate and shook her head. She was still having a bit of a hard time getting over the words he'd spoken completely. But she knew he loved her. She knew that in the end he didn't think badly of her. He just hadn't known how to get through everything in his mind at the time. Complete chaos in the mind was a very difficult thing, and it took time to sort through and process. It was so easy to take things out on the wrong people at the wrong time. Good intentions seemed like there was an agenda behind them even when there wasn't. From the moment she was in the presence of Harry, she'd felt his heart. She also knew none of this would have bothered him so deeply if there weren't feelings involved. Misplaced anger, misplaced trust issues, god if he hadn't been how she used to be, those first two days. Nonetheless, words had still hurt. Words and mistrust. But she didn't want it to affect their relationship. They'd gotten through a lot already. She loved him and knew he loved her. She didn't want anyone else. She would make this work. Which meant she would treat it normally and see how it went.

"Wait. I didn't record that. Do you think you could possibly say that again?" He feigned shock and looked at her.

"No, jerk." She said looking up at him. "This is such an amazing breakfast. My taste buds thank you, my tummy thanks you, but my hips may not later." She laughed as the joke from Tahoe came back to mind. "All these carbs, ya know." She laughed as he shook his head.

"Just shut up and eat your breakfast." He shook his head smiling, recalling Tahoe as well. The good memories always overwhelmed the bad. That's how he knew this was a relationship he wanted to continue to pursue no matter how hard it had gotten. He always remembered the good times first, before the bad came back to him. It was crazy and intense. But he had to go with it. Was almost a bit scary to think so deeply about love right now. He didn't see this coming. It had hit him over the head hard when he realized just how much he loved her. But there wasn't a thing he could do about it. He had tried to talk himself out of the overwhelming feelings he had for her, thinking it would pass, but it never did. He laughed with her through the rest of breakfast. When she finally dropped her fork in defeat of not being able to finish all her food, he gently put her feet down and got up. "Your clothes are in the bathroom, go get ready while I clean up. Amanda and Niall should be here soon, and then we're going to go."

"You got my clothes out?" She got up and walked up and felt his forehead. "Are you ok? Are you sick?"

"I'm fine." He chuckled and shook his head. "I was up before the sun remember? I had to do something. Just go put them on. And don't argue. For just once in your life."

She feigned shocked this time and put her hand over her heart. "I'm shocked. How could you possibly say that to me?" She stuck her tongue out at him and turned to go to the bathroom.

Harry nipped at her bum as she walked away. "You are such a smart mouthed brat. And I love every second of it." He laughed as she shut the door and went back to cleaning up breakfast. He was slightly nervous. He was sure she would enjoy herself today, but it was the first time he was really surprising her. She'd surprised him multiple times. He did show up to Thanksgiving a little earlier than expected, but she'd still known he was coming. He hoped they all had a good day. Then he hoped they came back and had a good night. He couldn't help but think about that. Ever since the other night. He thought about it a lot more than he used to even. He was a guy. Let's face it. After he cleaned up, he made sure that he had everything packed for both of them. He wanted to make this day, easy and fun for her. An experience she would remember with great fondness. Where she would remember this trip with good feelings and not the negative. Sort of like Paris. Well, he could hope that at some point their trips together wouldn't have the bad memories to try and forget. Although this wasn't a planned trip, they could still make it great. He let Niall and Amanda in right before Julie walked out of the bathroom. "Are you all ready?" He reached up for Julie's hand and kissed it. "We should go."

"Where are we going?" Amanda asked. "Niall wouldn't tell me."

"Yeah, I don't know either. Harry's actually kept it a secret. Their planning things without us is kind of scary." Julie said.

"We planned Tahoe." Niall said. "So you two better stop being mean. Or we may have to go without you."

"Go ahead then." Julie said. "If you two need your alone time, then who am I to stop you."

"Shut up, JJ." Niall said. He went up and hugged her tightly pushing her backwards.

"Niall!" Julie laughed as she stumbled backwards. She then wrapped her arms around his neck and hugged him back tightly. She'd missed him. He had become one of her closest friends. Someone she counted on. He believed in her so much it was amazing. This guy was a rock. She looked at him when he pulled back a little. "I hate you."

"I hate you too. Now, let's go." He said walking back to Amanda and grabbing their bag. "We got things to do."

Amanda got out of the car last and looked at Niall. "What are we doing here? What is going on?" She looked at Harry and then back to the helicopter that wasn't far from them.

"This is our ride to our destination for the day. It's a bit far and I wanted to make the most of the day, so we're riding in style on the way." Harry said grabbing the bag and then Julie's hand.

"What? No." Julie said stopping dead in her tracks. A helicopter? She couldn't go in a helicopter.

"I know you're afraid of heights, babe. But I got you, and it will be a beautiful ride. Just trust me." Harry said pulling her forward.

"I trust you, it's the helicopter and the fall to the ground I don't trust." Julie said to him taking a deep breath.

"Oh, stop. Just give it a try." He said. He leaned down and kissed her. "I will hold you the whole time. We will be fine." He said looking into her eyes. It took her a minute, but she slowly walked with him to the helicopter.

"Niall, seriously?" Amanda said excited. This was incredible.

"Yes babe, this was all Harry though; he had this planned and asked if we wanted to come along. As much I'd love to take the credit for this brilliant plan, it wasn't me." Niall laughed. He grabbed the bag and Amanda's hand and went and climbed into the helicopter opposite Harry and JJ. JJ looked scared. A bit pale. She had a tight grip on Harry's hand. "JJ, you're not going to fall out." He couldn't help but laugh.

"Be nice, Niall." Harry said. "I hope you relax enough to enjoy it, baby. It will be beautiful.

"I will try." Julie said. She closed her eyes when she felt the helicopter start to pick up off the ground. She took a deep breath and opened them after a moment. She looked out the window at the view below them. It was incredible. Scary. But incredible. She looked over at Harry and smiled. She didn't let go of his hand, but she leaned more towards the window to look out. You could see so much. It was high, but so much closer to the ground than an airplane. She loved it. The adrenaline rush was there, but she didn't need it to forget the things going through her mind, it was brilliant.

Harry smiled down at her and then watched her the whole time that she was watching out the window. The view below them was beautiful, but seeing her smiling and happy was what he wanted to see the most.

Amanda watched Harry watching JJ for a few minutes. She was happy to see the way he looked at her. He obviously loved her very much. She wouldn't let him off the hook so easily for how he'd treated her best friend, but she also knew in her heart that he loved her. JJ also looked happy. That's what Amanda wanted to see. She looked out of the window and then over at Niall. She smiled widely at him and then kissed him. This would be an amazing day. And she was glad they were all together. Even if there still was a storm going on around everything, the four of them together could just be great, as they always were. She smiled and relaxed against Niall as he leaned closer to her to watch out the window with her.

After about 45 minutes in the air, the helicopter started to slowly descend. Julie was watching around her trying to figure out where they were going. What they were doing. It was hard to speak in the helicopter because of the noise, so Harry was lucky or she would have been questioning him the entire time. She would have never picked a helicopter ride herself, ever, but it was absolutely breath-taking. She saw a lot of South Africa from above, and it was amazing. It beat rooftops and hills. After they pretty much touched down, she turned to Harry and kissed him and smiled and kissed him again. "That was amazing!" She said loudly so hopefully he could hear her over the blades of the helicopter. She practically jumped into his arms hugging him around his neck and kissed him again. "Thank you!"

Harry held her tightly in his arms and closed his eyes. She never showed excitement much. She was reserved and calm, which he understood. She was always so worried about others reactions, so she held hers in. Her jumping into his arms in Tahoe and then this now was her opening up. Showing him parts of her that she'd learned to hide. He kissed her head and then looked down at her. "My pleasure. Always." He got out of the helicopter and lifted her down. They hurried away from the blades and waited for Niall and Amanda.

"Ok, so tell us now. Where are we?" Julie said. "It looks like some sort of National Park or something."

"Observant, are we?" Harry laughed. He knew she had been trying to figure it out.

"Oh, come on." Amanda said. "You already got us here. Spill it already."

Harry laughed. "Ok, we're at Pilanesberg Game Reserve for a private tour. We'll go out in a safari vehicle around the park. They usually do the tours only once a day, but they set it up for us so we would have our own private tour. Beautiful landscape and should see lots of animals, big animals." He said.

Julie looked at him shocked. "Seriously?" Wow. Large animals. She had read about these types of things. Being out in the wild with large animals in their natural habitats. But she'd never dreamed she would be doing it. It was exhilarating and scary. But she was SO excited. Before she realized what was happening, her eyes filled with tears and she looked up at Harry. She was overwhelmed that he'd put this all together so quickly. How he would even know she would want to do something like this. "I can't believe you did this. I'm so excited."

Harry smiled as he watched her practically bounce up and down holding onto his arm. Ok he had to admit he'd never expected this type of reaction. He had hoped she would be excited about it, but this was beyond what he'd expected. He was so glad. Another thing on his to do list. He wanted to see her show more excitement as well. He liked it. A lot. "Don't thank me. Please. I wanted to do it. I'm so glad to see you so happy about it though." He leaned down and kissed her and took her hand and walked with her to the park.

"This is a pretty amazing experience." Amanda said to Niall. "But Harry did Paris, and Harry now did this. I'm waiting for mine." She teased.

"Hey, Tahoe was mine. Paris didn't start out with us supposed to be there. Or this one for that matter. So just be quiet." Niall said to Amanda. "But let's have a blast on Harry since he did set it up." He laughed and took her hand.

The tour was amazing. The view of everything. The landscape of the park. The volcanos. It was breathtakingly gorgeous. And the animals. The brilliantly beautiful and brilliantly large animals. And they got SO close. Julie couldn't believe this was her day. It was going SO fast though. She didn't want it to end. There was a time during their trek in the vehicle when they slowed down close to a pride of lions. They got extremely close. Julie grabbed onto Harry's arm and got extremely close to him, but she couldn't take her eyes from the animals. It was amazing and huge and so beautiful. She still couldn't believe this was her life.

Harry was enjoying himself immensely; the tour was amazing in itself. But the smile never left Julie's face the entire time. He loved her grabbing his arm when she got scared. He loved the look on her face when she watched the animals. He loved the happiness sparkling in her eyes the whole day. They had stopped for something to eat and were about to be on their way again when a couple of the tour guides took Julie and Amanda to see a few wandering elephants a little closer. Harry leaned back against the vehicle with Niall. "Well, I would say today was a success."

"Yeah, JJ seems extremely happy to be here. You did well, bro." Niall teased. "Amanda's loving it too. She's been non-stop about how great it's been." They had traveled in two vehicles so both couples were together. This was the first time they were together as four all day.

"Well I'm glad because I was in the dog house with her too." Harry said laughing. He watched the guides and the girls. Julie was laughing with one of the guides. He couldn't blame the guide for flirting a little. I mean, look at her. Especially when she was this happy, she had this magnetic quality. He smiled when the guide got her to touch the elephant's trunk and interact with the elephant. That tinge of jealously was always there though. Silly, since he was standing right there. What did he think would happen? Oh well, he had to do something about it. He started walking towards them, but before he knew it Julie was jumping into his arms. When her legs wrapped around his waist, he spun her around to keep his balance. "Hey!" He laughed.

"Hi!" She said excitedly leaning back a little to look into his face. "Did you see that? That was incredible. That trunk is SO strong. I swear it could have just picked me up in a second."

Harry laughed. When she paced her words so fast in her cute American accent he had a hard time understanding her. "Well, he needs to leave my girl alone. Do I need to go have a talk with him?"

Julie laughed. "It's a girl elephant, Harry. But sure, if you think she needs a talking to. Just be careful. She's strong. And cute."

"I love seeing you so happy. Seriously, it is amazing." He said as he helped her down making sure her feet gently hit the ground.

"This day has been the most incredible day. I can't thank you enough." She stood on her toes and kissed him.

Well, guess he had no reason to be jealous. He kissed her back and then smiled down into her eyes. "I hope I can continue to make you this happy."

"Oh, I don't know about that." She teased. "Harry, you've done so much for me, but this, right now, just is so incredible."

"I'm glad you think so my love." He took her hand when the guides came back to the vehicles. The rest of the day was spent going through the entire park. Watching Julie and even watching Amanda enjoy all the little perks of what he had been able to set up was worth it all. He was happy. The stress of the times was temporarily forgotten. Harry had thought that Julie would like it, but her reaction to it all was overwhelming him. It was good to see her let loose. Forget everything going wrong and just go with nature. It was absolutely something he wanted more of. This day, through all the drama, would be something he would cherish forever. It filled his heart. It was a wonderful feeling.

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