Dimples and Glasses

Chapter 9

*Noëlle's POV*

I see Marcel walk into school the next day with a big smile on his face as he approaches me. He looks cute, hair slicked back, and sweater vest is done up to the top. Definitely look happy, happier than he's been in a long time.

"Well hello my beautiful girlfriend." He whispers in my ear, and kisses me on the cheek. I blush, and look into his emerald eyes.

"How are you?"

"I'm pretty good. I'm feeling a lot better actually." He says with a smile.

"That's great!" I say, and I hug him tight.

"You look gorgeous today." He says, still holding me close, and I blush again.

My smile faulters when I see three guys walking up to us. The guys who are about to ruin our day.

The jocks.

"Why are you hugging the nerd, Noëlle? You could do so much better than that." The blonde one remarks. I let go of Marcel, and turn to face the three boys.

"Oh really? Well he's better than you, Niall." I spit out his name like it's poison.

"You're so funny. You make me forget why we broke up." The words bring up feelings I held deep inside for a long time.

"You cheated on me." I say through gritted teeth.

I have tried to forget what happened for months, and this is NOT a good time for the memories to come back..

*flashback*

"Hey babe, happy anni-" I'm cut off by what I see. I immediately drop the card and the bag of gifts I'm holding.

An obnoxious blonde chic from my physics class is hooking up with MY boyfriend. On MY couch. In MY house. When my parents aren't even home!

"What the hell?!" I scream.

They both look at me, their expressions are those of a deer in the headlights.

"I-it's not what it looks like!!" He stutters.

"Oh, it's exactly what it looks like." I cry out before I fall to the ground, my knees going weak, my heart beating a mile a minute and my happiness being crushed by a girl(whom I barely know) all over my boyfriend. Or should I say, soon to be ex-boyfriend.

*end of flashback*

"Oh yeah, that....was a mistake. " Niall says, almost sounding sorry for what he did.

I know he's not sorry.

I totally forget about Marcel and the two other boys who are watching at this point.

"Mhm. " I reply sharply.

"I'm serious."

"Oh why? Because you see me with someone else? Or was she a lying cheater like you?"

"Ouch, harsh." Niall retorts.

"Not even in the slightest, just being honest. "

"Look, I really am sorry."

"That's nice. Apologise to me when I care." I say, tears pricking my eyes.

"That was rude" he says, and then he notices my tears. "...don't cry Beautiful.... " he whispers, and they can't be held back any longer. Marcel looks like his head is about to explode.

"Don't. Call me that. We have been over for months. Besides, I have someone else now." I look towards Marcel, and he smiles a little before an angry expression replaces it.

"Leave her alone bud." Marcel says, walking up to Niall and putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't touch me, nerd." Niall smacks Marcel's hand away and pushes him.

"Niall don't hurt him..." I say.

"What are you gonna do about it? You're not my girlfriend, you have no control over me. We've been over for months."

Anger boils inside of me, and Marcel pushes Niall back before I have the chance to get my hands on him.

"Wow, the nerd has confidence. Boys, help me out here." He says, grabbing one of Marcels arms and Zayn grabs the other. Louis looks as if he's about to punch Niall but he walks over to me and grabs me. His eyes look almost like they're screaming for help, but he says nothing, as he restrains me.

"Niall no! Don't do this!" I yell. all the other kids are circled around us at this point.

Niall and Zayn start beating the crap out of my boyfriend, and all I can do is scream and cry, hoping a teacher saves him. I'm helpless, held back by an infuriating, asshole of a jock. I thought Louis was the nice one, but here he is, holding me back and watching this whole thing go down.

"Please..Lou..let me go.." I whined, hoping he'd break.

"I can't, it's either him or me." He sighed.

Then I realized. The only reason Louis was doing this was because he was scared he'd be in the place of Marcel for not obeying. Hell, maybe he was guaranteed to be in his place, but here he is, holding me back, safe from harm, and he is safe from harm himself. If they didn't have someone to pick on, he'd be next.

"Louis..you have to stand up to them.." I whimpered, looking back at him.

"What? Im fine.." Louis shakes it off, and looks at me sternly.

"Obviously not.." I say, looking down, my tears stopping.

"Really. I'm fine.." He says, quieter so the other people couldn't hear.

"Sure.." He knew I had figured it out. Believe it or not, I knew him long before I even knew Niall.

"We'll talk later." He whispered as a teacher came out.

"Alright alright, enough!" The teacher shouted.

Louis automatically let go of me, and I rubbed my arms, before looking over at Marcel.

I screamed at what I saw.

{AUTHORS NOTE:
I UPDATED!!! I know I've been away for a long time, bit I felt it was only right to continue this story. I have had some time lately to plan this story out, and I will be adding some chapters and editing every once in a while. I hope you all enjoy the new chapter!!}