Out of the Blue

"The two of you aren't each other's property"

 Lea’s POV

It was a pleasant evening breeze – sounds were peaceful – the smell was fresh. If you’re wondering why I’m outside in the middle of the night, this is the reason. I’m just roaming around Abbeydale for one last time before I leave in two days. My first destination is Sylvia Young’s, then my high school, and other places we’ve gone before I was sent away and had become a Parker.

“Where are you going?”

An Irish accent spoke out behind me. I didn’t recognize it. It wasn’t Siva – his is deep but this one… let me say…different. I turned around and saw a guy sitting on the tree his arms hanging out, swinging like they were lifeless. My arm was moving awkwardly – it was going through my bag and grabbing on the taser.

“Why do you wanna know?”

He jumped off the tree and walked towards where there was a light. There was one question I was thinking about. How did he get in our property? Why is he on mine and Nathan’s sycamore tree? He walked towards me almost a yard apart from me. He had blonde hair, was wearing a blue Jack Wills hoodie and black pants. I haven’t seen anyone that looked like that before. 

“Hi”

I remained quiet and hold on my taser tighter.

“I’m Niall, you are?”

I haven’t heard of someone that’s named Niall. Alright, this is a bit creepy for me talking to a stranger. I shook his hand and faked a smile.

“Amber”

There was something about him. Boys came running towards us laughing and yelling out his name.

“Hey Niall – what are you doing here in the Collins’ place?”

The guy with jet black hair and a small amount of blonde looked towards me and smiled.

“You’re Lea Parker, right? Where’s your brother?”

“Inside”

Niall looked at me awkwardly and back at the boys.

“What? She gave you a name that was different from Lea?”

He nodded and looked back at me. Oh God, where’s Nathan when you need him? Someone has got to take me away from these boys. I heard the door being crashed close. Jay approached me and made a sign of relieve.

“Lea – what are you doing outside in the middle of the night? P.S Nathan’s looking for you upstairs”

He looked towards the boys and smiled.

“Hey guys, I haven’t seen you in a while. So you’ve met Tom’s sister, huh? Who met her first?”

“Niall met her first. We just came after him”

I looked at Jay and whispered in his ear what I wanted to do when I went out.

“Well if you’re going around Abbeydale for a while, why won’t you go with the boys? I think they’re also roaming around Abbeydale”

“We are”

My stomach dropped after hearing one of them say that.

“Okay, you can take her. Just text any of us if there’s something wrong”

Great – I’m stuck with five boys I don’t even know their names.

“If you don’t know our names – I’m Louis, that’s Zayn, that’s Liam and that’s Harry. And you already met Niall”

I gave them a fake smile and looked away from all of them.

*   *   *

My hand wanted to punch Louis for getting sick of saying some annoying things. Yes – it’s a bit annoying when there’s too much noise. Louis is the equivalent of the boys all together. So – what if the rest of them make noises themselves?

“Louis, be quiet. It’s getting annoying”

They all looked at him who was randomly looking at his phone like nothing happened. And the noise began again. I plugged in my earphones and listened to ‘Look after you’. If you might be wondering – this is mine and Nathan’s song. Also – if you have read the first story you can see that Nathan sang that when asking for forgiveness and that was our first dance.

The song would always remind me of our dark past but it would always make me feel better. I dug in my bag and felt a CD case inside. I took it out and saw an album of The Fray, ‘How to Save a Life’. It was Alice’s gift to me when I was turning fourteen. I hated listening to it. Everything would make me feel dark inside. I went in front of a garbage can and threw away the album. Louis must’ve noticed me doing that. He rushed towards the garbage can and picked up the album.

“Why could you do that to a ‘The Fray’ album?”

“Keep it – just leave me alone”

I saw Sylvia Young’s parking lot. The boys were just making loud noises. This was a good thing – no one was gonna bother me while I’m roaming around the school.

“Eleanor, Jay told us not to let you run away on your own”

“Louis, stop calling me Eleanor”

I stomped inside the school and turned on the lights. It made me feel like I was back in middle school again. The boys ran inside – I ran in the cafeteria and grabbed some food from the fridge. Zayn ran inside making me throw mash potatoes on his hair.

He looked at me madly and grabbed the pudding from the fridge and threw a cup-full at me. The food fight continued. Louis, Liam, Niall and Harry went in making me throw Jell-O at Niall. Our food fight continued until some security guards came inside the cafeteria.

“Boo, party pooper”

I grabbed Zayn’s arm and ran to the gym. We all hid in the closet hiding away from the security. Zayn was in front of me – the two of us were stuck together while the rest of the boys were playing in the small space.

My phone buzzed from my pocket breaking the silence. I took it out and saw an incoming call from Nathan.

“Nate?”

“Lea – thank God, you’ve finally answered my calls. Do you have any idea how worried we were? Anyways – I’m coming to pick you up – remember never get involved with any of the boys”

“Okay”

I hung up and went back to Zayn.

“Guys, you better stop that romance – the two of you aren’t each other’s property”

He suddenly exchanged places with Harry making me more uncomfortable.

“Disturbing”

The door burst open revealing Nathan, like what I said before – relieving.