Seconds, Minutes, Hours

tell me a secret

Zayn wasn't at school the next day, and the entire building felt eerily empty. After Mia and Zayn s little talk, Liam had come in to care for his brother, and Niall had drove Mia home. They had talked a bit, about the night and the events that had occurred and the secrets that had been revealed. And after they were done talking, they had fallen asleep, both with thoughts of Zayn on their minds.

The hallways felt empty without the cloud of smoke thay followed Zayn every where. Sure, there were other smokers in the school, but none of them had the presence Zayn HE always had, walking around like him and his 50 cent cigarette owned the place. No one was there to show every one how they were supposed to act to get the attention of the girls or to prove they weren't wimps. And as much as the general populas hated Zayn, they were a bit lost without him. It was like the army who complained their captain was too strict and never had a nice word to say about him until he died and left them to fend for themselves. That was the atmosphere that hung in the air that day and though most of the student knew nothing of Zayn s condition (the only exceptions to thos were Niall and Mia), they all were beginning to worry that He wouldn't return. What would they do without their ringleader?

Niall and Mia ignored basically everyone that day. At any given point in time they could be seen with their head together, whispering secret. Of course, they were talking about Zayn, But no one knew that but them. Even Harry and Louis were kept out of the conversation, which wasn't sitting well with them as they sat in the cafeteria eating lunch.

"How much do you wanna bet they slept together?" Louis suddenly blurted out. Harry practjcally spit out his food and Niall and Mia paused their conversation to looks up at him n shock. Louis only shrugged. "You two hang around each other all the time. You have a sleepover and the next day you're acting all secretive. It would inly make sense."

And with that, both Mia and Niall started laughing so loudly the entire cafeteria turned to stare. Louis' face clouded in confusion. "Why is this So funny to them?" He asked his boyfriend. Harry shrugged. Soon Niall and Mia went back to their hushed conversation. Louis and Harry did end up making a bet on whether they had slept together, and soon the whole svhool joined in. It was a merry affair, one Niall and Mia were blissfully oblivious of. And just like that, the school started running again. Who needed the intimidating smoker when you could have the tiny sized gay guy who wasn't scared to make bets on his own friends relationship?

Before the day was out, Louis had printed and distributed "Miall is real" badges and the two had become aware of the situation at hand.

"So seriously. Did you two sleep together?" Louis asked as they walked out of svhool.

"Did you two?" Mia countered. Harry blushed hard and stuttered, tripping over his words. Louis, on the other hand Marrily responded.

"Yep. Now spill about you and Niall." He insisted.

"Nothing to tell. We didn't sleep together." Mia admitted.

"In fact, I told her I'm bi." Niall commented. Both Harry and Louis stopped in their tracks, looking up at Niall,

"You told her what?" The asked in unison. Niall laughed.

"I'm bisexual. I figured you two of all people wouldn't care." Niall commented. And witb that, they both pulled Niall in for a hug, assuring him again and again that they didn't care. Louis even had the gall to comment that It would give him some one to date if him and Harry broke up. Harry had whacked him for that, but it wasn't five minutes before the couple was making out again, and it was obvious that were doing fine.

Mia laughed and took Nialls hand. "Lets go check in Zayn."