Once Upon A Niam *A Niam/Cinderella Love Story*

5: Niall

Niall P.O.V

Getting up in the morning has always sucked, it means leaving a perfectly warm bed and peaceful sleep. I know people say "Monday's suck" but I just think it's the morning people don't like, it makes more sense than hating poor Monday.

After much procrastination I get up and go to my drawers, I wish I showered at night before school rather than in the morning, I'd actually have a chance to eat and what not. After grabbing some boxers, I head down the hall to the bathroom making sure a towel was there. Sometimes Harry or Zayn like to hide them or take my boxers while I'm in the shower so I have to end up running to my room naked. Shaking my head, I close the door making sure to lock it then turn on the shower.

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Walking into school I look around, no ones really my friend so I just spend time to myself. Humming softly I bump into someone and stumble back a bit.

"Oh god I'm sorry, I didn't see you there."

I look up seeing a chest causing me to crane my neck up a bit more. Standing in front of me is someone I've never seen before. A blond quiff, blue eyes, lip ring, a little sloped nose, and pale skin. Is this kid new? Or have I just not payed much attention?

"I'm Luke by the way" he extends his hand and I shake it nodding. Words couldn't come to mind as I looked at him. Was he new? He had to be, everyone knows not to talk to me. Harry or Zayn would kill him if he-

"What's your name?"

"Oh, um Niall" no stuttering, go me. I usually try not to stutter, but sometimes it just slips. Not talking to much people can have that affect on you.

He smiled and began talking about things I couldn't care less about. I just nodded not even bothering to trust my voice anymore. After his rambling I found out he was from Australia and was apart of a "foreign exchange student" program, which didn't make sense cause our school does have that, trust me, I'd know.

He continued to talk and I found out we had a few classes together, thankfully Harry or Zayn didn't have any classes with him. Who knows what they'd do to him. Probably corrupt him and make him hate me like everyone else does. Basically people hate me because back in year eight Harry said that I slept with our mom and that's why she doesn't live with us. How that was relevant and people believed it is beyond me.

After finally talking to Luke, it wasn't much just a simple "let me show you your locker" we got to his locker, which was near mine thankfully, and agreed to meet up at lunch. For once I can maybe actually have a friend, maybe we could go to that ball thing everyone's been talking about. Well I think he has to be invited, but the invitation said everyone so I'm sure he'd be able to.

After a few boring classes later, I finally made it to lunch. I was starving, lunch was basically the only chance I got to eat, so when that time came, I took advantage of that. Walking into the cafeteria, I look around for Luke hoping to see him anywhere. I instantly spot the blond awkwardly standing in the lunch line waiting to get his food. After quickly sprinting to him, I wave and start getting my food as well.

Luke P.O.V

I saw Niall coming to me and smiled, I really like the little Irish, something about him just screams different. We get our food and look around for a place to sit, Niall seems a little hesitant at first but then makes his way over to a table in the corner of the cafeteria. No one is sitting there and I wonder why he doesn't sit with his friends. Were they fighting? Maybe he's new too, or maybe he doesn't have any friends.

Frowning a bit, I sit next to Niall who eagerly starts eating. I laugh softly and begin eating as well. While eating I take in his appearance better, his brown roots are starting to show a lot and his skin is about as pale as mine it seems. He must've caught me staring because he turns to me blushing a bit.

"Everything okay?" He asks through a mouth full of food, I nod mumbling an apology before going back to eating.

It starts getting awkward so Niall decides to start talking about soccer that's coming up. His eyes light up just talking about the sport and I smile nodding along. Of course I didn't know what he was talking about half the time since he was mentioning names I didn't know, but I listened none the less. He seems a little disappointed when he mentioned try outs are soon.

"Aren't you gonna try out?" I question wondering why the shorter boy wouldn't want to try out.

He hesitated before saying "My dad won't let me."

I furrowed my eyebrows opening my mouth to ask when he got up and insisted we threw our trash away. I reluctantly nodded and got up walking behind him. People kept looking at us and whispering, I didn't pay any mind to it since it's probably because I'm new and people usually like to make up rumors about the new guys.

He lead me outside over to a little area secluded from everyone else. Niall sat down and I say across from him as we began to talk about anything and everything.

"Do you have any siblings?" He asked me

"Yeah, they're older though so I'm by my self at home. What about you?"

And I guess that was the wrong thing to say, because as soon as those words left my mouth, he got up and ran away.

AN: sorry for the long wait on this, I had actually started it a while back, but never got to finishing it. I'm on summer break now so hopefully I can update more :-)