out of the blue / n.h

Chapter 67

"Lenny?" Jane's voice run up behind Thomas and I see Cath and Luke follows her. "Hey, sweetie, you okay?" Jane strokes my arm. Her breath is visible throughout the cold winter air.

"I don't know if I want to get back to the gym." I mutter.

"She's righ—"

"No, she needs to get back in there. Their intention is to tear you apart and call this special night as theirs. We have to get back in there and show them you are not like what they thought." Thomas reassures me as he wipes the stain out of my cheeks.

"Please, no."

"You have to. Come on, let me touch up your make up." Cath smiles at me.

"Fuck you, Cath, thank you," I choked, laughing by my idiocy.

"Well, don't cry! Luke, my makeup bag is in your car." Cathy looks up to Luke then he nods and run to his car.

I wipe the makeup that is spreading below my face. "Hey." I call them all out. Don't turn out like Jamie." I chuckle as they all laugh.

"Jamie is an asshole." Brodie states all in sudden.

"Hey, Brodie." I giggle, still wiping the tears off of my face. Jane, Cath and Brodie start to talk things I don't really care and I look up to Thomas who is smiling at me. "Thomas, what if it's true? Niall is—"

"Don't you dare believe them. Niall is not one of them. Niall belongs to you, he loves you. Don't you love him?" He asks.

 I nodded and looked at the ground.

Luke comes back with Cath's purse and she starts to redo my makeup. It's just me and Cath and Luke in the hall and when she finishes, I take a look in the mirror and I look even better than the one I did. I thank her and she goes inside the gym, leaving me and Luke. I decide to walk Luke to his car to put Cath's purse back.

"Luke, what if Niall was here?" I ask Luke as we start to walk to his car in a slow pace.

Maybe it would be a cat fight I don't know." He laughs. "But you're okay now, yeah?" He asks in his accent. I just nod and continue to walk. "I called Niall but he didn't answer and so I called Gary to ask him if he knows anything that happened back there, and,"

"Who's Gary?"

"The president of the frat house. By the way, no, he doesn't even know the events happened back there. Miles and the others were just making it all up not because of Niall, but because of you. Miles told us about you couple weeks ago that you ditched him and he was just making a revenge." He assures me.

"Oh. But everything he said, does it all make sense?"

He looks at me, stops at his tracks. "Lenny, not all the things they said are true." He says, looking at the ground.

"But, Niall—was just using me? Is that true?" I furrow my brows and put my palm against my chest. "And a drug dealer?"

"Just, know that," He hisses. "Niall loves you. He loves you. If he doesn't then he might be disappeared and won't be back around. Lenny, he loves you." He tries to calm me down. But the things I thought that happened unexpectedly were the reason we stayed up until now. But no, it was all about the dare his friends challenged him.

"But it's true, right? Niall?" I don't even feel like crying, I feel like throwing up. I feel anger builds in my veins. "Answer me."

"Partially." He whispers. "You have to listen to the other side of his story!" He commands.

"Take me home."

"What? We—we can't le—"

"Take me home, Luke! I don't give a shit what those people call me." I cuss as I start to walk with him in a quick pace. He shoves out his phone and dial Cath and starts to ramble around as he gets in the car with me and drives me home. I start to cry by the thought that Niall would dare to do that to me. I know he loves me but I just have some mixed up emotions and I just want him to explain the whole thing so it would all be clear in my head. I dial him dozen times but he won't answer. Where the fuck is he. Luke gets me home and stops in front of my house.

"Thanks Luke. I'm sorry for making you drive all the way to my house though." I look at him who is smiling with a pity look in his face.

"It's okay, well, here take my football jacket. You're going to need it, it's really cold." He hands me his varsity.

"Thank you, Luke." I put the jacket on before heading outside. I knock on the door and see my mom's face in shock as she sees me. I look behind me to see Luke pulls out his car and drive away.

"Oh my God, Melanie. It's cold and that's not even Niall's car. What happened?" My mom gasps as she lets me in. I run to my bedroom and hold my tears away so my mom doesn't have to deal with it.

"Uh, do you mind, mom? Come back tomorrow." I groan as I close the door behind me. I start to cry by the flash of embarrassment I got in the gym and how Niall lied to me. He should just straightly told me everything and I would be okay. Is he really doing this on purpose? That he purposely didn't come with me to the prom, using Thomas's excuse? But no, the case is why Niall had to lie to me. Niall loves me and so do I. He wouldn't do that to me, right? I strip my dress and put on Niall's 39 sweater and a sweatpant as I wipe the makeup away. I keep on telling myself how stupid I am to gave in easily on love. I cuddle with myself on the bed as I keep on sniffing Niall's sweater. His strong scent fills my nostrils. I need him to hold me even though he's guilty. I don't care. I need him right now to hold me. My room door suddenly wide opens as I cross my fingers to see Niall coming up to me and explains everything and hold me till I fall asleep.