My teacher. | l.s. [Rewrite]

Fucked Up

I opened my locker and cringed at the mess inside when I saw my books messily laying between trash and crumpled papers. I sighed and grabbed the trash to take them to the bin and throw them away.

"Hey Niall. Where did you get that room spray from?" I asked Niall who was leaning against the locker next to mine, eating from a bag of crisps. Liam was standing next to him, but he was busy texting someone so he wasn't listening to us.

"Uh, from that little shop down the street opposite of the bookstore, why?" He asked with his mouth full.

"My locker stinks." I wrinkled my nose as I picked up an old banana peel with the tip of my index finger and thumb and threw it away in disgust.

Niall laughed at me and Liam looked up for a second to see what was going on before returning to texting. I wanted to know so badly who he was texting with for the past few weeks, but he was a closed book. The only thing we knew was that it was a guy and we could see that Liam was head over heels for him, but he hadn't told us if it was something serious, a fuckbuddy or just a friendship. I was a bit angry with Liam because we were always telling each other everything and him keeping a secret from us annoyed me. Niall on the other hand didn't really care, he was always carefree and was just enjoying life without any drama.

"You can have mine. I don't need it anymore anyway. My locker is a hopeless case." He sighed and opened his locker to hand me the spray. I chuckled at him and sprayed my locker with the perfume which smelled actually really good. Everything was better than the smell before.

"Hey Harry." I turned around when I heard my name being called and was met with Nick's smiling face.

"Hi Nick." I smiled slightly at him.

I was avoiding him for over a week now because Niall, Liam and Louis had told me they didn't have a good feeling about me meeting up with him. Louis had only said that because he was jealous, but Niall and Liam were right when they said it was suspicious that he suddenly wanted to go out with me, but unfortunately I couldn't avoid him for the rest of my life.

"I was wondering if you wanted to hang out today?" Nick asked and I didn't miss the looks my best friends gave me but I shrugged them off. Spending a few hours with him wouldn't hurt, right?

"Uh, sure. Why not? What did you have in mind?" I asked gently and quickly pushed away the strange feeling that was building up inside of me.

"I don't know. We could go to a cafe and chat, or maybe go to my place?" He asked nervously.

"Cafe sounds good." I smiled and hoped it didn't look like a grimace.

It was one thing to go out with him, but no way in hell would I go to his place- alone. I knew about his crush, or at least that was what I thought because he had originally asked me out on a date and friends didn't exactly do that.

"Great. Should we meet there?" He asked dragging his feet over the floor and smiled slightly at me.

"Yes, Barbara's?" I asked. It was actually a bakery with a coffee shop, owned by an older lady named Barbara. She was the sweetest person and baked everything herself and I loved going there just because it felt so homey there and all the workers were just as kind as Barbara.

"Yes. 4.30 then? I can't wait." Nick beamed at me and I nodded at him with a forced smile.

"Me too." I said and he turned around with a nod, leaving us alone again.

"Really?" Liam asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Come on, Liam. What was I supposed to say?" I sighed.

"Maybe that you wanted him to leave you alone?" He suggested.