Niall’s POV
Meanwhile…
The weekend was almost here! 10 minutes to go and we were free. I was in English with Lucy, Sadie, and Zayn. Sadie and I sit side by side with Lucy and Zayn behind us. Sadie has been acting really weird since the mall Monday. Usually she’s turned around giggling at everything Zayn says or at least talking to Lucy. Today she’s not doing either of those. I haven’t had the chance to ask her about it because Lucy has been tapping me on the shoulder every two seconds to ask or tell me something pointless. We have next week then school is out for good! Bella and I have been planning a trip to her parent’s lake house for months. We break the news after school today. Five minutes left. I felt another tap on my shoulder.
“Niall….” She looked around nervously. “I forgot what I was going to say.” She turned red.
“Of course you did.” I said giving her a smile.
“Hey mate what are you up to this weekend?” Zayn asked. “Not sure, no real plans yet.”
“How ‘bout you Sadie?” She ignored him completely. I tapped her on the shoulder just in case she didn’t hear him. She turned fast.
“Well, Zayn, I’m having some people over tonight. Unfortunately Liam insisted on letting you come…. But after that I’ll probably spend all weekend in my room crying over you.” She gave him a cold stare and went back to Facebook on her iPhone. The bell rang just as Lucy was about to ask me another meaningless question. As we walked into the hall Sadie sped up and was out of sight before I could call to her.
“So Niall, you don’t have any plans this weekend?” asked Lucy.
“Well, I forgot about Liam’s but other than that no, not really.”I said distracted.
“Should be fun!”
“Yea I guess, look I need to go find out what’s up with Sadie, I’ll catch up with you later.” She gave me a half-hearted smile and I dashed off. I swerved around kissing couples, slow pokes, and teachers. I saw her red head bobbing ahead. “
Sadie!” I called. She turned, thank God. She moved to the side of the hall to wait for me to catch up. “What is going on with you?” I asked as nice as I could.
“I didn’t tell anyone because I didn’t want anyone to think I was overreacting. But, at the mall Monday…” Monday! Ugh. Why didn’t I bring it up sooner? I am a terrible friend…She bit her trembling bottom lip. I didn’t know how to help her. I pulled her into a hug. Her face buried in my chest, I held her for as long as she needed. She pulled away after about a minute of weird glances from passing people. No one stopped to ask if she was okay. This school is full of the rudest people. She smiled weakly. “Sorry” She had gotten tears and mascara on my white V-neck.
“That’s ok!” I said encouragingly. “It gives the shirt character!” I gave her a wink and she proceeded to tell me about Zayn. I was supposed to be on her side, and I was! But this was just the way Zayn is. He’s a jerk to girls. She just didn’t see it coming because she put him up on a pedestal in her head. “Sadie, I don’t know what to do to make it better.”
“Nothing!” She said. “Don’t tell anyone. This was a huge weight lifted off my shoulders anyway. You’ve done all you can.” We got back to our lockers and Lucy was bouncing up and down.
“Niall!” she screamed and ran to me wrapping her arms around my neck, knocking me into the lockers. “What did I do wrong?”
“Not wrong silly!” she let go and smiled. “Lake house in two weeks? Bella just told us. I’m so pumped! What happened to your shirt it was clean in two seconds ago!” Uh-oh.
“Oh yeah! Good! I’m excited too!” I avoided the shirt question. She looked around awkwardly not knowing if she should leave or not.
“Well I’ll see you tonight Sadie! Bye Niall!” She gave me a quick kiss on the cheek and ran off with Bella.
“Well that was subtle.” Sadie commented sarcastically.
“Huh?” I thought out loud.
“Boys are so dumb.” was all she said. When I got home I immediately started getting ready for tonight. Kayleigh and I were heading over early to help set up. It was going to be an awesome night. Alex and Jennifer weren’t coming for a reason I didn’t really care about. We had Liam and Cara all to ourselves tonight. I had nothing against Jennifer and Alex but Jennifer doesn’t think anything is funny. I never hear her laugh except when Liam tickles her. Alex doesn’t talk to any of us when we hang out. We sit there talking to Cara while he feels her up in front of us. It’s disgusting actually. She just never says no to him. I think she just needs to let him go. Harry’s been crushing on her forever anyways. I wonder if she even notices. My parents let me do whatever, so I left them a checklist of alcohol I needed and they left it for me on the counter.
We had way too much booze. It was better for us to have too much then not enough. I was going to pick up Kayleigh and we were going to get pizza. Tonight we were getting smashed.
