Dangerously In Love (n.h)

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

I never saw Niall for four days after that. Well, I did but whenever he sees me coming his way he turns around and goes the opposite direction. And when I sit next to him in English he gives me the cold shoulder, not uttering a word and not sparing me a glance. I honestly don’t know what his problem was. All I did was help him when someone was aiming to kill. I don’t understand why he’s avoiding me. 

When I opened my locker a little note fluttered out of it. I was confused. Really, really confused. I was about to read it when Cindy suddenly popped up next to me.

“So, there’s this party tonight. You wanna come with?” She asked me. Cindy and i have become friends in the past four days. She has other friends of course but I don’t sit with them. Some days she’ll come sit with me outside, other days with her friends. She always said that I could sit with them inside the cafeteria but I like the outdoors more.

“Um, I’m sort of grounded.” I told her while subtly putting the note in my bag.

“What did you do?” She asked me. 

I hesitated. I didn’t know if I should tell her the truth or not. “It was because of something I did before I moved. I’m grounded for two or three months.”

“Can you sneak out?” She inquired.

“I don’t think so. I’ll see if I can though.” I highly doubt I’d be able to but the look on her face wanted me to come so desperately.

“That’s good enough.” The bell went. “I’ll see you later.” 

She walked away, her black her flowing down her back. I shut my locker and made my way to my first class. I was a few metres away from room 30 when I heard someone say my name. I turned to find Niall, lurking behind a wall.

“Niall?” I called out. He ushered me forward with a curl of his finger.

“I..uh, need to...” He began but then he stopped. I cocked my head forward in a way to make him go on.

“What?” I asked him. 

“I..” He said again then the warning bell went off. “Never mind. You should get to class before you’re late.” And with that he walked away. His broad shoulders swaggering along with his muscular torso. I shook my head to clear it before walking into World History.

I sat at my desk in the third row from the back. I had no one in this class, I was practically a loner. But people do talk to me sometimes. People know me because I’m new. I took out my books and also the note from my locker. As the teacher started off the lesson, I unfolded the piece of paper.

There wasn’t any writing on the paper. Only a drawing of some sort of logo or something. It was a circle with an upside down cross inside. Two guns were on either side of it in the back, barely visible. I don’t know what the sign meant but it creeped me out. I know what kind of sign it was though, I have something like it tattooed onto my body, underneath my ear. But mine is different. This one... I feel like I’ve seen it before but I don’t exactly know where. I stuffed the piece of paper back in my bag and pushed it out of my mind.

Nothing interesting happened after that. Not until I walked into room 42 for English. I sat in my seat beside Niall and as usual, he moved his body around so it wasn’t facing me. He kept looking at me from the corner of his eye and he kept opening his mouth like he wanted to say something. That was more than what he’s been doing the past week. 

“Right, class.” Ms Cunningham began. “Since we’re learning about William Shakespeare and his writings, I would like you all to pick one of his writings out of this hat” - she held up an Abraham Lincoln looking hater- “and create either a powerpoint presentation, speech, essay or an act from a scene. You will to do this in partners and it should be done in a month. And don’t you think about slacking off, this will make up 50% of your grade. Your submissions must be immaculate, meaning you must put 110%.”