His Inner Demons (N.H. AU)

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You know that feeling, when you wake up and you just know that it's going to be a good day? Well this morning I woke up 2 hours before I was supposed to get up, my mom was singing Along to her music while she was blow drying her hair, and I had a headache.

I don't know if you would call that a perfect way to wake up.

I wasn't able to go back to sleep, so I just decided to get up and try to eat something and to get ready. I stepped out of my room and looked down the hallway in the direction that the music was coming to see my mom staring at me while she was during a strand of her hair. "What are you doing up so early?" She asked while she turned off her music and took the wand off of her hair.

"I woke up early." I say bluntly while wondering why I would ever leave my room."well since you don't have to get up for a few hours, I suggest studying for English class. You're still failing. Why are you still failing?" She asked glaring at me through the mirror and grabbing another strand of hair to curl.

Before I could answer, she speaks again. "I'm setting up a conference between your teacher and I, I'm tired of seeing that mark on your grades every semester, do you know how hard I work for you to have a good lif-"

"And you do work hard and so does dad, but something tells me that I'll be passing that class really soon." I singsonged. mom gave me a strange look. "I'm setting up a meeting, don't forget that." She continued fixing her hair. I walked back into my room and started changing. I fixed my hair so it was down, pushed to the side and curly, and wore only mascara with lip gloss. I wore a black romper with a denim jacket and and flats.

I wanted to leave without any more interrogation from my mom, so I take my bag and leave quickly and go to my car, only to see that she already left. I call Emily
"Yeah?" She said
"Hey meet me in the cafeteria at school in 15 minutes, I forgot to tell you guys something yesterday, take Leigh-Anne too, you have better luck waking her than I do."
"Will do, I'm actually walking out right now, and Leigh-Anne's awake already, just called her. I'm going to a coffee shop do you want anything?"
"Yeah just get me decaf please."
"Mkay"

I hang up and start my car and drive to school. I park my car and walked inside, and start to look for my English teacher since I had some time to kill before they got here. I needed to know what he looked like.

I walk towards the teachers lounge, where he most likely was at. I open the door to see him just sitting there, just grading papers that I probably didn't do all that well on. "hey Mister!"."what is it Elizabeth, I am grading papers." He said annoyed.

"Nothing I just wanted to know what he looked like, so I don't talk to someone else." I explain to him. "His hair is dyed blonde, are we done here?" He asked impatiently. "Well I can tell you that we aren't done here!" I was slowly losing my patience with him. He shortly and bluntly says"his eyes are blue", not even looking up from the paper. "This school has a million people with blonde hair and blue eyes! Can't you be just a LITTLE bit specific!" He looked at me stunned.

"You'll know what he looks like soon." He said, getting back to grading his papers. "Now what is that supposed t-". "OK MS. JOHNSON ILL SEE YOU IN CLASS!" He said, shooing me out of the lounge. Before I could say anything, he had already shut the door. I got my phone out and saw a message 'hey we're gonna be a little late! Lots of traffic and the coffee shop was packed!'. I put my phone back in my bag and start to head towards the cafeteria. When I walked in, I heard whimpers coming From a table all the way in the Back. The cafeteria lights were off and I had to way of turning them on. I make my way to the table when I see blonde hair with brown at the roots.

"Are you ok?" I ask cautiously. "No" I hear a deep voice say, and he started to cry once more."do you need any help? You look new."."yes please"i hear the voice say. I assumed that it was Niall. "Why are you crying?" I felt really bad for him. "I don't know, im new and I don't know where anything goes and I feel stupid for that." He said. "Well that's okay, I was new too, I got lost so many times it isn't funny." I said, trying to lighten the mood. He chuckled.

"What's your name?" I ask, even though I already most likely knew the answer. "My names Niall.""oh okay, well...hi Niall. Can I see your class schedule?". He hands me the schedule and I take a look at it. He all of my classes.

"Well uh, you have all of my classes except for physics.""really?""yeah"

He was about to open his mouth to say something when leigh-Anne and Emily walk into the room, talking loudly about the prices of the donuts and cookies in the coffee shop. "Liz, I got you coffee, your favorite kind and this is how you repay me?" Emily yells.

"Elizabeth Rosemary Johnson, I literally got up at the ass crack of dawn just for you. Wow out of all the days, you choose a school da-". She stopped talking and noticed Niall. "Liz, who's this?" She said, looking at Niall."oh, yeah, his names Niall. He's new here."

Leigh-Anne walked past me with my coffee and sets it down in front of him, as if she was giving to him. "You know, um, since you're new here, why don't you let me help you around school with your classes yeah?" She asked, batting her eyelashes. You could tell that she was crushing already and she just learned his name. "Um, your friends showing me around already." He said pointing to me. He stood up with the coffee and brought it to me. "I can't drink coffee." He said, sniffling as he said it.

Leigh-Anne looked at me with a confused face. She stood up awkwardly from her seat that was across from him.

By then, the bell rang, and we all said goodbye to each other and started going to our classes, Niall following me like a lost puppy.

We were walking to our first class. Which was English.