Red Lipstick [editing]

Chapter 4

Niall POV

I walked into chemistry and saw that my seat next to Liam was taken, I looked over to Leighton and she was wearing a smile, she had planned this. Liam rolled his eyes at her and shifted in his chair flicking her off. 

Leighton tapped the girl next to her and told her to sit in the empty chair behind her so I could sit next to her. I slowly started to walk to my seat, as I sat down she put a paper on my desk that said “I always get what I want, you should learn that. Xo”

I looked at her slightly aggravated, was I going to have to do this every day? Put up with her bugging me. She kept talking to me during class, I tried to ignore her but I couldn’t something about her was captivating. After class she ran out and I met Liam at our lockers.

“So how was it?” he asked

“it wasn’t too bad she talks a lot”

“Shes gonna get you to be with them” he said with a slight chuckle not as upset as he usually was about them

“Liam how do you know so much about them?”

Before he could answer Louis and Zayn walked up to us “Liam hasn’t shared the story with you yet?” Zayn said with a smirk

 “How he used to be one of us, how he started all of this” Louis finished

“Bugger off” he said

“Come on Liam you know you miss us you remember all the fun we had?” Zayn said with a smile

“Just fuck off Zayn” he said as he grabbed his bag

“Fine we’ll leave but you won’t be able to stay away for long” Louis laughed as Liam and I walked to the lunch room.

“So you used to be one of them?” I asked

“Yeah, I was…. I was the leader, I started it all” He said with his eyebrows frowned

“What happened, why did you get out?”

“I almost died once, it was really bad. But they didn’t blink they never came to see me, so I got fed up and left to America for the summer with my sisters. When I came back Leighton was with Harry they had moved on like it was nothing. So I just stayed away.” He said looking back at them all sitting a few tables behind us

“Do you miss her?”

“Yeah, sometimes, I really did love her. I’m the reason she wears that red lipstick, and she still wears it to get to me”

I was taken aback by everything “What started everything?”

“It just started with Me Harry and Zayn being bored and being in to different things. We liked to graffiti, take things and intimidate people, eventually we got a reputation and we didn’t do anything to stop it. Then after a while we turned into different people. You know our parents sent us to military school in grade 8, but we just came back stronger and angrier. We started stealing bigger things, putting graffiti everywhere and beating people up who looked at us wrong.”

“and you’ve changed?”

“Yes and no, I’m still the same but I just don’t have them anymore. I do everything on my own, they aren’t loyal people they will fuck you over in a moment’s notice if it means something better for them!”

“Is that why Harry didn’t knock you out when you talked to Leighton like that?”

“Yeah, we hate each other, well at least I hate him, but he has a small amount of respect for me.”

“If he apologized for not coming to the hospital…”

 Before I could finish Liam said “I’d forgive him instantly, but he never will, Harry is stubborn, and the others won’t because Harry wont.”

I listened to Liam talk about the old days with the guys an Leighton, the look in his eyes let you know he missed his mates. He had been friends with Harry and Zayn since they were 3, why wouldn’t Harry just say sorry so they could all be friends again.

But, then again why would Liam want to be a part of that… Did Liam miss all the fighting? He criticized them some much for being how they are… but he missed them. I was confused.  When he told me about them the first day at the party he left all of this out.

Harry POV

I looked over at Liam and he had a stupid look on his face, the look meant he was telling an old story. I wondered what he was talking about now; Niall didn’t seem too pleased with what he was saying so I assumed he was talking about us.

I know Liam misses us, especially Leighton, but he was never going to get her back.

“Liam is being such a tosser, he knows he wants to come back” Zayn laughed

“Yeah, you know he has to be bored with not fighting and hanging around with the kid” said Louis

“Guys why can’t we just all be friends again?” Leighton said as she looked all of us in the eye

“What are you Rodney King? And because I didn’t do anything wrong, why do I need to apologize?” I said with harshness in my voice “Why do you care anyways? Do you want him back, or the new kid?”

I could tell my question upset her “Don’t be such an ass Harry” She said as she kissed my neck and stood up “I love you and your mop” She walked away slowly then she turned back to me, put on her red lipstick smiled and started walking over to Liam and Niall.

“Louis WHAT is your sister doing?” Zayn asked puzzled

“I have no idea but I’m not certain I like it…” his sentence trailed off as Leighton sat next to Liam and put her arm around him.

If she was trying to piss me off, it was working…

Leighton POV

As I sat down Liam looked at me and said “What do you want Leighton?” there was a sense of rudeness in his voice

“I just wanted to see how you were treating my new friend here?” I turned to look at Niall “I think I left a tube of lipstick on your dresser… I’m gonna need that back.”

His eyes shot open then he looked at Liam, Liam looked right pissed. “What the fuck were you doing in his house Leighton?”

“I just wanted to let him know that I wasn’t as bad as you like to make me seem”

“So the fact you didn’t come see me in hospital, and that you dumped me and then got with my best friend, or the fact that when I got back from America you ignored me” He paused and looked at me with hate filled eyes “You are telling me that, THAT isn’t bad? Fuck off Leighton!” 

I moved my arm off of his shoulders; he knew why we couldn’t go see him in the hospital. We didn’t have a choice; there was nothing we could do…

“We didn’t ignore you! You came back from holiday and walked passed us.”

“You started dating my best friend Leighton! Do you know think I’m not gonna be pissed about that?” He said with a small amount of hurt in his voice

I looked at Niall and he was watching us eyes wide open.

“Come round my flat after school, both of you” I patted Liam’s shoulder and winked at Niall

I sat back at the table next to Harry, everyone looked at me like I was mental…