Mr. Popular

Why You Gotta Be So Mean?

I sit on my bed looking at my homework. 'If an athlete pulled a calf muscle what would you do if there wasn't ice?' is the question. Stupid sports medicine. I roll my eyes and flop down onto my back and stare at my ceiling.

"I like you," echos through my head.

I groan and roll over in my bed causing my books to fall off my bed.

"Hey missy what's going on in here?" Eleanor asks walking in

"I'm confused," I say

"Hmmm about the Harry thing?" she asks

I nod and look at her.

"I know what'll help, Perrie is coming to town with her band, Little Mix, and we're getting together, come with," she says sitting on the foot of my bed.

"Okay, promise Harry wont be there?" I ask

"I promise now come on lets get you ready," she says pulling me off the bed.

She pushes me into the bathroom while she picks out an outfit for us both. I strip and climb into the shower and wash my body. When I'm done I wrap my robe around myself and step back into my room.

"Okay I have the perfect outift. Now lets work on your hair," Eleanor says pulling me back into the bathroom.

She pulls in the desk chair and sits me on it. She blow dries my hair and starts flat ironing it. When she's done she grabs one if those bump things you put in your hair to put in your hair. She pulls my bangs back and puts the bump thing under it and Bobby pins them back. She turns me around in the chair and puts blue eye shadow on my eyes and silver hoops in my ears. She pulls me up and pulls me into the bedroom. She hands a dress to me and I look at it. Its blue and looks low cut and about to hit mid thigh. I pull the dress on carefully and El hands me black Madden Girl heels and I pull them on.

"Beautiful, now I'm going to get ready," she says going into the bathroom.

I sit on my bed and stare at the opposite wall. When El gets out of the bathroom she pulls on a yellow dress similar to mine but tighter and shorter, she pulls on black stilletos and turns to me.

"Do I look okay?" she asks.

I look at her dress and shoes and nod then I look at her hair. Its naturally wavy self pulled to one side and small black studs in her ears.

"Look good," I say

"Good now lets go we're meeting Perrie at the club," she says

I nod and we walk out of the room together. We get to Eleanor's car and climb in driving to the club. We get there and Perrie is waiting outside for us.

"Hey girly," Eleanor says walking over to her

"Hey girly," Perrie says hugging her

"So this is Molly my roommate," Eleanor says introducing us

"Hi its nice to meet you," Perrie says offering me her hand

"Hi nice to meet you also," I say shaking her hand

We walk into the club and I look around. Drunk bodies grinding against eachother on the floor and the smell of alcohol heavy in the air and the music blaring loud and the lights flashing.

"Wow this is weird," I say

"How is this weird?" Perrie asks

"Perrie she's a band geek, no offense, she spends most of her time practicing her instrument and doing homework," Eleanor says

"Oh I see," Perrie says

"Hey you guys are mean!" I yell

They laugh and just pull me to the dance floor across it and to the bar.

"Three pints please!" Eleanor yells

The bar tender nods and fills the glasses passing them to us. We grab them and walk to an empty table.

"Hey Molly there's a cute guy checking you out!" Perrie yells

I look to where shes pointing and see a guy with chocolate hair that covers his eyes and sunglasses. That's weird why is he wearing sunglasses inside? And he has a small soul patch growing on his chin.

"Hey he is cute I'm going to talk to him," I say standing up

"Look at miss 'All I do is practice my instrument' go," Eleanor says

Perrie laughs and I just roll my eyes chugging half of my pint and walk over to the guy.

"Hello," I say "I'm Molly,"

"Hello love I'm....Dylan," he says

I give him a puzzling look at his hesitance but shake it off.

"Wanna dance?" I ask

He nods and grabs my hand pulling me to the floor. He wraps his arms around my waist and we start rocking to the music. He smile and I see he has dimples. Harry has dimples. I like guys with dimples.

"I wanna see your eyes," I say reaching for the sunglasses

He tenses a bit and I slowly take the glasses off. I stop short as I see the first hint of the olive green.

"Harry?" I ask

"Hi Molly," he says sheepily

"What the hell?" I practically scream

"Molly please let me explain!" Harry pleads

"Explain what? That you were here and led me on thinking you were a different person? How long were you going to carry that out if I didn't find out?" I ask

"Harry who's this loser?" a girl asks standing behind Harry

I recognise her immediantly her nasaly voice her bleached blond hair and her overly fake tan.

"Elaine this is Molly Fonley from high school," Harry says

"Miss band geek herself? Where's your pigtails? And your braces and glasses?" she asks looking at me

I feel tears pricked my eyes and I look around realising a lot of people are now watching us. Eleanor and Perrie have stood up beside our table watching. Eleanor looking angry.

"Look shes going to cry! Harry we made her cry!" Elaine yells wrapping her arms around Harry

Harry smiles and hugs her back. He looks over her shoulder and mouths "Band geek".

I let the tears fall from their dam and quickly rush to the door. I hear Eleanor yelling after me but I don't stop. I know my way back to the campus from here if I take this heels off and am careful I should be there in no time. So that's what I do. I take the heels off and hold them tightly and take off running down the middle of the road.

When I finally get back I slowly walk up the stairs and to my door and open it. I flop onto my bed and stare at the ceiling.

"Molly?" I hear Eleanor's voice say as the door opens

I turn my head and look at her and Perrie standing in the shadows.

"I don't want to talk just leave me alone," I say

They nod and Perrie leaves and Eleanor goes into the bathroom. I quickly get up and change into my pj's and crawl into bed. Not even caring about how my ruined makeup is still on my face.