When Niall and I stepped into our English Homeroom Class, we were surprised too see no one else had arrived yet. Taking a look at the clock, I realized that we were 10 minutes early. How that happened, I had the faintest idea of. Niall and I walked to the back of the class and took a seat to wait for everyone else to trickle in through the doorway. After I had set up my binder, notebook and pencil case in pristine order on my deck; I looked over at Niall to find he was staring at the doorway. I looked and found a girl with long red hair covering her face, wearing jean shorts and a white t-shirt. She was looking straight back at Niall and her mouth was open to say something when a burly arm reached into the classroom followed by the muscular body of the one and only, Darren James.
"Where the hell do you think your going without wearing my jacket, Erie?" Darren all but growled at the scared looking girl. I watched helplessly as she shook in fear and tried to tell him to let go of her arm but he wouldn't listen.
"I asked you a f*cking question, I expect you to answer me when I ask you a question. Do you understand me b*tch?" Darren asked louder than the first time. I turned to Niall to see his reaction only to find an empty desk. I looked around only to find Niall standing on the other side of the girl.
"I think you should treat this little lady here with some respect Darren." Niall said icily, trying to get the girl to walk away from Darren.
"I can treat her however I want she's my girlfriend." Darren stated possessively turning the girl (apparently named Erie) towards him where he draped his jacket around her shoulders gently and led her out of the classroom. Niall looking crushed, walked back to his desk and sat down. I scotched my chair closer to his and put my arms around him for a minute just hugging the little emotional Irish boy.
"Are you alright Ni Ni?" I asked gently still holding him, his head now lying on my shoulder.
"Yeah I'm fine, I just hate seeing guys handle girls that way." Niall said softly.
"Niall, your too good for this world." I said hugging him tighter.
"I just do what me mum taught me." he said his accent coming out a little thicker than normal.
"God bless Maura." I say laughing quietly. After our short hugging session, we played Apples on a Stick (its a hand game thing, look it up) as kids came into the class in big groups laughing loudly and sitting where they liked. A minute after the bell rang a woman with blonde hair, grey jeans, bright red heels and a black muscle tee came running in, her hair flying everywhere. She went to the chalkboard and wrote her name on the board. She turned towards the class and waited for it to go silent. When it didn't, she stood up on her desk and waved her arms around like a maniac causing everyone to turn towards her.
"Okay now that I have everyone's attention," she started, hopping off the desk carefully and walking over to the chalkboard again.
"My name is Lou Teasdale but you all are going to have to call me Ms. Teasdale according to the Principal here. I am new to this school so I expect you kids not to be absolutely horrible to me, or else I would have to give you detention." Ms. Teasdale said detention with a big dramatic wink causing a couple girls to giggle quietly.
"But to be honest I will try to not give any detentions at all this year unless you set someone's hair on fire or something." Ms. Teasdale said nonchalantly casting her eyes around the classroom and finally landing on an empty desk at the back of the room.
"I swear we were supposed to have the same numbers of students as desks." Ms. Teasdale mumbled under her breath. Before she was about to call the Janitors to take away the extra desk for a different classroom, the red headed girl from earlier came running into class with her hoodie up.
"Sorry I'm late Ms." Erie said apologetically to Ms. Teasdale as she speed walked to the only available desk at the back of the room. As she walked her hood fell back a bit revealing tear tracks staining her pale cheeks with sorrow and a new bruise forming around her right eye.
The picture is from Shane Dawson's "Superluv" Music Video. I hope you like the chapter!
-Zoe
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The Gamble l.p AU
Fanfiction"Sometimes you have to gamble everything you have, to win everything you've ever wanted."
