Letters To Niall

Chapter 28 Loving Life

Chapter 28 – Loving Life

Five Months Later

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm loving school. I can imagine your face right now, your eyes wide, your eyebrows raised. It's a shocker. This isn't a joke. I am actually liking school. Loving it, in fact. It's not like I'm back to being popular. Well, it is. But this time, I'm not taking the popularity. I'm not accepting it. You can say I've rejected it. Why? Because most of my 'friends' are just directioners wanting to know more about the boys.

The news of me and Mairead knowing One Direction spread around the school fast. At first we weren't sure how anyone knew, but then when we went on our instagram's and twitter's the other day, we realised. The boys had mentioned us in tweets. They'd tweeted pictures of us with one of them. Mairead and I had posted pictures up on our instagram's, my favourite picture being the one of me and Niall, which I had set up as my phone wallpaper.

But for some reason, rumours were also spreading about me and Niall being together. People already knew about Louis and Mairead, since on her instagram picture caption she had written, “Me and the boyfriend :) Love him loads!”

It seemed like a bad idea at the time, but now Mairead is just loving the attention. But unlike Bailey, she hasn't ditched me. We're still best friends, and I hope that never changes. 

I watch as she runs ahead of me, her long black/brown hair flying carelessly behind her. I can't help but smile as she pushed through the crowd screaming, "Summer!" I walk casually behind her, apologizing to all the people she's pushed past. They just smile weakily and mumble and "it's okay." I roll my eyes and notice a group of boys playing loud music from speakers and singing loudly. 

This is why I love Summer. 

Everyone is so happy. The weather is (normally) amazing. You can act stupid and no one can judge you. Because the clock has just struck twelve pm, and it's the last day of school. Hello Summer holidays! 

"Hey! Mairead!" I pant, standing on the curb with my hands on my knees as I try catching my breath. I've been running after her for five minutes, and I seriously don't find this fun anymore. Sometimes I wonder how the hell one single individual can have so much energy? Beats me.

I hear laughing from behind me, and I turn around expecting Mairead to be standing there. Who I don't expect to see there though, is Rebecca, her follower Claire, and my ex best friend Bailey. I bit my lip, wanting Mairead to appear out of nowhere and get them to back off. If there's one thing you need to know about my best friend, it's that she's way stronger than I am when it comes to bullies.

You might of thought since I was becoming popular again Rebecca would back off or even consider a steady friendship with me. But no. In fact, it gave her a chance to hate me even more than she already had. She promised me when I was younger she would make my life miserable until the day we leave high-school. So far, she's been good at keeping her promise.

"Well, well. Who do we have here?" I tensed as I could feel Rebecca's smoky breath hit the back of my neck. I could smell the smoke. She had just been smoking. "Oh yes. It's Erin - I think people like me - Chism." 

I shut my eyes and exhaled short, heavy breaths. I had learned a while ago to not take her words to heart. If I listened to them, I would end up over-thinking. And over-thinking gives me stress. I really don't want stress on the last day of school thank you very much.

"Becca." I kept my eyes closed and spat her words out like poison.

She leaned down and hissed in my ear, "That's Rebecca to you, ugly hoe." 

I ignored what she called me and concentrated on what I was about to say. "It's the Summer holidays, and I really don't want any fights or bitchiness to ruin our seven weeks of freedom. Do you?"