Keeping Faith

Chapter One- The idiots looked like Nicki Manaj gone wrong.

Noah on the side>>>

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Chapter One- The idiots looked like Nicki Manaj gone wrong.

As a kid I'd never been able to go on rollercoasters. Anything that involved being spun around or upside down I couldn't go on. Even something as simple as hanging upside down on monkey bars at the local park would end up in me showing the town what I had for breakfast.

Hence the reason that hanging upside down on Noah's shoulder is making the world spin and my chips rise from my stomach.

"Noah" I called but instead of it coming out angrily like I'd hoped it came out more like a moan.

"That's what she said." He answered and I could tell he was smirking even though all I could see was his backside.

"Real Mature, Edwards. Now put me down before I put the curry I had for lunch on your designer jeans." It wasn't exactly a threat. More like a promise.

Noah dropped me on the floor within seconds of my finishing my sentence and I smiled brushing my hands on my leggings as if proud of all the hard work I put into getting of his shoulders.

"Come on. Just because I put you down doesn't mean that I'm not going to force you to tell me why you were crying." He stated grabbing my wrist and pulling me down the school hallways.

"I want to go home and stuff my face with all kinds of crap that tastes like heaven so why don't I just tell you tomorrow?" Or never.

"Bull shit. I've known you for 16 years Faith, I know when your bull shitting." He said continuing to pull me along the halls.

20 minutes later I was sat in my back garden watching Noah, Connor, Harry, Dayley, my dad and the rest of the football team prancing around in pink dresses singing to Justin Bieber.

"You know you love me!" Connor sang/screamed whilst doing something which in his world I'm guessing is dancing "I know you care!"

"Just shout whenever!" Harry joined in doing the same 'dance moves as Connor "And I'll be there!"

"You are my love." My dad began choosing to do the most embarrassing dance moves on the planet which made him look like an ape. "You are my heart."

"And we will never, ever, ever be apart." They all sang.

By the time the chorus came around, for the 16th time my head was about to explode. The idiots looked like Nicki Manaj gone wrong and were currently deafening me with their 'singing'.

"I think I am the only sane one in this house." I muttered to myself as I stood up from my seat on the porch swing.

"OKAY!" I shouted hitting the stop button on the stereo as if it was trying to kill me. To be honest I think what I just witnessed did kill a part of my brain. "I give up. You guys are going to be the death of me." Once again I mumbled the last bit.

I walked into the kitchen and picked up the house phone dialling the pizza parlours number. I ordered enough pizza to feed a thousand considering my house was full of boys and grabbed a water bottle out of the fridge.

After the event in the school car park Noah had driven me home and then told me he had a couple of erens to run before he could force why I was crying out of me. I could not wait. Note the sarcasm

Heading back to the swing in the garden, I opened the cap of my water and took a big gulp of it.

"So. Whats the gossip then Evans?" Connor asked patting my leg and plopping down next to me.

"Well, I'm currently in shock after watching a show which looked quite like a parody of a One Direction on concert and you've become a girl." I stated pretending to think about it.

"Haha." He mumbled punching my arm playfully. "Seriously faith, you look like a panda so you've obviously been crying. What did Erin do?"

"How did you know it was Erin?" I questioned raising an eyebrow.

"She's started being a bitch to you ever since you came back from therapy. Have you not noticed?"He said dryly causing me to shrug my shoulders in response.

"C'mon Faith, you can trust me." He pushed as he ruffled my hair.

I stared at my feet for a second and Connor got up of the swing.

"Fine." He said and i let out a breath of relief at the fact I wouldn't have to tell him. "I'll just have to tickle it out of you." I widened my eyes and screamed as I tried to wriggle out of his grasp, failing completely and being tickled to the point I thought I was going to hurl. For the second time today.

"Okay, okay" I breathed and sat up holding my hands over my stomach.

"She told me she doesn't want to be friends with me any more and if I ever talk to her again I'll regret it." I mumbled.

"She said what now?

I stared at him for a second and realised I probably shouldn't have told him.

Connor was also my best friend. I'd known him longer than I'd known Erin and me and him became friends in an instant. Erin joined our little friendship bubble and soon the three of us were like the three musketeers. Connor had to move away for a couple of years after his dad passed away but rejoined at our high school.

He joined the football team with me when I told him I wanted to join, he came over every day during my depression and made sure I had eaten as my dad was busy coaching at school, hell he even snuck me into his house one night when I came to him crying and let me sleep at his house instead of him going to a party. He was the best friend anyone could ask for.

At some point last year, Erin confessed to me that she had been harbouring her love for him since he gave her a piece of grass in our nursery. And yes, I did just say a piece of grass. People seemed to think that me and Connor were going to get together and that upset her a lot so I promised her I would never go there and I never would, I mean that's like marrying your brother-completely wrong- but she seemed to think we were secretly dating and I think that's partly why she suddenly snapped and decided not to be friends with me any longer.

And that's exactly why I shouldn't have told Connor. I knew Connor like I knew the alphabet, and he would undoubtedly go full ninja on Erin which would completely break her heart. Yeah the girl upset me by telling me not to talk to her but she was still my best friend for 13 years, of course I didn't want her heart broken.

The doorbell brought me back from my little story telling.

"Um, don't worry." I smiled, getting up and heading to the door.

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