Parallel (Ziall Story AU)

Chapter 3

When the bell rang Zayn stood up, grabbed my backpack and put it over his shoulder.

''Here, I'll help you.'' He said, smiling. Why is he helping me out?

''Oh, Thanks...'' I said shyly. Why am I acting so shy towards him?! He's Zayn!... But he doesn't act like him.... He's different...

Zayn is normally serious, and he never really looks happy in public, sure he can always fake a smile, but I always knew there was something missing in him...

So what's going on? This is not Zayn. Did Mason change him?

''You alright there?'' He asked. ''You look confused.''

''Oh, no it's alright, I'm just nervous, you know... It's hard being the new student..I'm kinda scared'' I lied, I think I'm going to need to lie a lot in this place.

''Oh, don't be'' He said. ''People don't bully here...Well atleast not me haha'' He chuckled and looked at the ground.

''Y-Yeah..'' I said as we kept walking. There aren't many student in this school actually, I did see lots of types of people though, atleast there's diversity in here.But it's not as big as I thought, Springdale must be a small town I guess.

''So Niall, where are you from?'' Zayn asked me and then turned his head back to the hallway full of students.

''I'm from Mullingar, in Ireland'' I said, proud of my Irish roots.

''Yeah, I can see that.'' He said chuckling. I do have a thick Irish accent, so i'ts pretty obvious.

''Why did you move here?'' Zayn asked me.

Fuck what should I say? I'm not going to say that a kid dragged me here from another world, that's gonna sound ridiculous.

''Personal reasons!'' I lied. 

''Oh, alright then'' Zayn said, letting it go.

After walking several more steps we arrived to the boy's locker rooms, which were at the other end of the school.

''Here's your backpack'' He said, handing me it. ''Just go get changed and then go to the gym, alright?'' He said.

''Okay, thanks Zayn'' I said.

''No problem, I'll see you later'' He said smiling, he waved at me and then he left.

As I went to the boys locker room everyone stared at me, as usual. Do they ever have any new students in this school? Probably not.

I changed and then I walked into the gym.

When I walked in the Gym I saw alot of guys either sitting down, talking or playing basketball. I felt out of place.

Why am I here? I kept thinking to myself.

''Hello'' Someone said.

I turned around to see who it was. It was a boy, he looked younger so he was probably a freshman.

''Hi'' I said bluntly.

''So you're the new guy everyone's talking about huh?'' He said chuckling.

''Everyone's talking about me? It's barely second period how is that even possible?'' I said.

''It's a small school'' He explained.

''Oh, that makes sense'' I said, crossing my arms.

''I'm Kyle, nice to meet you'' He said.

''I'm Niall'' I said.

''I know.'' He said smiling. Huh? this must be a really small school after all.

After a while I heard a familiar voice, again and again and again.

I kept searching for the source of the voice, until my eyes landed on...Liam? He was playing basketball.

OH MY GOD.

I kept staring at him. Watching him play, he acts different... Not like himself.

Dear God, what did I do to deserve such terrible fate?... Okay now I'm being dramatic.

Kyle turned to see who I was staring at.

''Oh, that's Liam Payne, star athlete, honor student,  a lot of people admire him.'' He said.

''Really? Wow he's nothing like Liam'' I accidentally said. 

Kyle just glanced at me, but I guess he ignored it. Good. I wasn't in the mood of killing someone else for knowing my secret... Just kidding! Haha. I'm so quirky, I need to stop.

We stood there for like 5 minutes talking about school and whatnot. Then suddenly, out of nowhere I got hit, very hard, I almost got knocked out. I fell to the floor.

''SHIT!'' I heard someone say.

I see Liam running to my rescue.

''Are you alright?! I'm so sorry! That damn ball went into a totally different direction'' He said.

He he...One Direction... I mentally laughed at my own joke... ''Im okay, I guess.'' I said, rubbing my head. ''It's nothing, don't worry about it.''

Liam looked at me with a worried look. ''You sure?'' He asked.

''Yeah, it's fine, Liam'' I said. I don't ev- WAIT. Did I just say his name?! OH SHIT. I'm not supposed to know that yet! Why do I always have to say the wrong things?! 

I mentally slapped myself.

''Huh? How do you know my name already? Aren't you new?'' He said full of confusion.

''I-I...My friend Kyle told me your name!'' I say pointing to Kyle, but there was no one there.....

''Who's Kyle?'' He asked. Shit, were did he go?

I was looking around the Gym, but there was no sight of him... That little freshman bailed on me. This is probably why I have trust issues.

''Maybe the ball hit you too hard...'' Liam said. ''You sure you're fine?'' He asked.

''Y-Yeah...'' I said, in embarrassment, scratching the back of my head.

''Okay, then... See you around...'' He said standing up and heading towards the locker rooms.

Nice way of re-making your friends, Niall...

The bell snapped me out of my thoughts so I made my way to the locker room, got changed and left. As I was walking down the hallways alone, I was thinking of how I embarrassed myself infront of Liam... I haven't been myself either.

As I kept walking down the hallways I started to notice that people were staring at me, if you're all going to keep staring at me atleast say hi.

I noticed that I don't even know where I'm going because I don't know where my third period is. I reach to my pocket and pull out my shcedule trying to look for third period, after a few seconds I find it.

Thrid period, Biology.

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AN: SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, this chapter was kinda short I know, but the next chapter will be interesting ;)

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