My Muted Music Love

Chapter Eleven

Chapter 11

Elizabeth

The next morning I get to school to see a crowd of people in the middle of the hallway. I join the crowd to see what's going on. I am surprised to see Niall yelling at some guy to leave him alone. I never seen him angry before, but he looks pretty scary. The guy he's yelling at looks at Niall pleadingly which makes me wonder what he did to make Niall look so mad.

I quickly back away and wait for the crowd to disperse so I can get to my locker as they are blocking the hallway. I then see Niall shove his way out of the crowd and walk towards my direction. I don't think he sees me so I gently grab his arm when he is about to pass me. He turns around and his gaze softens a bit when he sees me. I give him a questioning look.

"Hey, princess. I kind of want to be left alone right now. Can I talk to you later?" I nod my head and he kisses my forehead before turning the corner and disappearing from my sight.

I look towards the crowd to see that everyone left to go to their classes. I see the guy Niall was yelling at looking dejected and walk towards him. He looks at me with a confused expression when I stand in front of him and wave. I guess I just wanted him to feel better after what just happened.

"Um... Aren't you Niall's girlfriend?" He asked and I nodded.

"Then why are you talking to me?" I just shrugged.

"You saw what happened?" I nodded.

"Do you think you could talk to him for me?" He ask hopefully and I bit my lip and gave him a sympathetic look. He sighed.

"I didn't think you could. Hey, how come you're not talking?" I touch my throat and he seemed to understand.

"You lost your voice?" I raised an eyebrow at what he came up with and just decided to go with it and nodded.

"Oh well that sucks." I shrug.

"Well I have to get to class." I nod and pull him into a hug. He seems surprised, but hugs me back.

"Um... I guess I'll see you." I smile and wave goodbye to him before heading to my locker.

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When I enter the lunch room I start to head towards the table I usually sit at when I spot the guy Niall was yelling at earlier- I really should learn his name- sitting at a table by himself. I decide that I should sit by him and walked to the table and sat down. He looked up at me with a shocked expression as I grinned and waved at him.

"Why are you sitting here with me?" I raise an eyebrow at him and his face flushed red when he realised that I can't actually reply because I 'lost my voice'. He hands me a sheet of paper and I pull out a pencil and reply to him.

'You seemed pretty lonely. Where are all of your friends?' He read it and a sad expression overcame his features.

"I don't have any." I look at him surprised.

'Why not? You seem like a nice guy.' He looked at what I wrote and chuckled darkly.

"Your boyfriend." He all but spit out. Niall? How did Niall cause him to have no friends?

'Wanna talk about it?'

"No." He stated.

'Okay, let's start over. I'm Elizabeth Blake. Nice to meet you.' After he read it he looked at me and I held my hand out for him to shake. He took my hand and smiled.

"Liam, Liam Payne. And may I say that it's nice to meet you too."

Before I am able to respond, I feel someone pulling my other hand and yanking me away from Liam. I turn around to see Niall glaring at Liam. His face is red and I can see a vein popping out of his neck. His hand is clenching into a fist and he's gritting his teeth. Looking at him up close like this makes me flinch a little.

"What are you doing?! Are you trying to steal another one of my girlfriends?" Niall practically screams at Liam. Steal another one of his girlfriends? Wait, what is he talking about?

"No, she came up to me. I didn't go near her myself." Liam says softly, not looking at Niall.

"Yeah right. Like I'll believe that." Niall scoffs. I know I have to Interfere before something bad happens so I tug at Niall's arm. He looks at me with a questioning look. I try to pull him with me towards the lunch room's exit and he reluctantly allows me to do so, but not without throwing a glare at Liam. When we leave the lunch room, I find an empty classroom and go into it. I look at Niall expectantly.

"What?" I just look at him and he sighs.

"You wanna know why I was so angry at Liam?" I nod my head.

"It's a long story." I just raise my eyebrows and he sighs before starting with the story.

"Okay, so a while back Liam used to be one of my best mates. It was him, Zayn, and I. We were like the three musketeers. We were so close to each other and we used to always hang out. Well back then I was dating Nicole. Liam and Zayn both knew how I felt about her and they actually even helped me ask her out.

I always saw Liam looking at her in class, hugging her a bit longer than a friend would usually hug someone, listening to everything she had to say, and acting like she was the only girl he has ever seen. I never really thought much of it. How stupid was I? I should have know that he liked her. But in my defense, he never told anyone that he actually liked her.

So one day, I got in trouble for eating in class. It's not my fault I was hungry. But anyways, I was sent to go to the office and on my way there I heard something in the closet. Me being as nosy as I am decided to check it out. When I opened the closet door I was shocked to see what I saw. I was looking at Liam and Nicole snogging! I couldn't believe it. I was heartbroken. I couldn't believe that Nicole would cheat on me, and that Liam would steal my girl.

When they broke apart, Nicole kept telling me how much she 'loved' me and how Liam and forced himself upon her and that she never cared for him in any way and hardly liked him as a friend. She kept repeatedly apologising, but after all she said about Liam, I couldn't think of forgiving her. Even if Liam betrayed me, no one deserved to be spoken about like that.

Liam tried apologising too, and I actually tried to forgive him. But I couldn't. All I could think about was how he betrayed me and it just kept making me angry all over again. Soon enough, everyone found out about what had happened. They automatically took my side and Liam lost all of his friends. Nicole, on the other hand, didn't loose too many friends because of how much money she had. But now the only time anyone talks to Liam is when they are congratulating on a football game. So, when I saw you with him earlier, I don't know. I just didn't want history to repeat itself." He finished with a dejected look.

I pull him into a hug and he automatically wraps his arms around me. He puts his head in my hair and takes a deep breath. It seems to calm him down a bit. I pull away from the hug and grab the paper I was using earlier. I pick up my pencil and write.

'You know I wouldn't do that to you Niall.' He reads it and sighs.

"I know you wouldn't, I'm sorry." I smile at him and pull him into a kiss. The bell rings and we pick up our things and head to our next class. Everything that Niall told me is running through my head. They both seem so distraught about the whole entire situation and I know how to help.

I'm going to get Niall and Liam to become friends again.