My Muted Music Love

Chapter Twelve

Chapter 12

Elizabeth

The next day I got to school with a mission. I spent the whole night before trying to think of ways I could get Niall and Liam to become friends and I came up with the perfect plan to do so. Well, maybe it's not perfect, but it should work. Hopefully. I look for Liam and spot him closing his locker. I run up to him and accidentally bump into him whilst trying to stop and almost fall over. I quickly regain my composer and wave at him. He looks at me weirdly.

"Um... Hi?" I then grab his hand and drag him through the hallways until I find an empty room. I open it up and pull him in there.

"Elizabeth? What are you doing?" He questions and I just hold up a finger, signalling for him to wait and start to back out of the room.

"Wait! Where are you going?" I just put up my finger again, looking at him desperately. He sighs and nods his head and I rush out of there. Closing the door behind me.

I then head out in search for Niall. I see him entering the building and quickly walk towards him. He sees me and smiles. Once I reach him, he pulls me into him and kisses me sweetly on the lips. I pull away and smile at him.

"Hey, princess." He greets and I wave before grabbing his hand and pulling him towards the room I left Liam in. He questions me whilst I'm dragging him, but I just ignore him and continue to pull him. Once we reach the room, I open the door and go in. I look to see if Liam was here and was glad to see he was.

"Why did you bring m- What is he doing here?" Niall questions and I give him a sheepish smile.

"I'll just go." Liam says, but I stop him before he is able to and shake my head. I dig in my bag for paper when I see a phone being handed to me. I take the phone from Niall and smile at him before typing.

'No, no one is leaving this room until you settle your differences. I don't like seeing friends, or anyone really, fight. This has been going on for a couple months now and it has to stop. You guys are going to talk and settle your differences.' I let them read what I wrote and lock the door to show them that I'm being serious.

"Elizabeth, I don't want to talk about my feelings. That's what girls do." Liam complains, but I just shrug and they both groan.

"What do you want us to do then?" Niall asks and I take his phone.

'I want to hear Liam's side of the story.' I write and Liam sighs. I sit down on the floor and look at him intently, waiting to hear what he has to say.

"Okay, well I have always liked Nicole. Ever since I met her. I thought she was beautiful, nice, genuine, and something about her just made her seem more special to me than any other girl. I never told anyone because I knew I would never have a chance with her, so I just admired her from afar. I treated her as best as I could, hoping that maybe she might like me if I did, but it never worked.

So, when you had told Zayn and I that you had feelings for Nicole, I felt dejected. I tried to get over my feelings for her in every way that I could, I even helped you get her to become your girlfriend! I thought that it would help, but it didn't. I felt my heart break a little every time I saw the two of you kiss or how she would look at you like you were her knight and shining armour. I wanted that. But I just kept swallowing my feelings.

So, one night at a football game I had made the winning touchdown and won a close game. Everyone congratulated me and I felt pretty good. The next day, Nicole had came up to me. She kept complimenting me and telling me how great I was. She said she wanted to show me something and led me to the closet. There, she had kissed me. I would like to say I tried to pull away, I would like to say that I didn't enjoy it, I would like to say I feel disgusted by Nicole, but I can't.

All I could think about whilst snogging her was how she actually liked me and how I have a chance with her. I enjoyed every single second of the kiss. It was something that I always dreamed about and it was actually happening. I was happy, at least for the moment. I was just thinking about the moment.

Then you opened the door. I pulled away after seeing the hallway light to see you looking at us completely horrified. I froze. But apparently Nicole didn't. She kept telling you about how she didn't like or care for me in anyway and how I forced myself upon her. Everything that she said felt like a blow to the gut. It was like she dug into my chest and ripped my heart out, stomped on it, and tear it apart. It was the worst feeling I have ever experienced.

When I finally snapped out of it, I tried to apologise. I tried to tell you what had actually happened. Why I did this to you. But you weren't having any of it. You didn't want to hear my excuses, but I don't blame you. You have every right to hate me after what I've done. I deserve it. But the only thing that I could think about was how I lost my best friends and the girl of my dreams all in the matter of minutes.

Soon enough, the rest of the school found out about what happened. They all hated me after that. I was deemed as a bad friend and all of my other friends thought I would try to steal their girls and didn't want to risk it, or that I am a player and don't care for any girl's feelings. The only time I was actually spoken to was when I won a football game. That's it. I lost everything important to me due to one mistake. One mistake that I always will regret. I know you won't forgive me Niall, but I'm sorry. I truly am sorry." Liam ends and drops his head into his hands.

I walk up to him and hug him, he is a bit hesitant at first, but still hugs me back. We stay in that embrace for a few moments before pulling away. I look to Niall to see he had a thoughtful look on his face. I pick up his phone and start to type.

'Do you have anything to say Niall?'

"Yeah, I do actually. I'm sorry Liam. I didn't think of how you felt about anything that happened. You didn't deserve any of this, and all I've done was think about myself. I'm not even with Nicole anymore, so it doesn't really matter anymore."

"It's cool man. I just hope that this is behind us." Liam replies hopefully.

"Yeah. It's completely behind us. But if you kiss my girl, I won't hesitate to punch you." Liam chuckled.

"I won't, trust me." Liam says and they do their little bro hug thing and I smile.

Mission Accomplished.