Friends • l.s

Prologue

HARRYS POV

"Hmph..." Ethan, Trevor, Phoebe and I were currently sitting on the 4th floor staircase at school. It was lunch and none of us had any idea what to do; basically the every day schedule.

"Why don't we just talk to random people as they pass us; just like back in grade school," Ethan suggested.

Ahh grade school; the place everyone both dreamed of never going back to, and wishing you were still that young innocent age.

"Why not." We all shrugged, waiting for a couple passing students to walk up the stairs.

"Someone's coming," The 4 of us all looked towards the stairwell seeing a group of 6 girls giggling about something unknown. We watched one trip up the last step before speaking...

"Hi, excuse me - yeah you," Trevor spoke as one of the girls pointed to herself.

"I have a question to ask one of you lovely ladies, do you mind?" Trevor winked at no one in particular.

The girls exchanged looks, giggling and then one stepped forward with a short "Yes?"

"Well uh..." Trevor started out, "My friends and I heard your squad coming up the stairs and we were just wondering..."

Trevor took a dramatic pause with a deep inhale before continuing and saying "Do you agree that my friend here," pointing a finger at Ethan, "looks like a burnt zucchini?"

One of the girls started obnoxiously laughing along with Trevor, Phoebe, Ethan, and I whilst the other 5 looked puzzled and a little annoyed.

"Uhm, no?" the girl answered furrowing her perfectly defined eyebrows with a questioning tone.

"Are you sure? I mean look closely at him..." He continued.

"I'm alright," the girl awkwardly replied, fiddling with her fingers.

"No, I mean really look at him. Look deep into his soul, you can sort of make out the shape of a zucchini; but crispy looking. Therefore he is a burnt zucchini." Trevor rambled on, making the poor girls look more and more awkward by each passing second.

"The fuck are you talking about, mate." A shorter light skinned girl with jet black hair and piercing green eyes said from behind all her friends.

"Who even said that," Ethan laughed. "I don't believe I saw anyone's mouths moving."

The girl pushed past her friend, came towards Ethan - looking angry - and stopped dead in front of him. "I did mother fucker."

Ethan looked stunned, to say the least.

The girl had her hand on her left hip looking directly at Ethan with threatening eye contact. "Don't underestimate me because of my size buddy, I'll make you wish you were never born!" The nameless girl shouted making me flinch.

"I didn't.. i mean- uh, sorry? I didn't mean to offend you... Sorry!" Ethan looked horrified and it was absolutely hilarious. All of us stayed quiet though; because to be honest, this girl did seem like the type to hold up her end of the bargain.

"Kieran, chill out." One of her friends held one of - The girl now apparently called Kieran's - arms.

"Yeah that's right little boy. Tiny but mighty." Kieran did the, "I'm watching you", hand movement from her eyes towards Ethan and began walking away; being followed by her pack of wolves.

As soon as the girls were turned the corner and out of sight we all began hysterically laughing. I had tears running down my cheeks, as did Trevor and Phoebe. Ethan, on the other hand, was starring at us intensely with daggers for eyes. Damn, if looks could kill.

"It isn't funny." Ethan grumbled, crossing his arms and slouching back against the wall.

"It kind of is," Phoebe replied as she wiped stray tears from her eyes.

"Whatever."

"Come on Eth, it was just a joke. You're not really pressed about the preschooler getting under your skin are you?" Came a reply from Trevor.

Trevor was the type of dude to say what was on his mind; even if it hurt someone else in the process. He wasn't scared of anything, except losing his family, and always had a positive attitude towards life. He was tall, built, had slicked back dirty blonde hair, jade green eyes and was quite the ladies' man.

Let's just say, if he wasn't straight as fuck, I'd be all up in that shit.

That's enough out of you, brain.

"No..." Ethan rolled his eyes, slumping lower until he was laying flat on his back in the middle of the stair-way.

We all chuckled more until it fell into more silence.

"It was fun while it lasted..." Phoebe muttered.

Not many students were in the school because most everyone preferred to eat their lunch at the hospital across the street; the hospital had small venues like subway and a pizza palace.

Why aren't we at the hospital too? We're broke.

That's how we all met really, besides me and Trevor. During lunch one day I met Phoebe while walking around the halls with Trevor. A couple days later, we met Ethan.

I guess you could say the whole "having no friends" concept was something each of us had in common; minus Trevor, he had quite a few, being on the Basketball team and all.

Having the same interests and hobbies as the others was just a bonus, we got along great.

***

25 minutes had past and we creeped out a few more innocent people.

The bell was about to ring for our next lecture, so we began gathering up our things. We still had a few minutes to spare, and we heard footsteps making their way up the dirty steps.

"Hi!" I chirped in a very obnoxious tone.

A boy wearing a grey hoodie with brown khaki pants and black vans looked over towards the source of the noise.

He had brown hair, bright blue eyes and a perfectly sculpted jawline. Damn.

"Hi!" The guy said back, using the same exact tone of voice I had.

"How are you!" Same voice.

"I'm great, how are you, friend!" We continued on using the happy squeaky-like voices.

"I'm so peachy, mate! I'm Harry! What's your name?!"

"Pleasure! Louis!"

Louis, that's a nice name. I thought to myself.

The bell rang and we all got up not wanting to be late for class. My English teacher, Mrs. Shelhourne, is an absolute dick. She won't let lates off for anybody; if you're 15 seconds late, you're sent all the way back down to first floor to grab a late slip. Stupid.

"Cool meeting you, Louis! See ya 'round!" I called. I heard a quick "You too, bye!" Before I rounded the corner and walked down towards my locker to retrieve my supplies.