Death on Track

Chapter 2

Beep. Beep. Beep. Why is school so torturous? Seriously, even at 5:30 in the morning. No human should be up at that time of day. Besides that, I'm already late. I threw my hair into a ponytail as I ran down the steps. I could care less how I look on most days,including today.

I grabbed a Pop-Tart, still in the foil, and practically flew into the garage, like I do just every morning and started to pull out. I was almost at school when I realized that I forgot to pick up Niall and Harry. What is up with you today Juliet? You're being an idiot.

And now I'm talking to myself. Great.

When I finally got to Niall's house the first thing he said to me was, "Why were you so late?" And then I knew that Harry's going to ask me the same thing. Whatever Niall says, Harry will probably say the same.

"It's already been a long day and it's only 6:45."

"Soooo." Niall said, obviously trying to start a conversation,"Are you excited for the meet?"

Well, I'm not, but considering the impression I've made so far today, I decide to lie. "Yeah, I can't wait!"

"Where is Harry?" I was late and now he is, as we sit ouaide his house. School starts in 10 minutes, and I'm beginning to panic.

"Honk the horn." Niall suggests.

I do and Harry finally makes an appearance. What would have taken him so long?

I take the opportunity to steal his line, "Why are you so late?"

"Look who's talkin'!" he replies.

I decide that I don't feel like risking it and coming up with a good comeback so I just drive and ignore them both. As soon as we get to the building I park, jump out of the car, lock it, and run inside leaving Harry and Niall to fend for themselves.

In the two minutes I'm in homeroom I pick up on a couple things:

Grace is dating Niall and there is a new student named Louis.

Ok, number one the least Niall could have done is tell me he was dating one of my best friends. And number two, well there is no number two. But now I just want to see what this new student looks like.

During free period I talk to Grace about this Louis person. Apparently he has blue eyes and brown hair. He sounds pretty cute. I don't know, but he just sounds like it. Then I turn the tables.

"When did you and Niall start dating because he was too careless to even tell me."

"About a week before track season started. And we kind of wanted to keep our relationship a secret...but of course it leaked."

"Oh yeah, with your luck everything seems to go wrong." I say sarcastically and we both laugh.

You can't keep anything secret in high school. Not for long anyway.

Once school had ended, I found out that Louis's first day would be tomorrow, and I was awkwardly extremely excited. After a boatload of homework, track practice (of which Harry involuntarily drove), and showering,
I fell into bed thinking about tomorrow.

We rarely get new kids; we go crazy we do.