Smile. ON HOLD(Punk Niall Horan Fanfic)

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(Talia's POV)

I can't believe I'm sitting here, with a gorgeous guy...and he's not making fun of me. Luke as amazing. For the first time in years, I'm not sitting alone at lunch. I had found out that Luke and I have the last two periods of the day together. Which I was thrilled about. I finally had a friend. I've been so alone and I've finally met someone who didn't care about what people thought. He didn't even care that I was the schools biggest loser.

Maybe he's pretending Talia.

No. He can't be. Can he? He probably is...Luke was talking but I had stopped listening and I just looked down on my lap and frowned.

"Tal?" Tal? Did he just give me a nickname? Oh my god. I can't- "Talia, you alright?" I looked up at him and forced a smile onto my face.

"Yeah why wouldn't I be." I knew he didn't by it. I wouldn't have either. Luke opened his mouth to say something but the bell rung, signalling that lunch had ended. I stood up and grabbed my book and phone.

"Wanna walk to class together?" Luke asked. I faked smiled, once again, and nodded. Sure I was happy that he wanted to walk with me but...he was faking. Luke stood up and took his phone out. "Can I have your number?" My eyes went wide and I looked at his face. He had a tint of pink laying on his cheeks. He's blushing?

"Oh...um-sure." I said. I took his phone and put my number in. I gave it back to him and I handed him my phone. He punched in his number as well and gave it back to me. I looked at my phone and giggled. "Lukey-poo?" I said putting my hand over my mouth, because he had put that as his contact name.

"Of course." He winked. I bit my lip trying to hide the grin that was trying to slip out. I shoved my phone back into my pocket and looked back up at Luke. We started walking, me trying to keep up, but everyone was leaving at once. I could hardly see him anymore.

"Luke." I said quietly. I said it so low I could barely hear it myself. But somehow, Luke heard me. He quickly turned around and grabbed my hand. He smiled and started pulling me along. I couldn't breath. Luke was holding my hand. A guy. Holding. My. Hand. This was such a foreign feeling to me. I don't even know what it is. I shook my head and just paid attention to Luke pulling me. But that stopped, because my eyes met Niall's for a second. He looked like he was gonna kill someone...me? I looked away, but still felt him staring at me.

I had been focusing on Niall's stare, that I haven't even noticed that Luke and I were outside of the lunch room.

"Let's go to our lockers yeah?" I nodded and walked to my locker. I heard Luke's footsteps right behind me. When I got to my locker, I found out Luke's locker was only 6 lockers down to the right of mine . I haven't even noticed him...well it's probably because I ran to toilet this morning. I did my locker combination and gathered all of my stuff and closed my locker door. When I closed the locker door he was there, leaning against the other lockers.

"What Niall?" I hissed. Niall rolled his eyes and a chuckled.

"I wouldn't get so mean with me if I were you Talia." Niall pushed my shoulder making me hit against the lockers. "And another thing-"

"Talia. You alright?"Luke asked. I looked into his eyes in fright. He understood. "Come Talia. Let's go. I don't want to be late." He grabbed my forearm and dragged me away from Niall. I heard Niall growl under his breath.

"Thanks Luke." I said while sighing.

"No problem Talia. Anytime. " Luke said smiling. "Hey what's his problem anyway?" Luke said letting go of my arm. I pulled on my sleeve and looked down at the ground, watching my feet cray themselves.