Cheriam ~ Never Enough

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Liam's POV

I waited for a while until Cheryl was out of sight, before I stood up and walked towards the huge building. I could understand why she didn't wanna be seen with me, I mean who would? They don't want me to drag them down with me and I honestly get it. I don't want to do that to anyone either.

"Hey where did you go?" Niall asked as I approached him and Harry by our lockers.

"I talked to Cheryl." Before I could continue I was interrupted.

"What?? Cheryl Tweedy?" Niall asked surprisingly. "You talked to her again?"

"Yes Cheryl Tweedy. I forgot one of my books outside when I talked to her the other day so she just wanted to give it back to me." I replied.

"Oh that's nice of her." Harry smiled.

"Yeah I guess."

"So that's it? Why didn't she just hand it over here or something then?"

"Do you really think she wants to be seen with me?"

"Liam... I'm sure that's not why.." Niall said supportingly. "You were gone for a while though, so you must have talked some more with her?" He smiled.

"It's okay." I smiled. "I don't really mind. She told me she wants me to join the show choir as well.. I don't know why she keeps going on about it though. I practically ran away from her the last time she asked me." I laughed.

"You really should. You have an amazing voice and you would really stand out." Harry told me. "Plus Cheryl took it up in class earlier. She mentioned you and that's why we're having the auditions. You should've seen Zayn's face, it was priceless." He laughed. I was a bit shocked to be honest. Why would she do that for me?

"That's odd.. You know I can't do it though, even if I'd want to."

"I know why you feel like that Liam, but don't you think this would be a great opportunity to stop Zayn from hurting you like this? If you join the club, you're gonna be the best male singer in there. Then when we win the competition with your help, everybody in school will love you." Harry said enthusiastically, making me laugh at how determined he was.

"He's right Liam." Niall said. "You should at least give it a try. Singing is what you love and they shouldn't be stopping you from doing that."

"Guys thanks for trying, but I'm not too sure. I've never even sang in front of people like that before."

"You've sang with us before and it sounded great."

"You should both audition actually." Harry proposed suddenly.

"What?" Niall asked.

"Like you said, we've sang together and it sounded really good so why don't you both join?"

"I'm in. Let's do it Liam." Niall smiled. "We can audition at least. That can't hurt can it? We don't even know if we'll get to join right?"

"Fine, I'll do it." I eventually agreed to which they seemed excited about. "We'll do it together." I smiled and Niall nodded along giving me a fist bump. I knew this was something I really wanted, but my stage fright and fear of Zayn had been in my way for so long now. Following my dreams is the right thing to do though, right?

•••

"I hear you're auditioning for the show choir?" I heard a familiar voice behind me, and I froze in my steps. I didn't reply or turn around to look at him so he came up to me and stood really close to my face, with his friends gathered around behind him, making a small circle around me. They made sure there were no way I could get out of there without facing them.

"Answer me!"

"Ehh maybe." I said quietly. "I haven't decided yet.."

"I'm gonna make this decision easy for you." He said and I felt a couple of arms grabbing mine and saw Louis, Zayn's little helper, and another 'friend' of his, James, on either side of me. They literally did anything Zayn told them to. I guess that's how they're staying at the top with the other popular kids and not down here where I am.

"Stay away from the show choir and stay away from my girlfriend like I told you before." He said.

"I haven't done anything." I managed to say even though I was getting scared of what they where gonna do.

"I hear you've been talking to Cheryl lately and she's the one trying to get you to audition?"

"First of all I only talked to her twice and second of all, I thought you weren't even together? Or did she actually sink that low to date someone like you?" I said smugly and saw that he was getting angrier, but I just couldn't help myself. That comment just slipped out and I regretted it straight away.

"You know nothing about what's going on between us!" He said and punched me real hard in the stomach so I fell to the ground. "Just do us all a favour and stay away from us." He said and then they all left.

I was still sitting on the floor in pain and a bit out of breath after they left and I looked up to see Cheryl talking to Zayn further down the corridor, while the other boys were waiting by the entrance, all laughing at me.

Cheryl and Zayn were clearly fighting about something, as she hit his chest, not too hard, but not too gently either. He only had a smug smile plastered on his lips as usual though. I could see that there was some anger in his eyes as well though, and it got me worried that he might do anything to harm her. He wouldn't hurt her though, would he? She's got him wrapped around her little finger.

I looked over to Zayn and Cheryl once again as I stood up. Cheryl looked at me with an apologetical face. I just nodded in her direction to show that I was fine and then walked to my next class.

I guess that's settled then, I'm not auditioning.