He hadn't slept... But who had expect him to being compleetly beaten up? Niall was already willing to scream out when he sat up straight on his bed. He was stiff and had the feeling he wouldn't even make it to school, wait, what did he say? How about not even make it to the door?
He groaned getting up as he dragged himself to the bathroom. He looked at himself in the massive mirror on the wall. Well.. It had been worse.. Niall was skinny, simply because he had a small body posture and those bruises made him look so fragile he wanted to beat the mirror to pieces becausehe hated the sight.
He bit his lip and looked away from what he did not want to see and stepped into the shower, turning the water hot as he sighed.
"Niall?" A view knocks on the door followed after the call. "Yeah?" Niall said hard enough to be heard over the sound the falling water made. "You alright honey?" Niall nodded as he noticed she wasn't able to see him. "Yeah, I'm fine."
His mom used to jump in, take the punches for him, but Niall had told her to stop it. His mom thought it was horrible seeing him getting hurt, but it was exactly the same for Niall, specially when she was taking what he deserved.
They we're both scared do death, but what could they do?
He got out of the shower and dressed himself slowly. Atleast he was a little less stiff. His dad was out already as his mom wanted to check up on him, but he refused to undress again. He didn't want his mom to see him like that because she'd only get more worried and probably end up jumping in again the next time.
Not like Niall never jumped in when his dad was hurting his mom, but most of the time it only made things worse for both of them.
He took on his shoes and coat as he stepped outside. The cold air hit him right away and he sighed. Snow was beautiful, really, but it was defenitly not practical when you had to go somewhere.
Niall decided it was too dangerous to use his bike and walked, regretting it with every step he took, yet he kept on walking. He felt blessed by the fact he didn't have pe today. By that, what would he say when people asked? His face was bruised too...
Would he say he had gotten in a fight? He would probably give himself a bad image with that one. He got attacked? Wouldn't that make him look weak? Tell them his dad had done this? He mentally slapped himself at the thought only. He could sure do that if he wanted to get beaten into his grave.
He sighed for probably time number 100 that morning when he walked into the schoolbuilding. Once again he'd have maths the first 2 hours. It wasn't like he disliked mister Payne. He disliked the fact he wouldn't be able to concentrate on anything today and maths was the subject he needed most concentration for.
He waited ti'll the bell rang to move to the classroom being very carefull walking through the hallways to make sure no one would bump into him.
This time, he wasn't late in the classroom, but something else took the class his attention now. Niall looked up to see Mister Payne's more then worried as he tried to ignore everyone looking at him and walked to the back of the class and settled down.
He could see that his teacher was doubting hard wether to ask him what happend or not, but it seemed he had decided not to as he started the class. Niall was drifting off again, staring at the outside world behind the window, his chin resting on the palm on his hand.
The outside world seemed so peacefull when he wasn't there. Birds jumping in the snow in order to find food. He even noticed a view rabbits under the tree. He smiled weakly.
"Niall?" Niall heard the voice somewhere awake. "Niall?" His teacher repeated harder just like yesterday. Niall looked up and mumbled a silent "sorry."
"Stay after class please." Was the only thing he got in return. Seriously? He was getting detention for staring out of the window? Great... He could defenitly use that right now! Time couldn't have gone any slower and Niall was more then relieved when the bell finally went off, but then reminded that he had to stay.
He bit his lip as he watched the classroom go from full to empty. Mister Payne closed the door as he walked over to Niall, took a chair and sat down next to him.
"What happend to you?" He asked, something Niall hadn't really expected. He had rather thought of an: "When do you have time for detention?" and damn, he still hadn't made up his mind about what to tell people who asked.
He looked down, suddenly feeling really insecure because he wasn't gonna talk about what really happend neither did he know what else to say..
"Hey, are you alright?" Niall slowly looked up as blue met brown. Niall swore he had never seen a teacher so worried about a stupid. "I'm fine.." he lied, looking down okay. "Your cheek says otherwise.." his teacher tried. "Oh.." Niall said stupidly because hell, like he didn't know he was all bruised.
"Listen, you don't have to talk about what happend if you really don't want me, just know I only want to help." Niall nodded slowly. Eventhough he thought his teacher was really nice, he still wasn't planning on talking about it. Liam noticed and changed the subject.
"So, how's maths..?" He hadn't ask Niall over to his desk today on purpose. He just knew the guy wouldn't have concentration. "Bad..." Niall admitted. "Sorry... I don't really have concentration today.." "I noticed." His teacher smiled slightly. "Say, how about I tutor you after school when you really don't get it anymore? You're not the only one in class who needs help ofcourse, so why not have me alone for an hour a week?" He said smiling to encourage the younger boy.
Niall nodded slowly as he got up. "That'd be okay I guess.." "Good." Liam waked back to his desk after he replaced the chair he had used back by the table it belonged too. "Have a nice day Niall." "Same for you mister Payne.." With that he left.
Liam sighed softly. He normally wasn't willing to help students this much. Not like he wouldn't tutor them if he had trouble with their subjects, but he never felt so worried when he saw one of the guys beaten. This new student just looked so fragile and most of all not happy and it did something to him which he couldn't explain at all.. He didn't knew why... He just wanted to help him..
It has been so long! I'm sorry ): I'm really busy with school and have alot of stories to work on. I'll probably pick out a view to finish first and this one will be one of them! I'll try to write more when I have inspiration. Stay fab! (;
