Niall made sure to put his sleeve a bit more down before he walked into the classroom.
No one could see it. Not Perrie, not his mom, not his dad, not his maths teacher and specially not his bullies.
He was late.. Once again. It wasn't because he didn't care though, but when he was about to leave he had managed to hit his arm as he started bleeding again and obviously he had to clean that up first before he'd come to school. By that he felt cursed because it was quite a hot day and well, he was forced to wear long sleeves now.
Liam looked up when he heard the door open. Niall was late.. Again. He bit his lip as he looked up to face Liam. He was only 5 minutes to late this time, but he was still too late after all. "Niall.. you're late again?" Why did he even made a question of that, it was pretty obvious, wasn't it?
He nodded slowly, facing the ground again as he tortured his lowerlip with his teeth. "I'd like to speak to you after class." Liam said softly. Niall gave a small nodd and like normally walked to the back of the class to take place next to Perrie who was waiting for him along with her questions.
Niall came up with an excuse and luckily she didn't bother to ask more.
Liam got up to explain a view things after five people had the same question. His eyes fell on Niall. He looked troubled and it wasn't just the maths.. He could tell, for some reason.
"Alright class.. Make a note that you'll have the mathstest next monday. Don't forget the material you need. You're allowed to pack your bags now."
He said as he finished the last e-mail he had to write. The bell rang a minute after as everyone left expect Niall who stayed exactly where he was. Liam stood up and walked over to him.
"Niall, you can't keep running in late." "Sorry.." The boy didn't face him, just kept looking a the table. "It's okay.. Just not again." Liam said softly, not really sure what else to say now which was stupid because he was the teacher!
"How's maths?" "Okay I guess.." "Are you okay?" "M fine." His eyes told Liam something else. They looked empty, like windows reflecting his soul and it made Liam worried. He knew he shouldn't be worried, or well, atleast not this much, but he couldn't help himself.
"You know you're always welcome right?" "So you can kiss me again and tell me it was a mistake?" Niall responded, now looking up straight in Liam's eyes, who didn't knew how to respond. "Why do you care about it in the first place..?" He asked slowly. Niall had pushed him away after all.
Niall looked down again, the empty expression on his face returned as he slowly got up, grabbed his back and slowly walked to the door, stopping right in front of it.
"I got claustrophobic."
He said as he walked out. I got claustrophobic.. I got claustrophobic... The words kept replying in Liam's head. So... He didn't mean to push him away? He wasn't sure wether that made the situation better or worse.
Did that mean Niall liked him back? This was bad.. Really bad..
After another class, Liam left to the teachers space. His locker was there, plus, he wanted to get some coffee.
He heard a familair laugh and turned to see Zayn. "I swear to God, that faggot is getting spammed by the whole school on twitter." he told his friend. Liam saw him before. Wasn't he called Nick? "That blonde goes to hell.." He laughed. "Not like he deserves any better in that first place."
Liam frowned. Could they be talking about Niall? Enough blonde people in this school, but he had seen Zayn's behaviour in Niall's direction before.. He decided he'd find out about this when he got home. Those kids weren't the only ones with a twitter account you know.
He passed them without saying anything as he walked over to the teachers space and walked over to get some coffee. "Heey Liam." His collegua smiled at him. "How was your day, done teaching already?" Liam nodded and faced Louis Tomlinson, who was a music teacher at this school. "What about you?" He asked.
"I'm done teaching for today, but I still have to take a look at a view projects." He sighed. "What projects?" Liam asked interested. "The seniors who choose music as an exam subject had to write their own song, which I have to listen to and them points for at the things that had to be in it."
He explained. Liam nodded slowly. He had loved music class when he still had been in high school himself. "I have a 10 already." His collegua chuckled. "Perrie Edwards and Niall Horan did a great job." Liam swallowed. If Niall wasn't around him he'd atleast get mentioned, causing him to be practically everywhere. He was glad to hear the lad was better at music then maths though.
Could maybe the song give him more information about Niall himself? "Can I listen to it?" He suddenly asked. He saw he suprised Louis, but he just smiled, glad someone was interested. "Sure. It's only the boy singing though." He chuckled. He took out his ipod and earplugs as he handed it over.
"I can't stop listening to it..." He said embarrassed as he settled on a chair with his tea. Liam laughed softly as he pressed the play bottom. He listened full attention, the song started off with a violin playing, mysterious sounds on the background as a piano jumped. This was already amazing. And then...
Then Niall's voice joined.
"In this world you tried. Not leaving me alone behind. There's no other way. I'll pray to the Gods: let him stay. The memories ease the pain inside. Now I know why... All of my memories keep you near. In silent moments, I imagine you'd be here. All of my memories keep you near. The silent whispers, silent tears.."
"Jesus..." Liam said, amazed by how beautiful the song was, sad though. "That's what I thought." Louis laughed softly. "The boy wrote the lyrics after Perrie made the music." "How does he even come up with this?" Liam asked still suprised by what he just heard.
"His brother died because of cancer. He said he wrote it for him." Liam's smile immediately dropped at the news. "He had a brother?" He questioned. "Yes, he died two years ago." Louis answered. Niall hadn't told him more, this was the only thing he knew.
"I see.." Liam mumbled something. This song indeed told him more about Niall and he was planning on finding out only more.
Daddy Payne. He was suppossed to stay a teacher though xP Please let me know what you guys thought of this chapter! I'll try to update as soon as possible. - Liam x
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