Silence And Sound

Chapter 2.

At midnight I was still walking around in the streets. It was damn cold, but I didn’t want to go home. My mom and dad probably didn’t even care that I wasn’t there. They only cared about themselves. And money. I wish I had normal parents. Parents who cared. Just a little bit. Suddenly I walked into someone. I looked up. I had seen him before. He went to my school.

“Look where you’re going” he said, annoyed that I had bumped into him.

“How about you do the same?” I mumbled.

“What did you say?” he spat. I ignored it and kept walking.

“He asked you something” another guy said. Shit, there was more than one.

“I said he could fucking look where he’s going. It’s not my damn fault that he’s not paying attention to anyone else than himself” I said. I probably shouldn’t have said that. I thought they were going to attack me. Instead, one of them started laughing.

“Louis, let it go. It’s not only her fault” the laughing one said. He had black hair and was wearing a leather jacket. Louis looked at me again, before turning around. He put a cigarette in his mouth and tried to get his friend to come with him. But his friend stayed.

“I’m Zayn” he said “What’s your name?”

“Alex” I said. He offered me a cigarette.

“I don’t smoke” I told him. He chuckled.

“C’mon Zayn, let’s go. There are tons of horny girls on the bar over there!” Louis said and pointed to a bar a little down the street. Zayn shook his head. I tried to walk away, but he just followed me. Was it now I should call Niall and be all like “Come and save me! There’s some creep following me!”? And then he would show up on his motorcycle and beat those guys. And then we would drive away together and he would tell me that he would never leave me alone again. I smiled at the idea. That would never happen. In reality it would be more like, Niall showing up on his old bike in a pajama. Then he would be like “Why are you outside alone? That’s not good. Show me the library”. Ugh, why do I even think about Niall. He can’t help me. He’s a nerd and he’s weak. I need to handle this myself.

“Do you want to come with us?” Zayn asked.

“No, she doesn’t want to come with us” Louis sighed.

“Wait, I have seen you before” Louis said when he finally got eye contact with me. He stepped closer to me.

“Yeah we go to the same school” I informed him. He nodded and started walking towards the bar again. So I wasn’t that interesting, I guess.

“Maybe I should actually start showing up in school” Zayn said.

“I mean if there’s babes like you, I wouldn’t mind coming there once in a while” he whispered before he left with Louis.

I couldn’t stop smiling. Not because I was flattered or anything, but because it was hilarious that he had called me a babe. I had never been called that before. There was only one explanation: He was drunk. I’m like the complete opposite of a babe. Unless he got turned on by a ginger with freckles and giant feet of course… Zayn. I don’t remember seeing him at school actually. But again, he said he was never there, so that’s probably why. Suddenly I felt my phone vibrate in my pocket. I looked at the screen and saw that it was my mom. I turned it off. Why would she care about me? She never did. I decided to just go home. If she called me now, it meant they were done fighting.

When I entered the kitchen, my mom was cleaning the mess they had made.

“Oh, great you’re home. You can clean the living room” my mom said without looking at me.