New Guy

Chapter 22

Hello.. I know the two people I want to say this to are reading this.. So.. Greer and Nina, pleeeaseee stop annoying me to updateee. Not so much Nina anymore, I'm kinda annoying you to update xP But apparently I'm really stressed out bc my eye lid is twitching. i'M TWITCHING. STAHP ANNOYING MEH TO UPDATE!!

Nicola's POV:

"Yo, Boxers."

"Yo," He replies, his eyes seemingly scanning my body.

"Like what you see?"

"Mhm."

A hand on my waist and I'm pressed against him. His eyes sparkling, a smirk plastered on his perfect face.

He leans in and I close my eyes, a cheeky grin forming on my face.

I open my eyes, but Styles is gone. Instead of a pair of lips pressed against mine, I have two smiley boys looking down at me. I groan, kind of disappointed.

"Shh, s'kay. How are you feeling?" Zayn asks with a smile. When did he get here?

"Bleh.." I get out, rolling over with another groan. I wanted that kiss. Would've made me feel better. "Ash?"

"Yeah, baby?"

"Can you sing?" I ask quietly, snuggling up to him. He's still lying down next to me so I don't have to stress my voice very much when I talk to him. He nods and looks like he's thinking for a moment before smiling and clearing his throat.

Zayn's POV:

Baby. Again with the baby.

Singing. That's our thing.

He doesn't know her favourite songs, though.

"Within a minute I was all packed up, I've got a ticket to another world. I don't wanna go, I don't wanna go," He sings and she smiles. "Sudden words are hard to speak, when your thoughts are all I see. "Don't ever leave," she said to me.."

Nicola joins in but sings very quietly.

"When we both fall asleep, underneath the same sky; to the beat of our hearts at the same time.. So close but so far away.."

I haven't even heard this song..? Whatever, if she likes it - I'm cool.

We sit here with her for a while before she drifts off again and we get hungry. Checking the time, we find that it's already 6pm and decide to order pizza for the three of us.

***

Pizza was good. Yum.

I have to head home now so I make sure Nicola's alright before leaving. I hope she gets better.

***

Nicola's POV:

I wake up, thankfully feeling heaps better.

I get out of bed and check my temperature. It's gone down to two degrees over my usual so it's all good.

I sneeze and my head hurts a little so I have some Panadol and get dressed in a hoodie and black skinny jeans, not before taking a quick shower.

My hair is tied in a messy plait that rests on my left shoulder. I guess I'll fix it at school.

***

Greer's POV:

School has been alright so far, but I think it'd be easier if Nicola was here with me.

I fix my hair and grab a bag before heading to the lunch hall, where hopefully I'll find my cousin and her friends.

I'm taking different electives to them so I need to make my own way around the school.

As I turn a corner, someone pushes me onto a locker. Owwies. I look up to find a boy I've never seen before, keeping me against the locker.

"W-who are you?" I ask, kind of confused as to what is even going on.

"You don't know me yet? I'm Justin. You're Nicola's cousin, right? Well I suppose that sucks for you because I have a message I need you to give to her," He says.

I'm about to ask what he's talking about before he punches me in the face. Hard.

"What the hell are you doing, you psychopath?!" A girl's voice comes from a few metres away.

My vision goes kind of blurry and Justin lets go of me, letting me fall to the ground.

Someone that I soon identify to be Liam sits down beside me with a worried expression on his face. Someone gets slammed against a locker, or one of the doors slam. I'm not sure.

"Don't ever touch my family like that again, you douche!"

Nicola - Yeah, that's her - punches Justin in the face and looks very pissed off.

Liam helps me up and leads me away from the two. He's so nice. I like it.

Nicola's POV:

I punch Justin in the face again, cutting his cheek. I don't think I've ever been so... hostile.. towards anyone.

I don't really like acting this way, but I like it even less when people hurt my family or friends in any way. Justin finally gets his shit together and pushes me off him, punching me hard in the tummy.

I start coughing but that doesn't stop me from trying to push him off. Doesn't really matter if I didn't try, considering it didn't work.

He punches me again but this time in the face. And again. And in the tummy. Again. And again.

One last blow to the tummy before I fall to the floor and pass out. Like, I actually, properly collapsed. I feel him kick me in the tummy, obviously not realising I feel like I'm about to die.

My eyes close and my head hurts. I can't breathe. I gasp for air once more and that's pretty much the last thing I remember.

***

I don't know how long I've been out, but I'm still lying on the ground, so I'm guessing not very. I don't try to open my eyes. I can hear two voices yelling at each other. Like, full blast yelling.

Curiousity ends up dominating me and I open my eyes. The two voices turn out to come from Justin and Styles. I've heard Justin being almost this loud, but not Styles. It's kind of scary.

I push myself up off the ground but stay sitting down, propping myself up with my right arm. I wonder how long they've been at it..

Justin notices me watching them and growls at me. I poke my tongue out at him and give him the evils. He rolls his eyes at me like I'm a two year old and continues fighting with Styles.

I stand up and take a nervous step towards them, not really sure whether I should try and stop them.

"Uh.. G-guys.. Please, stop yelling.." I say, kind of quietly. "Please! If you guys don't shut up, I swear I'll scream!"

Both of them instantly stop and look at me, Styles looking slightly guilty. It's only now that I notice Justin has a black eye.

Oh shnap.

"Justin - principal's office. Now," When he gets no response, "NOW."

When I said 'kind of scary', I was wrong. Angry Styles is really scary.

"Um.. I.. Sorry..?" I kind of ask.

Styles just shakes his head and walks over to me, placing his hand on my shoulder. Lol his hands are biiiig.

"Don't be sorry. What you did was wrong, but what Justin did was worse.. So.. Yeah, uh, don't be.." He answers, shaking his head. "Are you okay?"

"Dude, I got to take a nap during school time - I couldn't be better."