Honestly (A Niall Horan Love Story)

Chapter 1

Jessica's POV

Life can be a roller coaster. With all it's twists and turns. Unexpected drops. That basically describes my life. It's not always bad. I still have my parents, my cousins, and a couple friends. But that's pretty much it, not that I'm complaining.

I used to have these two best friends. We were so close in middle school. We did almost anything together and we told each other everything. When high school came around they just dropped me, like they didn't really like me and just wanted my secrets. They're still best friends just not with me. But now I'm just like fuck them. They were never really my friends if they can just do that to me for no good reason.

I have better friends now. They're really nice and hilarious. Did I mention that some of them are like super smart? I'm smart too it's just that sometimes our teachers don't know how to explain anything. Even if I asked for help after class. They always say the same thing as they did during class.

Even though I hate all my classes there's always this one thing that I look forward to everyday. His name is Harry Styles. I have all my classes with him and just seeing his curly mop of hair can shine a light on my day. Harry isn't my boyfriend if you're wondering. I just really really like him. Green eyes, dimple, and everything. We have talked to each other a few times but my awkward self just made everything else awkward. But I'm pretty sure that he would never like a girl like me.

Other than my awkwardness I'm just very plain. Nothing special about ol' Jessica Douglass. My name repeats in my head. It keeps on going. Now it's not stopping.

"JESSICA" I snap out of my thoughts to see Niall clapping his hands in front of my face. "What were you doing?"

"Y'know just thinking."

"About Harry aren't ya? He's a bad he's a baddie Jess."

"I know Niall. That's why he would never ask me out. I'm pretty sure I'm too much of a goody two shoes for him" Niall's right but I still have a crush on him. Harry has gotten in loads of trouble. Fights mainly. You wouldn't really expect that from a guy with a really adorable face and curly hair.

"I'm just tellin' ya."

"Then why are you friends with him? You keep telling me this but he's like one of your best friends."

"Haz and I go way back. I can't just leave him. He needs a balance of friends"

"What do you mean?"

"Like ya know how Zayn, Louis, Liam, and I are friends with Harry right?" I nod my head. "We aren't his only friends. His other friends influence him, tell him to fight others, give him drugs. We keep the sweet and caring side of Harry here"

"Oh" I don't fully understand what he's saying but I sorta got it. "Well whatever. It's just a crush Niall."

"Sure. Just make sure ya know what's good for ya" Niall is one of two people who knows that I like Harry. The other is my best friend Tiffany. Speaking of Tiffany here she comes now.

"Hey girl. How's your day?" She puts herself right in between Niall and I. Not that I'm complaining.

"Pretty good I guess." I say. Tiffany and I were walking home since it was the end of the school day.

"Well bye ladies. See ya later?" Niall walked away but gave a small wave as he left. Tiffany stares at him as he walks away.

"Is there something going on between you two?" My eyes widened, surprised at her question.

"No no. We're just friends." I never really thought of it that way. I just saw Niall as like a best friend. Nothing more I guess. Does Niall like me in that way? Probably not. I would have scared him off by now. Plus I don't think he'd fall for a girl like me. I'm confusing most of the time. And he knows I like Harry so it doesn't matter anymore.

"Sure you are" She says winking.

"I swear Tiffany. He's more like my best friend"

"I thought I was your best friend? We live next to each other!" We are best friends and neighbors. It's pretty cool living next to the one you're closest to. We can hop the fence and we'll be in eachother's backyard. We've also thought about building a bridge between our windows since their in front of each other, but that seemed like too much work.

"I can have more than one, can't I?" I honestly only have two best friends. They're the one's I know I can trust with my life and everything in it.

"Who else is in this endless list? Hmm?"

"Just you two pretty much"

"Good. I don't want to share you any more than I do now." We reached our front lawns and door at the same time.

"DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT." I shouted as I walked into my house. "I'm home mooom!" I say into the kitchen.

"Okay sweetie. Are you hungry?"

"Ooh yeah. Can you make mac and cheese please?" She nodded and took out a box of the store bought product.

I love my mom dearly. I love my dad too but its hard to spend time with him. He's always out on business trips around the world. I wish I could go with him, but I'm still in high school and I kinda want to finish first. It's been a dream of mine to travel. I share it with my mom but she's actually been places. With my dad of course. She went with him on his business trips and she hopes that we'll get to go with him someday. I'm an only child so it makes it easier on expenses.

I go upstairs to my room and drop my backpack. I literally belly flop onto my bed and rest for a few minutes. Something hits my window and I'm pretty sure it's Tiffany trying to get my attention. I open my window so that we can talk to each other. It's very convenient for us to have our windows across from the other.

"Hey Jess, can I come over? I'm super bored."

"Sure let me ask my mom first." Suddenly we hear a loud scream coming from downstairs. I instantly panic. "MOM?!" My heart starts to race and I run downstairs. I notice that I left the front door open but I don't bother to close it since I'm freaking out right now. I get to the kitchen and I see my mom on the floor. Blood coming out of her head. The light fixture that was on the ceiling in between the kitchen and dining table is now on top of my mother's unconscious body.

"Hello? Yes we need an ambulance right away!" I hear Tiffany speaking into the phone. I'm too shocked to move. Too panicked to think. I just stare as the paramedics put her body on a hospital stretcher and into the ambulance. "Do you want me to call your dad?" I'm brought back into real time by Tiffany snapping in my face.

"I'll call him. I think he's almost home from his trip." I dial his number with our house phone.

"Hi sweetie. I'm almost home. Do you need anything?"

"I need you to come home as fast as you can and drive me to the hospital."

"Why? What happened to you? Where's your mom?"

"Something happened. Mom's already in the ambulance." I break down immediately after. I hear my dad freaking out. Asking me questions. I don't respond since I can't get any words out of my mouth. I feel Tiffany trying to comfort me, giving me tissues and rubbing my back.

Dad, we need you.

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