Little Secret (Niall Horan)

Chapter 24

I'll Show You

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Naomi's Pov

It's going into my fourth week of attending John Fault Middle School, and I guess I'm doing fine.

Ashton and I, well its been a month, and I know him well enough, we know each other enough, so yeah we're kind of- sort of dating now, even though neither of us has brought it up.

Skylyn introduced me to her group of friends, so now I guess I'm apart of their group, although I mostly hangout with Ashton and his friends.

Trinity got her flock of devil friends to hate me along with her.

But besides that, things are going pretty good.

"Nomes, you alright?" Ashton asks, taking a seat beside me at one of the lunch benches."You've been dozing off lately."

He calls me Nomes.

"Oh, yeah- I'm grand. But uh- can we talk about, us?" I ask, but my gaze focuses straight ahead.

"Yeah sure." He says, but taps his foot impatiently, and I can see him mouthing something to someone but I ignore it.

Out of the corner of my eye I see Trinity nod and wave at him, which he does the same but winks.

He winked at her.

He thinks I didn't see.

Oh babe, I saw.

"Never mind, you go ahead. I just need to think for a minute, love." I say, smiling falsely at him as he rubs my hand and kisses my temple before standing up and walking away.

I cant help but let a few tears fall, hoping nobody sees. I know they might just be back friends after talking it over, but I don't want to lose him. I feel that if I don't progress with 'us' he'll slip away.

And back to Trinity. Or someone who's better.

"You alright?" Tyler my closest guy friend asks, sitting across from me.

Ashton introduced him to me. Well, they're in the same friend circle.

"Yeah I'm okay. A little under the weather I guess." I say, wiping my eyes.

"Don't lie to me. Is it Ashton?" He asks, looking calmly at me, but I know he's upset.

"I'll call you after school, I don't wanna talk about this right now." I refuse to answer him. I know it'll lead to problems.

He nods, just as the lunch bell rings. I grab my bag off of the table, and proceed to my next period. Going a different route in order to avoid Ashton, well all of my friends in general.

I was sent to the office ten minutes after getting to class. The teacher wanted me to calm down in there because I was 'too much of a distraction for the class'.

I stayed in there as long as I could, and ended up being excused from all of my classes.

Once I got home I ignored everyone but Tyler. I told him everything, and he promised he wouldn't butt in, but I knew he would eventually.

Ashton even texted me apologizing and promising that he would never hurt me, and that they're just friends, blah blah.

That line is way overused, and once I heard enough I blocked his number.

I don't need to talk to him right now, all I need is Tyler.

"He'll come up, don't worry.Unblock his number please and just talk to him! It's all about communication, talk or lose him." Tyler says for the hundredth time, but I give him the same response.

"No. He needs to learn his lesson. I won't be talking to him for a long while anyway so even if I did call him, at school if act as if he doesn't exist."

He doesn't even walk me into the school after I get dropped off anymore. He doesn't hold my hand when we walk to classes. He hardly texts me. I'm always the one starting the conversations. I just don't feel as if he still likes me.

And that's exactly what I told Tyler.

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Today is Saturday. I don't intend on talking to anyone besides my parents today. Well my mum, Niall doesn't know about Ashton and I's relationship status.

Actually, I don't even talk to mum.

I actually sat in my room, either reading, eating, or sleeping all weekend.

Mum drops me off at school Monday morning.

Wearing light blue-white colored skinny jeans, my plain black flowy crop top, a red, black and white plaid flannel, and my white converse, I through my hair up into a ponytail, grab my bag and meet my mum outside.

Ashton is waiting for me. Woah. What's gotten into him.

I just keep walking, actually excited to see him waiting.

My stomach drops.

He wasn't waiting for me.

He was waiting for Trinity.

Their hands intertwined. I take a sharp gasp, and I don't hold back the tears.

He notices and drops her hand, running for me, while she stands, her arms crossed as she smirks, throwing me a wink.

I quickly wipe my tears, and begin speed walking away from him, but he grabs my hand, and pulls me into a secluded area of the school.

"Never hurt me, huh? Looks like you did a good job at doing the exact opposite." I yell at him, not caring who sees or hears right now.

"You don't understand-" Ashton begins, but I stop him.

"You know what. I don't wanna hear it, Ashton. The lies you told me. Don't hurt Trinity by telling her the same thing." I say, wiping my eyes before turning and begin to storm off.

He grabs my hand again. I attempt to pull away, trying my hardest to get out of his desperate grasp, but all fails and he ends up leading me back to the secluded area.

"No, listen to me." He says, holding me against the wall, while holding my hands down. "Trinity said she'd hurt you if I didn't try again with her."

"It doesn't matter. You would've hurt me more than she could've anyway." I say, pushing him off of me.

"I couldn't risk you getting hurt! I'm sorry okay, Tyler to told me everything, and I've only done that to keep you safe." Ashton adds.

Lies. I don't care, nor do I believe any of it for a split second.

Grabbing my bag, and binder off of the floor, I proceed to walk away. His stare burning a hole in the back of my head.

"I love you." I hear him say, his voice cracking, a clue telling me that he's crying.

Like he actually loves me.

I just stand there, dropping my binder, and bag right where I am.

I run back, pulling him into me, just taking in his embrace, holding him, hugging him, having him.

Loving him.

He hyperventilates under my hold, finding his way behind me, and gripping my waist.

Neither of us say anything, we just stand there.

He intertwines our hands, as I lean to pick my bag and binder up. I swing the back over my shoulder, and hold my binder close to my chest.

I don't believe him just yet.

We're young, but I'll try my best show him what love really is.

And this is just the beginning.

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Ahmijai x