Rumors(one direction & 5sos FanFiction)

Chapter 1

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*SCARLETS POV*

I couldnt help thinking he was going to kill me. He was so mad, so fuming with anger, he wouldnt even speak to me. He sat in the drivers seat just staring out the window, looking away from me, refusing to talk.

"im so sorry," i said, really meaning it, but i dont think Niall was buying it.

I dont blame him really. Here i was telling him that i had fallen in love with another guy and it didnt help that it was his best friend. My "im sorry" just wasnt going to cut it.

"please talk to me Niall. Dont shut me out. I dont know how it happened. It just...did." No reply. Not one indication that he was even hearing what i was saying. He just stared out into the darkness.

We were parked in the dirt, off the side of the winding road that led to nowhere but a defunct garbage dump. i remember how black the night had semed with the cloud cover blotting out the stars. The only light had come from the moon and the tiny speckles of light from the neighbohoods bordering the acres of dry land we were now in the middle of. It was hot and still, no wind, no cool breeze. Only the low rumble of distant thunder hinting at the arrival of an off-season, summer storm.

The air was sticky and thick wihtout the car windows open. His silence seemed to make it even worse. I didnt want to be hurting him like this. You never get into a relationship thinking about how its going to end. I just couldnt continue to be with him when my heart was really with someone els, even if i hadnt done anything about it yet. I dont know what i expected him to say. I shouldnt have picked a stupid time telling him the truth. I knew i couldnt keep my feelings in any longer. When i pushed him away, i could see something different about him. When he wouldnt let me move away, I should have just demanded to go home. Instead i told him i didnt love him anymore.

I started crying quietly at first, out of shame i felt for telling him this way, then, the more Niall imploded with his silent rage, i grew more and more anxious and uneasy siting out here with him all alone. suddenly, i wanted to get out of the car. i tried the door but he had locked the car.

"Let me out, Niall," i said cautiously, "your scaring me." i saw his head jerk just an inch to the right and then stop. Very slowly them, He turned towards me, not moving his body, only his head.

As he turned, the corner of his eye fixed itself on mine. as i focused my own eyes on his, i could feel something move through me, down my spine. Like ice being dropped unknowingly down the back of your shirt. A cool, clean, trickle of fear. He started the car without looking away from me, then with deliberate motion and eerie calm, put it in drive.

"Let me out, Niall, Please just let me out! ill walk home, you can leave me here! dont drive when your like this! Niall please," i pleaded. He said nothing. Slamming his foot against the gas pedal, tires spinning dust and dirt into the air behind us, the car peeled out onto the road.

Growing more panicked by the second i began to beg him to stop the car. The faster he went the louder i screamed. With every turn on the curvy, two lane road, my body pulled stronger and harder to each side of the car. I never thought to put my seatbelt on, there just wasnt time. Sliding across the front seat and slamming into Nialls side as we entered the hairpin turn, i lost all sense of time. It felt like we existed in a great big vaccum. No sound, no noise, i did not feel a thing. It was the comatose like silence that i would sense whenever i closed my eyes at night. In my dreams i was a pawn in a board game,being pushed along the curvy black path towards the space i would and on.

"loose a turn" it would say. "Lose my life," i would think.

As we bulleted past the speed limit sign at what the police officer later told my father was somewhere around 50 miles per hour, i could feel the left side of the car life into the air. I could see Niall rise higher and higher above me as he over corrected the car to the right. As the car turned over for the first time i slid across the seat towards the passenger door, hitting it hard but i felt nothing. I felt nothing at all, even while the car was rolling over and over, side over side, flying forward and off to the right, landing on its left two wheels with the front bumper stuck in a chain link fence and its right two wheels hanging over the drainage ditch, dangling 30 feet out into the night.

I had no idea how long we were trapped this way. Laying flat on my stomach, on the hood of the car, covered in a blanket of crackled glass and twisted metal. i opened my eyes. only as i focused on a bloodied hand, my hand, holding onto the rear-view mirror, did the sound come rushing back to me. All i could hear was screaming, louder and louder, closer and closer. This is where my memory began that night. Right in the middle of this nightmare, i was jolted to life. I had no memory of anything before that very minute, had no idea what had happened or why. it was when i saw his face, his mouth moving, shaping words i couldnt not hear or understand, that i realized the screams i was hearing were my own. Niall was yelling at me to stay still, not to move so that the car did not fall completley over the edge. He was outside the car, reaching across the hood fro my hand. i reached for him, not knowing that i had broken up with him, not remembering that i was in love with his best friend. I did not realize that this person nearly took my life. Now, in my mind, he was my boyfriend, and he would let me think this was true for nearly a year.

From the past i had lived with these boys i couldnt understand why i was in this position now. Im just a student in college on a study abroad program who happened to find true love in this place. Looking back, i couldnt figure out if this was a mistake or not.

(A/N alright!!!!! i hope you liked this! i feel really proud of it! i had help writing it and i feel it went great. Just to let you know so it wont be confusing! In the next chapter it will be 1 year ago. So this chapter was in the future. Hope that makes sense! i hope you love it! tell your friends, spread this story everywhere. Feel free to read my other story as well. DONT FORGET TO READ MY FRIENDS STORY AS WELL! Lets get this some reads! some votes! some comments! i love you guys so much thank you!!! (: