- Cuts and Bruises - - Niall Horan -

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-Kendall's POV-

I wake up everyday to the same routine; get up, check for more injuries, get ready for school. You might ask: why do I check for injuries? Well it just so happens that whenever my soulmate gets hurt, it shows up on me as well and vice versa. It can kinda be a pain in the ass sometimes.

I'm hoping my soulmate isn't some serial killer or something, but I highly doubt that or I'd look much more hurt.

"Kendall! Breakfast!" My mom yells.

"One second!"

I run into my bathroom and continue getting ready. I walk out my bedroom door and run into my little brother.

"Kendall! Jeez I feel sorry for your soulmate, you're so clumsy."

Ugh. Little brothers. I go downstairs and grab my toast from the toaster and sit at the counter.

"Is Ava giving you a ride to school?"

"Yes mom, as usual."

I finish my toast and hear a car beep from outside. Must be Ava. I grab my backpack and say goodbye to my mom. Great. School.

I get in the car with Ava as she turns the music down a bit.

"Got any new injuries?" I ask her.

"Not any new ones, no. I still have a scar on my stomach from who knows what. I hope he's ok." She says.

We pull up to school and go inside to our lockers. We were fortunate enough to get lockers almost next to each other. We say goodbye and I meet up with my other best friend Sterling, to go to class.

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Finally lunch time. Ava, Sterling and I meet up and all go sit at our usual lunch table. I guess you could consider us a clique, if cliques only had 3 people. A group of boys walk in the cafeteria and it's almost like a hush went over the room. Niall Horan, head of the boys, is in front. Next to him is his right hand man Harry Styles. Then Zayn Malik, Liam Payne, and Louis Tomlinson are right behind them.

I don't get what the big deal is about them, I mean yeah they're attractive, but it's pathetic how girls and even some guys just throw themselves at them.

They start to walk in our direction, but move to a table next to us. Sterling freaks out.

"Holy fuck guys! What if one talks to us?! I really hope it's that Zayn one if you get what I'm saying." Yeah, Sterlings gay if you couldn't tell by his last statement.

"Calm your tits, Sterling." Ava says, "I bet they don't even know our names."

"Oh contraire." A deep voice speaks up, it's Harry, "Brown eyes here is Ava, Mr. Obsessed over here is Sterling, and you are.." He begins to say but an Irish accent cuts him off. "Kendall." Niall says. He stares at me and I can see something in his eyes that I just can't read.

"Well, now that everyone is introduced, you all can go back to gossiping about us." Zayn says with a wink towards Sterling. His face is now bright red.

They all turn back to each other and continue eating. Ava is the first to speak up in a hushed tone, "Did you just hear that?! They know our names. I wonder how?"

"Probably just heard it around." I replied. I didn't think much of it and continued eating my lunch.

After we were all through, I stand up to take my trash but feel someone stick something in my side pocket of my jeans. I turn and face the person and it's none other than Niall. He winks at me and turns away to his friends again. Weird. I pull the paper out and it's his number written on a corner of a paper.

"Ooh what's that Kendall!" Sterling says, "Is it those 7 little digits from Mr. Blue eyes?!"

I blush and look down, I don't get a lot of attention from boys.

"She's crushing!" Ava squeals.

"Guys just shut up!" I say and shove the paper back in my pocket. I'll definitely text him.

Sterling and Ava annoy me the rest of the day about Niall. They think that I'm his soulmate. Psh. I doubt it.

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I get home from school and grab my bag of chips, a bottled water, and my laptop and go to my room. I log in to tumblr and scroll through my dash. Then I remember the number! I take my phone out and add Niall's number to my contacts. I text him a simple 'Hey, it's Kendall' and go back to tumblr. A few minutes later I get a text back saying 'Hey, Kendall. Whatcha doin?' Our conversation continues to go on and on until I realize it's midnight. We've been talking for that long?! I tell him that I'm going to bed and he replies 'Night babe ;)'

Babe? Babe?! Maybe Ava and Sterling were right about him crushing on me. I'll investigate more tomorrow.