One Thing (One Direction) ON-HOLD

Chapter Nine

CHAPTER NINE:

“Finally! You finally showed up!” Andrea squealed as she took me into a tight and killer hug. And Zayn stood there like, ‘Glad to see you again.’

“I’ve been worried about you! Why didn’t you come to school!?” Andrea started shouting.

I was just walking to enter the school grounds when Andrea and Zayn saw me and both of them gave me a bone-crushing hug. So you could say, that last hug was Andrea’s second one.

“I was sick, sorry.” I lied. But obviously, Andrea didn’t buy that.

“Liar. You’re only trying to avoid Louis.” Wow. Well, that totally hit me right through the heart.

“Yeah, well, maybe I was, but I’m over it now. I can face him and god knows what I’ll do when I see him.”

“Hey.” It was Louis!

I instantly froze the moment I heard his voice. WHY NOW?

“H-heeeey..” I sheepishly greeted and I was still not turning around to look him in the face.

“You okay this past few days? Andrea told me you were absent coz you had a fever.”

I looked at Andrea with a raised eyebrow. She was like, ‘Hey, I saved your butt. So you gotta thank me.’

Yeah, thanks.

“Ummm, yeaaah. Well…..” I began stammering. I’m feeling SO awkward with him right now.

“Hey, Marni…” I felt his strong gaze behind my back, and I can tell he knows something and I can tell it has something do with him turning me down during his party.

“HEEEEEY GUYSSSS.” It was Harry. He put his arm over my shoulders and spun me around so now, I was face-to-face with Louis. Damn.

“Morning, Harry.” Louis greeted. For a moment, Louis looked at Harry and then his gaze returned to me.

“Hey, is it true?” I finally asked.

He looked at me dumbfounded. “What is?” he asked me back.

“You, leaving One Direction.”

Everyone looked at me. Well, one way or another, someone had to ask.

He didn’t respond. Although, he wasn’t looking at me anymore. He was looking at the ground.

Clearly, he wasn’t ready to talk about it yet.

“S-sorry. I shouldn’t have asked. I’m in no place anyway.” I started to walk away. But Harry caught my hand.

“Yeah, Louis….” I heard Harry spoke.

“Are you going to leave One Direction?” he finally finished.

I looked back, obviously intrigued about Louis’ answer.

“I… Yeah, it’s true.” He straightforwardly answered.

Everyone was shocked about his answer, although we all knew at the very least that it would eventually be Louis’ final decision.

“Is that so..” Harry mumbled.

“After finishing high school, I would be transferred to a university in another state.”

That surprised us even more.

“Are you serious?! I was all cool with you leaving One Direction thinking that you’ll still be around anyway, and now you’re giving me this crap?!” Harry began shouting.

“Sorry.”

“That doesn’t change anything.” Harry glared then suddenly walked away.

“Well, that didn’t go smooth.” Andrea muttered.

“Why’s he so upset? It’s not like you’re going to die.” Andrea nonchalantly asked.

“Well, we did promise to each other that we’ll stay here in Westdale until college. And now…”

“..and now you broke that promise.” I continued.

“Hey, sorry to break it to you, but I think we gotta go. Classes’ gonna start soon.” Zayn interrupted.

“Yeah, see you later.” Louis gave me a forced smile.

“Ummm, yeah.” I replied back.

Finally, my Geometry class is done and since Andrea’s still in class, I might as well just read a book in the library to kill some time before lunch starts.

And, god knows where Zayn is at right now. When Geometry was done, he immediately ran out of the classroom and now I don’t know where the heck he is.

I passed along the PAD division since the library was along their building. I got to see students vocalizing, dancing and even acting. Must be lots of hard work to perfect all those stuff.

Totally not the thing for someone like me.

But what totally caught my attention was this melody. It was somewhere along pop and classic genre and the voice… oh the voice. It was perfect.

I’ll just look where it’s coming from and see who’s singing and I’m out of here.

It’s kind of a rule here in Westdale that BED students are not allowed to loiter around the VAD or PAD building when classes is still going on. Not unless I have a class here. Which I obviously don’t have.

I passed along rooms and I found it. The room where the voice was coming from. I peeked out at the glass door, expecting to see the person whom the voice belonged to. 

"Marni?" the guy spoke.

"What the heck, Zayn?!" I gasped.

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Lalala. I had this chapter on for a looong time and I finally decided to publish it. Voila! =)

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