The Mental Ward

Interesting mornings (part two)

Two updates in two days? WHAT IS THIS MADNESS?!

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[Harry]

"Psssst!"

The boy next to me ignores me, biting into a sausage. "Pssst! Hey! Pssst!" I see his lips curve up into a smile around his fork, but he still doesn't look at me. "Pssssssst!" I poke his shoulder sneakily so that no one at the table can see me. "Hey!" I whisper again, hoping he'll notice me this time.

"Yes, Harry?" He asks, turning to me. "Do you need something?"

"No.." I duck my head back down to my food when I notice the kid on the other side looking at me too. I poke at my pancakes a bit before looking back up. Everyone is eating, so now is my chance. "Hey!" I poke his side under the table and out of view.

He gets the hint this time, glancing at me, but not turning away from his food. "Yes?"

"What's your name?"

He looks startled a minute for laughing really loudly. "That's all you wanted to ask?" I pouted at my pancakes, stabbing them and avoiding him. Stabby, stabby, stabby... "Louis. My name's Louis." He laughed.

"Oh... Hi Lou!" I smile up at him, happy that he told me his name.

He froze. "Louis. My name is Louis."

"Oh, c'mon Lou! Let the kid have his fun." The dark haired guy next to me said, smirking over me at Lou.

"You shut up, Malik." He said angrily.

He looked confused a minute. "What?"

"I said shut up! You don't know anything." Lou said angrily, slamming a fist down onto the table. "I don't need you picking my life apart like this!"

"Whoa, calm down, Louis. I didn't mean anything by it, honest-" He held his hands up defensively.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Louis yelled. I could see people looking at our table, disturbed by the sudden loud noises.

"I'm not! Please Louis, just sit down-!" Malik was looking around frantically as more nurses started walking over. They all seemed to be focused on Louis.

"There you go again! Gosh dang it, Malik, why can't you just drop it?!" He stood up, towering over the rest of us who were still sitting. "Everything was okay until you started pushing like this!"

"I was just letting Harry-"

"So now this is all about Harry?! You're right. he's the one who started all this." His glare shot to me.

"I'm sorry, Lou." I said, standing up. "I'm sorry. Do you want a hug-?"

"No, stay down. I don't want a dang hug!" He pushed me down into my seat, away from him. "Now, stop calling me that before-"

"Okay, Louis, calm down. Come on." One of the big nurses grabbed his arm, trying to pull him back.

"No, stop! I'm not done with them yet!" He was constantly yelling now, raising his voice so that it was strained, face turning red with the force of it. "Leave me alone."

"I think it's time for a break, Mr. Tomlinson." A gruff voice said before a big buff nurse stabbed him in the neck with a syringe.

"No! Stop!" He tried fighting to get out of their grip, anything to get away. He started moving slower and quieting down. Soon enough he was dropping straight into the arms surrounding him.

"What's happened to him?" I asked, about to stand up again. Malik just held me back and hushed me. "Why is he sleeping? Did I make him angry?" I questioned, turning to him.

"Not now, Harry." He said, sighing heavily. The rest of the table just looked shocked by the performance that they just witnessed.

"Why'd they take him away, Malik? He didn't finish breakfast or anything. Why was he mad?"

He smiled weakly, chuckling a bit. "My first name is Zayn." His face fell flat again. "I think he just got a little upset about something, okay Harry? Don't worry though, he usually isn't like this."

"Oh... So where is he going?"

"Well, Louis is asleep right now so they probably took him back to his room." He took a bit of sausage before continuing. "I don't know if he'll be back at lunch though. He might be held from the canteen until they think it's safe again. He'll probably be back by tomorrow though - he has quite the persuasive talent." He smirked.

"....Can I have his pancakes?" Niall asked softly.

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I think I'm going to start posting short chapters so that I can update more often, what do you lovely people think?

~ Jo x