Broken Walls | H.S | [Discontinued]

Chapter 2

Nigella

"Then I was like, 'Oh my god, no. Fuck you, I have a boyfriend'. But then he still tried to hit on me so I punched him. Then we never met again. I hate that man so much, I swear to God I'll kill him the next time I see him. He's such-"

"Oh my gosh, will you stop talking for a second? I'm trying to cook here" I glare at my best friend, Matilda.

"Geez, what crawled up your arse today?" She rolls her eyes and crosses her arms over her chest.

"Anyways, today I went to the mall with Nathan. He wanted to buy me something so he bought me the 'Elisa Pendant'-"

"What?! I want that! Can I borrow it?"

"Let me finish" I scowl. "Then a boy came in running inside the store asking for the same necklace. But he soon found out that they were sold out. Then he explained that his niece, who has cancer, really wanted one. It's her last wish to wear that necklace. I felt extremely bad so I gave the necklace to him. Then he asked if I wanted to go and visit his niece to give her the necklace. I agreed and I went with him. The girl's name is Jillian. She is 5 years old. And the boy, her uncle, his name is Harry. It felt very good to make that little girl happy"

I look up at Matilda who has a huge smile on her face.

"I'm so proud of you, you know that? You're so kind. The world doesn't deserve you. You're too pure. I hope you find someone who truly did something good to deserve you" She says.

"Ya gonna make me cry now?" I chuckle.

"By the way, the Harry guy you were talking about...Do you know his last name?"

"Yeah, it's Styles. Harry Styles"

"Oh" She nods.

My phone rings from the living room. Matilda hops off of the kitchen counter and runs to fetch my phone she runs back with a mischievous grin on her face.

"It's Harry" She smirks.

I quickly snatch the phone away from her hand and receive the call. Desperate, much?

"Hello?" Harry's beautiful raspy fill my ears.

"Hey, Harry" I speak.

"Hey, what's up?" He asks.

"Oh, nothing much. Just chilling with me mate" I reply. "What about you?"

"Watching Netflix" He says. "By the way, I called to tell you to come tomorrow at the hospital. Jillian wanted to see you"

"Sure! When?"

"Um.. after lunch?"

"That's okay with me. I'll definitely come and visit her"

"Thank you, Nigella. See you tomorrow"

"Bye, Harry" I smile.

"Bye"

I remove the phone from my ear. My eyes dart to Matilda who is smirking at me.

"What did he say?" She wiggles her eyebrows. I roll my eyes.

"He didn't say anything like that, you idiot" I huff. "He just asked me to go to the hospital and visit Jillian because she wanted to see me"

"Oh, she likes you then!"

"I hope so" I bite the inside of my cheek.

"I'm back!" Nathan's voice booms through the house as he enters.

"Why are you so happy?" Matilda asks.

"Because darling, I think I'm in love with you!" He sings.

"What?!" I nearly drop the hot pan from my hand. "Are you kidding me?"

"Yes" He nods making Matilda burst into laughter. I sigh and shake my head at him.

"You will always be the same"

+++

"Nathan, stop it!"

"I'm not doing anything!"

"Why the hell are you chopping my lipstick off with a knife?!" I exclaim.

"Are we supposed to do it with scissors then?" He says, sarcastically. I shoot him a death glare. "I was just doing an experiment"

"Did that experiment include ruining someone's £34 lipstick?" I grit my teeth.

"This costs £34?" His jaw drops to the floor.

"I'm not repeating myself, because it almost hurts"

"I'm sorry, love"

"It's alright" I sigh.

"Hm, what can I do to make my baby girl happy?" He taps his finger on his chin. "How about we watch movies, have ice cream and cuddle?"

"That sounds great!"

"Alright then, you set up everything I'll choose the movies" Nathan announces.

"No, you set up everything and I'll choose the movies" I argue.

"Nigella!" He whines.

"Nathan!"

"Please you go do it!"

"Oh my gosh, I'm just telling you to go set up the blankets and the food, not to go fight in the army!" I yell in frustration.

"Okay, fine" He huffs and rolls his eyes, dramatically.

"Thank you" I sigh.

+++

"We're watching 'Love actually'" I announce.

"Of course, we are" Nathan mutters under his breath.

"What was that, Nate?" I raise one of my eyebrows at him.

"I was hoping we'd watch 'The notebook'" He mumbles.

"Alright, let's watch 'The notebook'" I shrug.

Just when we were about to start the movie, the power went out.

"God-fucking-damnit!" Nathan and I yell in unison.

"What do we do now?" Nathan speaks in the darkness.

"I don't know let's just sit and not move from this place"

We both do nothing but sit there in silence. None of us say a word. I wrap myself in a blanket and close my eyes. Just when I do that we hear a loud thud coming from downstairs. I lift up my head and stare into the darkness with wide eyes.

"What was that?" I squeak.

"I don't know" Nathan says. "Why don't you go and check?"

"No, you do that" I snarl.

"You go check!" He demands.

"No!" I exclaim.

Bang!

Bang!

Thud!

"No, wait don't go outside. Stay here" Nathan instructs as we hear gun shots.

"Are you going?" I ask, in a shaky voice.

"Yes. Stay here and don't fucking move"

Before I can stop him he's already out of the door. I can feel my heart beat against my rib cage. As I'm about to go out and see what happened I hear another gunshot, and this time with a loud heart wrenching scream from Nathan.