Empire ♔ h.s au

08

08

"Ellie, I'm not skipping class with you."

I groan mentally at Luke, he always has to be the good boy, huh? "I have so much to tell you, come on Luke, just this one time, please?" I pout, lacing my fingers together raising them to my chest.

He only rolls his eyes and let's out a soft sigh. "Ellie, Mrs.Clifford said that we have an essay due next week, she's giving us time in class to get it done today, don't you think we should do that instead?" He says softly, looking at me wide sad eyes with a hint of hope glossed lightly over his blue irises.

I only shake my head and cross my arms over my chest, tilting my head slightly looking away from him. "No,"

He groans and looks around the small closet we're hidden in. I stay there, pretending not to pay attention to him, humming lightly to myself. Seconds later he let's out a huff and I smirk slightly to myself knowing I won.

"Fine, but Ellie you better have a good explanation for this, and if my mom finds out-"

I laugh lightly and shake my head quickly. "Don't worry Luke, she won't find out."

"Okay...but what about Niall?" He questions, tilting his head slightly, looking at me curiously. "You would never do something without him."

I frown and drop my head down, looking at worn out shoes, I wanted to respond but a lump quickly formed in my throat keeping me from talking. My mouth went dry and chest empty at the thought of Niall being gone.

My head is soon tilted up slightly, and I notice Luke cupping my cheek lightly, causing me look up at him. He face is blank and sad as he looks into my now sad eyes, with a frown tugging at his lips, and glances down at them looking at his lip ring for a second. He tried to be punk rock, he tried.

"Ellie, what's wrong, tell me.." He spoke softly, looking over my face for some type of reaction or a simple emotion to indicate what could possibly be wrong with me. I sigh softly and glances away from his gaze. "Niall is g-" but he cut me off.

Luke quickly leans in and presses his slightly chapped lips to mine, his metal lip ring rubbing lightly against my lips, causing me to shudder a bit. My eyes widened slightly, looking at him, but his eyes were closed shut, more focused on the kiss than my reaction. I gasp quietly and Luke slides his tongue past my now parted lips and slowly glides it across mine.

Merely seconds later the closet door swings open and Mrs.Clifford stands there looking at us with arms crossed over her chest, shaking her head at us.

"My best students," she scoffs lightly "or so I thought were, office now, both of you." She states as she quickly pulls Luke by his arm out the closet with me along with him. Shit.

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"Someone will be here to pick you both up soon, remember suspension until next week." The principle says eyeing us both before quickly walking out the room.

Luke let's out an uneasy sigh when the principle leaves and looks over at me, with a faint blush spread over his cheeks. "I've been waiting to do that since I met you." He smiles widely as he speaks, looking at me with glossy eyes.

I nod slowly and awkwardly look at the floor. Wasn't it obvious that I liked Niall?

"Ellie." I quickly snap my head up at the sound of his voice. Zayn. There was always a weird pit at the bottom of my stomach around him, something so familiar about him, but I couldn't quite understand what it was...

He quickly walks over to me and grabs my arm hoisting me up to my feet, I stumble lightly then quickly find my balance and narrow my eyes at him. He didn't have to be so rough.

He glances down at Luke and shoots him a disgusting look then walks out the room pulling me along with him as I hear a faint 'goodbye' from Luke and my heart clenches slightly knowing he must be so upset and confused.

Zayn leads me out to the car and opens the door for me and I waste no time to get in and buckle myself up. I slump down into the black leather cushiony seats of the sleek black car. Zayn gets it and starts the car staying silent then buckles himself in as well.

He pulls out from the school and drives away from the building onto the road ahead of us. He shakes his head lightly keeping focus on the road, I watch him carefully to see what he's doing, but nothing. He opens his mouth to speak but quickly closes it, I frown a bit at his actions.

I decide not to ask him about but stay silent and keep to myself, turning my head to look out the window and watch everything around me. I notice how we don't take the next turn to the castle and quickly turn to Zayn, frowning.

"We're we going Zayn?" I ask curiously, tiling my head slightly in curiosity of his choice in actions.

"Don't you think Styles would wonder why you showed up early?" He asked raising an eyebrow. I nod and sigh quietly. "Yeah."

"Exactly." He mumbles, keeping focus on the road and turns down a small dirt road I've never been down before.

"Um, where are we going then?" I say quietly, looking out the window watching and looking about the new unknown area.

"To see your mother."

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next chapter will be...shocking.

and thanks for the waiting, i've been having exams and tests all month, but we're done now so yay!

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