Unexpected Love

Chapter 18[x]

Louis POV

I sprint into the building and bang ferociously on room 99A, or Lisa and Aryanna's dorm.

Aryanna opens and her smile fades when she sees my worried expression.

"Everything alright, Lou?" she asked and I shook my head.

"Where's Lisa?" I asked.

"I think she went to volleyball try-outs. Why? Is something wrong?"

She went from comfort to concern in two seconds. I'm so glad Lisa has a friend like her.

"Yeah, just a little. I'm sure she'll tell you later. Where are the tryouts being held?" I ask and she gives me directions and I run as fast as I can there but remember that she was in a bathroom.

I see a group of a brunette, dirty blonde, and really, really light blonde hair talking. Maybe they know which bathroom Lisa is in.

"Hi, don't want to bother you or anything, but do you know where Lisa Roluns is?" I ask and all of their mouth drop.

The brunette quickly recomposes her self and points to the girls bathroom across the hall.

"Thank you, so very much," I say and quickly go in, not caring whether it's a ladies room or not.

I look under all the stalls and see that only one isn't vacant.

I look under it and almost cry at the sight in front of me.

There's a broken pencil sharpener, the blade on the ground, covered in blood, a floral backpack that looks exactly like Lisa's and a small pool of blood by a wrist with at least twenty cuts engraved into it.

I crawl under the door and unlock it and open it. I throw away the sharpener and the blade, and pack up her bag. I notice that her eyes are closed, and that scares me most. I pick her up and bolt out of the room.

Those same three girls are still standing there and when the dirty blonde sees Lisa, regret fills her eyes.

"Hi, again. Do you know where the nurse's office is?" I ask politely and she tells me while the other two continue their gossip.

I quickly jog to the office and tell the nurse what happened and she told me to lay her down on the bed. I did as told and stepped back.

"Do you know how this happened? What the cause of the cutting was?" she asked me and I shook my head, feeling tears prickle at the corners of my eyes.

"Unfortunately, I don't. Just, please, help her," I begged and she nodded before she checked Lisa's blood pressure. She gasped and quickly applied bandages to her now swollen wrist.

Oh, God. Please help her.

I sit down in one of the chairs and set Lisa's bag in the other.

I pull my knees up to my chest and rock back and forth, honestly terrified of what could've happened to my girlfriend.

I hear Lisa mumble something, then she shouts it.

"Louis, Louis. Louis? Louis!" And she bolts awake, drenched in sweat.

"Lisa," I say as I gasp and she gets up and embraces me, sobbing into my shoulder.

"Oh, the things they said. It was horrible!" she said and I was confused. Then, I remembered the way that one girl looked guilty at the sight of Lisa.

Come to think of it, that brunette looked really familiar, too.

Could a month change someone like her so quickly?

"I have some girls I would like for you to talk to for me?" Lisa asked me and I smiled while nodding.

She thanked the nurse and lead me to where I was before with those three girls, and the were still there.

"Hey, I'm Louis Tomlinson, I don't really know two of you, but you," I pointed to the brunette, "have no right on making my present girlfriend feel so bad about herself that she almost fucking died. You did cheat on me, remember that, Eleanor?" I asked and she widened her eyes and walked away, while the other two stared with their mouths open.

"Lisa, we are so sorry. Eleanor felt really jealous that you were with Louis now and black mailed us into doing this," the dirty blonde told the girl trembling behind me.

She was so shy, and it was just another one of her fucking adorable qualities.

"I-I don't really know if I c-can trust you g-guys yet. Maybe later o-on?" Lisa told them and I smiled that she would even consider being friends with these people after they made fun of her the way they did.

She was just too nice.

Lisa took my hand and lead me back to her dorm.

"I'll see you later, Louis," she said as she unlocked her door.

"See you, wait! I was wondering if you wanted to come to a Halloween party with me tonight?" I asked and she smiled warmly.

"I'd love to, but I don't have a costume, if it's even a costume party," she said and I smiled back.

"Don't worry, I've got costumes all covered," I told her and she looked confused as she followed me to my car.

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"Oh. My. God. I love them!" she squealed at my costume choice.

It was Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez from High School Musical, a couples costume.

"I remembered how you loved these movies, so I thought that this would be fun," I said and she squealed again.

We got dressed and drove to Niall's flat, where the party was.

We walked in and the music was pounding with various rock bands, and there were a bunch of girls in playboy bunny outfits and other things that I'd rather not mention.

Maybe it was a bad idea to come here.

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