Unconditional

Game On

Katherine's p.o.v.
I could see his eyes lit up. But they had a mixture of calmness in them. I know he does not like showing any sort of emotions but I could feel the delight from his eyes. He and I both knew this was not for him. It was for my own good and thus for me. He was right. It was foolish of me to leave everything behind because of..
But now that I am back, things are going to change around here. I am not going to be Harry's Katherine anymore. I am going to be me. I am going to live as me.
To not let Liam feel great about himself by helping me stop from making a bad decision and proving to be a better and mature person than the two of us, I decided to use his phone as an excuse.
" Here, I came back for this. " I lied giving him his phone.
He held the my hand to take the phone from it, and as I was about to move, he grabbed my hand even tighter thus making me fall backwards and get closer to him.
This action, although was a subtle one, affected my heart loads. It started thudding loudly, maybe because of the sudden surprise and also because I was closer to him than ever.
" You came back because you knew I was right." He said and gave me an intimidating stare.
Being the scared myself, only a nod was my answer and I could feel my cheeks growing hot with all these actions.
He then left my hand with an arrogant smirk.
" Good. See you tomorrow then." He said and left giving a bigger smirk. It was kind of hot though. What was more astonishing that he cared enough to come here and warn me, stop me. He is not that bad after all. Maybe we can turn into friends in the near future. Maybe.
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I reached my second class of the day on time. Thankfully, Zara was in that class. I could talk to her and surprise her. So I went early and took a seat whose sides were empty.
As I entered, I could hear people talking about me going to Liam's house and the vents that followed. I was not happy being the unpopular one, but now that I think of it, I like privacy more than anything. They still did not know my name though. That proved things would go back to normal in a few days. Me being just being another girl that was part of the crowd.

My mind got off all things when I saw Liam enter. It was the first time I noticed which all classes we had together. English was definitely one of them. I smiled on seeing him, so that if he would notice, he will smile back now that we are friends. Well, according to the incident at station atleast. I thought he would take a seat beside me as he was coming nearer and nearer to my seat. All the girls were waiting for him to sit beside them, now that everyone knew he was single.
As he reached near the chair beside me, he looked at me, did not return the smile and continued walking to sit on the chair behind me.
Okay, awkward. I am going to pretend he is still upset about Isabelle and decided to ignore me then. I was too. So maybe I can thank him at lunch. He did save me from that huge disaster.
Just then I heard someone shouting and when I turned, I saw Zara jumping. She came running and gave me a tight hug only to suffocate me to cough.
" Sorrryyy, I am so happy that your back. I just can't. Come over to my house today. Let's have a sleepover.
I saw Justin take the other seat next to me with a huge smile on his face. I could see the happiness exploding out of him. He also hugged me immediately after keeping his books down.
He kept hugging me till Zara coughed purposely. He retreated then. Zara then looked at me and mouthed a " you owe me".
Just as the teacher started, thoughts about me and Harry came rushing into my mind. My mind drifted off into our happy land that existed once and then came in the memory of the two of them kissing, laughing at me, at my foolishness that I did not realize about them.
Tears dwelled up in my eyes. But I had to remind myself I am strong. For once in my lifetime, I am doing something for me. I had to go through it on my own. So I finally gathered some courage and decided to concentrate.
Just then, Zara started shaking me.
"Kat, Kat. Get up. "
I stood immediately like it was a reflex action.
" So miss Katherine Rose. Answer my question. What kind of part of speech was used in the phrase I just mentioned?"
" Onomatopoeia Mr. Evans. " I heard some one say from the back.
" I did not know there was another Katherine Rose in this class. Mr. Liam Wilson, I would prefer that you stand up and answer next time and in your turn." Mr. Evans retorted. After that shit behavior, I did not expect him to help me. Maybe the ignoring was unintentional.
" Mr. Evans, I have no interest in answering any of your questions. But this one here, was way too dumb and was consuming a whole lot of precious time." Liam said with an arrogant face. Oh how my hands itch to punch that arrogant asshole. He surely ignored me on purpose, and now we are back to square one. Hatred.
A girl shouted, " He is right Mr. Evans. That girl there could not answer even a simple question as this one. Everyone knew that." Everyone giggled on her last statement proving that she was dumber than me after all.
" Thank you for your comments Tia Martin. Now would you please if I could get back to the lesson. "
She nodded at sat down, to which Mr. Evans gave a relieved look.
Liam is going to suffer for the embarrassment he just caused me.
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At lunch, I saw Zara sitting with Justin, and by the looks of it I could tell they had already had a long discussion about the english class and how much hatred I felt towards Liam right now.

So I headed towards Liam, sitting alone at a table. Just then I saw, Tia Martin from english class approach him. She rushed to the table and sat herself in front of Liam. 
" Liam wanna hang out later? Maybe a coffee or something. " Tia asked him.
" Not interested." He replied being the douchebag he is.
" Liam we need to talk. " When I saw Tia sitting there I continued  " later" because I knew she would just add fuel to the fire.
" Actually I am busy later. You see, me and this beautiful lady are going to hang out  'later' ", Liam emphasised on the word later and said.
" Really. Omg, you actually turned her... "
" Not interested" , Tia finished for me. Wow. Liam has moved on so fast. No feelings at all. He is doing this to get to me. What have I ever done to him? Even at that bar, he was so rude to me. I don't care anyway. Let it go. Just treat him like another batch mate and definitely ignore his hatred.
But what if he was actually trying to scare me away with this attitude? A person would do that only if he had something to hide from me or he did really hate me and thought of me to be irritating. But why would he come to stop me at the bus stand. It was a good riddance case. Then it was definitely the first one. And I wanted to find it out.
God, I sound like Harvey Specter at the moment. I may as well be a lawyer.
" shoosh! You freak! What are you staring at?" Tia retorted.
I realised I was still there.
So I gave a big smile to Liam, to which he didn't even flinch and said " Game On."