Eccentric (Niall Horan)

Chapter 9

"What happened?" I ask as I steady myself on my feet.

"The music was pouring into my room, you do realize my room is above right?" Jacob points to the ceiling and I look up. "And I share my room with Christian, he wanted me to come down to shut off the noise that's keeping him awake" He chuckles and I blink rapidly trying to focus my eyesight.

"No I meant, what happened just now?" I ask again.

"I was calling your name, and when I turned the music off you collapsed on the floor. It's like you were so connected with the music that when it's turned off, you turn off" He says and I look at what he's wearing. He has a gray t-shirt with red plaid pants. His hair is a mess and his eyes look tired,

"I'm sorry I woke you up" I apologize and get out of my shoes,

"It's alright, it was Chris who bothered me" He chuckles lightly. "By the way what was it that was keeping you so concentrated?" He asks and I breath heavily, my throat wanting the need of water.

"What do you mean?" I'm always concentrated when I'm dancing. The last thing I need is tripping, or falling and just screwing everything up. I'm always practicing and mastering every dance I learn,

"Like, you look concentrated every time I see you dance. But this time you looked so into focus that you didn't even hear me when I was calling you, your face was lit up, surprisingly this early in the morning. You looked connected in a way" I've never been told this. I myself never even noticed now.

Did I really look into focus? Actually, dancing felt different then all the other times I did. This time I felt actual emotion course through my body. I felt my body being controlled by just the music as it flowed through my veins instead of me wanting to use my mind with it.

By the time everyone was woken up, I had taken a shower and put on some clothes for the day. Everyone else was downstairs in the kitchen making breakfast and when I look out my window Dean and Maya are walking across the yard hand in hand talking amongst themselves. I smile at how cute they are, they look so perfect and happy together. That just makes me want to tear.

I snap into reality when my phone rings on my dresser. Grasping it in my hand I check the caller i.d. It's Jesse.

"Hey!" I chirp and cover my mouth realizing how loud that was.

"Hey girl how was yesterday?" I look at my door and walk towards it to close it shut.

"Uhm" I pull my hair back "Not the way I had expected it" I say and pictures from last night flood my mind.

"What? What happened?" Jesse asks and I sigh taking a seat on my already made bed.

"Well, to begin with Daniel's friends are all Hispanic" I say.

"All of them?"

"Well not exactly all of them, a few were English, and others were Americans" I begin to pick on my nails.

"English? Were they hot, I hear English men are so hot and elegant" I can practically hear the smile on Jesse's voice.

"Well if you call elegant, tattoos and shirtless, then yeah" I laugh and I hear Jesse gasp. "Oh and there was one Irish one but, I don't really want to mention him at the moment"

"Why? Was he rude?"

"Uhm no I think? He was so cold and quiet, when he talked to me I guess he just wasn't in the mood in talking with me. But then when it came towards the night, he completely disrespected me in mentioning my mother" I still can't even believe I saw him just this morning on my street. I'm not thinking about bringing that up to Jesse in this conversation.

"He did not?" Jesse gasps and I purse my lips in a thin line as I bow my head.

"Yeah but it's forgotten so, whatever" I simply say and put Jesse on speaker as I lay down on my bed.

"I still can't believe you went to holland. I mean just wait until everyone in school finds out that-"

"Woah don't get ahead of yourself, I don't want anyone to find out about that. Never okay?" I hear my door screech and I quickly sit up and face who ever is at my door.

"Century who are you talking to?" Jason says and steps into my room. I gulp in fear that Jason might have overheard my conversation just now.

"Why not?" I hear Jesse say and I turn off the speaker and bring my phone back to my ear not once taking my gaze off of Jason's.

"Jesse I'm going to have to call you back later" I say and before she can say goodbye I hang up. Jason, who is still patiently waiting for me to answer his question leans on the doorframe with his arms crossed. Looking at him like that makes me notice his broad shoulders in the simple maroon long sleeve shirt he's wearing.

"So it was Jesse you were talking to?" He questions and I nod. His mouth forms an 'o' and shuffles to move more into my room.

"I know parents aren't really suppose to eavesdrop" Oh hear it comes "but I couldn't help but overhear that you didn't want anyone to find out about something" I knew it was coming. I knew he had overheard me."Can I ask what it is that you want to keep from the world?" I gulp trying to come up with a lie and the first thing that pops into my mind is the first thing I say.

"Uhm yesterday, the new kid I had mentioned to Cassandra was a guy" I gulp again and Jason's eyes narrow. "And I didn't want anyone to know that he had kissed me" Jason's arms drop to his sides and so does his jaw.

How long am I going to keep up with these lies?