His Possession

Chapter 17.

for those who read chapter 16 before Christmas eve it's now changed so please read it again for this chapter to make sense :)

Isabella's p.o.v.

The weekend goes by way too soon and it feels like the damn universe is against me talking to Luke right now. He usually spends his entire weekend at home whilst the rest of the boys go out on mini 'trips' to God knows where which would have given us time to finally talk, yet this week he decided it was a weekend of ignoring Bella and I haven't seen him once.

As the sound of my alarm rings I welcome it, thankful to finally leave this place. I slide out of bed and make my way to the bathroom, doing all of my necessities before drying myself with a towel and changing into my school uniform. I head downstairs to the kitchen in search for some breakfast but am happy to find Luke instead, with no one else around, finally.

"Luke" I let out a breath, "we need to talk." He seems to scan the room as if double checking that we are alone.

"Bella-" He starts, standing out of his chair whilst shaking his head.

"No Luke, don't run off, not like you did the other day." I stop him as I can already hear the excuses rolling off his tongue.

"I just don't think we should talk about this" he argues, "and especially not here" he whispers, looking around the room for about the fifth time in the last 20 seconds.

"What are you so scared of?" I push.

He doesn't answer my question and instead makes his way to the door, pressing his hand against it to leave, "just forget it ever happened Bella," and with that he's gone, leaving me standing alone.

...

I make my way to first period with a chip on my shoulder, still pissed at Luke for ignoring what happened at that party.

"You alright, you look a bit mad there?" A boy laughs, walking beside me as he follows me into the maths room, I think this is the guy that spoke to me at the party.

"That obvious huh?" I chuckle with him, taking a seat at the back of the class as he takes the one next to me.

"I just wanted to apologise for the party, I was a bit drunk and I realise now that I came off a bit strong..." he scratches the back of his neck in nervousness and I scoff. Yup, definitely the guy form the party.

"A bit?" I laugh, "It's fine, you were drunk, I get it" I lightly nudge him, just glad to have a distraction from Luke right now.

"So, I was wondering, a few of us are going out for a meal tonight, and I wondered if you wanted to come?"

"You don't even know me," I turn to him, confused as to why he'd ask me out of all people.

"C'mon, you're Isabella, an A* student that until last weekend has been practically dormant in any form of social life" he chuckles, giving me a lopsided grin.

"Hey, now that's not nice" I mockingly whine.

"Well Jessica's going to be there so you'll know at least one person" he tries to persuade me, I mean Zayn did say that I could have some more freedoms, and he is right about my social life being dormant until now...

"Fuck it, why not?" He claps his hands in success, I guess this is one way to distract myself from Luke.

For the rest of the class we seem to ignore the teacher and talk about anything and everything, I find out his name is actually Henry, he likes pancakes but finds the mixture of them with bacon completely unnecessary and hates the idea of horoscopes. At the end of class we learn that we actually have most of our lessons together and so when it rolls onto lunch he invites me to his table as he introduces me to all of his friends, most of which will be coming tonight.