Eccentric (Niall Horan)

Chapter 18

I sigh the millionth time and finally manage to turn around and face my door. I swing it open and take a step in. After closing it behind me I am met with Dean. He has just recently walked out of the kitchen and is now looking at me with a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in his hand. He raises his arms at me with a shrug. I know what's coming next.

"Century, what are you doing here I thought we decided on that I was going to pick you up at the mall? How did you get here?" He throws questions at me and I breath leaning my back on the door and take off my shoes. "Are you okay, did everything go alright? You look... upset"

"I'm not upset" I shrug off my jacket and hang it up. "I'm extremely tired" I adjust my shirt and pull my ponytail off.

"Long day huh?" Dean questions and I nod. "Cass is in the living room you should probably go tell her your here" Dean suggests and I nod, walking into the living room I see almost everyone is in the room. Except for Jacob, he seems to be nowhere in sight.

"Hey Cass!" I greet and walk over to her at the couch.

"Hey sweetie, how was it? Did you have fun? What did you do?" Well to start it off it quite boring, but then I got hungry, bumped into Daniel and his friends. We all decided to eat together, Vanessa, one of Daniel's close friends, made fun of me a lot. Insulted me. Pissed me off. But when we were coming home I ended up being in the same car with her along with Louis and Niall. Kind of the biggest mistake of my life since I had done it to get Jesse with Daniel. Niall was speeding and these guys we met on the road challenged him for a race but he backed out, for some apparent reason. Then after a rude remark Vanessa said about my name Niall left her on the side of the road. He then looked at me in a way that made me think he wanted to kiss me but it was probably just. Or I'm making myself believe that.

When we had finally gotten back home Louis asked me out and at first I wasn't so sure because Niall kept looking at me but then I said yes and that was pretty much it before I came into the house. Other than that, it was splendid.

"Great" I smiled at Cassandra and she smiles widely back at me.

Currently everyone didn't seem to acknowledged my presence since I was practically standing in front of the television blocking everyone's view. But they simply leaned on one side so they were able to look at the movie that seemed to be keeping more of their attention.

"That's it? What did you get?" She asks me pointing at my bag in my hand.

"Oh you know some lacy undergarments" I whispered but it wasn't useful since Marco heard me.

"Ew! That's gross" He shouts and scrunched his face. I smirk at him and mess up his hair as he simply waves me off and bring his attention back to screen in front of him.

"Oh well, don't forget to wash them before you put them on alright?" She says and I nod earning a smile from her. She herself too looks back at the television making me walk out of the living room and make my way upstairs. All I'm feeling in the mood for right now, is to go to sleep. But first make sure my homework has all been done before I do so.

"Century?" I turn around just as I am half way up the stairs and look at Maya at the bottom of the stairs. I hadn't even noticed her in the room with everyone else.

"Hey Maya" I smile at her and she looks back at the living room as if she is worried someone might follow her or listen to her. Almost as if she is trying to hide something, from them, for me?

"Hey uhm you think we can talk" She looks back behind her again. "In your room where no one can hear us" She says softly, I barely hear her but I still nod continuing to walk up the stairs. I hear her follow behind me and when we have finally reached the doors to my bedroom, I let her in. Making sure no one has followed us since this feels like a risky conversation, I lock the door behind me.