Secrets

Two

"I'm going to die," I told Liam the morning before the first day of school. "I'm not going to survive."

"You'll be fine, Lou. Trust me."

I sighed. "I thought I had more than two days to prepare for this."

Liam rolled his eyes. "You're being dramatic."

I sighed as we started heading out to the car. "I have no idea what's going to happen."

"Louis, seriously. You're freaking yourself out, way more than you need to. You go to a building, you sit down in classrooms and deal with teachers rambling, other students who talk, you make friends." He shrugged. "It won't be that bad, I promise. Just... don't make a point you were home schooled."

"Mom gave me that whole lecture yesterday," I grumbled as I got in the driver's side. I looked at the unanswered good morning text I had sent to Harry like we always did. He usually answered within like five minutes, but it had been almost an hour.

And you're reading into things too deep again. Relax, Lou.

I put my phone in the cup holder as Liam slid down into the seat. "We're in honors classes, so the kids probably aren't as annoying as they could be, but we're freshman. Freshman are annoying, you'll literally see it as soon as your a sophomore." Liam shrugged. "There's eight classes, which are broken up on Thursday and Friday, which will seem confusing for a while but you'll understand within the week."

"Yeah, okay," I said while rolling my eyes.

My phone went off and on instinct Liam grabbed it. "Harry."

"Read it," I instructed while driving.

"Where do you live again? And good morning with a x." Liam gave me a sideways glance. I nodded for him to answer, then he set my phone back down in the cup holder. "Why would he be asking that?"

"I don't know. He's moving so he probably wanted to see if we were closer than before." I shrugged a the high school came into view. I found the parking lot and pulled in. "Besides, he's just weird. He's Harry."

I parked and looked at the huge building. "I'm so going to get lost."

"You'll be fine," Liam said as he got out.

I grabbed my phone from the cup holder and my bag from the back seat. I followed Liam as he walked through the parking lot. My phone went off again.

Harry:
You won't believe this

What? I texted back. Then I felt Liam grab my shoulder, making me look up.

"Is that-"

"Harry?" I finished for Liam. I walked past Liam and closer to Harry, smiling. "Harry?" I repeated louder, and he looked over at me, a smile overtaking his face.

"Oh my-" then he was crushing me, but I didn't care. "Hey."

"You moved here?" I asked after pulling back. He nodded. "I can't believe this!"

"Me either." Harry was grinning like an idiot in his usual sense.

"Schedule, let me see," I demanded, holding out my hand. Harry put his hands up before chuckling and grabbing it out.

I grabbed it from him quickly and looked over it. "Damn, calm down."

I smiled and folded it back up. "All but one class."

He reached to grab it and our fingers brushed. We made eye contact at the effect same time.

"Harry!" I ran and jumped on his back where he easily caught me. "Hello."