Concealment

Six

As I woke up on Monday morning my eyes didn't want to stay open. My hair was a mess and the circles under my eyes were immense. I looked like hell. I avoided the mirror and gathered my hair in a high ponytail. This is the kind of hairstyle I do every time when my hair is a mess.

I grabbed a black skinny jeans, a white tank top and a gray hoodie out of my closet and applied some mascara and concealer. I tried to conceal the circles under my eyes. I really did my best but in the end it looked worse than before.

As I arrived at school I spotted Harry in front of the main building and waved in his direction. He waved back and greeted me with a hug.

“How was your weekend?” He asked me as we walked through the hall to our lockers.

“Good. I had not enough sleep.” I said yawning.

“I can see that.” He said smirking. He loves teasing me.

As we arrived at our lockers we grabbed our books and our ways separated because I have Maths and Harry has Geography.

Zayn crossed my way and looked very confused. His eyebrows are furrowed together and his hands are in the pockets of his black skinny jeans. His hair isn't styled and falls flat to his forehead, almost tickling his eyes. He looked much younger and cuter with his flat hair. But he doesn't stopped looking at me with this confused gaze. It made me feel insecure.

I decided to walk past him and escape his gaze. As I entered the room I saw Ashton sitting in the back row at the window. He is typing on his mobile phone and doesn't recognize as Lily entered the room. His friend Calum has his head on his desk and has his eyes closed.

Lily and I took seats in the second row as our teacher Mr. Young is entering the room. He is a young teacher and full of enthusiasm. But this morning he is just annoying.

The bell ranged and before Mr. Young could close the door Zayn is walking in the room. A book and a folder in his hands. He heads towards Ashton and Calum.

“So Mr. Malik honored us with his presence.” Mr. Young said ironically and annoyed.

Zayn only nodded lazily in his direction and Mr. Young rolled his eyes and focused back on his lesson.

Time is going by really slow and all I can do in this 90 minutes are staring at the wall or out of the window or at the clock that is placed right above the backboard. I caught me watching Zayn a few times who isn't paying attention. He draws something in his folder. The papers in his folders aren't attached but lying all over his desk. I spotted a beautiful drawing of a rose but as he caught me looking at it, he gathered the papers and plugged them back into the folder.

When our eyes met he looked confused again but then smiled slightly. I smiled back but Mr. Young interrupted our magic moment.

“So Mrs. Anderson can you tell us the right solution?” He asked me smirking because he knew that he caught me.

“Obviously not.” Ashton laughed and clapping his hands in amusement.

I raised my eyebrows at him and tried to say Fuck you. with my expression. As I looked at Zayn he is smirking at me and wiggling his eyebrows. I turned around and tried to focus back on the task. But the only thing I can think about is the adorable smile that Zayn gave me with his tongue behind his teeth.

The bell teared me out of my thoughts and we hurried leaving the room. Ashton, Calum and Zayn are walking behind us and we heard them talking about the party and how drunk they were and so on. Lily is nearly at the edge as we entered the schoolyard.

Louis and Luke are sitting on a bench under a big tree. As they saw us both of the boys are smiling and we greeted them by hugging.

Lily didn't spoke a word the entire time and Louis is trying light up the mood by telling stupid jokes.

Harry walked towards us with a rather pissed expression. His fists clenching in anger and his jaw flexing.

“What's gotten into you? You look like a pissed witch!” Louis said, his laugh fading.

“Nothing.” He said annoyed through his teeth.

“Come on. Are you on your period again?” Luke asked him smirking.

“Fuck you.” Harry said raising his middle finger in Luke's direction. “I just bumped into this fuck ups.” We are all confused because nobody knew who he was talking about. “The Bad Boys are so annoying and I hate these fuck ups. Especially Zayn who pushed me against the lockers. With no reason.”

“Oh you and your best friend Zayn are always so nice to one another.” Louis said in an ironic voice.

“Yeah he and his drug dealer friends. This son of a ..”

“Ok we got it. You hate Zayn.” Luke said and rolled his eyes.

As school was over I went to my locker to bring my books in there. My bag was quite heavy.

I checked my messages on the way and hummed a song that stuck in my head for nearly ages now.

I closed my locker and shove my mobile phone in my bag. As I turned around I spotted Zayn who was walking in my direction. It took me some seconds to realize that he stands in front of me.

My heartbeat quickens as he began to speak. His voice lazy. His eyes nearly golden in the sunlight that shines through the windows on his face.

“Can you tell me your name again please?” He said looking in my eyes.

“Noelle.” I said immediately looking to the ground as I caught me staring at his lips.

"We had this conversation at Calum's party, do you remember?” He said smiling.

“Yeah, I first thought this was a dream the next morning.” I said laughing slightly.

“I didn't recognize it was you until I saw you this morning.” He scrutinized my face. “Because I didn't see you before.”

My frown was gone as he smiled his adorable smile again.

“Can I offer you a ride home?” I asked him because I came here by my car in the morning. He first looked rather confused but than one of his smirks is covering his face again.

“This would be great.” He smiled and we walked to my car.

I was looking at the road and I saw that Zayn was looking at me out of the corner of my eye. None of us said a word while we were driving. Zayn only gave me the description how we can get to his house. I recognized that he lives only a few houses further down the road. But I didn't said a word about this to him.

I was surprised as he leaned over to give me a small hug before he left my car and made his way to his house. I sat in my car a few minutes and decided that it is time to drive home now.

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