The Academy // Harry Styles AU

Chapter 13

Chapter 13

Nicole’s POV

I was relieved when I woke up this morning and it was finally Friday. Fifth day of school.

So far this year was not going the way I wanted it to or I had expected it to. I was just happy that today was the day that the project I was doing with Harry was due so I wasn’t going to have to deal with him next week so that may lighten things up a bit for me.

We finished the project at lunch yesterday, and ever since I had to end up missing a class, I always made sure I knew the time. I had probably pissed Harry off by doing that though because probably every fifteen minutes I had asked him to check the time.

I told him that we should just work in the lunch room so we’d know when we’d have to leave because they told us, but he insisted that we work on the project in the coffee shop because it was easier for him and made him more focused or some crap, I didn’t remember what he said. Luckily during dinner the coffee shop was closed so I would never be late getting back to my dorm.

Maybe now that I could actually eat my lunch in the dining hall again and maybe starting sitting with some of the groups of people that my friends always sat with. To make my day even better, Liz and I were able to get up early and get ready quickly so we got to head down to the coffee shop for breakfast this morning. We both talked about how our first week as seniors went.

Unfortunately I had to bring up Harry a few times when we talked about this week since he was a main factor in my week, but since the project was due today, I told her how much I was looking forward to next week when I wouldn’t have to deal with him.

When I was done talking about that, she began to tell me about the partner she had for the project, Liam. I had to admit that I was a bit jealous as she told me how well they got along while working on the project. I told myself not to care though because I was trying not to associate myself with the boys here this year since I still didn’t want them here.

There would be plenty of time for me to meet boys and date in college. I found it pointless to do in high school when you’re most likely going to go to different colleges and so on. I wasn’t even sure if I would get to go to the same college as my friends, we had all planned to, but nothing was really set in stone. Now who knows, they may change their plans in hopes of going to the same college as a boy they met here who they might end up breaking up with in college.

I was getting ahead of myself thinking about all this, and I focused myself back on what Liz was telling me about Liam. She told me that she thought she kind of liked him, and she thought he liked her too, but he hasn’t asker her out, and she was thinking that she should ask him out. I always believed that the boy should ask the girl out, but Liz was usually pretty confident in herself so it didn’t surprise me that she would want to be the one to ask the boy out.

She asked me what I thought she should do, I didn’t know why she was asking me and not Becca or Christina who seemed more qualified to answer this for her. I tried to think of what exactly a supportive friend would say in this situation, because I wanted to support her, but I didn’t want to let on that I wasn’t so sure about her asking him out.

I mean I thought if a boy really liked a girl they would make an effort to let her know, but I wasn’t going to tell her that. I didn’t know Liam, maybe he dropped hints to her, maybe he’s too shy to ask her out. Liz and I talked for a bit longer before deciding that we should start walking to our first class of the day. When we walked into the classroom, I noticed that Harry thankfully wasn’t here yet.

Liz and I went to sit down in our usual seats, and I went ahead and got out the folder that contained the answers to the questions we had to ask for the project. I took it out of the folder and placed it neatly on the table in front of me, anxiously waiting for when the teacher was going to collect them so I could be done with this project once and for all. Just a minute or so before class was going to begin; I saw Harry and another boy rushing in here.