Prince Charming // L.T (On Hold)

Chapter Eighteen

After school I make my way towards the boys locker room to get changed for football practice. But I spot Ella leaning against the brick wall, smoking a cigarette. Her eyes dart over to me and she smiles. "Hey Charming." She takes the cancer stick to her lips and puffs out the smoke into the clean air.

"Where did you go at lunch time?" I ask her. She inhales the smoke one more time before smothering it beneath her boot.

"I saw the Cheshire cat, you know the one from Alice in wonderland. And I followed it out the cafeteria." She shrugs her shoulders. She makes this seem like it's just something casual that happens all the time.

"You know you say big words when your high. That little story about LSD, I understood most of what you said but the rest, I'm sure you were talking in a different language." I chuckle softly.

"Yeah I have a habit of doing that. More or less I forget other people aren't at the same intellectual level as I am. And I find it very amusing when I begin to talk in big elaborate words which confuses other people. Like for example did you know that the neocortex is part of the cerebral cortex. It's involved in higher functions such as sensory perception, generation of motor commands, spatial reasoning, conscious thought, and language; well in humans anyway."

"I don't know what you just said but I'm sure you just made it up." I chuckle. I didn't even understand anything that she just said.

"Nope didn't make it up.Or maybe I'm still under the influence of my little acid trip. Who knows." She smirks.

I wouldn't doubt it.

"You know maybe you shouldn't be-"

"Didn't we have this conversation before Charming?" She smirks at me and I know she's just teasing but she's right and I am definitely not going down that road again. "So where are you  heading of too?"

"Football practice." The cold mid October air blows by and it nips at my face and I clutch my jacket closer to me.

"Cool."

"Uh I um." I feel my cheeks flush when I try usher out the next words that I want to say. "Uh maybe you should come? Y-you know to t-the  game this Saturday." I look down at the floor while I speak.

"You want me to go to your game? " She sounds surprised that I asked her.

"Uh Yeah."

"Fine sure, why not?" I look up to meet her gaze and my stomach goes into knots.

"Really?" I say way to excitedly.

"Uh Yeah. Well Zayn is here. See ya around Charming." She smirks and starts walking away. I'm not sure why but I'm so happy she has agreed to come to my game.

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"Tomlinson your late!" Coach Moris hollers out.

"S-sorry." I mumble out.

"No excuses. Four laps around the field." He yells out again. "Has anyone seen Thomas Calder." He shouts one more time as I begin my jog around the field. Where exactly is he? I haven't seen him all day and I've been wondering where he is. I still have a bone to pick with him and I need some answers as to what he tried to do to Lottie. As I think about what Thomas has done to Lottie I begin to run faster. The anger fuels my running and I don't stop until I have completed two laps.

I stop and rest my weight onto my knees, trying to catch my breath. "Oi Tomlinson are you done?" I shake my head no as I keep trying to catch my breath. "Than what are you waiting for? Keep going." The rest of my teammates have already began practice meanwhile I'm stuck running laps all because I came late.