Now I see |H.S.| ON HOLD

Chapter 9

As Niall and I walk I seem to keep finding myself looking back. Seeing if Cher would come get me or Harry come to me and apologize. But I know that won't happen.

"Looking for someone?" Niall asks me. He obviously noticed me constantly looking back. "Oh, um no. not really." I say my words stumbling. I look down at my feet as we continue walking.

"So what brings you to Oxford?" Niall wanting to start a conversation with me. The real answer to the question hurts to badly to say. My stomach churns in sorrow for a moment. "I wanted to go to new places." I lie.

I don't know him to trust with just telling him about my life. It's to much. I take a breath looking up to him. He looks at me and nods his head. I smile at him. "So what brings you here Mr. Niall?" I ask. I can tell he's Irish.

He laughs a little. "Same reason as you. I like going to new places." I nod my head at him like he's done to me.

We walk up to this group of 4 guys. Niall is greeted by them with smiles and waves. I just put my head down. I've never been good at meeting groups of people. So this may be pretty hard for me.

"Guys this is Val. Val these are the guys." I give a friendly smile to them as they do so back.  "Wow Niall really? Introduce us as 'The Guys' To cool to say out names?"

A boy with a swooped up to the side hair. Chestnut Color and a thin face with just the slightest amount of stubble. Quite attractive I would say. "I'm Louis" He says pulling his hand out for me to shake. I smile even more shaking his hand. He is slightly taller than me. Like most of the guys causing me to look u at him just a tiny bit. 

"Nice to meet you." I say. Releasing our grip and pulling my hand to my side. "Wait, Aren't you the girl from orientation that the dean was fan girling over?" The boy with red hair that is a bit wavy and moved to the side of his face says.

He laughs at his choice of words and causes me to blush a bit. "Yep. That's her alright." Niall says nodding his head. "I'm Ed by the way." The red haired boy says pulling out his hand also. I shake it smiling. 

"This is also Zayn and Liam."The two guys wave. They all are attractive guys and seem to have a wonderful personality.

"Mate you seen Harry?" Zayn asks Niall. Suddenly my smile drops. They know Harry? Are they friends with him? 

"You guys know Harry?" I ask. Liam nods looking at me raising an eyebrow. I put my head down and take big breaths. "Everything fine Val?" Ed asks me. I look at him and force a smile on my face. "Yea. I'm just going to go to the bathroom really quick." I say walking away. I pull out my phone and see I have 6 missed calls. 3 from Cher and 3 from Jo. I finally try to call Marcus from all the failed attempts I recently have had. After about 3 rings he answers. "Hello?" 

I take a deep breath from his calming sweet voice. "Hi Marcus. It's Val. I was just asking If you are at the event?" I say making a face thinking of how lame I sound. I hear a slight chuckle in the phone. 

He must think what I said was lame too. Great. "Turn around." Marcus says. I turn my head to meet him and his brown chocolate eyes but this time with no glasses.

I remove my phone from my ears and look up smiling at him. "Hi.." I say placing my phone into my pocket. "Finally you give me a call." Marcus says walking next to me. He says it in a playful tone letting me smile. "Yea, You aren't wearing your glasses today?" I say looking into his eyes.

"Yea. I bought new contacts. Thanks for noticing." He says smiling. We seem to not to be able to stop smiling. "How am I not suppose to notice." I say that close my mouth as if that wasn't suppose to come out. oops.