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Chapter One
"A+ Tomlinson. Remarkable. Amazing. Wonderful. It never ceases to amaze me how excellent you are. Meet me after class for a gold merit" Miss Kedge smiles at him and then as soon as she turns her greyish blue eyes towards Niall the smile vanishes. She's back to looking like the Miss Kedge that everyone knows.
Unsmiling. Stern. Strict. Bored. Just a few words to describe her. She is literally the walking definition of Negative.
"A C- Horan. Honestly at least try. " She sighs and Niall sits up hurriedly insisting that he actually did 'try'. Miss Kedge raises a sceptical eyebrow at him.
Louis doesn't think that this is particularly fair because Niall did try. Louis is always hyper aware of the way Niall's eyebrows furrow in an attempt to understand a particular question. And he only nudged Louis for only like 5 questions which was quite good compared to Josh who asked Louis for all of the answers and would kick his leg under the table when Louis "didn't hear him".
Louis didn't know why the teachers always put him next to the 'Not as Capable' students it was obvious they would use Louis as their personal fucking answer booklet. Not that Louis ever said these things out loud. He wasn't brave enough.
As Miss Kedge continues down the row telling other students their grades Niall turns to look at Louis.
"Are you on steroids?" He asks and Louis is about to laugh but then he realises that Niall isn't joking.
"No Niall. I am absolutely not on steroids. Plus steroids doesn't make you smarter it just increases your adrenaline." Louis replies back all matter of factly because he absolutely loves stating facts and adjusting his little black glasses in a superior way.
"I only asked a question. Not for you to recite a fucking essay" Niall says.
"I merely said 19 words, Niall" Louis says.
"You're such a weirdo" Niall grumbles shifting his chair away from Louis trying to put some distance in-between the two of them.
Turns out its not much distance because when Louis moves to stretch his legs, his thigh brushes against Niall's who immediately flinches.
"Sorry" Louis mutters apologetically. Niall just sends him a dirty look before turning to chat with his friend Zayn.
Zayn smiles knowingly at Louis and Louis wishes right there and then that the ground would swallow him up. Him and Zayn had...had a little fun in the toilets shall we say. Zayn knew he was gay and Louis knew Zayn was gay. It was their little secret. It was the reason Zayn no longer joined in the the teasing against Louis. Because Louis had something against him.
It wasn't much. Just that one day Louis had decided to wear his really tight red jeans that showed of his humongous bum and then Zayn had stalked him into the toilets and then had stared at Louis hungrily and then the next minute they were kissing. That was Louis' first kiss. Even though it wasn't with someone he loved it was still nice to say the least. Zayn hadn't wasted any time shoving his tounge into Louis' mouth and placing his hands on the boys arse.
They hadn't done much either. Zayn had demanded that Louis get down on his knees and suck him off. Louis had obliged. His first blow job as well. He didn't really know whether he was good or not but if Zayn's moans were anything to go by he was doing pretty well. He remembers chocking when Zayn had without warning cummed in his mouth. Louis may have swallowed some of it- it didn't taste particularly good.
He would be lying if he said he wasn't attracted to Zayn because how could he not. Zayn was absolutely beautiful. Probably would be a fucking model in a few years time. It's just that Louis didn't really like Zayn's personality. All confident and what not.
The bell rang and Louis breathed a sigh of relief. Niall got up and left with Zayn and everyone else left with their friends and then Louis spotted her standing by his desk a pretty smile on his face.
Jade Thirlwall. His best friend. She had on a cute bow on her reddish brown hair and was wearing eyeliner....hmm someone's experimenting with makeup. Her red checked shirt had the top button open because she always complained how top buttons "strangled her" and she was wearing denim shorts that weren't short enough for her to be considered Popular but she still looked really nice anyway.
"Hey boobear" she coos grinning at Louis' sour expression.
"Stop calling me that, I swear Jade. I will actually go to your house and ask if you have any embarrassing nicknames" Louis says gathering up his things and dumping it into his very manly red rucksack.
"You're scared of my brother!" Jade says."Like, I remember that time when you changed the channel and he said change it back and you did it immediately for fear of what he would do to you"
"Well it doesn't exactly sound pleasant for him to cut off segments of my body and cut it into billions of tiny little pieces and then feed it to that God forsaken 3 legged dog that stray's your road" Louis says shuddering at the thought. That dog really did have it bad. But barking at 2am in the morning didn't exactly gain him pity.
"He was joking, Louis. A joke. "
"Well it certainly wasn't funny. "
"Yeah I know. He wants to be a comedian when he grows up and I told him that he shouldn't be surprised if if less than 15 people turn up and fall asleep within half an hour"
"He could tie them to their chairs and and electrocute them every time their eyes even as so much flutter " Louis jokes.
"He wants to be a comedian. Not a madman" Jade says and Louis chuckles.
"What did you get in your test?" Louis asks.
"A+" Jade shrugs as she gets that everyday (oh wait-she does) "I'm guessing you got the same "
"Naturally" Louis replies and they high five.
"Jade. Louis. I owe you some gold merits I believe?" Miss Kedge says from her desk and Louis almost forgot that she was there.
"Yeah you do miss" Jade says and they walk over to her. Both are roughly the same height and they've been asked endlessly whether they are in fact a couple to which they always reply No.
After handing over the gold stickers Miss Kedge smiles at them (smiles are reserved only for a+ students) "If only the whole class was as good as you two"
"If only" Louis agrees. Then they wouldn't fucking copy him in tests.
"Well I won't keep you from your lunch break. Have a nice day Tomlinson. Thirlwall" They've had Miss Kedge for around 4 years now and they still don't know why she loves to address them by their surnames. Ah the mysteries of life.
When they leave the room they see Liam stooped up against a wall, arms folded a bored expression on his face.
"Hey Liam" they smile at him and Liam smiles back "Took you long enough. You had a threesome with the teacher or something?"
Jade slaps his head but giggles. "Honestly the things you come up with"
"Can we head to the canteen? They have chips on Thursdays" Louis says.
So that's where they go. The canteen is -as always- filled to the brim with loud chatter and noises and pissed off looking dinner ladies who scrape the remaining's of unwanted food into the big grey bins nearby.
Just like the cliché high school this is no different. Every group has the table which the name as "theirs".
The popular kids have the smallest one which is smack bang in the middle of the room. They like to squash together and glance at people and throw their heads back and laugh and make the person that they are talking about feel bad. Like when Louis had started wearing glasses and Taylor had tried them on and said how ugly they were and that he must've gotten it from Specsavers. Which was wrong because Louis had gotten them from his local opticians down the road.
Not that he said that of course.
Also like any cliché high school story there was a popular girl and boy. Taylor was the popular girl that was for sure. And Josh , her friend, was the boy.
Perrie, Leigh Anne and Eleanor sat on her left. They mainly looked in mirrors and cried when they had so much as a tiny insignificant spot on their perfect little faces. The most obnoxious was definitely Eleanor who yes was pretty but just so full of herself. All she cared about was keeping her weight down. She was very slim and it was slowly changing into skinny. At lunch time all she would eat was a measly salad with grapes or something.
Zayn and Niall sat by Josh's side. It looked quite uneven. More girls than boys. But that was whatever.
They joined the long queue for the fish and chips and when they were served they sat at a table in the corner. It was secluded. It was safe. Kindaa..
Louis made the mistake of not tucking his bag under the table and it cost him dearly when Taylor walked past in her sort of high heels and tripped. It wouldn't have been noticeable if she didn't happen to be holding her tray with unfinished food.
Taylor went flying. The tray and its contents went flying. Louis cringed.
"You FREAK!!" She screeched and was actually getting up to hit him but Zayn stops her.
"He's not worth it. " he says and the anger in Taylor's eyes dies down a bit. She instead picks up a glass of water and pours that on Louis instead and to be frank Louis would've preferred the slap or whatever she was going to do to him because Fuck his hair.
The rest of the gang walks by, Eleanor simply holding her nose as she walks past as if HE'S the one that smells. (her perfume is overwhelming)
Perrie hangs back though handing Louis a tissue and then she's gone.
Fucks sake.
***
Louis heads straight home after school not wanting to hang around long after that stupid incident earlier.
Unfortunately he's on his own for journeys home as Jade and Liam head home the other way (a shame really)
There are some other people that walk his way but...but he doesn't really know them. Truth be told he's only got Jade and Liam in this school. That's all he really needs to be honest. He'd rather have only two friends that will stick with him through thick and thin than 50+ friends who were all fake.
He walks , the only sound is his feet hitting the pavement in a steady rhythm. When he turns into his neighborhood he notices that the moving van that was there in the morning was now gone.
His mum did say that they had new neighbours. Well.
He spots a girl sitting on the grass outside legs crossed hands fiddling with some flowers. He notices that there's some tucked in her brown wavy hair , the tips are dyed brown. Her skin is quite pale yet so soft looking. She looks around 18 years old or something like that though.
Louis doesn't know why he's paying so much attention to this girl but he just is. She finally looks up and smiles at him. A genuine one laced with excitement. But why would she be excited? He's just an average looking (at home he'll pretend that he's this sexy human being with Strong thighs and a Toned bum) boy who's hair looks absolutely..well disgusting.
"Civilization!" The girl claims. She places the flower she was previously holding and drops it on the floor. Her voice is smooth like chocolate and she when she stands up Louis realises that she's taller than him and sigh..
"Huh?" He wonders.
"You're the first human being apart from my mum and my brother that I've seen around here. Honestly I thought there'd been a zombie apocalypse or something."
Louis just blinks at her. They're strangers yet she's talking to him as if they're anything but. Not that he's complaining. It's just different.
"Well people were at school" he says.
"Oh I know. It's just that its nearly five and we got here in the morning at around 7 and we've had to entertain ourselves with the shitty Freeview channels that we've been given " the swearing kind of goes against the beautiful flowers in her hair takes away the innocence that Louis thought was there.
"Hey. Don't rule Freeview out completely it does have the basics. Plus when it's raining it never freezes unlike with Sky. I have to bang the bloody thing until it gets back to normal" he says. Then: "I'm Louis" because why not.
"Gemma" the girl replies. "And yeah I guess you're right. "
"Would you be offended if I asked why you're just sitting there playing with..flowers of all things" Louis says.
"No of course I'm not offended. I just wanted to make a daisy chain. I used to do it when I was younger." She explains.
There's a bit of silence for a while. Not silence that Louis usually suffers the ones that feel like they're suffocating him. This one is comfortable and he wouldn't mind laying in this kind of silence.
"Mind telling me whereabouts you live...i hope that doesn't sound creepy" she says a small smile on her face.
"It kinda does. But you'll know anyway. I'm your neighbour" he says.
"That's awesome. Our family is really neighborly. We were like that back in Holmes Chapel. Well everyone was"
"It's nothing like that here. Everyone tends to keep to themselves. Mind their own business sorta thing. Like if I forgot my key or something I'd just wait outside cause I'm not that close to neighbours" Louis explains.
"Sounds...awful. I can't wait to go to school tomorrow and meet new people and what not. "
Well that was new. Louis had never met anyone -apart from Liam and Jade- that were actually looking forward to going to the bleak walls and strict teachers that was called school. Louis smiles at her.
"Well it was nice talkin to ya Louis. See ya around" Gemma says and then turns to rush back into a house that was pretty much identical to Louis'. Except Louis didn't live there.
But helloo Louis might have just made a friend. Yes she looked older than him but still a friend to walk home with nevertheless.
Yay.
When he enters his own house he's welcomed with the loud shouts, smell of food and all his sisters bringing him in for a hug. Even though its merely been 7 hours. It's nice though it makes him feel loved.
"You took so long, Louis" Phoebe mutters, "I thought something terrible had happened" Louis hugs her tighter. "Nothing bad will happen to me" he replies.
"We baked bread at school!" Phoebe announces.
"Oh really? Could I try some?" Louis asks politely.
"Well actually.." A voice says from the doorway and Louis looks up to see Phoebe's twin sister Daisy. "I may have eaten it all"
"Daisy! I told you I was saving it for Louis! Ughh" Phoebe stomps her feet running with her tiny legs to her room a frantic Daisy just behind her.
Louis smiles at them absentmindedly. He really loves them to bits.
***
The next day of school really isn't different. Well not really. Not until geography. Louis walks in as usual with Liam (Jade has history) and they head to their respective seats but are caught up by the new seating plan on the board.
Fucking seating plans. Louis was doing just fine where he was next to Liam and a soft girl named Jane who would barely mutter two words -but whatever more reason to chat with Liam.
Louis searched for his name amongst the others. He noticed that Liam was next to Eleanor (poor guy) but did not dwell on that for too long.
[Louis Tomlinson-Harry Styles]
Um okay. Who the fuck is Harry Styles.
When Louis turns to his new seat-at the bloody back of the classroom where nobody ever learns and people snog shamelessly or whip out their phones but mainly bloody talk- he sees well no one. Maybe this Harry person isn't in. Good. Louis always hated the window seat anyway. He walks over gets out the typical pink geography book , his pencil case, his planner and his fully filled water bottle. He is prepared. While everyone talks as the last students enter Louis simply stands trying not to seem to bored. Well he is bored. Why cant people come on time! They were wasting precious minutes in which Louis could have been learning about glaciers and the Amazon and other geographical stuff.
Then the door swings open -well it has been for the last 5 minutes - but now its louder than usual. As if the door was swung open like that on purpose. It got everyone's attention.
In entered a boy with curly brown hair and from what Louis could see..jade green eyes. He was wearing a black shirt with black jeans and he was just one of those students that obvious screamed -"I don't give a shit"- Just great.
A few girls raised their shaped eyebrows at him. Some boys eyed him up and down probably proclaiming whether he was worthy of being popular or some shit like that. Louis simply stared.
"Sorry I'm late, miss" he apologizes. His voice is quite deep total opposite of his angelic looks.
"It's alright. Are you the new kid, then? Harry something?" The teacher asks.
"Styles. Yeah that's me. "
"Well go and have a seat your next to..ahh what a delight. You should count yourself lucky to sit next to Louis. He's a very good influence" the whole class groans while Louis can only smile at the praise.
The boy walks over, slowly. Lazily even. As if he knows everyone was staring at him. Harry boy doesn't smile at him instead putting his bag down roughly and all Louis can do is stare. Once again. Because is that a peak of tattoos he sees?
Geography passes quickly and Louis is just thankful that they don't have to do any partner work. Harry hums a lot and Louis finds it quite irritatingly distracting. Its even more irritating when he realises that he actually knows what song he's singing.
("Your Song" Elton John)
He fights the urge to join in though and when he's finished all of his work he stares aimlessly out of the window. Far far away. Sometimes Louis wished he lived in a land far far away. Wherever that was. The thought was interesting enough to last him the whole lesson though and as soon as the bell rang he was up on his feet and walking towards Liam.
"How was the new boy , then?" Liam asks.
"I wouldn't know any better" Louis shrugs "We didn't talk. Seems a bit Josh-ish to be honest. Not up my street. "
When school finishes Louis finds himself searching for Gemma. For the lovely green eyes that she possess - not the ones he saw in geography - maybe even to hear the soft purr of her voice. It makes him feel...nice.
He doesn't see her though. Ah well it is what it is.
Maybe tomorrow.