Chapter 3

This chapter is kind of long, I didn’t want to condense it down or split it off into two chapters, because I couldn’t really decide where to split it, but here you go, hope you like it J

It’s dedicated to my new found friend ‘TheInsaneJester’ I like your name, by the way :L

Chapter 3

When I got home it honestly felt so good. I could feel Niall’s number burning a hole in my pocket. I’d been dieing to text him all day... did that seem weird?  I don’t wanna seem clingy or anything... I don’t even know what has been happening to me the past couple days. I barely knew anything about this boy but from that first look we shared on my first day, I knew he had a special place in my heart. I need to get a grip. “How was school?” mum asked as she stirred what looked like bolognaise. “It’s wasn’t so bad” I said smiling. “Oh good, made any friends?” she said turning to look at me. “Yeah, this girl Eleanor, she’s really nice,” I said. “And her friend Danielle, she’s really nice too” my mum gave me a questioning look. “I mean man friends” she said smirking. My mum knew I don’t really make friends easily, and I generally seemed to get on with girls more than boys. “I guess, this boy named josh, he was really nice” I said. “He sits next to me in history, we get on, and he’s my history partner for this project we’re doing on the holocaust” “Well, that’s nice love” she said. “Call your sisters dinners ready.” “Yeah” I said rushing up stairs to warn the sisters that mum had made dinner... yeah that’s right, warn. Nothing against mum’s cooking but sometimes I didn’t always come out as you would expect.

After dinner I walked up stairs and checked my phone. I had a new text from an unknown number.

Hey, are you busy tomorrow night? Niall

I smiled as I felt my heart flutter and my belly twist and turn with butterflies. I saved his number and I pulled out the note from my pocket, I didn’t have the heart to through it away so I put it in my top draw.  I thought about it for a couple seconds before I replied.

Nope free as a bird tomorrow :3 Louis

I was shaking just a little bit as I sent the text... do you think the cute 3 face was too much? I don’t know. Ahh.

Good, would you like to study then? ;) Niall

Would I like to study then? Course I would like to study then! Ahh, calm down Louis. He didn’t ask you on a date. Jeeze.

I thought about it for a second, where? I don’t know if I should bring him here or go to his house... lets avoid the awkwardness and I’ll invite him here. Mum would be pleased I made a man friend.

Sounds good to me :D my house after school? Louis

I sent the text awaiting a reply felling anxious.

Okay, see you then, tutor :L Niall

(Niall POV)

Okay, see you then tutor :L Niall

As I sent the text I smiled to myself. I’d never felt comfortable having a tutor, my brother had tried to be one when I was in year 8 but it only led to anger and violence, somehow, I think Louis will be different... he seems like the kind of guy to have patience. And that’s what I needed.

(Louis POV)

When I got the text back, I visibly jumped in the air for joy. Niall is coming to my house. Niall is coming here. To my house. Omg. Ahhhhhhhh. Calm down, since when did you start acting like some fan girl? I thought to myself. Chill out.

I started rushing round the room cleaning it up, putting my cloths in the washing basket and just generally making the place neat and clean for niall. Once the place looked presentable I stripped to my boxers and lay down in my bed putting my phone on charge; and stared at the ceiling awaiting sleep to overcome me. I smiled to myself as i thought about the beautiful blonde boy who’d carptured my heart with just one glance.

When i woke upt he next morning, i felt a new release of energy pass through my body, today i would be spending time with niall, alone, in my room. I grinned as i got in the shower and dressed and went down for breakfast. I couldn’t keep the happy feeling form radiating from me. “What’s got you in a good mood?” mum said as she passed me my morning sandwich. “Nothing in particular” I lied. “Oh and mum, my friend niall is coming over after school, we’re studying together, can you tell the girls to stay out of my room?” “Of course!” she said seeming super happy one of my friends was coming over. She looked down at her watch and frowned. “You’re going to be late you better run” I smiled and kissed her on the cheek, my mouth full of ham sandwich. “See you later” I smiled and I dashed out the house, picking my bag up on the way out, sorting my hair a little in the mirror; sweeping it to the side, as I made a mad dash for it towards the school.

“Hey” I said as I sat down next to niall in math. He looked up with a smile. “Hello” he said grinning. “You seem in an awfully good mood today, what has you so happy?” “nothing in particular, just felt like seizing the day” I lied. “Plus it’s not raining for a change” that was true, but it had nothing to do with why I was in a giddy mood.

Niall looked out the window and smiled “your right...that’s unusual” he joked. He looked back at me, his eyes glistening. “Definitely something to be happy about” he grinned.

I swore to myself that today I would get on with my work, but I just couldn’t concentrate. Niall was sitting next to me, so close that if I moved my elbow I would be touching him. When the bell rang I looked over at niall who was already looking at me, he looked away with a blush creeping on his pale cheeks. “See you later math buddy” I said smiling as I packed away my stuff and got out of my chair, he looked up at me and smiled. “See you later tutor” he said following my actions.

As I headed into science I was still feeling like I was walking on air. Which if you think about the physics of it, I probably was, but my point still stands, I felt totally lifted. I sat down next to Eleanor smiling. “Good morning” I greeted. At Danielle and Eleanor, they looked over at me and smiled. “Good morning” they said in sync. “What has you in such a cheery mood?” Danielle asked. “Why is everyone asking me that today? Is it not normal to be happy to come to school once in a while?” I laughed. “That’s very abnormal!” Eleanor joked “especially when you’re coming to this dump” I laughed. “I guess so” I smiled. Eleanor grinned. “So Zayn’s throwing this party this week end, I was wondering if you would like to accompany me?” she said looking shifty, biting her lip nervously. “Do you mean Zayn your ex-boyfriend?” I asked. “Yeah him” Danielle said. “I’ll be there to with Liam, Eleanor just needs someone to come with her, so that she doesn’t look like a loner” she laughed. I let out a chuckle. “So will you come along, as my friend? Please?” she said with puppy eyes, holding her hands in prayer mode next under her chin. “I guess; what is it? A birthday party or something?” I asked. Eleanor looked relieved. I was in such a good mood today, going to a party actually sounded great. I wasn’t a massive party person; to be honest I don’t think I’d ever really been to one for someone over the age of 12.

“No, it’s not really a party for anything,” Danielle explained “Zayn just throws a random house party every now and then when his parents go away on business trips. See, Zayn’s kind of... how can I put this lightly?” “Filthy rich” Eleanor interrupted. “Yeah, so he has the maids clean up the place once he’s done.” She said

“I see” I said. “Don’t you think that’s a bit selfish? You know, having a party when his parents aren’t there, then leaving it to someone else to clean up his mess?” “it’s a family thing” Eleanor explained “his parents are the kind of people not to really care about their children, just leave them for the maids to deal with, is basically their motto for parental advice” I frowned. “Yeah, so Zayn sort of does it to spite them for neglecting him, but that’s his story to tell...” Danielle concluded.

I thought about it for a second. “Yeah I’ll come then” I said. “But is it sort of like, invite only or something?” I said. “No, just about anyone can come” I smiled. “Okay then” I said. “So I’ll pick you up or?” Eleanor said. “Yeah you can pick me up, considering you know where he lives and I don’t own a car” I laughed. “Okay, well, my sisters taking me I’ll have her swing by your house around half 7, on the way there.” She smiled greatly. “Okay” I flipped through my book finding the back page and ripping it out, I quickly wrote down my address and passed it to her. “Here’s my address” I smiled. She grinned back taking it and putting it in the pocket of her extremely tight jeans. I looked over at Danielle and smiled.she smiled back and we began to do the work sir had assigned us.

When last lesson was almost over i popped out my phone and text niall.

Where do you wanna meet? Louis

I popped my phone back in my pocket for a minute, hiding it from sir’s view, I felt my pocket vibrate. So I picked it out, making sure that sir didn’t notice as I read his text.

Out front of school? Niall

My heart fluttered, I had no idea why, but whenever he texts me back, my belly felt like a balloon full of butterflies.

Sounds good, see you there :D Louis

When the bell rang, I couldn’t have got out of school fast enough. I almost tripped over my own feet as I felt kind of impatient to get out of the school, the crowds of students blocked the corridors and as much as I would of loved to shove them all out the way and run for it, I had to keep up the act of a normal citizen.

When I made it out of the doors finally, I jogged up to see the blonde bloke, with a smile plastered to my face. I tapped him on the shoulder and when he looked around his eyes locked to mine and my knees almost collapsed. “Hey” I said, breathily. “You haven’t been waiting long? Bloody crowed corridors” I laughed. He shook his head. “No I only just got here” he said. He looked at me expectantly. And I realised we had better make our way to my house. “Let’s go then” I smiled as I started to walk away as niall kept pace with me. An awkward silence came over us both while we walked. I swear the walk felt like forever. Even though it only lasted like 8 minutes. 

As we neared my house my heart started to thump erratically. “We’re here” I said smiling. We walked up to my door and opened it looking back at niall who was smiling up at me, I’d never noticed before, he is kind of short; just another thing to add on to the list of things I thought were adorable about him.

We sat in my room, laid across the bed, maths books everywhere, I was trying to explain algebra to him, but he still couldn’t quiet grasp it. I looked down at the sheet yet again.

“Simplify this equation: 3x -2 + 4x + 5 “

It seemed simple enough to me, but I guess to niall it just looked like a whole lot of gibberish. “let me try and explain it like this, x means carrots so you have 3carrots – 2 + 4 carrots +5” he looked at me for a second and nodded. “Right to carrots don’t like to be lonely, so you need to put them together so how many carrots to you have in this equation?” he looked at it for a second “7?” “Yeah, so now put that to the side, and put the rest of the numbers next to it so it looks like this”

“7x -2 +5”

“Okay” he said unsure. “Now think about it, what is -2 +5?” “What?” he said confused. To be fair though, I was starting to confuse myself. “right, think of it like a bank, you have nothing in the bank, but you -2 from it, your now -2 in debt, then add 5” I said. “3” “okay now right that next to your 7 carrots and because your number is not in debt to the bank, it’s a plus number so put a plus in front of it”

“7x + 3”

“See? There’s it simplified!” I said happily. “Are you starting to grasp it?” he smiled up at me. “yeah, a little bit, so whenever I see ‘x’ I just need to think of it as carrots?” I nodded “and they don’t want to be lonely so I add all the carrots together?” I nodded again “so then I work with the rest of the numbers till they come to a number acting like it’s my bank balance and put them next to the carrots like a side dish?” I smiled. “Yeah, you’ve got it!” I said, my belly grumbled. I looked up at the clock the read it was half 6. “Do you wanna go home now? Or do you want to order pizza with me?” I smiled “All this talk or carrots is getting my stomach in a twist of hunger” I laughed. “What kind of pizza?” he questioned raising his perfect eyebrow. “Margarita?” I laughed. “Anything you want, I’m buying” “can’t knock free pizza” he laughed. I went to get the phone.

(Niall POV)

When Louis came back with the phone we sat in silence as he called them up. “Hey, what pizza do you want niall?” he asked, covering the bottom of the phone lightly. “Extra cheesy?” I laughed. He smirked and nodded. “And one extra cheesy margarita” he said into the phone. He named his address and put the phone down. “It’ll be here in the next 5-10 minutes.”  He said smiling. An awkward silence fogged the air between us. “Soo” I said. Trying to break the silence as un-awkwardly as possible, didn’t work out so well. “Soo” he repeated. Smiling at me; god I loved that smile. It had my belly churning with butterflies. To break the awkwardness of this moment a young girl walked in through the door.

“Louis” she said looking at Louis. He looked over at her surprised. “Mum, said I can’t have cereal for dinner, do you think that’s fair?” she said. “Lottie, what mum says goes, whether I say it’s fair or not, it makes no difference” he said. “yeah, but she said it was weird, I’m not weird, just because I fancy some coco pops for dinner doesn’t make me weird.” She said crossing her arms frustrated. “I have coco pops for dinner sometimes” I said laughing she looked over at me and smiled. “It is a bit weird.” Louis concluded. “No it’s not!” Lottie and I said at the same time. I put a hand hover my heart with fake hurt on my face. “Are you saying I’m weird Louis?” I said, trying to contain my laughter at his reaction. He looked at me with questioning eyes then back at Lottie.

“You can’t have something that’s aimed to fill you at breakfast for dinner” he said dramatically. “Yes you can” I said. “Not really, not without it being strange” he laughed “it’s like having ice cream for breakfast, or pizza, or even spaghetti bolognaise.” I laughed. “I guess, but it’s not really weird, I bet there are loads of people that have coco pops for dinner” “well your all weirdo’s!” he laughed. We all laughed together. We heard the door bell ring and I looked at Louis who looked at Lottie, who was looking at me. “PIZZA!” Louis cried as he got up and rushed to pass Lottie, but stopped abruptly and came back in the room, opening the top draw as he picked out his wallet, and started running out again. Lottie and I just looked at him in surprise.

She looked over at me smiling. “I’m charlotte, but call me Lottie, everyone does” she said coming over to me holding her hand out awaiting me to shake it. “I’m niall” I said shaking her hand “but you can call me Nialler” I said laughing. She looked over at the books covering the bed. “Are you, Louis’ tutor? Or something?” she said confused. “Nope, other way around” I laughed. She nodded understandingly. “Ahh, I see,” she said with a smirk on her face. We could hear the front door close and the running of steps then a bang. Silence. “Louis?” I said standing up and walking out of the door and looked down the corridor. I burst into a fit of laughter, there was Louis, lying on the ground, pizza boxes strew on the ground. “A-are y-you oh-oh-okay?”I said through my fit of laughter, I neared him and picked up the pizza boxes hugging them. “My poor pizza” I said laughing, Louis looked up and me in confusion and realised I was faking to be more hurt that the pizza hit the ground than him. He should up and took his pizza from me. “Well, I see where your priorities lye,” he said laughing lightly. “Food before friends,” he laughed.

We ate our pizza and I realised it was getting late. “I guess it’s time for me to go” I said sadly. He smiled at me looking down at the last piece of pizza he has left. “Here, have the last piece, as a goodbye gesture” he laughed passing it to me, our hands brushed and I felt fussing sparks pass through my body. Get a grip niall. He looked out of the window and frowned. “It’s dark outside, how far away to you live?” he asked. “Only like 5 minutes away” I said.

“In that case, would you like me to walk you home?” he said smiling. “If you want” I said acting in different, but inside I was a bubbling pot of happiness.

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Sorry for the complex algebra in this, took me an hour or two, to work out how I was going to explain it... for those of you who already understand algebra it's probably seems easy, but  I found it hard to explain.... anywaayy... thanks for reading, the next chapter will be up within the next couple says :) x