Chapter 4

Westmount people have officially been here for a day and I hated some of them already. Some boys would flip my bra strap up and laugh but I was bruised. I only cried about it to Josh when we got home, he blew when he saw the bruises from the various times it had happened. 

"If they fuck with you today, Grace, text me. I'll walk you to class all day today." He warned me and I nodded. I was wearing dark jeans with my black vans, of course, and a black crop. He waited for me to get my English stuff ready out of my locker and walked me into English. 

"Can I make an announcement really quick Mrs. Fitz?" Josh asked sweetly, setting me at my desk. She nodded with a fond smile, Josh was her favorite person ever and she was not shy of admitting it. 

"If any of you Westmount scums mess with her, I'll mess your ass up after fucking class." He warned, only half of the class was here but the first bell rang saying it was time for him to get to his class and he only had 4 minutes. He pressed a kiss to my head before jogging out the room and I sighed when Amber and Nessa looked at me, waiting. 

"Later." I assured and we got class started. 

"Alright! So we're doing partners for the research project. It's for the rest of the semester by the way! So the first part is a research paper and presentation which you'll present to the class what it was, not in depth but enough to give us some idea of what it is. The in depth is further in the semester. Raise your hands when you're called so you can see your partner." Terri explained before passing out rubrics to us and smiled at me widely when I began to eat. I handed her a fruit cup which she thanked me for. 

"Here are your partners. Amber and Nessa, Louis and Alex. Danny and Niall, Jackson and Melissa." She named out names and of course the couples got picked together. 

"Harry and Leslie." Curls raised his hand, smirking and the entire group laughed when he moved over. 

"I'm fucking dead." I squeaked as he pulled a seat next to me, he frowned. "Am I that stupid to you?" "No. By far you're not but you'd understand if you met my brother." I sighed and Nessa threw her pencil at me. 

"Explain! Why was he mad!" 

"Oh right! So sorry, no offense to you or your school Harry but you guys kind of suck." I said and I looked at him with a small look of sympathy. "So yesterday a bunch of Westmount boys would grab my bra strap and pull it all the way back making it sting, of course, you know one time isn't that bad and I told them to stop but they didn't listen so throughout the day they would do it to me and it really hurt me but I didn't know how bad it was until I got home and was crying when I took off my backpack." I said and turned my back to them, lowering my croptop shoulder to expose my bruises to them. 

"And so Josh asked me what's wrong and he was so pissed when he saw so he's making me wait for him after all my classes and he's so angry with everyone so be nice today. Please. I don't want to deal with his shit." I begged and they scoffed. 

"Who the fuck did that?" Alex asked, pulling my shirt to look again, his thumb traced onto the red and purple skin. "I don't know their names but of course don't bring it up with Josh. He'll just get you know, Joshy." I shivered and they sighed but agreed. 

"I'm sorry that happened to you." Harry said with a hardened expression. "It's fine, I promise. It wasn't you. I just hope your school knows that I'm considered precious here at Northshore. My brother is a bit of a prick when it comes to me and I'm "off limits" to anyone or anything. He's really protective over that so this project will be hard considering you're a male. I am not allowed to talk to males besides these two dweebs because of him." I said and Harry frowned. 

"Sounds like a dick."

"He  is, but he loves his sister so much so he'll do anything for her." Michael explained as he was with his partner, Olivia, who he hates. 

"He's an asshole even to her but she knows how to deal with it." Danny explained and Harry nodded slowly. "So you've never had a boyfriend?" "No." I shook my head and he nodded slowly. 

"Dates?" 

"Nope. I sneak off every now and then when he's not home but not to go out with boys. I sneak out to go to the park after dark to draw." I shrugged and tilted my head. 

"Project. Right. On track Harold come on now, don't astray from course." I said and he laughed at me. "You can come over today after school if you want and we can start. Josh won't be home for at least an hour but he never bugs me after school till dinner." I shrugged and Harry nodded, letting me punch in my number into his phone and vice versa. 

"Great. Now we can slack." I hummed as I ate the rest of my food and we all began to fuck around for the remainder of class. 

"Wait, let me tell my mother." I said quickly dialing my mother. "Hey mom, I have to do a project and am bringing my partner over to the house after school, is that cool?" I asked and she hummed. 

"Is he male? You never call." "He does indeed resemble a male but it's 2018 so I don't make assumptions." "Your brother is going to kill you but I say yes it's fine." "Well like I didn't have a meltdown over what Josh was going to do to me already." I groaned and she laughed at me. 

"You'll be fine, talk to him." 

"I will when he isn't angry about bra poppers." "Ah, how did that go." "He cussed my entire 1st period out, well half. The idiot couldn't wait till the bell rang and class was in here so." "Sounds like your brother." She laughed and we hung up. 

"God I love your mom, she's so cool." Michael awed and I laughed and looked at Harry. "She said it's cool." "I can drive you home today." "Oh are you sure? You don-" 

"I'm positive. It's better for all parties involved." Harry smirked at me and I gulped.