Chapter 4

Weeks past after the whole "Monica getting expelled and transferred to a private school" thing and people were looking at Louis, Liam, Zayn, Harry and Hannah all differently.
"Guys, I'm really sorry," I said one day at lunch with a sigh. "I should've told you earlier about the consequences of being my friend and standing up for me.. ugh, this is all my fault."
"Hey hey," Hannah said. "We helped you because we could and we wanted to. We don't regret it."
"Yeah, and it's okay if people look at us differenlty. At least the 7 of us have each other in this school, we'll go through this together," Louis added.
"Besides, we're happy Monica got expelled. She was a million times worse than Micah, and now," Liam said looking at where Micah was walking. "He's kind of weak without his twin sister around."
"Hey guys," Zayn sighed and sat beside me. By this time, Zayn spoke to me a lot more than he did when we first met. We finally felt comfortable around each other; he was the one who protected me the most from all the bullies and everything. I guess Jeremy was right, Zayn could take his job of protecting me in school.
"Hey," we all said.
"Got a call from Niall, he's coming over this weekend."
"So I'm finally going to meet this Niall I keep hearing so much about?" I asked.
"Yeah, I guess you are. He's going to your party?" Harry asked Hannah. Hannah's birthday was coming up that weekend, and we were having a little get together. Just the 7 of us. 8, I guess, since Niall was going to be there.

The day of the party came and I was pretty stoked. Whenever I was the gang, we were in school getting picked on by Micah. Not a lot of people supported him in hating us; just the more popular important ones. But none of that was going to matter that day. It was just going to be 7 friends, hanging out.
Or so I thought...
Apparently a few more people were invited by Hannah's parents without her concent. The party started at about 6, and by 9 everyone started to slowly leave. The 8 of us were in Hannah's bedroom by this time. I had been talking to Niall a lot during the party and I had a pretty good time talking to him. Hannah was right, he was a nice kid.
"Hey, you 2! We're all going up," Hannah said to Niall and I and we followed her.
"A little party of our own," Harry said as the 3 of us walked into Hannah's room.
"What about everyone else downstairs?" I asked.
"My parents will take care of that. They probably just came for the free food."
"So what're we gonna do?" I asked.
"What we always do," Niall said.
"Truth or dare!" They all said together. I'm going to be completely honest, I love a good game of truth or dare. I used to play it a lot with the friends I had back in the states. But I always chose truth. What can I say? I'm an honest person. After a while, Louis said we could only choose dare or double dare, which was new to me. Liam explained that if I chose dare, I'd have to do a big dare and if I chose double dare I'd have to do 2 little ones. The bottle they were spinning pointed to me and I decided to go for dare.
"Okay, so... since you're new and all, we'll go easy on you," Niall said.
"Hey, hey," Louis said. "I was the one who spun the bottle to her, I get to tell her what to do."
"Alrighty then, Louis. What do I have to do?" I asked.
"Dare you to kiss Zayn," Louis said without any sign of hesitation. Zayn was sitting right next to me so I turned and looked at him. Like I said, by this time we were comfortable with each other. So we both leaned in for a kiss, expecting it to just be an innocent little peck. But as I slowly pulled away, he put his hand on my cheek, and pulled me in for another kiss. This time, it was much more passionate.
We finally pulled away and everyone in the room was cheering. I should've mentioned Jeremy was at the party too, and he walked in on the kiss.
"Oops, sorry didn't know there was a make- Liz?" He said.
"It was a dare, Jer," I said looking down.
"Really now?" Jeremy said sitting behind Zayn and me. "Well I bet you, little sister, that mom and dad will actually approve of Zayn as your boyfriend."
"What if they do?" I asked.
"Then you have to immediately put Zayn as your boyfriend on Facebook."
"OOOHHHH!" Everyone but Zayn, Jeremy and I said.
"For how long?"
"Just until the end of next month," Jeremy simply said.
"You're on," I said getting up and walked out of the room. By this time my parents were in the living room with Hannah's parents.
"Mom, dad!" I said.
"Yes?" My dad called from the living room.
"I need to prove something to Jer, so answer this with nothing but honesty," I said to them as everyone else stood in front of the couch they were sitting on.
"So would you ever approve of Zayn here as my boyfriend?" I asked. Before they could open their mouths, I said, "Do you swear to speak the truth, only the truth, and nothing but the truth? I just wanna make it sound official."
"Yes, yes. We very honestly do approve," my mom said.
"We were actually just talking about it," Hannah's mom said.
I ran my hand through my hair and just kept quiet. I thought about what happened when we kissed. Not what people saw happened, what was going through my head as we kissed passionately. I was thinking about how he stood up for me even when I was clearly doing a good job in standing up for myself. I was thinking about the times he helped protect me. I was thinking about... how I was feeling about him since he helped me with Micah on my first day of school.
"Hey, Liz, remember that bet we had? Yeah, I have the laptop ready, I said immediately," Jeremy said.
"Ugh, fine."
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