Chapter 1
Louis' POV
I had been at the school for just over a year now, one year and 3 months to be exact. I have made a great group of friends that consists of Erika and Harry Styles (they are twins), Brittany Jones, Liam Payne, Niall Horan and Zayn Malik. My best friend out of everyone and the person I am closest to is Harry. I think I have settled in well here. I just have one problem. I have a crush on my best friend's sister. Erika. There is only one person that knows, and that is Harry. It must be weird for him, but he is the only person I trust enough to tell.
The bell rang for the end of English. I hadn't been paying attention because I the next thing I knew I was being poked in the side of my face by Harry.
"Mate, it's lunch time, come on, I wanna get some food." Niall says.
"I swear Niall, you're always hungry." Erika laughs. And that is very true. That boy is always eating. He always has some sort of food in his hand, and if he doesn't, he is complaining that he is hungry. Yet he is as skinny as a stick. I don't know where he puts it all. We make our way out the class room and down the corridor to the canteen to get Niall's, and the rest of our, lunches. When we had bought them, we made our way to our usual spot in the middle of the big field we had at our school, under a tree which shades us when it is hot, and keeps us dry when it is raining. Today, it was sunny but there was a slight breeze. The kind of weather I like.
We all sat down in a circle under the tree. I was sitting next to Harry, Erika was next to him. Then Niall was next to her, then Liam sat next to Niall, then it was Brittany and then Zayn sat in between me and Brittany. In our group of friends, we kind of all have a best friend. Niall and Erika are really close. If you didn't know them, you might have thought they were dating. They, along with Harry, have known each other since they were 4. They live two doors down from each other. Also, Erika and Brittany are close aswell. Zayn and Liam are like best friends. They are always together for partner projects at school. There is Erika and Harry who are very close. They are best friends aswell, but we all are in the group. And then there is me and Harry. He was the person that showed me around on my first day.
*Flashback*
I had just moved from Doncaster to Holmes Chapel. My step-dad had just been promoted so we had to move here. I was kind of excited for a change of scenery. Where I used to live was quite busy but here in Holmes Chapel, it was quite relaxed. I had been here for about one week now. We were just settling in and make our home feel homier. I live with my mum, Jay, and my step-dad, Mark.
I was starting my new school today. To be honest, I was quite nervous. I have never been the new boy but it doesn't sound fun. Having people staring at you because they don't know who you are just doesn't sound appealing to me.
My mum came in and woke me up at 7. I really didn't want to get up. I dragged myself out of bed to the bathroom to shower. Once I was done in there, I brushed my teeth and walked back to my room, feeling more awake. I walked over to my wardrobe and took my school uniform off the door of it. My uniform was just a white shirt, a navy blue jumper with the school logo on it, black trousers, and black shoes. I got changed into my uniform and then went and dried my hair. I styled it so my fringe was sweeping across to the right of my forehead. Once it was all dry, I went down stairs where I was greeted by my mum and the smell of pancakes cooking.
"Morning darling, are you excited about your first day?" my mum said whilst cooking the pancakes.
"Yeah, I might actually make some friends instead of being stuck in here with you all day." I joked. My mum responded by throwing a cloth at my face. I laughed and threw it back.
I was quite close with my mum. I was an only child so I didn't have any siblings to mess around with. I guess I'm close with her because I when I was 5, my dad left. She had no-one else around the house so I was always there. My mum was upset after that and it took her ages to start go out on dates again because she didn't trust men. It took her 2 years before she started dating again. When I was 8, she met Mark. I liked him. He was different to the other men my mum had gone out with. When I was 10, they finally got married.
My mum finished making the pancakes and put them on a plate and placed it in front of me. I ate them while chatting to my mum about random things, like school and settling in here. And of course, not getting into trouble at school. In my old school, I was the joker of my class. I was always making people laugh; it was how I got out of trouble with the teachers.
By the time I had finished eating, it was 7.50, so I decide to go upstairs and go on my laptop for a while. I didn't have to leave until 8.20, so I had plenty of time. I logged onto facebook to check my notifications. Once I had finished on facebook, it was 8.10, so I had 10 minutes before I had to leave. I grabbed my bag from the chair in my bedroom and took it downstairs and placed it by the door. I quickly combed my hair again as it had become a bit messy in the last 40 minutes, though how, I don't know. I put my shoes on and walked in the kitchen to see mark was up.
"Alright Lou. Looking forward to today?" he asked me.
"Hey Mark, yeah but I'm a little nervous, being the new boy." I replied getting a drink from the fridge.
"It won't be that bad babe. I'm sure you'll be just fine." My mum said to me smiling.
"Yeah, I hope so. I had better leave now. Don't wanna be late for my first day. That'll make a good impression wont it." I gave my mum a kiss on the cheek and waved to both of them before grabbing my keys and bag and walking out the door. I got to the end of my drive when I remembered something. I ran back up the drive and quickly opened the door. I walked quickly into the kitchen and over to the fridge.
"That was quick." My mum said.
"I forgot my carrot." I replied smiling.
"You have an obsession Louis." Mark said laughing. I laughed and said another quick bye. I walked out the door and successfully made it to the end of my road. It was only a 10 minute walk to school and it started it 8.40 so I had plenty of time to get there. I was walking along, munching on my carrot. I decide to pick up two and put one in my bag for lunch.
I was almost there and I could see students walking in the school gates, talking about what they had done over the weekend.
I was walking through the school grounds, trying to find my way to the office. The school was quite big. I saw blue double doors in front of me so I walked in that direction. I walked through the doors and saw a sign saying 'Main Office' so I walked towards it.
I walked through the doors and there were a couple of students in there. There was a person already at the desk so I waited behind him. When he left the woman behind the desk called me over.
"Hello there, what can I help you with?" she asked me smiling.
"Hi, my name is Louis Tomlinson. I'm new here." I replied to her. She looked about 40. She had brown hair, with grey in it, and had a few wrinkles on her face.
"Ok, hold on, let me print your timetable out." She said, typing something in on her computer. The sound of the printer making me jump slightly as I hadn't expected it to be as loud as it was. She passed it to me. I looked at it with a confused face. The receptionist must have seen this be cause she asked me
"Do you want someone to guide you around today?" I nodded at her. She started typing on her computer again. She told me to wait in the office. She walked out. About 5 minutes later she returned with a boy. He had curly brown hair and was a bit taller than me.
"This is Harry, he has most of the same lessons as you and will show you around for today." She smiled and then walked back to her desk.
"Hi I'm Harry, but you already knew that." He smiled at me, holding out his hand for me to shake.
"I'm Louis." I shook his hand.
"Right so, let me see your timetable then." I gave him the time table. He looked at it for a minute.
"Well your in my registration class and in most of my lessons. I'm not in your history class, but I can show you to the lesson anyway." She smiled, handing me back the sheet of paper. I put it in my bag and we both walked out the room. We walked along a corridor which I'm guessing was English. We walked in the room and to my amazement; there was only 6 people in the room. There was a group of 5 people at the back on the right, and the teacher sitting at his desk.
"Hey Harry!" I heard a girls voice shout.
"Hey." He said back, a little quieter. Harry walked over to the teacher.
"Hi Sir, this is Louis, he is new."
"Hello Louis. I'm Mr. Thomas. I am your tutor, so if you have any problems with anything, you can come to me and I will help you. Ok?" He said to me. I nodded and him.
"Well you can take a seat anywhere you like. The rest of the class should be here in a minute." I said thank you and then he turn back to his desk and I turned to Harry.
"Well, come on then, you can meet my friends." He walked to the group of people at the back of the room. I slowly followed behind; a bit scared in case they thought I was weird or something.
He sat down in a seat in the row in front of the back row, next to a girl with shoulder length blonde hair. Behind her was a boy with black spiked up hair, in a sort of quiff. Next to him was a boy with dark blonde/light brown bieber style hair. Next to him was a girl with long brown wavy hair, to about her elbows, she was really pretty. Next to her was a boy with short blonde hair with brown roots, his hair was kind of messy.
"Guys, this is Louis. Louis, this is Brittany, Zayn, Liam, Erika and Niall." He said pointing to them all in order.
There is a chorus of hey's and hi's and a vas happenin' from Zayn. I sat down next to Harry and turn so I am facing everyone.
"So where are you from then?" Liam asks me.
"Doncaster." I replied to him.
" Oh my gosh your accent sounds so cool." Erika says to me smiling. I laughed at her hyperness.
"So how come you moved to boring old Holmes Chapel then?" Erika asks me.
"My step-dad got a promotion so we moved here." I replied, relaxing a bit.
"Cool, cool." She replies. "So what lessons have you got then?" I took my timetable out of my bag and show her. She looks through it.
"Let's see, we're all in your Maths, Science, English, French, Drama and P.E class. All of us but Brittany are in your Music class. Me, Liam, Niall and Brittany are in your Media Studies class. Brittany, Liam and I are in your Art class, and I'm the only one in your History class. So at least you know someone in all of your lessons." Erika says.
"That's good. At least I wont be lonely." I say laughing. The rest of registration was just me getting to know them and them getting to know me.
The bell rang for first lesson.
"What have we got first?" Harry asks to no-one in particular.
"Maths." Liam replies.
"Fun. Fun. Fun." Erika says with fake enthusiasm. We all laugh and walk to Maths.
Maths went quite fast. At first people stared at me as I walked in, but eventually they got on with their work. After that was Science. That was quite boring but I managed, with the help of Erika's jokes and Niall's constant laughing. They were all quite funny. Especially Erika. She is like me at my old school.
After Science, we had break. We just went back to our tutor room and sat talking in there. I learnt a lot about all of them in those 20 minutes. All of them were single, I now know who is closest in the groups and just some general information about them.
Next on the list was double Media Studies. We were just watching a film and analysing different camera angles. But Me and Erika was taking the mick out of the actors while, yet again, Niall was laughing. He always does and his laugh is so funny. We kept getting looks from our teacher. After Media Studies, it was lunch.
We were walking to the canteen to buy our lunches.
"Can we walk a bit faster guys, I'm starving." Niall says, getting impatient. As if on cue, Niall's stomach starts growling. Erika looked at him and just burst out laughing, causing Niall to laugh, which made everyone else laugh too. I started walking again and bought our lunch.
When we got out of the canteen, we started making our way over to a large field on the school site.
"This is where we sit for lunch." Says Harry, gesturing to the large field. We walked over to a large tree and sat in a circle. We talked about random things, like Doncaster, school and family's, but I couldn't help glancing at Erika every so often. There is something about her that is different. She's not like the girls at my old school, who only care about make- up. Her and Brittany were different to them but something was drawing me to Erika. She was funny, smart and really pretty.
She looked over at me and smiled. I smiled back and looked away, feeling a bit awkward. I pulled out the carrot I had packed earlier and bit into it.
"Dude, what up with the carrot?" Erika says.
"Do you have a problem with carrots?" I ask her.
"Never said I did. Just wondering why your randomly eating a carrot." She says laughing.
"Hey, there is never a wrong tome to eat a carrot." I say, with a serious voice. She stopped laughing.
"Very true my friend, very true." She says just as serious as me. For the rest of lunch, we just casually talk.
The bell rang for the end of lunch. We all got up and I got my timetable out of my bag to see what I have next.
"I've got music now." I say looking around for someone to say they were in my class.
"All of us but Brittany have too." Liam says to me. Well that's good, it means I know people. We said bye to Brittany, who has cooking now, and walked to music.
When we got there, I walked up to the teacher.
"Hello, you must be Louis. I'm Mrs. O'Neil. Today we are performing the songs I set for homework so you wont be able to do it, so it will be an easy lesson for you. Just sit and watch everyone's performances. You can sit wherever you like." The teacher, Mrs. O'Neil, informed me. I walked over to where the others were sat, and sat next to Harry. There were only 10 people in the class. I guess not that many people wanted to music as a GCSE.
"Right class, today we will be showing your performances I set you for homework. We will go in alphabetical order. So first up is Nancy." Mrs. O'Neil announces. I girl, I'm assuming to be Nancy, gets up and walks to the front. She looks kind of nervous. The music starts and she sings Someone Like You by Adele. Once she had finished, we all clapped her and she walks back to her seat.
"Thank you Nancy. Ok, next up is Daniel." The teacher says to us. A boy walks up to the front. He doesn't look as nervous as Nancy did. He sang Beat Again by JLS. Again, once he had finished, everyone clapped and he went back to his seat.
"Thank you Daniel. Next is Kayla." Kayla got up from her seat. All of a sudden, I hear cheering coming from our table. It was cheers of 'go on Kayla', and 'you can do it' from Erika, Harry and Niall. Liam and Zayn were just laughing at them. The cheers seemed very sarcastic. Kayla looked over at them, glaring. She walked confidently to the front and walked over to the microphone. She had blonde hair, which had obviously been dyed and was caked in make-up, kind of like the girls I didn't like from my old school. The music started, it was Poker Face by Lady Gaga. She started to sing, and I have to say, it was terrible. She was out of tune and out of time. Everyone on our table couldn't stop laughing; making the teacher keep looking at us, but it looked as if she was holding back a laugh aswell. Once she had finished, she happily walked back to her seat.
"Thank you Kayla. That was really something." Mrs. O'Neil smiled. Kayla smiled back and then glared, again, at everyone on our table.
"Right, next are Niall and Erika."
"Why does your name have to be so early in the register?" Erika whines to Niall.
"Sorry, let me get my mum to change it then yeah?" Niall replies sarcastically while laughing.
"Well it's to late to do it now. Had you have asked her yesterday, we wouldn't have to go now, would we?" She jokes back.
"Come on you two, we haven't got all day." Mrs. O'Neil says to them. They both get up and stalk to the front of the classroom. Cheers of 'go on you two' were coming from everyone on the table, followed by a lot of clapping, again, making the teacher look at us. The music started. Never Knew I Needed by Ne-Yo started playing. Erika started singing. She was amazing. Then Niall started to sing. He was really good too. When they finished, a huge cheer erupted from the table. They both took a bow, as a joke, and Erika started blowing kisses. They came back to their seats.
"Well done sis. You too mate." Harry said to them. The others said things along the same lines.
"Both of you were really good. I didn't know you two could sing." I said to them.
"Ah, there's a lot of things you don't know about me dear Louis." Erika said jokingly.
"Right settle down now, next up is Zayn." The teacher says, quieting us down. Zayn gets up and walks over to the microphone. Again, cheers erupted from the table, mostly from Erika. She was very loud for someone who was quite small.
"Vas happenin' people." Zayn says into the microphone. We all laughed. The music started. It was Let Me Love You by Mario. He was good aswell. I have a feeling they all are. Once he had finished, he came and sat back down. I think I'm going to got deaf with all the cheering.
"Thank you Zayn. Next we have Liam. Up you come." Mrs. O'Neil says to Zayn and Liam. Liam walked up to the microphone and just like before, the cheering. The music started. It was Cry Me a River by Michael Bublé. Just as I had guessed, he was also very good.
"Well done Liam. Harry, your up next." The teacher says. Harry walked over to the microphone. Just like before, the cheers, again Erika was the loudest. He started singing. It was Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder. And just the same as everyone else, he was good. They were a very musical group of friends. Once he had finished the cheers started again and I swear I was definitely going deaf. He walked back to his seat.
"Thank you Harry. And last but not least, Megan." Megan got out of her seat and walked to the front of the room. The music started. It was Marry You by Bruno Mars. She wasn't amazing but she was certainly better than Kayla. I think she is part of the reason I am going deaf. Once she was finished, she walked back to her seat.
"Thank you Megan. Right, that's all for today class. For your homework for next week, I want you to practise a song that isn't known by that many people. You are dismissed." Mrs. O'Neil instructs. Finally, the end of the day. We all walked back to final registration, meeting up with Brittany on the way.
Once we were let out of school, we walked home. It turns out, we all live within 5 minutes of each other. Harry, Erika, Niall and I live down one road, Liam and Brittany live in the road before ours, and Zayn lives in the road before that. We said bye to Zayn first all of us giving him a hug, the boys giving him a man hug. Then we said bye to Brittany and Liam, the boys giving Liam a man hug aswell. It was now just Harry, Niall, Erika and I walking. When we got to Niall's house, we said bye to him, Harry and I giving him a man hug and Erika giving him a normal hug, saying she will talk to him later. We carried on walking down the road. I live right opposite Erika and Harry's house so Harry and I man hugged and then Erika gave me a hug. I felt my skin tingle at her touch. We parted ways, them going into their house and me going into mine.
I walked into the kitchen to see my mum cooking dinner and Mark on his laptop at the table.
"Did you have a good day at school love? Did you make any friends?" my mum asked, stirring whatever was in the saucepan.
"Yeah it was good, and yeah I made 6 new friends actually." I replied, getting a can of coke out the fridge.
"Any girls you like then, eh?" Mark asks me. I just laughed and shrugged my shoulders.
I went upstairs and turned my laptop on. While I was waiting for it to start up, I went and got changed into some grey tracksuit bottoms and a t-shirt. I opened he internet and went onto facebook. I had 6 new friend requests from Harry, Erika, Liam, Niall, Brittany and Zayn. I accepted all of them quickly. I decided to go and watch some TV so I turned my laptop off and went downstairs.
Soon enough it was dinner. We all casually chatted about different things such as Marks new job and school. After dinner, I decided to go back upstairs. I walked into my room and noticed through my window that I could see into Erika's bedroom through her window. Her window was wide open and she was playing some music. She was sitting on her bed with what looked like a sketch pad, drawing. I decided to start on my music homework, so I turned my laptop on and started looking for songs I could sing.
At about 10 o'clock, I decide I would go to sleep so I wasn't tired in the morning. I had chosen to do Photograph by Nickelback. I got changed and brushed by teeth. Just as I was about to close the curtains, I saw Erika at the window. She looked over and saw me. She smiled and waved. I smiled and waved back. She closed her curtains and I did the same. I turned my light off and got into bed, ready for the next day at school.
*End of flashback*
We were still chatting about random things, Kayla's party being brought up. We all decided we were going because we didn't have anything else to do, plus, we know how much Kayla would want us there (sarcasm intended).
The bell rang for the end of lunch. Erika, Liam, Niall, Brittany and I all had Media Studies for the last two lessons so we left the rest of the group, who had various other subjects, and made our way to the classroom. Media was nothing exciting, as always. We were analysing newspapers.
The bell for the end of the lesson went, so we made our way to out tutor room for final registration. Once we had been let out, we all decided to go to the park that was 5 minutes away from the school. Erika jumped on to Niall's back and made him carry her all the way there.
We stayed there for about 2 hours before deciding to go home. We said goodbye to people as we got to their roads. When we finally got to my house, Erika and Harry said goodbye, with hugs as always, and went then we went our separate ways. When I got in, my mum was just dishing up dinner. We were just mindlessly chatting about anything.
Once I had finished, I decided to do my English essay that was due in tomorrow because otherwise I would get a detention and I didn't really want one. It was about 8 o'clock when I had finally finished so I decided to go on facebook. I was checking my notifications when the little 'pop' saying I had a message sounded. I looked to see it was from Erika.
Erika 'Ninja' Styles: heyy x
Louis 'Carrot' Tomlinson: hi x
Erika 'Ninja' Styles: howz u? x
Louis' Carrot' Tomlinson: I'm gd u? x
Erika 'Ninja' Styles: yh me 2…wuu2? x
Louis 'Carrot' Tomlinson: nm just talking 2 u…what bout u? x
Erika 'Ninja' Styles: yh me either just talking 2 u and practising for music 2moz x
Louis 'Carrot' Tomlinson: oh yh, u ready then? x
Erika 'Ninja' Styles: yh…as long as I don't 4get the words, u ready? x
Louis 'Carrot' Tomlinson: yh sme here.
Erika 'Ninja' Styles: well I'm gonna go now, don't wanna be tired 2moz :P x
Louis 'Carrot' Tomlinson: yh I me either, I'll see you 2moz yh? x
Erika 'Ninja' Styles: yh see ya 2moz… nite xxx
Louis 'Carrot' Tomlinson: yh see ya 2moz… nite xxx
After that I logged off of facebook and turned my laptop off. I got changed and went and brushed my teeth. I closed the curtains, waving to Erika like I do every night. It's become a routine, waving to her at night, every since the first day I met her we have done it. I turned off my light and got into bed. I went to sleep that night dreaming about Erika.