Nicole's POV
I completely ignored everyone one the rest of Saturday and all Sunday, even Nick. I wasn't mad, I just wanted to take a breather. My thoughts haven't been clear lately and I just want to set them straight. Harry, sweet Harry. We were becoming friends just like the other boys had. I loved being around him, taking in his giggles and dimples. But I shouldn't. I can't fall in love, not now. I shouldn't even like someone now.

I have to think about my near future, getting a job and college. Besides, he lives in England. I nodded to myself and got out of my sisters car.

"Nicole" my sister called out before I could walk away.

"Yes?" I ask, turning around to face her.

"Just be careful, okay?" She said, sincerely looking up at me. I gave her a broad smile, showing her that I was alright. With that she left, swerving on purpose to make me laugh, which I did. My vision of her funny action flooded with black as hands covered my eyes.

"Nick, I know it's you" I giggled and shook my head.

"Sorry, but you're wrong" a British accent said, tickling my ear with his breath. I froze, shocked that my walls I built up to keep him out had already fell down. My cheeks warmed as his face came to mind. Something was placed in my hands; a small box. His large hands slipped away, school surroundings now in my vision. I looked down at the sloppily wrapped box and couldn't help but find it cute. I turned around and saw Harry nervously smiling down at me, little curls poking out from under his beanie. I smiled back, my feelings for him unnoticably surfacing as I stared into his green eyes.

"Nice wrapping" I playfully teased, holding up the present.

"Yeah, um...it wasn't me, it was..um, Liams wrapping" Harry blushed.

"Oh really?" I said, reminding myself to inform Liam on his bad wrapping.

"Yeah, but don't open until Friday after school" Harry warned, raising his eyebrows.

"Well what the heck? What kind of present is that?" I chuckled, curious at what the boys were up to.

"Just don't open it until then" harry said, teasingly glaring at me.

"Or you'll die!" Louis screamed, popping out of nowhere. I didn't flinch or anything, knowing the boys tricks already.

"Nice try" I said, lightly shoving Louis. I'm going to admit, it was sweet for the guys to get me a gift. I was really looking forward to opening it, but some sad little voice kept reminding me my thoughts about presents. They didn't have to get me one....

"Well at least I did try!" Louis exclaimed, trying to keep his pride. I giggled, forgetting the sad voice and gave him a confused expression.

"What are you trying to say? That I should try scaring you?" I said, still giggling.

"Love, no one can scare me" Louis smirked.

"Are you sure? Because you seemed pretty scared when Liam came up on you not to long ago" I taunted, reminding him of that little incident. Louis frowned and looked the other way.

"I have no idea what you're talking about" Louis said, pretending to check some girls out.

"Poor Louis, I think he's breaking from the humiliation" Harry chuckled, smiling at me. I smiled back, his smile engraving into my mind.

Zayns POV
"And you told Anjelica to make sure that she doesn't open it until Friday?" I asked Nick.

"Yep, got it handled" Nick nodded.

"And you're going to watch her when Anjelica and the boys can't?" Liam asked, making sure. Nick chuckled and nodded again.

"Yes!" he giggled. Liam smiled and let out a little chuckle.

"Do you think it was a good idea, sending Louis and Harry to give it to her?" Niall asked, looking over at Harry and Nicole laughing at Louis.

"Of course, I know Harry won't spill, and even though Louis has a big mouth, he won't tell" I said, reassuringly patting Nialls shoulder. Niall nodded and the bell rang.

"Off to class" Liam declared, Niall and him walking away. Nick and I stood there, giving each other nervous smiles.

"I never got to thank you" I said, blushing and looking down.

"For what?" Nick asked, bending down to block my gaze from the ground and looking into my eyes.

"For calming me down on Saturday. I guess that I could loose my temper sometimes and it gets really bad" I truthfully told Nick. Nick nodded and stood straight when I looked up.

"I can loose my temper sometimes too. Like when people say or do things that I really don't like. I control myself from just erupting, but scowls and rude comments a little things that slip out when I'm angry" nick said, saying as if my angry is something everyone has. Of course everyone has angry, my mine just boils over to easily and I can explode bigger than anyone else.

"Hey, get to class you wanna be's" Louis joked, tisking as Nicole, Louis and Harry passed us. Nick giggled and I shared a giggle as we walked off to class.

"So Liam, Harry told me about your bad present wrapping" Nicole said as Nick sat in front of her. I took the one empty seat next to him, not wanting to sit by anyone else. Niall sat on the other side of Nick, greeting us both with his Irish grin. Nicole was facing Liam who was sitting next to her. Louis was on the other side of her and Harry was sitting next to him. Louis was talking in hushed tones to a frowning Harry.

"Oh really? Well, I didn't wrap it love, Harry did. I was going to do it, but Harry insisted that he should be the one to do it" Liam said, smirking over at Harry, breaking up Louis and Harrys little talk. They both looked over and Harry blushed.

"I didn't insist..." Harry mumbled, looking away.

"How cute" he whispered to me, smiling the cutest smile.

"Not as cute as you" slipped out of my mouth. I quickly shut it, both Nick and I shocked at what I said. Nicks cheeks burned and he shyly looked away when the bell suddenly rang. I blushed and tried to distract myself by listening to the teacher. I ended up spacing out, not even 5 minutes after the teacher started talking. Why did I say that? Did I mean it? Well, of course it was cute, but I think that lots of things are cute. I know, shocking. But did I mean it on another level? I looked around the room and saw a hot girl smiling at me. Nope, definitively didn't mean it on another level. Girls are hot.

"TEACHER!!!" Louis yelled, waving his hand back in forth. Our teacher sighed and looked at him, already annoyed with him within 2 weeks of us being here. "I'M IN DESPERATE NEED OF A PENCIL!" he yelled and held up a broken one. "POOPY FACE OVER HERE BROKE IT" Louis yelled, pointing at Harry.

"It was an accident" Harry whined, embarrassed that Louis was calling him out. The class muffled their laughter, some failing and just giggling openly. I looked over and saw Taylor roll her eyes, causing me to roll mine at her stupidness.

"Borrow one from someone else" the teacher said, frowning at him.

"But I want your pencil" Louis said, giving her a puppy dog face.

"No, go borrow one" the teacher snapped.

"Bu-"

"Taylor would you please give Louis a pencil" the teacher said, cutting him off.

"Me?" Taylor asked, pointing to herself.

"Her? Gross" Louis said, scrunching up his nose. I chuckled, amused with Louis attitude.

"Give him one so we can please get on with the lesson" she demanded. Taylor groaned and passed the pencil back. Within seconds of Louis getting it, he yelled out again.

"TEACHER! I NEED ANOTHER PENCIL!" He said, waving Taylors broken pencil in the air. Taylor gasps and we all laughed, Taylor and the teacher the only ones not amused.
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"Now remember, don't open it" Liam told Nicole, pulling her into a goodbye hug.

"I won't, but guys, I really don't deserve this" she said, pulling back and looking into all of our eyes.

"Of course you do! You're a great friend and it's your birthday" Niall's light voice assured.

"WAS my birthday" Nicole corrected and Nick shushed her.

"Oh shush, you deserve it so just be happy" Nick said, scowling at her.

"Yeah, and really, it was no big deal" I said, remembering what she said about causing people a fuss with birthdays and presents.

"If it's no big deal then I might as well open it now" Nicole said, pulling on the wrapping paper.

"NO!" we all screamed and attacked her. Liam snatched the present away as the rest of us lunged at her.

"Ah!" she squealed as we all fell over.

"Ow" Niall chuckled and I heard Harry groan. Harry broke Nicoles fall, for if we didn't, it would have hurt her more than she probably is. Louis and Niall lay on her legs as Nick and I lay on her stomach and chest. I face was on nicks chest and I blushed, smelling his delicious perfume. I looked up and saw him blushing down at me.

"Sorry" I apologized to him.

"I-it's okay" nick said, blushing too.

"Guys, your crushing me" Harry groaned.

"Yeah, and you're hurting my boobs, NICK" Nicole said, imitating Harrys groan.

"Oh, sorry" Nick giggled. Liam helped us up and we checked each other to see if anyone was hurt. We all then said our goodbyes before parting ways.

"Uncle, we're home" Louis called out to his uncle as we walked into Simons house.

"Hey boys!" Simon said, walking down the hall to greet us. Simon is Louis uncle, and let me tell you, you would think Simon is Louis father. They both had the same sass and attitude, but both cracked jokes and were fun and friendly. Of course they don't look alike, but people would still mistaken him for Louis father. Louis and Simon embraced in a short hug before giving the rest of us a wave. "I just picked up some pizza" Simon said. We all hungrily ran to the kitchen and attacked the pizza box on the counter.

"I only love pizza" Louis said, moaning at how good the pizza was.

"But Louis, what about pasta, cookie dough, sandwiches and boobs? I thought you only loved those too" Liam said and Niall and I snickered.

"Well...well then I only love boobs" Louis said, finishing his piece of pizza.

"And not me?" Harry said, putting down his pizza and faking a hurt look.

"Oh no Harebear, I could never not love you" Louis said in a dramatic girly voice. Niall snickered more, laughing so hard that his pizza fell out of his hands.

"Niall, you dropped your pizza" I laughed.

"NO!!!" Louis screamed and dropped on his knees next to the pizza. "What a waste!!" Louis yelled picking up the pizza and standing up.

"Aw.." Niall said, looking at it.

"No Niall you can't eat it" Liam said, his father instincts kicking in.

"Can I eat it?" Harry asked, cheekily smiling.

"No!" Liam said, causing us to burst out laughing.

"That's the only one you waste. No wasting the other 4 boxes of pizza in the fridge" Simon said, leaning against the door frame with a smile. Niall stopped laughing and raced to the fridge. He pried it open and gasped. He pulled out the 4 boxes of pizza and both Louis and Nialls eyes glazed over.

"Boys, you okay?" Simon asked, struggling not to laugh.

"I..I...I.." they both stuttered. Once again, we burst out laughing as Niall and Louis shoved pizza in their mouths. I suddenly remembered Nicole and Nick and slipped away to check on them. I entered the bathroom and dialed nicks number he gave me a few days ago.

"Hello?" Nicks bright voice answered after the second ring.

"Hey, it's me" I replied, looking at myself in the mirror.

"Oh hey, what's up?" nick asked, hearing the smile in his voice.

"I just wanted to see how things were going with Nicole and the present" I asked, suddenly becoming insecure. I shouldn't have to worry and check up on them.

"Oh, everything's fine. At first she teased me about opening it, but i turned Spongebob on and she forgot all about it" nick laughed. I chuckled at the thought of Nicole sitting close to the tv, her eyes wide as she starred at Spongebob.

"Well, that's good. I guess I'll just see you tomorrow" I said, deciding that I better cut the phone call short and go back to the guys.

"Yep, thanks for checking up" Nick said sweetly. I laughed at his comment. "what?" he asked.

"Well I mean you're thanking me for calling" I laughed more as I thought about it.

"Oh, I did? Ah..um well..i..I'llseeyoutomorrowbye!" Nick rushed in one sentence.

"Bye" I said before he could hang up. I checked myself in the mirror before heading out.

"Man, I'm sexy" i said confidentially to myself.

Notes

Ello! Sorry that i didn't update! I hope that you enjoy this chapter! Thanks for reading my loveliess! Please, I would grately appreciate feedback! And if there's anything you might want to read or suggest, go right ahead! :) xx

Ah Louis :) You silly