Isabella's p.o.v.

"I feel betrayed," he acts hurt, putting a hand to his chest as he plops down on the sofa beside me, snatching up the end of the quilt to cover himself in.

"It's almost over you know?" I turn to him, amused at his dramatic reaction yet a bit annoyed at his timing.

"What!" He shouts, jumping up from the sofa and throwing the quilt back off him, "so first I wasn't even invited to watch this with you, and second, when I do join you selfish movie hogging pair I'm informed it's OVER?!" We both chuckle in response to his outrageous reply but nod along to his point.

"I'm done with you two," he jokingly struts off and me and Luke look at one another and burst out laughing.

"Well that was anticlimactic" I giggle, riding out the humour of the situation until silence engulfs us, creating a bit of an awkward tension between us.

"So.." Luke starts but I interject before it gets too weird.

"Oh my god, he's dragging the girl!" I shift our attention back to the film, both of us just sitting a foot away from each other until the movie ends.

"Urm, well, I better get to bed.." I trail off as the credits start to roll on the TV.

"Ur, yeah-" we both stand up and give each other an awkward 'goodnight' as I begin to walk into Zayn's room to grab my toothbrush.

"Have fun?" A sharp voice cuts through the darkness, Zayn.

"I though you were asleep," I turn to him, squinting through the darkness to try and make out his figure. "Sorry" I mutter, turning on my heel to walk into the bathroom.

"What are you doing?" This time his voice is softer and I can hear the rustling of the quilt as he moves to sit up.

"Just going to clean my teeth, sorry for waking you." I say again, not wanting him to be in a mood. "Oh, also, do you have any spare blankets and pillows?" I almost forgot.

"Why?" I can hear small footsteps come from the bed, but I can't make out where he is.

"For me to sleep on the sofa?" I ask as a question, thinking it was obvious.

"And why would you be sleeping on the sofa?" Now I know where he is, his breath fans on my face as he backs me into the wall.

"To sleep?" Why the hell else would I be sleeping on there?

"No baby, you're not sleeping there." His hand lifts up and traces the edge of my face, tucking a stray hair behind my ear.

"Well where will I sleep then?" I cock my head to the side as he presses his body closer onto mine.

His head lowers down until his lips brush against my ear "with me," my whole body involuntary shivers and I know he could feel it once a grin emerged on his lips.

"Zayn," I give him a light push to create space between us, "we've just spoken about this, friendship first. This-" I shift my hand between the both of us, "isn't 'friendship'."

He aggressively rakes his hand through his hair and tugs on the ends, "urg, Bella..." he groans, tipping his head back in frustration. "I just can't wait that long."

"Just give it time, Okay? Being my friends won't be that bad." I whisper, laughing towards the end and thankfully he chuckles along.

With that I turn on my heel and enter the bathroom, clean my teeth and start to make my way out the room.

"Goodnight Zayn" I murmur to him, then walk down the stairs and try to make myself comfortable on the sofa. I grab the cushions and place them underneath my head, curling myself up to create warmth and it doesn't take long until I start to fall asleep.

Just before I am completely asleep I feel a heavy weight being put on top of me and a soft object being placed under my head. "Goodnight beautiful." And with that I fell in deep sleep.

...

"Bellaaaa, wake up!" An agonisingly loud screams close to my ear.

"Micheal.." I groan, swatting him away from me as if I were pressing the snooze button on my alarm.

"You'll be late for school," he tuts and I instantly become awake. Shit, I completely forgot about school.

I hastily get up and rush past Micheal, making him fall on the sofa in the process. I grab my uniform from a bedside drawer and hop in the shower, doing my necessary bits before I jump out, brush my teeth and pack my bag. Wait, what day is it? I grab my cracked phone and check the date, Jesus it's Friday, I've missed a lot of school. I waste no time before I rush downstairs to find a still dazed Micheal sprawled on the sofa.

"Come on, come on!" I race to him, pulling him up from his position and rush out he front door, picking up his car keys on the way.

"Whoa there Bella, what are you doing?" He tried to slow me down, ramming his heels on the floorboards, bringing me to a halt.

"You need to take me to school, please.' I add on the end, not wanting to sound like a bitch.

"But I need to ask Zay-"

"Stuff that I'm going to be late!" With that I continue to drag him to the car and he finally obliges, knowing I would have driven the car myself if I had to.

"Thank you," I slump down on the seat, finally relaxed that I can have a partly normal day for once.

"Why are you so eager to go to school?" He cocks his head to the side, giving me a weird look.

"I finish soon and I don't want to be any more behind on my studies than I already am." I explain but he's having none of it.

"Bella, I've seen your school notes before, you can pass this year without attending a single class. Now why do you really want to go?" He raises his eyebrows, knowing full well that there's an underlying reason.

"Well, Zayn's not really grasping the concept of 'friends' right now and Luke.." I trail off, too confused myself about the situation to be able to explain it to someone else.

"What about Luke?" He seems interested but I just wave him off with a flick of my hand, the car ride silent for the rest of the journey.

We pull up to school and I give Micheal a quick 'thanks' before closing the door behind me. The day is mostly normal, I get past fourth period without so much of a question about Jay and I'm damn grateful for it. The teachers didn't seem to care about my absence, but I guess that's because they know I've already completed the syllabus, and so it didn't matter a great deal when I missed a few lessons.

I get my books out as I sit down for Chemistry, opening the textbook to the chapter on 'Human Organisms' where the class should have left off from last lesson.

"Where have you been?" Jessica sits herself down beside me, lifting her brow whilst giving me a curious gaze.

"What?" I ask, not expecting her to sit beside me as the seat she's occupying used to be Jays.

"You've been gone for ages, you've missed so much girl!" Jessica's always been an outgoing character, so as she gossips about all the supposedly important drama I've missed in these past few days throughout class I just blankly listen, tuning out the teacher as I've already covered this topic at home.

The bell sounds to signal the end of the school day and I start packing my books into my bag-

"So you're coming right?" Jessica taps me on the shoulder, looking at me with a grin.

"Sorry, what?" I must have zoned out when she was talking to me.

"The party?" She states obviously, "Chases? I was talking about it for about 20 minutes" she laughs, amused by my confusion.

"Oh, of course" I play along, not wanting her to know I was ignoring her the whole time. "When is it again?"

"Tonight" tonight?

"Well, I don't have anything to wear, sorry," I trail off, turning my back to begin walking out of class.

"Hey now, you can borrow one of mine! I did say you can come to mine after school, he is my next door neighbor" To be fair a night away from Zayn and Luke may do me some good...

"Okay, sure!" I agree

"Wait, really, oh my God this will be so much fun, I'll do your hair, your makeup, oh I can't wait to show you all my dresses-"

I zone out again as she walks us to her car, slipping behind her as I spot a confused looking Micheal waiting for me outside the double doors can they ever just let me have space for once...

I let out a breath as soon as we make it in the car, glad that I'm finally able to get away with going out without asking for their approval, I've never been to a party before, Rick would never allow me out besides when I was working, he said there were better uses for me at home where he could slap me around as I get him beer. I snap out of my thoughts as the car ride comes to an abrupt end-

"We're here!" She switches off her engine and rushes me upstairs to her room, throwing open her wardrobe as she chucks out at least 12 outfit options, jeez

"What about this?" She holds up a barely there dress and I immediately shake my head in protest making her laugh in response.

"Okay, what about...this one!" This time she picked out a leather skirt matched with a crop top with tears piercing the front.

"Erm, maybe not..." this carried on for about 45 minutes until she lifted up a mesh top, some black jeans, a small black belt and a lacy bralet to wear underneath.

"That could work..." I nod approvingly to it, I'm conscious that my upper body will be on full display but compared against all her other options this is practically an outfit for the nunnery.

"Yes! Finally, at the rate we were going you would have ended up going naked," I laugh along with her, interrupted as my phone starts to vibrate once again. "Are you sure you aren't going to answer that, they've called you like 13 times" she questions as I click the mute button to stop the irritating sound of vibrations against the floor.

"No, they'll be fine" I wave her off, grabbing the clothes off the floor and walk into the bathroom to change.

I look down at my phone as I slip on my bralet, missed call from Zayn. This boy really doesn't grasp the concept of space now does he?

As I walk back out, Jessica's slipped on a red tube top matched with a black leather skirt, "that looks really good," I comment as she does a little twirl in front of the mirror.

"You think? Come over here and I'll curl you hair," she waves me over as I walk towards the edge of her bed, both of us waiting as her curlers up.

"How long do we have left?" I question, not knowing when the party even starts.

"We've got 40 minutes until we have to leave, but by the time I've finished your hair I'll only just have time to do my makeup, so chop chop I guess" I giggle at her phrase as she picks up the heated curlers, becoming so engrossed in my hair that the conversion dies between the of us. I reach towards my phone to occupy myself and and find a few missed messages, 32 text messages.

Micheal - Where are you?
Micheal - Do you have a club or something?
Micheal - Bella I've asked your teachers and they said they saw you leave, where have you gone?
Micheal - Bella answer my calls!
Micheal - Where are you!!
Zayn - Bella where the fuck are you
Zayn - Tell me where you are now
Zayn - Answer me
Luke - Are you okay? Where are you?
Callum - Bella please come back Zayn's loosing his shit
Ashton - Dude where have you gone?
Micheal - So help me God Zayn is going to kill me, where are you?
Zayn - BELLA

I don't read the rest of the messages as they seemed to stop around 12 minutes ago, they probably just gave up. All I want is one night to myself, is that too much to ask?

"All done!" Jessica squeals, clearly proud of her work, "do you like?" She questions as I inspect it in the mirror.

"I love it, thank you!" I brush a hand through my hair, loosening up the curls, making them look more natural.

Jessica finishes her makeup in less than 20 minutes and she passes me a pair of her heels to match with the outfit.

"What should I do with my school bags?" I ask, wondering what I'll do on Monday without any of my books to take to school.

"Just leave them here and I can bring it with me to school on Monday if that's cool?" I nod along to her answer and thank her for everything she's done for me tonight as we begin to walk out the front door.

The music is blaring from the inside of Chase's house, the moment we step out into Jessica's driveway I can practically feel the beat of the music vibrating the floor. There are already groups of people amalgamating in the front garden and red solo cups are already piling up around them.

"Well this should be fun..." Jessica laughs as she turns towards me.

If only I knew what was to come later that night.