"Where the fucc have you been, Styles?" Was my first aggravated remark when I saw the recipient jogging towards me with a cheeky grin on his face and an unknown object hidden behind his back as he approached me leaning against my locker with a hand on my hip and a furious expression on my face.

"Hey, Meg, mornin' to you too," he replied sarcastically with a smile still placed perfectly on his lips.

"Where have you been," it almost came out as a whine, but I didn't care at the moment as I wasn't letting him go without an explanation as to why he made me wait for so long that I almost missed my class. "You said you'll be here 15 minutes ago, what happened?"

"Well, aren't you super sweet this morning," he rolled his eyes before he revealed the item with wide eyes and an expectant look on his face. White flowers. Flowers. "I brought you these," he added with faux excitement.

"What are these?" I uttered with my brows lowered in inspection.

"Flowers..?" He said as if it was the most obvious thing in the world; I mean it was. But that's not what I meant.

"I know, genius," I flicked him on the head. "But these aren't roses, or...or– yeah that's all I know," I said swiftly while scratching my head.

He laughed brashly at that. "Well, I'm not an expert myself, but those are peonies, Meg. Isn't that obvious?"

"No, no that's not obvious! What's obvious is that - these aren't for me. So who rejected you this early in the morning?" I replied with a faint smirk on my lips.

He visibly sagged as we walked side by side to the classroom. "It was Valerie."

"Valerie. Fancy name," I chaffed.

"Hmm... even fancier boyfriend," He pointed towards the jock leaning against one of the lockers as I snorted at his varsity jacket and the flirtatious smile on his mouth.

"Poor you." I patted his cheek as we made our way to our first class begrudgingly.

~⦁~

"That was the most boring period of my entire life."

I rolled my eyes as I saw him munch on his slice of pizza. "You say that everyday, Harry."

He eyed me with a bored expression on his face. "Because that's the truth, Megan. Every day just tops the other. All I can think about is lunch the whole while when Mrs. Whitehead blabbers about squares and cubes and blahabhddh" he uttered something incomprehensible as I slurped on my coke with eyebrows furrowed in concern.

"What was that," he sighed as he put his elbows on the table between us.

"Exactly! That's exactly what I hear and feel in Math AP," he exclaimed as I almost choked on my drink with laughter.

My reply was cut short as we turned towards a familiar voice coming towards us.

"What up bitches," she said as she took a seat beside me with a grin on her face. "Hey, Harry," her lips turned upwards into a smirk as she eyed Harry.

"Hey, Townes," he said tentatively with a tight smile on his face.

And I, well... I just sipped really loudly creating bubbles with my straw as I eyed the both of them.

"So, where's Niall?" I said looking at them.

"I last saw him in class. Studying for a test or something," she said making a face.

"He could've at least eaten with us," I pouted.

She just shrugged while Harry sat quietly with an expressionless face.

"What's up with you two? Why are you acting all weird?" I slammed my hands on the table.

"Nothing."

"We're not."

"It's not nothing, Townes, and yes you are, Harry."

Harry spoke for the first time for what felt like an hour, "Can we stop talking about this? Lunch ends in a few minutes and I have to meet up with Niall. You girls have fun."

With that he got up to throw his rubbish in the trash can and went out of the cafeteria. I looked at Townes but she just shrugged at me and went back to eating. Okay then.

"Hey you coming to that party this weekend?" I looked at her from behind my potato fry.

"At Jake's place? HELL YEAH" she grinned at me. "One simply cannot miss his parties, ya know."

"True," I smirked. "But didn't you hook up with him that one time and then he was head over heels for you," I say swaying in my seat, pretending to fall off of the chair.

"He wasn't head over heels for me," she rolled her eyes. "He just sent me chocolates."

"Mmhmm..."

"Everyday."

"Oh yeahhh"

"For a week."

I snorted,

"I mean you can't say no to those, right?"

I cringed. "So you hooked up with him again?"

"It wasn't just a casual make out session this time, Meg. I think we're getting somewhere."

"Well I dunno about that but I think the bell's about to ring so byeee," I said looking at my phone as I rushed out of my seat.

"Wha- wait, wait up for me bish." I could hear her yelling behind me but I just laughed and looked back to wave at her an-

Fuck.

"I am so sorry, are you okay?"

I stumbled back a little but balanced myself and rubbed my face with one hand while the other caught hold of the door as I glanced at the hindrance with an annoyed face.

"Its all right," I grumbled as I pushed past the guy who I didn't bother looking at as I was rather annoyed at this point because his firmer-than-a-brick-wall chest hit my nose pretty badly if you ask me,

...you shouldn't though because I tend to overreact sometimes. Oops.

I take out my phone to call Harry because I know he doesn't have a class right now. He just wanted to flee from the cafeteria to do god knows what.

He picks up on the third ring. I don't give him a chance to talk. "Listen, I just got a message from mom like five minutes ago. She wants me to come home and take care of Rony as she's going out or something and he's home alone lol like the movie-"

"Meg..."

"Yeah yeah sorry so don't wait up for me okay?"

"Cool. I'll just practice with Niall and the guys. All right, be safe." He calls out from the other side like a soccer mom dropping off his son at school.

"You're not my dad-"

"..dyyyy-"

I cut the call.

~⦁~

I thought of rewriting one of my previous books which had a shitty title before I changed it and like 10 people read it but it had a lot of plot holes and it just wasn't going anywhere so I decided to unpublish it soo now we're here with another shitty title but the same ol book with a little different plot!!

Hope you like the first chapter. If you do, hit that star to make my day. and if you're feeling extra generous, pretty pls leave a comment c: