Chapter 7: 'Lennon, You like Danny'

Harry

"Oi! Wake up you little shit"

"Stop falling asleep in the fucking car Harold, your lucky I am even taking you to school" I immediately wished that I could get out of the car and it run me over instead when I heard my dads stern voice.

"You know. This wouldn't be a problem if you let me have my car back" I said changing the radio station onto Fleetwood Mac.

"This wouldn't be a problem if you started coming home at an acceptable time and stopped fucking about with your friends" he said sternly causing me to roll my eyes. After the thing yesterday me and Danny got stoned and I don't get back until 3 o'clock in the morning.

"Don't roll your eyes at me, Harry. Your walking on thin ice here" I didn't respond.

"I called the Ryan's last night, to express my smpathy about their daughter-" she said turning thre corner. I mentally rolled my eyes, he wanted money that's the reason he called them.

"Imagine my surprise when they started telling me about you and your friend making crude gestures in the middle of their assembly"

"They weren't prude gestures, they were a sign of comfort" I said smiling innocently. We pulled up to school and I was about to walk out before he stopped with his arm.

"Get off me-" I said pulling my arm away.

"Listen to me you little shit. You live under my house, trust me I wish you didn't but you do, for your mother's sake. If you want to my money so you can doing your blow, fucking girls and getting cars you're gonna start bucking your ideas up, and that includes being helpful to the Ryan's and upping your grades. Now I know you're waiting to give me some smart arse remark back. Save it. You don't wanna follow my rules? Fuck off. Pack a bag. Fine by me, just leave quietly" he said not even looking at me.

"Do you ever wonder why I ended up like this? Doing drugs and fucking 24/7, it's what I grew up seeing, it what you did" I shouted in his face.

"Harry, I have money. I am successful, i am allowed to do what I want, you have nothing. You'll do good to remember that. Now get out" he said and I wasted no time leaving and slamming the door to the lambrugni shut behind me.

I went straight into the room where Danny texted and said to come. I noticed that Danny was talking to Shelby whilst blushing and Issy was sitting down with a pissed off look on her face, no surprise there.

"Where are the others?" I asked before sitting down with a huff.

"I think Lennon forgot, she was as really concentrated on her History assignment and Kyle is in the head teachers office, something to do about flirting with teachers" Danny repiled.

"Great" I said, sighing.

"Are you okay?" Shelby said looking at me intently.

"I'm fine, just say your plan so I can go" Shelby looked like she was about to say something else before Issy best her to it.

"I'm going to start looking through pictures of who was at the fundraiser, Danny is gonna hire someone to look into this and Shelby is just sitting around doing nothing" Issy said looking at the finger nails.

"Ok, great, see you later" I said, going to the door.

"Harry wait-" I heard shelbys voice. I know, I know that I should be taking this more seriously, I mean for fuck sake someone is literally calling us murderers, but I just couldn't deal with it, not today.

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I could feel the need to lash out, to do something, anything to calm my anger as I walked through the empty hallways. I was already late, there was no point in going to period 1  point so I decided to just go to next period which was English. I actually didn't mind English I was just shit at it. And my head started to hurt once again as I realised that was another subject I was failing at.

I walked to the English room, and to my surprise it looked empty.

"Harry!" I heard. Well almost.

Lennon came up to me with a big smile on her face and her brown hair curled with a yellow bow in it. I bearly had time to say anything before she squashed me in a hug.

I hated people touching me. I forgot about her annoying habit of being touchy feely, I didn't know how I was supposed to get used to this. Because of her short height my nose was shoved into her hair and all I could smell was strawberrries. It reminded me of summer and I subconsciously inhaled the scent. I felt her squeeze tighter and I could feel her breasts against my chest and swallowed harshly. I haven't got laid in a while. With the fruity scent and feel of her  breasts I couldn't bring myself to push her away and instead just patted her shoulder.

"You alright" I said, my voice sounding a bit strained.

She pulled back with her signature smiling, one that projected the right amount of shyness and geniuses. Her big dimples craved into her cheeks and crinkles around her big blue eyes.

"I'm sorry, I keep forgetting that you don't like hugs"

"It's fine. What are you doing here?" I hope that it didn't sound rude I didn't mean it in a way that was like 'get the fuck out' I was just curious, she definitely didn't seem like the type of girl who would be ditching lesson. But judging by the look on her face my tone didn't faze her.

"Oh I needed to conterate on my work and history is always so noisy so Mrs. June let me find a quieter room, she's so sweet, but I'm done now" she explained, with admiration in her face. I was baffled how she could convey extactly how she felt all in her face and eyes, especially about someone who she hardly knows.

"What about you?" She said, her hands behind her back and swigging on her heels. I couldn't help it, it was a natural instinct and I let my eyes trial down her body. Stopping briefly at her legs which were shown because of her skirt and small breasts before snapping my eyes back up to her.

"Just came in late" I said scratching the back of my neck.

"Oh no, does that mean you have a detention?"

"Yeh but don't worry I won't be going to it" I said laughing. I half expected someone like her to scowl at me and demand I go to the detention but she simply just giggled, and it caused me to smile. I haven't heard a genuine giggle in a while. I've heard fake ones when girls are flirting but never one like Lennons, it was so innocent, like everything else about her.

"Well are you okay? I mean you were late, is everything alright?" She asked and at first I felt myself getting a little annoyed, I hated constantly being asked if I was ok, especially when they were probably only asking out of politeness and they didn't actually care. But for some unknown reason, I felt like Lennon cared. She actually cares about her friends. You'd probably think to yourself 'well everyone cares about their friends' but that isn't true I can't tell you how many people I have seen betraying their 'friends' in the worst way possible.

"Yeh. I mean no, I had a shit morning, but I don't wanna talk about it" I told her honestly.

"That's completely fine. Plus, I'm sure the works of Agatha Christie will get get your mind off things" she said holding up the book we were studying in English and I smiled. I smiled because of her childish behaviour and because she didn't push me to talk about my feelings.

It was then that the bell rang, meaning people were going to start coming in soon. I noticed Lennon walking weirdly around the room back to where she had put her stuff originally and her cheeks  were a little pink while she kept on looking at me, biting her cheek. I'm confused.

"Lennon, do you have ants in your pants or something?" I asked.

"No, no, I'm just you know, exercisng before we have to sit down for an hour" she laughed.

I mean, it wasn't a bit idea but then I noticed she was looking at the desk where I originally sit, the one in the back and I immediately understood. She wanted to sit next to me. She wanted to sit next too me but was shy to ask because of the other times I had rejected her.

"Lennon" I said.

"Yes" She said, looking directly into my eyes.

Instead of answering her, I took her things from her previous desk, which consisted on various books and a pink bag which I actually happened to like and put them on before giving her a tight smile and saying-
"Sit next to me for today"

"Are you sure?" She asked, but her eyes looking happy.

"Yep" I said, sitting down.

"Are you sure? Because I don't wanna imp-"

"Just come here before I change my mind"

"Yay!" She said, squealing. She wrapped her skinny arms around me once again before smiling and I could feel myself roll my eyes.

"I'm a great partner to have, once I sat next to Billy Moore, who never spoke and he spoke to me! Well grantued he did say 'don't you ever shut up' but it's still something" she said whilst getting out her yellow pencil case. I would bring myself to regret this decision but for some reasson I couldn't.

"Hey do you have a pen I can borrow?" I asked, knowing she probably has the whole of Wilko in her bag.

"Of corse, here, this is one of my favourites, but you can keep it" she said handing me over a blue pen which had rainbows all over it.

"Thanks" I repiled.

Throughout the lesson I was discacted. Well I was always distracted,  I couldn't bring myself to concertante he book we're doing, which was the Murder of Roger Ackroyd. It  was a bit bland and the morning events were still fresh in my memory. I noticed that girls kept looking back with surprised expressions, maybe a little jealous. Throughout the lesson I could smell the scent of strawberries and light humming which was both relaxing and annoying, relax because it was soothing and annoying because I knew the song she was humming but couldn't place it. Now and again my leg would accidently brush against Lennons bare one to which she would look up and smile at me. I was used to always sitting by myself and that's the way I liked it but Lennon sitting next to me wasn't that bad I suppose. Surprisingly, she was quite and focused, her lip biting in concentration and her eyes squinted. This is the most serious I have ever seen Lennon.

Knowing I only had 5 minutes to write down something I decided to do the unthinkable, ask for help.

"Hey" I said leaning closer to Lennon, touching her arm very lightly and allowing myself to smell strawberries.

"Are you ok?" She asked, blushing. Why was she blushing? Because I had touched her arm? For some reasson her reaction made me both happy and want to smirk.

"Can you help me with this" I said in a low voice.

"Of corse" She said shuffling her chair closer to mine, our arms now touching. I noticed she had a natural caring attitude about her, almost like a teacher or mother.

Her hair was close to me and when I looked down I could see that her skirt had risen up showing her legs which were now touching mine, I swallowed and lifted my head back up to meet her eyes.

"Ok, so the reasson why some people might believe that Christie cheated us is because the narrotor, the person whom we are supposed to trust throughout the entire turns out to be the murder, actually deciding the murder" she explained.

"Going against the typical crime writting elements" I added.

"Right, but some people might this is what makes the book even better"

"Because it is a twist that no one is ever suspecting therefore it makes it much more shocking when the murder is realved" I said.

"Exactly, you're really good at this" She said, smiling, her eyes flickering across my face.

"I try" I said pretending to do a hair flip to which she laughed.

It was then the bell rang and i started to gather my things, I have a free after this so I decided to take my time.

"Lennon, Lennon" someone said. I looked over to see Seth and Josh standing together looking at Lennon, smirking and laughing.

"Yes?" Lennon responded, polite as always.

"Seth and I wanted to know if you could help us next period with English" josh said.

"Yeh Of corse I can" She said smiling, but it looked like a different smile to the one I had seen earlier.

"Great! Thanks! Oh and hey, I dropped my pencil and my back is really hurting could you bend over and pick it up for me please?" Josh added. There it was, Lennon was wearing a skirt and he wanted to to see her panties. Usually I wouldn't care, infact I have used this truck numerous times. But it didn't sit right with me that they were using it on someone as clueless as Lennon.

Lennon looked none the wiser and started to crouch.

"Here" I said putting a hand on Lennons shoulder.

"I'll get it for them" I bent over and throw the pen at Josh before leaning against the desk in front of him and Seth, blocking their way.

"Oh and sorry guys, I think you forgot but Lennon already agreed to tutor me for English next so maybe next time" i said stating at them so they'd get the message. Lennon looked very confused but just nooded.

"Right well next time then" Josh said, walking away. I put my foot out and he tripped on it and went flying onto the floor.

"Oh my god are you okay?!" Lennon exclaimed.

"Oh my god! I' am so so sorry" I said putting on a fake voice.

"And your bag fell too, here let me get that for you" I said while suttely opening it and tuning it the wrong way so all of his shit feel out.

"Oh my bad, butter fingers" I said smiling. Josh was red in the face but said nothing. Lennon bend down to help Josh gather his things but I wasn't going to let her help this knob. I put a few things in his bag before turning to Lennon.

"Come on Lennon, Seth has got this" I said signaling her to follow me.

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We ended up sitting where I sit every free period, by my tree. After a Lennon constantly going on about if Josh is alright or not, she started to pull out her English work before I stopped her.

"Hey, woh, what are you doing?" I asked

"Getting my English stuff out, you said you wanted be to tutor you" she said, sounding confused.

"No I was only saying that"

"Why?" She frowned. My goodness she really was very clueless wasn't she, I didn't know if it was cute or annoying.

"Because those two were knobs, they wanted you to bend down so they could see your little panties" I said, there was no way I was going to lie to her about this type of stuff, her obliviousness could get her hurt one day. My eyes lingered on her as her face turned bright red.

"No they did not!" She exclaimed. I take it back, her obliviousness was annoying.

"Did too" I said shrugging.

"Did not"

"Did too"

"Did not!"

"Did too! I'm a guy trust me, I know what they were trying to do Lennon" I explained and I watched her eyes go sad as she looked at the floor. I immediately felt bad.

"Come on Lennon, you must know this stuff a little" I said softly.

"My daddy always says just to be nice to people" she said as she looked me up at me. Her eyes were bambi like and sad, her red lips were poured slightly and I could feel a familiar stirring when she said the word 'daddy'. I shifted uncomfortably in my place before having to look away from her.

"Yes Of corse you can be nice to people, but not always, you have to mean sometimes otherwise they take advantage. Sometimes you have to be a little mean, and that doesn't make you any less of an unkind person" I explained, she nodded.

"I just don't want to make anyone unhappy" she said looking at the floor. She really was something else. Personally, I never think about what's coming out my mouth, I mean i speak the truth so why would I feel bad? But Lennon, I doubt she has a bad bone in her petite little body.

"Does this happen a lot? Them lot asking you for 'extra lessons'?

"Not always, but Seth is nice. He offered me to help me with gymnastics" she said and I wanted to laugh.

"You think Seth knows anything about gymnastics?"

"Well he said he did" Instead of wanting to laugh, I found myself getting angry.

"Danny didn't tell me you were this bad" I said.

"Danny talks about me?" She said, her eyes no longer looking sad.

"Sometimes yeh, you're best fiends aren't you"

"Yeh. Yeh" she said. I stared at her for a moments before I felt the corners of my mouth tug up.

"You like Danny" I said smiling. I wasn't asking a question, I was stating a fact. I had been watching the way Lennon acts around Danny for the past couple of days now, I noticed her cheeks flush when he even so much as looks at her, her giggling at his jokes and most of the all the look of hurt of her face when he flirted with Shelby. I can't believe I hadn't noticed it before with all the blushing around him and constantly being around him. I just assumed that was just Lennon but it all makes so much sense now.

"What? Of corse I like Danny. We are best fiends after all silly" she said, blinking rapidly, trying to laugh it off.

"No, you like him, like him" I said, smiling bigger when I noticed her paniced expression.

"No I don't!" She shouted, looking worried and blushing.

"Lennon and Danny sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I" I started signing and she started to hit me in the chest. I only closed my eyes and started saying it louder, the little punches did not hurt me one bit, she was like a little baby Koala.

"Harry!!" She said, whilst also smiling.

"It's okay Lennon, I won't tell Danny that you're in love with him and dream about him all night long" I said, dramatically, I was just doing this for fun now.

"I don't! I don't!" She said, pouting.

"Lennon, we are friends now right, friends tell eachother stuff. It's okay if you like Danny" I said, being serious for a moment.

"Ok, fine. I like Danny" she said, blushing.

"I really, really like Danny"

"Ooooooo" I said in a girly voice, earning another hit from Lennon.

"You have to promise not to tell him" she said frantically.

"Yeh I promise" I said and I meant it. Firstly because it was techniqully by business and because I didn't know what to do with that information. I mean Danny was pussy whipped over Shelby, so I don't really think Lennon's feelings are that obvious to him, although considering he calls her his bestfriend, he may wanna start paying attention.

"Promise?" She said, holding up her pinky finger.

"Promise" I said wrapping my finger around Her tiny little finger looking directly into her eyes.

"I'm scared he's gonna find out, I really, really like him" she admitted. I understood her feelings, I mean I was Danny's best mate but I wanted her to know that I wasn't the type of person to go around gossiping. If we were really were going to give this friend thing ago, and lord Jesus help me, I wanted her to be honest with me.

Before I could stop myself, I reached out for the crucifix necklace on her neck and held it.

I could feel her breath hitch slightly and her chest started to rapidly move, making my eyes fixated on the top of her breasts and I subsciouly licked my lips. I knew I wouldn't be able to hide the fact I was staring at her chest but I hopped she thought I was looking at the necklace.

"I promise on this guy" I said smiling and pouting to Jesus. She laughed as she looked up into my eyes. I swallowed harshly before backing away. I really needed to get laid. Jesus. I put her necklace back down and my fingers grazed across her soft pale skin.

"I really like your rings" she randomly said.

"Thanks" I said, my head feeling a little dizzy for some reason, must be withdrawals.

"Come on sunshine, free period is over" I said, gathering our stuff.

Despite the constant talking and blushing, Lennon had actually made me forget about my anger for a bit.

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