(April 11th, Day after Ariella’s Clean Up)

Ariella’s POV

The only thing that was on my mind was what Head Mistress told me. I haven’t faced her all day, and she knows how upset I am from what she said to me last night. I am currently in Field Operations, but I couldn’t focus on anything. When we had to take notes, all I wrote across my notebook was

‘Charity. You’re just charity.’

‘You should be dead by now.’

‘Never wanted you.’

‘Charity.’

‘Weak.’

‘Worthless.’

‘Unloved.’

When I wrote the last word, I found myself gazing at it for a while. I may not have any actual love from a mother figure, or ever had in a long time, but at least I still have my father, my friends, and even Niall. He still doesn’t know about what happened last night, and I don’t plan on telling him for a while, at least until I’m ready. I could always talk to Louis though. Lately, I have been finding myself talking to him more now, and I am slowly but surely gaining his trust.

“Ms. Edwards!” I heard my teacher call out to me. I snapped up and sat straight. She looked at me with disappointing eyes.

“Y-yes?” I stuttered.

“What is the answer?” I looked at the board in which she wrote the question ‘What should you do if you were caught in a mission by the enemy?’ in bold letters.

“In the case of being caught, you have three options: abort the mission, take down the eye witness, or hide in a location where you cannot be tracked by the security cameras.” I answered. She nodded her head and continued to lecture the class on more in depth information on the three options I just said out loud.

After classes were over, I headed straight to the library to meet up with Drake, as he was a wreck for having no idea to ask Carie to prom, since it was coming up very soon. We, girls are going to have a weekend dedicated to shopping for Prom dresses.

When I met up with Drake, I saw him at a table, scattered with what seemed like a large list of ways to ask Carie to Prom written on multiple sheets of notebook paper. For someone like Drake, he was pretty organized.

He had a list of ways to ask her in the morning, during classes, lunch, and even after class, by taking her out to the city. We would have to cancel that last part out though, since Black Cove is still around and I, especially, wouldn’t want these guys to get captured, and used as bait as I was for my parents.


After countless hours of debating, we finally came up with the perfect way to ask Carie.


“You better do this soon, Carie still thinks that you don’t like her anymore and is going to dump her.” I reminded him as I packed my books and notebooks into my backpack. I was doing my homework in the meantime so it was a win-win situation. He nodded his head sadly.

“Please keep her high up in hopes, please. I’m afraid she will say no. And don’t tell anyone about this. I don’t want anyone else to know, in case that it will spread to her and ruin the surprise.” he pleaded. I nodded my head in understanding. He smiled slightly and got up from his chair. He walked over to me and randomly hugged me around my waist. I hesitantly but eventually hugged him back around his neck. He sighed in relief. We heard someone clear their throat. We turned and saw Niall with a glum/upset face. You have got to be kidding me.

“Sup, Niall?” Drake said, smirking at him, keeping his hands on my waist. Niall just shook his head, letting his blond hair sway side to side in its quiff, walking over to us, and separating him from me. He placed his hands on my hips as he leaned in and pecked my lips. I smiled at his action, knowing he did it to prove to Drake I was his. His jealously is so cute.

“Ariella, are you guys done here?” he asked me. He wanted to hang and watch movies in his dorm as Drake and Louis were heading to the gym to work out for a bit. I nodded my head as I slung my bag onto my shoulder. Niall intertwined our fingers as I waved goodbye to Drake who was packing up as well, placing his bag onto his shoulder, and carrying his gym bag in his hand. Niall squeezed my hand gently, while pulling me away. Okay, jealously going a little bit too far.

“So what did you guys do?” he asked me as we walked out of the library. He held the door open for me as I walked out. ‘Don’t tell anyone please?’ Drake’s voice came in my mind. A promise is a promise.

“I was helping him with something.” I answered casually.

“And what was it that you were helping him with?” he questioned.

“Studies on the history of the school. He is still a newb and I had to catch him up on it.”

“For what class?” He pressed on.

“What is this? 20 questions?” I laughed. He raised his free hand up in surrender.

“Just wondering.”

“Field Operations.” I said to him. He nodded his head and thankfully the questions came to an end. By now we reached his dorm. He opened up the door to show a shirtless Louis. He had grey sweat pants that hung dangerously low. I was about to shield my eyes, but Niall beat me to it.

“Haven’t you heard of knocking? I was just naked a couple seconds ago!” I heard Louis reply.

“I’m thankful enough that we came when you had your pants on.” I chuckled to myself. ”This is my dorm too ya know. Put on a shirt, or suspenders why don’t ya?” he replied. I heard a thud beside me, knowing that Niall threw his bag to the side of the room. I felt his hand on my shoulder as he removed my bag and threw it in the same direction, probably landing next to his.

“Sorry mate. Right on it. Hello Care Bear!” he said, greeting me happily. Even though I still couldn’t see him, judging by the sound of his voice and the bare feet traveling away, he was walking towards the closet. I waved in the direction.

“Hey Teddy Bear!” I greeted him. The sound stopped for a moment, before it came towards me.

“Care Bear, are you peeking?” he questioned, while trying to pry open Niall’s fingers. He was able to get through, and I saw his ocean blue eyes staring at me in amazement, with his white t-shirt and black sneakers in hand before my sight was covered once more.

“No, I’m not. I just listened to my surroundings and guessed that you were at the closet so, yeah…” I trailed off. Louis chuckled.

“Get going already please? Ari and I are watching movies now, and you’re cutting our time short.” Niall explained to him as he began to guide me around his room, most likely to his bed.

“Mate, I’m not naked, you don’t have to cover her eyes anymore.” Louis protested playfully. I heard silent whispers of saying yes and no between them until finally Niall removed his hand. My vision quickly came back as I took in the room, a mess as usual. Niall walked away and started to gather the movie night materials. Louis stood by the door, with his shirt on, and his gym bag on his shoulder. He was placing his beanie on before he finally made actual eye contact with me. He smiled.

“I can now see your face without Niall’s hand in the way.” He joked. I smiled back to him and waved. “Alright, I’m off. Mate, keep the door open in the next half hour, in case I forget something, which I know I will, be safe you guys and see you later!” he said to us as he opened the door.

“Bye mate.” Niall said with his back to him as he looked through the closet. Louis began to close the door, until I called out to him.

“Bye Teddy Bear!” I said. He re-opened the door and smirked. Niall turned to face us.

“Bye Care Bear!” He said, while blowing a kiss jokingly. I pretended to be swooned over him, fanning myself with my hand. We both laughed and waved as he closed the door. Once it was fully shut, Niall came over and locked it, before walking back to the closet and take out extra pillows and blankets. “Love you too Niall!” we heard from the hallway. I laughed as Niall just rolled his eyes while smiling.

“Love you Lou!”

“USE PROTECTION!” Louis yelled. I stopped laughing and blushed. The door opened and his head popped in. He looked over to me and chuckled. He had his key the entire time… “I knew that would make her blush.” A pillow quickly came towards the door, almost hitting Louis in the face.

“Gooooooooo!” Niall said, laughing. I pointed out the door with a smile on my face.

“Alright, alright see you guys in three hours!” he then disappeared and his footsteps retreated from the door.

“Here, you probably want to change out of the uniform and into something more comfortable.” He said, while tossing me a pair of his sweatpants and his ‘Crazy Mofos’ t-shirt. I caught it and walked into the bathroom to change.

“Is it alright with you if I took a shower?”

“Make it quick. Please.” He said to me. I smiled and nodded. I closed the door and began my quick shower. Once I finished and got dressed, I walked back out to see Niall in a white muscle t-shirt and black pajama pants.

“So did you pick a movie yet?” I asked him as I picked up my bag and placed my uniform as well with my flats in it before dropping it back to the floor. It all landed with a thud, and Niall turned to face me. He looked at me with one of those smug looks. I shrugged, as if saying ‘what?’ he smiled and shook his head before pulling out a dozen pillows and blankets, and walking over to me.

He plopped them down in front of me on the bed, and smiled. He nodded his head and walked over to get the pillow that he threw earlier and walked over to me. I looked up at him, as he had that face where I know that he was going to do something I wouldn’t like. I looked at him questionably, before I knew it, I was swung at with the pillow. It toppled me over and Niall was in a fit of laughter. So he wants to play that game huh? Game on.

I silently reached over to the pile of pillows and blankets, grabbed a fluffy white pillow, and jumped him. He was surprised by my action as we both fell to the floor, me straddling his waist and hitting Niall’s face with my pillow. He tried blocking my attack by grabbing the pillow I was using by with no avail.

He instead grabbed my arms and used his body mass to turn us over, so my back was on the floor and he straddled my waist. He took the pillow and threw it across the room. He grabbed his pillow and started to smudge it across my face, making my hair go frizzy. Once he removed the pillow, my hair was everywhere. He took one good look at me before laughing incredibly hard. I tried to fix it with my hands, but he grabbed my hands and pinned them to the ground above my head.

“No, no don’t do that. You look amazing.” He said while containing his laughter. I rolled my eyes. “Honest.” I shook my head, smiling and turned away. I felt his soft lips on my cheek, which made me naturally look back up to him. “You’re beautiful Princess, never forget that.” He spoke in seriousness. I smiled up at him.

“Thank you.” I said. He leaned down and kissed me. At first it was a simple, delicate kiss before it became heated. He released my hands and used his upper arms for support as he left them on each side of my head. The door quickly swung open, causing Niall to pull away but still on top of me, groaning. We both looked to the door to see who interrupted us.

Louis.

Niall sighed loudly, making it obvious that he was annoyed with the interruption, while Louis smirked out of happiness.

“Hey, this is my dorm to ya know.” he said, mimicking Niall from earlier. He looked down to see me with my messy hair and in Niall’s clothes underneath him. Louis raised his eyebrows. “Niall mate, you already it got in? Nice! Hope you used protection! No one wants any little leprechauns running around yet. It’s too early for that.” he said while patting his back, almost making him fall onto me.

Niall sent glares in his direction while I giggled slightly at Niall’s face. He looked down at me and smiled sweetly while stealing a quick kiss, before removing himself from me. He helped me up and placed me back on the bed, before getting the scattered pillows and placing them back on the pile. I sat against the wooden headboard as I watched the two males argue about what Louis saw while fixing my hair. After a couple minutes, Niall gave up the argument.

“What did you forget?” he asked him frantically, changing the subject. Louis shook his head.

“Nah, I just came to grab Drake a pair of his sweats, since he forgot them. Not me.” He said as he walked to the closet and pulled out some light grey sweats, quickly wrapping it up and placing it in his gym bag that carried with him still.

“We are going to match, whether he likes it or not.” Louis smirked. He closed the door to the closet and walked back to the door to the hall. Niall soon joined me on the bed and sat next to me, wrapping his arm around my waist, pulling me closer, moving me to his lap.

“Don’t come back for another three hours.” Niall stated to Louis.

“Be back in two.” He said, closing the door behind him, not allowing Niall to argue.

“Where’s the movie, Niall?” I asked him as he has not moved from the bed. He got up and walked to his closet and opened the door, to take the DVD and the laptop. He had his laptop under his arm, and kept searching for the DVD. After 2 minutes of searching I spoke up.

“Niall?” I asked him. He looked around, walking away from the closet and placed the laptop on the bed, gesturing for me to turn it on and get it ready while he got down to his knees and looked underneath the bed. I’m guessing that he lost it… I began to think back to how Louis quickly took the sweats and shoved it in his bag… I mentally faced palmed myself.

“Niall…” I said again. He did not look at me nor gave any signal that he was listening. He got up from the floor and began to rummage through his desk, furrowing his brows in confusion.

“Niaaaaallllllll….” I whined. He finally looked at me confused.

“Hmm?” he hummed, before going back to go through Drake’s desk. I sighed, and got up from the bed. I walked up behind him and turned him around and grabbed his face so he would look at me.

“Louis…” I said. He was confused at first, but then thought about it and sighed in frustration, causing me to laugh.

“Do you want to head down and get the movie?” I asked him. He shook his head.

“Let’s just stay here.” He said, while grabbing my hands and led me back to the bed. He sat against the headboard, and made me sit in between his legs. He gestured to grab the laptop and I placed it onto my lap. He reached over and began to type ‘Youtube.’ In the search box. I looked at him and he smiled innocently. I laughed at his cuteness.

After a while of random videos, we decided to end it with YouTube. I cuddled onto him as he wrapped his arms around me, pulling me closer.

“You know, you're going to be a great spy someday.” He stated randomly. I looked up at him, wondering.

“What makes you say that?” I questioned.

“You are great spy, in all fields, including improvising events.” He said, drifting off in the end. I gave him a confused look, which caused him to sigh. “I know something’s bothering you Ari. What’s wrong?” he asked me. Was I that obvious?

“It’s nothing Niall. Water under the bridge.” I said while smiling slightly.

“Ari…” he scolded me.

“Honest. It’s nothing.”

“But there is something.”

“Yes, but it is no longer important. Promise.” I said, fixing myself so my body was facing him, straddling his lap. He placed his hands on my thighs and rubbed them gently.

“Alright. But you will talk to me if something bothers you, right?” he questioned. I nodded my head. He smiled. “Good. I don’t like seeing you upset.”

“I'm sorry.” I apologized.

“Don’t be.” He smiled.

“Alright." I quickly leaned down and kissed him, he hummed appreciatively. "Well, you will be a pretty great spy too, you’re stronger than me anyways.” I said once I pulled away, changing the subject.

“You know it, baby.” He winked up at me. I rolled my eyes playfully. “But I’m probably going to change careers after we graduate.” Oh.

“Oh. Well, what did you have in mind?” I asked him, my hands gliding around his shoulders and linking behind his neck.

“Promise not to laugh?” he asked me. I nodded my head. He sighed. “I want to be in a band.” He muttered.

“Why would I laugh at that? Niall, you have an amazing voice. It wouldn’t be so bad to do that.” I said while holding his face in my hands, squishing his face a bit so it looked like a fish. When he smiled (Well tried to) it was so adorable. He grabbed my hands and removed them from his face and placed them where they were before.

“Well when I told the other guys, they laughed.” He said.

“Remind me to kick their asses when they get back.” I said in all seriousness. He laughed at me.

“Of course.” He said while leaning in and placing a kiss on my lips. I kissed him back, and not even two seconds later, the door opened again, revealing two sweaty guys, that were matching. Niall groaned upsettingly, as I quickly got off of his lap and sat by his side.

“Ariella I have to-" Niall started to remind me but I cut him off by getting up and walking towards them with an angry face. They immediately took in my appearance and ran into the bathroom and locked themselves inside. Niall was laughing his ass off on the bed, almost falling off.

"What?? This is our dorm too! How are we supposed to know if you guys were going at it? There's something on the knob you know, it's called a lock!" Drake calls out.

“You guys can just shower together, you know, save water, or come face me, after Niall just told me that you guys laughed at him for wanting to be in a band instead of a spy. And we weren't at it!” I blushed at the end. The shower began to run, filling in the awkward silence. I became wide eyed and turned to face Niall who also had the same face, but with a large smile based on the decision that they made.

“We didn’t mean that in a bad way, singing is a good career! LAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!” Louis belted out. The smile from Niall’s face dropped at the sound of Louis’s voice, which was actually pretty good. The shower stopped running and the door unlocked. I walked back to Niall, hoping that they didn’t’ actually get naked, but thankfully they were still fully clothed.

“Louis, that was incredible.” I said, astonished. He shrugged.

“Thank you my dear! I’ve been practicing lately.” He said. I looked at the clock and saw that it read 10:30. I got up and walked over to my bag and picked it up, placing it on my back. Niall and the other guys gave me sad looks.

“Leaving already, baby?” Niall asked me. I nodded and pointed to the clock. He nodded his head and walked over to me.

“I’ll walk her back. See you guys in a bit.” He said to the guys, pushing me out the door lightly. The guys said their goodbyes to me as I did the same before Niall closed the door.

We walked hand-in-hand as we reached my dorm, talking about randomness. Honestly we are very weird. But that’s alright.

“Good night, Princess. I love you.” He whispered as he pulled me in for a hug.

“Night babe. Love you too. Try to get the movie back from Louis so we can watch it next week.” I said, smirking. He nodded his head before leaning in and kissing my lips on last time. When we thought that we couldn’t get interrupted this time, we were wrong… Seth and Josh were walking by, and called us out. Niall pulled away slightly but our lips hovered each other.

“Never can get a kiss without being interrupted now can’t I?” he mumbled so I could hear. I giggled and kissed the tip of his nose before pulling away completely. I waved goodnight to the guys and walked in, and went straight to bed.

Notes

Hello Everyone! :) Today is Semi-Formal at my school today, but guess where I ammmm :P That's right.

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I'm hungry now.. I'm going to go eat :) Please comment/vote/subscribe pwease I'm already working on the next chapter where two questions will pop! ;P Who will it be though? Idk, just gotta wait :P see you soon my lovelies!!!!! :D Im hoping that there will be 30 votes and maybe 38 subscribers? Is that too much? Idk... Its my goal... :P Please make my wish come true! :D

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