No Choice || H.S.

Chapter 7

Harry's P.O.V

"Marcel!" I turned around and groaned when I saw the Liam running up to me.

"What?" I asked and he held his hand out towards Tahira.

"Hi! I'm Leeroy, Marcel's cousin." Tahira just smiled a bit and nodded her head without stretching her hand. "Hello. I'm Tahira."

Liam awkwardly pulled his hand back and looked at me with raised eyebrows.

"What did you want, Li- Leeroy?" He smiled a bit cheekily at me. "Uncle Simon said we have to stay together."

"You told Si- dad you were here!?" I almost shouted in my normal voice and he flinched.

"He called after you left. And he says that you're okay." I sagged in relief. "Whatever." I said and left Liam standing there.

Tahira hesitated for a while before apologising to Liam and ran after me. "What crawled up your butt?" She asked and I sighed.

"He acts as if he's my dad. 'Marcel, do this-', 'No, Marcel, don't do that-', 'Marcel, you're hurting everyone around you.'. He's always on my case and I'm just fed up with him." I confessed.

"I think everyone has someone like him in their family. One of my cousin kept troubling me like that when we were still in India. But ever since we came here and lost contact it's sometimes like you're missing that constant annoying chatter or sometimes just relaxing in its absence." Tahira said as we walked out of school.

The final bell had rung when we encountered with Liam and now it was time to say our goodbyes. "Think about it once, okay?"

I just nodded. That's when I saw the boys peeking looks at us through the open doors. "I'm going to go now. Bye, Marcel!"

"Bye."

I looked at Tahira until she turned the corner of the block and I felt a hand smack my shoulder.

"Not one word from either of you." I said before anyone of them could say anything. I headed towards my parked car and got in. 

A few seconds later, the rest of the three doors opened and Louis took the shot gun while the other three sat in the back. Without a word I drove off from school.

"So, Harry," Liam started and I knew what was coming.

"It's none of your business." I snapped and the rest of the ride to the house was silent.

When we got home, I immediately locked myself in my room after taking some food with me and sat down to finish whatever homework I had. I knew if I wanted to go back to my original life, I needed to show Simon that I was 'back' (something I doubt is possible) and what is better than getting your work done on time? 

"Good mor- what the hell happened to you!?" I asked Tahira the next morning. I rushed towards her and tried to grab her bandaged arm.

"Nothing really. I just burned my hand this morning. The teapot fell and I tried to catch it but caught the tea inside it instead." She said, dodging my hand and held her bandaged arm in her other hand.

"You scared me for a bit." I said and she blushed a bit. "You know, you blush a lot." I added and her face got even redder.

"I know." Is all she said before she left for her first class and I left towards mine.

Liam's P.O.V

For just a second, I saw the old Harry when he rushed towards the girl, Tahira, when he saw her bandaged arm. I was also concerned when I saw it but it was clear that for some reason, no matter what it was, Harry cared for Tahira. Even if he didn't know it.

After locking himself in, what I supposed was his room, he only came out when it was time to go to school. Otherwise, he hadn't spoken a word to any of us.

"Bro, did you see that?" I asked Louis and even he looked starstruck at what he saw.

"I don't know if that really happened or I was just imagining it." Louis replied, looking at their retreating backs back and forth.

"Let's just observe them for the day, eh?" Louis asked and I nodded. "Maybe we'll discover something." I said before following Harry to Zayn's class.

The rest of the day, all four of us just tried to watch Harry and Tahira without being obvious about it; but we couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Well, except for Tahira's behaviour, but according to Zayn, that's how a practising Muslim should behave. So all in all, we didn't find anything.

"You think the teachers know anything?" Niall asked.

Him and Louis were being supervisors for the coach during gym so they didn't have to do much.

"I heard Harry had gotten into a weeks detention on his first day here. Beat up a lad." Zayn replied and Louis scoffed. "Doesn't surprise me."

"How did you get to know about this?" I asked and he smirked.

"Gossiping teachers. Said that he was called to the principles office and came out with a weeks detention. The lad he beat up got a month suspension then a two week detention." Zayn said and all our eyes widened when we realised something.

"Wait. The lad he beat up got suspended? That doesn't sound right." Louis said and I nodded in agreement. "Anyone curious enough to go to the principals office?" I asked and Niall raised his hand. "I'll go."

About half an hour later, Niall finally came out of the office with wide eyes. "Niall, mate, what did he say?" I asked and he just stared at me in shock.

"He saved her. Tahira."

"What?" 

I think we were all dumbfounded at the news Niall just gave us. Louis looked around and started pulling us away towards the benches in the football field.

"Now, Niall. Tell us everything." He demanded.

"According to the principal, Harry found Tahira being bullied by four lads. They were warned not to trouble Tahira but the lad, who is like the leader of the group, didn't listen and tried to get Harry in trouble after he got beat up by him while saving her."

This was certainly not what I had expected.

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