Chapter 15:Glimmer’s POV
“Hey mom, can one of my friends come over for a bit?”
She put down the phone , "Offcourse darling , who is it?"
"Oh just Veronica".
"Offcourse she can come over , just tell your dad". She gave me a smile and went back into the phone having a conversation i think with my uncle. I made my way down stairs to the livingroom where my dad sat watching college basketball.
“Hey dad” He turned and smiled.
“Look they’re almost tied” he said pointing to the television.
“Yeah that’s good; umm can one of my friends come over?”
“Is it Niall, because if it is him than no” I rolled my eyes making my way toward the couch.
“Dad, I thought we talked about this already”I replied, a little annoyed to be honest.
“Darling, I just don’t like the kid” Since the beginning of our relationship, my dad never really trusted Niall. And since the incident, he had more reasons to dislike him. But the thing was, no one knew the whole story and if my father found out he would try to kill Niall and I really don’t want that to happen.
“Anyways dad, it’s Veronica. Can she come over?” His whole expression changed once he heard her name.
“Oh yeah, of course!” My parents, well especially my dad has a lot of respect for Veronica because I’m still here and my father is really grateful.
“Okay, I’ll let her know then” I smiled pulling out my pink iPhone,sending a text to Veronica
Me: Can you come over today, got permission already. And I have a lot of potato chips xx
-Gimm
Veronica: Yes potato chips! Be there in 20 xx Veronica
In those 20 minutes I ordered pizza and cleaned my computer room. I ordered a regular cheese and pepperoni pizza with some cheese bread. After I was done with my computer room I heard someone at the gate. I quickly assumed it was Veronica.
“Who is it?” I pressed the button of the speaker next to our white gate outside.
“It’s Veronica”
“Oh girl! Come on in”, I pressed another button to let the gates open,I watched as Veronica made her way inside through the security cameras. Before she got to the door, I ran to it and opened it. I was really excited.
“Finally you arrived!” I nearly yelled. She looked surprised at my excitement.
“You live kind of far”
“That’s true, come on in” I held the door to let her in closing it after her.
“Do I have to take off my shoes?”
“No its fine!”I showed her through the house finding ourselves in the living room where she introduced herself to my dad again. After a while of discussing school related topics with my father, we headed upstairs to my room.
“Welcome to my kingdom!” I opened thedoor letting the pink and light red walls show that where decorated with photographs and old vintage movie posters.
“Nice!” Veronica dropped her bag next to the computer table and sat down on my pink and white bed.
I brought in the pizza, drinks and chips. I was starving, so in no time I was eating. I really wanted to tell someone about my “relationship” with Niall and Veronica seemed like she’d understand. But I just didn’t know how to bring it up. I was in full concentration trying to figure out how to phrase the words correctly when Veronica took me out of my thoughts.
“Hey you okay?” she asked as she looked at me, her eyes filled with worry.
“Well, I need to get something off my chest to be honest…” I couldn’t help but look down at my food. I was kind of embarrassed and nervous to tell her.
“Well! I’m your girl. Shoot” she gave me a warm smile, signaling me to continue.
“Well it’s about Niall and I. That night you… you know found me in an alley, I had just gotten in a fight with him over something stupid. We were at a party at Zayn’s place and I left because Niall was being an arrogant drunk, so annoying. Anyways, I left. Niall go really mad. He chased after me… and well… once he reached me, he hit me… told me I was worthless… told me I was a bitch…” I didn’t notice that I was crying until Veronica let out a small sniffle. I quickly wiped the tears away finding it pointless to cry.
“I’m so sorry… why are you still with him after what he did to you?” she asked me with apologetic eyes.
“Man, shit. I don’t know… I’m kinda scared that he’ll hurt me again… but he’s been so nice and he seems like he’s really sorry for it. I didn’t want anything to do with him after what happened. But, I love him. I don’t know what to do” I replied, I tried to be as honest as possible. I really didn’t know what to do.
“You’re happy with him?”
“Not all the time. He gets me really angry because of his drinking problem…” her eyes widened once I finished.
“I’m going to be honest with you… I think you guys should take a break. You know, see how you feel without Niall being your boyfriend. I mean, like c’mon, he was with you that night you were admitted into the hospital. He hasn’t given you a break, you deserve one Glimmer”
I took in all she told me. It really did make sense. Niall really didn’t give me a break to emotionally recover… and our relationship was going nowhere. I wanted to spend less time with him which only caused him to force himself in my plans.
Maybe a break was really needed.
“Thank you so much Veronica, it means a lot” I smiled at her. She seemed happy.
“No problem! This is what best friends are for right? You think you what to do now?”
“Yes. I believe I do. Let’s see how it works out! Anyways, enough with this ‘me’ drama.Lets hear about you! What’s up with you and Harry?”
Veronica’s POV
Shit. Glimmer would ask me that.
“Well I don’t know… I mean, he took me out. But that was it”
“I heard he likes you” she smirked and then added a wink.
“I don’t know…Zayn has been acting weird too actually… he kissed me the day of the soccer game” my face reddened as I looked down at my hands.
“What?!Nooooo! Really?! Oh my god. I knew he liked you too! Dang!”Glimmer seemed to jump out of her seat when I told her what had happened. I really needed to get that off my chest as well so I was relieved.
“I really don’t know what’s going on either… but it’s okay! I don’t need no man to be happy” I couldn’t help but laugh at my last statement, I sounded so lame. Glimmer gladly laughed along with me as we resumed eating the last slices of pizza. I really enjoyed being with her because she didn’t dwell on one subject for a long time. She quickly changed the subject from sad to happy in a matter of seconds. I just really hoped the Niall situation would come out good.
“Soooo, do you like Zayn? Sorry! I had to ask” Glimmer tried to contain her gliggles but failed miserably.
“I don’t know? Maybe. Not too sure though” and with that, Glimmer was satisfied. She quickly changed the subject to school events. We talked for what felt like hours. But in a good way. I usually got tired of talking to the same person for a long period of time. This was a first and I was pretty happy.
All too soon I had to make my way back home. Glimmer offered to take me home, but she looked exhausted so I told her I’d walk instead. It took about 10 minutes to convince her but in the end I got my way.
“Well since you don’t want a ride, I’ll just tell you goodnight here… goodnight Veronica. Be safe! You have that pepper spray I gave you right?”
“Hahaha! Yes I do mom” she stuck her tongue out at me as I turned around and said goodnight to her as well. I made my way out the gates and then heard Glimmer shut the front door once she lost sight of me. I was walking at a pretty fast pace since it was dark out, and not to mention it was like thirty degrees out. At least I was wearing a hoodie.
A few cars passed by but they didn’t pay any attention to me, I was relieved. Until a car stopped right next to me. I didn’t stop walking, not even looking to see who it was.
“You know, it’s dangerous for a good looking girl like you to be walking alone at these hours” I recognized the raspy voice anywhere. Harry smiled as I stopped my tracks and turned to face him.
“Well you know I have pepper spray to keep guys like you away” he laughed at my attempt to sound confident with the great weapon I had.
“C’mon get in I’ll take you home babe” I hesitated at first but then climbed inside his car. It smelled really good inside. He had some kind of cherry air freshener which was delightful.
“Where were you walking from this late?” Harry asked as he drove away from the curb.
“I was over at Glimmer’s place, you know girl time”
“Oh… erm yeah I know… listen I was wondering if you’ll come with me to the fair next week?” he stared at me with hopeful eyes. They were so green… amazing.
“Next week? I can’t… my parents are taking me and my brother to my aunt’s house, it’ll be her birthday”
“Oh… well maybe next time then” he sounded disappointed, but changed his tone in a matter of seconds to a more hopeful one. I was really glad he took it well. He parked in front of my house and unlocked the doors so I could get off.
“Thank you Harry I really appreciate it”
“No problem beautiful, I’ll see you later” he blew me a kiss then winked. And with that, he was gone.
I walked inside; my parents were out so I had the house to myself. It kindacreeped me out but I soon took a shower and settled for bed. A few moments later I heard some knocking on my window. I quickly jumped out of bed, grabbing anything I could use as a weapon against a rapist or something.
I looked outside and saw his figure in the shadows of our garden. He walked closer to the porch light, enough for me to notice him. It was Zayn. I signaled him to wait and made my way downstairs, I was really wondering what he was doing here this late. I walked out and he came closer to me.
“Hi Veronica… I have something to ask you… be my girlfriend?”