The Way You Make Me Feel

I was sitting in the last period of the day, History.
History was possibly the worst subject to finish the day with, especially when it was on a Friday. I sat next to Tom Fletcher, he had brains thank god, and he helped me out. He was sweet. Very musical, and VERY talented.
“Okay youse need to be paired up for this project, so whoever you are sitting next to is your partner.” Mr Pattinson said. He handed out a sheet with an
I turned around to look at Dougie. He was sitting next to Kara.
Then I felt a stab of something.
Jealousy? Relief?
A pen.
Tom had poked me with a pen in my arm.
“What subject do you wanna do?” he asked.
“I don’t mind” I glanced down at the list. “I’d prefer Titanic though, I have some aspect of what that is” I said.
“Yea, we’ll do Titanic or September 11?”
Our assignment was to pick a historical event, and make a poster, a online project and a speech, outlining what happened, how it happened, and the impact it has now.
That kinda stuff.
“Titanic seems easy, we’ll do that?” Tom asked, seeking for my approval.
“Okay cool!”
“Elle” I heard someone groan my name. I turned around to see whom.
“Yes Nick?” he was sitting next to Emma.
“I have no clue what to do! Emma is confused also.”
“Do September 11.”
“What are you doing?” Emma asked, also turning around.
“Titanic” tom said piping into the conversation.
I quickly glanced at Dougie and Kara.
They had their arms crossed and weren’t making any conversation at all.
I didn’t know how they were gonna get any work done.
Class ended and I was walking with Tom and Dougie to our rooms.
“So tom, when do you wanna meet?”
“Umm… how many weeks do we have for it?”
“3, I’m sure.”
“Okay what about… Tuesdays and Thursdays? Straight after till.. I don’t know?”
“Yea sounds fine.”
Dougie was silent the whole way through.
Tom left to change direction to his room, and Dougie spoke.
“Can we do something? I’m bored. Its Friday night man!”
“They usually have movies down in the hall. Wanna go see some?”
“No can’t we like, go outside and sit somewhere?”
“We aren’t allowed to.”
“This schools annoying” Dougie groaned opening our door.
“Well, its school.”
“Just one time?” he asked lying on his bed.
“One time what?”
“Can we try it? we might not get busted.”
“fine Dougie! I’m gonna catch up with Kiara so what time?”
“eight?” he asked as I reached for my water bottle.
“yeah alright?” I said, grabbing my shorts and singlet and heading to the bathroom to change. I could hear him strumming his guitar. I never actually knew if he played well or not.
“are you even good at that?” I said walking out.
“I am… where are you going?”
“the gym with Kiara. What are you gonna do?”
“dunno, chill here.”
“alright, bye Doug” I said throwing his shirt from the floor at him.
He laughed as I walked out.
“faster Elle! Faster! Harder!”
“shut up Kiara!” I said running as fast as I could on the treadmill.
“no! faster!” she said giggling as she herself jumped on the treadmill next to me and started running.
“one minute left” I said breathlessly.
A minute was up.
“oh my god! That’s the hardest hour of workout I’ve done Kiara.”
“well what would you know?” she said still running. “what are you doing tonight?”
“somewhere along the lines of getting detention. Yourself?” I said sipping my water.
“movie with Emma.. what do you mean detention?” she asked puzzled.
“well, Dougie wants to go outside and like just sit somewhere or something, and I was like, ‘we’ll get detention’ and he was like ‘I don’t care just once’ so yeah.”
“ah, you gotta do what you gotta do” she said jumping off.
We started walking to the bathrooms in silence.
“do you like him?” she asked me quietly but with curiosity.
“I don’t know. I don’t think so”
“what?!” she scolded. “what do you mean you don’t think so?”
“I don’t know, I like being around him, but I’ve only known him for a week, not even that! I cant be jumping round liking him yet.”
“whatever, I think he likes you though” she said with a smirk.
“take what I just said, and pretend I’m Dougie saying it."
“so you’re a guy now?”
“AND change the he’s to she, then you have Dougie’s side.”
“Urgh! Don’t you believe in love at first sight?” she said as she got into the shower.
I walked into the one next to her.
“who said it was love?” I said sighing, but she didn’t hear.
“huh?” she asked.
“never mind..”
“over here!” Dougie said as his torch was our only source of light.
As we were walking outside on the garden side of the school, he led us to a nice green spot of grass. Well, green from what I could see.
“its nice out at night, they should have an outside party or something.” He said breaking silence.
“Who’s they?” I said lying down.
“The school” he said looking at me, and began to laugh.
“What’s funny?
He started running away from me and I had to get up and run after.
He ran right into the middle of the field, well that’s what I thought at least. And I thought I felt something on my head.
He stopped and stood still, then lifted his hood over his head and started laughing again.
“What Douglas?!” I demanded.
“Oh the sky and me hate you now” he said as his eyes widened.
And I remember his eyes the first time I saw them. And his pink Hurley shirt.
“Huh?” I said I was honestly confused.
“Look up!”
And I did. Wish I didn’t though.