Cursed

Chapter four

Courtney's pov;

Finally it was Friday.

The week had gone so damn slow. I settled in quite well thanks to my friends, and I had been keeping my grades up which was good.

I was getting my new car on Tuesday after school and I was so excited! I passed my drivers test yesterday, and mum said we could go out and buy a car on Tuesday after school. She was finishing work early for me.

Mum said I could get whatever car I wanted, and that money wasn't an issue. My family weren't poor, but they weren't rich. They were well off. They could afford nice things, which was good in a way, but some people thought I was stuck up because of it.

Our house wasn't tiny, but it wasn't too big. It had 5 bedrooms, 2 which we don't use, every bedroom had an en-suite which i liked a lot.

When we first moved here, I got first pick of the rooms, so I chose one of the smaller rooms. I choose it because it was the only room with a balcony. I loved it, because I could sit out on it and stare up at the stars some nights. I also liked it because I could just climb down and out without using the front door, so it was less effort for me.

It was quite a warm day today, so I chose to wear some blue denim shorts, and a white crop top with the word 'whatever' on it.

I put my long brown hair up in a bun, and just put a little bit of eyeliner and mascara on, as I couldn't be bothered with makeup today. I have to re-do it all tonight anyway because of the party. I slid my glasses on my face, and took my contact lenses out of my draw and put them on my dressing table so I wouldn't forget them tonight.

I sometimes wore my glasses, and sometimes wore contact lenses, depending on what I'm feeling.

Ellie usually picks me up in her range rover every morning, even though it's only a 10 minute walk from where I am. I liked riding to school with her.

I grabbed my school bag and white converses, and went downstairs.

Mum was downstairs getting ready for work as usual.

"Morning mum." I said to her.

"Morning love." She replied.

"So mum, tonight I'm going to come back here with Ellie, grab all my stuff, and then go to hers and go to the party and stay at Ellie's for the night. Is that still alright?" I asked her. "Yes that's fine dear." She reassured me. "Okay cool. See you later then." I said as I hugged her. "BYE ZO!" I shouted up at the stairs. "BYE COURTNEY!" She shouted back.

I walked outside to see Ellie's car already parked up.

"Hey hoe." She said to me as I got in the car. "Hey whore." I replied, and we both smiled.

We both started calling each other 'hoe' and 'w***e' the other day. We weren't insulting each other, we were just having a bit of friendly banter.

"I bought the new One Direction album." Ellie said. "You bought One Directions new album?" I asked her confused. She's been listening to heavy metal all week, and now she's listening to pop music? This girl never fails to surprise me.

"Yep." She replied, popping the p. "I bought it because my cousin begged me to listen to it, so I did and I actually really like it. I'm not really into a lot of pop, but this I like."

"What's the album called?" I asked her interested. "It's called Four." She replied. "Plus have you seen Zayn Malik? He is pretty damn sexy." She said. "Well duh." I replied and laughed.

We got to school, and my first class was maths. Yay.

I got to my class quickly, and sat at the back as usual.

A boy I had never seen before walked into class and sat in front of me.

He had spiked up brown hair, and he was wearing black skinny jeans, with a white t-shirt, and a blue checkered shirt.

He was very cute.

When class started the boy turned around to me, and whispered "Do you have a pen I can borrow?"

He was cute so obviously I was going to give him one.

His light brown eyes met mine, and I couldn't help but gaze at him.

"Are you okay?" He chuckled.

Shit i was staring again! f**k I gotta stop doing that!

"s**t yeh sorry, um here's a pen." I mumbled. "Thanks." He smiled, then turned around back to his work. Oh my gosh. His smile was so frickin adorable!

He didn't speak to me for the rest of the lesson. He was concentrating on his work which was good.

At the end of the lesson, he gave me back my pen and thanked me for letting him borrow it.

"See you around." He smiled and walked off. Yes you will be seeing me around you gorgeous boy. Oh god I sound like Ellie now. She's rubbing off on me. I smile to myself and walk to my next class.

It was already lunch time, so i made my way to the place where I usually sit with my friends, when I suddenly bump into someone.

"Watch where you're f*****g going new girl." A voice spat. I looked to see who it was, and it was that not very nice girl in some of my classes. Mindy or Mandy or whatever her name was.

"Sorry. I wasn't looking. I'm so sorry." I apologised. "Yeah you f*****g should be sorry you little whore." She spat at me. What was her problem?! I said sorry!

"There's really no need to call me a w***e, I'm sorry for bumping into you." I tried to reason with her, but the b***h wasn't having any of it.

"Are you f*****g talking back to me? Who the f**k do you think you are?" She shouted and pushed me. Everyone went silent as she shouted really loud.

Just then I heard a voice say "Oi you f*****g blonde tart, leave my friend alone!" It was Ellie.

Blonde b***h started laughing at her.

"And what are you gonna do? You're like half the size of me." Blonde bitches friends laughed.

"Well your dad didn't seem to mind last night." Ellie retorted.

I heard the whole hall go 'BURNNNNN'. Ellie has really good comebacks.

"Ugh whatever Ellie, go back to your emo friends." Blonde b***h replied, and her friends laughed.

Ellie looked mad. Like really mad. I don't think she liked her friends being insulted.

Ellie walked straight up to Blonde b***h, took the gum out of her mouth, and put it in blonde bitches hair.

"Have fun getting that out my love." Ellie smiled and walked off.

Everyone was laughing. Including me. I love this girl.

Blonde b***h ran off crying. Lol.

I walked over to my friends, and they were all praising Ellie for being so fab;)

"That was really funny Elz!" I said to her. "And you said 'my love.' Are you picking up some English traits from me?" I giggled.

"Yeah seems like it." Ellie laughed. "Don't worry about her Courtney, if she gives you any more trouble, il sort her out." Ellie smiled. "Thanks Ellie. You really are a good best friend." I smiled at her. She walked over and hugged me. "You're a better best friend." She smiled back at me.

After school had finished, Ellie drove me back to mine, and we went to my room to pack my clothes.

"Oh my god. Ellie I totally forgot! I have no party dresses! I can't go to the party!" I wailed.

"Um hello? You're talking to the girl who's hobby is partying! I have loads of party dresses at mine! You're about the same size as me, so you can borrow something of mine babe."

"Thanks Elz." I smile. "Don't sweat it."

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We arrive back at Ellie's with 2 hours to spare before the party.

Her house was so cute.

It wasn't tiny but it wasn't huge. It was perfect for her and her family.

Her mum was sitting in the living room watching some sort of house programme.

"MOM IM HOME!" She screamed.

"OKAY HUN!" I heard her mum scream back. Like mother like daughter, I thought.

I followed her up the stairs and bumped into someone who knocked me over. The 2nd time today! I need to look where I'm going.

"Oh sorry!" I said, then looked up. "Sorry!" The boy said. "I'm Harry. Ellie's older brother." He held out his hand to help me up and i took it. His chocolate brown curls were so cute. He didn't look anything like Ellie. He had green eyes, and Ellie had blue eyes? I'll have to ask her about that later.

"I'm Courtney, Ellie's best friend."

He smirked. "Ah a fellow englishman." He was English as well?! This is weird! "Well it was nice meeting you Courtney." He smiled at me.

Just then Ellie walked out. "What's taking you so long?" She asked me. "Hey dickhead." Ellie smiled at her brother. "Hey bitch." He smiled back. What a weird relationship they had.

"I was just on my way to your room, and I bumped into your friend here." Harry smirked at me.

"My room? Why was you going to my room? And yeh this is my new bestie." She smiled.

"Um I was going to your room, because um, I was um, looking for um-"

"YOU WAS LOOKING FOR LOVE ACTUALLY WASNT YOU!" Ellie screamed at him, then started crying of laughter.

"Little girly Harry wanted Love Actually! You softie." She smirked at him.

"Leave it out El." He blushed. Aw he's cute.

"Cutie." She smirked again. "Here it is, now have fun watching your favourite movie you girly pants."

"Girly pants?" Harry smirked. "So mature of you."

"Shut the f**k up and watch your girl movie." Ellie laughed at him.

"Okay okay I'm going. Laters Courtney." He walked off to his room.

I followed Ellie back into her room, and was thinking whether or not it would be a good idea to ask her why Harry and her are so different.

"I know what you're thinking." Ellie said, stopping my thoughts.

"You're thinking why we look so different, and how ones English and ones American." She said reading my mind.

"I was just curious." I answered.

"Well, my mum was out one night, and she met Harry's dad, Des, and he told her how he had moved here from England with his son because his wife cheated on him and he needed a fresh start, and how Harry could do with a fresh start as well, then they just started dating I guess. When I first met Harry, I hated him. He was too cocky for my liking, then I grew to like him, and even though I take this piss outta him 24/7, I love him like he's my real brother." She said.

"That's quite sweet actually." I smiled warmly.

"Yeh. Well enough of the cute stuff, we have a party to get ready for!" She squealed excitedly.

"I've already chosen a dress, so I'm gonna go slip into it, you pick a dress from my wardrobe." She said, and left me alone to decide.

I opened her wardrobe, and saw a lot of dark clothing. I like her style I thought.

I found the dress I wanted to wear. It was a navy blue dress, with long lacey sleeves.

Ellie came back in a little grey and black strapless dress. It was quite short, but was long enough to hide everything that should be hid.

"I'm just gonna do my makeup. Then il do yours." Ellie said to me.

"My makeup?" I asked. I'd never had my makeup done before.

Ellie nodded. "And your hair." She added. "Now go put your dress on!" We both laughed, as I walked to her bathroom.

I slipped the gorgeous dress on, and admired myself in the mirror.

It actually suited me. I had never worn a dress this short before so I was quite nervous, but once I had seen it on, I felt like I had all the confidence in the world.

I walked back to her room, and saw that Ellie had done her hair and makeup.

"You look stunning!" I said excitedly to her.

She curled her red hair, put a dark eyeshadow on which made her blue eyes pop, added winged eyeliner, and a light pink lipstick. She looked gorgeous.

"Meh I look okay." She replied. "Now let me make you look even more gorgeous than you already do, if that's possible!" She laughed.

After what seemed like forever, Ellie had finally finished my hair and makeup.

"Go look in the mirror!" She told me, so I got up and went to the mirror.

Omg. It was like a whole different person looking back at me. I looked good! I even thought I looked pretty!

"Do you like it?" Ellie asked me.

"I love it! Thankyou so much love!" I giggled and hugged her.

"No problem 'love'." She winked at me. "You actually look so perfect. You look so much better in that dress than I do! Try not to stand too close to me at the party, because you make me look like a 5 outta 10!" She laughed.

"Oh shut up. You look hot." I laughed with her.

"Not as hot as you! Now I have a pair of size 7 heels if you want them? My piece of s**t dad bought them ages ago for me, and he's that s**t of a dad he didn't even know my shoe size!" Ellie said.

"Well I'm guessing you're a size 7 shoe. You look it." She added.

"Yeh I am.... How did you guess?" I asked her confused.

"It's one of my many talents." She giggled, whilst putting on a pair of size 5 black heels.

Tonight is going to be a good night.

A/N; Harry isn't in One Direction in this by the way:)