That one moment

chapter 2

Nick's pov

Tomorrow is my first day of yet another new school, I got kicked out my last one for constantly fighting. It's not my fault. I don't like bullies I despise people that get off other peoples misery. These people have issues. My mum and dad have been fighting lately over my behaviour, my dad wants to send me to some military camp for naughty children. My mother doesn't, she knows I'm not evil I just like to help protect people.

As I look around my new room I wonder what this little town is going to bring. I've grown up in London my whole life so moving down to Cambridge is going to be different. I know nothing of this area, I'll probably get lost walking down the road. My dad has brought this huge house it's got 6 bedrooms 2 of which have ensuites. My one condition to living here is I get a bedroom with an ensuite, it didn't go down well with my older sister but who cares. It has 2 living rooms, a library, 2 offices one for my dad and one for my mum, a huge kitchen, dining room, 3 bathrooms, conservatory and an outdoor swimming pool. I will definitely be throwing pool parties.

Let me introduce my self I'm Nick Marshal my father is Matthew Marshal CEO of Marshal Enterprise. He owns a lot of companies and has recently started building his own hotels. My mother Lucy Marshal runs her own bakery. She is the best baker ever. She's always been unsure of what to do with herself in life so she started baking as a hobby but when my dad saw the love in her eyes and her passion for it he brought her, her own bakery. My father has always been supportive of her and my sister. Me on the other hand he wants me to follow in his footsteps and I'm not sure that's the life I want. I'm still figuring that out but I'm only 16 I still have plenty of time right?

"Sweetie you almost finished" my mother asks from my bedroom door. "Yeah mum just unpacking the last box" she smiles warmly at me  "Ok honey just remember you start your new school in the morning so don't be up all night" she orders. I role my eyes. "Yes mother" I say sarcastically and she laughs while walking off down the hall.

I finished unpacking, I look at my new room. It's a large room all white. I have a walk in wardrobe an ensuite, I have my 65inch telly mounted to the wall opposite my large king size bed. I have 2 dressers on my side wall and 2 night stands with a lamp either side of my bed. I go take a quick shower and once I'm out I make myself comfortable on my bed. Grabbing my phone I see I have a message from Cassie. I miss her so much she's been my girlfriend for the last year, she's the most beautiful girl in the world. Her and leaving my friends is the main reason I hate this move. But being a kid I have no say in what my father does so I just have to suck it up. I open the message

Cassie - missing you baby. xXx

I smile at her message. God I miss her.

Me - I miss you too babe. Good night. X.

I put my phone on charge and go to bed after all it is midnight.

The next morning I wake up feel energised. I don't mind being the new kid or doing the whole first day of school, I've done it so many times now it's like second nature to me. I get up and do my morning routine. I grab my black jeans a white t-shirt and a black jacket. I run my fingers through my black hair taming the messiness a little.

I head down stairs and see mum, dad and kylie my sister. She's 2 years older than me she just celebrated her 18th birthday and I've just celebrated my 16th our parents always buy us expensive presents and throw us the best parties.

"Morning all loved ones and kylie" I joke. She laughs as she knows I'm joking. Were surprising close I can actually talk to her about anything. "Morning son." I hear my father say before sipping on his coffee. My mum walks out with pancakes and fruit. I load my plate full of food and dig in like the animal I am. "The way you eat makes me want to be sick" my sister whines. I laugh at her response and only eat more disgustingly. "Nick!" My mother yells and I stop. After breakfast my father heads of too work kissing kylie on the top of her head and pulling my mother into a long passionate kiss. "Great now I might throw up" I mumble. My dad looks at me smiling "You'll understand one day son when you meet her. The one girl who will change your life forever" I laugh at his comment. "No one girl will ever hold me down" I mock back, hey I may have a girlfriend but there's no harm in some fun on the side. He heads to the door and leaves for work. Kylie gets up and leaves for college. "Right sweetie have a good day and please no fighting its your first day" my mum says while kissing my cheek. I nod in response.

As I'm not legally allowed to drive yet so my father gave me a car with a drive which is great as I don't have to bug my mum for a lift all the time. "Morning Mr Marshal" James says all formal. "James please just call me Nick ok" I tell him. He smiles and opens the door for me "Of course Nick" he says, I climb in and he shuts the door. He makes his way to the drivers side and we head to the school, it's about a 15 minute drive.

As I get out the car I observe my surroundings. It doesn't look too bad. I make my way into the school doors where I see loads of friendship groups mingling. I head to principle White's office and wait for my schedule. "Mr Marshal the principle will see you now" the middle aged receptionist informs me. I smile at her and make my way. "Good morning Mr Marshal. Excited for your first day." She asks way to chirpy. I know what she's doing they all do it. They suck up to me because my father can be very generous with donations for schools that over look my troublesome behaviour. I smile and nod at her wanting to just get out of here and get this day over with. "Follow me and I'll take you to your first class." I follow her lead to her receptionists desk where my schedule and locker key is. She hands them to me and I see I'm locker 36 and I have history first. I like history I'm surprisingly very smart.

The principle opens the door to history class and I can hear the students saying they don't want to partner up with this girl. I scan the room and lock eyes with the most beautiful girl I've ever laid eyes on. She has these incredible green eyes that have me hypnotized. I cant look away. She eventually breaks eye contact with me and looks around I follow her gaze and see a girl telling her friend to partner up with her so she and I can be partners. Hell no. I think to myself. "I'll be her partner" I say while looking back at the green eyed girl. She looks down and is shocked when I sit next to her. I just smile. I cant even stop my self. She must think I'm a crazy person.

We start our history class but I don't focus on the work. How did someone so beautiful come into the world. She must have loads of guys after her. I bet I don't even have a shot with her. Were doing world war II which I have previously done in my last school last year. She answers the first question but gets it wrong. I smile at her attempt though. After that she goes quiet not answering so I finish the rest of the questions off. I try and make small talk to her but she doesn't want to know. She didn't even want to tell me her name. I wonder why she's so closed off. Maybe she doesn't like me. Nah that cant be it I've never had any trouble getting girls to like me, if it's not my looks they definitely like me for my money.

The bell goes and she jumps up running off a girl in the front row trips her and all her books fly. Kids are saying some nasty s**t about her weight and I immediately see red. Who could be so cruel to this beautiful girl. I rush over to help her but she leaves before I get a chance. I look at the boy who said the shitty comment and follow him out the class room. I pull him aside and push him against the wall. "YOU WILL NEVER TALK TO HER LIKE THAT AGAIN" I shout directly in his face. He looks startled at first and nods obediently. "Good little boy" I mock him as I let go and watch him drop to the floor. I make my way to maths.

I'm a little late due to my encounter with the boy and not knowing where my maths room is. I open the door and see her standing there she must of been late too. I see the class snickering at her and it makes my blood boil. Luckily me arriving late takes the attention off her and all eyes go to me. She goes and takes a seat and I still cant take my eyes off her. Her eyes are blood shot and puffy and she has a little red nose. She's clearly been crying. This is unacceptable to me.

I inform the teacher who I am and make my way over to Ellie. Such a beautiful name. I call her Elle. It makes me smile when she always corrects me, I'm sure she will learn to love her nick name. I apologise to Elle and accidentally get her in trouble with the teacher. Miss Davies makes her stand in front of the whole class to answer a ridiculously hard equation. I see her shaking in fear. I just want to cuddle her and tell her it's ok. After being humiliated in front of the class with some b***h calling her thick and adding another weight related comment I just wanna punch some one. I try to say sorry again but she moves away from me. I feel like the worlds biggest prick. She leaves after the bell rings not waiting for me. I sigh as I let her leave.

At lunch I see her sitting alone. I grab some lunch and sit next to her taking her by surprise. I'm about to talk to her when something hits her in the face. We both look around and see a group of girls and guys laughing. I look down at her food and see wet tissue paper. Another one hits her and I lose my s**t I stand up taking my full bottle of coke and pour it all over this Alicia b***h. A guy jumps up pissed off. I shout at him and he tried to act like a tough guy in front of the school. Instead of punching him up which is what I would normally do I insult his vile girlfriend and head back to Elle. I split my food with her and she smiles a weak smile at me. My hand reaches for her face and it breaks my heart when she flinched and closed her eyes tight. What does she think in going to do to her? I brush her cheek as there's still some tissue paper there and she looks at me wide eyed. She really does have beautiful eyes. She freaks out and runs off giving me a quick glance before the doors close on us. I decide to leave her she was just humiliated in front of the whole school, she might just wants to be alone.

I finally get to my last class and yes I have her in English. She's reading a book and looks so damn sexy while doing it. I can see the passion in her eyes. The love she has for literacy. It reminds me of when my mum started baking. I sit beside her and apologise to her for what happened at lunch. She looks confused and tells me I don't need to apologise. She thanked me for what I did for her. I can't help but just smile at her. How can anyone be cruel to her I don't understand what this angel has done to cause the whole school to hate her. Well that's going to change.

We get our assignments from the teacher and we start reading Romeo and Juliet. I hear that Jack guy making a comment about her and his asshole friends. I hope she doesn't hear them but the tears hitting her desk confirms she did. I tell her not to listen to them. Her response catches me off guard. Telling me if I want to fit in I cant be her friend. f**k that. I put my hand on my heart and practically beg her to be my friend, she said she'll think about it. After class is done she leaves with out a single word to me. I wont lie it hurts that she doesn't want to spend time with me or even have an actual conversation with me. All she does is run away from me.

I make my way out the school seeing if I can see her but she's already gone. I get into my car and head home. James tries to make small talk about school but I shrug him off. I don't mean to be rude I just cant get this girl out of my head. I really want to kill everyone that is mean to her.

I jump out the car and make my way to the kitchen grabbing a coke from the fridge as I didn't get to drink mine today at school. I smile as I remember that sluts reaction. I didn't know dogs could yelp that high. "Hey Nick. How was your first day? Get expelled yet?" My sister jokes. I don't respond and I sit on the stool against the breakfast bar. I'm deep in thought about Ellie and wondering what I can do to make her my friend.

"Earth to Nick" I hear her say waving a hand in front of my face. She takes a seat next to me. "Nick what's wrong. You never keep secrets from me" she says with a hint of worry in her voice. "Ok.... there's this girl." I start but am cut off by my mother. "Oohhh a girl, what girl huh?" She questions. I turn my head and see my mum and dad. They sit opposite me and I just role my eyes. I'm not ready to tell everyone. I grab my coke and stand up. "Its nothing there's no girl" I say sternly. I head off to my room. I walk past the library this is my dads favourite room. He also loves reading. I wonder in there and look at some of the books. Books will forever remind me of her. I go look at the first edition books that my dad keeps in a glass cube. These are expensive books. I see wuthering heights. I open the glass door and run my finger over the spine of the book. Maybe I could give this to Ellie as a gift. She did enjoy Romeo and Juliet.

"Son. Is everything ok. You never come in here?" My father asks walking closer to me. I sigh maybe I can get advice. "You know you tell me that if somethings broken there's always a way to fix it. What if somethings too broken and you don't know how to fix it then how do you fix it?" I ask hoping that made sense. I feel a hand on my shoulder and turn my attention to him. "Something or someone?" He questions with a slight smirk on his face. I role my eyes and go sit on the sofa that's in the room. He sits beside me still smiling like a goofy lunatic. "Well if it's a something you just need to find the right part to fix it. If it's a someone. That can take a little longer to fix and the best way to help someone that's broken is listening and patients. Your a smart kid I'm sure you'll figure it out." He pats me on the knee and heads for the door while I stay sitting there looking into oblivion. "That's a good book son, might just make a perfect gift for someone" he says letting off a low chuckle before walking off. Well at least I know he wont miss the book. I smile to myself as I go and take the book out of the glass cube and close the door. I head to my room and look for some plain wrapping paper. I have some pink that I used for my sisters birthday present. I guess that will do maybe she likes pink.

I wrap it up and put it in my book bag waiting for tomorrow to come. My phone starts ringing and I don't know why but I pray it was her. Maybe she somehow got my number. I look down to see Cassie's name. The usual happy feeling I use to get is filled with sadness and emptiness. I answer it and hear her happy voice that I use to love but I prefer the way Ellie talks. Her voice is so sexy and soft. "Hey baby" she says.

"Hi Cassie." I answer more formal than normal. "Everything ok baby? how was your first day of school? Make any friends?" She bombards me with question after question. "It was ok. I guess I sorta made one friend." I smile as I think back to my encounters with Ellie. "I erm need to go. I got loads of homework today." I tell her. She bursts out laughing. "Since when do you do homework" she's still laughing. As annoyed as I was getting she has a point in the whole year I've known her I never did homework. But something inside me is telling Ellie is doing homework and the thought that were both doing it at the same time oddly makes me want to do it. Oh God what is happening to me. "Anyways I will see you soon, I'll come visit you one weekend. Bye." I hang up before she says anything. Throwing my phone on the bed I pull out my Romeo and Juliet book. I've never read a book before as it's for nerds and losers but for her I'll read every damn book the world has to offer. I get to chapter 3 when my mum calls me for dinner. That book is a lot harder to read than I first thought. If my friends back in London saw me reading s**t like this I would definitely get beaten for it.

I head down stairs and the dining room is filled with the smell of fajitas. Mmmm my favourite. I wonder what Ellie's favourite food is. I tuck in filling my wrap with chicken, peppers and onions loaded with cheese lettuce and tomatoes. I also grab a spoonful of chilly loaded nachos and put that on my plate. "So did you decide on a book" my dad asks knowing full well he is going to raise suspicion with mum and Kylie. "Yes thanks dad!" I drag out the word dad making him know to shut up. "What book" my mum asks. "I didn't know you could read" kylie laughs out. "Its for a friend alright now drop it!" I say coldly. They all smirk at each other before eating their dinner.

After dinner I went straight back to my room so I don't have to listen to their questions anymore. Laying down on bed I'm consumed with thoughts of Ellie. I just want to know everything about her. I've decided to break up with Cassie I'll go to London when I can I don't want to do it over text or anything I have too much respect for her. That isn't going to be a fun conversation. But if she goes psycho on me at least I can leave. I eventually drift off to sleep.