noah cameron schnapp

eleanor, millie, and i walked to school in a row. eleanor and i's phones were buzzing uncontrollably. "the picture is spreading." eleanor said turning her phone off. "it's not even a bad picture, you two are just walking together." millie said eating her granola bar that her mother makes every so often. nobody at school except for me, knows how complicated eleanor and finn's relationship is. she couldn't do it, she couldn't break up with him last week. the blazers we have to wear to school hid the faint bruise on eleanor's wrist. "oh there's sadie and maddie." millie said running up. "bye!" she said to us while going to her two best friends. we were in front of the school now. waiting for the bell to ring so we can go inside. johnny orlando and his other friends were standing in a group fawning over a picture on his phone. probably that picture. he turned around while eleanor joined millie, maddie, and sadie who were just a few feet away. "really schnapp? you take some rockstars whore instead of poor little madison jennings?" he said walking closer. i felt the blood rushing to my face in anger. "she is not a whore." i said walking closer to him. "oh yeah schnapp?" he said getting closer to me. "stop it." i said pushing him. "don't tell me what to do." he said pushing me back harder, so hard that i stumbled. i shook my head. i punched him straight across the face and we began to fight. him throwing me to the ground and i dragging him down with me. we continued to fight. "john orlando and noah schnapp! my office now!" i heard the principal say. we both stopped and got up. my lip was throbbing as well as my cheek. his hands were scraped. eleanor looked scared as i looked at her. everyone's mouths around us were open. we were escorted to the principals office while classes began. "have a seat boys." the man said. almost twenty minutes went by of him talking to us. johnny apologizing and us both getting in trouble. "i will have to schedule a meeting with both of your parents to discuss what you had done today." the principal said to us. we sat in his office while he called our parents to let them know that we wouldn't be attending our classes today, instead, we would be doing work and sitting in the office for the day. hours would pass and every so often i would look over to see what johnny was doing, him wondering the same. i thought back to how startled eleanor, maddie, millie, and sadie looked when we walked inside. johnny tried to put eleanor and maddie against eachother. they were friends, who would do that? sooner or later, the final bell rang and we were dismissed from the office after a final talking to. johnny walked out the door first. and there eleanor was, waiting next to the door to the office. "my house?" she asked. i nodded. we were driven home by a car that her mother sent for. when we walked into her room, i put my bag down next to the door like she did. "why did you do that?" she said pulling me over to her bed. "because your my friend and i'd do anything for you." i said to her. she looked directly into my eyes. i could kiss her but i knew i shouldn't. i hadn't payed attention to her room the first time i had been in here. it was painted a nice grey color and there were white christmas lights around the perimeter of the top of the walls. then on one wall above her vanity, we're polaroid pictures. pictures of london, the city, and millie, maddie, sadie, and her. one of me from the park last week, that i didn't know she took. three tall windows that had sheer white curtains. "do you like it?" she asked. "yeah." i said nodding. an hour passed of just talking about her room and then she told me about what sadie had told her two days ago at lunch. sadie had been at a party and finn was there. she saw him drunkenly touching and dancing with another girl. as she learned to hate finn, i think she was learning to love me. that makes me the happiest guy in the world, despite the other things that could make me the loneliest. she turned around, her back was to me. "i have to do it this time, there's no turning back." she said holding back tears. i got up and put my hands gently on her shoulders. "ella, i think you need to. you deserve to be happy, not worrying about some cheating, asshole, conceited boy." i told her. she turned around, tears rolling down her face. "ella?" she asked smiling and sniffling. i nodded my head. she stared into my eyes as she wiped off her tears. i liked her. i really, really liked her. i pulled my phone out and played slow music. i placed my phone on her side table. "you need to cheer up." i said pulling her to the open space in her room, walking backwards. we swayed side to side to the beat of the music. falling into the music. she looked at me like she was mesmerized. she stepped in closer to me, looking at the ground. she took a deep breath. "i need to, badly." she said looking back up at me. "and i will be there with you, outside the door. incase anything happens, okay?" i said. "okay." she faintly smiled. eleanor looked over at the wall of polaroids, directly at one of her and finn. she pulled away from me, tearing it from the wall, leaving an empty space. she threw it right into the garbage. "i wish i could just get rid of him." she said throwing out a necklace and a sweatshirt from his most recent tour. "eleanor, are you sure you want to do that?" i asked her. she stopped walking. her anger turned into sadness. i walked over to her with my arms wide open. she hugged me tightly, her head on shoulder. i didn't want to leave this moment.