Flipped - Cancer Support Center (Niall's POV)

Niall’s POV

       Since that screamy day, all Nancy does is stalking me everywhere. Literally. Except the toilet. Maybe I should stay at the toilet forever. I don’t know if that was a good idea.

       Well, she always got a tiny little reason to make herself closer to me. Like yesterday, my family prepared things for barbequing, and she just appeared out of who knows where and started offering help to my mom. And it’s annoying because I need privacy! I lost it in One Direction, but please can I not lose that in my own house?

*flashback*

       “Don’t you need any help?” she glanced over at me after helped my mom clean the barbeque stove, “Cause it sure looks like it” she said when I tried to take a tweezers which I just dropped under the cupboard.

       “We should push together”

       “No umm… why don’t you run along home? Your family probably worried about you. Tomorrow is Monday, don’t you have school to go to? Don’t you need to study or something?” I said trying to look for an excuse to get rid of this annoying girl in front of me.

       This is one of my soon-to-become-acute awareness that the girl cannot take a hint. Of any kind. Does she zip on home like people usually should do when they have been invited to leave? No. She says “Oh actually George know exactly where I am. He said it was fine. Besides, this is summer break. There’s no school tomorrow”

       So here I am pushing the cupboard with the last girl I want to meet. It didn’t take any long time to push it. Thankfully. I take the tweezers then push the cupboard with her again. I was putting my hand to the side of the cupboard, but somehow I didn’t see Nancy’s hand is still there, so my hand wound up tangling into hers. I can’t believe this.

How can I get out of this mess?

*end of flashback*

       “Cancer Research? But I don’t know science” I said to Simon on the phone.

       “You’re not gonna do research, genius! It’s just the name. It’s actually a cancer support center. You know, like cancer hospital but for poor people. So you’ll help people there. Making food, sweeping, painting walls, anything they ask you” Simon explained.

       “For the rest of summer break?” I asked.

       “Yes”

       “Cool. I’m in” I said hung up the phone. I hatched a plan. Here’s the plan, so if I’m not home from the beginning of the morning till the late of afternoon for the rest of summer break, I can reduce the chance of meeting or seeing Nancy Holmes.

       But however, my problem is far so away from over.

this is how Niall Looks like when he saw Nancy

       The minute Mrs. Nelson explained the schedule and what can I do for the rest of summer break, I knew this place can’t be my protection place.

       “Hey Nancy! C’mere!” Mrs. Nelson called her. Yes, her. Mrs. Nelson said she’s new volunteer too… but she’s been here since weekend. Now it’s clear. She won’t let me alone. I really don’t understand. All that I wanna do is getting this girl out of my life, but instead of disappear, she always popped out in front of me. What sin have I ever made so God thinks I deserve this?

       Her smile gets bigger and bigger as she recognizes me standing right behind Mrs. Nelson. Just like other fan girls when they see me. Don’t get me wrong, I never hate a fan, but this one is out of line. Nancy Holmes got no concept of personal space. No respect for privacy. The world is her ‘playground’, and watch out below, Nancy’s on the slide!

       My first two weeks of the break was a disaster.

       Third week was not so much better. She was still hot on my trail every time I turned around. Same with fourth. But then in fifth, I took an action.

Amy Green

       It started out slow. This is one of those ‘no-that’s-not-right-ideas-you-get-and-forget-it’ idea. But the more I played with the idea, the more I thought, what better way to ward Nancy off? What better way to say to her, “Nancy, you are NOT my type”?

       So the idea is I’d ask one of the girls in the cancer support center, not the patient of course, but one of the volunteer. Her name is Amy Green. see the picture? yes, she is Amy Green. The thing is Nancy hates Amy Green. She always has, though it beats me why. Amy’s nice, friendly, and she’s pretty. What’s not to like?

       Okay, what I was thinking was that Amy would eat lunch with me and maybe walk around a little with me. That way, anytime Nancy was around, all I have to do was hang a little closer to Amy and things would just naturally take care of themselves. And maybe Nancy would be less interest. What happened, though, is that Amy took things way too seriously. She went around telling everybody –including Nancy- that we were in love.

       That was until my supposed-to-be-best-friend Dave Mcaullife attracts to Amy Green himself. Then he told her what I was up to. She slapped me at lunch and we ‘broke up’. She dumped me and started going out with a boy from her college. And this news was also heard by Nancy. Then she started up with the goo-goo eyes again. Only this time is worse, she actually started sniffing me. Yes, SNIFFING me. She does that anytime she stands or sits beside me. What was that all though?