~Chapter 2

Vera POV

"Don't come in here!" She screamed, making me halt in my tracks "I don't want you to catch the flu too!". Nina's voice boomed from behind her closed door.

"But I can take care of you

I have a bowl of chicken soup with me!". I shouted back to her looking down at the bowl of soup in my hands, I sniffed the steam rising from it having prepared it a few minutes ago and smiled, loving the gingery scent

"No no, don't worry about it. I-i can take care of myself. Mum is here to take care of me. Go to practice, when you're back in sure I'll feel a lot better"

I remained quiet and bit on my lower lip thinking.

Should I leave Nina in this condition and go for practice? I'm sure it wouldn't hurt if I'd miss a session.

She wouldn't even let me see her.

I had come by her room an hour ago to find out why she wasn't here yet.

Louis was already waiting at the door to take us to practice like he always does, but 30 mins of waiting and Nina hadn't come down yet

"Nina isn't here yet"

Louis said for the fifth time now and I was getting worried,well more irritated then worried to be honest. He sat in the driver's seat, slurping on his coffee. My eye twitched every time I heard him slurp lazily, I felt like throwing the cup out of the window or using it to hit him on the head or something.

"I'll go check" I snapped, getting out of the car.

"Okay

I'll go and get notes for you and all the practice sheets okay?" I shouted back, hoping I had made the right choice here.

The more time I spent here trying to get in the more time was lost so I finally decided to go with the less stressful option,at least what I saw as that.

"Okay"

I dropped the plate of soup on the side stool next to her door.

"Oh and send mum up here please!"

Her words came before I started walking off.

"Okay! Bye!". She didn't respond so I shrugged it off and began my descent down the flight of stairs

"How's Nina?" Mum asked from the bottom of the stairs as I came down to meet her.

"Still sick I think. I dropped the bowl of soup for her on the side stool next to her room. She also wants you"

I picked my bag from the couch, throwing it on my back. I slid my hands through the loops and adjusted the weight to angle just well enough not to elicit a back pain later on.

"Okay

Have a nice day honey" she spoke into my cheek, placing a gentle kiss on it "Remind Mr.Kurt that your lessons should end early today"

I furrowed my brows at her in confusion, "Why is that mum?"

"You'll find out when you get back now run along" she waved me off, turning to the kitchen as she started walking away. "Before Louis gets tired and comes in, then we'll have no other choice than to feed that troll. Now go!" I giggled, running out of the door and yelling a final goodbye to mom, which included kisses and her almost pinching my nose off.

I jumped into Luios's car, securing myself properly before I turned to meet his glaring gaze fixated on me, "Sorry" I smiled cheekily, scratching the back of my head as he continued to glare at me. I sighed, knowing exactly what he was waiting to hear, "fine we'll get McDonald's after, happy?"

As soon as the words left my mouth he started beaming like a child, "Shut your pie hole and let's go" he started the car and I used his diverted attention to flick his ear while he whined like a baby and I chuckled in my seat as we drove out of the parking lot.