(surprise in the author note)

Zayn's POV:

My eyes stay fixed on the small glass passage of the door of the chemistry lab as I hold my phone against my ear, tightly. I watch them as I stand outside the door when Malory intensely stares into Louis' eyes, pinned by him against the wall.

I don't even know why I dial her number as soon as I see her in the lab with Louis in that position. As soon as she answers the call, the words that come out of her mouth, make my heart drop in my stomach.

"I'm um..I'm in the washroom," she speaks, making me close my eyes and lower my head, with a sharp feeling in my chest.

She lied.

"Oh," comes out of my mouth, surprised to see the scene in front of me, but mostly shocked due to the fact that she lied to me.

I shake my head, clutching my jaw before I continue, "See you in Sociology, Malory,". Inhaling a sharp breath, I stare at her for one last time with a heavy heart and end the call before she can say anything.

I walk over to my Sociology class with a glum look on my face which does not go unnoticed by Paige. "Hey!" she chimes as soon as I walk over to her, but her smile fades when she looks at me. "Why do you look upset?" concern forms all over her face as she looks up at me.

My eyes lit up as soon as I see her adorable worried expressions. Why am I even getting upset over something that has nothing to do with me, when I have the girl of my dreams smiling at me like that?

"Now that I've seen you, nothing else matters," I say forcing a smile, causing her to giggle in return as she smiles at me and places her hand on the desk and her chin on her folded palm as she stares at me.

"You're openly flirting with me," she grins, her cheeks turning a slight but noticeable red colour, making me chuckle at her cuteness.

"Well, we've been on a successful date already, I think I can openly flirt now," I say and she giggles again as I quietly admire her face beaming with happiness.

She looks so happy, like a positive ray of sunshine that can bring a smile on your face even if you are feeling down.

"We are having an activity today for 20 extra credits in your finals," our teacher interrupts my thoughts as soon he walks in the classroom with the huge leather suitcase that he always carries. If Malory was here, she would crack the same joke she makes every time when our teacher walks in the class with that suitcase. Which goes like, "I wonder if I can kill Louis and hide his body in Mr.Preamer's suitcase? Two birds killed with one stone, we get rid of Louis and Mr.Preamer goes to prison."

Her humour can be very dark sometimes, however, it never stops me from bursting into laughter whenever she says something crazy like that.

I wonder if she would even come to class or stay like that with Louis in the chemistry lab?

But why do I even care?

I don't.

"Choose your partner, we're going to a charity home today," our teacher announces, hearing a bunch of bored groans from the teenagers who always want parties.

"Are we going to give our partner up for charity?" a voice comes out in an attempt to joke with a holler of laughter following behind, making me roll my eyes.

"Jared, nobody likes your humour, please," Mr.Preamer looks completely annoyed with Jared as he raises his hand in front of his face and pleads him to stop, making me snort.

"So, partners?" Paige's voice grabs my attention as she talks to me with a smile and I smile back.

"Yes," I say and she grins before writing our names together on the passed sheet by our teacher. He explains to us how the activity is going to be conducted with all the information regarding our marks as well. After he finishes, the door opens loudly, when Louis and Malory step inside the room with straight expressions on their faces.

My heart skips a beat as soon as my eyes land on her, but she looks at the floor and Louis looks for a seat in the middle of the full seated class of fifty students.

They don't show any emotions on their faces which makes it difficult for me to understand what happened between them.

"Welcome your highness, Prince Louis Tomlinson and our most respected and loved, Princess Malory," Mr.Preamer sarcastically speaks, bowing down in front of Malory and Louis to embarrass them for coming late to class, which makes the whole class erupt into laughter. Louis rolls his eyes with a chuckle at our teacher, and, as for Malory, she just quietly stares at the teacher and it's only a few seconds away before her stare turns into her glare. And I hope she doesn't do that to end up in detention.

"We're so delighted to have such big personalities in our presence. It's such an honour that you both decided to show up here," the way he is speaking is definitely going to make Malory do something, which I hope she does not, however, surprisingly, I don't find her expressions changing into anger, nor does she even look slightly bothered. She just stays silent, her face showing no annoyance, whereas Louis laughs beside her, not taking the insult seriously.

"Go take a seat there, both of you," he points towards two empty seats in the front, next to each other, as Louis and Malory look at each other briefly before walking over to the seats, but Malory stops in her way and turns over to our teacher.

"Oh, Mr.Preamer, if I was you, I'd keep an eye on that suitcase, not to find any skeletons inside, you know? Just sayin'," she casually walks over to the seat and settles, leaving Mr Preamer confused behind her, as an unexpected laugh comes out of my mouth in a silent room, making me cover my mouth with my hand quickly.

Paige looks at me in confusion because only I know what Malory meant with that sentence.

"I don't know what you meant by that, but moving on, everyone has paired up for the activity that we are having today," the teacher speaks, walking over to Malory.

"But only you and Louis are left, so you're partners now."

Malory's pov:

My eyes travel to Paige and Zayn seated in the middle row next to each other on the school bus, as they laugh about something, both looking completely happy in each other's company. I take a deep breath and look away from them as I sit on one of the last seats, staring at them from a distance. Paige had asked me if she could sit with Zayn, of course, I agreed. Because that was the deal, right? To make Zayn and Paige close.

Zayn, on the other hand, did not talk to me much or maybe did not get the chance to talk to me, seeming Paige and he were in a conversation all the time. 

Staring from the distance, I wonder what they are laughing about. I want to laugh with them too, I want to be included in their conversation too but that would only make things complicated so I lean against the window and quietly stare at them from afar. 

This trip is for only sociology students, I wish my brother had taken this subject, so I could be sitting with him right now. But he preferred statistics more. Huffing, I plop the earphones in and close my eyes when my mind drifts to the flashbacks of what happened between Louis and I today.

"Why did you lie to that wannabe bad boy?" Louis asks with a smirk on his face, as he still stands only inches away from me. The hand he had removed from my left side to pick up Zayn's call, is back on the wall as I am now completely trapped between him again. 

"Why are you calling him a wannabe bad-" 

"Just because everybody here is stupid, doesn't mean I am too. I know he was a nerd before and something's going on between him and Paige with your help," Louis cuts off my sentence with a proud look on his face as he speaks, making my eyes widen at his accuracy. 

"I thought nobody knew that he existed!" I exclaim as I look at him with a shock. 

He is going to tell our secret to everyone, including Paige, just to get back at me for everything horrible that has happened between us.

Honestly speaking, I don't even know what would happen if he tells Paige everything.

"Louis," I look at him with pleading eyes and the smirk from his face disappears as he reads my expressions.

"I won't tell anyone if you're thinking about that," he speaks my panicked thoughts, making me relieved and confused at the same time. 

What? Is he serious about not telling this to anyone? 

Is he really going to let go of something which he can actually enjoy? I mean, causing problems for me and making me annoyed is his favourite thing, after all. 

"Would you really do that?" I ask him softly, looking into his eyes and he nods, looking straight into mine. 

"Only, on one condition."

My eyes open with a jerk when I feel someone grasp one side of my earphone, disrupting my thoughts in between. 

My gaze comes in contact with a smirking Louis, who sits next to me with one side of my earphone in his hand. 

"Just because we're doing an activity together, does not mean we have to sit together too," I say, snatching my earphone from his hand as I narrow my eyes at him. 

"I thought we were past that hatred when we apologised to each other," he says, snatching the earphone from my hand as he plugs it in his ear and leans closer to me, to rest his head on my shoulder with a smirk, closing his eyes. 

I feel frozen at the spot with my eyes widen as I quickly push away Louis and grasp my earphone in my hand again. "Just because I apologised, doesn't mean I don't hate you," I say, pulling a mocking smile. 

He huffs, taking one side of the earphone again and putting it in his ear as he again rests his head on my shoulder and closes his eyes, "Tell me that later, I'm sleepy right now."

I push him again off of me and stare at him in disbelief, he ignores my look and grabs both of my hands, holding them tightly in his as he keeps them locked on his lap and again places his head on my shoulder. I stare at our hands in shock as I stay completely frozen at the spot before Louis speaks with his head still on my shoulder.

"You might want to ease up your tensed body because I'm not moving until we reach our destination,"

With that, he leaves me groaning as I finally give up and pull my head back, resting it against the seat, feeling a light chuckle come out from Louis.

I feel a gaze burning through me, making me lift my head to see Zayn staring at Louis and me from the front. His lips are in a thin line, his eyebrows slightly creased together as he quietly stares, making me confused. 

His eyes travel from my face to Louis' head and my hands locked by Louis on his lap.

Before I can ask Zayn what's wrong, he turns around and focusses his attention back on Paige. That makes me a little uncomfortable as I feel a heavy lump in my throat which I try to ignore and huff, leaning more into my seat as I close my eyes and feel my head slowly fall on Louis', drifting off to sleep.

~*~

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I'll just write it in three words because I'm still in shock, don't touch me-

WE ARE TOGETHER!!!!

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