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The Place of Studies

Jules peered at the thick, almost never-ending stack of papers that Aziel slammed on the table before her.

"What are you, stupid? How could you allow yourself to fall into as much of a deep hole as this?", Jules snapped at his tired face.

"You don't understand," he argued.

Jules groaned, frustrated. She thought it could strengthen hers and Aziel's relationship if she agreed to help him get all of his missing work done and turned into the appropriate tutor. The first interaction they had during the session involved snapping at each other. Not off to a very good start.

She took a deep breath, resetting her thoughts.

"What's your least favorite subject?", she asked him, attempting a kinder tone.

"Geometry, why?", he inquired.

"Well, we'll start off with Geometry, and then work up to your favorite subjects," she said logically, as she dodged a freshman's arm. She then took a Geometry book from the never-ending library shelf. The library was a Place of Studies for many students at this moment, not only Jules and Aziel.

"Why that order?", he asked, condescending.

"Because, it is best to start of with the subject you find the most boring. That way, it motivates you to keep going since you have your favorite subject waiting for you at the end. If you end with your least favorite, then you'll want to quit in the middle and not get it do-", Aziel cut her off.

"Okay, I get it, princess. Let's just get it over with, yes?", he huffed.

Jules had to scratch her cheeks so that it would look like the blushing came from that instead of the fact that he called her princess.

Jules almost had to hold her hand down to keep her from slapping herself senseless.

"Yes. I understand. What topic is that sheet on?", she asked as she began flipping through the fresh, new Geometry book. They must've gotten new books for that school year.

Jules spent the next 6 hours of her own precious time helping Aziel Gry. It was pathetic to her how much she enjoyed it. She wanted to hate her time around him just as he hated his time around her. The only problem was, she couldn't find it in herself to even slightly dislike their time together. He had an amazing, charming grin, an almost unintentional sense of humor, and deep, dark, green eyes that Jules could fall into for hours at a time. Only, she avoided doing so, as it would be very strange for a girl helping him with schoolwork to do such a thing.

She wished it wasn't considered strange. She wished that it was normal as normal could get. She just wanted his long, strong arms to wrap around her as she fell into his deep eyes.

This was getting out of hand.

Jules shook her head, shoving those inappropriate thoughts to the back of her mind. All she was doing was helping the boy with schoolwork, no more, no less.

She pushed open the familiar cherry-wood door to hers and Ellinore's extravagant dorm.

"Where were you, Miss Giddy-Girl?", Ellinore smirked.

"Oh, hush, I was only helping Gry with his missing schoolwork. Nothing else to it, Elli," she almost sneered.

"Let me have fun!"

Giddy-Girl was a nickname that Ellinore Eire had stuck onto Jules after she came into their dorm giggling like a small child. Of course she was giddy over Aziel, who else?

Jules avoided what Ellinore had just said.

"If you don't mind, I have to get my own schoolwork done. Afterwards, I have to meet up with Liam and May to discuss an. . . issue," Jules told her. She trusted Ellinore just as much as she trusted Liam and May, but Liam made her swear that she wouldn't tell a single soul.

"Got it," Ellinore nodded.

Jules sat at the high-quality desk and began her own school work, imagining herself as a printer, composing words and numbers onto her pile of papers she had to print out, just as she was ordered to do.

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"This is almost getting out of hand."

"Almost? It's been out of hand for almost a year now!"

"Well let's get it in our hands."

The trio sat scattered amongst the floor of Liam's dorm, brainstorming how to get this issue 'in their hands.'

"I wish it was that easy to just 'get it in our hands,' " Jules told Liam, who had just came up with the last idea.

"Just trying to pipe you down, feisty."

Jules rolled her eyes. The reaction was so familiar to the other two that they don't even think twice about it anymore. Possibly not even once.

"Anyways, let's try to get back on track, shall we?", May asked.

"We shall," Liam responded.

"Okay, back to where we let off. How can we discover how this is working?"

The trio fell silent at the question, a deafening silence taking the room into submission.

"We sacrifice ourselves," May concluded with simplicity.

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Hello loves! Requests are still open! I'm sorry I took so long to post this chapter. There should be another update or 2 this weekend. I hope to see you in the next chapter! Happy reading~!

•- averslxo

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