"You want me to paint with you? I can't even draw a simple heart" Louis gaped at Jonah aghast.
"It's just for fun. Studying sucks" Jonah replied unchanged.
"Do you even go to uni? You never told me" Louis bypassed the subject at hand to get information out of him.
"I do, actually. I study art" Jonah grinned cheekily.
"Of course, you do. Why did I even ask?" Louis rolled his eyes.
"I really don't know. Maybe you're stupid" Jonah smirked surprisingly sassy, causing Louis' mouth to drop open.
"Did you just ...? Ouch, Joey! That really hurt" Louis faked some sobs dramatically. He couldn't help it. He was a drama queen.
"Joey?" Jonah looked at him in cute confusion.
"Um ... Forget I said that. It was just a nickname I came up with. For you. But um ... I never meant to use it ..." Louis blushed.
"I like it," Jonah said unexpectedly.
"Really?" Louis had to make sure.
Jonah only nodded with a light colour on his face. "I never had a nickname before".
"Oh" Louis realised the heaviness of that statement. "Now you have but it's only reserved for me. No one else is allowed to call you that. They have to come up with their own".
"Okay," Jonah smiled privately to the ground. "Do you have one?".
"My old f-friends used to call me Tommo. It's a nickname for my last name. Tomlinson. But other than that, not really" Louis let him know, trying not to think back about him. He never had any nice or cute nicknames or petnames for Louis.
"That sounds way too tough for you. Tommy suits you better. It's cute" Jonah stated in an almost provoking tone.
"I'm not cute" Louis huffed poutily.
"Right now, you're only confirming my statement" Jonah giggled.
"You did not just giggle at me!" Louis gasped faux indignant.
"What if I did?" Jonah challenged him carefreely.
"You really don't wanna know the answer to that question, dearest Joey" Louis answered in a fake posh voice.
"Not only is your name posh, now you even sound posh. And with your last name, you could be royalty. Or famous. Now you only need a fitting second name to complete the posh picture" Jonah burst into laughter and Louis was left just watching him. This was the first time Jonah was being this open with him.
"It's William, actually" Louis revealed to him to see Jonah'sreaction. This side of Jonah was everything he never knew he needed and wanted in his life.
"No way!" Jonah's eyes grew big. "Are you sure you're not part of the royal family?".
"Mh, now that you say it. I might need to check this" Louis levelled him down. "Any second names you wanna share?".
"Jonah is my second name. I never let anyone live long enough to know my first one" Jonah confessed to him playfully.
"Should I run for the hills then?" Louis checked amused.
"We'll see about that" Jonah wiggled his eyebrows funnily before he suddenly became nervous again.
"You really don't have to tell me if you don't want to, Joey" Louis made sure Jonah knew this.
At those words, Jonah looked up at him with vulnerable eyes and an unreadable expression on his face. "It's Zayn".
Registering that Jonah completely put his trust in him, he was speechless for a moment but shook himself out of it. "Wow, that's a very special name. I like it. You could use it as your artist name".
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House of Love
FanfictionLouis Tomlinson finds himself at a place he'd never expected to end up at after the low point of his life. At his new home, he is faced with new and loud people and the demons of his past, that he desperately tries to ignore. Through all this, he ma...
