Zayn always walks around in his hoodie with his hood up and wears two necklaces. He always has his airpods in and listens to music all day every day. When he arrives at school he stays to himself and sits down outside against the wall. Everybody walks by him and he gets kicked and awful lot because nobody really likes him.
All of a sudden Mia trips over Zayn's foot. He helps her up and takes out his airpods after turning off his music. "Are you ok?", he asks when he doesn't see her face yet. "Yes, I'm ok! Sorry, did I hurt you?", Mia asks. "What? Of course you didn't hurt me! Why would you have hurt me? You tripped over me!" "I know, but did I hurt you?", she asks looking down at him.
Zayn stands up. "No, you didn't. It's alright." "You sure?" "Very! Are you sure you're not hurt?" "Yes! I'm totally fine! See you in class!", she says smiling and then litterally skipping away. "Why is she in such a good mood? Why is she so hyper? It's ten to eight!", he says to himself putting his airpods back in and turning on the music again.
He continues sitting there until the bell rings and then walks inside. Zayn walks looking down and with a frown on his face. When he gets there he sees that the seating order was changed which means he won't be sitting alone like he used to. Mia stands up smiling and waves at him. "Hey! The place next to me is yours!", she says pointing at the chair next to her.
As soon as he sits down the teacher comes in. Mia immediately stands up or should I say jumps up and pushes in her chair. "You're as happy as always ad I see, Mia. You always motivate me with your motivation!", the teacher tells her while the rest of the class stands up. Compared to Mia, everyone seems really tired. But Compared to Zayn, at least everyone looks happy.
"Come on, Zayn! Please smile a little!", the teacher tries to motivate Zayn after she has greeted the students and they have all greeted her back. Zayn ignores her comment and tries not to show the boredom he feels to this statement as he hears it nearly every day. "I'd like you to work in pairs for the next excersise, please! You will work with the person sitting next to you and create a presentation!"
Mia nearly jumps up in joy whereas Zayn rolls his eyes. "Why is she always so jumpy?", he asks himself. He barely hears anything the teacher is explaining about the presentation they have to make. When she's finished explaining Mia turnes to Zayn and explains "Ok, so after school you can come to my place and we'll work on the presentation together!"
"Uhm, what do we even have to do?" "Ok, so, we have to pick a theme that has something to do with the planet system and then write a poem about it and find different pictures and theories about whateer we choose! So I was thinking we could do the sun! Cause then we could talk about global warming and all that aswell!", she explains with a smile on her face. "Did she say how many pages or slides it has to be and how much time we have to make the presentation?", Zayn asks. "She didn't say how long it has to be but we have two maybe three weeks she'll see how far we get!"
After school the two of them go to her house and when they walk into her room Zayn rubs his eyes. Everything is bright blue and white and decorated with flowers. She has huge windows which the sun shines right in to unlike Zayn's room which has a tiny room and is completely black and dark.
"You can sit down at the desk or on my bed, I don't care. I'll be right back!", she says and goes into the kitchen to get some snacks and drinks. "Ok, let's start!", she explains "Will you look for pictures and write the poem and I'll find and write the texts?" "Ok!", Zayn quickly agrees knowing he has less to do then her. "How am I gonna write a poem?", he mumbles to himself and then asks "Does the poem have to rhyme?" "It can, but it doesn't have to!", she answers and turnes back to her laptop.
Mia starts with the presentation and Zayn finds many good pictures. "It's getting late! I'll finish the presentation over the next few days and send it to you when I'm done so you can add the pictures and and poem then! Does that sound ok?" "Sounds good!", he answers still with a frown on his face.
Two days later Mia sends Zayn the presentation which is about thirty pages already. Zayn adds the pictures to her pages and wonders why she was so motivated to write so much about the sun. He struggles with the poem so he leaves it to the very last day.
"The sun.", he starts but struggles with the rest. He takes a break and then he continues and is totally on a roll. He doesn't even think about what he's writing.
"The sun.
I only see the dark.
So come on leave a mark.
You bring light into my life.
I no longer need the knife.
Without you I am cursed.¹
And always at my worst.
When you're around I want to smile.
Or even walk down the aisle.
You are my sun.
With you, I have fun.
And I love you.
This possibility, I never knew.
You're my everything.
No, it's not just a fling.
From now, you'll always be in my heart.
We'll never ever be apart.
You light up my world like nobody else.
And that's why I need you in my life."
The next day the teacher asks "Is there any team willing to start with their presentation?" and Mia immediately jumps up. "I thought you'd be the first! Zayn, is it ok with you?" "Uhm, if it's ok, I'd do the presenting myself cause Zayn doesn't really feel comfortable talking infront of the class?", Mia asks "He did the most in the presentation though so it really is both of us!" Zayn looks up at her lie but doesn't correct her.
The teacher allows it and Mia does the presentation by herself. When she comes to the poem she is impressed by how good it is. Until the very end she doesn't notice what Zayn was trying to say in the poem which then makes her loose her words and stare at him. Zayn looks at her and nods which makes her tear up and quickly say "Thank you for listening!" and then walk into the hallway and Zayn follows her. She looks him in the eye. "Really?", she asks with tears in her eyes. Zayn nods again and starts to smile a tiny bit. "You're smiling!", she notices. He eans in closer and kisses her and she kisses him back which he presumes means that she likes him back.
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¹this vers was written by story_rosa in german class, thxxx bestie😘🥰 go check out her stories aswell💕
