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02: Twenty Two Year Olds Aren't Scared of Sparklers

☀️ Jenna Walker - July 4, 2015

As promised, Zayn and I danced to one song (that song being, go figure, a slow one) where he told me that he would've been my friend without this deal. To which I glared at him because I despise dancing, it's not something I was comfortable with. It made me feel like everyone was watching me and I hated that feeling.

But I didn't have much to complain about, after all, Zayn's friend who's name I learned to be Niall had interrupted the dance halfway through with big blue eyes and a wide smile.

"Hi! I'm Niall, this loser's best mate." Is his first impression. He was a tad head-strong but it was easy to warm up to him because of the lovely accent and boyish features he adorned. He turns to Zayn."Remember when you used to call me whipped? Well, the tables are turned now. I guarantee you'll be whipped by the end of the night."

"Ni, go away." This is Zayn's tenth consecutive try at making the blond leave. I simply smile at the banter going on between them before I'm greeted by a gorgeous brunette who rolls her eyes at the two boys.

She sends me a friendly smile. "I'm Clover, unfortunately, Niall's girlfriend." She ignored Niall's offence and took a sip of her drink. "Don't worry, you'll get used to ignoring them. They're like an old married couple sometimes. I like to call them Ziall. Zayn doesn't like when I call them that because he just hates ship names but I think it's funny. If I wasn't so interested in his blond friend I would totally want them to happen."

She too was a bit head-strong but like with Niall, I didn't mind. 

"Okay, we'll leave you two be alone," Niall speaks up, wrapping an arm around his girlfriend before sending Zayn a wink. "Don't have too much fun."

Then tan boy groans the minute he's gone. He looks at me with a grimace. "I'm sorry about him. It's just been a while since he could tease me. Payback, I guess for always teasing him with Clover. He's a blabber mouth too -" 

"Come here," I say taking grasp of Zayn's hand, interrupting his mini rant. I immediately head for the stairs to lead back to the balcony before heading down the metal stairs to the field I had previously been staring at. Lying on the grass was a box, filled with various fourth of July spirit and my favorite: sparklers. I grab two and pick up the lighter, eager to light these puppies up. (Not literal puppies.)

However, when I go to hand one to Zayn he just shakes his head and shoves his hands into his pockets.

"Why not?" I frown, my smile sliding from my face.

"'M scared it'll burn me," he admits, looking down at the gross below our feet.

I grab his hand and shove the sparkler into his grip. "Nonsense. It'll be fun."

"For you." He pushes it back into my hand. "You go have fun with them."

Sighing dramatically, I place one of the sparklers back into the box before lighting my own, smiling when it lights up beautifully. Carefully, I tug my camera up and extend my arm so I can take a picture of the object. Shutting it off when I'm done. I look up to Zayn to see him staring at the sparkler.

"Come on, you know you want to." I take a step closer to him making him take another step back. "Zayn."

"Nope, I'm good just watching you," he says before taking a seat on the grass. "Promise."

I take a seat next to him and wave the sparkler around, laughing occasionally when Zayn would cringe every time the contraption would get too close. He nudged me with his shoulder.

"I think it's cute, though."

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(A/N): Niall and Clover made an appearance! Yay! Okay, idk why but the way these two just click (lol, get it because she works at Click!) just makes me all happy. I didn't even intentionally want them to click just like that but the words just flowed. Oh well, Zayn and Jenna are cute, yeah?

p.s. pic of the amazing sparklers that Jenna loves so much! x