Ways To Love You.

Chapter 7

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~Zayn

"Okay, so the flowers were a bust. We have more ideas." Harry and I continue down the hall as we walk to homeroom.

"We?"

"Zayn, we're in this together." Harry sighs as we continue down the hallway.

"How can I show him how I feel if I can't even give him flowers?"

"There are many things in this world that can help you show your passion."

"Like?"

"Just about anything really."

"Maybe chocolates-" Harry gasps as someone gives his bum a smack.

"Rude!" He turns around and Louis smiles at him.

"Louis!" Harry puts his arms around him as Louis hugs him back.

"You guys are acting like he just came back from war. Didn't you see each other last night?" Harry pulls away with a shrug.

"I haven't seen my little hedgehog in so long!" Louis pulls him in for a kiss but pulls away to grab something out of his bag.

"You two are the definition of cliché." Louis pulls out a box of chocolates and gives them to a smiling Harry.

"You got him chocolates?"

"No, they're for you." I give Louis a confused then look at Harry.

"Excuse me?"

"You're gonna put these in Edward's locker. Mum's dropping him off before first period so you don't have a lot of time."

"Wait. You knew I was going to say chocolates was a way to show passion?" Harry and Louis shrug then look at each other.

"And you say we're cliché." Louis smirks. I grab the chocolates and point at him.

"Hey! Watch it, hedgehog." Louis growls as Harry and I begin to laugh.

"I try to help you score a guy and this is how you repay me." I scoff and cross my arms.

"We all know Harry's gonna repay you after school if you get my gist." Before Louis could shoot back at me, Harry steps in.

"Can you just put these in his locker before he gets here?"

"How will he know they're from me?"

"I wrote a sappy love note in it so don't worry about that. Just be at your locker by lunch."

"Why?"

"Just do it, Malik."

"Fine." Louis leads us down the hallway to a locker at the end of it.

"Here it is." I give him a look.

"How am I supposed to open it?"

"Oops. Sorry." Louis puts his ear up to the locker then turns the knob. After a couple tries, he gets the locker open.

"Viola. Locker open." He moves out of the way then I put the box of chocolates on the top of his locker. I look at some of the books that are in his locker and give Louis and Harry a confused look.

"I didn't know Edward was in Advanced Fashion Marketing."

"Neither did I." Harry crosses his arms while Louis gives us a smile and rubs the back of his neck.

"You know Unis look at everything nowadays so I wouldn't be surprised if he was taking this class." The bell rings, making Harry and I shrug it off.

"This better work."

~Edward

"You'll be okay. They handled everything so no one will mess with you."

"I'll take your word for it."

"I love you." I give her a small smile as I get out of the car and shut the door.

"Love you too, Mum." I push my glasses up and walk into school. I make a quick stop to my locker then hurry to class. I take my usual seat next to Zayn and smile.

"Hey."

"Hey, Malik." As the class starts, I take my books out and begin to do the assignment. Zayn begins shifting in his seat and acting all nervous which is unusual.

"You okay?" He swallows hard and nods.

"Yeah." I look back at my assignment then Zayn grabs my hand. He laces them together making me start to feel warm inside. I shake my head and pull my hand away.

"What are you doing?"

"Holding your hand?"

"You should be doing Maths."

"You know I never do my work."

"Sadly." I roll my eyes and continue doing my work until the class ends.

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"Did you get my note?" I laugh a little and look up at Zayn.

"Yeah. It was nice."

"Then why are you acting this way?" I stop and turn to face Zayn.

"Acting what way?"

"Acting all buddy buddy like you don't feel the same."

"Zayn, what the hell are you talking about?"

"What I sent you!" I pull out my phone and pull up our conversation.

"Good morning. Hope you're alright, love." I looks up at me with a confused look.

"You always send me good morning messages. What makes today so different?"

"Shit." He mumbles under my breath.

"Have you been to your locker today?"

"Yeah. Why?" He shakes his head.

"What?"

"I need to borrow your maths notes from last class." I lead him my locker but he stops me.

"Isn't your locker down here?" I shake my head.

"No. It's always been over here." He shrugs as we continue. I open my locker as he looks through it.

~Zayn

"They're under my Physics book." I look at his top shelf and see nothing. I don't even see the Fashion Marketing book.

If it wasn't in here, whose locker could I have put it in?

"Oh, my God! My favourite!"

Oh no.