Behind Your Eyes [Zayn Malik]

Three.

"Alex," I perked up at the sound of my name, but lowered it soon after, hoping I wouldn't get paired with who I thought I would. "You will be paired with Zayn for this project."

Brilliant. Just great. I glanced over to where the smug boy was sat. He looked over at me with an evil glint in his eyes. The teacher told us to meet our pairs at a table and get started on our task, which was about natural disasters and man-made catastrophes. I slowly made my way over to Zayn, pulling out a chair and sitting beside him.

"H-hi."

"Hey, Nerd."

"S-so, what do y-you want to write about in the proj-ject?" I asked nervously.

"Developing a stutter, are we?" he smirked.

"N-no." I argued, but knew he was right. He didn't speak again so I started to say my ideas.

"I was t-thinking, maybe we could d-do the project on 9/11. b-because I know a lot about it."

"Why don't we do it on you?" he asked, and I looked at him confused, "You're a pretty big disaster."

His friends from behind him snickered. "And every time you jump, you cause an earthquake!"

This time his mates burst out laughing, and after high-fiving them, Zayn turned back to face me. I hung my head low.

"Look here, Nerd, I don't care what we do this stupid project on, I won't be doing any of the work."

"But t-the teacher said we had to work t-together." I frowned.

"And you think I care? What are you going to do, snitch on me? A snitch as well as a nerd. Geez, you don't make it easy for yourself do you?"

"I don't try." I whispered.

"Don't be so stupid, Nerd. Get on with the work, for Christ's sake.

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Felicity's POV;

"Tyler! Get off!"

"No! I bought it!"

"I don't care! I'm hungry!"

"Can you two shut up!?"

Anna and Tyler fell silent and turned to look at me. "Please, I'm trying to do this project and I can't concentrate with you two fighting over the last slice of pizza. Give it here."

I took the pizza from Anna, took a bite from the end and then tore it in half, giving each to them. "There? Sharing is caring."

"Thanks, Flick."

"Do any of you know anything about the Vietnam War? This book is no help at all."

"Nope."

"No I like pizza." Anna stated.

"Wow, way to go captain obvious." I said sarcastically.

"Why do you even have to do this project?" Tyler whined, "It's stupid."

"So are you. But I think you two forget that unlike you I actually go to university because I actually want to be something other than a homeless kid on a street corner."

"Woah, calm it Professor Sass."

"I'll put it away now, and we can just mess around for the rest of the night."

"We can help you plan what to wear tomorrow!" Tyler exclaimed and we stared at him.

"Uhh.. okay?" I picked up my papers and books and tucked them into my folder, taking it off the table and putting it on the kitchen counter.