The Athene Pact //. ziam [ oh hold ]

[ 6.]

[ sorry for the late update. x ]

"Will you stop doing that?" Liam snapped. He slammed his pencil down on his notes as he lifted his head up to glare at Zayn. The two, Harry and Louis, beside him were lost in some deep conversation that Liam didn't give two shits about. He couldn't bear those intense eyes of Malik anymore. 

He wanted to be anywhere but here- sitting right opposite Malik getting fucking fuzzy feelings in the pit of his stomach that he didn't even understand. Even concentrating on his notes was a right pain. 

"Stop doing what?" Zayn asked, smirk smeared across his face. Liam wanted to punch that smirk off but he held himself back. Zayn chuckled to himself, couldn't help but smile at the blush that was crawling up the younger boy's neck. Zayn leaned forward, against the table and pulled out a book from under Liam's elbow. 

"Staring and give me my book back!" Liam snarled. He stood up before he leaned over towards Zayn to retrieve his text book back but Zayn grabbed his hand, curling his own hand around Liam's wrist. And Liam definitely wouldn't be lying if he said he was surprised- Zayn's hand was warm, comforting in a way. 

Zayn pulled Liam's hand towards him which just made Liam go closer to Zayn. 

Liam opened his mouth, about to snap at Zayn yet again when Zayn pressed a quick finger to his lips. Liam's eyes widened- all this touching was doing him no good. Especially since all the touching was coming from the person he absolutely hated. 

"Look, Liam. You hate me, I know that but can't you try and like me for once. Give me a chance, give us a chance, yeah? I promise you, you wouldn't regret it." Zayn said, as he caressed Liam's hand softly. Liam didn't know where his attention should be- on Zayn's hand which was on his own or Zayn's words. 

"Liam?" Zayn waved his hand in front of Liam's eyes, snapping him out of his thoughts. 

The sound of his name coming out of Zayn's mouth made shivers run down Liam's spine. He liked how his name sounded rolling off Zayn's tongue- he shouldn't really but he really, really like it. 

"Oh yea- why? I mean, why are you doing this now? Since the first year, you have made it clear that you hate me. Our houses they have been rivals for ages. I just don't understand why you are doing this" Liam sighed. By now, he had retrieved his hand back and was back on his seat, away from Zayn. 

Just why?

Liam had thousands of questions he could ask Zayn in that moment. He just didn't know where to start. 

"I realized I was wrong for judging you so quickly, I never really got to know you properly. It was wrong of me to ever hate you just because you belonged to the Athens house" Zayn explained. It was really taking every inch of him to not just kick this whole thing up and just get out. It was suffocating- he wasn't used to being this nice to Liam. 

But then it wasn't as bad as he had thought. He could get along with Liam just long enough for him to go along with the plan. 

"I need some time" Liam said. He needed to get everything right. Every thing that was going with Zayn and him- think it through. He wasn't ready to let Zayn in but he knew he could- just with enough trust and time. 

"I can give you that" Zayn bit the inside of his lip and nodded. 

"Yeah?" Liam asked.

"Course. I want us to be really good friends" Zayn put in with a sharp grin, smirk lightly smeared across his face. 

Liam just shook his head and offered a small smile back before he returned back to his note - he still had to study.

***

"He's amazing, Z" Louis stated as they stepped out of the library, books in hand. Zayn shook his head, preparing for the big ramble but it didn't come instead he found Louis looking at him with a rather curious look. 

"What is it?" Zayn asked with an annoyed sigh. 

"Liam and you...you seemed to get along. How did you get that to happen?" Louis asked, with a tiny frown. 

"Well you know, just put in some emotional words, nice smiles and some tender touches. Always works" Zayn smirked, offering Louis his award winning smile. 

"I still don't think you should be doing this...this plan, it just doesn't feel right. You know? Liam seems like a pretty good guy" Louis said even though he knew his words were going to go right through Zayn's head. 

"Don't worry, Lou. This plan is just perfect" Zayn waved it off and walked ahead. Louis shook his head but followed Zayn. He still needed to talk about Harry let every happy feeling floating with in out. 

 "So about Harry- did I tell you that he loves cats? Maybe, we will get one when we get out of this school and move in together? What do you thi-"

"Great idea, Lou. Great idea." Zayn nodded.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah. But I don't want to hear anymore"

[ hope that was alright. sorry for any typos or grammar mistakes. ]

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