The Athene Pact //. ziam [ oh hold ]

[ 7.]

[  helloo :) so it's been a while...sorry about that ]

"Professor Waleton's alright, he let me off last week's homework" Harry pointed in with a shrug. Niall snorted at that, giving Harry a short glare. 

"He gave me a 2 hour detention for not bring my book to class" Niall groaned, "That's not really fair. You get away with almost everything"

"Must be the charm" Harry winked. 

"Payno? Why are you so quite?" Niall asked as he nudged Liam, who sat next to him using the fork in his hands to toss around the food in his plate, all of it untouched. Niall shot Harry a look that clearly questioned, 'Malik related?". Harry half shrugged, half nodded. He didn't know himself. After the study date, Liam hadn't gone out of his mind so that obviously was a good sign. 

"I don't think so" Harry replied. It's probably Liam worrying over his nothing- he liked to do that. 

"He never acts like this unless it has to do something with Malik--"

"Huh? What did you say about Zayn?" Liam asked, popping his elbows up on the table after he dropped the fork back on the plate. 

"Wait...no wait, since when...since when do you call Malik... Zayn?" Niall choked out due to how fast he had swallowed in his food. He stared at Harry, expecting some sort of an answer from him before he turned back to Liam, who has in his mouth open like he, himself, didn't know why he called 'Malik' Zayn.

"It slipped out" Liam mumbled, shrugging. He picked up the fork again, going back to playing with his food. 

"The food's there for you to eat" Harry pointed out.

"I know. I am not hungry" Liam answered. 

"And why is that?" 

All three heads turned around at the voice. Zayn Malik. Liam's head snapped towards Niall who was looking back at him with the same expressin. What the hell was Malik doing at the Athens table? It wasn't right. Zayn always kept clear from here like it was some sort of plague. 

It's Harry who ended up talking first, "Why are you here?" 

"To see Liam. I mean, I thought I should go say hi but I don't really think you guys the idea of that..." Zayn dragged on and he makes a move to turn around.

Liam doesn't know what urged him but he catched Zayn's wrist in his hand before he can walk away. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see Niall looking at him like he had gone mental but he ignored him and stood up. 

"Did you want something?" Liam asked as he let go off Zayn's wrist. Zayn replied with bright smile and slight nod.

"I mean not quite. I just wanted to see you" Zayn replied. He ran a hand through his hair and shrugged. 

"Oh my god! Both of you, can you just stop? This is actually making me sick" Nial interrupted. Zayn and Liam never interacted, especially not without shouting at each other. It just didn't make sense. 

"Oh for god's sake, Niall" Harry rolled his eyes and motioned for Niall to get up and follow him. Niall mumbled silently under his breath, gulping down his orange juice before he pushed his legs out of the table and got up. He purposefully brushed against Zayn's shoulder as he walked out, shooting him a look of warning. 

"Right..." Zayn dragged out as he fixed his gaze back on to Liam. 

Liam shot him an uneasy look, clearly not wanting to be left alone with Zayn. It was weird. There was this bubbling - like butterflies flying - feeling inside of him at the sight of Zayn. It wasn't a good sign. 

God, he should hate Zayn. One study date thing shouldn't change that. 

"Will you say something?" Zayn spoke up, interrupting the thoughts going through Liam's mind. 

"I don't like this. Why are you here, talking to me?" Liam snapped. I mean, he had every right to. He was angry; angry at himself for not snapping at Zayn earlier as well as being angry at Zayn for even trying with this shit, whatever it was that he wanted. 

"I thought we agreed on compromising things between us, yesterday" Zayn commented. I diverted my eyes away from his when hurt flashed through his eyes; this is all probably just a lie, a plan. 

"Maybe I changed my mind" I responded, crossing my arms over my chest. 

"Look, I get it. We have a lot to talk about and get over. I realized what idiots we both have been just because we are in the rival houses but I know that if you were in Sparta, you would be my friend. So, I really don't want this house thing stopping us from being friends" Zayn explained, part of it he had to force it out while the other half he meant it and he doesn't want to thing about that part because getting close to Payne was never an actual part of the scheme. 

"I can't" Liam replied with a firm shake of his head. Liam Payne and Zayn Malik, they were just too different for each other. 

[  so yeah...hope that was okay. Got distracted writing this otherwise it would have been up earlier. Sorry for any errors or typos. ]

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