"I think I'm in love with you." Harry stares at Violet in silence. He thinks it's the first time he's seen her speechless. She moves her lips to speak but he stops her.
"I'm not telling you this to hear you say that you love me too. You don't have...
It's the fourth chapteeeeerrrrrr. I'm currently watching The Arrangement and I kinda want to do one based on that??? What we sayin? Anyway, sorry it's been so long, I move back into my dorm on Sunday so I've been packing and unpacking and re-packing because I have too much crap lol. Thank you all for reading.
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Never Sometimes Always – Chapter Four
Like every other honours student at Cambridge, Violet was ready to rip her head off.
Violet just spent the last four hours in a genetics examination, word vomiting on her parchment. She had been revising like crazy and she thought she was prepared. That was until she got the exam.
"Where's the questions?" The boy next to her, Jamie, asked. Violet and Jamie have been paired up on several projects and have gone to a series of clinicals together. Apart from Amber and Jenna, Jamie might just be one of Violet's best friends. "It's blank."
"Class." Doctor Sighn grabs the attention of the class by clapping his hands together. Internally, Violet is flicking him off. She was always decent at genetics until she took his course. "This is your exit exam: write a thesis paper, five-page minimum, on one of the fifty unusual genetic mutations in humans that we've reviewed this term. You are honour students, so I assume you've remembered the topics. You may use your text and these university approved peer reviewed articles. You have four hours to complete this. Failure to complete five full pages on your topic will result in immediate course failure. Your desk tops are being monitored. I wish you luck. Your time starts now."
Violet and Jamie, along with their other collogues, look around in confusion before tucking into their exams. Violet decides to write on Progeria. Progeria is a genetic disorder that is as rare as it is severe. The disease, in short, causes accelerated aging. Violet decided to focus on that topic because it involves several genes and maybe the more genes the better chance she has at getting a perfect mark.
This plan backfired.
Choosing a topic that has no conclusion but has several theories is possibly the worst thing you could possibly do. Violet wrote ten pages in three and a half hours. Jamie had left ages ago, leaving Violet and three other students. When she finished the exam, she darted from the lecture hall, fishing for her mobile in the process.
Jamie Oliver Wannabe: in nandos off campus
And that's how she got here. Half-dead, starving, and wallowing in self-pitty in the middle of Nandos.
Violet asks Jamie to take a photo of her for her Instagram.
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"What'd you write about?" Jamie asks. "I did Epidermodyplasia Verruciformis."
Violet's face twists up. "Ew."
"Don't say ew. We're doctors."
She scoffs. "Attempting to be. I did Progeria."
Jamie's eyes widened. Their chicken plates were placed in front of them along with two orange sodas and a jug of water. Jamie shoves three chips into his mouth. "What the fuck were you thinking?"
"I don't know. More information, more points?"
Jamie rolls his eyes chuckling. "You're so stupid."
"I know," she groans, munching on one of her chicken thigh skewers. "'s over now."
Jamie started talking about something, but truthfully, Violet wasn't listening. Not since that notification came up on her mobile.
Harry Styles: I know you're upset with me. I'm sorry.
Violet would like to think she's a very forgiving person. She forgave her neighbour for stepping on the flowers (weeds, but still) that she had planted by the post box for her mother when she was in primary school. She forgave her dad for forgetting she was allergic to seafood after he had only ordered sushi for her birthday dinner. And just last night she forgave Elouisa for going in her room and using her last bit of aresol without asking.
So why couldn't she just forgive Harry?
uh okay
Harry Styles: I was a dick. We were having a nice lunch and I couldn't stay off my phone. Harry Styles: Can we try again? This time, no phone. I'm good company I promise. I also tell really great knock-knock jokes.
h, i'm in the middle of finals.
Harry Styles: When's your last final? Can I come visit?
thursday and i have roommates remember. one of which is obsessed with you.
Harry Styles: Oh yeah... Harry Styles: Well, come up to London one day this weekend. We can have dinner at my place. Like a proper date.
Violet could feel the heat on her cheeks. He wanted to take her on a date. Like a date date. And at his house. This is very...different. Violet's never been on an actual date. She's been to the movies once as a date but nothing like this. (And for the record, that was the worst date ever. She went with Eric, he was a football player she used to tutor after classes. He took her to see a horror movie and halfway through the film his friends came in the cinema causing a ruckus and mulling about with Eric, so yeah. Worst date ever).
Harry Styles: Or not I understand.
no, i'd love to.
Harry Styles: Okay :) I'll see you soon. Good luck on your exams!
thank you harry
Violet changed his name back to Rockstar H. She figured he deserves the title back.
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"Wait, so you're kicking me out?" Jenna looks down at her lap, focusing on the skin peeling off her twiddling thumbs. Amber sighs and places her hands on her knees, looking at everything except for Elousia. Violet was staring directly at Elousia, wondering how much longer it was going to take the woman to pack up all her stuff and leave. "That's, like, not fair. I've been a great roommate!"
"Not really," Jenna mumbles.
Violet tightens her lips. "Sorry Elousia. We just like certain things –"
"What? Is it cause I'm not as smart as you lot? You've got honours so you think you're all that?"
"What? No. It's just," Amber sighs, "you're a party girl. You like loud music and excessive sharing. We're not like that at all and it just makes it a little hard on us."
Amber scoffs, pushing back from the embaressingly small dining room table. "Whatever."
The three girls look at each other awkwardly. Jenna shrugged. "Well, at least that's over."
Sorry this chapter is so short but it's just a filler. Another chapter is coming out tomorrow!!
