Juliana |Z.M| |A.U| (Completed)

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Pharrel Williams: Happy

"Because I'm happy.... Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof."

4.

The mystery of Juliana Augustine intrigued both Jack and Zayn. She was beautiful, no doubt on that. She was strong, hard headed, determined, hard working and did very well in her studies.

But why was she so desolate? Why did it seem as if she had an allergy with people? Why did it seem like she hated everyone? Every other girl in their batch was different; they were mostly full of life and quite chatty. Her, on the other hand, she was different, and that is what drew both of them in.

It wasn't Friday yet, but Zayn couldn't wait till another Friday to see her. He didn't want to wait for three more days till she came to meet Jack, not even him. He needed a bit time, with her, he wanted to solve the puzzle that was Juliana Rose Augustine. And he had one chance. They shared one class, economics. And he knew that whatever he did, he had to do then.

He'd been staring at her the whole class. How she'd frown at certain times, how she's bite the back of her pencil, how that loose strand of hair would hover over her face when she bent down to take notes. He was being abnormally creepy, no doubt. Who stares at someone like that? But it wasn't like he could help it. Since last Friday, Juliana was all he thought about. After all, that was the day he got to see her up and close. Well not emotionally, he knew that Juliana had these high walls built around her which would take a fucking lot to bring down. Why didn't he notice how beautiful he was before? Like, was he blind? Maybe they'd have been friends by now; or maybe even more, if only he had paid a bit more attention last year. But now he won't be wasting further time, now he knew what had to be done.

The class had just ended and people were gathering their books ready to make their way out. It was the last class, and now they were all heading to their respective homes. Zayn quickly stood up slinging his bag pack to one shoulder making his way to her.

"Juliana!" she didn't hear him, she was in her own world as she kept walking. "Hey! Augustine!" he was quick enough to catch up to her. "Hey!" he started to huff catching his breath when he finally reached her.

"Hey yourself." She replied, her not-so-interested attitude was expected.

"I just wanted to umm.... I wanted to ask you something." He rambled nervously. Fuck! He was acting like a teenager right now.

"Well do I have to wait till tomorrow till you ask me? Or till next week?" she bit back, clearly annoyed by his flustered look.

"I umm... what are you doing today? After college, I mean? Like are you free?" he finally managed to ask.

"I'm going home to do some good old studying, so no I'm not free." She replied and then started walking away.

"But the exams were just over about a week ago. We have four more months till the next one." He said following her. "Can't you skip studying for a single day?"

"No, I can't. Unlike some people, I am here to study and I don't want to get distracted. So please mind your own business." She started to walk faster, hoping he'd just quit it and go on his way. She didn't like this at all.

"One movie won't distract you. C'mon! It'll be fun." He insisted, but to his dismay it wasn't working.

"Just use your cheeky charms somewhere else, will ya? You won't be getting anything here."

"Are you telling me that I'm charming?"

"No, I'm telling you to fuck off!"

"C'mon Julie! Don't be so stubborn." Zayn's sudden use of a pet name made her freeze. Surprising how the human brain works. It grows so accustomed to everything around it that when something out of the ordinary happens, it suddenly feels unable to cope with it. No one had ever called Juliana by a pet name. In these twenty years that she's lived, she was simply Juliana, nothing more, nothing less. Now that Zayn called her 'Julie' she didn't how to react. Should she even react?

But something she just couldn't ignore was that his use of a pet name made her feel...... warm? And maybe she even liked it, but why? It was just a nickname. It was foreign, but it was normal, right? People use nicknames all the time? There was no big deal about it.

"Hello! Earth to Juliana! Are you there?" Zayn waved his hand affront Julie's face, breaking her long chain of thoughts. "So is this a yes? Please, I'm begging here."

"Why do you want to do this anyway? Why don't you just do it with Jack?" she attempts to get herself out of the situation.

"He's a guy; it'd feel too weird watching a movie with him on the dorm. And maybe he'll join us too." He was secretly hoping Jack would have to go somewhere, so that they'd be left alone to be honest.

"I dunno, I haven't done this before, and I don't even know you guys properly."

"That's not true we've been in the same uni for an entire year. And you can know us if you say yes to this. Julie, don't say no, it'll be fun." Again, he used that name, again.

"Alright fine. Just one movie though. I am doing you a favor; just don't make me regret it." She caved in. Actually his use of a pet name made her decision falter and there was a small part of her that actually wanted to watch a movie. When was the last time she watched one? She couldn't even remember. Has she ever even watched one?

"Okay, I swear you won't regret it. Our dorm is on the left side of the auditorium, shall we go now?"

"Okay."

He felt absolutely ecstatic, after all, he made Juliana agree to do this. It was one heck of a challenge. He highly doubted if he could actually get the task done, but he did it! She agreed! And god did that make him happy!

Mission Accomplished.

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