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

15.

One Direction: Change My Mind

"Never felt like this before... are we friends or are we more."

15.

He pulled away finally letting go of her. There was something in the way she held on to him, how her body seemed to fit perfectly in arms, how fragile she felt as he held her. Zayn knew that he was able to break one of the many invisible barriers Juliana Augustine had built around herself.

Damn! Even with shades and a mask that hid her entire face, she still managed to look beautiful!

He cupped her face looking at her with all the care he had in his eyes, "You okay?" he asked in a gentle tone. She nodded stepping away. "So you still don't want to go for lunch?"

She shook her head, "Don't want to eat anything." She replied, her voice muffled by the mask.

"Okay, so are you going to the library?"

She nodded, adjusting the strap of her bag on her shoulder. "I just want to be alone for a while." She stated. He just nodded understandingly.

"Fine, so I'll see you in Economics, I guess?" his tone was more like a question than a statement.

She nodded, "see you." She muttered, turning away as she made her way to the library.

It was crystal clear that she was hiding something from him. How she had her head hung over, how she was hesitating to answer his question and most of all, how confusing she was acting. She was wearing shades and a mask indoors, not only did she look weird, but she was drawing unwanted attention to herself. Juliana hated attention. Whatever she was hiding must have had something to do with that bloody shades and mask. But he wouldn't try to force it out of her. He needed to give her some space and that is exactly what he intended to do.

Julie knew that her behavior was too suspicious. She knew Zayn didn't believe her excuses, and she was more than grateful that he didn't ask any further. It was comforting to know that he cared enough to be worried, but respected her enough to not bug her with it.

She kept walking to the library when another voice called her out.

"Jules!" she stopped followed by a huff. She turned around to see Jack walking to her. "Hi there." He said when he was finally standing before her, "I needed to talk to you."

"What for?"

"Erm... the project..." the said fumbling with his fingers.

"Okay talk." She stood straight allowing him to speak.

"Not in public, can we go to the dorm. It's more silent there."

She shrugged, "Fine let's go." She motioned him to lead the way and he did.

They walked down the building and across the ground in silence. Frankly, Juliana wasn't in the mood to speak. She was silently thanking Ben for not hurting her feet, imagine how tedious it would be if she had to come up with another excuse for her limping. But her upper body still hurt like hell. At a point Ben had kicked her in the rib causing an excruciating burn around the area every time she moved too harshly. But she was curious... what did he have to discuss over? The project didn't have much kinks for them to have something to talk much about... it was just read and report.

"Are you having any problem with the project?" she asked as they started to climb the stairs up to the dorm.

"Nope." He replied.

"Then what do you want to talk about?" she asked again. Jack couldn't answer for they were now standing before their dorm. He quickly opened the door, stepping aside to let her enter. She walks and he follows quickly closing the door behind him.