*UNEDITED*

Sera / Julian / Other

Julian was fighting to stay awake in a very boring Chemistry lesson. Chemistry was a good subject but covalent bonding was just dull. Why couldn't it be something like the halogens? His Chemistry muttered a lot and he swore that she had a strong disliking for him. After all, hate is a strong word. Julian flipped the pages of his book and started to daydream, unintentionally of course. 

He started to daydream about Cinnamon. 

'Well, Sera.' he thought.

He tried to put a face to the name and voice. Did she wear glasses or didn't she? Did she have long hair or short hair? What colour were her eyes? Julian thought about this with huge intensity. He decided, out of the blue, that she had medium length black or dark brown hair with brown eyes. He knew that she was 5'4" and probably liked wearing a lot of shirts. Her music taste told him too much. He softly smiled as he thought and conjured up his mind's idea of Cinnamon. He wondered whether she liked having her hair down or up. Probably up in a bun or a plait. Maybe even a ponytail. 

He thought about how they met. A dare. Felix dared him to prank call a random number and ask for an Iced Cinnamon Dolce Latte. It wasn't his.. ok maybe it was his fault that he obsessed over that drink. Yes, yes Starbucks was heavily Tumblr-ised and "white girl" stuff but screw stereotypes and social norms. He was in love with it's cinnamon-y taste and whipped cream sweetness. 

He felt someone calling him.

"Julian!" his teacher shouted.

He snapped out of his reverie and looked at his teacher.

"Julian, have you been daydreaming?" she asked, her face scowling.

"Uh well. No."

"Answer the question then."

"Could you repeat it?"

"It's GCSE basics Julian. I asked why giant covalent structures cannot conduct electricity." she said darkly.

Even for a teacher, she was scary. Who even knew how intense her hate was for him.

"Well, giant covalent Structures cannot conduct electricity due to the fact that there are no free charge carriers." he said thankfully remembering that. Just because his teacher hated him didn't mean that he didn't put any effort into learning.

She nodded surprised. 

'Hah!' he thought.

She continued with the lesson and Julian continued to listen. That was a close slip up. He sighed and listened to covalent and ionic bonds and almost fell asleep however Felix keep on jabbing him in the ribs with his elbow when he almost nodded off.

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It was his first break and Julian was sitting at the table of a restaurant feeling droopy. Felix had gone to the toilet and he was tired because he couldn't sleep last night, like any other night, but last night was intense. He had thoughts that made him not want to fall asleep. He was looking through his email when he got a call.

Cinnamon.

"HELLO CINNAMON!" 

"YO JULESY! WADDUP JUJU?"

"The ceiling."

"HAHAHA. Not funny."

"Oh really? I can hear you laughing."

"Ugh Julesy. You have such lame and weird jokes."

"NOO. That's you cinnamon. You don't like coffee."

"I well... never really specified that."

"AHA! But you meant it."

"Well... Coffee's ok."

"Ohh.. Having a change of mind are we?"

"What! No!"

"Oh ok. So aren't you meant to be in class or something?"

"Break duh. Like you probably do too. Or you just don't make an effort and be a little rebel."

"Why are you talking about yourself cinnamon? If you are really desperate to know all about me, I must tell you that I actually pay attention in class unlike you."

"That cut deep like the hole in Jonah's bicycle."

"Glad you think so."

"Tell me a joke Julesy. I'm bored. My friend's gone to the toilet. She's taking forever."

"Very oddly, my friend has gone to the bathroom as well."

"Is that a joke?"

"No cinnamon. Gosh, my humour isn't that crap."

"Who knows..."

"I'm not telling you a joke. You'll have to go through the excruciating pain of googling it, clicking on a link, reading and scrolling down."

"It's not much of a pain. I do it all the time."

Julian sighed as he heard Sera's remark.

"Girls are weird."

"Guys are weird."

"I'll tell you a joke."

"OOH GOODY!"

"What did the DNA say to the other DNA?"

"Uhhh, I don't know. What did the DNA say?"

"Do these genes make my butt look fat."

Sera was laughing uncontrollably on the other side and that made Julian's face break into a beam.

"So she found it funny."

When Julian heard that she was struggling to breathe due to her very uncontrollable laughter he let himself chuckle. Then he heard he try to say something.

"Tha- That's s-so flipping funny."

"Someone came back up for air."

"EWWW JULESY."

"What?" Then Julian spotted Felix walking over. He was coming from the direction of a table. When did he come out of the toilet? 

"Well, I have to go. My friend's coming over."

"Okie! Bye! Have a good day."

"You too cinnamon!"

Felix strode over to Julian and he saw that he was coming from his cousin's table who incidentally happened to be there.

"Who were you talking to?"

"No one."

"Well, you were talking to someone."

"Just a friend." Julian stated simply.

"I see Jules.." smirked Felix, "Or should I say 'lover boy'. I don't care who it is, I Felix De Luca will and I mean WILL find out."

"Yeah good luck but unfortunately, you won't find anyone Felix." Julian simply stated.

Felix shot him a look as they then got up to order their lunch. 

'Honestly, sometimes guys were just too nosy.' thought Julian.

He simply shrugged off latest thought and then internally cringed about his daydream about Sera. He didn't like her... well, he didn't like her in the lovey way he decided. Why was he having such weird thoughts? Oh well. It's time for food and nothing mattered other than the Basil and Chicken pasta that was waiting for him.

A/N: Hello cinnamons! Hope you like the mix of dialogue and narrative. This book will be a mix of first and third person when in narrative. Just for now it's third.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR GETTING THIS TO #427 IN SHORT STORY. THAT'S AWESOME!!!!!! This is the first book I've written and I'm so glad about all the support! 

The song in the media was (incidentally) the one I was listening to when I was writing this chapter. 

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