Broken and Sick

Ch.3

Zayns POV

It was about 1:09 PM when I looked at my watch, and that's when I finally noticed how long i'd been sleeping for. I looked around the room and nobody else was there. Not even Niall. I began to look around some more walking up to the bathroom, but still no one was there. Then all of a sudden I saw something fly across the room downstairs.

I walked down Nialls big spiral staircase still in my sweatpants and t-shirt from yesterday and that's when I saw Louis and Harry in the kitchen.They looked like they were baking, I just wasn't sure what it was yet. I told them good morning before I continued to walk to the couches and thats when I finally saw Liam on the couch with Niall's head on his chest.

"Morning." I said joining them on the couch.

"Morning sleepyhead. Even Niall woke up earlier than you." Liam said ruffling Niall's head that was resting on his chest.

It was true, I was pretty tired today but that was only because Louis and I were up all night playing GTA V later than the others. It was really fun to play though because I beat him like four more times. The rest of the lads went to sleep earlier that night probably because they were tired but it wasn't our fault we loved being gamers. That's what we did. And speaking of Niall, I still wasn't sure about how he was doing.

He fell asleep on Harry's shoulder last night just 30 minutes after we started playing GTA V. And to tell you the truth I got kinda jealous because I could never sleep that much when I was sick. I would always be woken up with the simplest of symptoms so I could only imagine how Niall was coping.

"How are you?" I asked rubbing his shoulder gently. He just shrugged on Liam's chest causing Liam and I to put a sympathetic smile on our faces. Niall would usually be the one jumping up and down throwing pieces of pancakes at me to piss me off in the morning but instead he was just laying there lifeless in Liam's arms.

"He's not doing any better today. I thought he was gonna get sick a couple of hours ago but he was ok." Liam said.

Hours? I had just woken up which meant that they had all been up hours before me. This was what happened when you lived your entire life as a gamer. Your sleep schedules get messed up a bunch.

But Nialls sleep pattern was just weird. He just slept then woke up again. I was assuming it was because of his fever but he wouldn't know that. Had I been a doctor I would have said he looked pretty delirious to me though. I also could have sworn that he looked a lot better yesterday, but Liam said he was doing worse.

Looking at him he had a stomach pad near his tummy, an ice pack on his leg, a cold rag on his forehead, and a box of tissues with a cup of tea beside him. I wasn't sure if he had gotten the flu, or just a plain cold but the answer wasn't going to be obvious.

"What has he gotten?" I asked.

"We don't know, but if it gets worse tomorrow we're calling a doctor." Liam said.

"I'll be fine." Niall said blowing his nose with a tissue at the end of his sentence. It was kinda cute looking at him while he was sick. His nose was as pink as rudolphs and his pout was just so downright adorable. Too bad he didn't look comfortable.

"So what about the challenges we planned? Are we going to cancel them?" I asked getting curious.

I didn't mean to be rude but it was just a question I had. I could have sworn we were going to cancel it, but then Liam explained to me that Niall was actually up for it. However I didn't believe him for a split second. There was no way I was letting Niall participate in these challenges even if he wanted to. I'd rather stay in bed with him and sleep because it would benefit for me too. We continued our discussion as Harry and Louis walked out with some breakfast on some silver platters.