Doom At Your Service: A Haylor AU

Chapter 14: Red Thread

"Something bad is 'bout to happen to me

Why I feel this way I don't know maybe

I think of her so much it drives me crazy

I just don't want her to leave me."

Zayn's POV

"Isn't he cute?" Joe asked me, gathering the dishes I gave him since he was in charge of washing them. I looked at River who was passed out on our couch, sleeping peacefully.

"Yeah. He's like a cute neighborhood dog."

"I'm getting jealous. I didn't know you could describe someone you met for the first time."

"There you go again with your nonsense, Joe."

"I'm serious." He said, holding back a laugh. "The more I get to know him, the more I like him. He's a hard worker too."

"You're like that too. The more I get to know you, the more I like you. And you're good at your job too." I admitted truthfully.

"Why are you buttering me up out of the blue?"

"It didn't come out of the blue. It's the truth. When he asked you to teach him swimming and called you his teacher, he reminded me of you. When you were 18?"

"Aww Zayn...."

"So you should go independent now. You have your own pupil now."

"Nah. I'll cling onto you until the day I die."

Seriously.

"Oh and Zayn?"

"Yes?"

"Do you like sweet potatoes?"

"Sweet potatoes?"

"She doesn't eat sweet potatoes. When you get sick from eating some food, you don't eat them again. But I still like eating sweet potatoes...and she hates those. I was the one who got sick. She asked me why I came. She asked me why I came back to Korea and the union, but I couldn't say anything. She told me to leave. She said she wanted me to leave. But you know, I really didn't want to."

As Joe spilled everything about what happened, sounding quite emotional while washing the dishes, I received a text message, ruining the mood a bit.

The worst part is that it's from Gigi. 'Do you think you can come over now? I'm stuck on something.' Her message was displayed in my notifications.

'I can't.' I typed down, thinking of how Joe is literally down right now because of her. Me being there for her, someone I kissed while she was missing him would defeat my purpose of being his pal for almost half of our lives.

This deep urge for me to see her though isn't helping me in any way at all.

Gigi's POV

He always says the same thing. 'I can't.'

It was like that day huh.

"I can't. I can't go in if you sit there like that." Zayn gazed at me holding his emerald green umbrella while I sat there at the entrance of the apartment complex in the pouring rain, looking pathetic.

"I'm sorry." I scooted over moving to my left.

He walked a few steps of the staircase where I sat, but stopped right after he passed me. I felt him turn around, then soon after walked back to where he was which was in front of me.