Loved You Anyway [Zayn Malik]

9: At The Age Of Twelve

Chapter 9:

Hazel POV:

"What in the world is this place?" I asked in amazement to no one in particular.

In front of me was a sort of huge lake and high cliffs enclosed the area with only a tiny cave encaved on the far end on the other side and a there was a sort of waterfall right on top of the cave. There was a sort of passageway on one side were Louis parked to get to the top, further downwards before the edge of the lake was a straight rock-surfaced part where people were supposed to sit and sunbathe or whatever before they go swimming but I didn't think that a lot of people knew about this place since we had to drive for around an hour to get to this place and I think it might be out of town since we were almost close to the sea. The air lingered a smell of salty water and the smell of summer. The sun was still high up and shining, considering that it was winter.

"Welcome to our place-ish," Louis said and furrowed his eyebrows in thought. "Well at least I think it's ours."

I looked at him questioningly. I was still alone with the five of them but, according to Niall, Jesy and Lenni where supposed to arrive a few more hours but by that time it was too dark so they decided to not come which left me alone. With five idiots.

They started taking their things out of the car and Harry handed me my bag and he walked towards the part next to the edge and expected him to take off his clothes and jump into the water but no. How wrong was I to think of that. He dumped his towel on the ground, then took off his top and jeans which left him with his bathing shorts. Then he skipped towards the pathway which lead to the top part which was way too high, for my liking.

"C'mon get going," he replied before running up the passageway.

"What?" I asked him, my eyes starting to widen.

He smirked and looked at Zayn, I followed his gaze and looked at Zayn questioningly. He looked away, covering a smile. "Apparently Mr Malik didn't tell you?"

"Tell me what?" I asked curiously.

"We jump," Louis butted in, looking upwards. "From up there."

"I am not jumping from up there!" I protested and the five of them rolled their eyes. "I'm serious."

"Sure you are," Louis replied and took off his top and jeans and followed Harry, which had already almost reached the top. Liam soon followed them and quickly caught up with Louis, Harry had already reached the top and was looking down at us.

"C'mon Haze, it's fun!" Niall said, throwing his towel next to Harry's. "You won't die."

"But it's probably not deep enough!" I protested and caught Zayn taking his shirt off, my breath slightly hitched in my throat but I slightly covered it up. The five of them were fit, I couldn't deny that. 

"It is! We've done this for the last two years!" he yelled and jogged up the passage way. I groaned and looked at Zayn, giving him my best death glares. He smirked and threw his jeans and top in Louis' car and slammed the car door shut.

"HAZEL! HI!" I heard Harry yell from the top. I looked up and saw him waving down at me, Louis and Liam walked next to him and they both waved, a grin plastered on their faces. "COME ON DORK!"

"I hate you!" I yelled at Zayn and he chuckled.

"I love you too, now come on! We have to go," he said and leaned on the car.

I raised my eyebrows at him. "I'm not jumping from up there."

"Whoever comes with us here, has to jump from up there and we jump all together," he replied with a smirk. "It's a tradition."