Flashbacks (ZARRY AU)

PART 1

"ha ha Harry styles the nerd! Why are you wearing those girly colors on your nails?"

"Yeah you faggot!"

Harry get this a lot.

He's been bully a lot because of the choices he made.

The choice of colors, hairstyles and the choice of what to put on his body.

You see, Harry loves colors and glitters and butterflies and people don't get that. Harry's parents gets it, but the people from his high school doesn't. Harry had been this way since his childhood days. Seeing beautiful and bright shades of colors like Pink, red, purple and yellow makes him happy and seeing it with glitters? Harry's even more happier. It started out as liking vibrant colors and liking tutu's and dolls. His parents were questionable and confused seeing that their only son loves girly things but they didn't stop him from playing and liking those things. Des said it might be a phase and that he'll get over it but he was wrong.

As Harry gets older and mature, his liking to these things grew up to the point he's interested in make-ups and nail polishes. Des was of course disappointed at first knowing that his son is not he thought he is. Des is not naive to this kind of environment, he has a lot of friends that aren't straight and seeing his son being different than other boys, ached him. Good thing Anne, Harry's mother, made him understand that whatever Harry may be, he's their son and no matter how much Des wanted to deny him, he is still going to be his son. Flesh and blood.

Both Harry's parents slowly accepted him and supported him for being he is and Harry's very grateful...and he thought if he's parents accepted his sexuality, the whole world will be a better place for him but he was wrong.

When he stepped in high school, seeing him wearing nail polish and using pink glasses, people immediately teased him for it. Some girls began to gossip about him, and some jocks made fun of him. In fact, all the students treated him differently...except for one person. This boy has pitched-black hair, tan-skinned, has long and dark lashes and has the most beautiful hazel colored irises Harry has ever seen. The boy was Zayn and he loves basketball and also friends with the jocks who bullies on Harry. But Zayn is different because he doesn't join when his mean friends makes fun of Harry.

In fact, he's the one who stops his friends from making more damage on Harry.

Now, they're on their senior year and the jocks that tormented him since freshmen, are still the same jocks that bullies him. They've never grow out of it.

"Come on, stop it guys" Zayn said to Michael, the tall, blonde and blue eyed jock who got Harry pinned on the lockers. Michael stopped teasing Harry and looks at Zayn "Oh you're no fun Zayn. Come on—" he grabbed Zayn's wrist and pulled him closer to Harry. Michael settled on Harry's side, leaning his body to the lockers "Hit him" Michael said with a smirk and Zayn stared at him "What?"

"Just one time, hit him....trust me, it will make you feel good" Michael playfully wiggled his eyebrows as Zayn sighed and shook his head "Dude, seriously, we're better than this. We're seniors already. If this goes to the principal, we're totally in trouble. Worse case, we won't graduate" Zayn explained as Michael whined "Ugh you talk too much. Just hit him so we can move on" Michael answered as Zayn rolled his eyes and shifted his attention to Harry who's looking down on his shoes and Zayn swear he was crying.

Zayn slowly leans in to Harry, checking his curls and trying to see his eyes but Harry was frozen looking down on his shoes "I'm sorry about this" as soon as Harry heard Zayn's low and soft voice, his heart gave out a loud thump "These guys are jerks and doesn't know better....I apologize on their behalf" Zayn softly said with genuine concern as Harry's entire body slowly started to feel warm "What are you doing man? Are you turning into a faggot like him or something?" Michael interrupted as Zayn slowly moved away from Harry and face Michael "Come on dude, you're going to get yourself caught" Zayn grabbed Michael's elbow as he pulled him out from Harry's side.

Harry heard them walking away so he slowly looked up and eyed Michael and Zayn and when he finally caught a sight of them, his breathing hitches when he saw Zayn looking at him while walking away with Michael. Zayn gave him a smile as he gave a slight nod at Harry before walking ahead with Michael.

And from that moment on, Harry feels like he got himself a hero.

After Harry got to know Zayn, his life has been a little safer from school. Michael wasn't tormenting him anymore, probably because Zayn was there to tell him off. Zayn has been a good person to Harry as well. He would sometimes smile at Harry in the hallways and Harry would shyly smile back at him too. Its been going on for weeks and Harry is okay with that kind of interaction. Its better than being teased and bullied everyday. Harry thought that his and Zayn's interaction only limits to smiling at hallways or at parking lot or at the canteen but he was wrong.

One time, Harry was looking at the trophy isle of their school and seeing a lot of trophies won by their famous basketball team, he feels proud...especially that Zayn belonged to that team. He's looking at the pictures taken after their victory and frame by frame, he can't take his eyes off Zayn.

He's really beautiful, Harry thought.

"I look horrible at that one" Harry's ears perked and his heart started to beat fast when he hears a thick english accent coming from his right. Harry's body slightly jumped and his eyes bulged seeing Zayn looking at him and slightly smiling at him "Whoa, sorry" Zayn said with a small chuckle "Didn't mean to scare ya" Zayn added with a smile as Harry's heart started to beat fast "Why...what are you doing here?" Harry softly asked as he stood straight and stand further away from Zayn.

Zayn immediately notices his action so he slowly moved towards Harry's side "I came to look at trophies too. I want to see them with you" Zayn answered not taking off his eyes on the trophies as Harry's body slowly feels the warmth. Like the one he felt when he first met Zayn.

Zayn looks at Harry's reflection on the glass door and seeing him all silent and fiddling with his fingers, he couldn't help but to smile because Harry's too cute. Zayn then slowly looks at Harry on his side "Say Harry, want to grab pizza after school?" Zayn asked as Harry's body jolted "Pi...pizza?" Harry questioned back as Zayn nodded his head "Yeah. Pizza. My dad I just opened our pizza parlor last week and well, I'm looking for customers" Zayn answered as Harry was still stunned that THE ZAYN MALIK asked him to go to his pizza parlor and have pizza "You know, Trisha's Pizza? Its at Williamsburg" Zayn added waiting for Harry's response and seeing that Harry's just looking at him with his eyes wide, Zayn thinks this is a bad idea.

Zayn averted his gaze away from Harry and give himself a chuckle "Oh this is stupid...." Zayn said as he looks at Harry again who's still silent and still staring at Zayn "Well, it was nice talking to you Harry..." Zayn started to leave, giving a small wave to Harry and Harry, well, he blinked a couple of times and just processing on what just happened.

After classes are over, Harry can't still get over the fact that Zayn asked him to eat pizza with him. Harry hasn't been focusing well on his classes since Zayn's invite was on his mind all day.

Harry is now at his locker, arranging his books when realization hits him. Zayn just wanted to make friends with him. He hurriedly closed his locker and went to the schedule board, trying to see if Zayn has schedule basketball practice and seeing that their basketball team is on break for practice, he immediately went to find Zayn.

He doesn't know where to find him since he doesn't know much about him, except that he's a beautiful jock. Harry went to the quad, the field and the bleachers but Zayn wasn't there. Harry sighed as he made his way to the parking lot and to the bike section of the lot. He went to his bike, unchain it and kept the chain and keys his bag.

He sadly rode his bike but then he remembered, Zayn told him the name of the Pizza place "Trisha's Pizza on Williamsburg" Harry said as he drove off.

END OF PART 1

A/N: And yey, that was part 1! Oh god I'm getting excited publishing other parts here! So what do you guys think? Imagine cute and curly haired Harry and bad ass boy Zayn in this scene? They're soooo cute!

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