Drowning & Floating (Ziam & 1D in The Little Merman)

C̷h̷3★𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝔻𝕦𝕤𝕜 '𝕋𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟

The human that Zayn was looking at was the most amazing person Zayn had ever seen.

This guy was sitting on the railing of the boat, playing a flute.

This brunette looks around Zayn's age and has lightly tanned skin. One of the things that catches Zayn's attention is this guy's muscles, which he can see because the guy has a loose white shirt with the sleeves rolled up. The next thing that catches Zayn's attention is the adorable happy expression on this man's face, almost like a puppy~ (Zayn's seen dogs in paintings) The crinkles that appear by this guy's deep chocolate-brown eyes when he smiles his shining smile.

Zayn spends so much time staring at this handsome man, Louis gets bored and tells Zayn he'll be in the grotto, but Zayn barely notices.

As Zayn gazes, he doesn't notice the guy's dog, Loki, heading towards him. Zayn suddenly feels his cheek get licked and turns to see the dog panting at him. At first, Zayn looks at this dog with fascination, but when Loki starts barking, Zayn instantly throws himself off the boat when he sees the handsome guy heading to Loki.

From the tip of the water, Zayn observes the handsome man playing with the dog before watching them move away from the edge of the boat.

After a minute, Zayn climbs back to where he was before, letting out a sigh of relief that he wasn't seen.

However, the relief is short lived, because a loud familiar voice says "I told you humans have cool parties!"

Zayn turns his head and sees his seagull friend flying nearby. "Niall, be quiet! They'll hear you!"

"Eh, humans barely notice me but okay." Niall shrugs, perching on Zayn's shoulder.

Niall instantly notices Zayn staring at the handsome stranger. "So, are we pretending we're spys or what?", he jokes.

Zayn lightly blushes, realizing how long he's been staring. "I have never seen a human this close before." Zayn says, watching the handsome stranger playing the flute and dancing around his dog.

"He's very handsome." Zayn comments, still blushing.

"Yeah, that's a nice dog." Niall jokes.

"Niall, I'm talking about the guy playing with the dog. He's playing a Snarfblatt."

Suddenly, a different man walks to the center of the ship. This one is older and dressed more formally.

"Silence, attention please." The fancy man says.

"It is now my honor and privilege to present our esteemed Prince Liam Payne with a very grand, very expensive and very large birthday present." He points to a large object covered by a tarp.

As the other people on the boat clap, Liam gives the fancy man a tight hug, earning a slight frown. This reminds Zayn of him and Harry.

"Happy birthday, Liam." The staff cheer as they remove the tarp, revealing a heroic-looking statue of Liam holding a sword and shield with the royal crest.

"Wow... that's really something. I really appreciate it, Grimsby." Liam says.

The fancy man, Grimsby, briefly smiles."Thank you, I commissioned it myself. Though of course, this was meant to be a wedding present." Grimsby says the last sentence with some mild disdain.

"Oh please, you're not still sore about me not agreeing to marry that last princess you tried to get me to marry? Or... you know, the last 10 princesses." Liam says leaning against the railing that Zayn is hiding under.

Grimsby sighs. "It isn't just me, Liam, the entire royal court and the kingdom wish to see you settled down with a nice girl." Zayn rolls his eyes listening to this, being a conversation that Harry has with him a bunch.