Hypnophobic. 》Ziam AU

3 ➳ Hypnophobic

Niall grabbed the cart as soon as he could get to it, whipping it around, exitment clear on his face.

I smiled at him and he turned the car, the small wheels skidding to the direction he wanted and he rushed into the store.

Zayn looked at me, our eyes locking, and he just shrugged, and we began to chase after my brother.

When we found him, he was looking at the baked goods.

"Niall," I scolded, "you need to stay close by, you know that."

"Sorry Li-Li -- Er I mean Liam," he stumbled over his words.

He hadn't called me that for at least 3 months, and I saw a blush cover his face and I just sighed in order to contain my smile. "It's quite alright, Nialler," I said softly, trying to play off my excitement.

Niall began to push the cart again, throwing items into the cart as he went while Zayn and I trailed behind him.

"What was that back there?" Zayn asked me quietly so Niall wouldn't hear.

"What do you mean?"

"Well he called you Li-Li but then took it back, what's the deal?"

"It's a long story."

"Well I've got time."

"How about back at the dorm, Niall is about to have the entire store in his cart." I said.

Zayn's eyes snapped to where Niall was putting a bag of crisps into the cart, along with tons of other junk food. He just chuckled, and began picking up the pace to catch up with the blonde boy.

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Niall picked out at least a months worth of food for us, and when we checked out it came to a total of about £190 -ish.

After we got all our food in my car, we took Niall home, which was hard to convince him of because he really wanted to come with, but I knew I had to say no because otherwise Niall would end up spending the night at my dorm, and he had school the next morning.

The drive back to the hostel wasn't long, but it was awkward, neither Zayn or I dared to speak.

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I pushed open my jeeps door, stepping out onto the pavement and the cool September air hit my face softly.

Zayn and I walked around to the trunk and grabbed as many of the bagged groceries as we could, trying to get all of them back to the dorm in one trip.

"Zayn!" A voice called as we neared the door of the building.

We both turned abruptly to be faced with a lanky boy who's arms had tattoo's scattered aboy them and a beanir covering his brown hair which peaked out at some spots. His blue eyes scanned me up and down and nodded, snapping his eyes back to my roommate.

"Groceries, Zayn. We've got things that need to be refrigerated," I reminded him.

The boy and him both nodded and we turned to head up to our room, the brunette boy following.

When we reached our room, we put away the groceries with mystery boy's help and then Zayn sat down to watch TV, as me and the other boy stood there awkwardly.

"Ahem, Zayn?" I said.

He shot up to his feet, "Oh right, this is my, uh roommate, Liam. Liam this is my best friend and co-captain, Louis." Zayn said, gesturing towards the boy.

Louis stuck out his hand, "Louis Tomlinson," he said, "Nice to meet ya."

I shook his hand nodding and said, "Liam Payne, nice to meet you too."