They Don't Know About Us [L.P]

Chapter 25

 I walked back into the room after hanging up the phone with Jesse. "She asleep yet?" I asked Zayn who was on the couch. He nodded, looking up from his phone. 

     "To be honest, I like her better sleeping at the moment," Zayn said. I sat next to him. 

     "Yeah, she looked pretty rough," I said. He nodded in agreement. 

     "I'm just glad that she's going to be okay. And I'm glad you are too. I can't lose two of my best friends!" Zayn said, smiling at me. Smiling back, he gave me his hand and we did our band handshake. 

     "You're not gonna believe this," I said after a moment of silence as we watched Kayla. "I admitted to Jesse that I love her," I whispered. Zayn turned to me, his eyes wide in happiness. I laughed in my head but chuckled slightly on the outside. "Yeah, I know," I said. 

     "You mean, you're actually in love with her?" He asked me. I nod. "Like, you love her love her?" Zayn said, trying to rephrase everything. I nod again. 

     "I'm in love with her," I told him, lowly. Zayn began bouncing on the seat. 

     "I always knew you were!" He said. I laughed. 

     "Just don't say anything. To the boys either." I told him. 

     "Why not! They should know!" He said in a little whisper to not wake her. 

     "I'll tell them when the time is right. But right now, I think we should let everything settle." Zayn nodded. 

     "I gotcha mate!" He said, acting his hand on my shoulder. I look over at Kayla and smile at her. If only she felt the same way. 

(Next day)

     Zayn and I lifted our heads as Niall was waking us. "Hey, wake up!" He said, tapping my knee. I rub my eyes, realizing we slept overnight here. 

     "What time is it?" Zayn asked as he rubbed his hand across his face to wake himself up. 

     "About 8:30. We drove by the place, they're allowing people to go to their rooms for any surviving things." Harry said in a low voice to not wake up Kayla whom Louis was checking. 

     We nod. "Here. We brought you clothes. Thought guys would want to get out for a while." Niall said, handing us each a backpack. I get up and go to the bathroom, splashing cold water on my face and changing my clothes. I brushed my teeth and walked out and Zayn went in. 

     "How she doing?" Louis asked as I came out. I shrug. 

     "She's been sleeping for quite a while," I said, setting the bag down. 

     "You sure she's not dead?" Niall joked as we both stood at the foot of the bed, hands on the bar. I rolled my eyes and the boys scoffed. 

     "She needs it though. She sounded pretty rough yesterday." I explained. "I had her talk to Jesse and she was just coughing up her lung, I swear." 

     "How did the tests come out?" Harry then asked, looking back up at me. 

     "From what she told Jess, she had about five and passed them all but one," I said. "I guess she has asthma and it's dropped. Not as bad as it used to be. But that test came out as it's coming back." 

     Niall cringed. He has asthma but not as bad anymore. So I'm sure he can probably relate to this. "Yeah, that's going to be hard to get back used to if that's true." I nod. 

     Zayn came back out. When he did, he had his keys in his hands already and we headed out of the room. "Do you want to eat?" Zayn asked. 

     "I don't know. Haven't been eating a lot. Don't have the appetite." I admit to him. Since that accident, I don't want to eat anything. I've barely eaten within the past eighteen hours. I just can't even think about eating while knowing that Kayla is laying hopelessly in that hospital bed.