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#11 - Hanging By A Thread

!! this feels very filler chapter ish but oh well

Sokayna spent the following week lying in the bed of some cheap hotel room and wondering how her life managed to get so miserable when it was never any good to begin with. When she went away with the boys for the first time that morning, she was hoping to start it all over, get as far away from home as she could and just live without any of the worries she had before. But now that couldnt be further away from what her life looked like, as she was currently sobbing on top of a pile of disheveled sheets and pillows and at this point she could hardly pinpoint the exact reason. So many things were racing through her mind and she struggled to hold onto any of them individually.

Right now Sok was mentally preparing herself to get up and have a shower. She hadnt had one in the whole week she was there, but she figured it could serve as the first step towards somewhat getting her life together.

Once she was finished with her shower turned into yet another sob session, Sokayna made the bold decision of finally opening her phone. She had what seemed like thousands of missed calls and messages, all from the One Direction boys. But thats not what she cared about right now, as she knew the messages would all be of them asking her how she was and where she was and why she wasnt replying. What she wanted to know is what they were doing, so she took the boldness one step further by deciding to open twitter.

She assumed that their profiles would just be full of pictures of them from the shows they were doing and other tour related things, but as the blue bird icon finished loading up on the screen, she was greeted by a rather confusing sight. The first tweet that came up was from the official 1d account, a picture from no other than yesterday. On it were all of the boys in a bar or a restaurant of some sorts, big smiles plastered all across their faces like it hasnt been a week since any of them spoke so much as a word to the girl who they so proudly called their best friend. As her eyes scanned the picture she began to feel her heartbeat speeding up. Soks gaze landed on Zayn, who looked happier than ever with his arm around an unfamiliar girl. Tears started flowing down her cheeks faster than she could acknowledge them, and before she knew it she was back to the sobbing mess that she was just half an hour ago. As much as Sokayna tried lying to herself saying the girl couldve just been a family member, she knew all of the boys and their families so well that it was practically impossible for that to be the case.

Exiting out of the tweet, she took notice of the one that was under it. An update account reposted the picture and captioned it "Zayn and his mysterious new girl?". Sok couldnt help but peek at the comments, all of which were filled with hateful comments towards Zayns potential new girl. Much to Soks surprise this made her feel nostalgic for the time when everything was relatively fine and she hadnt hurt anyone yet, specifically the concert where she met Lei and soon received similar feedback from her twitter post.

Her tears went away the same way they started, with Sokayna being too caught up in her own thoughts to notice it. She thought back to the moment she shared with Simon a week earlier, and the epiphany-like moment she had while zoned out. Something needed to change. She closed twitter and opened her contacts app, scanning her keyboard for the letter Z. The number she needed was the first and only one to come up, so she quickly clicked on it in an attempt to not give herself time to change her mind. He picked up after less than a singular ring, however Sok didnt know what to say to him right now after they hadnt spoken for so long.

"Oh my god", he started, his voice almost breaking from the worry that was clear in it. "Where have you been? Weve all been worrying so much, you dont even understand. Are you okay? Whats happened, please talk to me?".

Sokayna tried her best not to tear up yet again at his words. "Zayn...", she began to speak, her voice barely possible to make out, but was quickly cut off. "Sok, listen. Im sorry if i did anything or said anything. Can we please talk? I really want to see you. Theres so much that I want to say to you, but if you dont want to I understand. Im sorry. I love you". The last few words were followed by a somewhat-awkward silence. Sok was smiling to herself for the first time in days, and it finally felt sincere for the first time in what was probably a month or two at the very least.

Once she could finally stop with her silent giggling, she began speaking again. "Come over, ill text you the address. We should really just have a nice and long talk". Zayn could probably tell that she was smiling from her voice, but right now that was the last thing that mattered. Sok ended the call and sent him the address of the hotel like she had promised, quickly turning her phone off right after.

A few minutes later, there was a knock on her door. She smiled at the thought of finally seeing Zayn again in a few seconds, and hurriedly took her room key out of the drawer to let him in.

Much to Sokaynas surprise however, it wasnt Zayn standing at the door, but someone who she had least expected or wanted to see. Actually, two people that were on the bottom of that list - her mothers.

She stood there speechless until they let themselves in and sat down on her bed. Sokayna had no clue as to what to think ot how to act right now.

Her phone suddenly made a ding noise letting her know she had a message from Zayn sent about 15 minutes ago, but she couldnt do anything more than glance at it as she was too busy processing the current situation.

The message was what seemed like a simple "Im on my way" to any other person, but to Sokayna it meant that everything was a mess. She wished she could tell him to turn around and go back home, but it was too late. There was no good way to deal with whatever was happening right now.