JUST HIM (Z.M-a.u)

CHAPTER 8

I wake up to the annoying sound of barking. What the hell?! I cover my head with the soft pillow and try to fall asleep again, but it's impossible. The barking of a dog keeps echoing through the walls and it's starting to get on my nerves. I finally get out of bed and head outside the room I slept in.

When I enter the kitchen I see Eleanor already up and preparing herself a bowl of cereal.

"Hey." I say sleepily and she turns around and smiles at me.

"Good morning. You want breakfast?" She asks and I nod. I rub my temples in annoyance as the dog keeps barking.

"What the hell is wrong with that dog?" I sigh taking the bowl of cereal she gives me.

"Oh, is my neighbour's daughter's dog. When she leaves the dog at my neibour's to spend the night, the first thing he does when he wakes up, which is always at 8am, is bark... and bark and bark. Until my neighbour wakes up." She answers.

"What? How can your neighbour sleep with that dog barking?" I ask in disbelief.

"He's deaf." She answers and shrugs. "Anyways, are you gonna tell me what happened to you last night? Since in the car you didn't feel like talking..." She says.

"And I still don't feel like it." I say without being rude. "Just forget it, okay? I'm fine." I say covering her hand with mine and giving her a smile. She doesn't seem to buy it, but she lets it go.

"Okay, if you say so." She says and shrugs again "So, tell me about Liam!" She says excitedly. "You two had a good time?"

"Oh, yeah it was fine." I say and her smile fades a bit at my lack of enthusiasm. I quickly cover it with a smile. "He's a really cool guy, I laughed a lot with him." I say.

Liam was cool and it's true that I had a great time, but it was nothing compared to the time I spend with Zayn. He was so sweet and... rude Beth! He was rude! My subconscious shouts.

"Great! I was thinking that you two could go-" She starts, but I cut her off.

"No, no, no" I shake my head. "No more plotting. You had enough leaving us both alone last night." I say in a joking tone, but completely serious at the same time. "By the way, that was low. What were you thinking?" I say with mock anger and she laughs.

"Why is it so crazy?! Did you scold Niall too?! He did worse, he got you alone with Zayn!" She says shaking her head in amusement.

"Yeah..." I say and laugh humourless. She's got me there. I didn't mind when Niall did it, in fact, I would have thanked him because he got me alone with Zayn. And I also remember Zayn saying that he would thank him too, for the same thing. That's what confuses me the most, because if he wanted to talk to me all week, why did he yell at me that way? If he was nice and sweet the whole week, why did he become an asshole later?

I don't think it was that much of a deal, for God's sake! It was an accident and it wasn't entirely my fault. He could have been looking where he was going too. But he just blamed it all on me and in a very disrespectful manner. Why did he yell that much? I don't get it, and it's getting on my nerves more than the fucking dog's barking.

"Beth, Beth!" Eleanor says snapping in fingers in front of my face. "Did you hear me?" She says amused.

"Uh, what?" I say shaking my head and coming back to reality. "Sorry."

"I said if you are staying for lunch?" She asks.

"No, I can't. I'm meeting a new member of the family today, and I already told them I would be there for lunch." I say and finish my bowl of cereal.