Silence (Ziall Horlik) AU

Chapter 6

Zayn's POV

A loud knock on my door made me throw a pillow at it. The knocking only continued until I mumbled out for the person to come in. My mum popped her head in and smiled at me as I tried my hardest to rub the sleep off my face.

"It's your first real day as a newly graduated young man and you're sleeping it away. Get up, you lazy bum." She laughed to me then came to sit on the edge of my bed. I rolled so I could cover myself with the blankets again because I wasn't done sleeping yet. This day I was going to make my first real grown up decision and that was going to be sleeping for at least an hour more.

"Is that why you really came in here?" I mumbled to her as I tried to get back to sleep. She sighed and let her fingers mess up my hair a little bit.

"Well I came in here to ask you if you wanted to help Maura out with Niall tonight." The second my mum said Niall's name I sat up in bed to listen to what else she had to say. She laughed at me and said she had a new secret weapon to use against me to do things. All I did was roll my eyes at her.

"What does Niall need me to do?" I asked. Honestly, I was hoping to spend a little more time with him today. Especially after how perfect last night went. I think a small part of my heart fell even harder when I saw he could communicate so easily with Harry. He also played the guitar like no one's business which foe some reason I've always been extremely attracted to someone who can play an instrument or can sing. Niall is absolutely perfect in ever single way. Louis kind of agreed with me on that one.

"She needs you to stay with Niall because he can't be home alone while her and Bobby go on a date. They haven't really been anywhere since they moved here and decided some alone time together would be nice." My mum said. I felt a little confused on that.

Niall is very different from anyone else that I've ever ment. In some ways he reminded me of Harry in the way he was slower to understand a fell sentence or sometimes he wouldn't understand it at all. He also spaced out like Harry, but even Harry could stay home alone. His parents just told him not to use the stove and to stay in his room if he was home alone unless the fire alarm goes off then he needs to go get help. I began to worry that maybe there was something even more wrong with Niall than being autistic. I know when my mum and I first introduced ourselves to his parents they said they moved here for their son's medical reasons, but he seems completely healthy to me.

"Mum, what exactly is wrong with Niall?" I asked her. She looked at me like she didn't really understand where I was coming from with this. She also looked at me like she was shocked I didn't know something she did.

"Zayn, Niall's-" Just before my mum could even finish her sentence, Waliyah and Safaa came bursting through the door screaming about something. I got out of bed and put on some sweats and a tank top while my mum tried telling the girls to stop fighting. I walked out of my own bedroom because sometimes I just can't handle the high pitched yells that come from my sisters.

My day was kind of dull in the sense I didn't spend any of it with Niall or my friends. The Horan's car wasn't in the driveway so I figured they were out for the day or something. So I spent my whole day on my skateboard or inside on my couch watching pointless television shows. It was relaxing, but part of me found it weird to be so relaxed with nothing to do. I guess this was my post tramatic stress from school being truly over. I had no idea what to do with myself.

Around four in the afternoon, the Horan's all came back home. I was just sitting on the front step watching them. Bobby got out of the car and went straight to get Niall out of the car. I stood up because I was going to yell to get Niall's attention, but he had tears freely rolling down his cheeks and looked sick to his stomach. He also looked like he was about to fall over if it weren't for her dad being there. I just watched them all dissappear into their house and sat back down feeling worried that Niall was sick.