Illusion (Ziall Horlik) AU

Chapter 16

Zayn's POV

As I put the finishing touches on the repainted picture of Niall's eyes that I was going to turn in tomorrow for my final in my art class, Jace was sitting on a chair watched me closely. The only reason I was still letting him near me was because I was going to dump him tomorrow before I go home for winter break. Niall said he was going be there with me when I did it, and Liam would too just so I'm safe. So far, Jace hasn't hit me or done anything bad to me in the past two weeks, but I still wanted him out of my life.

"What are you doing for break?" Jace asked me. I shrugged and added a few more streaks of blue. He didn't know where I was going for break and I would like to keep it that way. Jace stood up and walked behind me, wrapping his arms around my waist. He kissed my neck, then let his hands dip into the front of my sweats.

"Jace, I have to finish this. Maybe when I'm done?" I asked him, hoping that I was keeping the mixture of sadness, fear and disgust out of my voice. He moved his hands from me and kissed my cheek one more time. He mumbled for me to hurry up and left my art room. I purposely took thirty minutes to add the gloss coat on the eyes to give them a real life watery affect effect.

When I was done, I took a deep breath before going to my kitchen and taking my sleeping pills. This is the only way I'll do this with Jace, when I'm under a heavy medicated sleep. I walked into my living room where Jace was just sitting shirtless and in his boxers waiting for me. I climbed on my bed slowly and kissed him gently.

"Do what you want." I mumbled to him, hating the words that just came out of my mouth. He pushed me back on the mattress, then flipped my on my stomach. My eyes started feeling heavy as my shirt was slipped off my body and my sweats and boxers. I felt Jace run his hands over my bum before my pills started working, making me fall into a deep sleep that would help me escape this hell I'm living.

The next morning I woke up with Jace's arms wrapped around my naked body. I tried to roll away from him, but his grip on me tightened. He moved so he was propped up on his elbow to look at me as I laid on my back. He gave me a sleepy smile then moved his hand to it was tracing the tattoo on my chest.

"You kind of fell asleep on me last night." Jace chuckled to me. I blushed because I figured he wouldn't realize or care if I was asleep or not. His fingers stopped moving when he leaned down to kiss me. I felt like I was going to throw up because of his lips on mine. When he pulled back, I got out of his arms and got out bed ignoring the aching pain in my bum.

Jace insisted that we shower together, so I had to go through his filthy hands touching my body there as well. I got out before he was done with his shower and got dried off. All I wanted to do was cry because I was done with this. I didn't want to do this anymore and especially now that I know I'm officially going to break up with him. It feels like the finish line is a few steps away, but if I run too fast to it then I'll run out of energy and loose the race. I can't afford another beating by Jace, then go home to face my parents with new bruses. I still have the bruses on my neck when he tried to strangle me and I'm still trying to think of how to explain that.

I got my canvas art work covered with plastic so it wouldn't get wet when I went outside with the light snow that's falling. Jace came out of the bathroom just as I got a text from Liam saying he would meet me after class today. I bearly had enough time to delete the text before Jace took my phone and started looking through it.

"Can you please not do that?" I asked Jace quietly. He looked at me like I knew better than to ask him for my personal space. I just carried my painting out of my art room and let him follow me. I got my car keys so he knew I was driving myself and not him. Jace gave me my phone back and pat my bum like he was telling me I was a good dog or some shit. I rolled my eyes to myself as I guided us both out of my flat.